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Express Newspapers needed to migrate their legacy Unisys COBOL systems to a Windows platform.

This involved 8 COBOL systems, each with its own database and highly technical home-grown interfaces and severe time and performance demands.

The result of the migration is a reduction of £700,000 per annum in IT Operational Expenditure.

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Migration of legacy COBOL systems from Unisys to open platform.

The systems were 17 years old, took hundreds of man years to build and included a million lines of COBOL code with various infrastructure tools.

Due to strict time constraints this migration was to be completed within 8 months - a task most people believed impossible.

CLAL chose MSS and HP Israel as partners to achieve this goal and the result was an unqualified success!

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In 2003 Koçbank decided to lower their cost base by moving to Unix equipment.

MSS won the contract to license the use of migrate!LINC technology to the Bank. MSS trained Koçbank staff on the use of this tool for performing the migration to the SUN Solaris platform, Oracle database and Oracle development tools.

The screen handling was performed by the bank’s own IT personnel using the MSS JSP library approach and the batch code was migrated to SqC.

The migration took 9 months and involved a team of about 32 Koçbank staff - 22 IT and 10 Business Integrators.

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BBL is part of the ING group of companies. ING's goal was to port the BBL IFS system to a standard Unix platform running the Unisys Linc run-time environment.

The main reasons for porting IFS were to conform to Corporate IT guidelines, make future maintenance as easy as possible, make future developments following open standards as easy as possible and increase the location independence of the system.

The legacy LINC Unisys system was ported onto LDA on NT with the generated system using an Oracle database, running on Unix. MSS's technical knowledge in identifying the necessary changes in the LINC system, porting of the 3GL interfaces from Cobol and Algol to Cobol and C and the WFL to Shell script, ensured the flawless conversion and made the transition far easier.

The MSS toolkit proved invaluable during the testing phase. The testing methodology highlighted all differences and ensured the integrity of the ported code.

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Jordan Kuwait Bank, based in Amman, Jordan wished to move into the mainstream of application development and engaged MSS to move its core banking package from Linc to Oracle languages and database software using migrate!LINC.

JKB also had a significant body of Cobol code supporting the ATM network. MSS rewrote this in Java as a precursor project to creating the Cobol to Java path of migrate!COBOL automatic translation software.

JKB chose SUN to supply hardware and have configured a very robust platform that has performed extremely well.

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Scottish Life wanted to modernise and reduce cost at the same time. With the help of MSS they evaluated different platform options and settled on HP Intanium/RISC servers running HP-UX Unix.

MSS migrated their very large Life policy administration system – reputed to be the single largest Linc system in the world – and their legacy Pensions system.

The migrated applications are performing excellently on the HP platform running against Oracle database, and the Oracle development tools have enabled the programmers to cut time-to-market application delivery significantly.

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Erste Bank

Erste Bank serves 1m retail customers in Croatia and Serbia. They had evolved a sophisticated and capable retail banking system written in Cobol74, Cobol85 and LINC running on Unisys mainframes under the MCP operating system. The services offered include online banking as well as traditional branch banking and card processing. With the workload ever increasing, Erste Bank’s existing mainframe environment was under strain especially at peak periods such as month-end processing.

Erste Bank explored the option of converting applications to .NET running on Windows but, abandoned this when tests showed that it was impossible to achieve the required performance. They then turned to MSS and commissioned a Cobol to Cobol migration proof of concept exercise which proved successful and delivered much better performance.

MSS then partnered with IBM Croatia to deliver the full migration which was achieved in a compressed timescale of 12 months.

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Toronto Police Service

Toronto Police Service is one of the largest municipal police forces in North America, serving the City of Toronto. Toronto, the largest city in Canada, has a population of more than 2.5 million residents, and serves as Canada’s economic capital.

MSS won the bid to migrate CASC, a critical legacy system, from the Unisys mainframe to the standard IBM pSeries platform. This move accomplished the goal of increasing flexibility, decreasing the high operating cost and eliminating the risk of the lack of available technical expertise in the legacy system.

TPS have standardised on J2EE and saw the tremendous advantage in the fully automated migration approach from LINC and COBOL to Java (J2EE), XML and DB2.

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Ford Australia

This conversion was conducted completely remotely as the end users were distributed around the world. It was managed by Ford staff based in Australia and Brazil with input from the Ford architecture team in the US and deployed in several different countries. The FOCUS application is used by 6 different Ford divisions in different countries in the Asia Pacific region (including China and Taiwan) as well as 5 different countries in Latin America.

The programs themselves were customised to fit with Ford’s internal coding, packaging and infrastructure standards. This included using Ford’s FUI (Ford User Interface) presentation layer.

Although we would normally deliver our own web-based front end, our solution is extremely versatile and Ford were able to use their own world-wide standard user interface to interact with our EJB based solutions. Changes to integrate the Ford user interface to our backend were minimal.

MSS also assisted with performance testing advising on modifications to the deployment architecture to achieve optimum throughput.

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