ADABAS/Natural Migration Project References

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Contents

EogS—Denmark ...................................................................................................................... 1 Business Environment.......................................................................................................... 1 Business Need ..................................................................................................................... 1 Source and Target Environments ........................................................................................ 1

Automation—Israel.................................................................................................................. 2 Business Environment.......................................................................................................... 2 Business Need ..................................................................................................................... 2 Source and Target Environments ........................................................................................ 2

GDC—Denmark........................................................................................................................ 4 Business Environment.......................................................................................................... 4 Business Need ..................................................................................................................... 4 Source and Target Environments ........................................................................................ 4

Atos Origin—Spain.................................................................................................................. 5 Business Environment.......................................................................................................... 5 Business Need ..................................................................................................................... 5 Source and Target Environments ........................................................................................ 5

APH—Venezuela...................................................................................................................... 6 Business Environment.......................................................................................................... 6 Business Need ..................................................................................................................... 6 Source and Target Environments ........................................................................................ 6

Coates Hire—Australia............................................................................................................ 7 Business Environment.......................................................................................................... 7 Business Need ..................................................................................................................... 7 Source and Target Environments ........................................................................................ 7

Export-Import Bank—USA...................................................................................................... 8 Business Environment.......................................................................................................... 8 Business Need ..................................................................................................................... 8 Source and Target Environments ........................................................................................ 8

Serena—Turkey ..................................................................................................................... 10 Business Environment........................................................................................................ 10 Business Need ................................................................................................................... 10 Source and Target Environments ...................................................................................... 10

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Leumi Bank—Israel................................................................................................................11 Business Environment ........................................................................................................11 Business Need....................................................................................................................11 Source and Target Environments .......................................................................................11

KAS Bank—Netherlands .......................................................................................................13 Business Environment ........................................................................................................13 Business Need....................................................................................................................13 Source and Target Environments .......................................................................................13

Sirva Relocations—USA........................................................................................................14 Business Environment ........................................................................................................14 Business Need....................................................................................................................14 Source and Target Environments .......................................................................................14

Transportation Company—USA ...........................................................................................15 Business Environment ........................................................................................................15 Business Need....................................................................................................................15 Source and Target Environments .......................................................................................15

Department of Energy—USA ................................................................................................16 Business Environment ........................................................................................................16 Business Need....................................................................................................................16 Source and Target Environments .......................................................................................16

Telus Communications—Canada.........................................................................................17 Business Environment ........................................................................................................17 Business Need....................................................................................................................17 Source and Target Environments .......................................................................................17

EogS—Denmark

Business Environment

Danish Commerce and Companies Agency (EogS) is part of the Ministry of Economic and Business Affairs in Copenhagen. The Agency had its main system running on mainframe/MVS and providing services legislation regarding business and commerce, regulating accountants, real estate information, and authorization for different business types such as hotels, restaurants, etc.

Business Need EogS wanted to move their technology forward, while saving the operating costs of maintaining their mainframe system.

Source and Target Environments

Source System

Mainframe/MVS with:

• 2,700 ADABAS/Natural programs

• 200 ADABAS views

• 1,000 Natural maps

• 800,000 lines of code

Target System

Linux system with:

• Tomcat application server supporting J2EE

• Application migrated to Java/J2EE/JSP

• Oracle database

Current Status Application running successfully in production since August 2006.

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Automation—Israel

Business Environment Automation is a company that provides IT services to about 250 municipalities in Israel. Automation provides three types of IT services:

1. HR and Salary System: Provides HR and salary services to municipalities’ employees. This system runs on three mainframe systems using ADABAS/Natural and ADABAS/COBOL.

2. Finance System: Provides financial services to the municipalities. This system runs on a mainframe system and also on Solaris, using ADABAS/Natural.

3. Billing System: Provides billing services to the municipalities. This system runs on mainframe and Solaris systems, using ADABAS/Natural.

Business Need Automation wanted to save costs and close its three mainframes within two years. They also wanted to save costs by eliminating the ADABAS/Natural maintenance expenses. They wanted to move all three applications to work on Unix and Windows systems, using either Oracle or SQL Server databases.

