Conversion Services

Innovative Business Systems, Inc. has assisted many clients in migrating from the IBM System/36 and other platforms (both IBM and non-IBM) to the AS/400. IBS has also performed many CISC to RISC migrations on the AS/400. All conversions have gone extremely smoothly and the clients have been very pleased with the end result of the migration. Not only have the systems come-up and run effectively, the performance improvement has been outstanding.

In light of this, IBS offers conversion services to clients that wish to migrate to the AS/400. The components of these services are as follows:

Planning

• Hardware Installation
• Software Installation
• Conversion
• Physical Planning
• Availability Planning
• Backup and Recovery
• Personnel, Education Considerations

 

Implementation

• Hardware
• Software
• Conversion

• Programs
• Control Language
• Displaywrite Documents
• Queries
• Data Dictionaries
• Note: DFU’s must be re-created or replaced with a program

• AS/400 Environment

• Configuration Issues
• Devices (Workstations, Printers, PC’s)
• Communciations
• Library Structure
• Special System Values
• Client Access
• Domino/Lotus Notes
• Security
• LAN Connectivity

In addition to offering conversion services to the AS/400, IBS also offers migration services on the AS/400. These services would include CISC to RISC migration and IBM version/release upgrade services.

Clients can elect to avail themselves of any or all of the above offerings. The specific conversion services that a client requires will depend on the complexity of the conversion itself, the level of technical expertise available within the client organization, and the availability of client resources to assist in any way that the client desires to ensure a well planned, well executed migration to or on the AS/400.