Solutions
Our Solutions pages present business, technical, and industry perspectives on mainframe integration and HostBridge.Web Interfaces Replace 3270 Terminal Emulation
Terminal emulation is a limiting technology. It sustains an outdated user interface, increases IT costs, and often hinders organizations from adopting more advanced web interface solutions for and System z. Organizations can address these problems by replacing 3270 or 5250 terminal emulators with a modern mainframe web-enablement solution such as HostBridge WIRE, the Web Interface Rules Engine.
Web Services and SOA Integration for CICS
HostBridge enables the incorporation of high-value CICS data and business logic into modern service-oriented architectures (SOAs). Enterprises use HostBridge to add value to and extend the power of mainframe applications by integrating them with any services-based enterprise information architecture. HostBridge complies with SOAP and other relevant services standards.
Integrating CA-Based CICS Applications
HostBridge empowers organizations to maintain and extend investments in CA development environments, including CA Ideal™ for CA Datacom®, CA Telon®, CA Gener/OL™, and CA ADS™ for CA IDMS™. HostBridge has unique capabilities for integrating CA-based applications that deliver higher performance and higher fidelity integrations that other solutions. HostBridge is ca-smart certified.
Business Process Management (BPM) and CICS
Mainframe data and business logic can take an increasing vital part in business process flows and business process management (BPM). HostBridge simplifies and expedites BPM interactions with CICS by managing and automating navigation through sequences of mainframe screen. It returns only the requested information as XML or web services that can be readily consumed by BPM software solutions or formatted for direct, actionable presentation to business analysts can understand.
XML-Based Integration for Financial Services
By providing a reliable XML interface to CICS applications, HostBridge helps financial institutions meet industry requirements for reduced settlement cycles (T+1). HostBridge works securely within Web Support (CWS) and other IBM-provided components for secure data transactions.
HostBridge and Section 508 Accessibility
Under Section 508, United States government agencies have had to find new ways to transform legacy systems into Section 508-compliant interfaces that are accessible to people with disabilities. HostBridge makes it easy to build new interfaces from XML and improve accessibility of critical CICS applications.