The search is on for a mature, easy-to-implement Extract Transform and Load (ETL) solution for migrating mission critical data to the cloud.
Treehouse Software’s tcVISION supports a vast array of integration scenarios throughout the enterprise, providing easy and fast data migration for mainframe application modernization projects, and enabling data replication between mainframe, Linux, Unix and Windows platforms. This innovative technology offers comprehensive abilities to identify and capture changes occurring in mainframe and relational databases, then publish the required information to an impressive variety of targets, both on-premise and cloud-based.
Mainframe-to-Cloud Case Use Example…
BAWAG P.S.K. is one of the largest banks in Austria, with more than 1.6 million private and business customers and is a well-known brand in the country. Their business strategy is oriented towards low risk and high efficiency.
BAWAG was looking to reduce the load on their IBM mainframe and as a result, reduce costs. The project involved offloading data from their core database system to a less expensive system, in real-time, and to provide read access from that system to the new infrastructure. The primary motivator for this data migration was the constantly increasing CPU costs on the mainframe caused by the growing transaction load of online banking, mobile banking, and the use of self service devices.
BAWAG ultimately migrated their online banking application to the cloud using tcVISION. Realtime Event-handling, Realtime Analytics, Realtime Fraud Prevention are only a few of the use cases that the bank’s solution currently covers.
The bank decided to use tcVISION to migrate z/OS DB2 data into a Hadoop data lake (a storage repository that holds raw data in its native format). 20 Million transactions were made within 15 minutes.
Cost Reductions Seen Immediately
BAWAG is now seeing a 35-40 percent reduction of the MIPS consumption for online processing during business hours. After hours, consumption is less, because it is mainly batch processing on the mainframe. Currently, a volume of approximately 30 GB changed data (uncompressed) is replicated from DB2 per day.
In addition to the primary usage scenario, BAWAG can also cover additional use cases. This includes real-time-event handling and stream processing, analytics based upon real-time data as well as the possibility to report and analyze structured and unstructured data with excellent performance. The system can be inexpensively operated on Commodity Hardware and has no scalability limitations. Compared to the savings, the costs of replication (CPU consumption) of tcVISION are now very low.
Additionally, BAWAG plans to extend the use of tcVISION in the future, including implementation of real-time replication from ORACLE into the data lake.
Find out more about tcVISION — Enterprise ETL and Real-Time Data Replication Through Change Data Capture
tcVISION supports a vast array of integration scenarios throughout the enterprise, providing easy and fast data migration for mainframe application modernization projects and enabling bi-directional data replication between mainframe, Linux, Unix and Windows platforms. This innovative technology offers comprehensive abilities to identify and capture changes occurring in mainframe and relational databases, then publish the required information to an impressive variety of targets, both on-premise and Cloud-based.
tcVISION acquires data in bulk or via change data capture methods, including in real time, from virtually any IBM mainframe data source (Software AG Adabas, IBM DB2, IBM VSAM, IBM IMS/DB, CA IDMS, CA Datacom, even sequential files), and transform and deliver to virtually any target. In addition, the same product can extract and replicate data from a variety of non-mainframe sources, including Adabas LUW, Oracle Database, Microsoft SQL Server, IBM DB2 LUW and DB2 BLU, IBM Informix and PostgreSQL.
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