Data centers are huge, power-hungry and inefficient. They consume electricity and IT budgets at staggering rates. HP wants to change that. The company's enterprise server division is developing efficient, compact machinery that's set to shatter our views of the traditional data center.  Read Full Post

Have you ever wanted to see what Microsoft SQL Server sees while your application runs? You can log/trace SQL Server events while the NeoData engine interacts with COBOL dynamically converting your ISAM instructionsto SQL Server context. As a matter of fact, all interactions to your SQL Server database, including your ESQL are viewable through the SQL Server Profiler. Read Full Post

Did you know that you can debug the NeoData events that occur while your program is running, by updating your App.Config file that is associated with the Executable/solution or project you are running? This information is valuable in tracing the events that are happening in your COBOL program interacting with NeoData. Read Full Post

I was building a tool to generate some random data for testing with the goal that the data is readable. I wanted to get actual city/state/zip code information so I began looking at the census.gov website for the type of data that is available. I stumbled across several “names files” that contain first and last names and their frequency. The last name file was about 2MB in size – perfect for generating some random customer names. Read Full Post

We've just reached the end of a long road towards fulfilling a vision for what in many ways is a new product for us. While it is an extension of a number of things that we had products for, the goal was to consolidate functionality into a single, better tool and consequently provide a better tool for customers to manage their COBOL file data. Read Full Post

New NeoData Releases from Alchemy Solutions Speed Mainframe Data Migration and Reduce Associated Risk Read Full Post

There are a variety of indexed file (ISAM) technologies that can be used with NetCOBOL and the Alchemy Solutions legacy modernization products and folks sometimes get confused about which one to pick, primarily because the documentation doesn't do a great job of summarizing why you would use one over the other. Let me start by saying that we generally recommend that folks use NeoData, our newest product offering, when possible particularly for legacy modernization projects. Let me explain why by giving you the highlights of the 3 available technologies: Read Full Post

Over the years, we’ve developed and sold a number of different products, many of which had different licensing mechanisms. In most cases, in order to activate a license for our software, you had to download and install the software, then email us a license request. Only after receiving a response from us could you actually begin to use the software. What a pain! Read Full Post