GCOS 8

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GCOS 8 Internet solutions implementation
Bull Division Serveurs / Business Unit GCOS
8 March 1999
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Fonctionnal Architecture
Enterprise Servers GCOS 8/TP8
INTERNET
Applications Servers Networking
infrastructure stations presentation .
Workstations
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Web applications and GCOS 8 implementation a
dual architecture
Enterprise Servers GCOS 8/TP8
TCP/IP - MainWay (ONP) - GTEA
INTERNET
Web Servers
Web 8
Web browser on the workstation UNIVERSAL CLIENT
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GCOS 8 TCP/IP communications

• MainWay -ONP (Open Network Processor)
• DSA et TCP/IP networking infrastructures
  cooperation
• New security services (fire-wall SSL
  AccessMaster integration )
• GTEA ()
• middleware suite for new interoperability
  solutions between GCOS8 (DSA oriented ) and open
  systems (Unix NT) thru TCP/IP networks

() GCOS TCP Enterprise Access
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FCP8 Mainway

• FCP8
• LAN Extender
• MainWay ONP
• Service Processor

GCOS 8
TSS TP8
FTP8 DPF8
FCP8
TCP-IP
DSA
UNIX
FDDI RING
F D D I
E T H E
LAN
F D D I
E T H E
Extender
FDDI
Service Processor
UNIX
X25
MainWay ONP
LAN
TCP-IP DSA SNA
Terminaux réseaux existants
IBM
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GTEA Overview

• Communications library for GCOS DSA Applications
• Standard TCP/IP network
• Standard sockets library
• Support for multiple platforms
• Unix Library
• Windows DLL
• Java class
• Minimum configuration
• No changes to host applications
• Requires Netshare 8NX1.0N
• FCP8 or Mainway

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GTEA features

• Multi-platform support
• Java classes
• Unix Shared library
• Windows 32 DLL
• Portable CPI-C API
• Simple dsa_x API
• dsa_connect
• dsa_read
• dsa_write
• dsa_close
• 8-bit data

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GTEA Network Infrastructure
WEB Server
GTEA
TCP/IP
DSA (TCP/IP)
Netshare FCP8 or MainWay
Browser

• CGI scripts
• Web Server Extensions

WEBFORM8 TPRs TP8
DSA (TCP/IP)
ActiveX
GTEA
User Applications Visual Basic C/C Power
Builder
2 LTP
Tuxedo
Dialog server
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GTEA architecture
Client System ()
GCOS 8
Client Application
Server Application
DSA Session
CPI-C ActiveX
DSA Session / RFC1006
F C P 8
NetShare (RFC1006)
WinSock/Sockets/java.net
MainWay (NetShare)
TCP/IP Network
() AIX or NT
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GCOS 8 and departemental Web applications
Cooperation
(ex. City of Manchester, Ville de Liège ,
Wehkamp, MGEN...)
GCOS 8 Server
Web Server
Web browser
Intranet / Internet
page HTML
Application
"middleware " Interop 8
TP 8
1er tier
2nd tier
3rd tier
Web Server Web appli. dvt
Web server -GCOS cooperation
Corporate data

• Netscape App. Server
• Oracle WebServer
• Prolifics
• GWEB
• ...

• CGI scripts or (X)API
• towards TP 8 thru
• CPI-C / XCP2
• / Host ou 2LTP (Tuxedo)
• GTEA
• ...

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Integration of Web departemental solutions with
GCOS 8
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Web 8 Product Objectives

• Direct Access to GCOS8 from the WEB
• Protect GCOS8 investments
• business rules and data access can be kept
• New and revised applications
• Preserve a performant 2-tier architecture
• Internet Standards
• Browsers
• HTML / Javascript for presentation
• (and soon) XML for data exchange
• HTTP
• TCP/IP
• The power of TP/DB COBOL processing with smart
  HTML presentation

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Web 8 in brief

• Products that enable direct Web access to GCOS8
• Web 8 applications employ gateways to convert
  TCP/IP into native DSA session

