XYPRO has always believed in the power of customer service.  Staying true to our nature, on March 11th we officially launched the Self-Service Customer Support portal. In an age of instant answers, the Self-Service portal gives our customers a way to quickly find answers to some of the most common XYGATE and NonStop questions. As of this posting, our customers are already signing on to benefit from the ability to independently view and manage their XYPRO support cases.

The goal of the portal is to provide our customers with control over their XYPRO support experience. From opening and managing cases, to browsing knowledgebase articles, to obtaining software and documentation updates, to the many more benefits to come, the portal is geared for empowering you, our customer, with the very same tools our own agents use to answer your support questions. While we will continue to support some of the traditional support handling processes such as telephone and email; we are excited about the valuable addition of the web portal to the customer support process. This provides yet another option for our customers to interact with our support team, 24x7x365.

comForte 21 strengthens its Application Modernization portfolio

comForte 21, a global provider of connectivity, middleware, modernization and security solutions for the HP NonStop platform, announced recently that it has completed the acquisition of the Escort suite of products from CarrScott Software Inc. comForte’s acquisition of Escort SQL, Journaling, and RANGER expands the worldwide marketing and support reach of these products by the NonStop experts at comForte.

comForte has traditionally been strong in the security and terminal emulation space. In the past few years, comForte was focused on building up other types of products and services for HP NonStop as well. What was missing in the past was anything to do with databases, but that has changed with the addition of the Escort SQL suite to comForte's product portfolio.

comForte can now help organizations to modernize from the ground-up, meaning databases and middleware; but also from the user-in, which is the user interface side of the application.

By giving NonStop users direct access to a real industry-standard database, they can fundamentally change how the applications manage and exchange data.

At a middleware layer, comForte's Client Server Link (CSL) solution enables organizations to better integrate HP NonStop systems with other platforms in the wider enterprise through the use of modern standards and protocols like web services and SOAP, RSC and the use of a variety of API's.

Last but not least, at a GUI level, with JPath customers can convert the traditional green screens into 21st century Windows-type screens making the GUI a lot more usable, efficient and user-friendly.

Surveys show that a high percentage of IT departments around the world would happily embark on modernizing their legacy applications if only they could somehow significantly lower the risk of application modernization. comForte is now in a unique position to help organization to do exactly that - reduce the risk of application modernization with the help of comForte's solutions.

                Third Data Corporation provides numerous products which can reside on HP Nonstop and other HP and Non-HP  hardware platforms. In addition we provide custom high performance software design and development for our clients.

FastBuild Switch – When building a switch be it ATM-POS, Wire Transfer, EFT, Medical, or any other type of data that needs to get from one place to another, you are usually faced with three choices. Take an existing package and modify your system to match it. Get the vendor to “enhance” their system to meet your needs. Write a new system from scratch. The FastBuild Switch integrates with your existing system, or if you are building from scratch gives you a great start. The switch is also built around the latest HP technology to maximize performance. It integrates several of our other products to maximize cost savings and security in a fault tolerant manner. In a cross platform environment it also runs on other non-Guardian HP supplied platforms.

SecureStore – If you are security conscience trying to become compliant (PCI, HIPAA, etc) then you know that you can not leave sensitive data readily viewable. SecureStore does three things for you. The data is encrypted so that you can become compliant. The data is compressed so that your hardware costs are reduced. As part of disaster recovery your data is sent to multiple locations so it will be available when you need it. As a bonus for those having trouble with Guardian 4K limits there is no record size. It supports Big Data with up to 18 Exabytes. It can also integrate with SQL systems (SQL MX/MP, Oracle, Postgres etc)

NxLib – NxLib provides a platform and utility libraries for developing a high performance multi-threaded applications on NonStop Guardian. The platform provides threading, queuing and network capabilities. This enables development of an application written single threaded style to perform as multi-threaded.   Extensible command processing and help are supported.  Development time can be cut to a fraction of the time it would normally take.  This results in fast  application development with consistent look and feel across multiple projects.

NxWeb – A high performance web server which provides support for NxLib applications.  It also can be used without NxLib.  It provides for secure connections, virtual domains, full http support and interfaces to pathway and IPC communications.

NxFile+ – NxFile+ provides compression and encryption to Enscribe structured files.  The files are configured through a GUI interface and the results are provided seamlessly to your applications, typically without any code changes.  In addition this provides for dynamic key changes on the fly so data stored at-rest may have its encryption keys changed as required.  Because the records can be compressed prior to encryption, it’s also possible to have records which significantly exceed the 4k record size limitations.

NxSSL – NxSSL is an SSL proxy which may be used to provide SSL encryption and authentication services to TCP/IP connections.  It provides full support for certificates and multiple encryption standards.  It has been carefully tuned to provide the highest performance available for any NonStop SSL connection.

NxUndelete – Files accidentally deleted can be a real problem.  Even when a backup is available, it is frequently a significant effort to retrieve it from a backup tape.  NxUndelete implements a recycle bin function on the the HP NonStop system.  Files deleted may be easily recovered using its GUI interface.

A detailed article about Casa Ley’s OmniPayments installation can be found at http://bit.ly/1hUMMM0.

OmniPayments supplies complete security functions for every financial transaction that it handles, including encryption-at-rest and encryption-in-flight. Available around the clock, OmniPayments will survive any single fault, requires no downtime for maintenance or upgrades, and supports a range of disaster-recovery solutions. For further information, visit www.omnipayments.com. You can contact Yash Kapadia at +1 408-446-9274 or at yash@omnipayments.com.

Most NonStop sites have operational procedures to check the health of the system using different  monitoring tools. The focus is usually on answering questions like : Is the hardware up?  Are all the devices too busy? Does the CPU utilization look normal?  

