Host Integration Server Blog

Recently I got the following question from one of the Technical Specialists in our field team: ‘ How can I expose the change-data-capture information from the System i journal files to a process running on BizTalk Server? ’ After a joyful day of research...

[HIS2009] Exposing CICS Transactions as SQL Server Stored Procedures   Video: [HIS2009] Exposing CICS Transactions as SQL Server Stored Procedures Cross Posted from http://blogs.msdn.com/ricardom

Talking about [HIS2009] MsHostFileClient Offline Capabilities   Video: [HIS2009] MsHostFileClient Offline Capabilities Cross Posted from http://blogs.msdn.com/ricardom

This white paper aids Mainframe Programmers, AS/400 Administrators, and Microsoft Host Integration Server (HIS) administrators in configuring IP-DLC (Internet Protocol – Data Link Control) link service which ships with HIS. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads...

Thanks Charles Ezzell (Escalation Engineer on the Host Integration Server Team) for writing the whitepaper entitled Creating a Self-Running BizTalk Stress Application using the BizTalk Adapter for DB2 which can be found here .

Most daily operational data resides in host files systems, such as mainframe VSAM and the AS/400 physical files. Often, legacy programs written in COBOL and RPG control access to these data sources. To improve your processes, you need to collect and analyze...

Much mission-critical data resides in file systems, such as IBM mainframe Virtual Storage Access Method (VSAM) data sets and AS/400 physical files. To reliably read and write to these data stores, enterprise developers––working with IBM host...

Yes, you read it right! The Host Integration Server Team is going to Disneyland! Ok, not the entire team and it's definitely not on vacations! And we are not going to Disneyland exactly... On the first two weeks of June we head over Orlando to participate...

Organizations are using Microsoft BizTalk Server 2006 to integrate and orchestrate composite solutions that span multiple systems and applications. Key assets in most enterprise solutions are the line-of-business (LOB) data stores on heritage IBM host...

Enterprise computing is based on high-volume transaction and batch processing systems, such as IBM mainframe and midrange host computers. To modernize these heritage systems, organizations are using business process orchestration in Microsoft BizTalk...

Many enterprise organizations rely on IBM DB2 relational database servers to store their vital line-of-business (LOB) information. Enterprise developers must continually deliver new applications that require real-time access to these DB2 information stores...

Host Integration Server on Channel9: http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=317373

After completing this lab, you will be able to create a new BizTalk project, create an XML schema by using the BizTalk Editor, promote a schema property, create a flat file schema by using the BizTalk Editor, validate a schema and generate a sample instance...

After completing this lab, you will be better able to create a Transaction Integrator (TI) WIP assembly and a XSD representation using the TI designer, use TI manager to setup the remote environment and deploy and configure the assembly created by the...

After completing this lab, you will be able to use Transaction Integrator (TI) to create a web service, configure IIS to host the TI web service, and create a C# application to call the web service. http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/WebCastEventDetails...

After completing this lab, you will be able to configure a connection to a DB2 database, build a simple XML web service to expose DB2 tables data using ASP.NET, retrieve a recordset of information from a DB2 table and return that recordset as a .NET DataSet...

Host Integration Server 2006 can now connect to IBM iSeries Systems using the HPR protocol. This will allow customers to support existing SNA applications in an all TCP/IP network. With the release of IBM OS/400 version 5 release 4, Host Integration Server...

What does the Customer Experience Program mean to Host Integration Server? In the 2006 release, we included technologies which allow customers to participate in the Host Integration Server Customer Experience Program. The Customer Experience Program allows...

The Host Integration Server team is pleased to announce that a Operations Manager 2005 management pack has been released for the Host Integration Server 2006 product. The Management Pack can be used with both the standalone Host Integration Server 2006...

Yes, we released these products to manufacturing on 27th October, 2006. Microsoft Host Integration Server 2006 , which is a standalone product that offers key enabling technologies that allow enterprise organizations to integrate their mission-critical...

We have hit the final milestone for Host Integration Server 2006. The build is in Final Media validation. What does that mean? We are done with the release. Codenamed "Dawson", Host Integration Server 2006 and BizTalk Adapters for Host Systems has been...

Welcom to the Host Integration Server team's new blog. We hope that in the coming posts we will be able to details some of the new and existing features of Host Integration Server. If you are not familiar with the Host Integration Server product from...