Data Sheet Application Modernization and Connectivity

Enterprise Server

Organizations face constant pressure to deliver innovation, improve efficiency, and maximize the value within their mainframe applications—all while managing costs and maintaining quality of ser- vice. Moving mainframe workloads to alternative platforms, including the cloud and containers, is a safe, proven, and cost efficient way to modernize business critical workloads and support future innovation, market growth, and expansion into new geographies.

Business Challenge ■ Take advantage of low-cost scale-out Micro Focus Enterprise Server The digital era has transformed how the or- infrastructure to deliver the performance at a Glance ganization sees IT. Rising demand for more and transaction throughput required by ■ Take advantage of low cost commodity scale even the most complex of business significant change, at greater pace, has put IT out hardware to provide production-grade under pressure to become more nimble and applications application Performance, Reliability, Availability, customer-focused. ■ Support Continuous Availability to meet and Serviceability (RAS) the Reliability, Availability, and Serviceability ■ Deploy mainframe applications to the latest At the same time, new business drivers such (RAS) expectations of the business Linux, Windows and UNIX operating systems as as reaching new geographies or markets, sup- part of your mainframe modernization journey Fully integrate with the enterprise security porting hybrid infrastructures that include the ■ infrastructure to provide the right level of ■ Dynamically respond to changing business cloud, and cost reduction or containment are demand using Cloud Services and/or Kubernetes application and system security forcing CIOs with business-critical mainframe Orchestrated Containers applications to re-examine the right blend of ■ Enable IT to proactively monitor and manage ■ Flexibility to exploit new markets and platform deployment strategy. the health of the systems in production geographies by deploying existing mainframe ■ Access mainframe transactions and data applications from a single code base onto But rapid change can be expensive, and risky. that must remain on the mainframe new platforms with little or no mainframe To avoid the high failure rates of “rip and re- operations experience ■ Provide a flexible architecture that enables place” IT projects, organizations can accel- ■ Deliver equivalent quality of service whilst IT to respond rapidly to new business erate their digital transformation journeys by reducing costs by as much as 90% demands or peaks in capacity reusing unique and business-critical core ap- ■ Modernize mainframe applications by keeping plications and data and deploying these onto tried and trusted business functionality and alternative infrastructures as part of a modern- Product Highlights exposing this through services or integrating ization journey. Micro Focus Enterprise Server provides a main- this with .NET, Java, and Cloud technologies frame compatible, high performance, scalable, The key to deploying tried and trusted main­ deployment environment for applications that frame workload onto alternative platforms is to have traditionally run on the IBM mainframe. initially minimize the change to avoid unnec­ It delivers a batch execution and transaction essary risk while moving to an environment that environment that supports IBM COBOL, IBM allows you to modernize the applications them- PL/I, IBM JCL batch jobs, IBM CICS and IMS selves and increase the pace at which change TM transactions, web services, and common can be delivered. The benefits are com­pelling, batch utilities including SORT. It includes sup- but are unlikely to be realized unless the under- port for IMS-DB, mainframe data file formats lying technology can: and the infrastructure to support the integra- tion of these applications with technologies Data Sheet Enterprise Server

Reduction of operating costs by up to 90%: Exploit the price and performance benefit of low-cost infrastructure to reduce annual op- erating costs or to manage or reduce MIPS growth on z/OS.

Scalable Performance: Take advantage of scale up and scale out architectures offered by the Cloud and Kubernetes to deliver the perfor- mance and transaction throughput required to meet business demands or peaks in capacity.

Continuous Availability: To meet the Reliability, Availability, and Serviceability (RAS) expecta- tions for business-critical applications whilst integrating into your enterprise service opera- tions platform. Figure 1. Enterprise Server Scale Out Architecture Diagram such as .NET, J2EE, or SOA to support an ap- plication modernization strategy.

