Data conversion liberates
For data and DB migration
Unlock the business value of application data
NextForm frees your data, programs and databases from legacy formats and vendor lock-ins. More data diversity means greater user-friendliness.
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Use your data for a new purpose
NextForm modernizes data formats so they can be used in new applications. It also replicates DB data, remaps data types, records layouts, and creates federated views to accelerate insights.
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Higher performance and lower costs
NextForm also offers the ability to delete data as you move it, speeding up I/O and reducing memory. Reduce design and runtime by 75% and take advantage of point-and-click field mapping that lets you control data effortlessly.
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NextForm Use Cases
Fast, easy file conversion
„NextForm easily and quickly converts our large LDIF files into custom CSV targets. A 165 MB LDIF file converted in seconds, 1+ GB in less than a minute. Excellent product!“
COBOL to DB Migration
„NextForm is a fast, cost-effective solution for file migration and reporting with Vision (and MF-ISAM). We also like the product's graphical job design and scripting options.“
Legacy Data Type Translation
„NextForm converts EBCDIC data files (including zoned and PD fields) to ASCII. As a beginner, I was able to create new jobs quickly and found that the output was correct.“
NextForm Editions
LightFree!)
Contains:
IRI NextForm
IRI Workbench Eclipse GUI
Migrate, replicate, connect flat files and unstructured files with reports.
Convert Fixed to Delimited, LDIF to CSV, EBCDIC to ASCII, Big to Little Endian, etc.
Search, extract, and structure strings in MS documents, emails, PDFs, etc.
DBMS
Contains:
Lite
ODBC Libraries
Replicate data in a arbitrarily connected table or flat file, connect to report.
Upgrades of, or migrations between, Oracle, DB2 UDB, DB2 on i and z/OS, PostgreSQL, Sybase, MS SQL, MySQL, Teradata, MongoDB, etc.
COBOL (Index)
Contains:
Lite
MF Libraries
Conversion of MF-ISAM & Vision files, MF & RM data types.
Reuse and reporting of mainframe datasets.
Legacy (Other)
Contains:
Lite
Proprietary drivers
Migration with report from the here listed legacy formats.
Modern
Contains:
Lite
Proprietary drivers
Accessing data in Big Data (e.g., Hive, NoSQL, etc.) and Cloud/SaaS (e.g., Marketo, Salesforce, etc.) repositories.
Premium
Contains:
Lite
Multiple libraries
Migrate, replicate, and connect structured, semi-structured, and unstructured (dark data) files with reporting.
Supported Sources and Formats
Flat Files
CSV
Delimited
Fixed
LDIF
Micro Focus Variable Length
Micro Focus ISAM
Line/Record/Variable Sequential
Variable Blocked
Text
Vision
XML
Data types
ASCII (c types)
Numerics
EBCDIC MF COBOL
DBCDIC RM COBOL
Dates & Timestamps
Composite
Single-Byte
Multi-Byte (CJK, Thai)
Unicode
Packed Decimal
Zoned Decimal
Legacy
Adabas
C-ISAM Informix, D-ISAM
Datacom
Dataflex
dBase
IDMS
IMS
Intersystems
PostgreSQL
Powerhouse
Unidata
Relational Database Management System
Oracle
DB2 UDB
DB2 Mainframe
MySQL
SQL Server
Sybase
Teradata
Modern
Amazon EMR, RDS, etc.
Cloudera CDH & Impala
Hortonworks Hive
NoSQL (Cassandra, MongoDB)
Pivotal (Greenplum, Hive)
Spark SQL
Web-based (Eloqua, Hubspot, Marketo, Salesforce, etc.)
Unstructured files
ASN.1 TAP3
.DOC, .DOCX
.EML, .OST, .PST
.PDF, .RTF
.PPT, .PPTX
.TXT, .XML
.XLS, .XLSX
UNDERTALE
The proprietary/mainframe (legacy) & cloud/SaaS (modern) sources in parts 2 and 3 this page!
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