Rocket Data Client Driver Interfaces

Industry-Standard Connectivity to Mainframe Data

Rocket Data Virtualization supports a wide array of industry-standard client drivers and interfaces to make it easier for customers to access relational or non-relational data, as well as capture and publish mainframe data events.

Easy-To-Implement Connectivity: Simplifies developer interaction with the mainframe by exposing mainframe data and applications through a relational database metaphor
Stored Procedure Support: JDBC Type 4 driver provides support for stored procedures in Db2 and Rocket Data's remote procedures enable JDBC applications to call Java, COBOL, C/C++, P1/I, or Assembler programs that access Db2 as well as other mainframe data sources
Enterprise Transactions: Built on X/Open XA, Rocket Data Enterprise Transactions ensure database synchronization across all platforms with two-phase commit (2PC) for mainframe and non-mainframe data
Write Once/Run Anywhere: Exploits Java's "write once, run anywhere" capabilities by providing JDBC access to the mainframe environment from multiple platforms, including Windows 2000; IBM AIX; HP-UX; Sun Solaris; Linux; and z/OS Unix System Services
SQLCancel Function: Improves application control over querying with SQLCancel functionality that terminates SQL statement execution , for example if that execution is taking too long
LOB Deferred Materialization: Improves application performance and response time by deferring the retrieval of data stored in LOB data types (BLOB or CLOB) until statements explicitly refer to the columns. Deferring data materialization until necessary ensures that overhead incurs only when required
XML Support: In conjunction with the Rocket Data for JDBC client driver, z/Direct returns information from data sources to the calling application in XML format
Fully supports the ODBC 3.5 API as well as 32-bit and 64-bit driver platforms, simplifying developer interaction with the mainframe by exposing mainframe data and applications through a relational database metaphor

SOAP and MQ Support

Rocket Data encapsulates mainframe data, COBOL programs and screen-based applications in a wrapper comprised of WSDL or Web Services Description Language, an XML-based language that provides a model for describing Web services.

Rocket Data Studio uses the SOAP or Simple Object Access Protocol to call one of the operations listed in the WSDL describing the mainframe artifact, enabling the formerly incompatible system technologies to be joined together to create a new composite service. Rocket Data offers full support for SOAP over HTTP and SOAP over MQ as transport options.