Farley, Peter x23353 wrote:
(Posted to both MVS-OE and IBM-MAIN)
Hi all,
Our friends at IBM seem to think that these questions are worth a consulting
contract, which I am not in a position to even discuss. Can anyone here
answer my questions, or point me to where I might find answers (no-charge
answers, of course)?
Background:
HOD (Host on Demand) has a java interface and "library" called HACL (Host
Access Class Library). This toolkit is provided to licensees of the HOD
product, which of course is designed to be installed on PC workstations.
Specifically, there is a "java beans" jar file that uses, IIRC, "J2EE
Connection" to communicate with a host session, and enables an application
developer to deal with the "presentation space" (i.e., 3270 screen contents)
dynamically from a custom application.
Now, my questions:
Is the habeansnlv2.jar file (or equivalent) available in the z/OS USS
environment? I.E., can a java program that uses the beans in that file to
communicate with the mainframe be moved to z/OS and executed there? Could
the jar file simply be moved to an HFS directory in z/OS and used there by a
java program developed on the PC? Has anyone already been through this
exercise and would be willing to share gotchas?
TIA for any help/info/url/RTFM you can provide.
Peter
If I understand what you are asking, not only is it possible, IBM
provides a tool to do it. It called HATS (Host Access Tranformation
something or other). HATS is really a plugin to WSAD and creats a J2EE
programs, might specifically be a bean.
If you have HOD, then you either have Host Access Client Package on Host
Integration, HATS comes with either of those. All you need it WSAD and
Websphere Application Server. HATS does require WAS.
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