Who cares about standards? YOU should! Why? Standardized products and services are valuable because they: Provide consistent quality Minimize learning curve Support compatibility Promote Portability Rather than asking why we need standards, we might usefully ask ourselves what the world would be like without standards. What would it be like to have to relearn how …
The Challenge: Log information overload Any Operations Support person can tell you, one of the challenges of the job is making use of logfiles to help keep abreast of potential problems. However, if you have ever sat in front of a NonStop Viewpoint or EMS console display, you would know that the amount of messages …
I have always said that you can tell who the Nonstop Users are in the audience by the questions they ask, such as: Is this scalable? What is the performance? How do I monitor it? The last question highlights the importance that NonStop system managers place on providing responsive support for their end users. That’s …
Several years ago we began exploring how we might make functionality that was readily available on Windows™ platforms available to NonStop applications. We looked at porting some of them to the NonStop. We have been able to do that to a very small number of tools, like an HTTP server and email client.) Most of …
DLLs (Dynamic Link Library) have long been used to provide optional features to programs since its inception on the Windows platform. TIC has used this capability in our Windows™ applications, TelePath and TICTransform. DLLs allow customers to extend both of these TIC products by adding their own code. But did you know that DLL is also …
If you are a SOAPam Server user, then you know how easy it is to create a web service using the SOAPam Control Panel in a matter of minutes. SOAam Server stores information about the web services in Service Definition Files (SDF) within its Virtual File System (VFS), which can be viewed easily from a …
More than once, users have asked me these two interesting questions about our software products SOAPam and Thunder Suite. I hope that this blog will help answer these questions: “Can I use SOAP/AM to do XML Parsing?” SOAP/AM Server is used for exposing Pathway Server as Web Services. That means external application such as .NET …
If you are like a lot of NonStop users, chances are that you have other platforms (like .NET or Java) and databases (e.g. MS SQL Server or Oracle) that you would like your application to interact with. For the past two years, users have enjoyed attending our Tutorial Webinars to learn how our products SOAPam …
Question How can you tell who the NonStop users are in the audience when you are doing a product presentation? Answer They are the ones who always ask: Is it high-performance? Is it scalable? Is it secure? In this article, we want to address the question of security as it relates to Web Service. Security …
One common question is: What is the difference between using Thunder Suite and an XML parser? Thunder Suite and XML parsers can both provide the ability to parse an input XML document, but they differ a lot in functions and features, especially when it comes to COBOL application development. Here are some highlights of the key …
