Open Environment Corp of Boston, Massachusetts, has enhanced its Entera three-tier application development system with software it says will reduce the need to migrate MVS applications off the mainframe when creating client-server applications. There is an Entera Client for MVS OpenEdition, Entera/TransAccess for MVS and an Entera version MVS OpenEdition. The company said the client […]
Open Environment Corp of Boston, Massachusetts, has enhanced its Entera three-tier application development system with software it says will reduce the need to migrate MVS applications off the mainframe when creating client-server applications. There is an Entera Client for MVS OpenEdition, Entera/TransAccess for MVS and an Entera version MVS OpenEdition. The company said the client for OpenEdition provides Distributed Computing Environment connections while shielding programmers from writing native client code for the environment by automating the development of client communications code that links graphical user interface development tools, such as PowerBuilder and Visual C++, to Distributed Computing servers running under MVS OpenEdition. The client enables users to build desktop applications to run on Windows, Windows NT, Macintosh and OS/2, even if those systems are not running Distributed Computing Environment. It ships in July, starting at $2,000 per development desktop with run-time licences from $20 to $90 per user. The company says Entera/TransAccess for MVS will also ship in mid-July. It incorporates Entera integrated with Netwise Inc’s TransAccess mainframe data access technologies and the company claims it will enable non-Distributed Computing Environment mainframes to be integrated into its three-tier application schema which is based on the Environment. Distributed clients can access MVS servers, and MVS servers can in turn be clients to other applications and data sources outside the MVS environment. Entera/TransAccess for MVS can invoke CICS and IMS applications for read and write access, and use existing data integrity rules as part of the Environment. The firm gave no prices.
