Re: Migrating from AS/400 to MicroFocus

[pam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]

This isn't exactly an answer to your question, but an attempt to  *unask* it.
Have you considered *not* migrating the data? Or perhaps migrating only
critical reference data. Once the new application goes live, you can "freeze"
the old one, but keep it available for historical inquiries.

This is how we handled a successful migration made a couple years from an
AS/400 based app to a Windows/Oracle based one. We started to consider some of
the data-mapping issues raised in some other posts, and decided not to bog
down the project with such difficulties. I believe the reference data was
downloaded via Client Access and uploaded into Oracle tables. When we
determined which historical data really did need to be brought over, we used
manually entering that same data for the stress test. By the way, the AS/400
app is still here, as they need to keep the history available pretty much
indefinitely.

Hope this helps,
Pam Phillips
Abbott Laboratories
MediSense Products




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Hello All -

We are about to start migrating some apps off the AS/400 to the Windows
platform, and I was wondering if anyone had any experience with migrating
data in physical files on the 400 to files on the Windows platform (ISAM?)
that MicroFocus COBOL programs can read.  Is there an easy way?

Thanks,

Brad McDaniel
Business Systems & Development
Annuity Board, SBC
214-720-6546

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