ScreenJet is making milking move away from the 3000 in the northeastern US

App migration tool provider ScreenJet Ltd. announced the selection of its Migration Toolkit by Dairylea Cooperative Inc., a $1 billion farmer-owned agricultural marketing and service organization headquartered in Syracuse, N.Y.. ScreenJet officials said the Migration Toolkit will be used in the conversion of VPlus screens — enabling the company to more easily migrate its vital HP e3000 business systems developed over the last 20-plus years to new environments.

In addition to ScreenJet’s tools, Dairylea will also employ Acucorp’s ACUCOBOL-GT development system to replace the applications’ existing HP COBOL II code, as well as Marxmeier Software’s Eloquence to replace TurboIMAGE. “We were looking for a sound migration solution that would allow us to move our HP e3000 applications to another operating system, as well as provide us with a development environment that would facilitate future enhancements,” said Jeffrey Elmer, IS Project Manager at Dairylea. “With ScreenJet, Acucorp and Marxmeier Software technologies, we received just that — and for significantly less expense and risk than re-writing, re-engineering or replacing even one of our existing applications. We feel confident that we now have the tools to continue with the migration of other applications at our own pace.”

For the project’s initial phase, Dairylea is migrating a COBOL, VPlus, IMAGE and KSAM livestock auction system used by its subsidiary, Empire Livestock Marketing, LLC. Empire Livestock is the largest full-service marketer of livestock in the Northeast, commanding more than a 50 percent market share of all sales in its territory.

Using the ScreenJet toolkit, Eloquence and ACUCOBOL, the subsidiary’s application will move to Windows. “We have already undertaken an initial migration of our livestock auction system,” said Dairylea’s Jennifer Wheeler. “What would normally take months to complete instead takes us only a few hours. And Acucorp, ScreenJet and Marxmeier have also provided good cross-product integration support.”