Computer Associates and The Source Recovery Company Announce Agreement to Solve Y2K Application Problems.ISLANDIA, N.Y. and FRAMINGHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- July 27, 1998-- CA-Fix/2000 To Remediate re·me·di·a·tion n. The act or process of correcting a fault or deficiency: remediation of a learning disability. re·me Source Code Restored by SRC (SouRCe) Contrast with DST, which is an abbreviation of "destination." Computer Associates International Inc. (CA) and The Source Recovery Company, LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol. LLC - Logical Link Control (SRC) today announced they have signed a referral agreement for Year 2000 projects in which source code is missing. Many companies cannot update their legacy applications for Year 2000 compliance because they cannot locate some of their source code. SRC can recover missing source code from object modules so that it can be remediated automatically by CA-Fix/2000, a key component of CA's Discovery 2000 solution. SRC has been recovering source code primarily for Fortune 500 companies and government agencies for more than five years, having provided recovered source code which has been 100 percent functionally equivalent to the original missing code. Developed by the company, SRC's proprietary technology can be used to recover COBOL COBOL: see programming language. COBOL in full Common Business-Oriented Language. High-level computer programming language, one of the first widely used languages and for many years the most popular language in the business community. and Assembler Software that translates assembly language into machine language. Contrast with compiler, which is used to translate a high-level language, such as COBOL or C, into assembly language first and then into machine language. code for any IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , MVS (Multiple Virtual Storage) Introduced in 1974, the primary operating system used with IBM mainframes (the others are VM and DOS/VSE). MVS is a batch processing-oriented operating system that manages large amounts of memory and disk space. , VSE See DOS/VSE. VSE - Virtual Storage Extended or VM based program. "Source code for legacy applications is often impossible to locate," said Mark Stabler, vice president of CA's Year 2000 Business Unit. "Partnering with The Source Recovery Company enables us to help clients recover missing code so that their applications can be quickly and completely fixed for Year 2000 compliance, providing huge time, resource and cost savings." Under the agreement, CA will refer clients with missing source code to SRC, which will work with clients to restore the code. To become Year 2000 compliant a. 1. (Computers) having dates fully and properly represented, and not susceptible to failure due to the year 2000 bug. , organizations must inventory and analyze every application, program, and line of code that processes their day-to-day business functions. Industry analysts estimate that in a typical company, three to five percent of all source code is missing, and, in some cases, as much as 20 percent of source code may be lost. "We are delighted to be associated with a software industry leader like Computer Associates and its award-winning Discovery 2000 solution," said Barry A. Clapp, president of SRC. "Our complementary solutions provide CA clients with the fastest, most efficient solution available for remediating applications in which source code is missing." CA Discovery 2000 provides products that help reduce the costs and maximize the success of Year 2000 initiatives. It incorporates automated solutions for every phase of a Year 2000 effort - from initial portfolio assessment through code conversion and testing to final production turnover. CA Discovery 2000 consists of uniquely robust, automated tools such as CA-Fix/2000, UNICAST/2000 and specialized spe·cial·ize v. spe·cial·ized, spe·cial·iz·ing, spe·cial·iz·es v.intr. 1. To pursue a special activity, occupation, or field of study. 2. testing tools. CA-Fix/2000 is a mainframe-based, application-at-a-time, COBOL remediation tool that has already remediated millions 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 - with CA-Fix/2000 clients reporting over 95 percent accuracy in finding and correcting application code. UNICAST/2000, developed, marketed and supported by CA and Information Analysis Inc., remediates CA-ADS, CA-Easytrieve and CA-IDMS COBOL. Computer Associates International, Inc. (CA), with headquarters in Islandia, N.Y., is the world leader in mission-critical business software. The company develops, licenses and supports more that 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. Computer Associates has over 11,000 people in 160 offices in 43 countries and had revenue of $4.7 billion in fiscal year 1998. Computer Associates can be reached by visiting http://www.cai.com, emailing info@cai.com, or calling (516) 342-5224. The Source Recovery Company, LLC (SRC) of Framingham, Mass. and Roswell, Ga. is the first and only company to develop the technology for recovering missing source code for the IBM environment. Among its uses, SRC's technology is essential for revising date fields for Year 2000 projects when programs are missing source code. For further information, visit SRC's web site at http://www.source-recovery.com, e-mail sales@source-recovery.com or call 508-626-9955. All referenced product names are trademarks of their respective companies.
CONTACT: Leland G. Freeman, SRC David P. Kowal, APR
508-626-9955 Kowal Communications, Inc.
lfreeman@mci2000.com 508-393-7023
kowal@kowal.com
Patrick Karle, CA
516-342-2487
karpa01@cai.com
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