MCS is focused on helping companies using Microsoft products to implement leading-edge technology delivered by Microsoft to the market. As a consulting group, MCS' goal is to help customers make the best decisions surrounding the development and implementation of Microsoft products and any technologies that affect the customer's business. The consultants accomplish this by working closely with organizations to understand their business needs and help map the technology to meet those needs. The heart of America West's Web site is the Effortless Ticketing Online reservation component. The Effortless Ticketing Online reservation component operates in the context of a session on the reservation system.
Session is defined here as the reservation component's connection to the mainframe.
Through this session, screen-scraping data from the mainframe can be sent and received. The client application begins a reservation session by instantiating the reservation component's Session object. Creating this object is analogous to opening and logging on to a new terminal session on the reservation system. Because we screen-scrape our terminal sessions through one instance of an Attachmate component, we needed to create a component that would manage the 50 terminal sessions at our disposal. ResPool will provide the next available session to the ResConnect component.