U.S. Railroad Retirement Board, Purchasing Division, Room 1230, 844 North Rush Street, Chicago, IL 60611

70 -- REENGINEERING SOFTWARE POC Mr. Donald C. Augustyn (312/751-4535). The U.S. Railroad Retirement Board seeks information about the availability of re-engineering software which satisfies the following criteria: (a) It must isolate and extract selected COBOL business functions from existing COBOL programs and then generate independent programs from the extracted code. The resulting programs should be syntactically correct COBOL programs. The extracted business function code must include all of the data division and procedure division code required by the business function and must include only the code required by the business function. Business functions to be extracted may be defined based on the processing necessary to produce a specified output file, the processing required to process a given type of input transaction, or the processing required to compute a given data item. (b) It must provide industry standard program metrics and function point counts for individual COBOL programs and for applications as a whole. It must be able to maintain a history of metric values for programs so that improvements in program quality can be tracked over time. (c) It must provide COBOL program investigation functionality that can reveal program structure, isolate functionally related logic, identify data relationships including parent fields, children, field redefinitions and aliases, identify unused data fields, recursive logic and unexecutable logic, allow simulated program execution, and allow browsing of logical execution paths. (d) It must provide COBOL program editing functionability that includes automatic syntax checking, dynamic access of data definitions, and intelligent branching that allows automatic scrolling from PERFORM or GO TO statements to the destination paragraph and back. (e) It must provide testing functionability that includes subroutine testing without a driver program, the modification of program logic during testing, and support for IDMS DML statements. (f) It must be mainframe based and run under MVS/ESA. (g) It must support IBM VS COBOL II, IDMS DML, and PANVALET. (h) It must work under ISPF. (i) It must interface with IBM COBOL Structuring Facility. Interested parties should submit hardcopy literature describing the software product, pricing and General Services Administration (GSA) contract number, if applicable. Also requested is a statement of vendor qualifications, experience and references concerning the described software. This is not a request for proposals nor a request for software development. No solicitation document exists. Responses should be submitted within 15 calendar days of the publication of this notice. No telephone calls will be accepted. Acknowledgement of submission receipt will not be made. (191)

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