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PSA
VIRTEL Web Access has been deployed as an interface for accessing PSA Peugeot Citroën's IMS mainframe applications.
Learn more about the use of Virtel at PSA
An IMS 3270 application accessed on a private SNA network had to be available to international users using standard Web browsers. The display and navigation had to remain unchanged in order to avoid having to train users. This involved a simple one-to-one 3270/HTML conversion.
PSA tested the VIRTEL solution to evaluate its performance, perform load testing, and assess its future scalability. Up to 15,000 SNA sessions and 1,000 TCP sessions can be handled simultaneously by a single VIRTEL instance.
VIRTEL has been in production since 2003 and supports an average of 3,000 concurrent connections. Multiple instances of VIRTEL have been installed to balance the load and to allow for data recovery in case the system goes down. VIRTEL is also responsible for automating the conversion of DBCS Chinese characters for Chinese and Russian markets and for European languages (Italian, Spanish, English, French, etc.).
P&V Insurance
VIRTEL Web Access extends CICS applications to standard web browsers at P&V Insurance.
How does Virtel work at P&V?
Today, P&V Insurance agents can choose any workstation or browser they want to securely access CICS applications, even workstations running Windows 7 or Mac. They are no longer restricted to the costly and dedicated workstations that they used to lease from P&V Insurance. Meanwhile, P&V Insurance has eliminated its support requirements outside the mainframe.
Virtel Web Integration
CORTAL
CORTAL, a subsidiary of BNP Paribas, has chosen VIRTEL Web Integration for transferring batches of COBOL files in XML format to the Banque de France.
Learn more about the use of Virtel at Cortal Consors
A VIRTEL scenario converts CORTAL customer data in COBOL into XML format and transfers it over a private connection to the Banque de France, in accordance with the Banque de France's established procedure. The Banque de France sends back an XML response, including the status of the transfer, any error messages that occurred, and statistics. The VIRTEL scenario converts the XML response into COBOL and returns it to the COBOL batch application.
MFP Services
VIRTEL Web Integration was deployed at MFP ("Mutuelle de la Fonction Publique") as a Web service for establishing communication between their mainframe application for managing payments and the new Web portal available to its members.
Which features of Virtel are implemented at MFP?
MFP Services wanted to query the DB2 database associated with its central CICS COBOL application from the new Web platform, developed with WebSphere Portal for iSeries. The two environments needed to be able to communicate using standard technology, without any sort of dependency between them, to ensure the portal's sustainability and scalability. MFP Services chose VIRTEL Web Integration to provide this communication.
Virtel is installed directly on the x/OS platform, providing VTAM relay functions and acting as an HTTP server. This positioning allows Virtel to use existing CICS transactions to access DB2 data and also establish an interface with WebSphere Portal for iSeries. The whole setup is based on HTTP and XML market standards, using a secure URL. Using a basic Web service, Virtel Web Integration can then provide mainframe data in real time.
WebSphere sends requests as reusable Web services (GET) to the VIRTEL HTTP server. A VIRTEL input scenario converts the GET data into COMMAREA data and calls a CICS transaction to process the data. Next, a VIRTEL output scenario converts the data returned by the CICS transaction into an XML feed, inserts the XML feed into the VIRTEL variable, inserts the VIRTEL variable into the HTML page to display the results, and returns the HTML page to the Web browser.
FINAREF
VIRTEL Web Integration was deployed at FINAREF to issue SOAP requests from a CICS application and then process the response.
Learn more about how Finaref uses Virtel
A CICS COBOL application (called AMIA) needed to call a client application (called SIPS) using TCP/IP and XML protocols. SIPS is a standalone Java application residing on a WebLogic server. FINAREF developed a J2EE application that serves as a portal between the AMIA application and the SIPS application. The portal presents the SIPS application to the central system as a Web service. AMIA accesses the Web service via VIRTEL Web Integration. In this case, VIRTEL processes a bidirectional SOAP request with a COBOL/SOAP conversion and serves as an outgoing HTTP server.
Virtel Web Modernization
PSA
PSA chooses VIRTEL Web Modernization to modernize its Occasions du Lion application.
Learn more about the use of Virtel at PSA
PSA Peugeot Citroën wanted to upgrade its Occasions du Lion application to make it searchable and capable of being updated by the entire network in real time.
PSA's goal was first to make its CICS DB2 COBOL application accessible over the Internet and Minitel simultaneously and then to give it a true Web dimension with a modern interface.
The VIRTEL Web Access solution helped to handle the complementarity between the two desired access modes without changing the application itself. With the VIRTEL Web Modernization solution, it was very quick and easy to rethink the user interface into something more user-friendly and easy to navigate, resulting in easier work for users.
