Natural 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 Natural application logic. Using Shadow for Natural integration provides benefits across the application lifecycle.
Shadow reduces development time and costs by expanding the pool of developers and applications that can access Natural 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 Natural business logic assets into virtual RDBMS stored procedures
- Requires fewer "moving parts" than generalized messaging solutions, which are often used to access Natural, providing greater reliability and higher performance
- Eliminates additional programming required to integrate existing Natural programs through generalized messaging solutions
- Delivers superior performance and scalability via transaction aggregation and filtering as well as other performance optimization controls
- Diverts up to 99% of processing-intensive Natural 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)
