Datawatch Migration to IBM CMOD

Data Strategies Interchange today reported on the successful completion of  Datawatch Migration to IBM Content Manager OnDemand.

The customer, a major national health insurance company, had been using BDS (also known as Monarch RMOD, INSCI COINS, COINSERV or ESP+Archive) for archiving EOB forms (Xerox Metacode) and other documents (AFP, PDF) related to its operations. The legacy system was hosted on a Sun Solaris server and used a mix of 5.25” optical platters and the Solaris file system for storage.

The Datawatch migration was performed at Data Strategies’ secure facility in Houston, TX using its proven off-line document migration platform. The project involved processing from some 3,300 customer supplied backup optical platters and some 9 TB of magnetic repositories. A total of 1.2 billion index records were extracted from the binary files that constituted the non-SQL BDS ‘database’.

Some 2.5 billion Xerox Metacode pages were converted to the AFP format. A total of 650 million documents and associated indexes with a cumulative size of 30 TByte were delivered to the client on encrypted USB hard disk drives using CMOD’s Generic Indexer format.

Finding a correct set of print resources is always a challenge in migration projects. Since the BDS legacy archive doesn’t maintain any relation between documents and required resources, all extracted, native AFP documents were scanned for resource dependencies. All required resources for a particular load file (.OUT) were packaged in tailor-made resource groups, ready for ingestion into CMOD.

Further information about DSI’s document archive migration services can be found here.