With time for year 2000 projects becoming critical, remedies have to not only find the date problems, but must offer the choice of both manual selection and automation. Take the new release from Bateleur Software, GENART Year 2000 compliance remediation toolset. Described by Bateleur Software director, Donald Abbot, as a powerful, on-site re-engineering tool, GENART has been developed for the extraction, analysis, remedy and documentation of Natural code. "Interactive remedy verification and modification saves processing time as impacts found, but not requiring change, can be excluded individually. All changes to be applied automatically and manually can be verified and changed as required, prior to processing" GENART has been developed with Software AG, specifically to work in a Software AG environment, integrating seamlessly with other products and using existing hardware, software, procedures and skills. Abbot says GENART`s process is defined by three phases: environment, analysis and resolution. During the first phase, Natural source code including DDMs, is extracted and loaded into an interrogatable repository, he says. The validity and completeness of the code are checked. Objects are then cross-referenced and application analysis reports are generated, including a diagrammatic view of the application. During the analysis stage, dates are automatically traced directly and indirectly, within and across objects, by processing search criteria against the application code. A default search specification is provided, which users can modify to add, delete, comment or change criteria. The results are reported in summary and detail, including impacted external objects, and highlighting of impacted code. Using the results of the impact analysis, GENART reports changes that are required to make the application Year 2000 compliant, most of which can be made automatically. Interactive screens allow for verification of all changes and review of any suggested manual changes, including database changes. User comments may be entered and reports and audit logs are generated. According to Abbot, GENART can also report on the impact using any other search criteria defined during the analysis stage - such as the impact of the Euro. "With GENART, you can be certain that your Natural code will be processed consistently and accurately while saving valuable time and resources. Year 2000, indeed any other processing such as Euro, can be achieved effectively and efficiently. In fact, Software AG (Corporate) works with GENART to be certain that NATURAL code is processed consistently and accurately, saving valuable time and resources," he says. Sandton-based Bateleur Software has been appointed by General Systems Limited (GSL) to support the GENART in Africa
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