A global payments processing company specializing in commercial transactions processing needed to substantially scale the volume of credit card authorizations for mobile and web point of service applications. With their core transaction systems running on IBM Z CICS, this HostBridge customer already had the processing capacity and ability to manage the volume. The challenge was in ensuring that...
Case Studies
HostBridge zIIP-Enablement Provides Critical Capacity Relief
On a daily basis the IT team at a global designer and manufacturer of premium trucks was receiving calls from internal users. They were unable to access the mainframe because it was running at 100% of capacity. This IT organization has a total of 225 MSUs of mainframe capacity with zIIP specialty engines. They were maxing out of MSUs during the most critical time of the day. Users who were...
Helping Automate Advanced Manufacturing with CICS APIs
Advanced manufacturing faces constant profitability and growth challenges. Maintaining a competitive advantage and profitability can only happen with a continuous commitment to operational excellence. A global furniture manufacturer based in Holland, Michigan, has turned to CICS APIs to enable automation of their business, manufacturing and distribution systems. The result is a dramatic...
HostBridge Enables CICS Web Services Strategy for Major Health Insurer
South Carolina’s largest insurance company is also one of the state’s largest employers, having served customers for over 70 years. The IT organization plays a key role in the success of the company and helping it serve its clients, providers, and other stakeholders. The company’s core business applications run under CICS on an IBM mainframe. As early as 2007, the insurer was implementing CICS...
Guide to UiPath Mainframe Integration
HostBridge, in conjunction with Element Blue, has published the Guide to UiPathTM Mainframe Integration. This free resource is for UiPath users who use or plan to use RPA within an IBM Z System environment. We wrote this technical, “how-to” guide for RPA programmers, enterprise IT architects, and system administrators. The guide shares how to use RESTful HTTP services rather than...