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Articles : System i Network by Robert Cancilla

Application Mapping – Special System i News Series

Robert Cancilla authors a series of four articles on how Application Mapping has changed the way companies are managing, maintaining and modernizing their Legacy IBM i Applications. . Read more...


Graphical Analysis & Modernization of CA 2E (SYNON) Webinar

Join us for a Webinar on May 27

Databorough announces X-2E : Graphical Analysis, Documentation, Design Recovery & Migration to Java or C# for CA 2E (SYNON) Applications. Read more...


X-Analysis Lite Unveiled - IT Jungle

Databorough Unveils 'Lite' Version of Application Analysis Tool

Databorough last week unveiled a stripped down "Lite" version of X-Analysis, its cross-referencing and documentation tool for IBM i OS applications. Read more...


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. Read more...


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...


Databorough Partners with Genuitec - IT Jungle

Databorough Teams with Genuitec to Push Alternative Eclipse IDE

If imitation truly was the sincerest form of flattery, the IT industry would be awash in butterflies and rainbows. But it's not, and instead imitation is a tool in the Darwinian quest for survival. Read more....


Understanding and integrating - IBM Systems Magazine.

Three experts discuss the value of legacy applications and how they can move businesses forward.

Legacy applications. To some, the phrase brings to mind old, out-of-date software written in decades past in dead programming languages by people who no longer exist—and to some degree, they might be right. Many of these applications were in fact developed years ago and the programmers who created them may be long gone, having either moved on to other jobs or retired. Read more....


Solution Spotlight - System i News/Network

X Marks the Spot for Application Analysis

Reconstructing what applications do, what they touch, and how they impact other business operations can be difficult and time-consuming. Databorough’s X-Analysis solution automates the process and lets even non technical users analyze application functions. Read more....


Success Story - IBM Systems Magazine.

Databorough Helps Fiserv CBS Worldwide Quicken Development

X-Analysis has provided a fundamental capability to increase quality and timeliness in development and support."
- Mike Quested, product architect, Fiserv Read more....


Product Spotlight

Databorough: MAPICS Finds the Answer with X-Analysis-Feedback from Satisfied X-Analysis Users

"Within an hour of being introduced to the product, we have had new users, with very little knowledge of an application, create and drill down from a full application data model diagram into a data flow diagram to view every program that touches a selected file. They can jump from the data flow diagram directly down to the actual source code view and investigate the code," says Mark Rinker, Solutions Architect, iSeries*, MAPICS. "One of the best features we've found is, within seconds, the product can give you the exact business rules that are being executed within a program viewed as pseudo code." Read more....


The Four Hundred - IT Jungle

IBM's iSeries Rejuvenation Efforts Begin to Bear Fruit

The AS/400-iSeries line of computers is approaching its 17th birthday this month, and that is as good a time as any to take stock of the iSeries Initiative for Innovation, which Big Blue launched in February as a multi-prong technical, marketing, and sales push to get independent software providers and tool makers fired up about the iSeries platform. IBM has been busy, just trying to get a handle on the key ISVs in the market and what they need. One of the hot tools for this work is called X-Analysis, which was created by English tool maker Databorough and which is also a ServerProven application on the iSeries. Read more....

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