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by Surender Kumar

Mainframe systems have long been a trusted choice for running mission critical business applications and operations. However, in today's fast-moving business environment, these systems face several challenges. They are expensive to operate and maintain, and it's tough to use their data effectively. There's also a dwindling number of experts who know how to work with mainframes, which limits a company's ability to innovate and slows down their ability to launch new products or services.

As businesses strive to stay competitive in the era of digital transformation, many are considering moving their mainframe tasks and data to the cloud. The cloud offers more flexibility, can scale to meet demand, is more cost-effective, and allows businesses to innovate quickly. It also provides faster access to the market and includes tools for analyzing business data, which can help companies grow and stay ahead of their competitors.

TmaxSoft OpenFrame on AWS addresses the challenges of migrating from mainframes to reduce operational costs and enhance flexibility, scalability, and reliability in the new environment. It also paves the way for future upgrades and innovations. For over twenty years, we've been assisting customers worldwide on their journey to modernize their mainframes. OpenFrame offers a comprehensive solution for replatforming/rehosting mainframe applications, resources, and data to a more affordable and high-performance cloud setting. This shift cuts down the total cost of ownership (TCO) and minimizes risks, all within a very short timeframe.

With OpenFrame, existing applications and data can be reused on the new system. This reuse significantly cuts down on the costs, efforts, and time needed for a transition, while preserving crucial application logic. OpenFrame allows customers to move mission-critical applications to a new platform where continuity with existing systems is important, but the drawbacks of a full redevelopment are not desirable.

Learning how OpenFrame works might seem overwhelming at first, and figuring out how to install, set up, and configure it on AWS might appear to be a lengthy process. However, AWS Workshops offer a solution. These are free, self-guided tutorials that provide hands-on experience with AWS services. Developed by experts at Amazon Web Services (AWS) and partners like TmaxSoft, these workshops include step-by-step modules that help learners of any level gain a solid understanding of AWS Cloud concepts, along with practical skills and techniques.

If you’re new to the cloud or OpenFrame, don't worry—there's plenty of material designed just for you! These workshops are a great resource to help you get started and feel confident in using these technologies.

TmaxSoft and AWS experts have designed a workshop titled OpenFrame on AWS workshop, using the AWS Card emo mainframe application. By following a simple, step-by-step process, you can have OpenFrame up and running in just a few minutes. This allows participants to experience a full mainframe application migration from start to end, demonstrating just how straightforward and well-defined the migration process can be.

In this hands-on workshop, we'll utilize TmaxSoft's mainframe replatform solution, OpenFrame, on AWS. You'll learn to analyze, build, deploy, compile, test, and operate a mainframe application inventory that includes components like COBOL, JCL, VSAM, BMS, and CICS. The workshop provides practical experience in analyzing and assessing a mainframe application for migration, building both batch and online (CICS) target environments, migrating mainframe data, recompiling and deploying the code base, and running the migrated mainframe application on AWS. This is a great opportunity to gain a deep understanding of the migration process and see firsthand how it's executed on a modern cloud platform.

Try out OpenFrame on AWS here - https://catalog.us-east-1.prod.workshops.aws/workshops/dd3e45f1-5366-4819-97e3-2a79740b64f9/en-US

Reach out to us if any question for this workshop and to know more about OpenFrame - Contact Us or send an email to info@tmaxsoft.com