Lozen™ offers several connectors to enable real-time, read-write access to mainframe data for AI, analytics, and hybrid cloud. Connectors are valuable extensions to Lozen, providing Lozen customers with simple and secure access to mainframe data (such as VSAM files) from an increasing number of application environments, with high performance and data integrity. The Lozen OpenAPI Connector delivers mainframe data access from any OpenAPI application, including Microsoft Azure Logic Apps, Boomi, TIBCO, and more.
“Lozen will be a total game-changer in the z/OS to cloud native migration space. The ability to transparently move enterprise applications to the cloud without having to move all the dependent data off the z/OS platform will revolutionize the process, the speed, and the risk mitigation involved in these complex efforts. We are excited to partner with VirtualZ as they bring this revolutionary technology to market. Lozen will be great for the Microsoft Azure business, and our mutual customers will see tremendous benefits and cost savings.”
Barry Wordell
Worldwide Mainframe Migration Strategist,
Microsoft Corporation
What is Azure Logic Apps?
Azure Logic Apps is a cloud platform where you can create and run automated workflows with little to no code. By using the visual designer and selecting from prebuilt operations, you can quickly build a workflow that integrates and manages your apps, data, services, and systems. Azure Logic Apps simplifies the way that you connect legacy, modern, and cutting-edge systems across cloud, on premises, and hybrid environments and provides low-code-no-code tools for you to develop highly scalable integration solutions for your enterprise and business-to-business (B2B) scenarios. (Learn.Microsoft.com)
What is OpenAPI?
OpenAPI is an open set of standards published by a consortium focused on the value of standardizing software APIs. OpenAPI makes it easy to weave together services from a diverse range of providers into sophisticated composite applications. By participating in this community, Lozen’s OpenAPI connector makes it possible to access mainframe data, such as VSAM files, from any OpenAPI application. Many commercial and open-source applications support the OpenAPI specification. This means that applications running within these contexts can use Lozen to read and update mainframe files by interacting with simple and familiar OpenAPI objects without special customized coding.
Integration Details
Azure Logic Apps lets customers create and run automated workflows that integrate apps and data spanning many sources. These workflows can combine data from a variety of sources: SQL and NoSQL databases, Salesforce.com, email systems, cloud applications — and now mainframe data.
From any Azure Logic Apps workflow, Lozen’s OpenAPI implementation lets you embed steps that read or update mainframe datasets in the same manner as Logic Apps accesses any other types of data. Best of all, the approach requires zero custom coding and is entirely declarative. You just configure an OpenAPI object to connect to the desired Lozen server and embed access to your mainframe data wherever needed.
Watch our demo to see the Lozen OpenAPI connector working with Azure Logic Apps.
Summary
Lozen enables real-time, read-write access to mainframe data for AI, analytics, and hybrid cloud. Accelerate your AI, analytics, and modernization with no-code access to IBM Z data — lower MIPS, instant deployment, no specialized skills required. In addition, Lozen’s OpenAPI Connector helps deliver secure mainframe data access to any OpenAPI application, including Microsoft Azure Logic Apps, Boomi, TIBCO, and more.
