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February 01, 2010

TABLE OF CONTENTS

High-Fidelity CICS® Integration: HostBridge® and IBM, A Brief History

Learn how HostBridge continues to exploit IBM/CICS tools and technologies, orchestrates tough CICS transactions, and delivers high-fidelity Web services for application integration, web enablement, SOA.

Gaining Insight into Enterprise Apps with IBM CICS and Business Events (IBM)

Leverage business events for greater value. Learn how to monitor events in CICS and use them to drive processes that rapidly address changing business conditions.

EVENTS

FREE HOSTBRIDGE DEMO

Learn how HostBridge lets you build web services from CICS transactions, process dozens of screens in one click. Interactive demo. Tuesday, Feb 2, 11:00 CST.

HOSTBRIDGE @ IMPACT 2010

HostBridge, a zZone sponsor, will exhibit at Impact 2010, May 2-7. Come by the zZone to learn about HostBridge integration, talk with HB execs.

HEALTH INSURER WEB-ENABLES CICS

Read the case study: using WIRE, HostBridge’s Web Interface Rules Engine, a health insurer rapidly deploys CICS apps/data as web applications for customers and employees.

IBM-HB WEBCAST VIDEOS

Download videos and slide decks of May 19 and March 19 IBM-HostBridge joint webcasts — CICS TS v4.1, HostBridge v6, Events, Web 2.0 services, business value.

Thank you for reading The CICS Spotlight. Each month we bring you insightful information to help you better manage and fully leverage the computing power of your mainframe-centric computing environment.

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Composing CICS® Services: The HostBridge White Book

Get the big picture on CICS services composition. This white book answers critical questions about composing services to integrate CICS.... What application types require what types of services? Where on the network should services be composed to optimize performance? How should services be composed for the highest fidelity integration? And much more!

"3... 4... 25 Times More Productive": Web Services Programmers Talk JavaScript
by Russ Teubner

Here’s some very good, very timely news for organizations resolved to do more with the mainframe, e.g., by putting CICS applications and mainframe data to work in an SOA or other integration architecture...

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Mainframe Modernization & SOA II: HostBridge Presents at IDev News Web Conference

Two HostBridge webcasts featuring Dan Speer share insurance, health care, and manufacturing case studies. Learn how customers gain faster ROI with HostBridge integration flexibility, performance, scalability, and rapid deployment. The presentations were part of the October 2009 Mainframe Modernization & SOA II online conference hosted by Integration Developer News.

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