But application monitoring is an area that's usually overlooked. For example, how do you know if your applications are running okay? They may be up be up and running, but do you know  if your iTP Web Server or Java programs have encountered a problem? Just because no one has reported an issue (yet) doesn’t mean that there is no problem!  If you wait for user to call to learn about a problem, that is usually too late.

If you don’t have the procedure or the tool to monitor your applications, then you run the potential risk of extended down time when a problem occurs. Learn more about how LogWatch helps you mitigate this risky exposure by monitoring your OSS and Guardian application logs. READ BLOG

For more information about Logwatch contact sales-support@ticsoftware.com
 
Phil Ly
TIC Software
www.ticsoftware.com

Read TIC blog: www.ticsoftware.com/blog

TANDsoft’s OPTA2000 Supports Daylight Saving Time Transitions
 

Daylight Saving Time (DST) snuck up on some attendees at the recent SunTUG Summit in Tampa, Florida USA. The transition to “Spring Forward” took place on Sunday, March 9th, when much of the United States remained entrenched in a bitterly cold winter. That was the day that those attendees who participated in SunTUG’s Saturday golf tournament were set to return home, and some almost missed their flights because they failed to move their clocks forward. Fortunately for companies whose businesses count on seamless DST transitions, TANDsoft’s OPTA2000 successfully addresses the challenges faced by time-sensitive, globally distributed applications running in a consolidated processing environment with a single system clock.

Daylight Saving Time (DST) is a common system by which time is advanced one hour from standard, typically to extend daylight hours during conventional waking times (usually in the summer). Some parts of the world recognize DST; others do not. Of those that do, DST does not always occur on the same dates. In the Northern Hemisphere in 2014, Daylight Saving Time began in the U.S., Canada, and elsewhere on March 9th, in Europe and the U.K. on March 30th, in Mexico on April 6th, and in Greenland on March 29th. Companies running applications instances in multiple time zones but on the same centrally located server must be aware not only of GMT (Greenwich Mean Time) offsets but also of the standard time/Daylight Saving Time transition schedules required for those parts of the world. That is where OPTA2000 comes in.

OPTA2000 is a virtual clock and time-zone simulator that is user-friendly, easily installed, cost-effective, and requires no application modifications. It uses intercept technology to allow multiple applications operating in a consolidated environment to each have its own virtual system clock or to function in its own virtual time zone with date/time specifications (including DST transitions) that are different than that of the system clock. For time-zone simulation, virtual times are offset from a system’s actual time by an amount expressed as a deviation from GMT time. For clock simulation, the virtual times can be offset to whatever time is required for the testing, maintenance, etc., of an application. With OPTA2000, a single system can host thousands of applications.

OPTA2000 supports all applications (user, HP, and major third-party apps, including BASE24) on the HP BladeSystem as well as on NonStop S-Series and Itanium servers. It also supports a wide variety of NonStop subsystems, including TACL, NetBatch, EMS, Enform, Spooler, OSS, VHS, FTP, and Pathway.

TANDsoft’s “best of breed, best in price” philosophy offers highly competitive value for all TANDsoft solutions. In addition to OPTA2000, they include FileSync for automatic file synchronization, replication, and data deduplication; the OPTA suite of interception and trace utilities (OPTA­Trace Online Process Tracer and Analyzer, Recycle Bin, EMS Alerts Online Startup and Termination Capture Utility, Low Pin Optimizer); Stack Monitor, which alerts developers to the impending threat of a stack overflow; Command Stream Replicator, which logs and automatically replicates TMF-audited/unaudited FUP, SQL/MP and SQL/MX DDL structure and other environment changes to target systems; AutoLib, which automatically loads a user library or a DLL for executing processes; the Enscribe-2-SQL and TMF-Audit Toolkits and the new Enscribe-2-SQL Data Replicator, all of which offer flexible, affordable alternatives to more expensive conversion products or manual conversion techniques; E2S-Lite, which permits efficient, low-cost Enscribe modifications without the need to change a program’s source code; and SDI (Sensitive Data Intercept) for Enscribe and SQL/MP.

TANDsoft products require no application source-code modifications, are available for all HP NonStop servers, and support major third-party applications. Free trials are available. Visit www.tandsoft.com, or contact Jack Di Giacomo at +1 (514) 695-2234. Our Enscribe to SQL Migration Forum on LinkedIn is at 184 members and counting.

 

Introduction to HP Serviceguard Clusters – HP Master Architect Harish Karnath introduces HP Serviceguard Clusters and how their Shared-Nothing approach to cluster technology can maximize uptime, provide high performance, and satisfy the high-availability requirements of many organizations.

@availabilitydig – The Twitter Feed of Outages - This article highlights some of the @availabilitydig tweets that made headlines in recent days. If you currently are not following @availabilitydig, consider making our Twitter presence a daily read.    

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Published monthly, the Digest is free and lives at www.availabilitydigest.com.  Please visit our Continuous Availability Forum on LinkedIn.  We’re at 618 members and counting. Follow us on Twitter @availabilitydig.   

CSP looks forward to seeing you at two upcoming Nonstop user conferences:

MENUG March 31^st  , Dubai, UAE

Visit our booth and join us for our presentation:

“Take control: Change Management for Nonstop systems”

GTUG April 2^nd – 4^th , Hamburg, Germany

CSP is pleased to be a platinum sponsor of the main NonStop event in Europe for 2014 . We will be giving two presentations:

“Take control: Change Management for Nonstop systems”

“Protect-UX – Data Governance on HP Nonstop OSS and Linux systems”

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