Enhancing the HP e3000 User Interface

Quest Software—NFS/iX and NetBase Client
“Webify” Existing Applications
Quest Software’s Middleware Solutions for MPE provide a gateway to open systems
environments that is flexible and easy to use, allowing heterogeneous platforms and relational
database management systems or file structures to coexist with seamless efficiency. These
solutions make resources on any system on the network available to all users. Files, databases,
printers, and programs can be transparently shared among users on the network configuration,
regardless of geographic location.
MPE and open systems coexistence provides transparent programmatic access to transactions
with intelligent mapping facilities designed to provide continuous, seamless, and real-time or
scheduled movement of data from MPE to other platforms and RDBMS. Quest Software
addresses these needs with the following middleware solutions: NFS/iX and NetBase Client.
NetBase® Client provides a strategic solution for legacy systems to interface with open systems
and emerging e-business applications. Using Quest Software’s NetBase caching, NetBase Client
significantly increases access speeds and minimizes overhead. NetBase Client simplifies the
programmer’s job of creating client/server applications or re-engineering of existing
applications. NetBase Client offers a complete set of APIs that give UNIX, DOS, and Windows
95/NT client/server applications direct read and write access through standard 16- or 32-bit
TurboIMAGE, OMNIDEX or MPE intrinsic calls to data residing in MPE files, KSAM files and
TurboIMAGE databases on HP e3000 systems.
By implementing NetBase Client APIs with UNIX or Windows applications, IS managers can cut
development time in half. NetBase Client APIs help IS staff quickly implement applications that
are tightly integrated with existing HP e3000 systems using simple recompiles with DLLs (e.g.,
Oracle, Informix, Sybase, COBOL, Microfocus, Excel, Visual Basic, PowerBuilder, or any of the
other DOS/UNIX/Windows tools available). Finally, NetBase Client allows RPC calls to be
executed on the HP e3000 via the NBRPC interface.
NFS/iX™ allows HP e3000 systems to coexist with open systems in the same network by
allowing transparent access to and from its file system. NFS s client/server design opens files
for distributed access between different systems without demanding network transfers. This
simple file mount accomplishes data availability between heterogeneous platforms. UNIX file
access is possible from MPE operating systems with full POSIX shell user commands. Web
applications can simply mount data files extracted or permanent to feed information to the web-
application. Since an Apache web-server is built on POSiX Quest’s NFS/iX would be a good fit to
allow the mounting of flat files to the Apache environment that are HP e3000 based.
Contact Information:
John Saylor, U.S. MPE Sales Manager
Quest Software, Inc.
Toll-free: 800-306-9329 x8422
Direct: [phone]
Fax: [phone]
E-mail: [e-mail]
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