Using Heirloom®, The Avon Company was able to decommission their IBM Mainframe SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — To meet its mainframe decommissioning goal, The Avon Company needed to migrate its Integrated Marketing Information System (IMIS) to Amazon Web Services (AWS). IMIS is a bespoke core IBM Mainframe application that had no alternative outside of the mainframe so the decision...
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An RPA-infused integration of Heirloom® and Probe™ delivers an industry-first SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 17, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — In an industry-first, Heirloom Computing has achieved the remarkable feat of migrating an IBM Mainframe application to the cloud with a single click. For organizations looking to exit the data center business and migrate to the cloud, their mainframe infrastructure represents a challenging...
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Heirloom® recognized as Rising Star for Mainframe Modernization Software SAN FRANCISCO, May 13, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Information Services Group (ISG), a leading global technology research and advisory firm, known for its industry and technology expertise, has named Heirloom Computing a Rising Star in its ISG Provider Lens™ Mainframe Services & Solutions U.S. 2021 Quadrant Report. In response to customer demand,...
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FREMONT, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Heirloom Computing today announced that OCLC has utilized Heirloom® to enhance IT agility by transforming a mission-critical mainframe workload to a cost-effective, open-systems platform. When OCLC needed to enhance IT agility, they discovered that Heirloom PaaS was aligned with their need to modernize their application portfolio and move away from their dependence on an inflexible and expensive IBM mainframe infrastructure....
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Partnership enables modernization of legacy applications to cloud-native targets with new data sources and injection of AI and machine learning, without rewriting them San Francisco, Calif. – February 5, 2020 – Splice Machine, a provider of a scalable SQL database that enables companies to modernize their legacy and custom applications to be agile, data-rich, and intelligent,...
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Migrating AWS Card to STACKIT — Gary Crook, CEO Introduction To illustrate Heirloom’s capabilities, we migrated AWS Card—an open-source COBOL/CICS/JCL/VSAM mainframe application that processes financial transactions, to the STACKIT cloud platform. This demonstration is a simple but powerful illustration of the potential for even the most entrenched legacy systems to thrive in sovereign cloud environments....
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The Sovereign Cloud Business Case — Gary Crook, CEO Introduction In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, organizations face increasing pressure to modernize legacy mainframe applications while maintaining data sovereignty and security. As European businesses particularly seek compliant cloud solutions, Heirloom Computing is leading the charge in enabling rapid, low-risk migrations to sovereign cloud platforms like...
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Understanding the Problem Through Mental Models — Graham Cunningham, CTO Introduction The hardest problems in software are usually not the ones that look hard. Converting COBOL to Java looks straightforward; it’s just translation, right? But if you’ve ever tried to do it at scale, you know better. The real challenge isn’t syntax; it’s meaning. This...
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Why translating code is really about reconstructing lost theories — Graham Cunningham, CTO Introduction You’d think translating COBOL to Java would be easy. They’re both programming languages, right? Just map the syntax and you’re done. But if you’ve ever tried it, you know the truth: the hard part isn’t the language, it’s the meaning. Those...
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Why mainframe modernization is so hard (and so worth it) — Graham Cunningham, CTO There’s something strange about mainframe modernization projects. On paper, they should work. You have the technical skills. You understand the business processes. Your team is aligned and committed. Yet a lot of these projects fail to deliver the expected value, if...
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Heirloom Computing—recognized as a pioneer for IBM Mainframe Modernization. “Heirloom is setting new standards in cloud migration, earning Gary the prestigious title of Cloud Migration CEO of the Year 2024.”
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Heirloom® recognized as Leader for Mainframe Application Modernization Software. Information Services Group (ISG), a well-known technology research and advisory firm renowned for its industry and technology expertise, has named Heirloom Computing a Leader in its Mainframe Services & Solutions U.S. 2025 Quadrant Report. “Heirloom Computing’s toolset offers rapid transformations with precise results. It has added...
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Heirloom® h/GENAI™ — Transforming Mainframes for a Future-Ready World. “We put the reins [of IBM Mainframe Modernization] in the hands of our customers.” – Becky Etheridge, Chief Partner Officer
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Heirloom® recognized as Leader for Mainframe Application Modernization Software. Information Services Group (ISG), a well-known technology research and advisory firm renowned for its industry and technology expertise, has named Heirloom Computing a Leader in its Mainframe Services & Solutions U.S. 2024 Quadrant Report. “Heirloom has rapidly gained market share by offering a fast modernization option...
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Heirloom® recognized as Leader for Mainframe Application Modernization Software. Information Services Group (ISG), a well-known technology research and advisory firm renowned for its industry and technology expertise, has named Heirloom Computing a Leader in its Mainframe Services & Solutions U.S. 2023 Quadrant Report. “It is a pleasure to watch Heirloom’s outstanding growth and success in...
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Heirloom® recognized as Leader for Mainframe Application Modernization Software. Information Services Group (ISG), a well-known technology research and advisory firm renowned for its industry and technology expertise, has named Heirloom Computing a Leader in its Mainframe Services & Solutions U.S. 2022 Quadrant Report. “Heirloom has been capturing the attention of hyperscalers and systems integrator partners...
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Blurr is the fastest Autobot on the planet. We toyed (pun intended) with the idea of labeling Heirloom Computing’s use of robotic process automation (RPA) under the Blurr moniker but decided (sensibly, I think) that it would dilute our existing branding. Nonetheless, with a nod to the descendent of a Cybertronic racehorse, we’re excited to present what...
