Tuxedo for batch
We know that Tuxedo gives Oracle a great advantage for rehosting IMS and CICS COBOL from the Mainframe on to Open Systems. With TUX we can now provide Mainframe Quality of Service on the entire stack for CICS and IMS. So that means, our customers can gain a lot of savings from high cost hardware and OS from Z/OS by running on Linux (Even z/linux too) while opening up more standards...etc. All the good stuff we talk about.
What if you want to rehost batch programs? Is Tux good for that too? You may think the main advantage of using Tux for rehosting is that it provides the ability to do transaction processing and two phased commits, but for batch you can just use a standard COBOL compiler for linux or windows (Like MF/Accu..Fujitsu...etc)
Well, you miss out on some key RAS featuers. Let's look a bit closer.
What makes up Mainframe Batch? Let's look at this for a second. Batch on the mainframe usually looks like --> Z/OS + JES + LPRS +JCL + COBOL
Now, if you rehost batch with Micofocus Cobol only you get --> Distrubted OS (good) + JCL + COBOL
Tux looks like --> Distrubuted OS (Still good) + Tuxedo (Z/OS Like features...LPRS, JES Like runtime) + COBOL + JCL
Tuxedo provides also provides:
Connection Pooling
Clustering
Failover
Scalability
So, ask yourself, would you run a production batch system off the mainframe without these features? It's great to rehost and save money, but you CAN'T sacrifice RAS.
So here are some great reason for Batch with Tuxedo:
:: RAS (reliability, availability, scalability) built in
:: Sizable number of implementations
:: Over 2,000 implementations
:: Provides a ‘Java like’ container for COBOL applications
:: Supports C/C++ so languages like PL/1 and Assembler can be migrated to C/C++ instead of COBOL
:: SOA enabled out of the box
:: Can use any Job Scheduler you want including the free Oracle Scheduler solution
