NeoKicks

This strategy, of bringing CICS applications fully into the .NET world, can completely change your perspective on your CICS programs. Rather than seeing them as limited by character interfaces and the abilities provided by a single mainframe vendor, the applications are freed to grow using the latest technologies and interface designs that are being developed by the myriad of companies targeting Microsoft's .NET environment.

NeoKicks provides a wizard that takes your CICS COBOL programs and associated BMS maps, converts them to the .NET-compatible forms, and populates a Visual Studio .NET project so that you are ready to start building and testing your migrated code. At runtime NeoKicks services handle the CICS commands, providing the equivalent .NET functionality.

Highlights

• NeoKicks Project Wizard imports your CICS COBOL code into Visual Studio .NET projects, preprocessing EXEC CICS statements into the NeoKicks equivalents
• Wizard also converts your screens into ASP.NET Web Forms or Windows Forms, that you maintain using Visual Studio's designers
• NeoKicks Services provide runtime support for CICS commands
• Theme Manager helps you establish styles for your converted BMS maps
• CICS DPL (Distributed Program Link) transactions convert to Web services
• Integration with Visual Studio .NET gives productive and easy-to-use development environment
• Transaction support for any ODBC data provider, Btrieve or any other external transaction monitor
• User interface and application tiers are separable allowing flexible deployment options
• Mainframe UI behaviors emulated such as: Overtype behavior, Tabbing behavior, PF keys, PA keys & Break