Alebra Technologies, the leader in managed high-speed cross-platform data movement/data access, announces the availability of Parallel Data Mover (PDM) Release 5, effective March 31, 2010.
PDM Release 5 extends the capabilities of Parallel Data Mover with the following major enhancements:
- Full z/OS VSAM data access functionality from Windows, Linux and UNIX systems, including keyed record-access.
- Support for Linux on System z.
- Application Programming Interface (API) on Open Systems which supports file and record-level access to data on z/OS.
- Performance improvements of Release 5 over the prior release:
- The efficiency of PDM with z/OpenGate has increased 5x (Release 5 uses 22 to 24 times less z/OS MIPS when compared to FTP running over the network).
- 50% increase in channel I/O transfer speeds (minimum 600 MB/sec using two 4 GB/sec attached FICON points – scalable to thousands of MB/sec).
- Throughput is now limited only by the read/write speed of attached disks.
When combined with Alebra's z/OpenGate, PDM Release 5 further extends the unique high-speed channel-I/O file transfer capabilities of previous releases by introducing record-level access. It is now possible to access VSAM data on the Mainframe, from a variety of Open Systems platforms, including z/Linux. This means that the time and effort associated with moving, duplicating, and synchronizing data files can be diminished or even eliminated, since it is now possible to have cross-platform access to z/OS data files, without the need to move those files.
The introduction of an API creates further programming flexibility, beyond the previous command line interface. Application programmers can now write open systems applications that access mainframe data as if it were local to the open systems platform.
By providing off-network, channel-I/O based connectivity, PDM and z/OpenGate eliminate the speed and efficiency barriers imposed by TCP/IP based solutions. With transfer speeds that support the copying or synchronization of terabytes of data between platforms within minutes or deliver individual records to transactional systems within milliseconds, ETL, data mining, application modernization, rehosting, back-up and other data intensive projects that are impractical using network-based solutions become both viable and economical.
About Alebra: Alebra provides fully managed file transfer capabilities between IBM z/OS based Mainframes and Windows, Linux and UNIX platforms. Supported transport links between systems include TCP/IP communications networks, CTC connections between z/OS Mainframes, hipersockets within IBM mainframes and Alebra's exclusive z/OpenGate, an IBM z/OS Mainframe to Open Systems Gateway.
Contacts:
Alebra Technologies, Inc.
Donna White, 978-582-4851
Donna.White@alebra.com
www.alebra.com
