AWS Mainframe Modernization Features

AWS Mainframe Modernization service offers application intelligence, knowledge, and analysis for migration teams and developers to better understand large application portfolios. The assessment capability can help you assess, scope, and plan a migration and modernization project. It highlights application dependencies, complexities and facilitates the definition of the modernization strategy, including business and technical evaluations. It highlights application dependencies and complexities, and it facilitates the definition of the modernization strategy, including business and technical evaluations.

AWS Mainframe Modernization service offers both automated and manual refactoring capabilities to accelerate the modernization of mainframe and legacy assets. Powered by the AWS Mainframe Modernization Blu Age refactor solution, you can use refactoring to convert legacy application programming languages, create macroservices or microservices, and modernize user interfaces (UIs) and application software stacks. It can convert languages like COBOL, PL/1, NATURAL, RPG/400, and COBOL/400 into agile Java services and web frameworks. It relies on fully automated refactoring, preserving the investment in business functions while expediting the reliable transition to newer languages, data stores, and frameworks. Learn more about automated refactoring powered by AWS Blu Age automated refactoring.

With AWS Mainframe Modernization service, you can replatform COBOL and PL/I applications onto the mainframe-compatible managed runtime in the cloud. Powered by the AWS Mainframe Modernization Micro Focus replatform solution, this project approach is about porting the application where much of the application source code is recompiled without changes. The managed runtime provides the necessary capabilities to execute both online transactions and batch jobs. It preserves the investment in the language and code, while modernizing the underlying infrastructure for on-demand resources, elastic scaling, and DevOps best practices. Learn more about AWS Micro Focus replatforming  powered by Micro Focus.

AWS Mainframe Modernization Precisely Data Replication leverages the real-time replication of Precisely Connect to migrate data without downtime unleashing data-based innovations and use cases through AWS Mainframe Modernization service and the wide choice of AWS services. Precisely Connect builds resilient, high-performance data pipelines that replicate data changes via Change Data Capture (CDC) from mainframes to AWS services like Aurora, RDS, FSx, S3, EMR, AWS MSK, Redshift, Snowflake on AWS, and more. By accelerating access to mainframe data on AWS, businesses can get mainframe modernization projects done on time and on budget, all while extending the value of mission-critical, and high investment, mainframe systems. For example, customers can build new channels or offload processing leveraging mainframe data or customers can drive business insights and intelligence with data analytics and data lakes. 

AWS Mainframe Modernization Model9 File Transfer helps accelerate and simplify migration and modernization projects by transferring mainframe data sets and files quickly, securely and efficiently to the AWS Mainframe Modernization service and object storage. Model9 runs as an agent on the on-premise mainframe and transfers copies of both live data from disks and historical data on tapes. It integrates with mainframe storage management with no need for interim DASD storage or having to rewrite batch jobs. It transforms some mainframe data formats to standard or open formats including JSON, CSV, and XML for additional use-cases on AWS Cloud. 

Mainframe Modernization offers an on-demand integrated development environment (IDE) so developers can write code quicker with smart editing and debugging, instant code compilation, and unit testing. You can also use the IDE to develop and enhance enterprise applications running on the Mainframe Modernization cloud native runtime. The Developer IDE is available on demand for both the refactor and replatform patterns.

The AWS Mainframe Modernization service not only facilitates migration and modernization of mainframe applications, but also allows executing these applications on a cloud native fully managed runtime. Similar to any other AWS service, this cloud native runtime is available and operated via AWS Console, AWS Command Line Interface (CLI), and application programming interfaces (APIs). It allows customers to leverage best practices of Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) and DevOps via AWS CloudFormation. It is a fully-managed runtime which automates the management of resources such as compute, middleware, caching, locks, data, queues, transactions, and batch. The automation is built-in and facilitates operations such as installation, deployment, configuration, patching, scaling, versioning, and licensing. The fully-managed runtime is built for business-critical enterprise applications requiring high availability, reliability, and security. It benefits from native integrations with other AWS services such as Amazon CloudWatch for monitoring and logging, AWS IAM for security. It is available on demand for both the refactor and replatform patterns. This helps remove the burden and undifferentiated heavy lifting of managing a complex infrastructure. It allows you to focus on innovating and building new capabilities.

CI/CD introduces automation to boost agility and release velocity across every stage of the development and test pipeline. AWS Mainframe Modernization service helps application development teams deliver code changes more frequently and reliably, which accelerates migration speed, increases quality, and helps reduce time-to-market for releasing new business functions. CI/CD pipelines are available for both the refactor and replatform patterns.