HostBridge Virtual User Group December 2020

• Integration script/API tips & tricks James Alexander
• User Experience: HostBridge Health Check Wally Brown, BancorpSouth
• Integration Analytics Overview Russ Teubner
• User Experience: Integration Analytics Patrick Keane, Ingram Micro
• HostBridge product roadmap Scott Glenn
• Open forum, discussion, Q & A Everyone!
Today’s Agenda

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Attendee Swag

• Current Release
• V6.91 - Current
• V6.93 - February 2021
• Improved Storage Reporting
• IBM Maintenance Authentication Performance
• UA83755, UA83757, UA92549
HostBridge Bulletins

• Many Screens
• Several Paths Possible
• No Direct Paths
• Path Driven by Host Data
• Similar Code in Many Services
Unique Problems . . .

• Googled “Dijkstra JavaScript Shortest Path”
• Added to Customer Common Utilities
• Shortest Path Code
• Table of Screen “Neighbors”
• Screen Object
• Added Screen Navigation
• Implementation
myUtil.shortestPath (from, to, data);
. . .Unique Solutions

Learn more on the HostBridge blog:

• The process
• Installation of HTAC
• Production run for ~45 minutes
• The results/recommendations
• Removal of the CWXN transaction will be done as soon as other systems allow
• Orphaned CWXN transactions caused by “pre-flight”. This is likely due to .NET
• E4X usage in scripts will be supported until HB v8. We have started looking at ways to work
around it.
• Advice to other HB users
HostBridge Health Check

What: end-to-end visibility of hybrid or RPA/CICS interactions
CICS Integration Analytics

How:
• Foundation: SMF 110 data
• Optional: HostBridge Transaction Analytics Connector
• Runs inside CICS
• Extracts origin data/metadata from external requests
• Annotates SMF 110 records with this correlation data
• New US Patent awarded to HB
• Splunk dashboards

Why:
• Assess operational impact
• Estimate costs of suboptimal integration
• Optimize Hybrid IT integration
Use Cases:
• Macro/RPA Detection and Impact Analysis
• HB.js Operational Analysis

HB.js Operational Analysis

Q & A with Patrick Keane
What motivated you to begin investigating who (or what) was interacting
with mainframe, and how those interactions were occurring?
Integration Analytics

RPA/Macro Analysis
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We've analyzed a lot of SMF data
and prepared a lot of integration
analytics dashboards. What are
some the insights these dashboards
are providing, and what impact will
acting on these insights have?

Do you need them? Yes, if you have:
• CICS modernization plans
• Unexplained spikes in performance or workload
• No or limited visibility into what is driving CICS workload
• A need to identify inefficient applications/practices
• High/unexplained volume from screen-based apps
• If you use HB.js!
Initial analysis is free and included in your HostBridge support agreement.

What Have You Done for Me Lately?
Janet Jackson, 1986
● Version 6 released 2009
● 15 releases since then, 6.91 is the current
● 323 Feature enhancements and fixes
● zIIP Support
● MQ and DB2 objects added
● New CICS functionality
● LINKing to HB.js to allow COBOL developers access to functionality

Are we there yet?

Obligatory graph that has too much stuff on it
and can’t be read by mortal human eyes

We only really care about two things...

These two things...

JavaScript aka ECMAScript aka JS
•Current JS engine is right before ECMAScript 5th edition
•String, Object, Array have been enhanced with many of the
current standard features from the current ECMAScript 2020
edition.
•Compiled to bytecode for improved runtime performance to
eliminate source parsing.
•No JIT

Why TypeScript?

Pretty graph, but why?
•“Enterprise class JavaScript”
•TypeScript is a typed superset of JavaScript that compiles to plain
JavaScript. It offers classes, modules, and interfaces to help you
build robust components.
•Transpiles to JS. No need for new runtime.
•Does not have to be adopted all at once
•Many large frameworks are built in TypeScript
Visual Studio Code: Microsoft/vscode , 336131 lines of TypeScript
Angular: angular/angular , 220384 lines of TypeScript

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● Version 7 will be an internationalization release. ICU
for processing Unicode. Scripts stored internally in
unicode instead of EBCDIC ( started with 691 ).
● Version 8 will add a new script engine based on
Chromium’s V8. Current engine is based on Mozilla.
● JIT. Up to 10x faster execution of pure JS.
● ECMAScript 2020 compliance.
● Can run the TypeScript compiler. Existing engine
already runs TypeScript generated JS.

● Version 6 is the current release. Long
history of enhancements primarily driven
by customer need and feedback.
● Version 7 will be out shortly, focus on
internationalization
● Version 8 will be out in the future. Builds
on version 6 and version 7. Faster JS
execution. Current ECMAScript
compliance so developers can copy/paste,
reuse as much JS as possible from
anywhere.

Open Forum/Discussion/Q & A

Q: MS Azure Cloud Services
How can I use HostBridge to accomplish CICS integration with MS
Azure Cloud Services?
Richard N.

That’s it!
• The next HostBridge User Group meeting will occur in late 2Q2021
• Send your topic ideas to: support@hostbridge.com

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