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: Different Horses for Different Courses
As we work with our enterprise customers and prospects on CICS integration opportunities, we’re increasingly hearing about IBM® z/OS® Connect EE. The question we’re getting is simple: aren’t HostBridge and IBM® z/OS® Connect EE competing solutions? If so, why would an enterprise IT organization choose one over the other? On the surface, it does appear as if these solutions compete. …