CICS TS Application Support
Direct SQL Access to Valuable Mainframe Logic
Employing the Progress DataDirect industry-standard ODBC, JDBC, and ADO.NET database drivers, DataDirect Shadow provides developers with direct SQL access to valuable CICS TS application logic. Using Shadow for CICS integration provides benefits across the application life cycle.
Shadow reduces development time and costs by expanding the pool of developers and applications that can access CICS through standards-based interfaces. And, Shadow utilizes a common Eclipse-based development tooling to facilitate the integration process. With Shadow, organizations leave mainframe data and logic in place and avoid the cost of data replication or migration, ultimately relying on the mainframe as a true enterprise data server.
- Converts CICS business logic assets into virtual RDBMS stored procedures
- Employs load balancing and failover support, enhancing performance by routing application requests to the CICS address space with the most available resources
- Delivers superior performance and scalability by using an optimized EXCI interface that eliminates the costly overhead associated with creating and using pipes, often resulting in a 2x gain in performance over traditional EXCI implementations
- Provides flexible access to CICS programs with exclusive capabilities that break through the 32K COMMAREA limit
- Diverts up to 99% of processing-intensive CICS integration away from the mainframe’s General Purpose Processor to IBM’s zIIP specialty engine
- Lowers MIPS capacity usage and reducing Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)
