5 Jul 2023

FastSSR

Key Benefits

Modernize your Mainframe

The secure, component-based platform provides the flexibility and scalability you need for a complete enterprise solution. FastSSR will enable you to fully leverage your mainframe to drive key modernization initiatives in your overall IT strategy.

Expedite File Transfers

Existing terminal emulator-based file transfers are based on slow, outdated IND$FILE technology. FastSSR implements secure TCPIP transfers to move data up to 156 times faster.

Minimize Learning Curve

Benefit from FastSSR without additional hardware implementation. It can run standalone or seamlessly integrate with your current terminal emulator software, lessening the learning curve for your users.

FastSSR Features

· Fast, secure TCP/IP transfers over TLS.

· Transfer text and binary data.

· Supports built-in and custom code pages.

· Supports built-in and custom translation tables.

· Can transfer multiple types of output.

· Support emulator-based IND$FILE transfers.

· Can browse mainframe data sets.

· Can create multi-transfer batch jobs.

· Powerful scripting engine for transfer automation.

· Easy to install, small footprint mainframe job.

Big Features, Small Footprint

The FastSSR solution is fast, secure, flexible, scalable, managed and very affordable – all without any additional
hardware to implement. The FastSSR platform consists of four (4) main components. This component-based,
security platform gives you the flexibility and scalability you require for a complete enterprise solution!

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20 May 2013

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SSR Server for TSO & VTAM™

PC 2800 SSR Server for TSO & VTAM™ version 5.0 released June 2012.
Email sales @ appliedsoftware.com to receive the latest version.

Provides file transfer services under TSO and native VTAM. File types supported include sequential, PDS, PDS/E members, entire PDS, PDS/E, sysout, VSAM and GDGs. Improves file transfer performance up to 50% over IBM’s IND$FILE. May be executed as a TSO command processor or implemented under native VTAM with ASI’s VTAM

Applied Software Inc. (ASI) SSR Server™ products are full-featured file transfer applications supporting the MVS and OS/390 TSO, CICS and native VTAM platforms. SSR Server™ supports host connections using SNA and TCP/IP. Emulators supported include 3270, TN3270 and TN3270E.

Files may be transferred to and from Windows 9x/NT/2000/XP, OS/2 and virtually any platform including UNIX that supports the IND$FILE protocol. SSR Server™ can be used as a superset replacement for the unsupported IBM IND$FILE products and is totally transparent to the end-user. SSR Server™ supports both the IND$FILE protocol and the High-Speed Transfer (HST) proprietary protocol. HST transfers files at speeds up to 1+ megabytes per second to and from Windows NT.

SSR Client™ products provide a GUI and script facility to fully utilize the enhanced features of the SSR Server™ software. SSR Client™ supports the DOS, Windows 3.x, Windows 9x/NT/2000/XP (Windows 7 version in development) and WIN-OS/2 platforms. SSR Client™ is not an emulator itself, but has been designed to work seamlessly with virtually all 3270, TN3270 and TN3270E emulators.

Audit Trail

SSR Server™ and SSR HST Server for TSO & VTAM™ record all file transfer activity with SMF records. SSR Server for CICS™ records all file transfer activity with CICS journal entries.

Checkpoint / Restart

SSR Checkpoint / Restart Server™ provides checkpointing of downloaded files at customer-selected time intervals.
When the host, client or connection fails during the downloading of mission critical data, the transfer may be restarted at the last checkpoint.

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20 May 2013

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SSR Client™

Provides a powerful GUI and script facility to the SSR Server™ host applications. SSR Client™ operates in conjunction emulators with to provide an intuitive and powerful user interface for the DOS, Windows 3.x, Windows 9x/NT/2000/XP and WIN-OS/2 platforms. SSR Client™ scripting language provides scheduling facilities and interfaces to batch- and host-initiated file transfer applications.

Audit Trail

SSR Server™ and SSR HST Server for TSO & VTAM™ record all file transfer activity with SMF records. SSR Server for CICS™ records all file transfer activity with CICS journal entries.

