Originally posted by: wtx_genie

Hi All,

Did any body came across migrating from Gentran to ITX maps.

We dont have any knowledge on Gentran tool.

could you please advise what best practices to be followed in this case. also it has no documentation on Gentran maps with this due perspective , please do let us know the migrating process.

Thanks,

WTX_Genie

Originally posted by: Laurent(Satisco)

Hi,

if you have no Gentran knowledge, and no documentation, I'm afraid the project may be tough.

If this is a project with some history, one of the common findings is that the developments may have suffered from development from various people/teams, with various ideas on the way to develop mappings. Most of the time, this leads to at least some very badly written interfaces, so best practice #1 for me would be to try to avoid simply "porting" Gentran maps to ITX maps, but instead take the opportunity to assess the overall quality and try to improve it.

If it was one of my projects, the first thing I'd do would be to put some pressure on my customer (be it internal or external) so that they provide documentation, analysis, asistance... whatever is needed to make this feasible at all. Otherwise, I'm afraid I'd respectfully decline the targets.

The second thing I'd do would be to recruit at least one Gentran experienced person to help understanding the objects to be converted, and mosty likely provide some lightweight training to the rest of the team to make them able to understand what they are seeing when looking at a Gentran map.

Not sure this really helps, but I'm afraid this is the most I can suggest.

Laurent

Originally posted by: wtx_genie

Totally Agreed.

one more quick question on this same topic, Does the export of RPT file from Gentran Map shares any information to WTX guys. This was the only helpline we might have for this project.
 

Thanks,

WTX_Genie

Originally posted by: Laurent(Satisco)

As suggested by Dtx_User in another post about Sterling, there could be a way using the Java API, or simply reading the reports may provide some information, but my recent experience for a similar project indicates this is not enough as they best you could do would then be an exact copy, with all the inefficencies (the fact that you can, or not, generate the maps from the reports only makes a difference in terms of dev. effort)