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Copyright © 2010 illustro Systems International, LLC
z/Ware 2.0 Update Overview
“What’s New”
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Goals for z/Ware 2.0
Open up the mainframe data to new request types and request sources Expand z/Ware to support more than 3270
online applications Accept requests from sources other than
browsers and off-platform programs Redesign the system to more easily
accept new features and functions
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The Result
Easy Internet-enablement for your mainframe applications 3270 applications Non-3270 CICS applications Batch applications
Provides both Server and Client functionally HTTP & SOAP Server HTTP, Web Services and TN3270 Client
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Server Facilities
Server Requests Accepted from: Browser clients for HTML applications User written programs
Off-platform programs (.Net, JAVA) using TCP/IP and HTTP
Mainframe programs running on same system using local API No TCP/IP required
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Server Facilities…
Data formats retuned by a Server request Templates allow dynamic combination of
variable data with constant data Document facility allows user creation of
documents in storage to be returned from the request HTML XML Any other text data format
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Client Facilities
Client Requests
Any request type sent to external HTTP Servers with response data returned Send data to a remote server (orders, reports) Request data from the remote server (inquiry,
SQL database lookup)
Web Service requests to external SOAP Servers with response data returned
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User Coded Scripts
Free-form simple statements Data manipulation Logic flow User variable assignments
Stored as library members and loaded into storage at startup or by operator command
Utilized in several ways Web Screen customization for 3270 COMMAREA Events Standalone
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3270 Applications
Web-enable any 3270 application CICS and non-CICS applications No program changes required Automatic 3270 to HTML conversion Complete page redesign and navigation
redesign Use any HTML editor tool to develop
templates Web 2.0 (AJAX) techniques can be used
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Customer Prototypes
Clickable Sort
Page through data
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Customer Prototypes
Data behind tabs
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CICS COMMAREA Applications Non-3270 interface Direct program invocation by server
Called by script COMMAREA built by script and passed Updated COMMAREA returned to script
COMMAREA Event invoked by CICS app Server receives passed COMMAREA Executed script logic updates COMMAREA Server returns updated COMMAREA to CICS
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Batch Applications
Local system API Extends COMMAREA Event support to batch
applications Executed script updates COMMAREA Updated COMMAREA returned to batch
program REXX interface for quick and Easy
implementation No TCP/IP or Sockets programming
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Twitter Example
Fun but practical example of the capabilities of z/Ware
Sends system status updates to the social networking site Twitter from batch jobs
Implemented in JCL using the REXX interface
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Twitter Example
COMMAREA Event from batch API sends HTTP requests to twitter.com using their REST API
To monitor the status of your system in Twitter terminology: “follow your mainframe” on your cell phone
Sends “Tweets” to the Twitter user id zmainframe
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Wrap Up
Easy Internet-enablement of all your mainframe applications
z/Ware 2.0 is available now on the illustro web site http://illustro.com/downloads
More to come in newer releases, let us know what you need