The new features include...

The new PROIV Bus is designed to provide an open interface to PROIV to allow other products and applications access to PROIV facilities, especially PROIV Tasks. PROIV Tasks are a new feature that harness PROIV components and enable them to be called from other third party products or applications like workflow packages. PROIV Tasks can be developed to closely reflect business units of work from a single callable component.

This new version of PROIV is capable of producing Delimiter Separated List (DSL) report output from data located in DB2, DLI or VSAM, which can then be passed back to an external application. Data presented in this standard format can be easily processed and presented by other distributed applications and web-enabling components, such as PROIV's WebAccess product.

A new API is also being introduced for other CICS and non-CICS based applications to help integrate the PROIV technology with existing mainframe based software.

PROIV has developed a set of tools and services to assist in the development of component based applications within PROIV.

This new release of the product signals a substantial move forward for the S/390 PROIV technology in terms openness and helping to protect our customer's investment in PROIV based applications.

Previous development of the PROIV product has seen the introduction of Windows and Internet browser presentation layers and now this new release enables PROIV to offer a product that can be fully integrated into an existing enterprise or IT strategy.

Many other new features and enhancements are also included in this new release and the S/390 PROIV Release Guide can provide details on these. There is also a summary of this new release in the form of a marketing datasheet.

For further information contact proivS390@proiv.com

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