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Clerity Map Editor aids with mainframe migration


By Jeff Feinman
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December 7, 2009 —  With its new Map Editor, mainframe migration and modernization company Clerity Solutions is trying to make mainframe application migration an easier process for developers.

Map Editor, released today, builds and maintains CICS Basic Mapping Support (BMS) maps for workloads running in Clerity’s UniKix mainframe rehosting software suite. UniKix migrates Adabas/Natural, CICS, IMS and other similar applications off of the mainframe according to Barry Tait, Clerity’s technical pre-sales engineering manager.

“The customer has obviously made the choice that the application fits their business needs, they just want to run it on a more cost-effective platform,” Tait said in talking about UniKix. “So we can take their old or legacy-based application and run them with little to no change on open system platforms.”

Map Editor can create and modify standalone BMS files and BMS files associated with COBOL copybooks. Tait described Map Editor as a Java-based, GUI-based development environment that maintains green screens. Instead of having to write or change underlying green-screen assembly code, a developer can manipulate green-screen attributes through the editor’s Java interface. The software costs US$15,000 for a 10-developer bundle.

Some green-screen maintenance tasks, such as defining a character on the screen, or finding out character attributes such as color or size, can be difficult for developers unless they have great knowledge of how to assemble green screens, according to Tait.

“What we’ve done with this solution is really simplified things by giving you a visual environment,” he said. “In the past, the kind of tools you’d use was all interactive and terminal-based. They weren’t as pretty as the point-and-click tool we’ve created here in Java."

Tait said one of the main concerns that comes with a lack of mainframe experience among young developers is determining who will maintain green-screen applications, which he said will remain relevant. Map Editor can help new developers working on application modernization to move applications to a SOA environment or the .NET Framework because it doesn’t require knowledge of mainframe languages or applications.

Clerity, founded in 1993, is a mainframe migration company that focuses on code assessment, post-production application maintenance, and other tasks.

Clerity acquired Sun Microsystems’ mainframe rehosting business in 2006. That was how Clerity brought in UniKix, said Cameron Jenkins, COO of Clerity. Approximately 30-40 employees migrated from Sun to Clerity. Prior to acquiring Sun’s mainframe rehosting business, Clerity did business mostly in application modernization.




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