Modernization Essentials

 

Concepts Guide: Update of IBM Redbook

Design Extraction & Modernization RPG Design Extraction Business Rules PDF

This guide provides an updated version of the detailed worked example in this IBM Redbook “Modernizing and Improving the Maintainability of RPG Applications Using X-Analysis Version 5.6”. It incorporates new concepts and methods for design extraction of business rules and data models, and refactoring monolithic RPG applications into modern application architecture. Download here...


Free Design Extraction Software Trial

X-Analysis 8 Design Extraction Software Trial

Run X-Analysis 8 over your own system and see how they shape up in terms of designs and complexity. See your application as you haven't before in a matter of a couple of hours, and use it for 30 days free of charge. Register here...


Article : System i Network By Paul Conte

Strategies to create new applications from legacy code

In this in-depth article, industry expert Paul Conte describes how to recycle and reuse mission critical logic in your legacy RPG applications. View here...


Educational Webcast Recording: System iNetwork

Modernization Essentials: Recycling Your RPG Code

Paul Conte teaches you how you can use refactoring, code mining, design extraction, and other techniques to create new applications that fully exploit your existing code. Recycling code is also an adaptive approach that lets your IT group use incremental and iterative development practices to produce future applications that have a modern architecture as well as updated interfaces. This recorded webcast provides a fresh, highly informative look at the challenge of application modernization. Register here...