| 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. |
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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. |
| 3. |
The CICS Connection provides examples of CICS
programs doing Menu-oriented navigation and data file Inquiry with Update for
VSAM Data Sets. |
| 4. |
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 VSAM-QSAM-SORT Connection provides examples
of how to create, populate and delete VSAM Data Sets. This connection includes
documents and examples for the processing (transfer, convert, compare,
create and delete) of non-relational or traditional sequential files, keyed
sequential data sets and Generation Data Groups. |
Here are a few
quick references.
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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
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. |
| 7. |
SimoPATH is the focal
point for a Library of Learning Materials used in the SimoTime Classes and
Self-Study offerings. |
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