CICS & Mainframe Integration Solutions
Perspectives on Application, Web, WOA, SOA & Cloud Integration
Our Solutions pages present business, technical, and industry perspectives on the range of mainframe integration types – application, Web, SOA, and cloud – powered by HostBridge products.
Web-Enabled
Mainframe: Modernization for New Users
Enterprises Web-enable legacy applications to modernize the mainframe for today’s
employees, partners, and customers, and provide self-service access to high-value
business logic and data. Web interfaces – ranging from enhanced “green
screens” to rich Web 2.0 composites – extend the mainframe to many
new users, streamline business processes, increase productivity, reduce costs,
create business opportunities, and generate new revenue.
Run Web Services, SOA, and Integration
Workloads on the zIIP
Organizations shift workloads from general purpose processors (GPs) to the less
expensive and possibly faster zIIP to increase use of certain workloads, reduce
processing costs, and lower mainframe total cost of ownership (TCO), and defer
GP upgrades. Businesses that use software from licensed ISVs such as HostBridge
for CICS integration can now zIIP-enable CICS Web services and integration/SOA
workloads. HostBridge is 100% zIIP-eligible.
Web Interfaces Replace
3270 Terminal Emulation
Terminal emulation is a limiting technology. It sustains an outdated user interface,
increases IT costs, and often hinders organizations from adopting more advanced
web interface solutions for CICS and System z. Organizations can address these
problems by replacing 3270 or 5250 terminal emulators with a modern mainframe
web-enablement solution such as HostBridge WIRE, the Web Interface Rules Engine.
Web Services and SOA
Integration for CICS
HostBridge enables the incorporation of high-value CICS data and business logic
into modern service-oriented architectures (SOAs). Enterprises use HostBridge
to add value to and extend the power of mainframe applications by integrating
them with any services-based enterprise information architecture. HostBridge
complies with SOAP and other relevant services standards.
Integrating CA-Based
CICS Applications
HostBridge empowers organizations to maintain and extend investments in CA development
environments, including CA Ideal™ for CA Datacom®, CA Telon®, CA Gener/OL™,
and CA ADS™ for CA IDMS™. HostBridge has unique capabilities for integrating
CA-based applications that deliver higher performance and higher fidelity integrations
that other solutions.
Business Process Management
(BPM) and CICS
Mainframe data and business logic can take an increasing vital part in business
process flows and business process management (BPM). HostBridge simplifies and
expedites BPM interactions with CICS by managing and automating navigation through
sequences of mainframe screen. It returns only the requested information as
XML or web services that can be readily consumed by BPM software solutions or
formatted for direct, actionable presentation to business analysts can understand.
XML-Based
Integration for Financial Services
By providing a reliable XML interface to CICS applications, HostBridge helps
financial institutions meet industry requirements for reduced settlement cycles
(T+1). HostBridge works securely within Web Support (CWS) and other IBM-provided
components for secure data transactions.
HostBridge and Section 508 Accessibility
Under Section 508, United States government agencies have had to find new ways
to transform legacy systems into Section 508-compliant interfaces that are accessible
to people with disabilities. HostBridge makes it easy to build new interfaces
from XML and improve accessibility of critical CICS applications.