Data Movement and Interchange Made Easy

The power of the mainframe is in its processing speed and superior I/O handling. The mainframe machine can become the repository and exchange controller for all data using LDA's innovative toolset to bring data from other systems onto the mainframe. This will relieve this burden from the interface-engine based solutions that are already overtaxed and need to be prioritized for real-time, mission critical data transfers. LDA's Linux-based toolset can be used to extract and pull data from and push data to outside sources.

• Mine data out of other platforms and bring it to the mainframe
• Import the data to a SQL-based database of your choosing - even back to the mainframe
• Manage data from various data sources on the mainframe where it is more accessible - more tools, better security, more programming language options, etc
• Mine data out of the mainframe data files and push to SQL on any platform
• Web views may be developed to view the data

Benefits

• Data remains in its original formats - no conversions are required
• Provides non-mainframe programmer access to mainframe data
• Provides data storage, mining and processing utilizing the traditional processing power of the mainframe platform
• Leverage the use of the mainframe into other areas
• FLEX customers can run both mainframe and PC components on the same physical box, reducing processing time, reducing data traffic along the network, increasing security of file transfer and reducing maintenance costs

LegacyToolkit Components

• Automatically reads a copybook and creates a data extract program for the data
• Unpacks any packed fields
• Converts any binary fields
• Exit routine enabled for special data handling or custom coding

• Converts mainframe data files to ASCII-based, delimited data files using customer-developed macros in preparation to FTP to an Intel-based computer system
• Converts ASCII-based data to mainframe data types and prepares files for programmatic import into a mainframe data source

• Takes raw data (in virtually any format) and allows the user to define the input and output formats and define the FROM and TO sources

• Creates the delimited data files
• Builds the import script to import the data files into a SQL-based database

• Imports and exports data files based on customer defined rules for processing
• Automatically moves the data to where it needs to be for processing - either to a PC for auto-import by the DBBuilderTOOL or up to the mainframe for import into mainframe files