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Heirloom® recognized as Rising Star for Mainframe Modernization Software. Information Services Group (ISG), a well-known technology research and advisory firm renowned for its industry and technology expertise, has named Heirloom Computing a Leader in its Mainframe Services & Solutions U.S. 2021 Quadrant Report. Companies that receive the Rising Star award have a promising portfolio or...
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Heirloom replatforms and refactors online & batch mainframe workloads at compiler speed to cloud-native Java applications. During refactoring, it automatically makes those applications agile by exposing the primary business rules as RESTful web services. We migrated a sample Mainframe “Account” application, packaged it as a standard Java war file, and deployed it to Alibaba Cloud, Amazon AWS Beanstalk, Google...
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I have already posted articles on how easily Heirloom refactors mainframe workloads to Pivotal Cloud Foundry, AWS, Google App Engine, and the IBM Cloud. Heirloom applications already run natively on multiple clouds. So what about Alibaba’s Cloud? It was very easy! Here’s a summary of the required steps which took less than an hour to complete (prerequisites: an Heirloom Account and...
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The Elephant In The Room After decades of evolution within a constrained ecosystem, mainframe applications are prodigiously complex & inflexible. And it’s not just the code … it’s the data, it’s the operational processes, it’s the security rules, it’s all the interfaces … in many variations and multiple combinations. Until recently, when cloud strategies were...
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Before you dismiss the headline, the availability number is not mine. It’s IBM’s. All through my career, I’ve heard grey-beards talk of the fabled IBM Mainframe high-availability bar of “five nines” (no more than 5m16s of downtime in a year), so the assertion by IBM that “six nines” (no more than 7.9s of downtime in a year) could be...
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Serverless computing offers incredible agility. In these environments, you can truly focus on building the application without the need to design, procure, deploy & manage an application infrastructure. Outside of the cloud, that takes a lot of work. Making it highly-available and able to scale out & back on-demand, makes the task an order of...
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Introduction If you are already muttering sweet phrases of disbelief at the headline, I understand, but hang in there! The application used is a strict implementation of the TPC-C benchmark that was built for the IBM Mainframe using COBOL, BMS & CICS with a DB2 database. TPC-C is an online transaction processing (OLTP) benchmark that represents any industry that...
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Square Pegs in Round Holes I understand; you may already be skeptical. The application modernization arena has not done itself any favors with years of vendor misdirection and misleading claims (permeating from whitepapers and glossy write-ups that attempt to recast tired proprietary technology as modern & relevant — square pegs in round holes). We encounter...
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TL;DR — watch this video to see how IBM workload transformation with Heirloom enables you to fully replicate your IBM Mainframe application security controls. So far in our “Done In 60 Seconds” series, we have covered application migration (automatically transforming an unmodified Mainframe COBOL/CICS/VSAM application to a Java Application Server & Relational DB) and data migration (migrating a Mainframe VSAM file to a...
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In my previous article, we showed you how Heirloom can automatically transform a complex mainframe warehousing application and deploy it to a Java Application Server in 60 seconds with 100% accuracy, guaranteed. Since we’ve already showcased what we can do with application code & logic, we’re now going to take a look at what Heirloom does for data transformation. Again, it...
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Mainframe COBOL/CICS/VSAM to Java Application Server & Relational DB TL;DR — Watch the video below to see how Heirloom automatically takes a complex mainframe warehousing application to Java in 60 seconds with 100% accuracy, guaranteed. Migrating mainframe workloads to anywhere is hard, right? You may have seen vendor presentations that promise an assured migration process, led by analysis tools that paint...
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Voyager 1 fires thrusters for the first time in 37 years. Running a proprietary assembler program written over 40 years ago, engineers at NASA were able to use the Voyager’s thrusters to replace the altitude correction engine that had degraded over the last 40 years. This extends the lifetime of the voyager 1 probe for...
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Introduction Reading about Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment (CI/CD), unit testing, etc., all seem a million miles away from daily life on the Mainframe. In fact, there is a basic question to be answered for all projects, “Why do we need to do continuous integration?”. Agile guru Martin Fowler puts it best (he usually does) when he...
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This article investigates why organizations should consider Mainframe Migration, the migration options they have, and the steps they need to take to transform their mainframe workloads to run on the cloud. Let’s set the scene a little bit for a typical large organization that runs business-critical applications on the mainframe. Your mainframe and your mainframe applications...
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Would you be skeptical of a claim from a vendor that stated you can take existing mainframe workloads (online and batch), and automatically transform them (with 100% accuracy) into instantly agile Java applications that can immediately be deployed to the cloud? You wouldn’t be alone. For many of our initial client meetings, there’s a palpable...
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Gary Crook, President & CEO There’s a lot of chatter about how to make mainframe workloads agile. I have contributed to that chatter myself. The discourse is essential. Boiled down, my assertion is that the mainframe ecosystem is foundationally not agile (and never will be). No amount of DevOps tooling or vendor misdirection is going...
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So, a heads-up… this article is going to be self-serving (at least to start with, perhaps longer), as I’ve come to the conclusion that it is necessary for me to “introduce” myself in an attempt to establish a greater level of credibility than I might otherwise be able to muster! I’ve been working for over...
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Gary Crook, President & CEO I’ve been involved with COBOL for most of my professional career. It is a language that has many unique characteristics, not all positive. Loved by few and (unfairly) vilified by many, it has persisted because it is extremely good at what it was built for — encapsulating business rules. Many...
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Gary Crook, President & CEO Not 3 words you’d immediately assemble together, but that’s exactly what Senior ComputerWorld Editor, Patrick Thibodeau, did yesterday. His article was prompted by a White House announcement of an “Office of American Innovation” to oversee the modernization of federal IT. The article then goes on to give Compuware a platform...
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