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Mainframe Rehosting Solution OpenFrame

1. High costs of maintaining and supporting mainframe operations2. Limited number of hardware and software vendors3. High cost of integration with new applications4. Lack of flexibility in adopting new technologies5. Shrinking pool of skilled mainframe developers

Five Reasons to Modernize Your Legacy System

TmaxSoft OpenFrameOpenFrame is TmaxSoft's advanced re-hosting solu-tion designed for the world’s largest financial, bank-ing, telecommunications, and other enterprises thatentail high-volume transactions. OpenFrame is theonly complete solution in the industry, providing com-prehensive online and batch environments on opensystems. It can be used to migrate the applications,resources, and data from a mainframe system to aless expensive and more flexible open system, with-out modification of the original business logic. Re-hosting with OpenFrame enables you to access thebenefits of the open system, while preserving theintegrity of your legacy applications and data.

OpenFrame does not merely allow mainframe applica-tions to run within open systems. It also ensures highlevels of processing speed, capacity, and reliabilityequal to or greater than the legacy mainframe systemit replaced. OpenFrame delivers this performance

through a powerful, enterprise-level platform that hasbeen implemented in some of the most demandingtechnical and business environments over the lastdecade.

Benefits of TmaxSoft OpenFrameRapid Implementation and Time to Positive ROIWhile some migration solutions require years to com-plete and even longer to break even, a typical large-scale re-hosting project with TmaxSoft OpenFrametakes several months to complete and 12-24 monthsto deliver positive ROI. OpenFrame achieves this best-in-class implementation and return because it is themost comprehensive solution in the industry. It allowscompanies to “lift and drop” their existing COBOL andPL/I applications written for CICS and IMS-DC, JCL pro-grams and RACF security policies into open-systemenvironment with minimal or no modifications.

�Rapid Implementation and Time to Positive ROI�Reduced Implementation Risk�Performance and Scalability Comparable to Mainframe�Rock Solid Reliability�Most Complete Re-Hosting Solution Available�SOA-based Infrastructure for Future Modernization

One Easy Way to Do It:Mainframe Re-Hosting with TmaxSoft OpenFrame�


Minimized Total Cost of OwnershipA single vendor has long dominated the mainframemarket, resulting in high hardware prices and ongoingsteep licensing fees. An equally limited number ofthird-party software developers further increaseexpenses. OpenFrame’s flexibility and expandabilitysignificantly reduce your system’s total cost of owner-ship (TCO); in fact, savings of 50% or more are notuncommon. OpenFrame also standardizes systemprocesses and facilitates easy integration of newapplications and technologies, thus enhancing systemdevelopment and management productivity.

Reduced Implementation RiskTraditional migration involves rewriting mainframeapplications comprised of millions of lines of codewritten in legacy languages over decades. In contrast,OpenFrame allows you to “lift and drop” your existingmainframe applications, resources, and data into anopen-systems environment, thus preserving millionsof dollars of investment. Existing JCL programs canrun without any modification, and COBOL and PL/Iapplications can execute with only minimal modifica-tions. Your human resources are safeguarded as well:engineers can maintain and extend re-hosted applica-tions without additional training, in the languagesthey already know.

Performance and Scalability Comparable toMainframeOpenFrame achieves the performance of mainframethrough our unique, proprietary transaction monitorknown as TmaxSoft Tmax™. Unlike other solutionsthat simply provide CICS-compatible APIs on top ofUnix/Linux transaction monitors, Tmax was specificallybuilt to provide mainframe-class speed in an opensystems environment. As a result, OpenFrame is high-ly scalable-to 7,500 MIPS and beyond-and has deliv-ered equal or greater performance in 100% ofTmaxSoft’s client implementations to date. (See ourcase study on Samsung Life Insurance for more real-world results!)

Rock Solid ReliabilityWhen running large-volume, business-critical applica-tions, reliability is of utmost importance because dis-ruptions can cost millions of dollars. OpenFramedelivers the utmost in reliability through the Tmax™‚high performance transaction monitor. Tmax provideslevel clustering, fail-over, load balancing, and non-blocking I/O features, and has been deployed since1998. Since then, it has gained the trust of more than300 customers in thousands of mission-critical instal-lations in financial services, banking, telecommunica-tions, and other enterprise industries.

Flexible Environment for Managing andExtending Re-hosted ApplicationsTmaxSoft's SysMaster provides a centralized environ-ment for monitoring system processes, transactionsand other components within OpenFrame systems,enabling IT administrators to analyze and resolve per-formance issues. TmaxSoft's OpenStudio is a graphi-cal Integrated Development Environment (IDE) thatcan be used for maintaining and extending re-hostedapplications as well as developing new applicationswithin the OpenFrame environment.

Kick-Start to Legacy ModernizationMainframe re-hosting can be starting point for otherlegacy modernization initiatives. To that end,TmaxSoft provides a suite of products that interoper-ate with OpenFrame and enable you to extend re-hosted applications to Web services or services builton SOA concepts. Our ESB engine ProBus constitutesthe core of a SOA implementation, and our ProFrameSOA-oriented application framework is optimized forthe financial services and banking industries. Yourlegacy systems can co-exist with modern SOA basedapplications and seamlessly communicate with eachother over a variety of protocols via our integratedchannel communication product, AnyLink.


