Mashups and Mainframes – Madness or Magnificence?
Nicole Carrier June 11 2009 03:00:10 PM
< side note - Ok, I admit the title of this post is a tad on the dorky side, but who doesn’t love a good alliteration every now and again?? >Mashups and mainframes. To some, this might seem like an awkward marriage of old and new. In reality, it is a combination that can deliver a significant amount of business value. Using tools like Rational® Host Access Transformation Services (HATS), green screen information can be extracted and wrapped into an ATOM feed. Once wrapped into a feed, all sorts of magic can happen:
--- New composite applications can be created that combine the mainframe data with other data sources, saving business users time by alleviating the need to switch between multiple application screens.
--- Modern, rich, browser-based interfaces can now be built on top of the existing mainframe data sources.
--- Reuse, reuse, reuse!. Help increase the return on your existing investments by reusing those mainframe data streams in new ways.
If you want to learn more about this, I encourage you to check out an article on this topic that some of my colleagues just published. The article describes the steps needed to create a mashup that pulls in information from a green screen 3270 mainframe application.
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