Can BizTalk sever communicate with a Mainframe via SDLC
NDM right out of the box?

Can anyone shed some light on this subject?

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For something like this you could use a third party adapter to talk to the
mainframe, similar to MQSeries. There isn't an out of the box solution for
something like this.

Jack Blalock [MSFT]
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Right out of two boxes:

you'd need Biztalk and an adapter, like MQSeries adapter for Biztalk
or, if you want to talk to a CICS mainframe, use Hostbridge
(www.hostbridge.com/biztalk/)

Note: I did a quick search on SDLC NDM and got some hits on AIX manuals.  If
your "mainframe" is a Unix server, then you may be able to direct-connect
the systems and use file sharing, or simply FTP files from one system to
another.  Then, you wouldn't need an adapter.

Hope this helps,
--- Nick

"BS" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Can BizTalk sever communicate with a Mainframe via SDLC
> NDM right out of the box?
>
> Can anyone shed some light on this subject?

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Thank you for your information.
I have read that the ebusiness appliacation triggers the
whole process.That means the start is at the ebusiness
appliacation. But what about the other way?
Can a mainframe process trigger an ebusiness appliacation ?
Thank you very much !!!

regards
RA

>-----Original Message-----
>Right out of two boxes:
>
>you'd need Biztalk and an adapter, like MQSeries adapter
for Biztalk
>or, if you want to talk to a CICS mainframe, use
Hostbridge
>(www.hostbridge.com/biztalk/)
>
>Note: I did a quick search on SDLC NDM and got some hits
on AIX manuals.  If
>your "mainframe" is a Unix server, then you may be able
to direct-connect
>the systems and use file sharing, or simply FTP files
from one system to
>another.  Then, you wouldn't need an adapter.
>
>Hope this helps,
>--- Nick
>
>"BS" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message
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>
>
>.
>

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Hello again RA,

Any participating partner can initiate a transaction, as long as that
partner can generate and submit a message.

If you want your mainframe to send a message to biztalk, you need to get
that message to Biztalk somehow.
As we are probably talking about a Unix platform, that shouldn't be too
hard.  Write a Java component to submit
a message to an HTTP Receive function.

--- Nick

<anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Thank you for your information.
> I have read that the ebusiness appliacation triggers the
> whole process.That means the start is at the ebusiness
> appliacation. But what about the other way?
> Can a mainframe process trigger an ebusiness appliacation ?
> Thank you very much !!!
>
> regards
> RA
> 
> for Biztalk 
> Hostbridge 
> on AIX manuals.  If 
> to direct-connect 
> from one system to 
> message 

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