On Thu, 15 Jan 1998 18:43:40 +-100, Nadio Grigis <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
|I would like have information concern the migration of software from hp3000 to hp9000.
|Is possible to know the following information:
|do they exist of the automatic tools for the migration?
|On hp3000 i use the cobol/3000, vplus/3000,turbo image,image/sql.

I suspect there are more than one company providing such services, but the
only one I am familiar with is called Bi-Tech and is located in Chico,
California.  They have (or at least "had" 6 years ago when I was involved
in a migration project at my prior employer) a product called "Transport"
(or something like that) which could translate COBOL and/or Pascal source
for MPE to compile and run on HP-UX using APIs which they had written to
emulate most of the functionality of VPLUS (using curses), Image (on top of
Informix/Online), KSAM (on Informix/ISAM?), and many of the system
intrinsics including SORT, message files, and other file system and
miscellaneous calls including some limited support for mapped file opens
using shared memory.  They even wrote a CI which looked a lot like MPE/V,
as I recall.

At that time, it wasn't perfect, complete, elegant or amazingly fast, but it
worked.  We ported a fairly complex, multi-process, Image & KSAM & home-
grown block mode (non-VPLUS) accounting, time keeping and billing system for
law firms from the 3000 to the 9000.  What we wound up with worked and was
sold to a few sites who insisted that it had to be non-proprietary and
relational etc.  But anyone who bothered to look at the facts and make an
informed decision bought the package on MPE.  And a few who insisted on
unix, later decided to convert to MPE.  I even remember one customer who
insited they had an HP9000 running unix even though the logon prompt said
"MPEXL:" and their logon began with the word "hello".  Who was I to dispute
the label on the front of their computer?
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