| There is more to making the Internet work for your company's business than just having a nice looking WEB site. It is about combining the latest technologies and existing technologies with practical business experience. It's about the business of doing business and looking good.
Quite often, to reach larger markets or provide a higher level of service to existing customers it requires the newer Internet technologies to work in a complementary manner with existing corporate mainframe systems.
Whether you want to use the Internet to expand into new market segments or as a new delivery vehicle for existing business functions you can discover more about some of the challenges of integrating the Internet with existing Mainframe systems. |
| The SimoTime Library is provided as a convenience to our customers. The Library is a collection of articles, White Papers and other reference materials. Find examples of mainframe COBOL, Assembler (HLASM), JCL, VSAM, and more. For example... |
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The COBOL Connection provides examples for the COBOL programmer. Remember to take a look at the COBOL and Java Section |
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The Assembler Connection provides examples for the mainframe assembler programmer. |
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The CICS Connection provides examples of CICS programs doing Menu-oriented navigation and data file Inquiry with Update for VSAM Data Sets. |
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The JCL Connection provides examples of JCL and Procedural coding techniques, how to use various mainframe utility programs and how to manage Partitioned Data Sets (PDS's). |
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The Numbers Connection provides documentation and examples of how to manage a variety of numeric formats. |
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The SQL Connection provides examples of how to create, manipulate and delete Relational Data Bases. |
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The non-Relational Data Connection provides documents and examples for the processing (transfer, convert, compare, create and delete) of non-relational or traditional sequential files, VSAM Data Sets, Generation Data Groups (GDG's) and Partitioned Data Sets (PDS's). |
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Guidelines and White Papers provides a discussion of alternatives and shows "How to" examples. |
Here are a few quick references.
Link to Search Engines. |
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At SimoTime we have developed a suite of utility programs that we use in many of our consulting engagements. Our customers have asked that we make this technology generally available as a suite of products. The SimoTEK2 Series is now available and provides the following functions.
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SimoZAPS provides a Hexadecimal View, Find or Patch capability for PC files. Whenever possible an EBCDIC or ASCII translation is provided. Based on a few simple input parameters SimoZAPS provides for the generation of COBOL source code for utility programs that do the following.
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Data file content conversion (EBCDIC and ASCII). |
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Data file format conversion (Indexed to Sequential). |
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Data file comparison. |
The generated COBOL code may be compiled and executed on a Mainframe (z/OS or VSE), Windows, Linux or UNIX system. |
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SimoREC1 scans a COBOL copy file that defines a record layout and produces the following.
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HTML documentation of field types with position within record and length. |
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COBOL source code for a callable routine that will do data translation of records within a file at the field level between EBCDIC and ASCII encoding schemes. |
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SimoLYZE scans mainframe source code that has been downloaded to the PC and determines the member type. The primary purpose of SimoLYZE is to do member typing and provide an overview of the number and type of members. Additional information such as Lines-of-Codes, Blank Lines and comments are counted along with members that contain EXEC CICS and EXEC SQL syntax. This information is stored in an Application Repository. |
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SimoVIEW provides for the quick conversion of BMS screens to HTML forms. This may be used as a modeling tool or as the first step in extending the Mainframe to the Internet. |
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SimoX390 scans mainframe assembler source members that have been copied to the PC and identifies macro and copy file dependencies. SimoX390 also has the capability of tracking CALL, LOAD and LINK functions. |
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SimoMODS is a package of callable routines and driver programs providing services to a variety of users. The SimoMODS are written in COBOL. The executable members are intended for use in an ASCII-encoded environment and may be used with Micro Focus Net Express, Application Server or Enterprise Server running on a Microsoft Windows system. |
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SimoPATH is the focal point for a Library of Learning Materials used in the SimoTime Classes and Self-Study offerings. |
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| The SimoTime Gateways to Technology offer practical, solution-oriented examples that use vendor specific technologies targeted for variety of systems environments. |
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| The Site Map provides an overview with links to documents within the site and other web sites. |
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