The ability to transform
CICS and IMS transactions into reusable components provides organizations with tremendous value in leveraging the core business functionality of the mainframe and integrating these valuable applications into new e-business development efforts," said Dale Vecchio, Research Director--Application Development of Gartner.
By solving the need to provide seamless and reliable
CICS application participation in the drive towards SOA, Verastream ensures that customers can leverage and service-enable their
CICS assets more quickly and efficiently than ever before.
HostBridge Technology develops computer software that uses XML to integrate
CICS with applications without the use of screen-scraping or changes to the mainframe.
NEON's Shadow RTE extends and capitalizes on the powerful new features of IBM's
CICS TS 3.
NET and the NeoKicks
CICS migration solution) and total system rewrite (using the Java language).
Synapta meets our customers' requirements for simplifying very complex processes -- the product installs with no modifications to the
CICS 3270 application," continued Nitschke.
The Early Release Program gave customers an opportunity to see how
CICS applications could cost-effectively move to Microsoft .
SQL for the COBOL data file support for the migrating
CICS code allows Presidential Life to bring all its data into a common file system because the Life Insurance systems already use Btrieve.
Although the majority of
CICS applications are critical to business operations, these applications are increasingly being viewed as an expensive burden, running on costly hardware provided by a single vendor, with little innovation in maintenance or enhancement options," said Ron Langer, senior director languages group, Fujitsu Software Corporation.
Customers want to be able to quickly resolve problems involving transactions that often span complicated, heterogeneous environments, including
CICS applications on back-end systems," stated Ken Blackwell, Bristol's Chief Technology Officer.
LegacyJ demonstrates value by reducing in the total cost of ownership, repurposing
CICS for web deployment and opening business software applications to new Java based technologies.
Pre-configured to offer instant component-level monitoring of
CICS Transaction Gateway and MQSeries Java Connector, these PowerPacks give operations personnel and professional services personnel the ability to fine-tune their systems for optimal performance and to isolate bottlenecks across the entire Java Web application platform.
