Product Description
Most HP e3000 applications written in COBOL, SPL, C, FORTRAN, Pascal or Protos are specifically tailored to the MPE environment and as such, rely on several compiler extensions and MPE concepts. Companies must therefore acquire new compilers and adapt or replace code, databases and intrinsics that are MPE-specific. AMXW (Automated Migration to UNIX and Windows) includes all of the tools necessary to rise to the challenge.
AMXW is a complete tool designed to migrate HP e3000 COBOL, SPL, C, FORTRAN, Pascal and Protos application environments to the HP 9000, Integrity Itanium, Windows, Linux, Sun or AIX platforms. It automatically converts code for new compilers, which prevents developers from needing to modify their MPE-specific code. The combination of AMXW's automated code conversion, MPE shell and Intrinsics libraries gets you up and running on your new platform in no time.
Although designed to migrate a variety of 3GL applications, AMXW is particularly well suited for companies that rely on HP COBOL 85 applications. AMXW automatically converts programs, including source code, copy libraries and $include files, to work with the most popular and proven COBOL compilers, namely ACUCOBOL-GT (ACUCORP) and Server or Net Express (Micro Focus).
Applications migrated using AMXW perform and operate the same way as on the HP e3000, even after the databases have been upgraded to RDBMSs. Using native database, file and operating system access, AMXW provides the highest level of performance. What's more, it includes two valuable components that allow application code to remain untouched. The MPE intrinsics library supports the most commonly-used MPE intrinsics. Therefore, concepts, such as environment variables, process creation and command execution remain untouched in the application, and run natively on the target platform. In addition to native UNIX, Linux and Windows commands, AMXW's MPE shell supports a wide range of MPE commands and functionality.
In addition, we are the only solution provider who has developed a feature to support special Protos functionality and is compatible with new compilers on new platforms.
AMXW is designed for HP e3000 professionals looking to transition their 3GL applications from the HP e3000 platform to a new platform and database environment themselves.
The product is also particularly well suited for value-added resellers and independent software vendors who are looking to offer their customers the most efficient migration path available - at a very reasonable price.
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