Educational Testing Service (ETS) – COBOL to Java Modernization on AWS

ETS and AWS engaged with TSRI to complete the modernization of their COBOL-based system to Java on AWS. To Achieve CRA’s goals, TSRI tuned JANUS Studio® to parse, transform, document, and refactor the IBM z/OS COBOL application. In just 1.5 months, TSRI modernized the application from an IBM Mainframe COBOL and CICS monolith to a modern multi-tier architecture in Java on the AWS cloud. Just as important, TSRI also converted the DB2 database and VSAM sequential files to a relational PostgreSQL database on AWS Aurora.

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Customer: Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) and AWS

Source & Target Language: IBM COBOL to Java on AWS

Lines of code: 168,000

Duration: 6 Months

Services: Automated Code Transformation, Automated Refactoring, Integration and Testing Support, SonarQube Quality Refactoring, Code-Specific Adaptation, Database Migration, Transformation "To-Be" Blueprint®, Application "As-Is" Blueprint®

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