Clerity Announces New Mainframe Migration Application Development Tool

Chicago, IL – December 7, 2009 – Clerity Solutions, a full-service provider of mainframe migration, modernization, and optimization solutions, today introduced Clerity Map Editor, an application development tool that provides a graphical user interface (GUI) environment for the design, creation, and maintenance of former mainframe-based 3270 “green screens” on cost-effective open systems.

This is the latest mainframe modernization solution from Clerity, which offers the proven UniKix mainframe rehosting software suite, used worldwide by companies to run mission-critical CICS, IMS, IDMS, Adabas/Natural and other legacy assets on flexible, distributed servers.

Clerity Map Editor offers a simple, intuitive way to build, edit, and maintain CICS Basic Mapping Support (BMS) Maps for rehosted mainframe workloads running in UniKix software environments. With Clerity Map Editor, standalone BMS files and BMS files associated with COBOL copybooks can be displayed, modified, and generated on any Windows, UNIX, or Linux-based system supporting a Java Runtime Environment 6.0 or greater.

Because Clerity Map Editor provides a WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) view of the 3270 maps being generated, no formal knowledge of BMS macro coding is required to use the product. This makes Clerity Map Editor an appropriate solution for programmers regardless of whether or not they maintained screens on the previous legacy mainframe system.

“Clerity Map Editor provides an excellent alternative to preserve interfaces and avoid end-user retraining post migration. With its straightforward GUI, mainframe or non-mainframe personnel can quickly leverage this tool to help meet their migration objectives,” explained Shwetank Srivastava, vice president of product development and services at Clerity.

By preserving investments and minimizing risk, Clerity helps organizations lower total cost of ownership (TCO) by as much as 70 percent. Clerity offers a range of Web-enablement and modernization tools to help companies evolve end-user interfaces and further modernize mainframe applications.

Clerity Map Editor is available immediately -- click here to learn more.