Micro Focus Server™ Enterprise Edition

Micro Focus Server™ Enterprise Edition provides a high performance, scalable, deployment environment for hosting applications that have been migrated from mainframes. It also provides the infrastructure to support the integration of migrated applications with technologies such as .NET, J2EE, or SOA to better satisfy evolving business requirements.

Micro Focus Server Enterprise Edition is built around a transaction technology framework and Job Execution System (JES) engine that supports IBM JCL job streams, IBM CICS transactions, IBM IMS transactions, Web services, and COBOL/J2EE integration. It also includes a production database that is compatible with IMS DB and middleware technology to support data migration projects.

The result is a single integrated environment which provides a COBOL run time system, transaction processing, job execution, and database migration capabilities, to support the re-hosting of mainframe applications to alternative environments, and the continuous modernization of those applications.

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Key Benefits

• Slash operating costs by up to 75% through reductions in associated hardware and software costs
• Complete migration projects faster as application functionality can be migrated with minimum changes
• Reduce risk, as applications behave in the same way they did on the mainframe as the logic defining existing online and batch business processes is re-used
• Exploit the price/performance ratio of modern, powerful, competitively priced processors
• Shrink batch cycle times by taking advantage of such processors
• Deliver current Quality of Service (QOS) levels at reduced cost
• Bring disaster recovery implementations in-house instead of using costly outsourcing services
• Utilize mainframe compatible security models for authentication and authorization
• Deliver mainframe level Reliability, Availability and Serviceability (RAS) cost-effectively
• Support modernization via new web or graphical user interfaces that re-use traditional interfaces
• Improve agility, as proven business functions can be exposed and executed as Web services for easier re-use within strategic architectures such as .NET, J2EE or SOA
• Increase flexibility and future-proof business assets, as applications can be moved to any Linux, UNIX or Windows (LUW) server to simplify business process integration demands

Feature Overview

• A complete COBOL,CICS, IMS, DB2, VSAM and JCL execution environment
  • COBOL execution engine
  • Job Execution System (JES)
  • Administration, Monitoring and Control
• Comprehensive data access capabilities
  • Support for main VSAM file types, Partitioned Datasets & Generation Data Groups
  • Support for leading LUW relational databases – IBM DB2 LUW, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, Sybase, Informix and Ingres
  • IMS DL/I compatible database
• Middleware to support the migration of mainframe data to alternative databases on LUW
  • DB2 data migration support
  • VSAM data to SQL Server migration support
• High performance and scalable deployment engine
• Infrastructure for Reliability, Availability and Serviceability (RAS)
• Flexible and comprehensive security options
• Architected to support modernization on 32-bit and 64-bit servers
  • Web services support
  • J2EE-compliant access to Java application servers
  • Support on all popular Linux, Unix and Windows platforms
• Connectivity to CICS and DB2 on z/OS from LUW environments
  • CICS Inter-System Communication (ISC) support
  • DB2 connectivity
• Integration with popular third-party products
• Market leading product support

Additional Information

Micro Focus Server™ Enterprise Edition supports the deployment of the migrated application on new production platforms while its companion product, Micro Focus Studio™ Enterprise Edition supports the full application development lifecycle from analysis to test. 

Micro Focus Server™ Enterprise Edition is available on Windows and all popular UNIX and Linux platforms (view supported UNIX/Linux platforms).

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