“Our
green-screen application was more than a decade old, and we were looking to
simplify and modernize it quickly and cost-effectively, Micro Focus helped us
Web-enable our internal mainframe application with EnterpriseLink to give our
sales executives the ability to track the status of customer contracts from
input to completion via any Web browser.”
John DeLoi
Director of Systems Engineering
ABC-TV National TV Sales, Inc.
Some of the most powerful and productive assets a company has are the existing business rules, data and processes embodied in its mainframe applications. You can leverage your existing enterprise legacy assets and put them to work in the e-business world with Micro Focus — the industry-standard for legacy application development, transformation and integration — providing three methods or paths to e-enable your company:
Presentation
Integration
Presentation Integration products that
provide a noninvasive process to transform character-based
presentation formats into graphic presentations through Windows or Java GUI and
browser-based clients.
With EnterpriseLink®, you can apply a new interface to an existing
enterprise application, without host changes. Presentation Integration is the
most cost-effective method of creating an e-business from legacy applications.
As no host changes are required, there is minimal risk involved.
Legacy
Modernization
Legacy
Modernization products include the planning and implementation of new
business processes and enabling technologies that represent an evolution or
transformation of existing systems.
EnterpriseLink
allows you to re-use existing enterprise application logic and business processes and
extend them into new e-business applications by accessing your mainframe
transactions through COM or Java components. More importantly, it offers this
ability without host code changes.
Programmatic
Integration
Programmatic
Integration products provide a mechanism to package defined sequences
of character-based data into programmatic representations, such as COM, Java or
XML, to supply legacy information to new composite applications. Move your legacy business systems forward
by encapsulating business rules in Web services frameworks, without modifying
the original systems. You or your
partners construct Web services client applications that connect to
EnterpriseLink Integration Server to securely access your legacy data.
EnterpriseLink
Integration Server helps you leverage your IT assets. EnterpriseLink provides Presentation Integration by transliterating
character-based legacy applications into a set of easy-to-use web pages, adding
graphics, data selection and extended input checking. Use this to reduce the training time of your
Intranet call-center personnel
as they come up to speed on your application.
Or, provide web access to your legacy inventory application to your
suppliers or partners through a secure firewall. EnterpriseLink ensures that these Extranet users only see the portion of the application you
wish them to see and only restricted operations can be performed. Finally, EnterpriseLink’s
presentation integration can deploy portions of your application directly to
Internet customers if you choose
EnterpriseLink
Integration Server allows you to integrate and extend your mainframe
applications using Legacy Modernization
techniques without having to undertake a major programming effort and without
making changes to existing production systems.
Without moving the business rules off the mainframe, they can be
accessed from within Java or Microsoft COM-compliant applications and
services. Application Servers such as
IBM WebSphere, BEA Weblogics,
Microsoft .NET can assimilate the legacy data without having to employ
complicated connector technology, as the EnterpriseLink solution allows a
business analyst to assemble the information in a form acceptable to those
systems.
EnterpriseLink
Integration Server can act as a Programmatic Integration server
itself, without the need of an Application Server. It will access relational databases, local Unix and PC applications and generate a single integrated
application to end-users, downstream application servers or external subsystems via Simple
Object Access Protocol (SOAP) that powers Web services
With this
powerful tool you can:
EnterpriseLink
Integration Server integrates existing application business logic with HTML or
XML pages without making any changes to the existing application. EnterpriseLink
Integration Server is an application server that provides a universal interface
layer for new and existing applications.
It provides a number of critical functions on the fly (at run time) for
application integration and delivery. These functions include:
The following
tools and components are part of the EnterpriseLink Integration Server toolset.
EnterpriseLink
Loader
Loader
provides a quick and easy method for capturing and converting host screens and
their relationships to each other. During this automated capture process,
Loader populates its repository with an object representation of the host
system, its fields, attributes, and transitions and users workflow. In this way, an expert’s knowledge is captured
along with the layout of the application.
This is important later as multiple screens (or elements of screens) are
combined into one page or the author creates hyperlinks to quickly navigate
through the completed web application.
The original expert’s knowledge will be used to drive the legacy
application to the appropriate location.
EnterpriseLink
Builder
A
100% Java Application, Builder provides everything a web developer needs to
rapidly construct professional, dynamic web pages from the object
representation of the host function captured during the
Loader phase. Builder uses a drag-and-drop object assembly metaphor for
building web page templates that are automatically populated with live data
when the application is running. Builder is the first Legacy presentation
integration tool that can run on Solaris and AIX, giving your UNIX developers
the tools they need to integrate to mainframe applications.
