Rational Host Access Transformation Services

Overview

Rational ® Host Access Transformation Services (HATS) transforms terminal applications quickly and easily!

With HATS, quickly transform your 3270 and 5250 green screen applications to intuitive Web, portlet, rich client or mobile device user interfaces, and extend 3270, 5250, and VT green screens as standard Web services.

• Extends terminal applications to the web, web services, portlets, mobile devices, and rich clients swiftly and with low risk
• Improves the workflow and usability of your 3270 and 5250 applications, without requiring access to or modification of application source code
• Leverage proven 3270, 5250, and VT application logic in new ways with easy creation of reusable, flexible, integration-ready services
• Includes the Visual Macro Editor, a graphical editor for visually developing screen flows for robust and reliable web services
• Broadens the reach of System z and IBM i applications with support for mobile web access from devices such as smartphones, tablets, and handheld computers
• Provides standard JSR 286 and JSR 168 portlet support, including built-in inter-portlet communication
• New in V8: Dojo support, for richer, extensible user interface transformation
• New in V8: RESTful web services, for simpler, lightweight service enablement
• New in V8: Support for latest tooling, runtimes, and clients, Rational Application Developer for WebSphere Software V8, WebSphere Application Server V8, and iPad
• Operating systems supported: AIX, HP-UX, i/OS family, Linux, Solaris (Sun microsystems), Windows family, z/OS

IBM Announces Its Next Generation Platform; IBM PureSystems 24/04/2012

With the introduction of IBM...

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