Project Pxxx - Eurescom - European Institute for Research and

Volume 3: Annex 2 - Data manipulation and management issues Deliverable 1 need to build transaction processing systems that update or inter-operate with all these

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DBMSs/resource managers concurrently.

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You need to build applications that enable users to perform transactions or access files over the Internet - all Transarc’s Web products are well thought out and useful.

4.2.6

Future plans

Future development plans include:

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Integration with Tivoli’s TME, the systems management software from IBM’s subsidiary

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Integration with Lotus Notes (available as sample code today)

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Enhancement of the DE-Light product (Full JavaBeans client support is currently available There are plans to provide an Enterprise JavaBeans environment later this year, which will be integrated with TXSeries in the future

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TXSeries currently provides Corba 2.0 OTS and OCCS services. These work with IONA’s ORB today and there are plans to support other ORBS - such as

IBM’s Component Broker in the near future.

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Available since 4Q97, IBM provides direct TXSeries links to IMS, which will enable IMS transactions to become part of a transaction controlled using twophase commit and specified using TxRPC

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Transarc will provide tools for automatic generation of COM objects from the

TXSeries IDL in our next release. Today, integration with tools like Power

Builder, Delphi, etc is achieved through calls to DLL libraries.

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Support for broadcast and multi-cast communication.

4.2.7

Pricing

Product

TXSeries Server

TXSeries Registered User

TXSeries Unlimited Use (mid-tier)

Price

$ 3,600

$ 80

$ 16,500

4.3

IBM’s CICS

4.3.1

Summary

Key Points

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Supports NetBIOS (CICS clients only), TCP/IP (except the ESA, AS/400 and

VSE platforms) and SNA (all platforms) page 22 (120)

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1999 EURESCOM Participants in Project P817-PF