They also wanted to improve the services they provide to their clients, in order to keep them with Automation and avoid competition. Moving to Java on an open system would allow them to add much more sophisticated services.


Source System

Mainframe/VSE with:


• 2,000 ADABAS/COBOL programs



• 9,000,000 lines of code

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Target System

Unix/AIX system with:


• WebLogic application server supporting J2EE


• Oracle database

Current Status • ADABAS views converted to Oracle

• Data migration performed for two applications

• 2 applications (4,000,000 lines) migrated to Java

• 2 applications are in production since March 18, 2007

• Third application will be in production by September 2008


GDC—Denmark

Business Environment GDC is a distribution and logistics company in home entertainment and was founded in 1969. GDC had its core, mission-critical system running on mainframe/MVS with external access for resells and consumers as well as the producers of the goods. The distribution market is very competitive and key issues such as quality, speed, and costs are essential for success.

Business Need Cost reduction was needed to stay competitive while keeping the quality and speed that was ensured by the in-house developed mainframe applications. GDC therefore wanted to move their applications forward to a new and more open technology and save costs on licenses and operating costs to their mainframe system.


Source System

Mainframe/MVS with:

• ~ 1,700 ADABAS/Natural programs

• ~ 150 ADABAS views

• ~ 400 Natural maps

• ~ 600,000 lines of code

Target System

Windows system with:

• IIS and Tomcat application server supporting J2EE


• SQL Server database

Current Status Application running successfully in production since May 2007.


Atos Origin—Spain

Business Environment

Atos Origin/Spain is providing IT outsourcing services. They outsource ADABAS/Natural applications for their clients running on an Atos mainframe/MVS system.

Business Need Atos Origin wanted to save costs and downsize its mainframe usage. Also, they were requested by their customers to enhance their applications and provide more Web-based services. Also, Atos identified a growth in the number of application users that requires Atos to extend their current hardware, which makes it very expensive.


Source System Mainframe/MVS with:

• 700 ADABAS/Natural programs


• 700 Natural maps


• 100 JCL modules

Target System

Sun/Solaris system with:



• Oracle database

Current Status • Application migrated

• Application was successfully tested by the customer


APH—Venezuela

Business Environment APH is a software house that develops and sells software packages for banking in South America.

Business Need APH would like to sell one of its internal packages to a large number of banks. This package is based on ADABAS/Natural; for this reason, any bank that purchases this package must purchase an ADABAS/Natural license as well. This requirement makes the package costs very high. In order to reduce costs for the final customer, APH decided to migrate this package to Java which does not require any special licensing.


Source System

Mainframe/MVS with





Target System

Linux or Unix system with:



• Oracle database

Current Status • Application successfully migrated and tested by the customer

• Migrated application is in sales stage to two banks in Venezuela


Coates Hire—Australia

Business Environment Coates Hire is the largest general hire company in Australia, providing a full range of compaction equipment and tools for building and engineering construction.

Coates Hire developed their own ERP application for equipment hiring in ADABAS/Natural. The system is used in dozens of Coates Hire hiring offices by Coates-Hire sales representatives.

Business Need Coates Hire wanted to save costs by closing their mainframe within one year. They also wanted to save costs by eliminating the maintenance expenses related to Software AG products.

Coates Hire also wanted to improve the services they provide to their end users, as the current system is too slow, with response times of up to few minutes.

Another need was to streamline their IT shop by using a unique database: Oracle, and unique language: Java, for all their IT systems.


Source System

GS8300 Fujitsu mainframe with:


• 200 ADABAS tables



Target System

Linux system with



• Oracle database

Current Status • Application is in production since October 1st 2007


Export-Import Bank—USA

Business Environment The Export-Import Bank of the United States (Ex-Im Bank) is an independent U.S. Government agency that helps finance the overseas sales of U.S. goods and services. To accomplish its mission of creating and sustaining jobs through exports, the Bank provides loans, loan guarantees, and insurance products. The Bank provides export credit insurance to help U.S. exporters develop and expand their overseas sales by protecting them against loss should a foreign buyer or other foreign debtor default for political or commercial reasons and assists exporters by guaranteeing term financing to creditworthy international buyers for purchases of U.S. goods and services. The bank has several ADABAS/Natural applications to provide its business services.

