UK software house Northern Exposure Consultants Ltd, Manchester, has introduced AutoM-IX, a Micro Focus Plc Cobol-to-Unix migration tool for financial and accounting mainframe software. AutoM-IX is based on PowerDrive, the firm’s own applications generator, and converts IBM MVS Cobol applications to Unix without modifying code, the company claims. To do this, the tool strips the application of its database, graphical front-end, transaction processing monitor and recompiles it under Micro Focus Cobol. AutoM-IX replaces application features, adding access interfaces for Sybase, Informix, Oracle and Ingres relational databases and other third party proprietary languages to the code. AutoM-IX runs on a variety of Unix systems including Santa Cruz Unix, AIX, Ultrix, Solaris 2.1 and HP-UX. Northern Exposure has the stuff out at 26 reference sites across Britain including Somerset, Hatfield, Berkshire, Hackney and Tower Hamlets local authorities and at ICL Plc, Westland Helicopters, British Steel, Racal Electronics, Rediffusion and PowerGen. An average migration contract will cost UKP100,000.
