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PowerAIM is a software system for constructing and operating online jobs in client/server mode. A GlobalServer system manages the organisation's common information. The end-user's PC work- station manages information specific to that user.
Components of PowerAIM run on the server and the client systems.
PowerAIM provides the technology to position your most important applications on to client/server platforms.
To the consumer, PowerAIM is invisible. To the developer, PowerAIM allows the mainframe program to communicate with the PC program and vice versa.
This means that, for example, a Visual Basic (VB) program can interact with a mainframe COBOL program. The interface used by the VB developer is the same as the COBOL programmer's (SQL).
What sets PowerAIM apart from other products is that it brings the traditional powers of the mainframe to the modern networked computing world. Online transaction processing (OLTP), provided in the past by products such as AIM/DC and CICSTM, is now available in client/server environments. OLTP has long been recognized as the only way to ensure that high levels of transactions are processed efficiently and accurately.
PowerAIM lifts the restriction that previously prevented the safe transition of the most critical computing applications away from the mainframe. With the PowerAIM approach you can leave the high performance and most secure parts of the application on the mainframe and move the rest onto the most suitable platform. In this way the flexibility of client/server computing is married to the security and performance of the traditional mainframe world.
With PowerAIM, Fujitsu provides the client/server application designer with the ability to: