Enterprise Application Integration Software

The non-intrusive enterprise application integration software integrates IBM 3270 and 5250 screen information to offer an inexpensive, low risk approach to reusing valuable business processes that have been adapted and perfected over many years. It also eliminates the need for terminal emulation.

Running as a background communications module, developers can access the 3270/5250 host application via a well-defined, object-oriented API. You can Download PASSPORT Host Integration Objects from this web site and even review all of the API Documentation and Source Code online prior to downloading.

Using the PASSPORT Host Integration Objects Enterprise Application Integration Software

PASSPORT Host Integration Objects offers a path to host information at the screen buffer level, allowing you to read and write data to the host presentation space and input fields, open and close sessions, get specific text strings from the screen, create string values, send function keys to the host, switch to other tasks and much more. In doing so, customers can reuse critical legacy applications and proven business logic without making any changes to host code.

How PASSPORT Host Integration Objects Provides Legacy Integration

Using Microsoft's Visual Studio (VB, VC++, etc.) or Visual Studio.NET (VB, VC++, C# .NET, ASP .NET, etc.), you can create composite enterprise integration application solutions that require fast, reliable access to existing IBM 3270 or 5250 applications.

PASSPORT Host Integration Objects, based on the IETF OHIO (Open Host Interface Objects) draft, includes direct TN3270 and TN5250 connectivity to critical legacy applications using IP. Separate terminal emulation is not required for host access. Sample programs, documentation and a test program that demonstrates the use of each object Method, Property and Event are included in the PASSPORT enterprise application integration software.

Primary Features of PASSPORT Host Integration Objects

• Non-intrusive integration with existing IBM 3270 and 5250 applications
• Direct access to host screen buffers (screen scraping)
• Object-oriented API based on IETF OHIO draft
• Does not require terminal emulation software
• Proven TN3270 and TN5250 communications module
• Designed for a Microsoft Windows environment
• Offset addressing for host screen presentation space
• Simplified model for presentation space
• Automatic generation of presentation space field list and attributes
• Keyword-based function text strings
• Event notification for host communication status and screen updates
• Diagnostic tracing capabilities

Performs the Following Host Functions

• Open a host session
• Hide host screens from the user
• Read and write information to the host presentation space
• Retrieve text strings from host input fields
• Retrieve text strings from screen
• Determine new string values
• Get associated attributes of text strings and fields
• Copy information into host input fields
• Simulate use of function keys with host application
• Read the operator information area (OIA) for status updates
• Receive notification of events (receipt of new screen, etc.)
• Close the host session

Examples of PASSPORT Enterprise Application Integration in Action

- Two of the largest banks in the U.S. have used PASSPORT to link strategic branch banking applications to their IBM mainframe systems. In both cases, PASSPORT is deployed from a Microsoft Windows 2003 Server and handles all communications to and from the 3270 host. The user interface managed by the branch banking application, which is in use at every branch location. Users are unaware they are connected to a mainframe system.

- PASSPORT is also used at one of the country's premier luxury retailers to connect multiple point-of-sale terminals found in all of their stores back to an IBM host running various applications. Sales associates are unaware of their use of the mainframe applications.

- Similarly, one of the largest healthcare system providers in the U.S. offers access to the U.S. Medicare system by way of a web service they've developed that relies on PASSPORT for behind-the-scenes, server-based host access.

- An example of a client-based EAI project includes one of the largest auto insurers in the U.S. This Zephyr customer created a comprehensive claims workstation that features extensive ties to multiple 3270 host sessions where data is duplicated appropriately, saving agents a significant amount of time and boosting productivity.

How PASSPORT Host Integration Objects is Licensed

Available via an annual subscription-based license that includes the cost of the software, access to technical support and all product upgrades, PASSPORT Host Integration Objects is some of the most inexpensive enterprise application integration software available today.

Free Trial Download of the PASSPORT HIO Enterprise Application Integration Software

The trial download includes the legacy integration object components, programming documentation, sample test programs and sample source code.

Download PASSPORT HIO Enterprise Application Integration Software Objects