The Migration Tools 400 OCC create executable code for Windows, Linux and UNIX based on existing RPG, Cobol, CL and DDS source code. System i developers can execute their applications in any desired production environment without having to learn Java.

Product Description

With the Migration Tools 400 OCC you can make System i RPG and Cobol applications platform-independent. Development remains on System i in PDM or WDSC in RPG or Cobol. The production environment can be one of the following:

The Migration Tools 400 OCC are particularly suitable for System i software houses that also want to make their solutions available to non-System i platforms, as well as users who would like to put their existing skills and applications to use on an open systems platform as a production platform. In particularly, when a company has a number of different platforms or databases, applications of various origins can be sensibly consolidated.

Migration is done analogously to application development in System i in three steps. First, the DDS is compiled. Second, objects are created. In the third step, the respective RPG, Cobol and CL programs are converted or compiled. Conversion is a two-step process: first, RPG, Cobol and CL are converted to a generator language called OCC. OCC is an easily comprehensible superset made up of RPG, Cobol and CL with a comfortable graphical debugger and comprehensive analytic tools. C/C++ code is generated from OCC and then compiled as high performance native code (standard DLLs) in the respective system.

The native code generated through OCC supports the PKS Universal Client, but can also be run with the customer's own clients. Service Library 400 provides the system functions required by the application.

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