Assembler Conversion Overview

Datatek Customizes its Converter for Each and Every Client

Because we know from experience that no two Assembler applications are the same, Datatek customizes its converter for each and every client. We understand that your business has spent years developing and customizing your applications to address your company’s specific needs and processes. And because we understand how important this is to the success of the project, we customize our tools from top to bottom so that we can return converted code to you that is both accurate and maintainable.

“Generic” solutions can produce poor code which lacks a standard of maintainability. We have found that customers are much more satisfied receiving code in the form they want it in as opposed to being forced to take code in whatever form a generic solution provides it in.

A major example, of client-specific customization is in the conversion of macros. IBM provided a very powerful macro facility which could be looked at as a programming language in itself. Datatek’s conversion service is customized so that macros are converted based on specific criteria. A macro could be replaced in-line with converted code, it could be converted to a copy/include file, it could be replaced with functionality built into the target language, or it could be replaced with custom code.

Datatek Effectively Uses Automation to Reduce Your Cost, Risk & Pain

One of the primary advantages of automation is its ability to increase the speed and accuracy of a project by reducing the amount of manual conversion and qualification that needs to be done. Manual effort is by its very nature much more inconsistent and error prone than automation.

Reducing the manual effort through a high level of automation has a number of benefits:

• Testing and qualification time is reduced for each code merge.
• Reduction of QA effort frees you and your staff to work on other projects.
• Datatek can allow the customer to experiment with various solutions and see their effect and implication across the entire code base.

Datatek Takes Responsibility to Ensure Your Success!

Migrations are difficult, they are inherently risky, and they require strong partnerships. It isn’t enough for a migration partner to just convert your code and then walk away, leaving you with the task of qualification as well as problem resolution, code modification, and cleanup.

This is why Datatek takes full responsibility for any problems found during testing. What’s more, Datatek integrates its conversion process into the testing of the code so that problems are found as early as possible, Datatek’s converter is modified to handle those problems, and the code is regenerated. By using this method, each problem found in one place is fixed and eliminated from the entire code base.

And this is just one example of how we help you to be successful. From our initial assessment of your code to the moment you are ready to deploy, to the support that we provide you post-cutover, Datatek will customize itself to your needs so that you get the maximum benefit from our services.