Webform 8 TPRs TP8
TCP/IP
DSA
Web 8 Gateway
Application Data HTML
Browser
Data access
TP
Business rules
renovation streamlining of TP8 applications
presentation layer
Presentation
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WEB8 Solutions for GCOS8
GTEA
TCP/IP
GEAP
DSA (TCP/IP)
Netshare FCP8 or Mainway
Browser
HTTP/DSA Gateway remote forms (Unix or Windows
95/NT)
WEBFORM8 TPRs TP8
DSA
MainWay
FCP8
TCP/IP
HTTP/DSA (Mainway)
Browser
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Product Overview

• Web Access to GCOS8
• Gateways
• Mainway HTTP-DSA Gateway
• GEAP
• WEBFORM8
• Runtime Library
• HTML Template Database
• HTTP Utility
• DOCS TPR
• GTEA

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WEB8 Development Environment

• Web Authoring tools create web page
• Frontpage, Adobe Pagemill, word97
• GCOS 8 COBOL WB () Pacbase VisualAge now
  integrate Web 8
• Publish to Web server for testing
• Import to WEBFORM8 HTML database
• Develop TPR to process HTTP requests
• Browser submits request

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HTTP Gateway Products

• Mainway HTTP-DSA Gateway
• Connects GCOS8 to Internet
• No extra software to install
• Target Our customers clients
• GEAP
• High performance corporate Intranet
• GEAP installed in each location
• Target Our customers employees
• New terminal type
• Applications able to detect browser

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WEB 8 best fit to the Internet infrastructure
chosen
GCOS 8 Server
Web browser
MainWay
Internet HTTP/TCP-IP
Intranet DSA/HTTP/TCP-IP
Worktations, Workgroup or Dpt server
GCOS 8 Server
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Web 8 on-going implementations with GCOS 8
customers
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SmartWeb brings the Web 8 server as a simpler
scalable solution for web access to GCOS 8 data
Web 8
Web 8
GCOS 8 Host A
SmartWeb
TP8
TimeFinder cmd
BCV
Data
Data
The TimeFinder software feeds the SmartWeb Web 8
Server DataBase with the GCOS 8 Host A
Corporate Data
Web 8  Try Buy  pack 
Web 8 server
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WEB8 URL

• http//gateway/node.mbx/0/tp8cmd
• http protocol
• //gateway IP address of HTTP gateway
• /node.mbx TP8 node and mailbox
• /0 session context identifier
• /tp8cmd command to be executed
• /options optional parameters
• Fondamental Mechanism to sustain the session
  context between the browser and TP8
• only a standard Web object is used (URL and BASE
  tag in HTML header)
• no application specific cookies, tokens or
  hidden forms used

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Bull Secured Solutions integration

• Global Security - Consistent application (eg
  E-Commerce) security approach Security
  administration

AccessMaster
Access control - Fire-WallsSecured acces to the
Data Centerthru Internet (Dynamic IP filtering
and application proxies NetWall )
Confidentiality of communications -
Centralized administration of keys, encryption
rules secured VPN
Users Authentication - SmartCard authentication
(ID)
Continuous service (7/7-24/24) - Availability
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GCOS 8 Internet in brief

• Internet networking (TCP/IP) and GCOS 8
  Intégration
• MainWay (ONP) GTEA
• Opening of GCOS 8 to the Web without abrupt
  change
• GCOS 8 ltgt Web servers cooperation
• Web 8 direct access to TP8 thru Internet from
  any Web browser
• Web 8 turns GCOS 8 into a transactionnal Web
  server
• Web 8 a 2 Tier Client /Server architecture
  simple , -scalable - and manageable by the Data
  Center
• The TP8 performance and security reinforced by
  SecurWare/AccessMaster security solutions
• protocol conversion gateways external to GCOS
  8 (GTEA or HTPP/DSA)
• HTML based presentation for TP8 appliactions
  simplifies users  interaction with TP8
• Fire-Wall, authentication, virtual private
  network with encryption and administration
  thanks to Securware /AccessMaster