zKafka Connector

Our (IT) world is determined by

• Constant new feature requests to keep ahead of the competition.
• Extremely valuable business information, where data is key.
• Information to be accessible at any time and from anywhere.

Many important business processes still run on the mainframe. Vast amounts of business data are located there, the processing is optimized and data is kept secure. Which means it is difficult to access from outside the mainframe The advantages of this “Gallic village”, such as security and performance, are countered by existing cost pressures and integration with new processing platforms outside of the mainframe.

In the open world, Apache Kafka has become one of the best-known platforms for event-based processing and streaming of data. Its core capabilities read like some of the mainframe’s: scalability, persistent storage, high availability and resilience.

For the modernization of mainframe-based processes, including the processing of their legacy data in the open world, we provide an interface from the mainframe to any Kafka environment.

The rvs-Systems zKafka Connector provides an easy, secure and efficient way to publish and consume data from any z/OS application to a Kafka cluster. Best of all, no need of any other middleware. The data is exchanged directly between the z/OS environment and the (Open World) Kafka cluster.