CASE STUDY: Samsung Life InsuranceMoves Forward with TmaxSoftOpenFrameThe risk involved with modernizing large scale, legacymainframe systems can seem daunting, especiallywhen these systems form the backbone of a compa-ny's mission-critical IT infrastructure. Samsung LifeInsurance, South Korea's largest insurance provider,faced a monumental task when it began the design ofits next generation systems. With the help ofTmaxSoft OpenFrame™‚ re-hosting solution, however,Samsung successfully completed what is the largestmainframe re-hosting project ever.

The project was launched in August 2005 and thenew system was put into production in July 2006-anamazingly short time for such an undertaking. Thelegacy system was 7,500 MIPS in capacity and con-tained the company's core business applications,including loan, contract, and payment systems: intotal, more than 30,000 programs and 40 million linesof code.

The re-hosted system is expected to bring an estimat-ed short-term cost savings of more than $30 millionover the next four years, and the estimated annualsavings is expected to reach $10 million after 2010.

Benefits to system performance have been impressiveas well. Online response time has improved an aver-age of one second, batch completion time has beenreduced, and application error rates are significantlylower. In the event of a system failure, databaserecovery can be completed 75% faster, and overallsystem security has also improved with the imple-mentation of a standard Public Key Infrastructure(PKI) system.

OpenFrame� Components

TmaxSoft OpenFrame/Online�Replaces CICS and IMS by providing the same

online capabilities and identical APIs. �Provides a powerful transaction management

through TmaxSoft Tmax™, assuring overall perfor-mance, scalability and reliability of the system.

�Redesigned transaction monitor provides nativesupport for CICS and IMS capabilities, differentiat-ing from CICS “emulators” and enabling superiorperformance and flexibility.

�Incorporates dynamic load balancing, distributedclustering and robust fail-over capabilities

�Provides a variety of gateways and adapters toenable a wide range of flexible external connec-tions.

OpenFrame/Batch �Replaces mainframe Batch environment�Enables JCL/Batch applications to be used in the

open environment without changes to the originalcode.

�Incorporates a JES manager that handles the taskof running and managing jobs and correspondingresources

�Provides a variety of tools and automated process-es to handle the actual migration of batch applica-tions.


Development with OpenStudioOpenStudio is a graphical IntegratedDevelopment Environment (IDE) used fordeveloping, deploying and managing applica-tions and services within the OpenFrame envi-ronment. With OpenStudio, developers canefficiently extend and/or maintain re-hostedJCL, COBOL and PL/I applications. The IDE iso-lates administrators from the underlyingUNIX/Linux operating system and allows themto easily manage the run-time OpenFrame sys-tem via an intuitive graphical interface.

Management with SysMasterSysMaster is an application performance manage-ment tool that provides centralized end-to-endmonitoring of various IT systems used through-out the enterprise. SysMaster provides monitor-ing of applications running on OpenFrame™‚while supporting features such as automatedalert, system resource usage view and notifica-tion of user defined incidents. SysMaster enablesIT administrators to trace every event that occurswithin an integrated IT environment to analyzethe cause of performance degradation and toresolve system problems.

OpenFrame/TSAM �Replaces mainframe VSAM datasets

OpenFrame/HiDB�Replaces IMS-DB by providing emulation capabili-

ties along with all the benefits and functions of ahierarchical database

�Supports HISAM, HIDAM, GSAM, etc.

OpenFrame Mapping Support�Replaces BMS/MFS by providing emulation capabil-

ities�Provides an interface for using 3270 terminal emu-

lators

OpenFrame/TACF�Replaces IBM/RACF security�Allows administrators to select between TACF or

OS-provided security

About TmaxSoft

Founded in 1997, TmaxSoft has built a reputation as aleading provider of world-class enterprise products andservices designed to meet the global standards for pro-cessing large volume transactions.

Since then, TmaxSoft's product line has grown to include amainframe re-hosting solution, a portfolio of SOA-enablingproducts, and vertical industry solutions in finance, bank-ing, and telecommunications. TmaxSoft has successfullycompleted over 1,200 projects at more than 1,000 cus-tomer sites throughout the world.

Start Your Legacy Modernization Process Today:Contact UsTo learn how TmaxSoft and OpenFrame can help your busi-ness, please contact us to discuss your specific environmentand operational needs. We will walk you through an initialconsultation and determine the next best steps for moderniz-ing your legacy system.

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PRODUCT LINEUP

Re-hosting

OpenFrame : Mainframe Rehosting

SOA Enabling

ProFrame∙Application Framework

AnyLink∙Multi-Channel Integration

ProBus∙ESB Engine

ProFactory∙Product Creation and Management

Middleware

Tmax∙TP-Monitor

JEUS∙J2EE Web Application Server

WebtoB∙Web Server

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