Easily publish mainframe data to Kafka Cluster
zKafka Connector
IT requirements have picked up on the speed in which the world is changing. Data is the key to your extremely valuable business information. Today data is required to be available anywhere at any time – and still be secure.
Apache Kafka promises your data to be available anywhere at any time. And Apache Kafka and the mainframe share core capabilities: high availability (resilience), scalability and permanent storage.
Although Kafka client libraries allow to connect anything from almost anywhere, the connection from z/OS to a Kafka cluster in the open world is quite complex. Until now, there was no easy way to connect publish data directly from a z/OS application to a Kafka cluster.
zKafka Connector (RzK)
Functions
- Standard z/OS CALL API in any z/OS application (any language).
- Program-controlled remote administration of Kafka topics and groups – from the mainframe.
- Kafka transaction brackets to commit complex workflows.
- Use state-of-the-art security using SSL/TLS encryption and SASL authentication.
- Supported Environments: Batch, TSO, OMVS/USS, CICS, IMS, Natural & RPC, LE & non-LE.
- Languages: Cobol, C, C++, PL/I, Fortran, Natural, ASM, REXX, Java, Python, Perl, PHP.
- The zKafka Connector is available for z/OS and for Open Systems.
Flexibility and Efficiency
- Direct link by your z/OS applications (no Java, or USS calls required).
- No additional software or middleware needed.
- Fine tune performance and compression.
- Use the embedded data conversion between EBCDIC and UTF-8 formats or send binary data.
- Produce or consume Kafka messages directly into any dataset with RzKCopy.
- Easy to use test utility: RzK CLI (Command Line Interface) on z/OS
Comfort
- Easy to use API.
- RzK manages the complex connections to your Kafka cluster.
- Recovery and error handling in case of connection loss.
- Detailed error messages
- Reporting of transfer states and errors by the zKafka Connector API.
- Different levels of debug messages for development and testing.
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