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ADAMAGIC

Simple, fast and reliable data migration of ADABAS databases to

the server platforms

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What is ADAMAGIC?

• ADAMAGIC is a utility designed to extract data from ADABAS mainframe backups and prepare it for load on the server platforms, such as Windows, Linux and UNIX.

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ADAMAGIC - making it simple to:

• Convert mainframe ADABAS databases to UNIX ADABAS databases

• Extract mainframe data on the server platform, automatically converting EBCDIC to ASCII and associated field formats to “CSV” or fixed flat files

• Perform ADASTRIP like data extractions on the server platforms

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ADAMAGIC - allows the user to:

• Move all of an applications data in one simple step from mainframe to server

• Use the User Exit facility to enable additional specialized processing prior to output

• Automatically convert date formats & packed data to equivalent server formats

• Easily create and populate test databases• Access historical data at a fixed point in time

[i.e., a backup doesn’t change]

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• ADAMAGIC simply extracts selected mainframe/Unix ADABAS data and creates extracts in one simple step.

ADAMAGIC processing

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• One step data extraction process running on the server platform

• Testing has no impact on live production environments and can be rerun many times

• Output files can be:– loaded in a database – further processed by additional tools– input into TSI’s ADAREORG for further manipulation.

ADAMAGIC advantages:

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• Installation is designed to be straightforward and only requires minimal system knowledge – simply decompress the install file into a defined library and it is mostly installed

• Only special requirement is for specific C libraries which are freely available from all OS vendors or the GNU C libraries are sufficient

• Perform additional processing by invoking a UNIX script synchronously at the end of each output file, such as running the bulk loader for a RDBMS.

ADAMAGIC advantages:

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