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30.06.2010

tcVISION Version 4 available

Version 4 of tcVISION has become available to our customer base.

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26.04.2010

B.O.S. Software attended the Spring conference of GSE for z/VSE, z/VM and Linux on System z in Würzburg, Germany (April 19 to 21, 2010)

Already for 11 years B.O.S. Software remains loyal to the working group z/VSE, z/VM and Linux on System z. Like in 2009 B.O.S. Software attended the conference not only as a vendor, a customer also presented a paper about a successful implementation of tcVISION.

Mr. Wolfgang Schrul of EADS Military Air Systems, Manching, Germany, talked about the implementation of tcVISION. EADS uses tcVISION to perform a real time data synchronization between DL/I, VSAM and 
MS-SQLServer. Wolfgang Schrul presented his experiences with tcVISION during the implementation phase and production use. He also talked about the challenges when synchronizing classical mainframe data structures with relational data models.

Our regular attendance at the conference proves our commitment and engagement for the VSE market. B.O.S. presented important strategic new functions and features of tcVISION at the conference exhibition.

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03.03.2010

B.O.S. Software will present tcVISION at the GSE CICS/TS Working Group in Heidelberg (April 21 to 23, 2010)

After a well-received presentation that B.O.S. gave to a sub-group at the last conference of the GSE CICS/TS Working Group B.O.S. has been invited again to present the tcVISION solution to the full auditorium. 

Peter Horbach of B.O.S. will present the tcVISION solution and will focus on customer implementations. Julius Blum, an Austrian based company, uses tcVISION for the synchronization of IMS databases with DB2 on z/OS in real time. tcVISION is also being used at Blum to synchronize DB2 z/OS data with distributed DB2 systems under Windows and UNIX at subsidiary installations of Julius Blum. 

 

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28.10.2009

B.O.S. products support Microsoft Windows 7

The current program versions of tcVISION, tcACCESS and tcEXPRESS support the new operating system Microsoft Windows 7.

 

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10.12.2009

B.O.S. Software attends the IDMS User Group Meeting in Bruxelles

On December 10, 2009 B.O.S. attended the annual IDMS User Group meeting in Bruxelles and gave a presentation titled: "Best practice:
Integration of IDMS data with new applications, bi-directional synchronization- and migration initiatives". Approx. 30 participants
attended the meeting. 

The meeting was chaired by Jan Rabaut and IDMS users and representatives of Computer Associates presented their solutions and news about IDMS. The B.O.S. presentation was very well received by the audience and created a positive feedback. "It is very important for us as IDMS users to learn what solutions are available that help us to integrate our IDMS databases with
the remaining components of our IT infrastructure. The B.O.S. presentation was very helpful!" said one user from the Netherlands.

 

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12.11.2009

B.O.S. Software presented tcVISION at the CICS/TS Working Group in Berlin

B.O.S. presented a paper about Realtime Replication and Synchronization of IBM Mainframe-data at the CICS/TS Working Group in Berlin on November 12, 2009. The Fall event was chaired by Mr. Gerdes and took place at the Holiday Inn, City East, Berlin. More than 30 representatives of CICS/TS installations were present. 

The B.O.S. presentation was well recevied by the participants, especially the technical competence of the B.O.S. representative was valued positively. Because the presentation was given during a parallel session and could not be attended by all participants it was decided to invite B.O.S. again for the Spring meeting in Heidelberg. At this meeting a joint presentation of B.O.S. and a tcACCESS/tcVISION customer will be scheduled. In front of the full audience. 

 

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26-28.10.2009

B.O.S. participates at the GSE Workshop in Dresden, Germany

B.O.S. participates at the 3rd European IBM / GSE Workshop for z/VSE, z/VM and Linux for System z. The workshop takes place in Dresden, Germany, at The Westin Bellevue from October 26 to October 28, 2009.

 

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04.05.2009

B.O.S. Software did participate at the GSE Spring conference 2009 for z/VSE, z/VM and Linux on System z in Dortmund (April 27 to April 29 2009)

B.O.S. Software again contributed to the annual GSE Spring conference as a software vendor and presenter. The conference took place in Dortmund,  Germany.

 

Mr. Andreas Stempel from himolla presented a paper about tcACCESS accessing DL/I databases. The paper was titled: Hierarchical data in a relational robe. Peter Horbach from B.O.S. also presented customer implementations that are successfully using tACCESS and tcVISION.

 

Elisabeth Schwarz, CEO of B.O.S.: "Our active participation at the conference proofs our commitment to the VSE market. We demonstrated revolutionary new features in our products to the conference participants.

 

The presentations from Mr. Stempel and Mr. Horbach can be downloaded here.

 

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January 2009

Partnership between B.O.S. Software Service und Vertrieb GmbH and BOI Software GmbH, Linz, Austria

B.O.S. Software Service und Vertrieb GmbH is a leading provider of IBM-Mainframe-Integration solutions. With tcACCESS B.O.S. offers an innovative software-solution that allows a fast and easy access to IBM mainframe-files, -databases and –applications from Client-Server-, Web-applications and applications using SOA-technologies. No mainframe know-how is required and no programming effort is involved.

In combination with the tcACCESS-solution from B.O.S. control data can be incorporated into the BOI-TABEX/4-EuroSOX-solution that is not stored on the mainframe in a relational format. TcACCESS supports SQL-based access to IBM mainframe data sources like VSAM, DL/I, IMS/DB, ADABAS, DATACOM/DB and IDMS/DB. This ensures a smooth integration of these data sources with no programming effort via ODBC or JDBC into the BOI EuroSOX-solution.

BOI Software GmbH, based in Linz, Austria, is the vendor of "TABEX/4", the leading cross platform solution for table administration in the German-speaking area. A table administration is a central part of any IT-organization.

Within a table administration control- and parameter tables are administered, maintained and distributed company-wide. TABEX/4 provides companies the application of central and modern table administration tool without any programming expense. 

The EU-Directive 8, also known as EuroSOX, demands an effective internal control system (ICS) and risk management that will undergo intensive audits in the future. The goals of EuroSOX are the reliability of financial information and the protection of investors. BOI GmbH understands these audit specific requirements for an enterprise and provides a comfortable solution to this requirement with TABEX/4. All EuroSOX requirements in the area of IT are covered.

Dr. Ing. Hans Haiböck, CEO of BOI Software GmbH: "With the help of tcACCESS our workstation component now can access all mainframe data sources and easily integrate them into TABEX/4."

Peter Kunze, CEO of B.O.S. Software: "B.O.S. and BOI know each other for years and we have a mutual customer base. The partnership agreement between both companies offers a solid base for all current and future customers of TABEX/4 for the integration of their mainframe data with tcACCESS. 250 of our more than 1,000 customers use tcACCESS making tcACCESS one of the world-wide leading solution for a transparent mainframe integration."

    

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21.01.2009

tcACCESS Version 8.0 available

Version 8.0 of tcACCESS has become available to our customer base.

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15.11.2008

Meeting of the "Professional Association of IT Freelancer (BVSI) " in Siegburg, November 15, 2008

The working group "Mainframe" of the BVSI conducted the fall meeting in Siegburg, close to Cologne. The presentation of B.O.S. Software was the main event at the meeting. Peter M. Horbach from B.O.S. Software gave a presentation titled "The transparent Mainframe". The presentation also included a love demo of tcACCESS and tcVISION. The attendees were very impressed to learn how easily any Mainframe-data and –applications can be integrated into Windows, UNIX and LINUX based software architecture. The bi-directional aspects of the B.O.S. solutions, especially for real-time data synchronization between z/OS, z/VSE and relational databases running on Windows, UNIX/LINUX systems were discussed in detail. The interaction between B.O.S. and the attendees was extremely positive.

Thanks to BVSI for a well organized meeting.

    

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10-13.11.2008

IMS – Forever young. 40 years of IMS. Symposium at Bad Soden, November 10 - 13 2008

This particular birthday had to be celebrated! With more than 120 attendees from Europe, the US and ASIA. 

B.O.S. Software was there to congratulate. 

4 days of information related to IMS. The audience were System programmers, Database
Administrators, IT Architects, Application Designers and Managements who needed to know about the latest version of IMS.

B.O.S. Software presented a paper about "Bi-directional integration and synchronization between IMS and Windows, UNIX and LINUX". During the presentation B.O.S. demonstrated how easy and fast IMS databases can be accessed from Windows- and JAVA-applications.

    

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06.11.2008

YAMPONG Corporation: the new B.O.S. Software partner in Taiwan

YAMPONG Corporation, Taipei Taiwan, is the new distribution partner for tcVISION. YAMPONG is a long standing representative for several American and European software companies. 
The partnership with B.O.S. Software already bore fruit. One of the largest hospitals in Taiwan, the Veterans General Hospital Taichung is the first tcACCESS and tcVISION customer in Asia. VGH-TC is a z/OS customer and uses tcVISION to perform a real-time data synchronization between IMS and an ORACLE environment. Robby Tong, General Manager of YAMPONG: "We are very proud that the B.O.S. solutions are successfully implemented in our country. Thanks to the great support provided to us by B.O.S. we have been able to implement tcACCESS and tcVISION in a short period of time into the production environment of VGH-TC. Because the B.O.S. products fully supported the Chinese character set we had a very competitive edge against some other vendors. We are looking forward to a close partnership with B.O.S."

After a successful implementation of tcACCESS/tcVISION at VGH-TC, Taiwan. From left: Michael Ting, YAMPONG, Peter Horbach, B.O.S. and the great system programmers of VGH-TC.

   

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27-29.10.2008

B.O.S. Software at the 2nd European IBM / GSE Conference 2008

At this year's major event for users of z/VSE, z/VM and Linux for z B.O.S. Software was represented as vendor, exhibitor and speaker. The conference was conducted in Leipzig, Germany.

More than 150 attendees from Germany, Europe, Asia and the Arabic Peninsula visited the conference and learned important information and exciting news and announcements.

Andreas Stempel from himolla talked about his usage of tcACCESS with DL/I databases. The presentation was titled: Hierarchical Data In A Relational Robe. 

The presentation from Andreas was very well received by the international community. Following his presentation, Peter Horbach from B.O.S. Software talked about various European customers and their implementations of tcACCESS and tcVISION. 

Both presentations will also be given at the next Spring GSE conference in Dortmund. Then the presentations will be conducted in German language.

The audience is interested in B.O.S. offerings: tcACCESS and tcVISION

Elisabeth Schwarz, General Manager at B.O.S.: "Our participation at these conferences is a demonstration that we will continue to support the VSE market. Numerous B.O.S. customers always participate at the conference and the discussions with our customers and new prospects are very important to us and our success."

Peter Horbach (right, B.O.S.) and Wilhelm Mild (IBM) at the B.O.S. introduction

  

   

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16.09.2008

B.O.S. presents tcACCESS and tcVISION at conference DB Administration in Eltville, Germany

The working group DB Administration of the German GSE organisation meets on September 15 and 16 for the annual fall meeting. Important aspects and solutions will be discussed that are relevant to the daily work of an IMS and DB2 administrator. On September 16 B.O.S. gives a presentation that discusses bi-directional integration of IMS and DB2 into Open Systems. tcACCESS and tcVISION will be presented and a live-demo will show the attendees how easy, fast and efficient a bi-directional integration of IMS and DB2 with all flavors of Open System platforms can be performed.

    

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01.09.2008

tcVISION and tcACCESS presented at the WAVV Conference 
in Chattanooga (April 18-21)

The American distribution partner Treehouse Software (TSI) presented the integration solutions tcACCESS and tcVISION at the annual WAVV Conference. WAVV is the shortcut for World Alliance of VSE VM Linux and is the largest conference in the United States for VSE users.  

Peter Brodsgaard from Treehouse Software: "WAVV offered us the unique chance to present the B.O.S. solutions tcACCESS and tcVISION to a broad range of VSE customers. The conference attendees accepted the solutions with great interest. We also took the chance to get in touch with high ranks from IBM. Mainframe integration and data synchronization are very important issues that no responsible IT Manager can disregard today. Our participation at WAVV was a great success".

      

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28.08.2008

B.O.S. Software and CCA Software sign distribution agreement for Australia

CCA Software, based in Melbourne Australia, has become the distribution partner of tcVISION for Down Under. CCA Software has been the leading provider of utility software tools for the ADABAS / NATURAL community. Karl Habres, General Manager of CCA: "CCA Software was originally established in 1985 to develop, distribute and support products designed to add efficiency and flexibility to ADABAS installations. We are glad that we can use our experience in all areas of data migration to introduce tcVISION to the IT population in Australia. Our team is very excited about the flexibility and possibilities that tcVISION offers for real-time data synchronization". 

Representatives from CCA Software have visited the B.O.S. headquarter and were trained how tcVISION can help to keep databases in synch across different platforms. 
Elisabeth Schwarz, CEO of B.O.S.: "We are proud to have CCA Software as our distribution partner in Australia. CCA is very experienced in all areas of data migration and data synchronization. Their intimate knowledge of the Australia market will guarantee a successful distribution of tcVISION. We are looking forward to a successful and long standing relationship with CCA Software". 

      

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09-11.06.2008

B.O.S. attends conference "Enterprise Service Integration (ESI)" in Bad Soden from June 9th to June 11th, 2008

The "rebirth of the mainframe" is a very emotional and top issue of today's IT. Service Oriented Architecture is the magical buzz word. Simply spoken, this is a transparent integration of a mainframe with all the data and applications into Open System environments.

For many years B.O.S. Software is a major player and successfully established in this segment. Various organizations are using our integration solution tcACCESS to transparently integrate the mainframe-databases, -files and -applications into Windows- UNIX/LINUX-, Web- and JAVA-applications. Companies use tcVISION to synchronize mainframe data with the corresponding databases and applications in the Open World. Using our solutions it is an easy task to also integrate Open System resources into existing mainframe applications, both Batch and Online.

Die B.O.S. Software has been one of the exhibitors at the conference and gave a one hour presentation to the audience.

The conference was a big success for B.O.S.. Elisabeth Schwarz, CEO of B.O.S.: "We have been able to establish interesting and valuable contacts during the three conference days. We used the opportunity to demonstrate our solutions to the participants and we could present B.O.S. Software as a professional partner for Mainframe Integration and Data Synchronization."

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21-22.04.2008

B.O.S. User Symposium 2008

The 6th B.O.S. user Symposium was held from April 21st to April 22nd in the historical city of Aachen. The User Symposium was jointly conducted by B.O.S. and the User Community. The highlights of the 2 days have been the presentations from users and the announcements made by B.O.S. for tcACCESS Version 8 and tcVISION Version 3.

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15-17.10.2007

1st European IBM / GSE Conference 2007 for z/VSE, z/VM and Linux on System z

Mr. Wolfgang Schrul from EADS Military Air Systems, Manching, presented his implementation of tcVISION at the European Conference. EADS uses tcVISION to perform a realtime data-synchronization between DL/I, VSAM and MS SQLServer 2005. Mr. Schrul discussed his experiences with tcVISION during the implementation and production use at EADS. Peter Horbach from the B.O.S. Team complemented the presentation and discussed the technical aspects of tcVISION. 

Both presentations can be requested here.

The GSE conference was a big success. It was held at the IBM premises in Böblingen, home of the VSE laboratory. More than 170 participants from all over the world did attend the conference. They learned about the manifold possibilities a state of the art z/VSE offers. B.O.S. Software is loyal to VSE and z/VSE and participates at the conferences for more than 8 years now.

    

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31.07.2007

3270 Host emulation tcJANET available as 64-bit version

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01.02.2007

B.O.S. products support Microsoft Windows Vista

The current program versions of tcVISION, tcACCESS and tcEXPRESS support the new operating system Microsoft Windows Vista.

      

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28.08.2006

B.O.S. Software participates at the IBM VM/VSE IT-Manager Get Together in Bad Reichenhall

Partnering with IBM Business Partner Fritz and Macziol B.O.S. Software has presented the Integration solutions tcACCESS and tcVISION. 

The presentation was welcomed by the audience of this high caliber meeting and caused a lot of interest. B.O.S. Software talked about customer implementations and demonstrated how easy and transparent the integration of VSE-applications and -data can be into Windows-, UNIX/LINUX environments. The presented examples were backed up by live demonstrations of the products. 

tcACCESS allows a an easy and intelligent integration of mainframe-data and -applications using standard SQL-statements. Online- and batch-applications on a mainframe can directly communicate with Windows-, UNIX/LINUX applications and processes. The mainframe applications can also use standard SQL-statements to directly access a DB2/UDB-, ORACLE- or any ODBC-database running on Windows, UNIX or LINUX. All references to LINUX also include "LINUX for system Z". 

With tcVISION a data synchronization can be implemeted between batch- and online databases and any database or application running on VSE, z/VSE, OS/390, z/OS, Windows, UNIX/LINUX. tcVSION automatically captures changes of mainframe data in realtime or based upon time schedulesor events.
      

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13.07.2006

tcACCESS Version 7.0 available

Version 7.0 of tcACCESS has become available to our customer base. This document will give a brief overview about some of the exciting new features of this new tcACCESS version:

 

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31.05.2006

tcVISION for 64-bit Windows available

tcVISION is now available for 64-bit Windows (Windows x86_64 and Windows Itanium based Systems).

      

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29.05.2006

B.O.S. User Symposium 2006

The 2006 User Symposium was held at the Lindner Airport Hotel (Düsseldorf, Germany) on May 15, 2006. Amongst the numerous participants B.O.S. could also welcome users from the Netherlands. Highlights of the Symposium have been user presentations about tcACCESS and tcVISION and the announcements of the new versions of tcACCESS and tcVISION.

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26.05.2006

tcVISION Version 2 - Highlights

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24.05.2006

RDC chooses the B.O.S. solution for CA-IDMS Enterprise Integration

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28.04.2006

Successful participation at the GSE-VSE conference in Dresden

For the sixth time B.O.S. has presented the product line at the GSE-VSE
conference in Dresden. Our booth has been a popular meeting point for our
customers and prospects and has been a place for highly interesting
discussions about "Mainframe integration, Connectors, Realtime
data synchronization and migration". We have presented and demonstrated
tcACCESS and tcVISION using live scenarios connected to VSE systems. Our
participation at the conference has confirmed that we offer solutions for
the VSE world that are highly up-to-date.

Thanks to the organizers for a well organized and felicitous conference. 

     

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21.02.2006

tcEXPRESS availability for x86_64 and Itanium

The tcEXPRESS DB2 access is now available for the Microsoft Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP64 that have been optimized for the Intel architecture. The up-to-date development in hardware technology can now be used by applications.

Development of efficient applications that cope with large volumes of data will speed up significantly. Integrating databases with the latest hardware technology is now possible.

      

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19.12.2005

tcEXPRESS/ODBC for Linux x64 Edition 

tcEXPRESS/ODBC is now available as a 64-bit version for Linux (x64 Edition).

   

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06.07.2005

tcEXPRESS/ODBC 64-bit Edition for AIX5L 

tcEXPRESS/ODBC is now available as a 64-bit version for AIX5L. tcEXPRESS allows for an even better utilization of the most recent UNIX technologies and simplifies the connection to 64-bit databases.

     

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30.03.2005

tcEXPRESS/ODBC Version 2.2 available

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15.11.2004

NEW! tcVISION available
tcVISION: The efficient data based IBM Mainframe Integration

Realtime automatic capturing of changes (Changed Data Capture) applied to mainframe databases and files without any programming Transparent propagation of changed data into any target systems Replication of bulk data (Bulk Extract & Bulk Propagation)

 

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26/27.04.2004

tcACCESS User Symposium 2004

The 2004 User Symposium took place at the Kranzparkhotel, Siegburg Germany, on April 26 and 27. It was the first User Symposium that was conducted outside of 'homeland' Munich. Users from Germany, Italy and France not only attended the Symposium but also actively participated at the Symposium. On both days the highlights have been user presentations and the announcement of the new version of tcACCESS.

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01.08.2003

tcJANET Version 2.0 available

Version 2.0 of the JAVA emulation tcJANET has become available to our customer base.

    

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01.08.2003

tcEXPRESS Version 2.1 available

tcEXPRESS/ODBC and tcEXPRESS/JDBC Version 2.1 has become available to our customer base. tcEXPRESS is the high performance ODBC and JDBC driver for IBMs DB2 database.

      

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18.06.2003

Open System Transparency for the mainframe is now availalble with tcACCESS V 6.0

Task: A mainframe application must access the same data like the Open System application.

Solution: tcACCESS allows a direct access to any ODBC data source that is available on MS-Windows or UNIX server. Information stored on Open System server can be processed by Online (CICS, IMS/DC etc.) and Batch programs.

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07.05.2003

tcACCESS Version 6.0 available

Version 6.0 of tcACCESS, the state of the art mainframe integration solution has become available to our customer base. This document will give a brief overview about some of the exciting new features of this new tcACCESS version:

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01.04.2003

tcACCESS User Symposium 2003

The User Symposium 2003 was held at the Hotel Schreiberhof at Aschheim on March 20th and 21st, 2003. Nearly 18 months had passed since the last Symposium took place. This was the result of the users request who wanted to have the Symposium scheduled during the first half of the year. The tcACCESS users actively participated at this extremely successful event. The highlights of both days have been user presentations and the presentation of Version 6 of tcACCESS.

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07.01.2003

tcACCESS Screen Content Server - 3270 Applications become Relational Data Sources

Version 6.0 of tcACCESS enables data from 3270 screens to become a new data source for the tcACCESS SQL Engine. The Screen Content Server allows SQL based access to any information in 3270 screens using ODBC, JDBC or the tcACCESS API.

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21.10.2002

New! tcEXPRESS/JDBC High Performance JDBC component for DB2

tcEXPRESS/JDBC enables any JDBC capable application to access DB2 or DB2 UDB databases on different platforms like IBM z/OS, OS/390, MVS, VSE, VM, MS-Windows, AIX and Linux.

tcEXPRESS/JDBC offers an outstanding performance; it is easy to install and to implement.

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16.09.2002

New! tcEXPRESS/ODBC High Performance ODBC access to DB2

tcEXPRESS/ODBC enables any ODBC capable application to access DB2 or DB2 UDB databases on different platforms like IBM z/OS, OS/390, MVS, VSE, VM, MS-Windows, AIX and Linux. 

tcEXPRESS/ODBC highlights are the fast and simple installation and implementation, optimum resource utilization and outstanding performance.

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14.02.2002 

tcACCESS 5.0 – OCX interface available!

A MS-Windows Software Developer Kit (SDK) is a new optional feature of tcACCESS. The tcACCESS OCX programming interface can be used by all Windows based OCX capable programming languages like C, Visual Basic, Delphi etc. Due to the visual functionality of OCX, the implementation of tcACCESS functions into a program will be greatly simplified. For example, it is now a simple procedure to access any mainframe resource like a VSAM file or a DL/I or IMS database segment from a Visual Basic program.

The following tcACCESS functions will be supported by the OCX interface:

 

     

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15.01.2002

New Seminars scheduled!
“IBM Mainframe integration for a successful e-Business”The importance of e-Business solutions is growing!

The information exchange between IBM Mainframe Systems and Client Server or Web applications become more and more important. The information exchange provided by File Transfer solutions certainly cannot meet the requirements for being timely, which is one of the most important demands in the Internet era.

We would like to demonstrate to you, how simple the integration of Mainframe data and applications into e-Business solutions can be. Meet us at our Seminars. Experience the power of our solution by attending at Live demonstration. The seminar commences at 9:30 and ends around 15:30.

The Seminar is at no charge. We are looking forward to meeting you there. Please return the application form to us as soon as possible, because seats are limited.

     

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19./20.11.2001 

tcACCESS User Symposium 2001

On November 19th and 20th, 2001, the annual tcACCESS User Conference took place at the Arabella Airport Hotel, Munich Schwaig. It was the second conference and another joint venture between B.O.S. and its users. Highlights of the 2 days event were User Presentations as well as the release of Version 5 of tcACCESS.

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November 2001

tcACCESS Version 5.0 available

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August 2001

B.O.S. participates at the VSE fall conference at Würzburg, from October 29th to 31st, 2001

     

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May 2001

tcACCESS Version 5.0 “in production”

A new version of tcACCESS is currently under development for planned release in the 3rd quarter of 2001. This version will come with interesting new functions and will respond to user requirements. The new version will be presented to the customer base at the annual User Conference, which will be held in November this year.

     

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10./11.05.2001

tcACCESS customer Kommunale Datenverarbeitungszentrale (KDVZ) Rhein-Erft-Ruhr, Frechen presents their tcACCESS solution at the annual IMS GUIDE conference in Darmstadt, Germany

KDVZ Rhein-Erft-Rur is a service provider for government agencies of various cities in the Rheinland area (Erftkreis, Kreis Düren and Kreis Euskirchen). KDVZ explained to the over 60 attendants at the IMS GUIDE conference how they use tcACCESS to access their IBM Mainframe data (OS/390, IMS/DC, IMS/DB, DB2), enabling customers, running MS-Windows PCs, to query and use the data in various PC applications.

Right at the beginning, tcACCESS has bee4n fully integrated into the existing RACF security concept, to ensure continued acceptance of existing security policies and regulations. The ODBC component of tcACCESS is being used, to access IMS data bases from MS-Back Office applications using plain and simple SQL commands. 

The implementation of tcACCESS was easy and straight forward. Existing Copybooks, describing the IMS segment structures have been automatically imported by tcACCESS to make these structures available to Client applications in a relational format. During the import process, the administrator gets detailed information about every imported field (field length, field type i.e. numeric, character, packed, hexadecimal, binary etc.). tcACCESS uses these structures to automatically convert the mainframe sources into the corresponding PC data format.

