Get Secure, Scalable, Real-Time Access to Mainframe Data
Accessing your mainframe-based data can be a challenge. Developing code to access pre-relational databases or VSAM files requires scarce and costly domain expertise. Data conversion is always a factor when accessing data from z/OS. Stringent mainframe security policies, coupled with concern for MIPS usage, often result in brittle, homegrown processes built on extract files and FTP scripts.
PowerExchange has the reliability, security, and performance you need to integrate mainframe-based enterprise data with the rest of your organization. With PowerExchange, your IT team can access your mainframe without any programming—the same way it accesses other PowerExchange sources and targets–dramatically enhancing productivity.
Data can be accessed in place, so you can access it when you need it, rather than waiting for batch downloads. Governance is enhanced because there are no staging tables or extract files that can be diverted for unauthorized use after they have been moved away from the mainframe’s security umbrella.
The PowerExchange CDC Option provides the final step toward real-time data access. Available for all mainframe databases, this option can provides your organization with up-to-the-second data access. By eliminating large full-database extract jobs, the PowerExchange CDC Option can also reduce hardware and network utilization.
PowerExchange offers longer-term benefits unavailable to hand-written programs. Hand-coded solutions sometimes cost less initially, but as changes arise in your IT or business environments, the metadata that PowerExchange automatically captures will speed development and deployment of these changes, and increase confidence in your governance and risk management processes.
You can rely on PowerExchange to provide secure, scalable, real-time access to your mainframe data.
Supported Databases and Interfaces
Adabas for z/OS
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Binary Flat Files
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Datacom
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DB2 for z/Linux
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DB2 for z/OS
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IDMS
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IMS DB
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Oracle for z/Linux
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* Supports log-based change capture