Hundreds of customers worldwide have taken advantage of Enterprise Server to successfully deploy applications on to the latest distributed, virtual and cloud platforms delivering a fast re- turn on investment and enabling the enterprise to transform its mainframe applications to fit its business strategy.

The other products in the Micro Focus Enter­ ­ prise Suite, Enterprise Developer and En­ter­ prise Analyzer support the rapid development­ and modernization of z Systems applications. This enables organizations­ to understand, de- velop, verify and then deploy­ mainframe ap- plications to the mainframe and/or Enterprise Server on a distributed or Cloud environment.

Key Benefits Flexibility: to respond to business require- ments to deploy mainframe applications and data to commodity platforms to enter new markets faster or to meet regulatory compli- ance that dictates customer data must be kept within geographic boundaries. Figure 2. Enterprise Server Web Administration for managing Enterprise Server resources

2 Secure: Integrate with your enterprise secu­ rity infrastructure to provide the right level of application and system security whilst utilizing mainframe compatible security models for au­ thentication and authorization.

Mainframe modernization: Complete infra­ structure modernization projects faster, as applications can be moved to alternative platforms with minimal change and lower risk. Proven business functions can then be ex- posed and executed as services or integrated with architectures such as .NET and the JVM.

Resolution of skills concerns: Applications operating under Enterprise Server are man- aged and maintained through a standard Web UI and do not require mainframe operating experience. With integration points to com- Figure 3. Production Data File Editor for VSAM/QSAM Formats mon operations management or open source tooling, Enterprise Server workloads can be ■ ESCWA JSON API to support integration Web Interface for Administering operated as part of an enterprise operations with third-party operations management and Configuring Enterprise Regions management policy. tools ■ Single Web UI for managing all Enterprise ■ Full support for applications running in Server assets regardless of where they Key Features either EBCDIC or ASCII reside in the hybrid infrastructure. High-performance Application Deployment ■ Simplifies system administration when Environment providing: Scale-Out “Sysplex-Like” Architecture managing Performance and Availability ■ Enterprise COBOL and PL/I compatible ■ Applications can be deployed onto multiple Clusters and shared Scale Out Repositories run time support with dynamic debugging Enterprise Server regions that can be including auto discovery of members for and diagnostics managed as a single image and scaled out Kubernetes deployments. on-premises, in cloud instances, or in ■ Job Execution System (JES) engine to ■ Exposed admin functions through JSON support submission, prioritization, and containers to support predictable appli­ca­ services ensures applications deployed execution of batch initiators, with full tion performance and system throughput under Enterprise Server can be operated support for REXX and key IBM utilities ■ Multiple instances of the deployment as part of an enterprise operations such as DFSORT, ICEGENER, IDCAMS, engine remove single points of application management policy. IEBGENER and IKJEFT01 failure. One Enterprise Server instance failing will not interrupt business continuity Comprehensive Data Access Capabilities ■ Scalable CICS and IMS TM transaction with capacity being shared with other ■ Full file handler support for mainframe system support to rehost online systems regions whilst new instances are VSAM and QSAM file types, Partitioned and screens automatically started using industry Datasets (PDSs) and Generation Data ■ Support for service enabling COBOL and standard functionality like Kubernetes. Groups (GDGs) CICS transactions through JSON WEB Easier operational maintenance and ■ Relational Database support including Services ■ service­ability of active systems with Microsoft SQL Server, IBM DB2 LUW, ■ Ability to update individual executables Performance and Availability Clusters Oracle, PostGres and MySQL in realtime that allow participat­ing Enterprise Server ■ An IMS DL/I compatible database to ■ Built-in administration, diagnostics, and regions to operate and be managed rehost IMS-DB applications without monitoring in concert. updating data model or application code