The KDVZ users access the IMS data bases using these relational structures. Access is being performed out of MS-WORD and MS-ACCESS applications. Some users use MS-EXCEL to access the data and generate reports. The important thing to notice is, that these users do not need to perform any programming. 

KDVZ pointed out, that they have been able to access very complex and complicated IMS segment structures and thanked B.O.S. for an excellent support from the very first minute. Additional projects are under development. 

     

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23.-25.04.2001

Successful participation of B.O.S. at the GSE VSE spring conference in Eisenach 

At this conference users of the IBM VSE operating system could find out, how easy it is, to access any kind of mainframe file from Client/server or Web applications using tcACCESS. TcACCESS was presented at the booth of B.O.S. in a live environment using the VSE mainframe of our development labs in Haar. Mr. Scherr, Manager IT of Merck, Finck & Co., a bank located in Munich, gave a presentation in front of over 100 attendants, explaining how his company is using tcACCESS to query data stored in ADABAS data bases and VSAM files and to integrated this data into MS-Office applications. 

The concept of the tcACCESS solution was extremely well accepted by the audience. A lot of attendants were actually looking for a solution to access mainframe data from PC based applications easily and with no programming effort. Based on the good experiences Merck, Finck & Co, have made, the bank is now planning to develop JAVA based applications and access mainframe resources with tcACCESS. The SQL support, which is available for all file structures eases the integration process of these legacy files into Internet and Intranet applications and drastically reduces the programming effort.

     

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12.02.2001

tcACCESS supports CA-IDMS

The tcACCESS SQL Interpreter Language has been enhanced to support the CA database CA-IDMS. Thus, tcACCESS makes it possible to address CA-IDMS data with standard SQL commands and allows to integrate CA-IDMS data via ODBC into any desktop application like MS-ACCESS, EXCEL, Word and any client/server or web application (JDBC support is also provided) in a very easy and transparent manner and with no programming effort. Due to the user friendly tcACCESS concept no host knowledge is required to extract, read or update CA-IDMS data from a desktop or a web application.

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08.01.2001

B.O.S. announces new roadshow dates

Interested companies will have the opportunity to meet the BOS Team on seminars which will be held in various cities all over Germany in order to inform about the BOS solutions. The seminars of the first half year have for theme „PC-Host / Web-Host Integration Strategies and Solutions“. As a part of the seminars the BOS solutions will be shown in a live demo with realtime host access.

     

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12.12.2000

B.O.S. supports IBM WebSphere with tcACCESS

tcACCESS is the ideal solution for companies who use IBM WebSphere for their Internet or/and Intranet applications to access (read, write, update) IBM mainframe data in combination with web technology. The tcACCESS JDBC Server makes it very easy to access legacy data (DB2, VSAM, DL1, Adabas, CA-Datacom, etc.) with standard SQL commands or by using the existing host logic due to the provided Api and Stored Procedure support. The realisation of web applications with mainframe data access requires no host knowledge as tcACCESS presents field information about the required mainframe data sources in a user-friendly.

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01.12.2000

Product news: tcJANET – The Java Terminal Emulation for Web-Host-Connectivity is now available

The Java terminal emulation tcJANET provides quick and easy connections for users to IBM mainframes. tcJANET is a very cost effective solution to access 3270 applications through a web browser. The central installation reduces implementation and maintenance efforts considerably. tcJANET can be downloaded from the BOS web side for evaluation. Contact B.O.S. for your a download key.

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13./14.11.2000

First tcACCESS and BOS-EXPERT User Conference

The community of BOS users had their first User Conference at the Arabella Hotel in Schwaig-Oberding near the Munich airport. B.O.S. informed the tcACCESS and BOS-EXPERT users about their future development plans for their powerful PC-Host/Web-Host Data and Application Integration Solution and their user friendly Online Help solution which is unique due to its program independence. DAK, a leading German insurance company, presented their Online Help and Documentation solution which has been realized with BOS-EXPERT/WIN. The German EADS subsidiary Manching, as well as the Service Center CPA Langenfeld and the Bundesamt für Informatik und Telekommunikation Bern/Schweiz showed in their presentations how tcACCESS is implemented and used in the different productive IT environments. They also explained why they have decided for tcACCESS and how their company profit from the tcACCESS solution.

      

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