Micro Focus Server™ Enterprise Edition

Micro Focus Server™ Enterprise Edition provides a high performance, scaleable deployment environment for hosting applications that have been migrated from mainframe systems. It also provides the infrastructure for extending those applications utilizing Web services, .NET or J2EE, to satisfy evolving business requirements and integrate core assets into SOA.

Product Datasheet

Highlights

• Minimizes change via unsurpassed IBM mainframe COBOL, IBM CICS^TM , IBM IMS^TM and IBM JCL^TM compatibility
• Includes a complete CICS and a complete IMS compatible OLTP system for testing and deploying either COBOL/CICS or COBOL/IMS TM applications
• Features an IMS DB compatible database for testing and deploying COBOL/IMS DB applications
• Provides a Job Execution System (JES) engine for testing and deploying batch JCL/COBOL applications
• Delivers data center operations support to manage applications in production
• Utilizes mainframe compatible security models for authentication and authorization
• Supports COBOL, CICS COMMAREA, IMS SPA, BMS/MFS screens and 3270 workflows as programmable interfaces 
• Integrates programmable interfaces as .NET Winforms/WebForms, Java server pages or Web services
• Offers support for traditional and contemporary clients to support modernized user interfaces
• Delivers an open approach to the deployment of key processes within a SOA.          

Benefits

• Delivers migration benefits earlier as application functionality is re-used intact
• Mitigates risk as your core application logic behaves exactly as it did on the mainframe 
• Reduces operating costs due to lower hardware and software costs on Linux, UNIX and Windows
• Exploits a scalable architecture to deliver on the price/performance benefits of Linux, UNIX and Windows
• Reduces batch cycle times by taking advantage of the increased power of modern processors 
• Maintains existing levels of services with a robust, transactional, fault-tolerant server environment
• Cuts time taken to deliver modernized applications with new web or graphical user interfaces          
• Improves agility as tried and tested business functions can be deployed as Web services 
• Simplifies business process integration through choice of platforms to execute core applications      

Additional Information

Micro Focus Server™ Enterprise Edition supports the deployment of the migrated application on new production platforms while its companion product, Micro Focus Studio™ Enterprise Edition, supports the full application development lifecycle from analysis to test. 

Micro Focus Server™ for Mainframe Migration is available on Windows and all popular UNIX and Linux platforms (view supported UNIX/Linux platforms)