IBM z/OS Connect creates an API front door to a broad spectrum of IBM Z applications (CICS, IMS, DB2, MQ). Making mainframe applications available via a RESTful API allows non-mainframe applications to easily gain access to the data and logic these applications represent. The simpler the APIs, the easier and faster integration with any downstream application becomes, regardless of the skillset...
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How HostBridge Creates Value for CICS Integration and Modernization
HostBridge provides software and services to analyze, integrate and modernize legacy CICS applications without screen-scraping. Our patented technology can modernize CICS applications, via APIs, in days and weeks versus months or years. This dramatic reduction in deployment time increases business agility while lowering MIPS usage through orchestration and zIIP engine utilization. In addition,...
CICS Integration: It’s Not About the Screens, It’s About the Flow
Editor’s Note: We recently had the opportunity to brief an analyst at a well known IT analyst firm. The topic was how HostBridge enables CICS integration, orchestration, and modernization. This post summarizes what HostBridge CEO Russ Teubner gave in response to one of the analyst’s questions. During our briefing last month, we were asked about the scalability of the HostBridge JavaScript...
Customers Share their Perspective on the Value of HostBridge
As a software vendor, we think it’s a good idea to periodically validate what we believe to be true about the value our solution provides to our customers. Some time ago, we did just that, commissioning some third-party, “Voice of the Customer” research to find out how they are getting value from HostBridge, and to ensure that our views and their views are congruent. We learned much from...