Will Rogers once offered: "Strangers are just friends I haven't met yet." In your world of multiple platforms and data that all need to get along together, you need an ice-breaker! Something to make it Easy to talk! That's where XML comes in.

Defined by the independent Internet standards  community, Extensible Markup Language (XML), provides for the simple interchange of any data between any computer or programming language. And with 60% of the world's data still safe and secure on IBM mainframes, it's important to find the best way to integrate your zOS-OS/390, z/VSE-VSE/ESA into this rapidly-emerging world of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Web Services.

That's where z/XML-Host™ comes in. z/XML-Host instantly transforms any 3270 application data, CICS or non-CICS, into industry-standard XML documents. By using z/XML-Host's powerful XMLScreen™ facility, you can easily implement Document Type Definitions (DTDs) or industry Schemas to transform your data  into a format that can be exchanged with any other XML-capable system. And because z/XML-Host features support for Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) requests, your mainframe can act as a SOAP server and interact with any Web Services capable platform. This includes the newest, XML-enabled release of Microsoft Office and their ubiquitous applications like Excel, Word and others. z/XML-Host can make mainframe data directly accessible to these applications without any need for data migration or conversion. Imagine the power of using your traditional desktop apps to directly access and update mainframe data!

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Now your mainframe data and your applications can exploit SOAP servers or applications in Microsoft's .Net architecture, J2EE applications, or interact with robust  applications including IBM's WebSphere and Microsoft's BizTalk Server. All without changing a single line of code in your proven and reliable mainframe applications. Since XML/Web Services is nearly universally spoken across platforms, z/XML-Host makes it Easy to integrate your Microsoft .NET or Java applications directly with your mainframe data and applications. It's high time someone actually was serviced by their SOA.

z/XML-Host integrates with another member of our z/Ware family of Internet-enabling software, z/Web-Host to deliver a complete solution to Internet-enable your mainframe data. And by integrating our iCYA Network Security Appliance which delivers full SSL support, your XML data is fully encrypted ensuring that you co ntrol who accesses your data.

z/XML-Host installs in less than an hour, requires no CICS resources and you can begin immediately to take advantage of the power of XML without any changes, anywhere. By the time you read another company's white papers and installation manuals just to figure out how their software works with other esoteric, more difficult components like CICS Web Support or the 3270 Bridge, you could have your first application up and running using z/XML-Host. Just to show how easy it is to integrate, we even include some sample Visual Basic .Net applications to interface with z/XML-Host.

So discover the easy path to Internet-enable your mainframe. Click here to download z/XML-Host for a FREE 30 day evaluation, because touching is believing.

It really can be Easy to Talk to Strangers!