Most, if not all, of NonStop customers have a DR (Disaster Recovery) system, as well as a plan to ensure business continuity of their mission-critical applications in the event of a disaster. A company’s goal is to be able to resume business operation as quickly as possible with minimum interruption. The main focus of …
The use of RESTful APIs opens up a world of possibilities to financial institutions and allows companies to access easily services and exchange customer data. Using lightweight components like REST and JSON significantly reduces the learning curve and enables a quicker time-to-market. One of our NonStop customers uses LightWave Client to access FIS Smart Loan, …
As we embark on this new year, many companies are, appropriately, assessing their quality assurance strategies. From cyber security, to compliance, to business continuity, organizations are aiming to mitigate risk and increase productivity. Despite these efforts, automated testing, which is of central importance, is often overlooked. Without proper testing practices in place, companies wager that …
One of our clients needed to do research on an intermittent network issue that occurred between a Windows Server web application and the NonStop. Because the problem occurred intermittently, network traces must be run continuously. Most of you are probably familiar with Wireshark, the free Windows tool used for capturing network traces for offline analysis. …
Many organizations are starting to adopt API Gateways as part of their application infrastructure. This article provides a quick overview of API Gateway and Google’s Apigee API and how to interface to it from NonStop applications using LightWave. What is Apigee? Apigee is a platform / API gateway for developing and managing APIs. It provides …
If you are a regular visitor of our TIC blog site or if you have attended one of my TIC REST Webinars, you already know about many of the benefits that REST can bring to your NonStop applications. The purpose of this blog is to provide a practical guide to prepare you for a REST …
Some may refer to it as low hanging fruit, others the sweet spot , or even perhaps the perfect storm. Regardless, geocoding may be the perfect way to empower your NonStop application via RESTful API. What is Geocoding? Before we get into how to use Geocoding, it’s important to understand its function. Through Geocoding, a …
One of the common mistakes that longtime NonStop (or Tandem for those who go way back) users make is that they only think of it in terms of things they know and love about the platform: Pathway, Requester/Server, TMF, Expand, etc. Beneath the pride and strong community spirit, lies a certain amount of overconfidence in …
Quick! What is that Safeguard command? As Matt Riesz pointed out in his blog (TOP Tips – TCP/IP), TOP is not just a pretty face. With its Graphical User Interface (GUI), TOP can also make life easier for the NonStop experts. Matt provides an example of how TOP makes accessing TCP/IP information so much easier. …
Do you remember how you did that two years ago? I am sure that you can think of cases when you had a hard time remembering the syntax of how to perform certain NonStop operations because you rarely do them. For example: How to set up a New Spooler How to configure a new …
