The Only Scalable, Plug
and Play Solution for Intranet-to-Mainframe Connectivity.
NetShuttle™ is
specifically designed to provide high-performance,
scalable, "plug and play" connectivity between Intranets
and Mainframe systems. The NetShuttle solution is the
first completely scalable product for integrating
Intranets and Mainframes. NetShuttle supports a wide range
of network connection from Token-Ring and Ethernet to Fast
Ethernet, ATM and Gigabit Ethernet. High-speed Mainframe
connectivity options include ESCON and parallel channel.
The NetShuttle supports the major network protocols TCP/IP
and SNA. TCP/IP protocols can be supported directly on the
Mainframe or "offloaded". In addition, to the wide range
of connectivity options, NetShuttle provides a complete
set of services from TCP/IP Passthrough and TN3270E Server
functionality to advanced SNA services such as DSPU, APPN,
DLUR, and HPR.
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Virtual
tape systems (VTS) are often referred to as "tape-on-disk"
because they emulate physical tape drives and volumes
using permanently mounted disk storage. Data being written
to a tape volume in a VTS is actually stored as one of
many files on a disk. A defining characteristic of virtual
tape systems is that they are transparent to the host
computer and application software they are attached to. In
other words a VTS must appear to the host computer as one
or more real tape drives; responding to all processing
requests exactly as a tape drive would. The host operating
environment and any application software using the VTS
cannot be aware that the data is being stored on disk
rather than tape.
zDASD 3990 Controller
The zDASD 3990 Controller is a System/390 input/output
controller providing FiCON or ESCON attachment to the
mainframe and Gigabit Ethernet, Fibre Channel, or Ultra320
SCSI connection to open-system storage devices. The zDASD
controller emulates up to 512 IBM 3390 data volumes
including models 3, 9, 27 or 54.
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Simon Systems is a proud
Business Partner with Bus-Tech, Inc., a privately held
corporation, which has grown from a single-product company in
1987 to one that manufactures and markets a full suite of
powerful Mainframe connectivity and data movement products.
Mainframe
Appliance For
Networking
The Bus-Tech Mainframe
Appliance for Networking provides direct, high-speed
connection between your Local Area Network and your
System/390 mainframe. The Mainframe Appliance for Networking
is the smallest Mainframe TCP/IP Interconnect Controller
available on the market today. This powerful controller
occupies a single U slot in a standard 19" rack, which can
save valuable space in your data center. The Mainframe
Appliance for Networking provides a channel connector which
plugs into a System/390 channel and a RJ-45 connector for
plugging into your 10/100 Mbits/sec. ethernet network. The
controller is available with either an ESCON or Parallel
Channel (Bus &: Tag) connectors. The ESCON connector plugs
directly into a System/390 ESCON port or into an ESCON
Director port and offers full ESCON Multi-Image Facility (EMIF)
support.
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Specifically, Bus-Tech now offers its zDASD controller
allowing IT administrators to deploy open systems disks as
mainframe-attached DASD. zDASD supports both FICON and/or
ESCON channel attachment to the mainframe on the front end
while connecting to both new and previous generation open
systems disk arrays via ultraSCSI, Fibre Channel, and IP
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These adapters allow PCI based
servers to attach directly to the channel of an IBM, or
compatible mainframe host system. The result is a tight
coupling of these two environments; eliminating unnecessary
LAN hops, bypassing Front End Processors, and providing for
the fastest possible link from server to mainframe.
The adapters are capable of
responding to any of 256 subchannel addresses. The emulation
firmware runs directly on the adapter's on board 80960CA
RISC Processor chip. Because of this design, the CPU of the
host is only involved with data block transfers and not
running the actual emulation and resulting in minimal
interruptions to the PCI system and the fastest connection
available.
For ESCON connectivity, the
adapters implement
 the
Multi-Path Channel (MPC+) protocol which yield a 40%
performance improvement and reduce S/390 CPU cycles by over
60%. They also are designed to utilize IBM's ESCON Enabler
Technology chipset and executes IBM's Licensed Internal Code
Control Unit Image; providing complete compatibility at the
ESCON link level with all IBM ESCON devices.
The EnterpriseExpress
Adapter/ESCON PCI adapter for high-speed DB2 access has gone
through rigorous testing by IBM in their DB2 testing lab.
The outcome of which was a white paper stating, "There
is currently no faster more scalable way to connect to DB2
for OS/390 in a client/server environment than with DB2
Connect, IBM's Netfinity adapter, and TCP/IP w/MPC+."
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3990 Controller Continued...
Data written by the mainframe
to zDASD devices is stored on open-systems storage in such a
way as to allow the data be retrieved in exactly the same
format as it was stored; making it transparent to the
mainframe hardware and/or operating systems that the data
has been stored on open-systems storage rather than
traditional mainframe storage.
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