Complete Mainframe Batch/JCL Execution Environment on Open Systems

UniKix Batch Processing Environment (BPE) software provides a complete environment for administering, executing, and managing batch workloads on UNIX, Linux, Linux on System z, and Windows platforms.

With comprehensive Job Control Language (JCL) translators, pre-built integration with common mainframe and 3rd party batch utilities, and native support for standard mainframe data file types, UniKix BPE technology enables batch application investments to be leveraged on open systems without excessive code change and complex integration.

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Highlights

		Provide a complete, native environment for administering, executing, managing, and developing batch workloads on scalable open systems
		Preserve core batch constructs such as Job Control Language (JCL), job steps, workload classes, priority classes, and conditioned execution
		Support both MVS and VSE JCL statements
		Use a GUI-based job editor; configure databases, security definitions, accounting criteria, and job classes through the Batch Administration Manager

The migration facilities provided with UniKix BPE software include MVS and VSE JCL translators. These translators generate scripts that execute under control of UniKix BPE. The concepts of job, job steps, and procedure steps are all maintained, along with support of common legacy facilities like IDCAMS and SORT.

The JCL translators automatically generate a FileMap, mapping the legacy files to the corresponding open systems files. A GUI file editor is provided allowing you to graphically add, modify, or delete file entries or attributes. All file types are defined in the FileMap including Generation Data Groups (GDGs), concatenated datasets, VSAM files, and sequential files.

A large percentage of legacy batch workload processing time involves interacting with common utilities such as IDCAMS, IEBGENER, and IEBCOPY, in addition to 3rd party solutions such as sort utilities, job schedulers, and print spoolers. With built-in integration for both tightly and loosely coupled application utilities, UniKix BPE software automates a large portion of the integration efforts commonly associated with migrating batch environments to open systems.

• Database connectivity and sort utilities are often tightly coupled to legacy application code. Thus, support for such activity needs to be built in at runtime to run efficiently. UniKix BPE software, being a complete batch environment, supports databases and sort utilities out of the box using optimized integration options.
  
  
• Loosely coupled activities such as print spooling and job scheduling also consume large portions of legacy compute cycles. UniKix BPE software provides seamless support for related job scheduling and print spooling solutions.