Over the last 4 years The Smith Group has evolved from primarily a Tier 1 IBM Business partner and reseller of mainframe software to a “solutions” company focusing on project- oriented services that solve customer problems. Our experience has shown that services backed by automation are less costly, deliver results quicker and are less error prone. Services that are limited in duration and project-oriented are easier for our customers to get management buy in and budget approval. Below is The Smith Group catalog of project-oriented services delivered by our select partners, each with many years of successfully delivering specialized services on time and under budget. Please call or email us well in advance of your project start date for a free estimate of the cost and time required to complete your project.
Please scroll down for our list of Mainframe Modernization & Cost Reduction Services
Project Oriented Services for DevOps
SCM consolidation to GIT – Many companies are combining their mainframe and distributed application development pipelines using GIT as their common Software Configuration Manager (SCM)....(more info)
Application business rules discovery, mining, and management – The business rules governing transaction execution in core systems are typically buried deep inside millions of lines of legacy...(more info)
Legacy green screen transformation – IBM’s HATS software extends mission critical terminal applications to the web, mobile, portal, rich client, or as standard SOAP or RESTful web services...(more info)
Optim Application Retirement – If you are getting off your mainframe or retiring a legacy application, give us a call. Most companies will need to retain their legacy data for 7 to 10 years for...(more info)
z/OS emulation (z/OS on x86) – z/OS® on a personal computer or workstation Linux environment…really? Really (sorry, no production workloads please). IBM’s z Development & Test (zD&T)...(more info)
Automated API development and deployment – Automated API development and deployment services – Mainframe modernization projects will often include exposing mainframe assets via APIs...(more info)
Application Discovery – There are application discovery products available for purchase, requiring a capital investment and a long-term commitment. IBM’s ADDI comes to mind. Only one is available...(more info)
Project Oriented Services for Operations
Mainframe Performance Analytics – Poorly tuned subsystems such as CICS, DB2, MQ, WLM and DASD can quickly drive-up CPU usage, create performance spikes, slow down application...(more info)
Mainframe Integration Analytics – Mainframe integrations, whether they be web services, screen scrapers, mobile apps, or Robotic Process Automation (RPA) BOTS are designed for human...(more info)
ISV to IBM Software Migration Services
Complete ISV replacement – Broadcom is raising prices 40 – 60% with no added value. This partner can take out the entire Broadcom contract and is oftentimes selected by IBM when additional...(more info)
Adabas, IDMS, Datacom/DB, IMS migrations – These migrations are the most challenging of all ISV migrations. My partner has successfully done many of these migrations by employing extensive...(more info)
Easytrieve migration – The Smith Group’s partner can convert Easytrieve code to run time only allowing your customer to cancel their Broadcom Easytrieve license while still using the Easytrieve...(more info)
Job Scheduling migration – This task is significantly automated to replace CA 7, 11, Autosys and ESP as well as BMC’s Control M with IBM’s IWS. Our partner has significantly automated this...(more info)
Mainframe emulation migration – Yes, you heard me right. Boring old emulation software that is being used by virtually every mainframe customer and have been used by them for 30 or more...(more info)
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