Alchemy Updates NeoData Mainframe Modernization Suite 
Alchemy Solutions is shipping new releases from its NeoData suite of products. The new offerings aim to help organizations migrate mainframe applications and data faster and with lower risk.
Alchemy Solutions is shipping new releases from its NeoData suite of products. The new offerings aim to help organizations migrate mainframe applications and data faster and with lower risk.
The latest upgrades will be available by year’s end for:
- NeoData Utilities, an integrated set of file transfer, conversion and editing capabilities to help organizations better deal with complex COBOL data records, according to the company. NeoData Utilities help enterprises more efficiently and effectively migrate COBOL data quickly, saving time and effort, the company said. NeoData Utilities helps organizations identify and deal with one of the most unwieldy challenges in the migration process—data conversion.
- NeoData zLink, just introduced earlier this year, adds access to VSAM files from batch applications in addition to online transactions from the original version. The product lets users target specific applications, or subsets of applications, for re-hosting without having to move all their associated VSAM or DB2 data with making any changes to the code. The result: Organizations can leave VSAM or DB2 data on the mainframe or continue their migration by moving the data to native SQL Server using NeoData for SQL Server, the company said.
- NeoData for SQL Server will add support for SQLCLR, to deliver faster, more flexible, more reliable integration with SQL Server.
“These new product upgrades for the NeoData family address the most common concerns when organizations are considering migration—time consumption and risk associated with migrating data,” said Ron Langer, Alchemy’s general manger in a statement.
The NeoData suite allow companies to migrate VSAM or indexed file data to Microsoft SQL Server without rewriting legacy COBOL code, and to help mainframe users avoid difficult and risky coding and data transformation operations to store data in Microsoft SQL Server, officials said.
