Interlink expands ISV offerings to include the Netwise Transaccess middleware family of products.

FREMONT, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 10, 1995--Interlink Computer Sciences, Inc. today announced that Microsoft Windows users will have seamless procedural access to mainframe data with the addition of the Netwise Transaccess middleware family of products to its ISV offering. The Transaccess product joins dozens of software applications which incorporate the mainframe into the enterprise using Interlink's TCP/IP for the mainframe, TCPaccess. Included in the list are products such as Oracle's SQL Net for data base access over TCP/IP and IBM's ADSM for backup, archival and recovery via TCP/IP.

Companies can now have procedural access to mainframe data over industry-standard TCP/IP networks with the integration of TCPaccess from Interlink Computer Sciences, Inc. and the Netwise TransAccess Family of data access middleware. The combination of TransAccess and TCPaccess, Interlink's TCP/IP for MVS mainframes, provides customers with full-function mainframe procedural access that is capable of managing high volumes of data at exceptionally high performance rates over TCP/IP networks.

Both vendors' customers view mainframe access as a single capability and want production-quality solutions that are tightly integrated. Netwise customers are networking their enterprise client/server applications to the mainframe using TCP/IP as part of their open systems strategy. Interlink customers are looking for innovative and cost effective ways to leverage important mainframe data, services and applications.

The Netwise database middleware enables integration of information stored in mainframe databases such as ADABAS, DB2, IMS, CA-IDMS, CA-DATACOM/DB, VSAM and others into newly developed PC-based client/server applications via procedural access. Procedural access differs from direct data access in that the information is accessed through the mainframe application programs that enforce the business rules and data integrity, rather than by circumventing these applications and accessing the information directly.

"Providing PC users with access to important mainframe data and applications requires robust middleware and networking solutions," said Joe Broderick, president and chief operating officer for Netwise. "Both middleware and networking protocols have to be tightly integrated to achieve an efficient implementation. In combination with TCPaccess, our products provide customers with a solid foundation for integrating their mainframes and client/server applications over TCP/IP."

"Interlink's mission is to unlock customers' mainframe resources for easy use across open systems networks," said Charles W. Jepson, president and chief executive officer of Interlink Computer Sciences, Inc. "Integrating with Netwise's connectivity software allows our customers to combine information from both relational database and flat file systems within their client/server applications, giving them maximum flexibility in engineering systems that fit their business needs."

TransAccess

TransAccess is a family of three high-performance enterprise middleware products that enable both mainframe data access and procedural access from client/server environments. Designed and developed to support the most demanding production environments, TransAccess middleware is well suited for mission-critical minded TCPaccess customers. The TransAccess products include:

Application/Integrator, click-and-drag middleware for building distributed function applications between desktop or midrange processes and IBM mainframe CICS or IMS transaction applications.

DB2/Integrator, ODBC-based middleware for providing MS-Windows desktop access to mainframe DB2. Dynamic ODBC SQL created by desktop tools is converted to and transported to DB2. DB2 plans and wrappers can be automatically generated to improve mainframe DB2 performance and administration.

Legacy/Integrator, ODBC middleware for providing MS-Windows desktop access to mainframe databases like: ADABAS, CA-IDMS, IMS DB, VSAM.

TCPaccess Version 3.1

Interlink's TCPaccess for MVS is a native MVS implementation of TCP/IP. It was designed to meet the special needs of the MVS environment and to provide a high-speed transport between MVS hosts and open system environments. Through direct peer-to-peer network connectivity, TCPaccess equips computers on the company's open systems network to access mainframe databases, printing and backup services, and applications.

TCPaccess provides superior performance and exceptional capacity through an efficient MVS implementation that consumes few mainframe or network resources. TCPaccess provides the safety and dependability necessary for 24-hour, 7-day-a-week mission-critical applications.

Version 3.1 of TCPaccess introduces TCPaccess-Fault-Tolerant, a new add-on feature which enables recovery from hardware failures or routing changes by automatically rerouting sessions and assuring session persistence.

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