Does your organization have mainframe legacy data that is difficult, costly or time-consuming to access?
Do your colleagues wish they could access mainframe legacy data from their Windows notebooks or desktops?
Direct, Real-Time Access to Mainframe Data
The Arbutus Mainframe Server helps organizations overcome mainframe data delivery and analysis challenges. Together with Arbutus Data Tools and Arbutus LegacyLink™, it provides direct, real-time access to all mainframe data sources.
Accessible mainframe data sources include:
Access Data from Different Mainframe Sources at Once
The Arbutus Mainframe Server resides natively on enterprise mainframes, allowing data sources to be easily moved between server platforms, or from server to desktop. Data and databases from multiple platforms can be brought together quickly and easily for analysis and reporting purposes.
Read Complex Legacy Files
The Arbutus Mainframe Server specializes in reading both relational and non-relational data sources, including the most complex legacy file structures. The Arbutus Mainframe Server enables data from various sources to appear as a table in a single unified database, even when the data exists in different formats, on different platforms.
Even the most complex data structures are directly supported, including variable length and multiple record type data, as well as COBOL OCCURS and REDEFINES.
For COBOL programmers, Arbutus supports data fields that contain overloaded or combined data values, which can be easily segregated into their components. An overloaded data field contains two different kinds of values, such as U.S. zip codes and Canadian postal codes, while a combined field will show, for example, both first name and last name.
Arbutus Windows Server Reduces Mainframe Usage
When mainframe loads or data access are an issue, the Arbutus Windows Server is an ideal solution. It is fully compatible with any mainframe data staged on it. Additionally, no data transformation is required to stage the data, ensuring a minimum of infrastructure and quick implementation.