Host Integration Server 2009

Abstract

We’ve had the opportunity to work with a wide variety of customers across the world who use mainframe platforms to store critical data and to run critical applications. Most of those customers have needed to present their mainframe data on (or access their legacy applications from) a web browser, console, or mobile device application. Their frequently asked questions include the following:

• “How is our application going to get connected to the host?”

• “What is the communication protocol that we are going to use?”

• “Is it possible for us to use two-phase commit?”

• “Can we execute Windows programs from inside our mainframe programs?

• “What do we need to enable screen scraping?”