The volume usage of the CSP language is diminishing at a fast rate. Economies of scale are no longer being realized resulting in higher licensing and maintenance rates for CSP written applications, as well as a scarcity of programming expertise on the market. Indeed, to our knowledge, CSP options have been or will soon be removed from the IBM pricelist.

CSP2COB is a service in the 2CHANGE’ service suite which automatically translates the CSP or Visual Age Generator code (batch as well as TP programs) into COBOL II, CICS, DB2, VSAM, BMS HTWC 2Change Language conversion services boosts a library of success cases of clients who successfully converted their CSP/VAG applications to COBOL, tapping into the many advantages inherent

For organizations with a lot of CSP on their books, HTWC’s proven automated Language conversion to COBOL from is an ideal way to:

• Achieve major reduction in TCO
• Avail of a greater pool of COBOL developers, using modern IDEs, thus lowering development and maintenance effort
  
• Tap into a greater market of compilers – feature rich and cost effective
  
• Consolidate diverse application language environments achieving compiler and maintenance cost savings
  
• Eliminate coding errors or inconsistent styles
  
• Preserve the value inherent within, whilst commencing application modernization through a wider
• Range of portability pathways
• Free yourself from overpriced, under supported and limited development language

Download the HTWC CSP/VAG to COBOL brochure

Re-hosting of their MRP application to Linux RedHat, Marposs not only achieved significant license and maintenance savings, but also homogenized their MRP & CAD/CAM environment whilst moving to a more open environment for further third party integrations. Their investment in Tivoli Control M scheduler was preserved through integration with XFRAME.

Marposs is a global manufacturer of precision metrology equipment and tools, used for improving manufacturing performances and agility. At the heart of their Manufacture to Order business model, is a highly customized MRP applications, COPICS. As part of their strategy to become yet leaner, Marposs embarked on a strategy to migrate this application to an open environment, to achieve savings and greater integration with their CAD/CAM application already run in the open environment.

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True to its tradition, HTWC continues to develop custom solutions for its clients as part of its technology delivery. Within the framework of a recent re-hosting project for a major Italian city, a key client objective was the preservation of its investment in BOS-Help and the underlying contribution to its business continuity and business logic.

For creating online help functions, no source code is required. ROS-help supports in-house developed and third party application packages - independent of the programming language. ROS help preserves the original documentation and enables writers to enhance this in the target environment.