Checkpoint / Restart

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20 May 2013

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SSR Server for CICS MVS Services™

Provides file transfers of MVS and OS/390 data sets to and from CICS workstations. Files need not be loaded into temporary storage prior to file transfer and there is no limit to the size of the transfer file. All file types supported by SSR Server for TSO & VTAM™ are supported with SSR Server for CICS MVS™ Services.

Audit Trail

SSR Server™ and SSR HST Server for TSO & VTAM™ record all file transfer activity with SMF records. SSR Server for CICS™ records all file transfer activity with CICS journal entries.

Checkpoint / Restart

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20 May 2013

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SSR Server for CICS™

Provides file transfers to and from temporary storage and transient data queues. Can be used as a superset replacement for IBM’s unsupported IND$FILE for CICS. All existing user-written UGETFILE and UPUTFILE exits are fully supported. SSR Server for CICS is totally transparent to the end-user.

Audit Trail

SSR Server™ and SSR HST Server for TSO & VTAM™ record all file transfer activity with SMF records. SSR Server for CICS™ records all file transfer activity with CICS journal entries.

Checkpoint / Restart

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6 Nov 2012

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Filegard® Product Overview

Version 5.0 available for Beta test now! Email ron@asisoft.com for pricing information or Click Here for a free 45 day trial.

Why FILEGARD®?

Data Breach after Data Breach
100 Million Records Compromised in One Year
Affects an Individual’s Privacy
Significant Financial Repercussions
Negative Publicity, Stock/Image & Helps Competition
Forty-eight of the 55 US States and Territories have some form of Data Breach Law

FILEGARD® Overview

Is IBM Mainframe-Based
Uses a Strong & Symmetric Encryption Algorithm (AES128)
Provides Centralized Protection of Keys
Supports Multiple File Formats
No Hardware Restrictions
No Sysgen or IPL Required
Is Simple to Use

FILEGARD® Structure

Simple Batch Process
Key Management Component
Algorithm Verification & Audit Utilities

FILEGARD® Batch Process

Files
Input, Output and Optional Key Management File
Encipher or Decipher
Sample JCL

FILEGARD® Key Management

According to the NIST recommendation, security of data protected by cryptology depends on:

Strength of the keys
Effect of protocols
Protection of the keys

Further, the management of the keys includes:

Their generation
Their use
Their eventual destruction
Centralized
Keys Automatically Generated and Encrypted
Keys Protected by Master Key
Master Key Automatically Generated and Saved as a Variant
Keys are Contained in a Key Sequential VSAM Dataset
Policy-based Management Rules Govern the Key Life Cycle (Inactive, Active, Deactivated, Destroyed and Compromised)
Protect with Robust Mainframe Security: RACF, ACF2 and Top Secret

FILEGARD® Utilities

Algorithm Utility to Verify Algorithm against Government Issued Expected Results
SMF Optional Recording and Reporting Utility
Encipher/Decipher of Files
Key Management Activity

Many of the z/os encryption solution competitors provide or require full featured Key Management, API’s that require programming changes, database interfaces, or hardware features.

FILEGARD®

does not require any of these in order to encrypt a file.

Cost Information

Email Ron Turner or call 215-297-9441 for pricing or Click Here for a free 45 day trial.

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5 Nov 2012

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Data Encryption Facility (DEF)®

Version 3.0A available now! Email ron@asisoft.com for pricing information or Click Here for a free 45 day trial.

Encryption: The best known method for protecting highly sensitive computer data.

Using NITS standards as the basic element of data encryption, ASI began extensive research and development on a comprehensive data encryption facility which was first released in 1987. After years of additional development and testing, ASI’s Data Encryption Facility DEF® now supports additional cryptology algorithms and provides for management of encryption keys. DEF supports IBM and plug-compatible CPU’s with the z/OS operating systems.

Major enhancements over version 2.1 include AES 128 encryption, Triple DES (3DES) and DESX encryption support. A Key Administration Facility as well as improved sample programs for application programmers will also be available as part of the bundled product line. The batch mode encryption facility may be purchased separately.

