3 Replies Latest reply on Mar 16, 2009 5:04 AM by beve

    support for the IBM Telnet 3270 protocol to access mainframe

      Hello Everybody,

      I am trying to choose a ESB platform for a client. They have a lot of legacy application under IBM AS/400.

      I would like to know if JBossESB includes support for the IBM Telnet 3270 protocol to access mainframe-based applications. Maybe an adapter or plug-in module that provides tooling for developers to design legacy system web service's data and operations, so we can have real-time integration with these applications.

      Please, can anybody give me information about this?

      Thanks in advance!

        • 1. Re: support for the IBM Telnet 3270 protocol to access mainf
          beve

          Hi,

          there is nothing like this at the moment. But there was a post by a community member that was developing something for integration with AS/400:
          http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4171687
          , and this jira was created for it:
          https://jira.jboss.org/jira/browse/JBESB-1996

          Let me check the status of this and get back to you.

          Regards,

          /Daniel

          • 2. Re: support for the IBM Telnet 3270 protocol to access mainf

            Hi Daniel,

            Thank you very much for your answer.

            What the custumer demands is a 'no cost' way of integrate his legacy AS/400 as services in the ESB. That means the customer doesn't need to change his Legacy ERP done in AS/400 (this is really important for them).

            One way could be Screen Scraping that provides a scripted environment to read and manipulate input screens. I must confess I don't know too much about Dataqueue...

            The use of this adapter you told me, based on Dataqueue, will involve modifing the code of the customer ERP or it could be used without changing the code as the Screen Scraping??

            Thanks in advance again!!!!

            • 3. Re: support for the IBM Telnet 3270 protocol to access mainf
              beve

              Hi,

              The use of this adapter you told me, based on Dataqueue, will involve modifing the code of the customer ERP or it could be used without changing the code as the Screen Scraping??

              My understanding is that this will only work if the current application can publish to the IBM AS/400 Dataqueue. Please note that I've not seen the code for this yet.

              I've never done any screen scraping so I'm of no use to you in that area. But if you are going to implement something that might be of value to others in the community please let us know and we will assist you in doing so.

              Regards,

              /Daniel