AMXW (Automated Migration to UNIX and Windows)

An in-depth study of AMXW through lectures, demonstrations and practical assignments. AMXW lets users migrate applications from an HP e3000 MPE system to UNIX or Windows platforms, then run the applications in an MPE-like environment on the target platform.

Duration: 3 days (1 day for set up and configuration of the environment and 2 days for training).

A one-day version of the course is also available; it covers only the run-time portion, not the migration process.

Target Audience

System administrators or other technical personnel who are responsible for performing database and application migrations from an HP e3000 system to UNIX or Windows.

Prerequisites

Students are expected to be familiar with MPE, COBOL and Microsoft Windows terms and techniques.

Objectives

Students will learn how to create migrate COBOL or other 3GL programs from MPE to UNIX or Windows and run them on the target.

Key Topics

• Introducing AMXW
• AMXW components
• Migration overview
• Introduction to COBOL compilers, screen converters
• Introducing the MPE shell
• Documentation
• Environment and Data Migration
• Replicating accounts
• NLROOTDIR variable
• Database and data file migration, including copylibs
• AMX-Win
• Installing AMX-Win
• Running AMX-Win
• Migration steps summary
• Creating a new project
• Project options
• Source Code Migration
• File transfer from MPE using FTP Surfer
• Adding files to project
• Migrating
• File comparison - ExamDiff
• Source code modification
• Fixing errors
• Editing configuration files
• Transferring to target
• Run-Time Basics
• AMX-RT
• MPE shell - nlsh
• UDCs, command files, CI commands and variables, SETVAR command and variables
• Files and Utilities
• MPE files, building files in the MPE shell
• File formats and types
• MPE utilities
• Form Migrators and Compilers
• User interface
• edWin
• Converting forms
• 3GL Ccompilers
• Compiling and linking
• More Run-Time Features
• Global variables
• Intrinsics
• Batch jobs
• UNIX and Windows batch jobs and cron
• Printing on UNIX and Windows
• AMXW maintenance
• Tracing for debugging

 

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Each student in a Speedware course:

• Receives a course documentation kit as part of the registration fee
• Gets the opportunity to apply concepts through hands-on lab exercises
• Learns how to use the documentation for specific factual reference or for guidance on the job.