Consultancy on the use of assembler.

Bixoft will gladly advise you regarding the use and maintenance of assembler-programs. Counsels may cover a range of topics:

• Maintenance of existing programs:
  • Are the programs to be maintained, or is it more wise to rewrite the code in some 3GL? If so, how?
  • Can your own people do the job, or do you need support? If so, how and by whom?
   
  
• Possible new programs in a project:
  • Is the use of assembler unavoidable or is the problem also solvable in a 3GL?
  • If the problem can be solved only in assembler, should it be solved at all? Or might we invent some work-around?
  • Does your organization possess all the required knowledge? If not, how to alleviate? By training, renting, outsourcing...?
   
  
• Search for possible solutions for encountered problems.
  • Once every while your application hangs (e.g. through record-locks).
  • You don't have sufficient memory available below the 16MB-line.
  • Your application is running too slowly:
    1. On-line: at peak-time transactions cannot be handled fast enough.
    2. Batch: the available batch-window is insufficient for running your application.
  • You want your application on-line 24 hours a day, even when making a backup or while converting your datasets.

As you will understand, the general advise is: do not use assembler unless you have good reasons for doing so. If you do use assembler, however, make sure future maintenance is not going to be a major problem. Be sure to have all the required knowledge available in your organization, otherwise you might be well advised to board out all the work on assembler-programs.

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