HostBridge pioneered bringing JavaScript to the mainframe over a decade ago. The latest versions of the HostBridge JavaScript Engine (HB.js) continue to expand what enterprises can do with JavaScript on the mainframe. Enterprises that use HostBridge to make CICS applications available via APIs or callable web services now have more features in HostBridge...
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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 customer was...
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. Here I am walking the streets of NYC, working on-site with a client. Photo Credit: Russ Teubner, HostBridge CEO...
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...
What HostBridge is and What it Can Do
We routinely get calls from HostBridge customers, asking if our solution has certain features, functions or capabilities. The most frequent answer I give is “yes, and your HostBridge license allows you to do that.” These inquiries create doubt about how well we’re getting the message out about what HostBridge does. In fact, we get a little introspective as a result of these...