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- [Instructor] The PRIMA Migration tool set provides the tooling necessary to move data from a legacy COBOL environment and to refactor the COBOL code to work in a modern network environment. To do this PRIMA provides a set of tools accessed through a management console. The overall flow of the COBOL migration has five stages: preparing the environment by configuring the migration folders, creating a normalized and optimized SQL database, generating load modules for each legacy ISAM file, which when run convert the legacy data and import it into the new database, and refactoring the COBOL code in order to access the new database through a data access layer. The new code uses the COBOL repository method of object oriented access to a set of COM server classes and methods, which make up the data access layer. The PRIMA tools are not available for direct download, but can be obtained for trials on requests from PRIMA…

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