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 …
by: Tom S. Environment: Shadowbase is running on both Production and DR systems. Goal: To be able to have a comprehensive view of the SB log activities on both systems. Tools: TIC LogWatch – Captures EMS log messages and look for SB events to capture. Send captured events on DR system via TCP/IP to Production …
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 …
TOP – Not just a Pretty Face for NonStop! by: Matt Riesz TOP is a great GUI for just about everything you need to do on your NonStop system. One of the most helpful features is the ability to easily look at data communications information, especially as it pertains to CLIM IP, or “CIP”. Let’s …
In Part 1 of this blog series, we discussed the benefits of modernizing SCOBOL requesters, and the challenge of handling programs with extensive business logic.. In this Part 2 installment, we will talk about how to approach these business logic embedded programs via re-engineering and the benefits of using a tool like Blu Age. Re-engineering …
