IBM
MITEM is a member of the IBM
Partners in Development program and has enjoyed a long
relationship with the Company and its products and protocols.
MITEM shipped
the the first release of MitemView in 1989, and was
typically used to connect to IBM OS/390 mainframes.
MITEM has a solid history of providing first-class support
for IBM’s networking and communication technologies.
MITEM developed its own SNA protocol stack (including
DLC support) and supports IBM Personal Communications
along with Microsoft and Novell’s SNA Server Gateways.
As the TCP/IP protocol became prevalent in IBM installations,
MITEM quickly added support for the TN3270, TN3270E
and TN5250 protocols.
In the last
decade, more than 75% of MITEM’s customers have
had at least one IBM mainframe or midrange system that
they used MitemView to integrate and extend. MitemView
has been challenged by some of the most intensive data
processing applications. In 1992, MitemView was deployed
for use in the Holiday Inn Worldwide Reservation System.
At that time, the legendary Holidex system ran IBM’s
Transaction Processing Facility (TPF) and processed
26 million reservations a year that serviced three geographically
dispersed call centers. MitemView proved able to maintain
system performance and reliability in this ultra high-end
environment and was used by 1,800 reservation agents
for many years. Today, MitemView is the integration
software mostly widely used to improve call center operation
and customer service for over 20 public utilities in
the US and in England.
Some of the
IBM systems of the past and present include:
- 360 Series or System/360 or System/36
- 370 Series or System/370 or System/37
- 370/3030, 370/4300, 370/3080, 370/3090, 370/9370
- System/38
- 8100 Series
- Sabre 9090
- System/390 or 390 Series
- AS/400
- zSeries 900
- zSeries 990
- iSeries
In MITEM’s world, IBM has evolved from a host
system vendor to a major player at every level in the
system architecture. For instance, IBM’s WebSphere
MQ middleware is the most widely installed messaging
protocol. Most recently, IBM has become a major force
in the application server market with its WebSphere
product line (that also now encompasses the MQSeries
brand). Specifically, IBM’s WebSphere application
servers offer a J2EE runtime environment and tools for
creating, deploying and maintaining Web applications.
MitemView
is described as the ‘Universal Adapter’,
enabling it to act as a spoke on other vendor’s
hub. MITEM developed the NXTier interface technology
to dramatically simplify and standardize integration
with other servers like IBM WebSphere. MITEM is committed
to maintaining compatibility with all leading message
protocols like IBM WebSphere MQ.
MitemView can add value to, and extend the integration
functionality of, WebSphere and MQ implementations.
Specifically, MitemView should be used to accelerate
the deployment, and smooth the implementation, of IBM
WebSphere and/or MQ projects.
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