XFRAME is a software designed and developed by HTWC. XFRAME represents the most complete Online & Batch Runtime Environment of z/OS, VSE and BS2000 on Linux, UNIX, Windows and zLinux for production and development/test environments.
Effectively, XFRAME recreates your entire Mainframe, and enables the decoupling from its legacy operating system for plugging into leaner, more efficient, therefore cost effective operating systems and hardware. This results in lower license, maintenance and energy operating costs, to the tune of between 50% and 80%.
In parallel, your applications and databases are modernized, creating an environment open for application development or integration of turnkey solutions. This results in an exponential increase in developer productivity, at lower costs hence significantly raising the profile of IT organizations as major contributors to organization strategy.
XFRAME Mainframe Modernization Suite implementations are subject to negligible impact on daily operations, and all current application logic and workflow require no changes.
XCICS/TS® - XCICS/XIMS is a high-performance transaction, native processing system for Windows, UNIX, Linux and zLinux platforms. XCICS is specially designed to manage application-based resources such as programs, transactions, files, queues, screens, and terminals.XIMS allows original IMS/DC programs to run unchanged in the XCICS environment. This makes it possible to use the powerful XCICS transaction monitor to control both IMS and CICS applications.
XVSAM® is a full VSAM emulation layer, supporting KSDS, ESDS and RSDS files providing transaction, restart and AIM recovery features. Batch programs can access XVSAM directly, offering the same functionality as the mainframe.
XEBE® is a high performance batch transaction engine for JCL batch applications. This includes the XJCONV conversion utility for automatically generating one-to-one batch scripts in the host operation system.
XBM® (XFRAME Batch Manager) is a cross-platform software solution to control, schedule and supply facilities for scripts execution. XBM is designed to avoid conflicts in JCL executions in the new systems, and to supply the some features, that system cannot supply without a big programming effort in scripts. XBM is the ideal add-on for the XFRAME Batch Environment, because it is designed to handle re-hosted applications, reproducing by default some of the MVS/JES2 and VSE/POWER features. XBM provides execution engines (AKA initiators or partitions) to enable parallel job executions.
XSORT® A full featured, high performance sort utility that works with XVSAM and other files. It accepts the same input data cards as IBM DFSORT, offering seamless compatibility providing features like INCLUDE, OMIT, FIELDS, OUTREC.
XSPOOL® provides additional functionality and flexibility. Through the XSPOOL batch interface, programs may send their printouts to the XSPOOL repository. Once there, remote users may connect to the XSPOOL web interface with a standard browser and navigate, search and view their own printouts. Using the web interface, users can also change printout characteristics and print them globally or partially.
XTND® can be run embedded in the XCICS region or as standalone service. When it is embedded in the region, it only serves the region itself. When it runs standalone it can be executed on the same system running the XCICS application or on another system; in this case each instance may handle one or more XCICS regions. When a terminal emulator connects XTND a terminal identifier is assigned to the session and a connection with the defined XCICS application is established. From this moment on the terminal emulator starts working with XCICS. The assigned terminal identifier corresponds to the physical name of a terminal entry defined in the XCICS TCT (define terminal).
XSDF® is the graphical tool to manage BMS maps (integrated in XUC).
XUC® XFRAME Unified Console to control XCICS, XVSAM, etc. and more.
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H2R (Hierarchical to Relational) is a tool that facilitates the transformation of data from hierarchical data structures such as IMS/DB to RDBMS such as SQL, DB2 and Oracle.
Data transformation and target environment definition. H2R is equipped with a powerful analyzer to perform the automated data migration. The analyzer collects all the necessary information from hierarchical data structures, allowing H2R to generate a set of import programs for the relational database.
These programs resolve differences between source and target databases, such as data coding, field type, redefines, dirty fields, and more. If necessary, import programs allow you to retain specified fields when moving from an EBCDIC to an ASCII environment, maintaining the same processing sequence. without any changes to applications or business logic.
The H2R suite is divided into two main components: the Transformation tool and the H2R Gateway.
The transformation engages various proprietary various tools, which are necessary for the transformation of the IMS/DB data to DB2.
THE TRANSFORMATION TOOL
The tools enable the analysis of the IMD/DB data across automated and file configured functions, thus generating the objects required for the creation of the new database, DB2.
One hierarchical segment, corresponds to a new RDBMS dataset, and the traced records, defines each new column of the same segment.