Builder
infers the transformation rules from the author’s drag-and-drop actions,
freeing the author from manually programming the behavior of each screen
element and every screen transition. It can combine many application and data
elements: host screens (one or more screens on a single web page), tables from
a host database, data from a relational database
outside the host system and even entire Java Applets or ActiveX plugins. The application author can also add
special-purpose JavaScript or VBScript to the web page.
EnterpriseLink
Integration Server
The runtime component manages hundreds of concurrent connections to the
host application and transforms the live data to the protocol requested by the
end-user, device or downstream Web Services client application. It carries out the transformation rules specified
by the author during the authoring process.
EnterpriseLink Integration Server will access local PC or Unix applications and/or SQL databases as directed by the
author. It will consolidate performance
metrics making them available to the Windows Performance Monitor or as web page
accessible through the EnterpriseLink Administrators Web Site. The Integration Server contains patented
algorithms designed to reduce or eliminate the need for “double maintenance”. Should a screen or transaction change on the
legacy application, the screens need not be captured and recustomized,
within certain administrator-defined thresholds.
Cluster Server
Cluster Server works with multiple Integration Servers to deliver 24x7 application availability with non-hierarchical clustering
and no single point of failure. Additionally, it provides scaling to thousands
of users and optimizes performance even with unpredictable spikes in user
traffic. It transparently provides load balancing and fail-over for as many
servers as needed, to deliver 99.999% uptime for large-scale extranet and
Internet applications. The Cluster
Server is also used during scheduled outages as subsystems are upgraded. This will provide continuous operation
throughout the servicing cycle.
Security Server
EnterpriseLink’s Security Policy
Manager controls the levels of security to which users connect interactive host
applications to the Internet. It allows you to:
·
Leverage a host mainframe Security Subsystem, such as
IBM’s RACF, Computer Associates’ ACF2 or TopSecret to
authenticate individuals before they access corporate resources
·
Define one or more Security Objects, which are made from the security
rules, embedded in the applications
·
Interface with other standard security processes such as LDAP, SSL, Certificates
and PDC’s
Authors Web Site
The web-based Authors Site component allows individual authors to invoke
the Loader and test web-based applications.
It allows authoring teams to manage one or more EnterpriseLink projects
in one or more repositories. Authoring
tools reduce or eliminate the need for double-maintenance and are accessible
from this site. Project Managers can
promote projects from unit test to system test to production with facilities on
this web site.
Administrators Web Site
The web-based Administrators Site component allows remote administration and configuration of all EnterpriseLink components. Management of a pool of EnterpriseLink Integration Servers is possible from a single site. A system operator can take over, view and diagnose a session as well as obtain server statistics.
Supported Development /
Deployment Software Environments and Prerequisite Software
Pentium
IV 1.0GHz or higher, 128MB RAM, 10GB disk with one of:
·
Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 SP6a
o
Web Server
§
Microsoft Internet Information
Server 4.0
o
Web Browser
§
Netscape Navigator 4.7 or
§
Internet Explorer 5.5
o
Database (optional)
§
Microsoft Access 4.0 or,
§
Microsoft SQL Server 7.0
·
Microsoft Windows 2000
Server SP2
o
Web Server
§
Microsoft Internet Information
Server 5.0 or,
§
Apache HTTP Server 1.3 or 2.x or,
§
BEA Web Logic Web Server
or,
§
IBM WebSphere
Web Server or,
§
Oracle Application Server,
or
§
Sun ONE (iPlanet) Enterprise Server 6.0,
