TALK2C: a tool for automatic migration

Author

Dhinakar, J.S. ; Das, Madhuchhanda

Author_Institution

Appl. Technol. Group, Tata Infotech Ltd., Bangalore, India

fYear

2003

fDate

10-11 May 2003

Firstpage

288

Lastpage

289

Abstract

The IT infrastructure of today´s organizations is often populated with yesterday´s legacy systems which trace an evolutionary path, with ad hoc changes and enhancements spread over a period of time and an inadequate change history. The inherent knowledge is normally contained in the code, which is written in an arcane language, understandable to a few and hard to maintain. Automated translation provides a convenient solution to these issues when maintaining the existing system is the main issue and the source and target languages share the same programming paradigms. TALK2C was developed to automate the conversion of code from SabreTalk to C language. SabreTalk a derivative of PL/1, runs on an earlier version of the TPF (Transaction Processing Facility) system.

Keywords

C language; automatic programming; configuration management; program interpreters; reverse engineering; software maintenance; software tools; transaction processing; C language; IT infrastructure; PL/1; SabreTalk; TALK2C; TPF; Transaction Processing Facility; automated translation; automatic migration tool; change history; code conversion; code understanding; legacy systems; operating system; organizations; system maintenance; Automatic programming; Banking; Containers; Costs; Databases; History; Jacobian matrices; Lab-on-a-chip; Operating systems; Real time systems;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Program Comprehension, 2003. 11th IEEE International Workshop on

ISSN

1092-8138

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1883-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WPC.2003.1199217

Filename

1199217