UNIX to IMS/DC
After conversion map definitions were in MFS macro format. Of course copybooks look different under IMS/DC. The tool was capable of preserving field names and attribute usage satisfying the requests of an MFS copybook structure.
IMS/DC to CICS
The tools had to respect DPL concepts saying that Distributed Program Link had to be applied to front end programs and database access modules which ran in different CICSes.
The converter transformed MFS macro definitions into SDF screen definitions which grant easy handling of CICS maps in future.
Online programs could bei migrated by simple ISPF edit macros.
DTMS(DPPX) to CICS
CICS copybooks generated by SDF can still be applied.
The migration tool comes as a Windows workbench.
CICS to UTM
This environment is not restricted to Siemens though: it runs on all systems supporting COBOL.
CICS to Windows95
PF keys become visible in a windows menu. Enter key is transformed to an OK Button.
Pseudo graphic will be replaced by Vb control elements.
CICS EIB fields receive values by functional procedures and are handed over to the application program which has moved from COBOL to a VisualBasic BAS file.
A crazy project, still under construction.
UTM nach CICS
One central dialog program emulated UTM's job by doing program links and screen management. Application programs were called from here by CICS LINK.
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