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The mainframe at the center of a heterogeneous IT

B.O.S. Software Service und Vertrieb GmbH can look back on more than 30 successful years. It was founded as a manufacturer of mainframe-based software, which has been successfully …
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tcVISION and Snowflake

With tcVISION B.O.S. offers a solution with a wide range of possible uses for the data integration of a mainframe with the operating systems z/OS, z/VSE, VSEn  z/VM, network …
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Advantages of modern data synchronization in a hybrid IT environment

Almost every company equipped with a hybrid IT infrastructure has to deal with this problem: How is identical data kept synchronized on different platforms and data storage …
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Migration in IT

Migration is a term that we encounter in everyday life. Whether on television or radio, we are confronted with migration issues in the news.
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tcVISION now also takes care of the REST

BOS also uses the advantages of REST for different functions within the tcVISION solution. Examples are the automation function per process, or monitoring functions.
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Change Data Capture (CDC) – the foundation of a heterogeneous IT

A heterogeneous IT with a mainframe and the z/OS and z/VSE operating systems represents a particular challenge.
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Old and new – reaching the goal together

Anyone, who has been employed and responsible in IT for a long time, knows the challenges that arise at ever shorter intervals: new technologies in hardware and software, new ways …
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Relieving the mainframe

tcVISION is used in daily productive IT operations on different platforms and with a large number of input databases and files as well as output databases, cloud and big data …
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Expansion of complex legacy systems with a modern data platform

Our customers are our best references. A large number of customers use tcVISION in daily productive IT operations with different platforms, input databases and files as well as …
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Referential Integrity through the ages

The transaction of the change must be logically coherent and error-free up to completion (COMMIT) and be found in the target database.
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Mainframe data are often an obstacle to the use of new technologies

Mainframe data are different - they have grown historically and are not compatible with the data storage systems under Linux, Unix, MS Windows and cloud platforms.
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The shackles of the past become solutions for the present and the future

Migrating a mainframe application or the entire mainframe platform to a Windows, Unix or Linux platform can be a very difficult and cumbersome undertaking.
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Partner Conference 2021

Even in times of COVID-19, interaction and communication with our customers and partners are extremely important and partnerships are essential for a successful, global …
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The end of the Data- and Application-Lock-In.

Many companies look back on a long history of data processing.
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From local data storage to data lakes or data hubs

Since the first appearance of a computer, data has been the indispensable prerequisite and raison d'être.
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Cryptography: Requirements and Realization in our Solutions

The Internet Protocol TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol) has been the standard protocol for sending data across continental, system, and platform boundaries for almost two …
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Partner for all Platforms and Technologies

tcVISION is an extremely powerful and agile replication platform.
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Impact of Data Streaming on traditional Mainframe IT

We have already dealt with the topic of data streaming in previous blog entries and found that data streaming is the new and modern way of batch processing.
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The IT Enterprise Architecture of the Future

Enterprise IT has always been subject to constant changes, not only since the corona pandemic.
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tcVISION Guarantees Transaction Safety

"Transaction Safety for Data Streaming to Kafka" is our newsroom entry from May 4, 2020.
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Data Streaming - Real-Time Data Processing

Since Big Data has influenced and changed the IT world, data streaming has been seen as an alternative to traditional batch processing.
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The Mainframe and the Cloud

For a large number of companies, the mainframe represents the heart of IT - almost half of all business-critical applications run on a mainframe.
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Bidirectional Replication - An Analysis

B.O.S. Software Service und Vertrieb GmbH and its tcVISION solution have been an integral part of the data replication, synchronization, transformation, and exchange market for …
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A Brief History

This blog illustrates the history and development of the IT from the first ideas and machines in the 19th century to modern times.
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All about Kafka

Apache Kafka has become one of the most important platforms for highly scalable systems and processing large data volumes in modern IT systems.
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Apache Kafka – Technology for Today and Tomorrow

The ease of use, flexibility, and scalability in modern cluster-based systems make Apache Kafka increasingly popular.
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tcVISION on Amazon Web Services

Cloud technologies have come into the focus of companies that use enterprise-critical data. Many of those companies use Amazon Web Services (AWS).
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BOS Software and Confluent – the Merging of Mainframe, Open System, and BigData

Confluent with headquarters in Palo Alto, California, was established by the developers of the Open Source Solution Apache Kafka.
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Real-time or Near Real-time, that is the question

Almost all providers of data synchronization solutions use the term „real-time“. The BOS Software uses it too.
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