FACT SHEET | APPLICATION SERVICES

Simplify Mainframe Migration and AccelerateYour Savings
UniKix™ Mainframe Re-hosting Software Suite by NTT DATA

Run business-critical mainframe workloads on industry-standard systems

Benefits:• Significantly lowers
annual IT operationalcosts• Reduces migration risk,time and complexity• Simplifies IT
environments toaccommodate growing
workloads and newdemands• Provides a native,
mainframe-compatible
processing environment
on open systems• Delivers a provenplatform for evolving
technologies such as
cloud computing,mobility and virtualization

With UniKix Mainframe Re-hosting by NTT DATA, you can run mission-critical online andbatch workloads on cost-effective industry standard systems. For many organizations,re-hosting cuts annual operating costs by 30 – 70% and provides a safe path forward
for IT assets.
Our Mainframe Re-hosting software also preserves existing application investments andextends the benefits of distributed platforms to migrated IBM® CICS® transactions, IBMIMS™ applications, IDMS, Natural Adabas and other assets. This allows your businessto handle new requirements such as cloud computing, mobility and virtualization.
Based on over 20 years of production experience worldwide, Mainframe
Re-hosting offers a solid foundation to meet changing business needs and extend thelife of mission-critical legacy workloads. Our software preserves the valuable businesslogic and end-user interfaces developed over the years, and provides an integrated
environment to extend these assets with new Java Enterprise Edition, service-oriented
architecture and web services.

NTT DATA’s offering was one of the most pricecompetitive we came across, but that wasn’t theonly reason we found it compelling: we also receivedmore features and a high quality solution.
Luciano Manini
Chief Technology Officer
Miroglio GroupUniKix Mainframe Re-hosting by NTT DATAFree up capacity, avoid unnecessary
upgrades and lower total cost ofownership by re-hosting complete
mainframe environments to industry
standard systems or offloading portionsof your organization’s legacy processing
requirements.
Unlike re-engineering or commercial
off-the-shelf alternatives, application
logic and data remains largely intact
with Mainframe Re-hosting. Our
approach enables rapid and costeffective migration with minimal businessdisruption. And since re-hosting
minimizes change, your development
resources will easily adapt to the newenvironment and end-users may not evenrequire retraining.

Core UniKix Mainframe Re-hosting Software Suite Components
SoftwareDescription

NTT DATA
Transaction
Processing
Environment (TPE)

Native, high-performance transaction processing environment that enables
rapid migration of mainframe application and data investments, without
excessive cost or riskHighlights• Runs re-hosted IBM CICS transactions, IBM IMS applications, IDMS DC
programs, Natural programs and related resources• Offers native support for VSAM files and relational databases• Includes GUI-based administration and monitoring; as well as built-in
diagnostic utilities for remote monitoring• Utilizes authentication and resource-level security similar to IBM
RACF® technology• Maintains transactional integrity and consistency

NTT DATA Batch
Processing
Environment (BPE)

Highlights• Includes comprehensive and dynamic Job Control Language (JCL)translation capabilities• Supports job step management and recovery, priority classes,
conditioned execution, job monitoring and more
• Provides native support for GDGs, sequential files and relational
databases• Integrates with industry-standard software and common IBM utilities,
such as IDCAMS, IEBGENER and SORT
• Includes GUI-based job editor

Renew valuable legacy assets
Our Mainframe Re-hosting software
can move a large number of application
languages and utilities to industrystandard systems, while keeping valuablebusiness logic intact. This allows yourorganization to gain immediatereuse advantages.
Our software supports distributed
COBOL platforms such as NTT DATAEnterprise COBOL and Micro Focus
COBOL. It can also execute applications
written in the C language, C#, Naturaland Java.

Complete environment for administering, executing and managing batch
workloads on industry-standard systems without excessive code change orcomplex integration requirements

NTT DATATransaction Security
Facility (TSF)

Comprehensive technology that can be bundled with TPE software to provide
secure operations and protection levels similar to IBM RACF technology for
IBM CICS transactions
Highlights• Utilizes LDAP or relational-database repositories• Provides administrative and runtime services for a role-based-accesscontrol security model• Enables audit logging with configurable levels of audit messages• Provides point-of-entry security, if required

Mainframe Re-hosting supports
mainframe VSAM file types, as well as
popular relational databases, including
IBM DB2® LUW, Microsoft SQL Server,
Oracle® database and Sybase. It uses
XA-compliant architecture to control
and synchronize all relational database
and VSAM file interactions, providing
the environment you need to migratevaluable legacy assets to industry
standard systems.

Visit nttdataservices.com/applicationmodernization to learn more.
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