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Is your company considering migrating from Data General MVs to an AViiON system? What about all of those complicated INFOS II applications you developed in-house? Are they gone forever? Not if you migrate to TBAM(TM), the hierarchical data manager available from EAGLE Software.
TBAM, which stands for Transaction-Based Access Method, is a high-performance replacement for INFOS II. If you have an INFOS II application, it can be ported to run on the AViiON, guaranteed.
Many system adminstrators are wary of considering such a migration, because they feel their applications are too complex to easily migrate to another system. But TBAM supports 100 percent of the functionality of INFOS. TBAM code migration utilities are recognized as outstanding in the industry, and can handle the migration, regardless of the complexity of the application.
Since your applications don't have to change with TBAM, you can realize tremendous savings in both time and money. Programmers don't have to learn a new language or database interface, and your users don't have to learn a new application.
TBAM is packet-level compatible with INFOS, so it supports the INFOS features that are the underlying structure of your applications. But with TBAM, there is improved functionality, durability, and performance, guaranteed.
With TBAM, many INFOS features are improved, including partial records, space management, record management, and database management utilities. TBAM also offers several features not available with INFOS, such as automatic file locking, automatic record locking, database unload and load utilities, automatic recovery, transactions, and multi-database transactions.
One of the most widely-acclaimed features of TBAM is the elimination of checkpointing. Users don't have to be locked out of a file, as they were during checkpointing with INFOS. Yet the recoverability features are still safe. With TBAM's soft recovery features, there is minimal downtime after a power failure. If the system fails, users can be back up and accessing data in less than two minutes. And, if the system fails while the database is open, you will lose absolutely no transactions.
If you have multiple systems and need to spread your application across these systems or across platforms, TBAM-Net(TM) will provide that connectivity. With a TCP/IP connection and TBAM-Net running on each system, you can connect in a variety of configurations:
The connectivity provided by TBAM-Net also allows you to gradually move your applications and databases to open systems. Because TBAM-Net lets the different platforms communicate with each other, you aren't required to move everything at one time. You also can leave certain applications or databases on the MV system if that is most appropriate for your company for now.
The performance of TBAM and TBAM-Net truly is guaranteed. Contact EAGLE for more information about migrating your applications and taking advantage of the improved performance offered by TBAM, and the ease of connectivity with TBAM-Net.
EAGLE Software, Inc. 123 Indiana Ave. Salina, Kansas 67401-3213 Phone: (913) 823-7257 FAX: (913) 823-6185 SALES HOTLINE: 800-477-5432 email: info@eaglesoft.com
