Mainframe Connect components can be used with most Sybase products to connect mainframe applications with remote clients and servers. The products in Table G-1 are frequently used as clients and/or servers with the Mainframe Connect product set.
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Product |
Description |
|---|---|
Adaptive Server Enterprise |
With Adaptive Server Enterprise acting as a server, clients using Open ClientConnect can send requests to a named Adaptive Server Enterprise through Mainframe Client Connect. Adaptive Server Enterprise, Sybase’s RDBMS, can act as a client or server. Networked clients can call Adaptive Server Enterprise stored procedures that send requests to Open ServerConnect or MainframeConnect for DB2 UDB (or OmniSQL Access Module™ for™ DB2) on the mainframe. The DirectConnect administrator can configure the TRS to require all client requests to be routed through Adaptive Server Enterprise. |
ASE/CIS (formerly OmniConnect™) |
ASE/CIS translates SQL statements that DB2 cannot read or process into statements that DB2 can process. OmniSQL Access Module clients can route requests through OmniConnect for SQL translation. Sites that need to run the same applications without modifications against both Adaptive Server Enterprise and DB2 can use ASE/CIS as a server. |
Open Client™ |
Open Client is a Sybase connectivity product that provides customer client applications, third-party products, and other Sybase products with the interfaces needed to communicate with Sybase servers and Open Server applications, including Open ServerConnect and OmniSQL Access Module™ for™ DB2 and MainframeConnect. |
Open Server™ |
Open Server provides the tools and interfaces needed to create a custom server (called an Open Server application). Open ServerConnect uses Open Server architecture to allow the mainframe to act as a server. Open ClientConnect clients can send requests to Open Server applications on the local area network (LAN) through Mainframe Client Gateway, or directly through Intersystem Communication (ISC) if requests are being sent to Open ServerConnect in a separate region. |
Replication Server® |
Replication Server keeps copies of data up-to-date at multiple sites so that clients can access local data instead of remote, centralized databases. |
Replication Agent® |
Replication Agent is a functional component of the replication model that conveys updates made to primary data sources to a Replication Server. |