www.microfocus.com 3 ■ Remote access to mainframe data during Cross-Platform Deployment Environment gradual workload redistribution projects via for Mission-Critical Workloads any popular third-party middleware such ■ High performance and scalable as Microsoft BizTalk and IBM DB2 Connect. deployment engine for moving IBM ■ Data File Editor for secure file browsing and mainframe applications to distributed editing with copy/cut/paste, find/replace systems or across cloud infrastructures and content filtering. Supports in place ■ Wide range of Linux, UNIX and Windows update or creation of a new version. platforms supported on-premise, in the cloud or in Docker containers with an High Availability Option for architecture to support modernization Contact us at: Mainframe Data File Replication on 32 and 64-bit environments: www.microfocus.com ■ VSAM and QSAM data files can be ■ Web services support with J2EE-compliant Like what you read? Share it. hosted in a relational database which access to Java application servers provides data transactionality, replication, Connectivity to CICS z/OS from and high availability without changing ■ CICS systems running on Linux, UNIX any of the underlying COBOL and PL/I or Windows; CICS Inter-System application logic Communication (ISC) including support ■ Proven implementation methodology used ■ Support is provided for PostGres, MS SQL for two-phase commit by hundreds of customers to support Server, IBM DB2 and Oracle on Linux and the successful transition and production Windows ■ Automation of common Enterprise Server functions through JSON Services and deployment of applications and data ■ Tooling supports the automatic creation of Integration with popular third-party to the Enterprise Server platform database table structures and loading and products to provide Print, Job and ■ 24x7 access to an award-winning global unloading of data files. Operations Management product support organization ■ Data Files can be moved incrementally with simple configuration options to support a transition of datasets to an RDBMS System Requirements and Platform Support Java Host DB2 Run Time Compatibility Options Oracle Linux ■ AdoptOpen JDK 11 ■ 7.x, 8.x to Minimize Application Change ■ Oracle Java 8, 11 ■ Red Hat Compatible Kernel ■ Host Compatibility Option for SQL Server Java Application Servers ■ Oracle Unbreakable Kernel (HCOSS) provides runtime support to ■ Tomcat 9 IBM AIX minimize SQL updates when rehosting ■ JBOSS EAP 7.1 7.2 7.1, 7.2 DB2-based applications to Microsoft ■ Oracle WebLogic 12.2.1 ■ SQL Server. ■ IBM WebSphere 9.0 HPUX ■ 11.31 2018 release on Itanium ■ Host Compatibility Option for DB2 (HCO) Database Support provides runtime support to minimize ■ IBM DB2 LUW 10.5, 11.1 11.5 Solaris ■ Microsoft SQL Server 2014, 2016, 2017, 2019 ■ 11 SPARC SQL updates when rehosting mainframe Oracle 18 , 19 ■ c c DB2-based applications to IBM DB2 on ■ Postgres 10.5, 11.x, 12.x Ubuntu Linux, UNIX or Windows. ■ MySQL 5.7 ■ 18.x, 20.x Redis Centos Flexible and Comprehensive Security ■ 3.2 4,0 5.0 (Memurai 1.0.10) ■ 7.x. 8,x Support for a RACF compatible security ■ Oracle Coherence AWS capability, to enable the reuse of existing ■ 14.1.1.0.0 ■ Linux 2 mainframe security rules for authentication Platforms Docker and application-level authorization Microsoft Windows ■ Community and Enterprise Editions Support for Long User Name and Password Windows 8.1, 10 ■ ■ Kubernetes ■ Windows Server 2012 R2, 2016, 2019 ■ Multi-factor authentication through Micro ■ 1.15 SUSE Focus Advanced Authentication Server Windows Server 2016 ■ 12 SP4 and above 64-bit only Intel and ■ CE 17.09.0-ce-win33 ■ Secrets Vault to support storage System z ■ EE 17.06.2-ee-6 passwords or sensitive information using ■ 15 64-bit only Intel and System z a common facility to encrypt data using Red Hat Red Hat ■ CE 1.12.6 OpenSSL crypto functions ■ 7.x, 8.x on Intel ■ Support for TLS 1.3 ■ 8.x on System z SUSE ■ CE 17.04.0

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