Again the tcACCESS product from B.O.S. Software allows SQL based access
to VSAM, IMS, PDS/PS, DB2, ADABAS, IDMS, DATACOM from Windows, Linux,
Unix. It uses various connectivity methods (today mostly TCP/IP, but
also supports 3270, TELNET, MS and more). Standard SQL can be used to
READ, UPDATE, DELETE, INSERT into the mainframe files. See
http://www.bossoftware.com.
Regards,
Martin
Am 03.04.18 um 20:01 schrieb John McKown:
On Tue, Apr 3, 2018 at 12:44 PM, Ward, Mike S <mw...@ssfcu.org> wrote:
Hello all, does anyone know of any software that allows access to VSAM,
SEQ, CICS files from remote systems. I.E. distributed systems. How is the
access done? Web service calls? MQ calls?
Do you mean forms of "file transfer" such as "ftp" and "scp"? Or do you
mean like a library which your "distributed" application can use for CRUD
(Create, Read, Update, Delete)? For the former, I like "Dataset Pipes" from
Dovetailed Technologies. http://dovetail.com/products/remoteservices.html
For the latter, it may be a bit more difficult. We use MQ series and CICS.
We have some Windows Java applications which connect to MQSeries to run MQ
CICS transactions. The Windows application sends XML encoded requests to
CICS and receives an XML encoded reply. We also use CICS as an HTTP server
and a (sort of) REST model to do the same sort of work. Why both and not
just one? Schizophrenic developers, perhaps? There are probably many
different products on the market which expose a REST API for accessing z/OS
resources. I know that Rocketsoftware does.
Thanks.
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