FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Bankia Spain Migration: Raincode Labs Completes Successful Migration From PACBASE Brussels/Belgium – November 02, 2020 - Bankia, Spain's fourth-largest bank, finished a successful large-scale migration from PACBASE to COBOL. Bankia Spain enlisted the help of industry technical experts Raincode Labs to carry out the migration, which saw more than 100,000 programs [...]
Automatic migration of DFSORT workloads to SyncSort wins award at IEEE conference A vital part of the ecosystem of applications running on mainframes is the DFSORT program. DFSORT can be used for sorting and reformatting data, as well as multiple other functionalities, such as reporting. To be able to include [...]
Bankia Chooses Raincode Labs for PACBASE migration We are very pleased to announce that Bankia, Spain's 4th largest bank, has chosen us to migrate their legacy PACBASE applications to more maintainable native COBOL. And this isn't just your run-of-the-mill migration; it's the largest PACBASE migration in the world to date, at 120,000 programs, and [...]
Case Study: Bespoke, Platform-specific Compilers Since 2011, LzLabs has been developing innovative solutions for enterprise computing customers. Their flagship product, the Software Defined Mainframe (SDM), is a workload rehosting and mainframe modernization platform that allows its customers to execute their legacy code on open systems. Because of the unique and [...]
In most modernization projects, issues with code quality are addressed at the end to simplify the migration process. However, our experience shows that sniffing out and dealing with bad code early on has many benefits. In many of the migration projects that we take on, our customers prefer to migrate their legacy applications "as [...]
Demystifying DSLs Part II : A Working Definition Domain-specific Languages (DSLs) are everywhere, but there is precious little consensus on a working definition to describe them. Academic conferences about DSLs turn to the presentation of ever more abstract tools aimed at simplifying the task of implementing DSLs, or the enumeration of more and more exotic [...]
Demystifying DSLs Part 1: Time is of the Essence When it comes to implementing industrial-grade Domain Specific Languages (DSLs), rushing to deliver something as early as possible can prove dramatically counter-productive. This is true for all software projects, not just DSL projects, but it is as if the DSL community needs this reminder more than [...]
Soon the 8th Summer School on Domain Specific Modeling Theory & Practice (DSM-TP 2017) will take place at Université de Montréal (Montreal, Canada). This 5-day summer school is aimed at researchers, teachers, practitioners and PhD students who already work with Domain Specific Modeling or intend to increase their knowledge on it. Let's have a look [...]
Brain Teaser Tired of 4th grade arithmetic’s puzzles disguised as advances for mankind? Discover something worthy of your time where failure is a possibility and not a shameful one. The exercise is below for you to fill in. Submit your answers & after 10 days we will publish the solution. THE BRAIN CHALLENGE Introduction Sequential [...]
While not working on Tuesdays, we from time to time participate to/ or organize events. Even if it is not customary, software-application-related events do take place in Brussels; this one was intitled Programming Conference 2017. Raincode Labs organized a Compiler Coding Dojo, hosted by Vadim Zaystev its Chief Science Officer (later seen on pictures below) [...]
