Editor’s Sproutings

by Joseph Brady

TSI Sponsors the Newly Revived Eastern Great Lakes Regional User Group Meeting in Pittsburgh, PA

During the March meeting of this revived User Group, Steve Robinson of S.L. Robinson & Associates, Inc., author of Inside Natural, presented "Simply Natural." Steve also conducted a workshop followed by a question and answer period.

Dan Sycalik, TSI senior consultant, discussed tRelational and DPS, the TSI products used in ADABAS migration and data warehousing projects; and GENART, the Y2K remediation tool for NATURAL, GENTEST (testing/scripting), and GENADA (data ageing).

TSI was also available during the breaks and lunch to discuss their portfolio of products, and demonstrate the ForeSite™ Application Server which assures simple, rapid, and reliable delivery of Web-enabled mainframe, midrange, and client/server applications.

TSI-Marketed Products Featured at the SAGGROUP Midwest Region Winter Meeting

The SAGGROUP Midwest Region Winter Meeting was held in February, in Chicago, Illinois. Eric Stannard of Blenheim Software, Ltd. discussed ADABAS file browsing using PEEK. Brian James of GSL discussed Y2K testing once you're finished remediating your code, featuring GENADA and GENTEST.

Remember, TSI has extended SAG User Group Meeting support through 1999

We'll be happy to financially support any local or regional meeting. We will assist in whatever manner is deemed appropriate by the Group. TSI presence at these events will be at the discretion of the Group's executive committee. For more information, contact Mitch Doricich at TSI.

Product Releases/Enhancements as of June, 1999

• ADAREORG V2.3.0 and ADASTRIP V3.0.0 have been released. These versions provide Y2K functionality and support for ADABAS V6.2.
• CHART V2.3E has been release, and is fully Y2K compliant.
• DELPHI V2.4.0 has been released. If you are a current DELPHI customer, contact TSI to upgrade.
• DPS V3.0 is undergoing final Beta testing. This new Y2K compliant version offers many enhancements, including support for the Microsoft SQL Server and DB2 as target RDBMSs.
• ForeSite™ Application Server V3.0 is currently undergoing BETA testing and will soon be available for general release.
• N2O V3.4.2, is now available. This version of N2O includes a newly enhanced Source Compare Utility.
• PEEK V2.2.2 has been released, and is fully compatible with ADABAS V6.2 and NATURAL V2.3 and above. In addition, documentation for the new version is now available in electronic HTML format as a series of MS-DOS files.
• PROFILER for NATURAL V4.0.0 has been released.
• RACE V1.4 includes a greatly improved percentage of eliminated RCs, optional use of Multifetch, and handling of files with up to the maximum number of ADABAS fields.
• SECURITRE V3.1.0 has been released, and is fully compatible with the latest versions of ADABAS and NATURAL.
• SEDIT V4.30 and S/REXX V2.30 have been released.
• tRelational V3.1.0 is undergoing final Beta testing. Its enhancements include compatibility with all of the new parameters and options of DPS V3.0.0, and support for the Microsoft SQL Server (in addition to the RDBMS systems already-supported: ORACLE, SYBASE, and DB2). This version also has a newly simplified Index and Foreign Key interfaces, and an option for migrating PREDICT field-level abstract or extended descriptions into an RDMBS or into ERwin using the "COMMENTS ON" SQL statement in the DDL that is generated by tRelational.
• TRIM V6.2.0, featuring the newly added TRIM NATURAL Monitor (TNM) is now available.

GSL Representative Visits the Treehouse

Brian James from Generation Systems Limited (GSL) recently visited the Treehouse. While he was in town, Brian provided several TSI employees with training for GENART, GENADA, and GENTEST which TSI markets for GSL in the United States and Canada. TSI also had many technical and marketing discussions with Brian during his visit.

Traveling with TSI

Mitch Doricich and Mike Kuechenberg visited several sites in the state of Texas. They also hosted the Austin, Texas ForeSite™ Seminar.

Antonette Roppo and Steve Koster visited Allegheny County (here in Pittsburgh) to demonstrate the ForeSite Application Server. Antonette and Mike Szakach then followed up with the ForeSite Challenge.

Dan Sycalik spent a week at a customer site in California for tRelational and DPS consulting.

Marni Harbutz and Mike Szakach traveled to Penn State University to demonstrate the ForeSite Application Server.

Martin Fahy traveled to Penn State University to begin NATURAL Programming Services.

Mike Szakach visited with the University of Texas Medical Branch to demonstrate the ForeSite Application Server and Web-enable several applications.

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TSI's Presence in Europe is Growing

by Amber Ray

It is very important for TSI to have a positive image of its company and products portrayed around the world. That is why we decided long ago to enter the worldwide market by working with honest, cooperative, and hard working affiliates, who would share our ethics and be competent in sales and support.

With the majority of Software AG sites and potential TSI customers located in Europe, it seems only natural to have a European presence, especially since there has been a growing interest surrounding our products in countries like Portugal and Spain, which are not currently serviced by our affiliates. As a result, TSI has recently retained the services of a personnel search company in an effort to establish an even stronger presence in Europe.

One of our new hires will serve as the TSI European Sales Manager. In this capacity, this manager will aggressively sell all of our products to sites throughout Europe, and serve as a liaison between customers and our local affiliates. And with TSI personnel located in Europe, we will also be able to enhance our services to our affiliates and customers, by offering sales and marketing support, consulting, and education.

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Worldwide Interest in tRelational/DPS

by Steven Koster

In the past few months, there has been growing interest from the foreign market in our ADABAS data migration/propagation toolset, tRelational and DPS. In particular, one of the top developers in the RDBMS market (Oracle) has a customer from Portugal that has taken trials of tRelational and DPS in order to compare them to the time-consuming and resource-intensive manual process. Another site located in Brazil is interested in tRelational and DPS because of the toolset’s ability to keep ADABAS and relational databases in synch during the migration/propagation process. Sites in Japan, Saudi Arabia, Germany, and Spain have also contacted TSI for information on tRelational and DPS, because they have seen the benefits of bringing in this well supported toolset: it saves them time and frees up important resources that can be focused on other critical projects.

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