Products
Wild Hare provides powerful commercial products that deliver compatibility, portability, productivity and advanced data access for Data General Interactive COBOL and VS/COBOL users.
Our powerful emulation products recreate an entire Data General computer environment on open systems. Data General Nova, Eclipse and MV hardware is reproduced down to the register level. Many Nova-similar computers are also supported, including Point 4, Bytronix, Fairchild F9445, Rolm and others.
Various other DG-derivatives that target specific application or system areas.
Language and Utility products
Choice!
Choice! is Wild Hare's full-featured runtime system that runs Interactive COBOL (ICOBOL) object code on virtually any popular computer or operating system. It is object code and data file compatible with Data General ICOBOL systems, so complete compatibility with DG systems is assured down to the binary level. The actual program .PD/.DD object program files and .NX/.XD data files from Data General systems can be immediately used on any computer that runs Choice!. This means that absolutely no conversions, translations or even recompilations are required to run ICOBOL programs on different hardware, ranging from small PCs to large mainframes.
Personality Modules
Personality Modules are optional extensions to the Choice! runtime system that allow transparent COBOL program access to data residing in POSIX-standard C-ISAM format and popular data base repositories. The Choice! runtime system by default supports both Data General-compatible ISAM data structures (both internal rev 5 and rev 6 formats) simultaneously, so any version of DG data files may be used with any version of program object files. Personality Modules available include the C-ISAM Personality Module and the D-ISAM Personality Module, both which dramatically enhance the accessibility and value of data residing in non-DG formats.
Axis
The Axis COBOL compiler lets you compile ICOBOL programs on virtually any computer and operating system. It compiles DG-compatible COBOL source programs into .PD/.DD object files, and maintains complete binary compatibility with Data General systems. The object files will run on any system supported by Wild Hare's Choice! or DG's own run-time system. You can develop COBOL programs on one system and run them on any other without modification.
Axis/VS
This compiler accepts a major subset of the DG AOS/VS COBOL compiler syntax and produces enhanced object code that is used by the Choice! runtime system. It handles most of the quirks and incompatibilities of the AOS/VS COBOL language in a transparent fashion so that minimal changes need be made to port to open systems. Originally used as an in-house migration tool by Wild Hare "migranauts" to quickly and effectively convert DG COBOL/INFOS applications, it is now available to clients as part of a separate toolset.
WH/Sort
WH/Sort is a general-purpose file record handling utility which manipulates record order and content of specified data files. It is designed to be very compatible in function and command format with Data General's AOS/VS Sort/Merge utility, yet provides many significant extensions and capabilities.
DG Emulation products
reNOVAte
reNOVAte directly runs Data General Nova, Nova 4, Eclipse, Point 4, Strobe Data, Bytronix, Rolm, AN/UYK-19, AN/UK-64 or other DG-compatible code on any popular open platform. Now entire legacy programs and application environments can run unmodified on any modern hardware or operating system. This completely software-based solution eliminates the need for additional hardware, co-processor boards, strings or mirrors to run any Nova or Eclipse code on any popular hardware platform. This includes RDOS or AOS, special stand-alone programs, dedicated embedded systems or even full-blown proprietary multi-user operating systems.
eMV
eMV extends the advanced reNOVAte technology to run Data General 32-bit MV computer programs directly on open system platforms. AOS/VS, AOS/VS II, MV/RDOS, INFOS, and other operating systems and their corresponding languages and subsystems can now be run on modern hardware ranging from PCs to mainframes.
reGenerate
reGenerate is a hardware interface between a PC and a Data General computer chassis that gives the PC control of current DG hardware I/O controllers and custom user interfaces. When combined with the reNOVAte and eMV software, applications previously "locked in" to DG hardware can now be moved to open technology.