DataMirror Broadens Integration for Mainframe Data Stores.

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TORONTO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 28, 2002

New Technology Provides Access to IMS, VSAM, SAM and DB2 on

MVS, OS/390 and z/OS

DataMirror (Nasdaq: DMCX; TSE: DMC), the leading provider of enterprise application integration and resiliency solutions, today announced new software that allows companies to rapidly integrate critical mainframe data with other enterprise systems across the enterprise for e-Business, business intelligence, CRM and other distributed data applications that deliver competitive advantage.

The new software provides relational access to non-relational data residing on mainframe systems and supports easy integration of heterogeneous data stores into relational tables. The software provides a cost-effective, performance-oriented and highly maintainable data integration solution with broad access to a variety of data structures including DB2, IMS, VSAM and sequential files (SAM) on MVS, OS/390 and z/OS. The technology allows rapid implementation of enterprise applications for business intelligence, e-Business and enterprise application integration and eliminates the need for costly in-house development of custom programming interfaces to integrate non-relational data.

"More than half of the world's business data still resides on mainframe systems," said Herman Wallenburg, Chief Scientist, DataMirror. "The challenge is how to make this valuable data easily accessible to e-Business applications, corporate decision-makers and mobile users. Far too many organizations with multi-platform environments opt for laborious hand-coded legacy data extract procedures that consume considerable time and resources. DataMirror integration technology is different because it allows customers to quickly and cost-effectively leverage their mainframe data out into client/server and web-based environments with zero-programming required."

This new data integration technology for non-relational data is complementary to DataMirror's award-winning Transformation Server(TM) software which allows companies to integrate their mainframe-based DB2 UDB data in real-time with DB2 UDB, Oracle, SQL Server, Sybase and XML across a broad range of computing platforms including IBM iSeries, Windows NT/2000/XP, UNIX and Linux.

DataMirror is a leader in the data integration market and continues to extend its comprehensive multi-platform support. All of the Company's software solutions are backed by DataMirror's extensive integration expertise and global support.

About DataMirror

DataMirror (Nasdaq: DMCX; TSE: DMC) delivers solutions that let customers integrate data across their enterprises. DataMirror's comprehensive family of products unlocks the experience of now(TM) by providing advanced real-time capture, transform and flow (CTF) technology that gives customers the instant data access, integration and availability they demand today across all computers in their business.

Over 1,500 companies use DataMirror to integrate their data. Real-time data drives all business. DataMirror is headquartered in Toronto, Canada, and has offices worldwide. DataMirror has been ranked in the Deloitte and Touche Fast 500 as one of the fastest growing technology companies in North America. For more information, call 1-800-362-5955 or visit the DataMirror web site at www.datamirror.com.

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