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Interesting demo. The GitHub here and the demo (need LinkedIn account?) is in linked discussion by https://www.linkedin.com/in/garycrook

“Last week, Amazon Web Services (AWS) published their IBM #Mainframe Card application as open-source.

In 3 HOURS, using Heirloom®, we deployed it to 3 different cloud platforms - AWS Elastic Beanstalk, Google Cloud App Engine, and Microsoft Cloud Azure App Service. All 3 provide cloud-native infrastructure for resiliency and dynamic scaling. No additional vendor proprietary software needed - literally plug & play.

Hour 1 - pull from the repo, organize the project workspace, and transpile the application code into a single Java application package (.war). ~35K LOC processed in < 3 seconds, zero changes to the application code, zero errors.

Hour 2 - migration of VSAM data into target relational cloud database - an RDS PostgreSQL instance on AWS.

Hour 3 - application configuration and deployment to the 3 cloud platforms (using exactly the same Java package on each).

With provisioned infrastructure and configuration complete, the entire process can be automated using a CI/CD pipeline, migrating the application to the cloud in just a few minutes.

#agilityMatters #humbleBrag #mainframeMigration #mainframeModernization #COBOL #PL1 #cloudAgnostic #multiCloud” and a video posted by him under LinkedIn.




Porting a language designed to be portable and ETL-ing the data is the least of the issues.

I would think that there are many other considerations for a mainframe application, such as security, predictability, data integrity etc.


Found out he is microfocus hence partially he will know but partially not sure. Busy on other things and hence not fact check. But not likely fake.




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