Mainframe JavaScript Wins CICS Integration Benchmark

STILLWATER, Okla., January 9, 2019 (Newswire.com) - HostBridge Technology, the company that pioneered JavaScript on the mainframe to enable CICS integration, announces the results of recent CICS integration benchmark testing. The integration created using the HostBridge JavaScript Engine, which runs inside of CICS, produced transaction response times of 60 milliseconds, compared to the existing integration solution’s response time of 170 milliseconds. Using JavaScript on the mainframe cut the transaction response time by more than half.

The benchmark tests were conducted onsite at a major healthcare insurance provider using the provider’s CICS applications and on the provider’s mainframe. The existing process that was the focus of the benchmark costs this insurance provider $1 million a year in overhead. By using HostBridge to accomplish the integration, those costs will completely go away.

This benchmark demonstrates the value of the HostBridge architecture, which puts the integration and orchestration layer right inside of CICS. When integration layers are moved outside of the mainframe, response times increase as this benchmark proves. When moving the integration layer off the host, response times for applications that run natively on the host in milliseconds, often experience degraded response times, requiring seconds to run through middle-tier integration solutions. The reason is that latency inevitably builds up between the host and the middle-tier. HostBridge eliminates this latency by putting the integration and orchestration layer inside the mainframe, resulting in faster and more reliable integrations. 

The impact of integration layer proximity is exactly why HostBridge put JavaScript, a powerful, standards-based integration technology, right inside of CICS a decade ago. Using JavaScript to make mainframe applications available via an API or as a web service requires no host application changes, is easy to develop and fast to deploy. Furthermore, the resulting integration performs well as this benchmark result proves. When performance and reliability are at a premium, creating the integration to run right alongside the host application delivers the best result.

Even with the performance advantages of JavaScript integrations running inside the mainframe, some enterprise IT managers express concern about using general processor (GP) cycles on the host for integration. Because the HostBridge JavaScript Engine is zIIP-enabled, enterprises can gain the advantages of keeping integration and orchestration on the mainframe without having to use the GP cycles.

For complete details on this CICS integration benchmark, please visit the HostBridge Mainframe Integration Blog at https://www.hostbridge.com/cics-integration-performance-benchmark.

About HostBridge Technology

HostBridge Technology develops and delivers enterprise software to enable integration of CICS applications and data with mobile, web and any other mid-tier applications and technologies. With HostBridge, integrations are easy to develop, fast to deploy, durable, and high-performing because they do not rely on screen scraping technology. For more information about HostBridge, please visit www.hostbridge.com.

Source: HostBridge Technology