Business Need Export-Import Bank key business objectives are to improve the quality of service provided, manage the insurance and guarantee portfolio more effectively, and achieve flexibility to adapt more quickly to the industry and customer demands. A migration to a new and open environment would allow the bank to achieve those business objectives.


Source System

Mainframe/VSE with:


• 100 ADABAS tables



Target System

Windows system with:



• Oracle database


Current Status • Two applications were successfully migrated and tested

• Applications are in production since February 2007

• BluePhoenix received 3 more applications for additional conversion


Serena—Turkey

Business Environment Serena software house in Istanbul is a software house performing various mainframe projects.

Business Need One of Serena’s customers would like to eliminate their DB2/Natural system and to migrate to a Unix/Oracle/Java/J2EE environment.

Serena was looking for a partner that can perform automated Natural migrations by using automated tools, and with proven experience and skills in the Natural and target environments.


Source System

Mainframe/VSE with:

• 700 DB2/Natural programs

• 500 DB2 tables



Target System

Unix system with:



• Oracle database

Current Status Project is in the final testing stage.


Leumi Bank—Israel

Business Environment Leumi bank is the second largest bank in Israel. The bank is using ADABAS/Natural for their main banking applications and all the online activities between the bank and its branches are performed by Natural applications.

Business Need The bank would like to migrate its ADABAS/Natural applications to DB2/Java in order to reduce the costs involved in maintenance of the ADABAS/Natural software. The cost reduction would result from saving the maintenance cost to Software AG, and by using the IBM zAAP processor that runs Java loads and reduces the number of MIPS.

Also the bank would like to improve it service to its customers, and moving to a modern environment and relational database would enable that.


Source System Mainframe/MVS with:

• 60 ADABAS/Natural applications


Target System

Mainframe z/OS system with:

• WebSphere application server supporting J2EE


• DB2 database

• IBM zAAP processors


Current Status BluePhoenix has successfully completed a pilot and currently negotiating the project start. The pilot included conversion of one of the bank’s applications to Java/J2EE. Since the bank cannot migrate all 60 applications at once, but would like to do it in stages, the pilot also demonstrated coexistence capabilities in which:

• Some of the ADABAS tables were migrated to DB2 and some remained in ADABAS. The migrated Java application is working with both DB2 and ADABAS.

• The migrated Java application is interfacing with other nonmigrated Natural applications.

• The migrated Java application is invoking COBOL and Assembler routines that were not migrated to Java.


KAS Bank—Netherlands

Business Environment KAS bank is an investment bank with branches in The Netherlands and the UK. The bank is using ADABAS/Natural with their main banking applications.

Business Need The bank would like to migrate its ADABAS/Natural applications to C#/.NET environment in order to reduce the costs involved in maintenance of the ADABAS/Natural software and eliminate mainframe costs. Also the bank would like to improve service to its customers, and moving to a modern environment and relational database will enable that.


Source System Mainframe/MVS

• ~ 15 ADABAS/Natural applications

• ~ 3,000,000 lines of code

Target System Windows system with:

• .NET

• Application migrated to C#/ASPX

• SQL Server database

• JCL migrated to Windows scripts

Current Status BluePhoenix has successfully completed the migration of one of the applications, which is ready for production. As the bank cannot migrate all 15 applications at one time, but would like to do it in stages, the migration also demonstrated coexistence capabilities in which:

• Some of the ADABAS tables were migrated to SQL Server and some remained in ADABAS. The migrated C# application is working with both SQL Server and ADABAS.

• The migrated C# application is interfacing with other nonmigrated Natural applications.


Sirva Relocations—USA

Business Environment Sirva provides relocation and moving solutions to consumers, corporations, and governments in more than 175 countries around the globe.

