CrossAccess Corporation Announces J2EE Connector Architecture Support for Legacy Mainframe Data Integration.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 14, 2003 CrossAccess Corporation, the mainframe data integration experts, today announced J2EE Connector Architecture (JCA (1) (Java Cryptography Architecture) An umbrella term from Sun for implementing security functions for the Java platform. It includes Sun's Java Security API as well as the Java Cryptography Extension (JCE), which adds more programming interfaces for encryption ) support for its eXadas(TM) Data Integrator (XDI) product. XDI is specifically designed to provide SQL read/write data access to legacy mainframe databases and files with no mainframe programming. The result is plug-and-play read/write access to even proprietary data sources like IMS (1) See IP Multimedia Subsystem. (2) (Information Management System) An early IBM hierarchical DBMS for IBM mainframes. IMS was widely implemented throughout the 1970s under MVS and continues to be used under z/OS. , IDMS See CA-IDMS and IDMSX. 1. (language, database) IDMS - A pictorial query language, an extension of Sequel2. ["A Management System for an Integrated Database of Pictures and Alphanumeric Data", G.Y. Tang, Computer Graphics Image Processing 16:270-286 (1981)]. , Datacom/DB, Adabas, DB2 and VSAM (Virtual Storage Access Method) An IBM access method for storing data, widely used in IBM mainframes. It uses the B+tree method for organizing data. VSAM - Virtual Storage Access Method from any J2EE (Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition) A platform from Sun for building distributed enterprise applications. J2EE services are performed in the middle tier between the user's machine and the enterprise's databases and legacy information systems. platform or tool. "This is great news for the 13,000 largest organizations in the world that depend on mainframe-based operational data," says Richard Currier of the Park City Marketing Group. He went on to say, "Industry analysts estimate that over 70% of their data still resides in these legacy sources." Without XDI, teams of scarce, highly-skilled mainframe programmers are needed to incorporate this data with new Internet-based systems. With XDI, any SQL-literate developer can transparently incorporate the most complex hierarchical, network or flat file data in a fraction of the time and expense of code-based solutions through the tools they already use. No mainframe experience required! "XDI is not the first JCA-enabled data integration solution on the market," says George Langan, president of CrossAccess. "It is however the first and only high-volume, scalable and code-free JCA solution for read and write access of mainframe data." In customer benchmarks, XDI is three to five times faster than any other solution. And users attest to scalability for thousands of concurrent users. About CrossAccess Corporation CrossAccess Corporation is the leading provider of legacy data integration for enterprise-wide e-business initiatives. The CrossAccess eXadas Suite includes: (1) eXadas Transaction Connect (XTC XTC See Ecstasy, MDMA. ) for IMS and CICS (Customer Information Control System) A TP monitor from IBM that was originally developed to provide transaction processing for IBM mainframes. It controls the interaction between applications and users and lets programmers develop screen displays without business rule reuse, (2) eXadas Data Integrator for direct SQL read/write access to mainframe data including Adabas, Datacom, DB2, IDMS, IMS, and VSAM, and (3) eXadas Synchronization Manager for real-time asynchronous Refers to events that are not synchronized, or coordinated, in time. The following are considered asynchronous operations. The interval between transmitting A and B is not the same as between B and C. The ability to initiate a transmission at either end. changed-data capture for enterprise-wide data and application synchronization. CrossAccess software is designed to deliver "Any data, Any where, Any way." CrossAccess maintains strategic relationships with SeeBeyond, BEA, IBM, CA, Data Direct, Sagent, Software-AG and other database and tool vendors. Headquartered in Santa Clara, Calif., CrossAccess is on the Web at www.crossaccess.com. Note to Editors: eXadas is a trademark of CrossAccess Corporation. All other company and product names may be trademarks of the company with which they are associated. |
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