Retro documentation

Issues

A reliable IT infrastructure with reduced maintenance costs depends on well-managed applications.

Documentation is often obsolete –or does not even exist– and only a few people in your company can handle it.

Our Offer

The retro-documentation of your applications allows you to ensure:

  • Daily operations running
  • Long-term preservation of data
  • Independence from third parties
  • Upgrades
  • Teams Rotation
  • Migration to another system
  • IT strategy planning

Our Tools

Our methodology is based both on a functional and technical analysis. The system is described externally by its its functions, services, and associated technical components.

We use our Recode-Workbench suite which analyses, transforms and assesses the system with a high automation level.

How we reverse-engineer your applications:

 

MOVE Recode suite

Data gathering

Application mapping

Cross-references

Programmes, Data, JCL, Utilities

==> Technical analysis

Areas

Applications

Functions

Settings // Configuration

List of the functions and description

==> Functional analysis

 

Thorough analysis

List of the functions and objects supporting them

Detailed functional and technical description

==> Synthesis

 

Our suite carries out a thorough analysis of your system and quickly provides you with an overview of your applications in terms of technical and functional mapping.

We go further in details depending on your objectives.

 

Applications:

  • Corrective maintenance
  • Upgrades
  • Migration to a modern architecture (re-writing or generation)
  • Web-enabling
  • De-interleaving Application and replacement by a software package
  • Application management

 

Environments

We work in all kinds of IT environments:

OS: MVS, DOS VSE, VM, GCOS 7, GCOS 8, VMS, ICL, UNIX, AS400, WINDOWS, HP3000…

DBMS: DB2, ORACLE, SYBASE, SQLserver, SQL, INFORMIX, DL1, IDMS, IDS2, TOTAL, ADABAS, DATACOM, IMAGE…

We have strong functional skills in Banking, Insurance, Pension systems, Life insurance, Retail, Human Resources…

Business Cases

Business Cases

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