uLinga for Enterprise Extender

HPE Nonstop Integration Gateway
Developed by Infrasoft, delivered and supported by TIC Software
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Retire SNA, keep your applications

SNA between hosts and servers, natively over IP — while still retaining your SNA APIs. Proprietary SNA infrastructure restricts flexibility and adds cost and complexity. uLinga for EE lets HPE Nonstop and IBM mainframe users migrate from SNA to TCP/IP quickly and reliably — eliminating SNA from critical parts of the network, even the last-wire “tails” — with no changes to application code. Applications keep running as SNA applications while you gain end-to-end IP visibility.

Enterprise Extender (HPR/IP) UDP/IP Fault-tolerant links No application changes

What uLinga for EE delivers

EE / APPN node

Participate in the SNA APPN world as an EE node — retaining access to CICS, IMS and TSO, reducing VTAM definitions, with UDP/IP fault tolerance across redundant links.

Native Nonstop interfaces

Support for HLS, SNAX/APC, SNALU, CRT, Raw Socket and IPC — so existing Nonstop SNA applications keep working unchanged.

Online configuration & tracing

The same online configuration used across the uLinga suite, plus industry-standard Wireshark tracing with compression to reduce storage.

WebCon management

Manage and control the process from any web browser through an intuitive graphical interface, secured with built-in TLS 1.2.

Benefits

  • Reduce costs — retire costly SNA infrastructure.
  • Boost flexibility — modern, standard UDP/IP.
  • Minimize risk — no application code changes.
  • Strengthen security — leverage IPSec and platform tools.

Technical specifications

Platform

HPE Nonstop H06.24+, J06.13+, L17.02+

Protocols

Enterprise Extender (HPR/IP) over UDP/IP

SNA role

APPN node with access to CICS, IMS and TSO

Nonstop interfaces

HLS, SNAX/APC, SNALU, CRT, Raw Socket, IPC

Availability

UDP/IP fault tolerance across redundant links

Management

WebCon browser interface with TLS 1.2; online configuration and Wireshark tracing

✓ A modern, vendor-supported alternative to legacy HPR/IP products. A proven, less-expensive path from SNA to IP, already live in production, from a team well-versed in SNA on HPE Nonstop.

Take SNA off the wire, not out of your applications.

Move to standard UDP/IP without touching a line of application code.