THE H2R GATEWAY
The Gateway consists of approximately 10 modules written in COBOL and recompiled for the target Mainframe, including some assembler modules. 
The gateway is used for communication between the user applications and the system in question. It is capable of mapping the data and the access to the relational database to retrieve information for the user programs in the same way as in the IMS/DB original.
In order to leave unchanged the user interface, two different modules, with specific aims, are provided:
Although the data structure and architecture are completely different between IMS/DB (DL/1) and Oracle or DB2, performances of migrated applications are normally as good as previous.
H2R is currently available on the following platforms: Unix, Windows, Linux, zLinux.
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Moving data from VSAM files into Relational Databases makes it easier to integrate other programs and applications to use the same data.
V2R is designed to fulfll this function without requiring any changes to applications.
Data Transformation and target environment definition V2R is equipped with a powerful Analyzer to perform the automated data transformation. The Analyzer collects all the necessary information from copy files and VSAM definitions, allowing V2R to generate a set of import programs for the relational database.
These programs resolve differences between source and target databases, such as data coding, field type, redefines, dirty fields, and more. If necessary, import programs allow you to retain specified fields when moving from an EBCDIC to an ASCII environment, maintaining the same processing sequence.
In this case, conversion of data coding for these fields will take place dynamically, during run-time access. Using information gathered by the Analyzer, V2R automatically generates what is needed to create tables, indexes, and constraints.
This information is stored in a set of tables, allowing easy access by the V2R run-time system along with any additional user processes. V2R makes use of one COBOL/SQL program for each VSAM KSDS file. All these modules are automatically generated during the off-line conversion process, using the information collected by the Data Structure Analyzer, and dynamically loaded at run-time. This modular approach provides the ability to optimize system performance by incorporating information which is not available in the data definition, or to diagnose and fix problems, without affecting other databases.
THE TRANSPARENT GATEWAY
A key component of V2R is the high-performance transparent gateway, allowing legacy applications seamless access to data in relational structures. Like the entire XFRAME solution set, V2R was designed to minimize application code changes and prevent disruptions to ongoing business.
After the completion of each database access, a return code indicating a positive acknowledgement or the type of a detected error is returned to the requestor. Return codes, supplied by the relational data base system, are translated and made compatible with the original VSAM system and passed back to the user program, in the same way and at the same location.
Batch and Online application execution is performed under the control of the V2R Gateway using the same name as the original application, allowing programs to run with the same list of parameters. Recovery, backup, reorganization, and performance optimization by tables partitioning or other routines, are all provided by the target relational database.
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The HTWC Modernization Suite is a complete range of products and tools designed to cover each step of the modernization route.
Our motto "beyond the change", emphasizes our philosophy that we see your modernization is part of the bigger picture; part of an IT strategy roadmap, striving towards excellence, agility and cost efficiency, whilst preserving IT assets and business logic.
This is why we have built a suite of products and services, designed to work in tandem just as your modernized IT system will.
From identifying the need, to analyzing your applications, through to achieving some astonishing ROI and agility, having one partner to design, implement, and fulfill your modernization, brings with it many advantages.
Read about our product suite and convince yourself that we are with you every step of the way.XFRAME is a software designed and developed by HTWC. XFRAME represents the most complete Online & Batch Runtime Environment of z/OS, VSE and BS2000 on Linux, UNIX, Windows and zLinux for production and development/test environments. Go to XFRAME Platform Modernization Suite pageH2R (Hierarchical to relational) is a tool used for the automatic migration of hierarchical data from hierarchical data structures such as IMS/DB to RDBMS such as SQL, DB2 and Oracle without any changes to applications or business logic. Go to H2R pageV2R (VSAM to relational) is a tool used for the automatic migration of VSAM data from VSAM data structures to RDBMS such as SQL, DB2 and Oracle, without any changes to the applications or business logic. Go to V2R page
ICON - Application Object Mining is a software discovery product which allow organizations to automatically gather and analyze data about legacy applications. ICON entails powerful automatic procedures designed to drill down into applications, and provide application transparency needed as a pre-requisite for drafting application strategies such as Replace, Retire, Re-engineer, Retain or Re-Host. Also ICON enables users to estimate software complexity, and evaluate the Application. Go to ICON page

2CHANGE - Refurbishing your applications
Tool based services used for the automatic error free transformation of application and data assets . HTWC and our Partners avail of a comprehensive suite of tools and processes specializing bringing the 2Change service package to our clients and partners. Click here to read more about application modernization.
