On Tue, Apr 3, 2018 at 12:44 PM, Ward, Mike S <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello all, does anyone know of any software that allows access to VSAM, > SEQ, CICS files from remote systems. I.E. distributed systems. How is the > access done? Web service calls? MQ calls? > Do you mean forms of "file transfer" such as "ftp" and "scp"? Or do you mean like a library which your "distributed" application can use for CRUD (Create, Read, Update, Delete)? For the former, I like "Dataset Pipes" from Dovetailed Technologies. http://dovetail.com/products/remoteservices.html For the latter, it may be a bit more difficult. We use MQ series and CICS. We have some Windows Java applications which connect to MQSeries to run MQ CICS transactions. The Windows application sends XML encoded requests to CICS and receives an XML encoded reply. We also use CICS as an HTTP server and a (sort of) REST model to do the same sort of work. Why both and not just one? Schizophrenic developers, perhaps? There are probably many different products on the market which expose a REST API for accessing z/OS resources. I know that Rocketsoftware does. > > Thanks. > -- I have a theory that it's impossible to prove anything, but I can't prove it. Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
