LINIIS Mainframe Conversion Moving from Natural/ADABAS/COBOL to Java/SQL

2 Washington State Department of Labor & Industries L&I Mainframe Legacy L&I Industrial Insurance System (LINIIS)  L&I’s largest and most complex system  Central to key business processes  Over 70% of our 3250 employees have access  Users execute > 30 Million procedures a year  More than 30 years old

3 Washington State Department of Labor & Industries Problem To Be Solved  Increasing cost to operate on mainframe  Complexity inhibits ability to make customer- requested improvements  Programming skillsets are rapidly diminishing in the marketplace  OCIO direction to modernize legacy applications is hampered

4 Washington State Department of Labor & Industries History  2007 Proposed Project: Phased Replacement of Legacy Systems (PRLS) –8-10 year project to include business process improvements in addition to technology upgrade –Groundwork for service improvements to claimants and employers –Move toward Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) –Project wasn’t funded so didn’t move ahead

5 Washington State Department of Labor & Industries Current Approach  “Migrate First” LINIIS Mainframe Migration Project –Migrate off the mainframe to Windows environment –No modernization to the application in this project –Plan and manage system modernization in a subsequent, business-transformation-based effort –Complete technology transition in one biennium

6 Washington State Department of Labor & Industries Goals Goal #1: Conduct an orderly and minimally invasive migration Goal #2: Migrate the LINIIS application from the mainframe to a Windows Server environment Goal #3: Minimize disruption to business Goal #4: Achieve the maximum return on investment

7 Washington State Department of Labor & Industries Technical Approach CurrentFuture EnvironmentMainframeWindows Servers User InterfaceAttachmateInternet Explorer Coding LanguageNaturalJAVA DatabaseAdabasMicrosoft SQL

8 Washington State Department of Labor & Industries Look & Feel LINIIS Web Legacy LINIIS

9 Washington State Department of Labor & Industries Timeline Legacy LINIIS Migration LINIIS Web Roll-Out Migrate code Unit test Functional test User Acceptance Test Load/performance test Deploy to users on Databridge Performance tune Batch/Data Migration Unit test Scheduler test Load/performance test Data verification Stabilization Developer training Maintenance & Support Migration Prep Analyze code Prepare environments Install software POC Migrate example mainframe application Run validations

10 Washington State Department of Labor & Industries Project Team  Vendors: –Migration Expert: innoWake, international, inc. –External Quality Assurance: Sightline, LLC –Independent Verification & Validation (IV&V): PCG  Project Team –Test Team (3) –Technical Architect (1) and Developer (1) –Business Analysts (2) –Vendor Developers (2+) –Project Manager/Project Coordinator (2)

11 Washington State Department of Labor & Industries Thank you! Questions?

12 Washington State Department of Labor & Industries Look & Feel Comparison Video