Corporate Information

Software Migrations Limited
3 Sandridge Park, Porterswood
St Albans, Hertfordshire AL3 6PH England
Phone: +44 (0) 1727 898699
www.smltd.com

Contact Information

Simon Francis
simon.francis@smltd.com
Main: +44 (0) 1727 898699
Alternate: +44 (0) 7974 659731

SML provides solutions to allow the comprehension, maintenance, and migration of complex mainframe Assembler systems using its FermaT technology. This allows customers to execute in-depth analysis of their systems for maintenance and re-engineering projects.

In addition, SML provides a migration service which performs the 100% automated migration of Assembler code into high level languages, allowing customers to re-platform the applications and take advantage of the cost and effort reduction that these platforms offer.

Mainframe Assembler systems (Mainframe Assembler and TPF applications or systems with an element of Assembler) are extremely complex systems requiring in-depth system understanding; in addition, by their very nature they are not portable. Manual migration of Assembler systems into high level, portable languages is not a viable solution. SML’s technology allows the automatic migration of these applications into high-level languages (currently C or COBOL) without the need for detailed system understanding or manual coding. SML provides support for the various nuances of the target platform in a re-host situation.

Brief description of Solution
SML’s FermaT Technology provides automated understanding of the existing system to a granular level. The migration process allows the restructuring and optimization of the code before automated migration to the target language.

Case 1
The customer provides an HR solution to Mainframe customers, written in Assembler and COBOL. Their growth strategy relied upon their ability to market their solution to “mid-range” organizations. SML provided the migration to allow the code to run on any target environment. The solution required the resultant code to be platform independent to support execution on Windows and Sun whilst retaining the ability to also run on the mainframe to support existing customer base. The solution was therefore character set and Endian independent. Assembler code was automatically migrated to functionally equivalent C code whilst COBOL code was tailored to meet Micro Focus COBOL.