Today you can hardly pick up a newspaper or go online for news without reading about an incident involving a data breach. These breaches include all sorts of data; social security numbers, drivers license records, credit card numbers. The Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, a highly respected nonprofit consumer organization concluded that over 100 million records containing personal information have been involved in security breaches in less than a two year period 2005-2006. That is just what is known.

It is becoming widely recognized that one of the most important security tools to effectively protect data is strong encryption technology.

Encryption

Applied Software’s Data Encryption Facility® (DEF) provides strong encryption using one of the two NIST
(National Institute of Standards and Technology) recommended symmetric key cryptology algorithms, Triple DES. Symmetric key algorithms (also known as secret key algorithms), such as Triple DES, transform data in a way that is fundamentally difficult to undo without knowledge of a secret key. The key is “symmetric” because whatever key is used to encrypt it is also used to decrypt data.

There are two methods, using DEF, to encrypt and decrypt data.

The first is to use a batch process where a DEF Batch program reads a file, encrypts or decrypts the data, and writes it back. The second method deals with online applications where DEF provides a set of callable subroutines where an application program essentially passes data to a callable DEF module which encrypts/decrypts the data and passes them back.

Protecting Encryption Keys

The proper management of cryptographic keys is essential to the effective use of cryptography for security.
Ultimately, the security of information protected by cryptography directly depends on the strength of the keys,
the effectiveness of mechanisms and protocols associated with keys, and the protection afforded to the keys.
The management of cryptographic keys includes their generation, use, and eventual destruction.

Applied Software’s Data Encryption Facility® (DEF) provides a symmetric Key Management component that follows the recommendations put forth by the NIST for symmetric keys. Keys can be generated and encrypted such that the original key is never visible, and can then be tracked through a key life cycle. The life cycle itself consists of five states; pre-active, active, deactivated, destroyed and compromised which can be policy-based driven.

Cost Information

Email Ron Turner or call 215-297-9441 for pricing or free 45 day trial.

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4 Nov 2012

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SSR Client Server™

Product Overview

PC 2800 SSR Server for TSO & VTAM™ version 4.2 released July 1, 2009 !
Email sales @ appliedsoftware.com to receive the latest version.

Files may be transferred to and from DOS, Windows 3.x, Windows 9x/NT/2000/XP, OS/2 and virtually any platform including UNIX that supports the IND$FILE protocol. SSR Server™ can be used as a superset replacement for the unsupported IBM IND$FILE products and is totally transparent to the end-user. SSR Server™ supports both the IND$FILE protocol and the High-Speed Transfer (HST) proprietary protocol. HST transfers files at speeds up to 1+ megabytes per second to and from Windows NT.

Audit Trail

SSR Server™ and SSR HST Server for TSO & VTAM™ record all file transfer activity with SMF records. SSR Server for CICS™ records all file transfer activity with CICS journal entries.

Checkpoint / Restart

SSR Server for TSO & VTAM™

SSR HST Server for TSO & VTAM™

Provides high-speed transfers of MVS and OS/390 data sets to and from Windows NT. HST transfers files at speeds up to 1+ megabytes per second. Virtual tape drive hardware is required.

VTAM Multi-User Platform™

A highly efficient, multiple address space application that supports the SSR Server for TSO & VTAM™ and Turbo PDF (FSE+)™ products. Eliminates the need for users to be logged on to TSO to transfer files. Improves file transfer speeds by up to 30% or more. Also supports batch-initiated and SSR HST™ file transfers.

SSR Server for CICS™

SSR Server for CICS MVS Services™

SSR Client™

FT/Express Replacement

Attachmate Corp. does not support the FT/Express product developed by DCA and the FT/TSO portion of FT/Express does not function under OS/390. SSR Server for TSO & VTAM™ with SSR Client for Windows™ provides FT/TSO-like host-initiated file transfers from within ISPF. Batch-initiated file transfers may be added with the VTAM MUP.

