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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