TSR Inc. Introduces Service to Verify Mainframe Software Readiness for Use in Year 2000.HAUPPAUGE, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 7, 1998-- Independent Analysis of Y2K Conversion and Compliance; Partial Proceeds Go To Children's Charity TSR, Inc., today introduced XRAY/2000, a new service for verifying the Year 2000 readiness of mainframe application software. An official for TSR said the new service, designed for companies that have already performed Y2K software conversions, offers a reliable, low cost method to ensure the quality of remediated code and reduces the complete effort required for verification. "Nearly four percent of programs we have reviewed contained errors, even though the company believed them to be 100% compliant," said Robert Crowley, TSR Year 2000 Product Manager. "Companies shouldn't wait until it's too late to find out whether they are compliant. XRAY/2000 identifies incomplete or improper conversions." According to Mr. Crowley, XRAY/2000 utilizes a two-phased approach in evaluating applications for Y2K compliance: a "code-driven" phase in which application source code is intensively inspected by TSR's Catch/21(R) software for potential errors and omissions errors and omissions n. short-hand for malpractice insurance which gives physicians, attorneys, architects, accountants and other professionals coverage for claims by patients and clients for alleged professional errors and omissions which amount to negligence. , and a "data-driven" phase in which TSR's Future Date testing (testing) future date testing - The process of setting a computer's date to a future date to test a program's (expected or unexpected) date sensitivity. Future date testing only shows the effects of dates on the computer(s) under scrutiny, it does not take into account knock-on software is utilized to benchmark simulated Year 2000 tests against actual data. The service supports the programming languages 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. , PL/I (Programming Language 1) A high-level IBM programming language introduced in 1964 with the System/360 series. It was designed to combine features of and eventually supplant COBOL and FORTRAN, which never happened. , RPG, Assembler and CA-ADS, CA-IDEAL, CA-EasyTrieve, EasyPlus and Adabase Natural. TSR has published a pricing structure for XRAY/2000 ranging from $0.10 to $0.15 per line-of-code depending on whether the code is analyzed at TSR's Conversion Center or directly at the client site. Company to Donate up to $5,000 per Customer to Children's Charity TSR is currently offering to conduct XRAY/2000 pilots not to exceed 100,000 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. at a special rate of $0.05 per line of code. Revenues derived will be contributed, in the client's name, to the Imus Ranch for seriously ill children in Ribera, New Mexico Ribera, New Mexico is a small village in northern New Mexico, located next to Villanueva State Park at the foot of Rowe Mesa and along the Pecos River, 50 mi. southeast of Santa Fe. . Company Information For over twenty years TSR has assisted Fortune 1000 corporations and government agencies in achieving their business objectives via diversified information technology services. Currently, TSR offers Y2K products and services to include Catch/21, a suite of ITAA (Information Technology Association of America, Arlington, VA, www.itaa.org) Formerly the Association of Data Processing Service Organizations (ADAPSO). A membership organization founded in 1960 that defines performance standards, improves management methods and monitors government *2000 (Information Technology Association of America See ITAA. ) certified software, for remediation and testing of mainframe code. More information on TSR or Catch/21 can be obtained from the company's web site, http://www.catch21.com or by contacting TSR, Inc., 400 Oser Avenue, Hauppauge, NY 11788, 1-888-4-CATCH21.
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