Each month, z/Action! meets some of the world's most innovative companies as they share how they're expanding horizons and driving success with IBM Z. This month we welcome Altera Digital Health, a leader in healthcare IT. Joining us are Altera engineers Bob Biggs and Judith Brown. They’re here to describe their experience integrating a client’s mainframe data with a Web-based platform supporting its HealthQuest medical-records solution.
Altera Keeps Data on the Mainframe
“IBM Z is the only platform we run on,” says Bob Biggs, an engineer with Altera Digital Health. “It’s always up, and it’s always available.” When one of their clients moved to a Web-based platform, it was vital that Altera’s HealthQuest medical-records solution continue to access data from the secure, reliable mainframe. Altera responded with a faster, more-efficient solution utilizing TCIP/IP and CICS that provides near-instantaneous communication between server and mainframe. Listen for a deep technical dive into how Altera implemented this solution for their client – and how Linux containers might soon increase data speeds from milliseconds to nanoseconds.
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