Netwise(tm) announces TransAccess(tm) Application/Integrator Workbench(tm) Version 2.0.BOULDER, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 10, 1995--Netwise Inc., today announced the availability of Version 2.0 of its MS-Windows-based enterprise middleware product, TransAccess Applications/Integrator Workbench (A/IW). Version 2.0 allows developers to graphically build reusable definitions of desktop or midrange interactions with IBM mainframe 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 or 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. TM COROL transactions. The new version of A/IW also provides tighter integration with Microsoft's Visual Basic, support for the Watcom C/C C/C Center to Center C/C Combustion Chamber C/C Command/Control C/C Crew Chief C/C cabin cruiser (US DoD) C/C chief complaint (medical) C/C Channel-to-Channel C/C Communication and Collaboration ++ compiler, support for WIN-OS/2 development, 32-Bit DLL support, and a multi-user mode that allows developers to share a copy of A/IW from a networked file server. TransAccess is a family of enterprise middleware products that enables both mainframe data access and procedural access from client/server environments. Application/Integrator Workbench is distributed function middleware that uses an MS-Windows graphical user interface graphical user interface (GUI) Computer display format that allows the user to select commands, call up files, start programs, and do other routine tasks by using a mouse to point to pictorial symbols (icons) or lists of menu choices on the screen as opposed to having to (GUI) to guide desktop, midrange and mainframe developers through the design and generation of process-to-process interactions for enterprise applications. Developers can use a wide range of client/server development tools to build applications that integrate desktop or midrange application code directly with IBM mainframe CICS or IMS TM transactions written in C, COBOL COBOL: see programming language. COBOL in full Common Business-Oriented Language. High-level computer programming language, one of the first widely used languages and for many years the most popular language in the business community. , Natural, BAL (1) (Basic Assembly Language) The assembly language for the IBM 370/3000/4000 mainframe series. (2) (Branch And Link) An instruction used to transfer control to another part of the program. BAL - Basic Assembly Language or PLI. "Our Version 2.0 of Application/Integrator Workbench expands the reusability of generated client/server to mainframe interactions and provides support for more of the desktop environments that our customers are using," said Joe Broderick, president and chief operating officer Chief Operating Officer (COO) The officer of a firm responsible for day-to-day management, usually the president or an executive vice-president. of Netwise. "We are especially pleased with the improved Visual Basic support," Broderick continued, "because so many of our customers want to leverage their legacy transaction applications with Microsoft development tools on Microsoft platforms." Reuse of client/server to mainframe interactions comes from two Application/Integrator characteristics. First, when a mainframe transaction is encapsulated using the Application/Integrator, the transaction is available for use by any authorized desktop or midrange application without any changes. Second, client/server code corresponding to the encapsulated mainframe transactions can be generated for use in applications built with popular development tools (like Visual Basic, Powerbuilder, C, C++, etc.) on heterogeneous platforms. 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 applications. The TransAccess products include: o Application/Integrator is click-and-drag middleware for building distributed function applications between desktop or midrange processes and IBM mainframe CICS or IMS transaction applications. o DB2/Integrator is ODBC-based middleware for providing MS-Windows desktop access to mainframe DB2. Dynamic ODBC (Open DataBase Connectivity) A database programming interface from Microsoft that provides a common language for Windows applications to access databases on a network. SQL created by desktop tools is converted and transported to DB2. DB2 Plans and wrappers are automatically generated to improve mainframe DB2 performance and administration. o Legacy/Integrator is ODBC middleware for providing MS-Windows-based SQL access to mainframe databases including: Adabas, CA-IDMS, IMS DB, 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 . Netwise Inc. Netwise Inc., of Boulder, has pioneered the commercial implementation of distributed application middleware for mainframe-to-PC and UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). client/server applications. TransAccess supports two- and three-tier architectures with products available for MVS, UNIX, Win-NT, DEC VMS, OS/2, NetWare, MS-Windows and DOS environments. Networking support is available for and between TCP/IP TCP/IP in full Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol Standard Internet communications protocols that allow digital computers to communicate over long distances. , SNA, and Novell networks. Netwise offers its products and services in 31 countries around the world. For further information about TransAccess products, call Netwise world headquarters at 303/442-8280, or write to Netwise Inc., 2477 55th St., Boulder, Colo., 80301, USA. Internet: sales("at"symbol)netwise.com. CONTACT: Netwise Inc., Boulder Jessica Catlin, 303/442-8280 |
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