o
Web Browser
§
Netscape Navigator 4.7,
6.0, 7.0
§
Internet Explorer 6.0, 6.1
o
Database (optional):
§
Microsoft Access 4.0 or,
§
Microsoft SQL Server 2000
or,
§
Oracle 8.15, 9i or,
§
MySQL Server 3.5, 4.0
·
Microsoft Windows 2003
Server
o
Web Server
§
Microsoft Internet
Information Server 5.2 or,
§
Apache HTTP Server 1.3 or 2.x or,
§
BEA Web Logic Web Server
or,
§
IBM WebSphere
Web Server or,
§
Oracle Application Server,
or
§
Sun ONE (iPlanet) Enterprise Server 6.0,
o
Web Browser
§
Netscape Navigator 4.7,
6.0, 7.0, or
§
Internet Explorer 6.0, 6.1
o
Database (optional):
§
Microsoft Access 4.0 or,
§
Microsoft SQL Server 2000
or,
§
Oracle 8.15, 9i or,
§
MySQL Server 3.5, 4.0
·
SuSE
o
Web Server
§
Apache HTTP Server 1.3 or 2.x or,
§
BEA Web Logic Web Server
or,
§
IBM WebSphere
Web Server or,
§
Oracle Application Server,
or
o
Web Browser
§
Netscape Navigator 4.7,
6.0, 7.0, or
§
Mozilla
o
Database:
§
Oracle 8.15, 9i or,
§
MySQL Server 3.5, 4.0
·
Microsoft Windows XP
Professional (development only)
o
Web Browser
§
Netscape Navigator 4.7,
6.0, 7.0, or
§
Internet Explorer 6.0, 6.1
Sun
SPARC 360Mhz, 1GB of RAM, 10 GB or disk with:
·
Solaris 2.6, 2.7, 8, 9
o
Web Server:
§
Apache HTTP Server 1.3 or 2.x or,
§
BEA Web Logic Web Server
or,
§
IBM WebSphere
Web Server or,
§
Oracle Application Server,
or
§
Sun ONE (iPlanet) Enterprise Server 6.0
o
Web Browser:
§
Netscape Navigator 4.7,
6.0, 7.0, or
§
Mozilla
o
Database:
§
MySQL 3.5, 4.0, or
§
Oracle 8.15, 9i, or
§
Sybase System 11
IBM
RS6000 360Mhz, 1GB of RAM, 10 GB or disk with:
·
AIX 4.3.3
o
Web Server:
§
Apache HTTP Server 1.3 or 2.x or,
§
BEA Web Logic Web Server
or,
§
IBM WebSphere
Web Server or,
§
Oracle Application Server,
or
§
Sun ONE (iPlanet) Enterprise Server 6.0
o
Web Browser:
§
Netscape Navigator 4.7,
6.0, 7.0, or
§
Mozilla
o
Database:
§
MySQL 3.5, 4.0, or
§
Oracle 8.15, 9i
§
IBM
S/390 100MIPS logical partition or higher with:
·
SuSE Linux AS 3.0
o
Web Server
§
Apache 1.3 or 2.x
o
Database:
§
MySQL 3.5, 4.0
Supported Application and Database
Integration Sources
• Any
3270, 5250 or 6680 terminal-based application
• IBM CICS, IMS, VM, TPF
• CA Datacom/DC, IDMS/DC
• Cincom Supra/DC
• Software AG Natural/Adabas
• IBM OS/400 RPG, PASE
• Fujitsu M-Series
• Tandem Non-Stop
• Unisys BS2000
• Micro Focus Mainframe Express
• Any
SQL-Based Relational Database Management System
• Oracle 8.0, 8i, 9i
• IBM DB2
• Sybase System 11
• Microsoft SQL Server
• Microsoft Access
• Any
PC or Unix application or dynamically linked library
•
XML or Web Services data source or integration platform
Supported End-User Access
Devices and Protocols
•
Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0 or higher web browser
•
Netscape 4.7 or higher web browser
•
Opera 7 or higher web browser
•
Microsoft Pocket Internet Explorer 1.1 or higher PDA web browser
•
XML 1.0 compliant device or application
•
Web Services Client
•
XML-RPC Client
•
Phone.com WML browser for mobile phones (via Novarra WirelessWeb)
• PalmNet browser for wireless PDAs
(via Novarra WirelessWeb)
•
Any Microsoft COM-compliant GUI application (via EnterpriseLink SmartCOM)
•
Any Java-compliant GUI application (via EnterpriseLink SmartJ)
•
Any Web Services-based client application
Visit
the EnterpriseLink Product
Information Site at www.enterpriselink.com
for more information, white papers, technical notes, frequently asked
questions, demos and downloads.
Micro Focus is the industry leader in
COBOL development solutions ranging from traditional maintenance and program
understanding to business rule mining, Web-enablement and user-interface
transformation. Over 70,000 licensed users at more than 7,000 sites
around the world use Micro Focus’ unsurpassed breadth of platform support,
performance and scalability. Micro Focus offers the most comprehensive suite of
development and integration environments to help customers succeed in
taking full advantage of the power of their legacy systems. Founded in 1976, Micro Focus is a global company
that employs more than 450 people worldwide with principal offices in the