Replatforming the Legacy COBOL Applications to a Modern Technology for a Leading Financial firm
Whom we worked with
A Leading Financial Institution in New York State. It is a Federally-chartered wholesale bank providing a reliable source of liquidity to financial institutions
Our Solution
Provided an automated migration path allowing the bank’s resources to concentrate on maintenance, test and enhancement of the new applications
Proposed “MVC- N Tier” architecture by enhancing the performance of the systems
Converted the 50000 COBOL lines to only a 10000 lines JAVA program which is more readable and easy to understand
Achieved genuine modernization of the legacy applications by re-hosting the applications from Microfocus platform to an open source platform
Automated the entire test cases of the COBOL program for easier migration
Suggested to re-engineer the long running reports to a more stable DB2 environment stored procedure for reports generation
Additional features such as Rich responsive user interface and cross browser support were also incorporated in the converted applications
Reports were migrated to a more flexible report format- crystal reports
Challenges
To Rewrite the 50000 plus COBOL lines into a new programming platform
To achieve genuine modernization of the legacy applications by re-hosting application environment to updated platforms
To automate the testing of the applications with new features being added iteratively
Impact
Developers and Testers were well aware of the process, technology and the culture during migration of the applications
Suggested some initial program conversion to be tested and moved into production
Build a flexible and highly performing environment between different architectures and platforms for easier migration
How we helped
Understand the applications and timelines for migrating critical applications
Created a unified automated application process, without affecting everyday business operations
Rewrite the full code that can be easily understood
Dedicated offshore team to support the migration of applications
Check the compatibility with standardizing JAVA as the development language
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