Open Systems Transparency - Access to open systems data from mainframe applications

Ivory Data Access provides direct access to any ODBC data source, DB2, or Oracle database residing on a Windows or UNIX/Linux platform by online (CICS, IMS/DC, etc.) and batch programs on the mainframe. The resulting real-time integration of mainframe applications greatly simplifies bi-directional data exchange and transactional processing in a heterogeneous environment, eliminating the need for synchronization of mainframe and open systems data .

For example, Ivory Data Access enables a mainframe application to process Microsoft SQL Server or Oracle data. Using simple SQL statements, the data can even be joined with mainframe data (i.e. DB2, VSAM, IMS/DB, ADABAS, etc.). The mainframe program simply calls the API for the Ivory Data Access SQL engine, passes the SQL statement (which can be a pre-defined join between mainframe and open systems data), and specifies connection parameters for the ODBC driver.

Ivory Data Access Open Systems Transparency for the mainframe is easy to implement and provides excellent performance when accessing open systems data, with no special network topology requirements.

Features:

• Direct access to ODBC data sources like Microsoft SQL Server, etc.
• High performance native interface to DB2 (DRDA) and Oracle (OCI)
• Resource access using simple SQL commands
• Easy implementation via simple API
• Bi-directional and transaction processing supported
• Support for synchronous and asynchronous processing
• Mainframe application will always be informed about result (Return code or message)
• Scalable to efficiently process large data volumes

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