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D -- UNISYS SOFTWARE MIGRATION PROJECT ALTERNATIVES DUE 121397 POC Lynne Phipps, (757) 441-6881, Melvyn DesJarlais (757) 441-6647, John Jensen (704) 271-4205 WEB: NCDC, www.easc.noaa.gov. E-MAIL: Lynne Phipps, jjensen@ncdc.noaa.gov or Lynn.B.Phipps@noaa.gov. THE PURPOSE of this exploratory Request for Information (RFI) is to determine the availability of innovative ways industry would offer to accomplish the migration of programs and utilities currently running on a UNISYS 2200/423 mainframe computer onto platforms in the "open systems" environment. This RFI is not a Request for Proposals (RFP) but rather is an exploratory request to determine the availability of approaches to quickly accomplish the goal of migration in the shortest period of time (less than 18 months, preferably 12 months) within limited annual budget resources. Addressing creative financing options is encouraged, such as the acceptability of using future annual mainframe maintenance cost savings as a means of paying for the migration work, or stretching out payments beyond the completion of work. This RFI is not to be construed as a commitment by the Government to issue a solicitation or ultimately award a contract. Responses will not be considered as proposals nor will any award be madeas a result of this RFI synopsis. Any costs incurred as a result of responding to this RFI shall be borne by the respondent and cannot be charged to the Government for reimbursement. All information in this RFI represents an overview of the anticipated migration work, as well as subject to change, and is in no way binding on the Government. The Government will acknowledge receipt of submissions but will not provide any feedback. The target "open system" platforms are IBM RISC 6000 workstations, SUN workstations, and IBM compatible desk top personal computers (PC). AIX, Solaris, and Windows 3.x and 95, as well as NT are the common UNIX workstations and PC operating systems (OS). All Year 2000 related issues must be addressed as part of the rehosting effort. The rehosting of programs and utilities currently on the mainframe must be completed in less than 18 months (12 months preferred) from the start of work. As much as possible, the programs should retain the same or similar "look" to the user. The following definitions are provided for use with this RFI. Application Systems are defined as a set of one or more programs, runstreams, local utilities, third party utilities, UNISYS utilities, documentation, data files, procedures, and other items that are used to accomplish a set of related tasks. Systems Support Function is a capability required to support a generic function that may be required for several application systems. It may be a capability provided by the mainframe vendor or an augmentation of the mainframe vendor's capabilities. Generally, these are not specific to an individual application system. Application Program is an executable program composed of one or more compiled, assembled, and linked modules that accomplish a specific task(s). Runstream is a sequence of UNISYS OS-1100 Execution Control Language (ECL) statements used to execute jobs in the UNISYS environment. Utilities come in three varieties: UNISYS (i.e. SORT), Third Party (i.e. FANG), and Local (developed locally by the government). The level of documentation varies greatly for both application programs and utilities software. STAR 1100 Media Management System, tape labeling functions, tape drive assignment and tape mount functions, job production and scheduling systems, and a CPU user cost accounting system must be replaced and operational in the open environment. Maximum use of COTS software is desirable. To date, about 700,000 lines of code (LOC) have been identified. The predominant languages (and relative proportion to the total) in use on the UNISYS 2200/423 are Fortran (55%), COBOL (40%), and MASM (5%). The constraints of limited time for rehosting will undoubtedly minimize the opportunities to make efficiency improvements to the code. Therefore, code for code conversion is the preferred approach. MASM should be rehosted in C/C++. Documentation must be generated with the rehosting of software. Data flow/structure diagrams is highly desirable for life cycle configuration management (CM). Acceptance tests will be defined and administered by the government. In general, the rehosted system's output will be compared to the output of the UNISYS system using the exact same input data. Respondents are requested to provide information using WordPerfect 6 files forwarded via the Internet to jjensen@ncdc.noaa.gov, or via a 3.5 inch diskette, or by mail. Faxing is also acceptable (704) 271-4022. Please limit responses to no more than ten pages. To be considered, submissions must be received at the National Climatic Data Center, 151 Patton Ave., Room 120, Asheville, NC 28801-5001 not later than 4:00 PM, December 13, 1997. Administrative questions concerning this announcement may be directed to one of the following: Lynne Phipps, e-mail, Lynn.B.Phipps@noaa.gov or Melvyn DesJarlais, Melvyn.DesJarlais@noaa.gov. Technical questions should be directed to John Jensen, (704) 271-4205, fax (704) 271-4022, e-mail, jjensen@ncdc.noaa.gov. (0317)

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