BlueZone HostFront Features

HostFront significantly shortens development time by using 3270 and 5250 screen-based integration.

HostFront features include:

• Familiar Visual Studio .NET interface to automatically create Web services from host data without touching any legacy code.
• Easy installation. Customers can start using HostFront in less than an hour.
• Secure access to IBM zSeries using TN3270 and System i5 using TN5250. Connections are highly secured with built-in 128-bit encryption and support for RSA SecurID and ClearTrust. Session pool management to manage the use and sharing of host sessions. The session pool manager improves response time and eliminates unnecessary navigations by allowing users to define and execute navigations for session parking.
• Cluster-centric design that ensures robustness, scalability and high availability with its built-in session load balancing and fail-over services. Multiple HostFront clusters can be totally managed, administered or monitored in real time from a single graphical management console, either locally or remotely.

Scenarios

HostFront is used to extend Visual Studio 2003 and 2005 to non-invasively integrate mainframe and System i functionality with Microsoft applications such as:

• BizTalk Server
• Host Integration Server
• InfoPath
• SharePoint
• Dynamics GP