Computer Associates And Information Analysis Announce The Commercial Availability Of UNICAST/2000 For CA-ADS Customers.ISLANDIA, N.Y. & FAIRFAX, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 10, 1998-- Gulfstream Aerospace Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation is a producer of several models of private jet aircraft. Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation has been a unit of General Dynamics since 2001. Gulfstream's main facility is located in Savannah, Georgia, United States. Completes Successful Beta Testing (programming) beta testing - Testing a pre-release (potentially unreliable) version of a piece of software by making it available to selected users. This term derives from early 1960s terminology for product cycle checkpoints, first used at IBM but later standard throughout the In Information Analysis Inc. Solution Factory; UNICAST/2000 For CA-ADS Sets New Year 2000 Conversion Standard For Accuracy And Minimizes Manual Intervention Computer Associates International, Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : CA) and Information Analysis Inc. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : IAIC IAIC Interagency Acquisition Internet Council IAIC Intra-Army Interoperability Certification (Central Technical Support Facility; Ft, Hood, TX) ) today announced the commercial availability of UNICAST/2000 for CA-ADS, a powerful analysis and remediation tool that greatly reduces the manual effort required to achieve Y2K See Y2K problem and Y2K compliant. Y2K - Year 2000 compliance for CA-ADS applications accessing CA-IDMS. UNICAST/2000 for CA-ADS is a key component of CA Discovery 2000, an integrated solution to address the Year 2000 challenge and effectively transition legacy applications into the 21st century. It finds and corrects data elements in CA-ADS applications and makes these applications Year 2000 compliant a. 1. (Computers) having dates fully and properly represented, and not susceptible to failure due to the year 2000 bug. . Previously, UNICAST/2000 for CA-ADS was available exclusively through Year 2000 conversion factories. General availability of UNICAST/2000 for CA-ADS expands the market for the product to those organizations undertaking Year 2000 conversion in-house. Gulfstream Aerospace, a leading designer, developer, manufacturer and marketer of the world's most technologically advanced intercontinental business jet aircraft, implemented UNICAST/2000 for CA-ADS as part of its Year 2000 compliancy com·pli·an·cy n. Compliance. Noun 1. compliancy - a disposition or tendency to yield to the will of others complaisance, obligingness, compliance, deference initiative. This effort involved the automated remediation of selected CA-ADS programs operating within Gulfstream's current production manufacturing applications. Gulfstream selected these business critical processes, which had related Year 2000 functionality problems, as specific candidates for UNICAST/2000 remediation. Gulfstream's primary manufacturing facility, located in Savannah Savannah, city, United States Savannah, city (1990 pop. 137,560), seat of Chatham co., SE Ga., a port of entry on the Savannah River near its mouth; inc. 1789. , Ga., has produced more than 1,000 aircraft for customers around the world. The test took place in IAI's Solution Factory in Fairfax, Virginia Fairfax is an independent city forming an enclave within the confines of Fairfax County, in the Commonwealth of Virginia. Although politically independent of the surrounding county, the City of Fairfax is nevertheless its county seatGR6. . "UNICAST/2000 for CA-ADS has successfully demonstrated for Gulfstream the level of accuracy required to insure our confidence in being able to address Y2K functionality issues in existing, non-compliant CA-ADS applications," said John Williby, project representative for Gulfstream's Year 2000 project. "In our case, the automated integration of date windowing Solving the Year 2000 problem without altering the database. The six-digit date remains in the database, but the programs convert it into an eight-digit date for computation, display and reporting. logic into identified problem source code is critical to our aircraft manufacturing process." "Our alliance with CA and IAI's solution factory provides an automated code conversion process with predictable, proven results. This allows Gulfstream resources to concentrate on evaluation, testing and verification rather than code change. Therefore, we can have a higher level of confidence that the systems supporting critical business processes will operate dependably," said Cheri Roach, Gulfstream vice president of IT. Thousands of organizations worldwide use CA-ADS for mission-critical online mainframe applications. Fully integrated with CA-IDMS and the CA-IDMS dictionary, CA-ADS provides a powerful, fourth-generation application development environment that aids developers in prototyping, designing, building and maintaining online applications using SQL SQL in full Structured Query Language. Computer programming language used for retrieving records or parts of records in databases and performing various calculations before displaying the results. or navigational access to CA-IDMS databases. "CA-ADS clients are used to an extremely productive environment for application development and UNICAST/2000 for CA-ADS extends this high standard to Y2000," said Mark Stabler, CA vice president and Year 2000 business unit executive. "Clients can quickly remediate the CA-ADS applications that drive their businesses. We're pleased to offer clients such as Gulfstream the flexibility to achieve Year 2000 compliance in-house or off-site." "This commercial release of UNICAST/2000 for CA-ADS sets a new standard in automated software remediation," said IAI IAI Infection And Immunity (journal) IAI International Alliance for Interoperability IAI Institut für Angewandte Informatik IAI Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research IAI International Association for Identification president Brendan Dawson. "This product provides CA's clients, either directly or through Year 2000 solution factories, the ability to remediate over 95 percent of their CA-ADS code automatically. UNICAST/2000 for CA-ADS gives these companies the ability to convert code more quickly and accurately than previously possible and opens a market to IAI that consists of billions of lines of code The statements and instructions that a programmer writes when creating a program. One line of this "source code" may generate one machine instruction or several depending on the programming language. A line of code in assembly language is typically turned into one machine instruction. worldwide." UNICAST/2000 for CA-ADS is the first of several CA and IAI partnership offerings to be developed for CA language environments. The CA Discovery 2000 solution provides a complete suite of software and services that help reduce the cost and ensure the success of Year 2000 initiatives. Included are tools to help estimate and plan the Year 2000 initiative, and services including portfolio inventory, impact assessment, project planning project planning - project management , education and conversion techniques. The Universal Computer Aided Software Translator (UNICAST) is an integrated, mature set of advanced conversion tools, developed over a 17 year span, which has been enhanced to automate Year 2000 date conversion in a wide array of operating environments. UNICAST/2000 for CA-ADS is the first in a series of commercially available solutions to automate Year 2000 date remediation in software licensed by CA. The next scheduled products are UNICAST/2000 for CA- Easytrieve, COBOL-IDMS and CA-Ideal. Computer Associates International, Inc. (NYSE: CA), with headquarters in Islandia, N.Y., is the world leader in mission-critical business software. The company develops, licenses and supports more than 500 integrated products that include enterprise computing Refers to information technology in the larger company. See enterprise data and enterprise networking. and information management, application development, manufacturing and financial applications. CA has over 11,000 people in 160 offices in 43 countries and had revenue of $4.5 billion in calendar year 1997. CA can be reached by visiting http://www.cai.com on the World Wide Web, emailing info@cai.com, or calling 1-516-342-5224. Information Analysis Incorporated (http://www.infoa.com), headquartered in Fairfax, VA, is a world class automated transition engineering products and services provider, offering highly automated software and platform conversion, modernization and migration. UNICAST/2000 products provide clients the ability to achieve Year 2000 compliance in-house or off-site at IAI's or other certified solution factories. All referenced product names are trademarks of their respective companies. CONTACT: Dustin McNabb, CA (516) 342-2934 mcndu01@cai.com or Mary F. Nugent, Information Analysis, Inc. (703) 383-3000 mnugent@infoa.com |
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