Category: Mainframe Migration

AWS just announced new generative AI–powered transformation capabilities of Amazon Q Developer for large-scale assessment and modernization of mainframe applications. Q Developer provides an objective-driven approach powered by autonomous generative AI agents to accelerate mainframe application modernization. It allows customers to define high-level goals and have Q Developer orchestrate the tools and streamline human actions to […]

This article co-authored with: Padmanabha Rao Chillara (The New York Times) Executive Summary Amazon Web Services recommends an incremental journey to the cloud, leveraging fast-paced, tool-based modernization approaches to migrate from the mainframe to AWS and then incrementally optimize workloads over time. The New York Times (The Times) selected an automated refactor approach to migrate […]

In this blog post, I will show you how to configure and run the x86 virtualized version of the OpenVMS operating system provided by VMS Software, Inc. in a cluster configuration on an Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) bare metal instance. I will highlight integration points between OpenVMS guests running on the Amazon EC2 […]

Introduction Automating the building, testing, and deployment processes are a fundamental component of modern software development and delivery. By implementing a robust Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Testing (CT), and Continuous Deployment (CD) pipeline organizations boost efficiency and accelerate time to market. This blog post presents a Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, and Continuous Delivery (CI/CT/CD) pipeline […]

In this blog post, we will show you how to design the integration patterns and solutions for hybrid architecture during the transition phase. Mainframe environments typically involve complex and tightly coupled integrations between applications which share data and/or code. As mainframe applications are migrated to the AWS Cloud, an incremental approach using the Strangler fig […]

During the modernization of mainframe applications with AWS, migrating business functions implemented in Assembler can be part of the workload scope. AWS Mainframe Modernization Code Conversion with mLogica is an AWS cloud-native service to convert Assembler programs and macros to COBOL programs and copybooks. This blog post describes the conversion approach, its benefits, and provides an Assembler […]