Business Need BluePhoenix was selected to rehost mission-critical Sirva business applications from mainframe to Windows due to extortionate support costs and mainframe life expiration.


Source System Amdahl mainframe running:

• ADABAS, DB2, and VSAM databases

• COBOL: 5,710,500 lines of code

• Assembler: 70,450 lines of code

• Natural: 750,000 lines of code

• Focus: 7,000 programs

• Mantis: 100 programs

Target System Windows system with .NET:

• ADABAS and DB2 migrated to SQL Server

• VSAM migrated to ISAM

• Natural migrated to C#

• FOCUS migrated to WebFOCUS

• Mantis migrated to COBOL

• Assembler migrated to COBOL

Current Status This project began in January 2009 and is still ongoing. It is expected to be completed late 2010.


Transportation Company—USA

Business Environment A leading transportation and logistics company with dedicated facilities, drivers, and specialized equipment focused solely on environmentally conscious, high-touch, high-value transportation, on-site services, storage, and handling services.

Dedicated to providing the unique service requirements of industries that include computer, telecommunications, robotics, medical equipment, office equipment, industrial equipment, fine art, trade shows, commercial relocations, exercise equipment, home delivery, and store fixtures.

Business Need The customer modernized two of their systems from a legacy ADABAS/Natural/COBOL based architecture to a lower cost and more maintainable architecture. This will enable them to eliminate the usage of their mainframe and move to a new open platform for their legacy systems.


Source System IBM OS/390 (MVS) with:

• ADABAS and VSAM databases

• Written in Natural and COBOL

Target System Linux operating system with:

• Oracle database

• JCL migrated to KShell

• Natural migrated to Java

• COBOL migrated to Micro Focus COBOL

Current Status A global assessment and inventory log of their legacy systems is currently underway. This includes proof of translation for a Natural program to Java selected by the customer. The project is due to be completed by the end of 2009.


Department of Energy—USA

Business Environment The US Department of Energy’s primary mission is to advance the national, economic, and energy security of the United States. The Energy Information Administration (EIA) is the section of the US Department of Energy providing statistics, data, and analysis of resources, supply, production, and consumption for all energy sources. The applications that are the subject of this project are used to collect and process data related to oil and gas resources.

Business Need EIA has maintained three major oil and gas applications for over 20 years. The applications comprise a number of differing and, in several instances, proprietary technologies—principally Software AG’s ADABAS and Natural. In recent years, EIA has found it difficult to maintain these legacy applications due to a scarcity of programming resources, and the increased costs associated with the aging technology. However, the business rules at the core of the technology provide effective support to the organization. EIA determined that it would be cost effective to engage BluePhoenix to migrate the legacy code and data to the more modern Java and Oracle technologies. Their desire was to position the applications for future growth and to leverage current and emerging technologies.


Source System IBM OS/390 with:

• ADABAS and VSAM databases

• Written in Assembler, COBOL, Easytrieve, FORTRAN, JCL, Natural, and PL/I

Target System Linux platform with:

• Oracle database

• Written in Java

• JCL migrated to KShell

Current Status Upon completion of a Global Assessment and Detailed Analysis of EIA’s applications, culminating in a final report and recommendations, EIA engaged BluePhoenix to perform the migration of legacy applications and databases to the new technologies. Code and data migration activities are well underway. The project is on time and within the budget projections, with completion planned for early 2010.



Telus Communications—Canada

Business Environment Telus Communications is one of Canada’s leading telecommunication companies, providing a wide range of communications products and services including data, Internet protocol (IP), voice, entertainment, and video.

Business Need Telus wanted to convert their RAS (Revenue Accounting Assurance System) application in order to free themselves from the restrictions of their Natural system.


Source System • Natural/DB2 batch and online programs running on IBM mainframe OS/390

Target Environment • Natural migrated to pseudo-conversational COBOL/CICS programs

• DB2 remained on the system

Current Status This project was completed successfully and the application is now in production. The project was completed whilst working alongside subcontractor MOST Technologies.

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