Case Study: Reasoning Systems achieves automated Y2K code transformation with Franz Inc.'s Allegro CL

Reasoning Systems - Customer Case Study

Reasoning Systems, Inc. used Franz Inc.’s Allegro CL to build Reasoning/2000, a software analysis, reengineering, and transformation system designed to help Fortune 1000 companies address the Year 2000 (Y2K) problem. The challenge was enormous: automatically identifying and correcting date-related defects across billions of lines of legacy COBOL code under tight deadlines.

Franz Inc. provided the development environment that let Reasoning Systems treat programs as data, use dynamic object-oriented capabilities, and rapidly parse, analyze, and transform COBOL source into compliant code. The result was a highly scalable system that could automatically find and fix Y2K defects and support broader modernization tasks; Reasoning reported operating centers in Palo Alto and Boston that together could transform 200 million lines of code per year per center.

Reasoning Systems

Lawrence Markosian

Vice President of Applications Development for Reasoning