Application Life Cycle List

ZIP/390

FileMarvel Intersession

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ZIP/390 - Utilises open standard compression formats (e.g. ZIP/GZIP) and encryption methods (e.g. AES / ZIP keyword) insuring interoperability with other ZIP/GZIP enabled programs on other platforms (e.g. WinZIP, PKZIP, Windows/XP zip folders, ..). The IpBridge/Connect Zip-Server feature enables faster transfers with less mainframe overhead and support for additional compression & encryption options. Built in FTP & email communications.

ZIP/390 ZIP/VSE

FileMarvel - Use FileMarvel to look at and maintain any kind of dataset - VSAM, SAM, UNIX, BDAM or source (e.g Program, JCL) in a PDS. ISPF's edit and file manipulation utilities' emphasis is on source files; FileMarvel specifically addresses data files. FileMarvel uses the familiar ISPF interface to provide browsing, editing, reformatting, merging, copying, printing, sorting and defining datasets. It handles file organizations and record sizes not supported by ISPF, even tape data sets.

Intersession is a modern 3270 session manager for mainframes that gives all users secure, fast and convenient access to their applications. After logging on the user is presented with a menu of authorized applications and also gives the users Single Sign-On access. InterSession supports all current IBM mainframe operating systems (z/OS, VSE and VM), and all VTAM application host systems (i.e. CICS, TSO, IMS,...). The TN3270 support supports all current IBM TCP/IP stacks and TCPaccess from CA (Interlink Computer Sciences). InterSession comes with migration tools to help you migrate from old session managers such as Net/Master and TPX.

ADS - Advanced Debugging System for CICS is an interactive debugging, testing and monitoring program for CICS (under z/OS & z/VSE) applications written in Assembler, PL/1, C and all versions of COBOL. ADS helps you to uncover hidden storage violations, coding errors and design flaws and you can ensure programs adhere to CICS standards before they go into production and rapidly track down even intermittent errors in existing applications. Even your most junior programmer can be a debugging expert in a day.

Dignus: Dignus provides an IBM compatible HLASM and C++, C compiler which allow developers to offload a major part of their mainframe compiling (e.g. z/OS, zLinux, BS2000, TPF, Unix flavours, Windows, Linux.) without source modifications. These compilers allow you to compile, assemble and link locally on your workstation and create objects, which link on the mainframe.
Many major large scale software development companies now use Dignus to save hard dollars on machine upgrades and human resource costs while improving compile time dramatically.
Features: XP link, CICS pre-processor, DB2 pre-processor, Local Linker, Direct call, IBM Compatible.

DDI / (Dynamic Data Interface / DataSwitch) is the intelligent middleware for Euro and other major conversions or application upgrades requiring batch/online data changes, which also permits access by MQ-SERIES. Without further changes to programs, DDI allows the converted program through a simple JCL change to access the program files of pre and post conversion, i.e. different file lengths and data descriptions of archived, current, and future file formats. This allows the converted programs of the new world to continue to communicate with the data of the old world (and visa versa). It also allows you to take files (including those with multiple record types) and expand them into new pre-defined formats, inserting new data as required, also permitting data exchange such as Date Ageing.

HOTCOPY - Modern data processing environments like data warehouses, mobile computing, internet-commerce, data migration and high-availability all require an adequate mechanism when being synchronized. In this day and age the time is not simply available for a replication batch window and to transfer large data by ftp into remote databases. This is no longer considered to be efficient because in such a way data are provided neither timely nor consistent. Companies will continue to need an opportunity to propagate data changes from legacy systems like IMS, CICS and VSAM to databases on OS/390, OS/400, Unix, and NT. This needs to be done immediately, fast, without restrictions in the use of the central systems and not endangering data integrity. this is achieved with HOTCOPY.

ACM - Avoid Currency Mix. This will induce the conversion of the local currency to target (e.g. EURO) data and programs. Then, both data and programs from both currencies will be present. However, this gives rise to the danger that the "wrong" programs access the "wrong" data. ACM is needed!

DataConverter: These convertors using DDI technology automate the rules process for source to target state using pre-existing file/table definitions, and enhance ordinary utilities like IEBGENER, REPRO and Unload/Reload to tranform them to data conversion tools.

D-SECT: Enables a programmer to generate consistently chained test data using SQL, even for non-relational datasets. Test data generator for integrated systems capturing your programs calls dynamically to DB2, IMS, VSAM & PS data structures.

P-TRACKER - Monitors all program and subprogram calls under OS/390 or z/OS. It covers all environments: batch, IMS/DC, CICS and other sub-systems. Using P-Tracker, one can focus in on usage of modules, datasets and products/licenses and determine the chained calls at sub-program level. One can quickly and easily identify products that are unused, under-used, duplicated or scattered. Automatically records every load module execution on the system, including sub-system level when required. A Load Module Analyser is also available to determine module attributes.