Visibility and Knowledge Building

ATERAS ensures that the customer teams (and the ATERAS teams) have a full understanding of existing IDMS databases, as well as a full understanding of the post-conversion relational database. DB-Shuttle generates many reports and diagrams to assist with this knowledge-building process:

• Complete Bachman diagrams for the IDMS database structures
• Complete Entity Relationship Model (ERM) diagrams for the relational databases
• Summary reports of the sizes and relationships within the IDMS and relational structures
• Scoring Reports which rate the complexity of each IDMS record type as it relates to the IDMS migration to a relational definition
• Matrix reports that relate records to tables, elements to columns, IDMS records to extract programs, and more
• Date Finder and Key Identifier reports that allow team members to define selected fields and columns to ensure that the migration addresses all requirements for date conversion and key mapping
• Hundreds of additional ad hoc reports that assist in further detailed identification of the unique characteristics of the IDMS database and its conversion