Case Study: a financial and IT service provider achieves a fast DB2-to-Oracle and COBOL-to-PL/SQL migration with Ispirer Toolkit

a financial and it service provider migrates 60,000 LOC to Oracle in 4 months with Ispirer Systems

The customer, a financial and IT service provider, needed to migrate its database from IBM DB2 to Oracle and convert associated COBOL scripts into PL/SQL. This involved moving approximately 60,000 lines of code, including triggers and stored procedures. The vendor, Ispirer Systems, utilized its Ispirer Toolkit to undertake this project with the goals of maintaining accuracy and ensuring technical compatibility.

Ispirer Systems customized its software by adding new conversion rules to handle special characters in the COBOL code, ensuring a high level of automated conversion. The entire migration was completed in less than four months. Ispirer provided expert control over the process, resulting in a fast and highly precise conversion that met all of the client's target code requirements.