Facilitating businesses to quickly integrate and migrate data for e-commerce and enterprise application integration efforts, Compuware will launch two new data extraction and transformation transport tools.
"By simplifying the tasks associated with large scale data integration projects, File-AID Express and File-AID Express for MVS will help IT teams deliver reliable e-commerce projects, implement ERP or CRM systems and more efficiently manage data exchange with business partners," says Kelly Kruger, Compuware SA`s File-Aid account manager.
According to a GartnerGroup FirstTake report (22 May), File-Aid Express for MVS is the first data extraction and transformation transport (ETT) tool styled as a transformation engine that executes on the mainframe. The report says the product will appeal to enterprises striving to move non-relational data into DB2 on OS/390 for both decision support systems and newer OLTP applications.
The Express products minimise the task of building high-speed, high-volume data interfaces and migrations, helping companies to better meet "time to market" demands in the fast-paced e-commerce-enabled market.
"With these File-Aid tools, developers will be able to perform large-scale production data integration without writing custom programs," says Kruger. "Complex conversions between legacy, relational and e-commerce data formats will be possible across an enterprise." These formats include DB2, VSAM, IMS, sequential, Oracle, SQL Server, DB2 UDB, Sybase, XML and flat files.
The high-speed conversion engines of the Express products will help users quickly convert data for one-time migrations and for both temporary and permanent data interfaces between applications in production. Users have the flexibility to execute the engine on OS/390, Unix or NT servers. Developers will also be able to convert subsets of data required for testing the application or the interface.
According to GartnerGroup, File-Aid Express for MVS not only extracts data but, more importantly, extracts the metadata (eg from Cobol copy books), including interpreting all the complex relationships (eg occurs or depends-on clauses), record structures, data types and formats. The tool thereby makes this data much more understandable to developers.
Compuware will introduce these File-Aid Express products to the South African market on 13 June (Gauteng) and 15 June (Cape Town).
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