CAPSIL

[hcddm00]

I am a former employee of the company that developed CAPSIL, also known
as CAPS-IL and CAPS-I-L.

CAPS-IL was developed by a small US company, CAPSCO, Inc., originating
in Chicago, and later moved to Rosemont, IL, then to Lombard, IL. The
Canadian office was opened later, did NOT write the software, but did do
the conversion to English/French screens and the conversion to DB2.

The name is derived from Computer Assisted Programming Services (CAPS) -
Individual Life (IL). The company also had a claims processing system
called CAPS-CLAIM. The software was written on Prime, then converted to
IBM, then later to Burroughs large systems (I did this conversion). A
version was also available for the PC, DOS based.

Originally a three man partnership, CAPSCO was later purchased by
Tindall Associates, then acquired by SwissRE, which also acquired Pallm
Systems in Indianapolis and merged the two companies into Capsco-Pallm
Systems. George Tindall passed away shortly after the merger and
leadership sadly went to the guy from Indianapolis. The US company
floundered for a while, finally its assets were sold to PMSC in one of
the Carolinas. PMSC was later bought by IBM.

CAPSIL is no longer sold in the US. The Canadian company may still be
in operation, there is an Asian company that sells a version for the IBM
i Series (AS/400), and there was and may still be an office in Kansas
City, MO that used CAPSIL and other software to do TPA for life
insurance companies that did not want to maintain there own software and
computer operation.

Dave McPhee

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[wayne...@gmail.com]

I just came across this note from Dave McPhee about CAPSCO and it brought back a lot of memories. I worked closely with Bill Strauss, George Tindall and Ron Stone in 1979-80 to bring the Caps-i-l system into our company, Eaton Financial Services. We were the second Canadian company, after Travelers, to use the system in Canada. I worked many hours with Bill Schey to customize the system. I also was involved with putting a valuation system into Life of Barbados who had purchased the Caps-i-l system to run on a Burroughs computer. Many years later I was involved with setting up the PC version on a PS/2 computer in Hong Kong. Any other people out there with CAPSCO/Caps-i-l memories?

[sachi...@gmail.com]

Are you guys still around? We are looking for some programmers who can work on CAPSIL. Do you know anyone?

[docd...@panix.com]

In article <fa1457d9-bd27-42e3...@googlegroups.com>,

<sachi...@gmail.com> wrote:
>Are you guys still around? We are looking for some programmers who can
>work on CAPSIL.

When posting to comp.lang.cobol please include a rate, or range of rates,
associated with the position(s) offered. To do otherwise leads many to
conclude that you are either trolling for resumes or running a blind ad to
determine rates.

DD

[willia...@capgemini.com]

Yes, there are still programmers with extensive knowledge in the CAPS-I-L system. My team assisted CAPSCO with developing the original UL monthaversary on-line and batch processing. We also developed a commissions only processing sub-system where we were calculating and paying commissions from CAPS-I-L for policies not administered on the CAPS-I-L system. I worked for the Continental Corp back in the late 70s for the following 15 years. We worked in partnership with TAI to develop the on-line hooks to their reinsurance system, and then went on to convert from CAPS-I-L to the Lifepro. For my current employers I finished completing a 100% transition from the CAPS-I-L system to Inspro (in 2018) where I wrote the conversion programs to that web based system. This included archiving the CAPSIL master files into a database that can be accessed by the Microsoft SQL Server Management studio.

[andyy...@gmail.com]

PMSC was bought by Computer Sciences Corporation.

[Joe]

On Thu, 20 Aug 2020 09:26:15 -0700 (PDT), andyy...@gmail.com wrote:

>PMSC was bought by Computer Sciences Corporation.

Memories.......