OVERVIEW

Notwithstanding their size, mainframes may not be the next big thing or a front-page news items these days, but they are not extinct – they continue to power many of the world’s largest systems. Today's mainframe is often deployed in server environments where ROI and consolidated infrastructure are of prime importance.

"The more security and compliance concerns emerge as the key issues for companies across the board, the more frightening the idea of a distributed, decentralized IT infrastructure becomes," says IBM. Instead, managers "want to house their data and applications all in one place on a platform that will never go down."

At Cambridge Solutions, we understand the requirement to support organizations whose dependence on mainframes is significant. Cambridge carries out large Mainframe based offshore projects, at its offshore development center (ODC) in Chennai, India, for customers worldwide. Customers with large system development, programming, and maintenance requirements have saved significantly on development and support costs by executing their projects and leveraging the infrastructure and service capabilities available at Cambridge’s Offhsore Development Centers.

Skill Sets

Hardware: IBM S/390, ES/9000, MVS/XA IBM 3090

Operating Systems: MVS/XA, OS/390, VM, VSE etc

Languages: COBOL, OS/VS COBOL, VS/COBOL II, COBOL 370, COBOL for MVS/VM, PL/1, REXX, CLIST, ASSEMBLER and MICRO FOCUS COBOL etc

Databases: IMS, DB2/UDB, ADABAS, IDMS, SQL/DS, SUPRA, VSAM

Tools: PANVALET, ENDEVOR, PVCS, EASYTRIEVE, SAS, COOL:GEN, MF- REVOLVE

Specialized Software: Cross System Product (CSP), TELON, NATURAL, Visual Gen

Front-end online editing service tools: ISPF/TSO, CMS, VOLLIE, ICCF

Security Mgmt. Systems: CA-Topsecret, CA-7, RACF

Transaction Processor:CICS, MANTIS, IMS FASTPATH

Web Enabling: JACADA, MQ-SERIES, WEBSPHERE, VISUAL AGE

Our Tools Expertise

Case tools: ADW (Application Development Workbench), Cool:Gen

Testing tools: WITT (Workstation Interactive Test Tool)

Debugging tools: Xpeditor

Performance monitoring tools: Omegamon for (MVS, CICS, DB2)

Database/File management tools: FileAid

Reverse engineering tools: Microfocus Revolve

Ad-hoc query tools: EASYTRIEVE

Re-engineering tools:Renaissance

Web-Enabling tools: JACADA, Rescueware