The HostBridge team recently spent time working onsite with a global financial services company. The purpose of the engagement was to accomplish three different but equally important goals related to making CICS applications available while remaining sensitive to performance and CPU cycle usage: Reduce CPU consumption from high volume CICS socket I/O Identify other performance issues with these high-volume CICS …
Including CICS on Splunk Dashboards
The HostBridge team recently went onsite to help a customer solve an IT Operations analytics problem. The need was to understand how to correlate non-mainframe requests coming from end-users who use server-based applications to work done inside CICS to process those requests. This situation is becoming far more common as CICS serves as a component of hybrid IT applications. This …
Production Ready CICS Web Service in a Day!
This week I’m spending time on-site with a HostBridge customer helping them develop CICS web services for some of their core applications. The work I’m doing perfectly illustrates the value of using a web services approach for integrating and orchestrating CICS applications. Background: .NET Service Timing Out Yesterday, I helped this client use the HostBridge JavaScript Engine (HB.js), our mainframe …
HTAC Brings CICS to Your IT Ops Platform
In March 2019, HostBridge CEO Russ Teubner demonstrated the HostBridge Transaction Analytics Connector (HTAC). The demonstration showed how hybrid IT organizations can gain end-to-end visibility of hybrid application performance when those hybrid applications include CICS. HTAC is software that correlates non-mainframe service requests to the actual work done inside CICS to process those requests. By using HTAC, organizations that rely …
HostBridge and IBM® z/OS® Connect EE: The Perfect “Tag Team”
Editor’s note: the first version of this post was published earlier this year, and it came to the attention of the IBM® z/OS® Connect EE product team. It led to a very productive dialogue about our respective solutions. That created a better, mutual understanding of each solution’s capabilities and how IBM® z/OS® Connect EE and HostBridge complement each other. As …