One of the major challenges in converting legacy FOCUS on the mainframe is the number of batch jobs written with JCL. Now, the challenges of manually analyzing and changing these jobs have been overcome.
Partner Intelligence has enhanced its BI Consolidator software for mainframe JCL. For analysis and a conversion roadmap, the application can automatically scan, analyze, and inventory the instructions contained in the job stream. After that, the BI Consolidator can automatically create new versions of the JCL: a legacy "test" version along with a new WebFOCUS "test" version for parallel testing, plus a new WebFOCUS version for moving into production.
The BI Consolidator currently offers two options for converting mainframe jobs with FOCUS steps. First, we can easily convert MVS FOCUS to Unix System Services WebFOCUS. You eliminate your legacy text-based FOCUS license and usage, move to the web version, yet still have mainframe data access. Your current FOCUS batch jobs continue to work, just using new web technology under the covers. If you want, you can enhance the batch job outputs to take advantage of new WebFOCUS features, or simply leave everything running as-is.
A second BI Consolidator option is to automatically convert the JCL to replace MVS FOCUS processes with those running on a zLinux partition using TCP remote calls. This technique allows you to offload mainframe processing while keeping your legacy batch job streams. This is especially important if you have integrated other mainframe technologies into the FOCUS batch stream (e.g., COBOL steps, IMS batch access, TSO batch access, IDCAMS, external sorts, and so forth).
The BI Consolidator also provides documentation features that generate new job listings with special highlighting as well as test plan spreadsheets. These help guide and simplify the parallel testing work.
Partner Intelligence's BI Consolidator application eliminates all of the manual coding typically involved with converting mainframe JCL with FOCUS steps to run with WebFOCUS. It does this with zero defects and at a rate of about 20 jobs per second. Any alternative manual approach is a waste of your company's money as well as unnecessary risk.
If you are interested in learning more, please contact me.
Tuesday, December 29, 2009
Saturday, December 26, 2009
2010 Growth for Partner Intelligence
In 2010, Partner Intelligence will double its consulting staff!
We are seeking experienced Business Intelligence professionals (in particular, with WebFOCUS skills) primarily in the Kentucky, Ohio, and Indiana geography. We need to expand our permanent staff with quality individuals seeking long-term careers in BI software consulting services.
After just a few years, Partner Intelligence has consulting staff in major cities of Cincinnati, Columbus, Indianapolis, and Dallas (these are full-time employees, not temporary subcontractors). In 2009, Information Builders named Partner Intelligence their preferred national vendor for BI conversion services, due to our methodologies and award-winning automated software tools.
To sustain our growth, Partner Intelligence has a direct sales and marketing staff. Our national recruiting team searches for quality WebFOCUS professionals across the country. We have a strategic advisor, executive management team, and the typical administrative groups. Our executive management team have relationships with most of the area's major firms. We are now in our second office space and have decided in 2010 to purchase a new, larger location. Partner Intelligence's growth is supported financially by a debt-free parent organization that ranked second as the fastest-growing privately-held company in Cincinnati.
I am proud of Partner Intelligence’s success and am working hard to continue that into the future. Would you like to be part of this exciting opportunity?
If so, let's discuss how you could join Partner Intelligence. Contact me at DLautzenheiser at my PartnerPS e-mail address.
We are seeking experienced Business Intelligence professionals (in particular, with WebFOCUS skills) primarily in the Kentucky, Ohio, and Indiana geography. We need to expand our permanent staff with quality individuals seeking long-term careers in BI software consulting services.
After just a few years, Partner Intelligence has consulting staff in major cities of Cincinnati, Columbus, Indianapolis, and Dallas (these are full-time employees, not temporary subcontractors). In 2009, Information Builders named Partner Intelligence their preferred national vendor for BI conversion services, due to our methodologies and award-winning automated software tools.
To sustain our growth, Partner Intelligence has a direct sales and marketing staff. Our national recruiting team searches for quality WebFOCUS professionals across the country. We have a strategic advisor, executive management team, and the typical administrative groups. Our executive management team have relationships with most of the area's major firms. We are now in our second office space and have decided in 2010 to purchase a new, larger location. Partner Intelligence's growth is supported financially by a debt-free parent organization that ranked second as the fastest-growing privately-held company in Cincinnati.
I am proud of Partner Intelligence’s success and am working hard to continue that into the future. Would you like to be part of this exciting opportunity?
If so, let's discuss how you could join Partner Intelligence. Contact me at DLautzenheiser at my PartnerPS e-mail address.
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About Me
- Doug Lautzenheiser
- Doug Lautzenheiser is a leading subject matter expert in the use of Business Intelligence software within corporate organizations. He is one the top authorities in the WebFOCUS BI software product, from Manhattan-based Information Builders. While a vendor employee, Doug was trained and certified in IB's BI products all the way through the internal workings of the software.
During his 13-year career with IB, Doug led regional education, consulting, and pre-sales technical support services. In addition to being a software vendor employee, Doug spent 7 years with IB customers and 5 years with IB partners.
Doug has provided BI services to organizations such as Procter & Gamble, The Wendy's Company, TDS Telecom, TriHealth, Hormel Foods, JPMorgan Chase, MasterCard, the State of Indiana, the State of Oklahoma, and the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma.
Doug is general manager of Partner Intelligence, a Cincinnati-based consulting firm specializing in BI professional services: strategic advice, BI application development, and automated modernization tools and methodologies.
