Natural / Adabas Migration Solutions
FBDA specializes in the development of high performance software tools for automated analysis and transformation of Natural/Adabas applications to more modern technologies such as Java accessing a relational database such as Db2, Postgres, Oracle, and SQLServer.
An FBDS JavNat modernization delivers a low cost, low risk automated transformation of valuable, often mission critical, Natural/Adabas applications to functionally equivalent maintainable Cloud Native Java/RDBMS applications deployable to multiple modern platforms including in-situ or Cloud zOS, or alternative commercial private or public Cloud infrastructures. Our customers have consistently accrued near term license and consumption financial ROIs as well as substantial personnel resource demographic risk reductions.
Each of the FBDA migration tools relies on a consistent solution architecture that ensures a high quality, repeatable implementation. Starting with a SYSTRANS/SYSOBJH file, we implement a comprehensive BNF Grammar Model based parse of the application source code and FDTs that populates an RDBMS based Syntax Analysis Repository (SAR). DNA and Application Profile Reports, relational database schemas, Adabas data migration and Natural source code transformation are all then driven off the same SAR database. As well, management reports are created from the SAR database to enable continuous status tracking and ensure an on-schedule migration project.
Each of the FBDA migration tools relies on a consistent solution architecture that ensures a high quality, repeatable implementation. Starting with a SYSTRANS file, we implement a comprehensive parse of the application source code and FDTs that populates an RDBMS based Syntax Analysis Repository (SAR). Application profile reports, relational database schemas, Adabas data migration and Natural source code transformation are all then driven off the same SAR database. As well, management reports are created from the SAR database to enable continuous status tracking and ensure an on-schedule migration project.
A comprehensive view of your Natural/Adabas application portfolio providing web based in- depth analysis reports in a view that you can't get anywhere else.
An automated migration solution that quickly takes your existing legacy Natural/Adabas application to a J2EE/RDBMS platform. See the JavNat Brochure and the JavNat Process Guide for additional details.
A suite of Adabas conversion tools which either takes a raw ADAULD and converts it to an Oracle SQLLDR file or a DB2 load file; or alternatively generates a Natural program and JCL template for Adabas file-by-file database unload to a relational load file consistent with the target RDBMS.
An automated migration solution that quickly takes you Natural/Adabas application to a functionally equivalent EGL/DB2 implementation. See the Why EGL? position paper, the Natural/Adabas Transformation Matrix, and the Nat2EGL Process Guide for additional details
FBDA provides a variety of migration project service levels for both the JavNat and Nat2EGL solutions. See the Service Level (SL) Descriptions guide and the pro-forma Statement of Work for additional details.
FBDA’s JavNat Migration Support Tools (JMST) provide additional migration metrics as well as a web interface to allow customers to provide reliable data input for overrides of the default values for relational parameters such as table, column and field names as well as datatype parameters. In addition JMST supports the partitioning of an application into manageable units of work to facilitate low risk project implementation.
NatMiner Overview – Discovery aNd Analysis (DNA)
JavNat Overview – Natural to Java Transformation
FBDA – Code Extraction Instructions
FBDA – SystransAuditor User Guide
FBDA Completes Migration of University of Toronto Core Application v1.2 Updated 2022
FBDA JavNat – Modernize zOS Natural_Adabas Aug 2022 Final
UofT Reference Letter Jan 2022
FBDA – NatMiner Overview Summary
FBDA – SOW Natural/Adabas Nat2EGL/JavNat DNA Project Levels 1 2 3
FBDA – Technical Note – Java on system Z
FBDA – Natural/Adabas Transformation Matrix
I have worked with FBDA for some 10 years now and have always found them prompt and accurate in their work and deliveries. It is certainly my intention to continue to work with them in the future.
Bernard Clowes CEO Green Babylon
FBDA continued to provide timely and effective support to MPS production roll-out and operations. FBDA staff are knowledgeable and customer service focused.
James E Davis, Director of Technology Milwaukee Public Schools
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