Cost Information

Email Ron Turner or call 215-297-9441 for pricing or free 45 day trial.

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3 Nov 2012

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VTAM Multi-User Platform™

Audit Trail

SSR Server™ and SSR HST Server for TSO & VTAM™ record all file transfer activity with SMF records. SSR Server for CICS™ records all file transfer activity with CICS journal entries.

Checkpoint / Restart

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2 Nov 2012

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FSE+™

FSE+™ is a high performance editor, data set manager, file list and job output previewer facility for the TSO and VTAM Multi-User Platform (MUP) environments. FSE+™’s GUI is ideally suited to users who need an easy to use yet highly functional editor. Infrequent edit users also benefit from FSE+™’s design. For example, for those hard to remember subcommands such as “Find” and “Change”, FSE+™ provides a simple fill-in-the-blanks menu. You need only enter “Find ?” or “Change ?” and a menu of optional items is displayed.

Long before IBM’s ISPF was developed, FSE+™ was being used by aerospace engineers at Boeing, Pratt & Whitney, Grumman and others to design airframe and engine simulation software. These engineers are the type of users who are not interested in the subtleties of data editing or wading through complicated software manuals. They want to logon, edit their files and log off with minimal cost and hassle. They demanded a KISS approach to editing and FSE+™ delivered just that.

With IBM making it impossible to have an MVS system without ISPF (something is not quite right about that), why do we keep on developing and marketing FSE+™? A good question with an important answer. First of all we have a large number of FSE+™ users and they deserve to be supported. To these loyal users, FSE+™ is synonymous with data editing. To other customers FSE+™ provides a low cost, high performance alternative to TSO. When executed under our VTAM MUP™, several times as many clients can be supported compared with the TSO/ISPF environment. So next time your TSO performance is poor, consider FSE+™. Moving those users that edit and submit jobs to FSE+™/VTAM MUP™ can save you time and money.
With so many ISPF bigots entering the marketplace, we decided to add an ISPF mode to FSE+™. The ISPF mode allows FSE+™ to look like ISPF but perform like FSE+™. We even have some universities using FSE+™ to train users for ISPF.

FSE+™ contains four major components: FSE (Edit), DSM, LIST (Browse) and LISTJES. FSE (Edit) The FSE editor provides virtual storage editing of sequential files, PDS and PDS/E members.

Features

Multiple users per address space
Autosave
Block COPY, MOVE and DELETE
Carousel editing (edit up to 32 files concurrently)
Cut and Paste (from any file to any file in the carousel)
Data conversion (EBCDIC to and from ASCII, uppercase to and from lowercase)
Disk overflow (edit files of nearly unlimited size)
Edit files with LRECL up to 32760
Edit files spread across multiple volumes
Edit uncataloged files
File compression (in-storage) minimizes virtual storage usage
File locking
FIND NOT
Hex editing
Merge facility
Shift data within records
User exits
DSM™ (Data Set Manager)
DSM™ provides a full screen window to the user’s catalog or any catalog prefix. Data set names and PDS member names are displayed with an input area for command entry. Find and Find Not commands are provided to display subsets of data set or PDS member names.

The following data set and PDS member commands are supported:

Compress PDS
Copy
Edit
Delete
Display DSCBs
Display file attributes
Display load module IDR history
List
Map a load module
Print
Release unused space
Rename file
Submit
Test mode for training
Uncatalog
List Browse
List provides a full screen list facility for sequential data sets, PDS and PDS/E members.

Features

Hex displays
List files with any LRECL
Over 25 subcommands are available
Print all or selected portions of data set
Record formats of F, V and U (even load modules)
LISTJES (JES2 or JES3 Output Viewer)
LISTJES provides a full screen display facility for JES output files. LISTJES uses the JES subsystem interface to efficiently process job output.

Features

Individual job and sysout data set selection
Cancel, Delete, Print, Purge, Requeue and Save sysout
Over 25 subcommands are available

Cost Information

Email Ron Turner or call 215-297-9441 for pricing or free 45 day trial.

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