IBM Host Integration Services is pleased to offer a comprehensive suite of services for WebSphere Host Access Transformation Services and WebSphere Host On-Demand. Customers can now take advantage of our new JumpStart Services offerings to get you started down the path to a successful product experience. Or we can work with you to provide a customized set of services tailored to meet your needs.
The Host Integration Services team is pleased to offer consulting services to assist customers with migrating your applications and macros from other emulators to WebSphere Host On-Demand (HOD). Our team is made up of professionals who possess a depth and breadth of Host Integration product knowledge unmatched in the industry. The team maintains a close relationship with the Host Integration Development Lab, where the future of our products is being determined every day. Our consultants have experience with HOD migration projects and are experts at leveraging our migration tools to accelerate your migration effort. The tools are available for download on the Host On-Demand web site at http://www.ibm.com/software/webservers/hostondemand/.
HOD Migration Services
Host Integration Services will customize a services engagement to meet your specific needs. These services may include but are not limited to:
- Project planning and management
- Perform an assessment of the current environment and the work effort necessary to migrate to HOD
- Assess the usefulness of available tools that may be used to ease and accelerate the migration effort
- Work with the customer to develop specifications for the HOD environment
- Work with the customer to develop a project plan and estimated timetable to migrate
HOD Migration Assistance
Work with the customer to migrate a number of macros and/or applications and provide skills transfer to your staff to complete the job
Perform conversion services to your specifications (may be done on site at customer location or remote)
The duration of the services specified above is dependent on the planned size and scope of the engagement and will be estimated during the project planning phase.
For more information or to request assistance, please visit the WebSphere Software Services web site or contact your software services sales representative. To locate an IBM Representative near, see the Software Services Contact web site.
Host On-Demand Macro and HLLAPI Conversion
Host Integration Services can also provide the services to convert the macros and HLLAPI-based applications from other products to run on HOD. These services may include but are not limited to:
Perform conversion of HLLAPI based applications to run in HOD with little or no code changes required. Also support converting from Attachmate EAL API to HOD.
Automated tool to convert Attachmate macros to run in HOD and PCOMM. Includes a macro script editor with built in debugger.
Perform conversion of Rumba based macros to run in HOD.
Convert Attachmate Macros to WebSphere Host On-Demand or Personal Communications
The ISSW services team has developed a very easy to use services offering and utility that allows customer to that convert from Attachmate to HOD to enable all of their macros to run with HOD. Below are the details.
Work Summary: IBM now has a tool to convert Attachmate macros to run on Host On-Demand (HOD), or Personal Communications (PCOM). This tool is provided along with up to forty (40) hours of associated services for a cost of US $16,000. If travel is requested, it is billed separately.
IBM now has a tool to convert Attachmate macros to run on Host On-Demand (HOD), or Personal Communications (PCOM). This tool is provided along with up to forty (40) hours of associated services for a cost of US $16,000. If travel is requested, it is billed separately.
The 40 hours of services can be used for anything related to the macro conversion such as the tool installation, that actual conversion services, training on how to use the tool, debugging support in the event of issues, or assistance with any macros that do not convert cleanly.
Description of conversion tool:
Background: Attachmate macros are different from HOD or PCOM macros. They are more than simple keystroke recordings. They are actually scripts based upon visual basic. Therefore, a visual basic engine is used to convert and run the macros. This tool does not convert the Attachmate macros to HOD macros, it enables them to run in a Visual Basic engine that the tool provides and interact, via the EHLLAPI bridge, with the HOD emulator sessions.
Attachmate macros are different from HOD or PCOM macros. They are more than simple keystroke recordings. They are actually scripts based upon visual basic. Therefore, a visual basic engine is used to convert and run the macros. This tool does not convert the Attachmate macros to HOD macros, it enables them to run in a Visual Basic engine that the tool provides and interact, via the EHLLAPI bridge, with the HOD emulator sessions.
Implementation: The conversion tool installs a Visual Basic runtime on the client machine. It then reads the macros and makes some minor modifications to the API calls that makes them compatible with the EHLLAPI bridge. A graphical interface is also provided that allows the macros to be managed and launched. The ability to launch the macros from the emulator is also provided.
The conversion tool installs a Visual Basic runtime on the client machine. It then reads the macros and makes some minor modifications to the API calls that makes them compatible with the EHLLAPI bridge. A graphical interface is also provided that allows the macros to be managed and launched. The ability to launch the macros from the emulator is also provided.
Prerequisites: HOD EHLLAPI Bridge installed on the local client machine HOD version 7.03 or higherCustomer Questionnaire:
- Are they interlocked with outside productivity software, e.g. MS Office products?
- Do they use the EHLLAPI or EAL APIs?
- Are Macros centrally written or are they created ad hoc by users?
- Are they all Telnet users or do they use SNA?
- Do they want widespread training?
- Do they need a Center of Excellence (COE)?
HOD EHLLAPI Bridge installed on the local client machine HOD version 7.03 or higher1. Are they interlocked with outside productivity software, e.g. MS Office products? 2. Do they use the EHLLAPI or EAL APIs? 3. Are Macros centrally written or are they created ad hoc by users? 4. Are they all Telnet users or do they use SNA? 5. Do they want widespread training? 6. Do they need a Center of Excellence (COE)?
Contact:
Aery Kim/Raleigh/IBM@IBMUS to get more information on how to engage Services for such an opportunity. Scott Quint/Raleigh/IBM@IBMUS, Timothy Parker/Raleigh/IBM@IBMUS, or George Baker/Raleigh/IBM@IBMUS for more technical details.
