HostBridge Products
Web Services/XML Integration for CICS Applications, Mainframe Data
HostBridge products integrate CICS applications and mainframe data with virtually any distributed system. Organizations that rely on System z mainframes and CICS use HostBridge to:
- Web-enable CICS
- Integrate CICS with BPM, ERP, CRM, and other enterprise systems
- Orchestrate, automate, and integrate complex CICS transaction micro flows
- Transform legacy CICS applications into web services
- SOA-enable mainframe resources.
HostBridge products are modular in design, allowing users to choose components that meet their specific needs.
Automated XML/Web Services Integration: HostBridge Base Product
HostBridge converts CICS/mainframe data to XML to enable rapid integration with XML- and services-based architectures. Running on the mainframe under CICS, HostBridge exploits CICS Transaction Server tools and technologies to ensure the high-performance, high-fidelity integration. HostBridge Base is a prerequisite for other HostBridge products, modules, and connectors.
Web-Enable CICS: WIRE, the Web Interface Rules Engine
WIRE, HostBridge’s Microsoft.NET framework for rapid development and deployment of web interfaces for CICS, provides classic, standard, and enhanced presentation modes to meet the needs of all types of users.
CICS Transaction Orchestration, Automation: HostBridge JavaScript Engine
The HostBridge JavaScript (HBJS) Automation Engine enables rapid development and deployment of flexible, reusable web services from mainframe applications and data. A unique and powerful HBJS capability allows developers to orchestrate, automate, and integrate CICS transaction micro flows as a single web service.
Mainframe Data Integration: HostBridge Data Access Modules
Our Data Access Modules support integration of the most widely used mainframe data resources:
- VSAM Module
- DB2 Module
- DL/1 Module
- MQ Module
CA Application Integration: CA Support Modules
HostBridge is ca-smart certified. Our CA Support Modules simplify integration of CICS applications developed with CA mainframe technologies:
- CA Ideal™ for CA Datacom® Module
- CA-Telon® Module
- CA-Gener/OL™ Module
- CA ADS™ for CA IDMS™ Module
HB Specialty Connectors are application-specific connector routines that simplify interactions between CICS and leading business information systems:
- Pega Connector
- Siebel Connector
- Oracle Connector
- IVR Connector
- Batch to CICS Connector
- eTransX Connector
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