Multiple business and technology drivers are motivating organizations to modernize their mainframe applications to run on open systems. These drivers include the need to reduce hardware and software costs, the desire to tap into the wider availability of skill sets to support open systems, and the ability to benefit from the greater extensibility of open systems applications.

The utilization of data integration software that is specifically optimized for handling mainframe migrations eliminates the risks associated with using utilities or custom coding techniques for these projects. The DMExpress Mainframe Application Modernization solution delivers the most robust and scalable capabilities to speed and simplify mainframe application modernization initiatives, and enables you to:

Accelerate your migration project, reaping the benefits of modernization sooner Easily convert massive data volumes and overcome the hurdles of complex data translations Assure consistent transformation functionality, enabling open system process equivalents Simplify your modernization project, maximizing developer productivity

DMExpress provides extensive capabilities specifically for mainframe application modernization initiatives

DMExpress provides deep mainframe support developed through more than 40 years of mainframe data software leadership. As a result of this extensive mainframe experience, the depth and breadth of DMExpress’ mainframe data conversion capabilities are unmatched by any other data integration software. DMExpress also helps customers to reproduce the equivalent mainframe data transformation functions on open systems with the highest levels of performance and scalability. Specific DMExpress mainframe modernization capabilities include:

• EBCDIC to ASCII conversion with support for numerous mainframe data sources and formats
• Robust data transformation capabilities using complex legacy metadata
• Support for mainframe re-hosting environments and bi-directional processing
• Quick development of open-system based job steps to sort, merge, etc. JCL data

For more information on the DMExpress Mainframe Application Modernization solution, view our solution sheet .