Excel Program Inventions
Excel Program Inventions was founded in 1989 and specializes in developing expert programmer productivity software for the IBM i computing platform.

Excel Program Inventions was founded in 1989 and specializes in developing expert programmer productivity software for the IBM i computing platform.
EPI's first national product offering, TARGET/400 is an award winning expert system designed to convert and restructure custom developed IBM S/36 RPG II and OCL applications to native mode applications for use on the AS/400 and IBM i computing platforms. The software provides comprehensive features for defining and implementing the DB2/400 database as well as converting S/36 menus, screen formats and data. TARGET/400 was jointly developed with the IBM Migration Assistant licensed program and is recommended by the IBM National Solution Center. It has repeatedly been IBM's tool of choice when providing conversion services to its S/36 customer base both in the U.S. and abroad.
With TARGET/400 firmly established as a market leader EPI went on to develop the Database Assistant, a field level database relations tool for the IBM i. This programmer productivity software is designed to dramatically speed up the maintenance cycle by allowing users to easily visualize the impact of changing any field/s in the DB2/400 database on user applications. The Database Assistant additionally provides functions to effectively manage and significantly accelerate file and program changes.
The System/36 to Native Mode Conversion Aid has been specifically developed to convert your existing S/36 application code to native mode on the IBM i and iSeries. It is simple to use and will dramatically reduce the time you spend on moving to the native environment without the unnecessary expense of re-developing or re-purchasing proven existing user applications. The high degree of automation achieved by TARGET/400 when converting your S/36 RPG II and OCL applications to native mode minimizes the requirement for extensive programmer involvement both during and after the conversion task and makes it possible to move to native mode and ILE quickly and accurately while keeping conversion costs to an absolute minimum.
It's a perpetual license you get to use the software for as long as you like on the designated system.
No extended product maintenance and support is optional but we advise it so you can continue to get product support and free upgrades and bug fixes when they come out.
No. To help with costs we offer license transfers at a 80% discount on the license fee so you can affordably port our software to a new machine and continue to use it. Upgrading to new hardware is expensive enough.
The TARGET/400 trial version download gives you 2 weeks from installing it on your system to test the software inhouse on your own code. You can then convert up to 15 sources for each menu or command opition. That is 15 OCL proceduress, 15 RPG II program, 15 data files .... etc.
No you can convert the same source item as many times as you like without it affecting your license quota.
Yes. It creates a separate physical file for each different record format and then generates a logical file index over them. Your converted RPG ILE programs then access the data via the combined logical file.
Yes. It will replace program described file layouts and standardize field name usage throughout the RPG ILE code. This feature of the tool works on the converted code. Externalization can therefore be accomplished on a "as you go" basis after you are up and running in native moder or alternatively as part of your initial conversion project. Or you might opt for a "bit of both" approach. See our "S/36 Road Map" for guidance.
We have been developing and providing expert software solutions to customers since 1989.
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