Major material handling equipment manufacturer One
of Potomac's clients, a major midwest equipment manufacturer, faced a very serious problem back in the fall of 1999.
The hardware platform they were using was not Year 2000 certified and the
software they were using was not Year 2000 compliant.
The application they were using was written in LINC hosted on a Unisys
U-6030 and the development environment was a Griffin database, with the
resultant application on an Oracle database.
The
manufacturer
was very happy with their existing environment, but recognized that
Year 2000 was not going to allow them to continue operating as usual.
They evaluated a number of alternative solutions, but the clincher was
Potomac’s commitment to recover their historical data and bring it forward
into the new application.
“The
LINC/Griffin/Oracle platform is a viable processing environment, unfortunately I
do not come across too many resumes of people with those credentials!” states Bill
McDonald, Vice President, Potomac Systems.
“Our recommendation was to convert their data into our applications and
then migrate to an LX host. This environment
is easily supported by Potomac and Unisys”.
“We
were able to convert their entire Oracle database into a DMS II database.
We also modified our code to support functionality they had in their
legacy applications. The best news
was that we were able to increase their throughput up to 300%".
Potomac
did face some “issues” in this project.
We did not have an Oracle database expert on staff nor did we have
adequate exposure to the DEPCON product. We
contracted with Unisys Technical Services group for the data export from the
Oracle database and for the
DEPCON installation and configuration. “Our
team of professionals was able to support the Oracle to DMS II data
conversion. We also provided personnel on-site to assist Unisys in the
DEPCON installation and configuration. With this small investment of
manpower, we have garnered technical expertise for future DEPCON
opportunities".
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