WebConnect is client-server based software that provides secure browser based emulation to mainframe, midrange and UNIX systems. WebConnect enables enterprise organizations to provide suppliers, partners and employees with secure access to vital applications and information. Enterprises increase productivity and profits, and retain all the advantages of secure host connectivity to new and existing applications in "real-time."

Because WebConnect is non-intrusive, it provides secure SSL encrypted information migration and access without requiring modification to the host. With its patented secure, "persistent connectivity" technology, only WebConnect is capable of supporting tens of thousands of concurrent browser-based users.

WebConnect can be configured to provide secure communication to your host environment across a variety of underlying client technologies including:

• Classic applet (Java 1.1+)
• Swing applet (Java 1.5+)
• .NET client (.NET 2.0)
• HTML client (HTML 1.0)

WebConnect provides:

• Non-intrusive access
• Average install time of less than 15 minutes
• Protection at application, session, transport, and host points
• Information migration without modification at host
• Patented secure connection and authentication encryption

With WebConnect you can:

• Drive additional revenue through extended use of mainframe information and applications
• Efficiently and securely push vital mainframe information and applications out to customers, partners and employees
• Integrate mainframe information with other line of business applications for a more holistic view of the business
• Deliver a cost effective secure solution through concurrent user licensing

What’s New?

WebConnect 7.0, OpenConnect’s latest version of its award-winning software offers a long list of new features, including:

• New Java Swing and .NET 2.0 Clients with improved User Interfaces
  • Redesigned menu structure for ease of use
  • Simplified and consolidated user settings dialog
  • Improved user configuration dialogs for attributes/colors
  • Right-click menu for easy access to edit operations as well as switching between sessions
  • User-editable ClickPad that can be undocked
  • Screen history for 3270 and 5250 sessions
  • Improvements to copy/paste operations
  • Improved macro recording feature
• .NET client that provides a full-featured interactive emulation option for sites adverse to Java deployment
• Continued support of the Java 1.1 client and the ability to select client-type on a per-user basis when needed
• Updated SSL
• Administrative interface improvements requested by users

The new SwingApplet found in WebConnect 7.0 also includes the ability to execute as a standalone Java application. This has been available with the ClassicApplet in prior versions but required a custom wrapper in addition to the standard applet. SwingApplet already includes the proper application startup code in its jar file. The customer need only copy the SwingApplet jar file to the local desktop and create a shortcut with the appropriate command line options. This shortcut provides access to selected WebConnect sessions without use of the standard web-based user interface.

OpenConnect Systems has been a leader in server based solutions that integrate SNA with TCP/IP environments for over 16 years. WebConnect expands on that expertise in allowing secure browser based access to IBM enterprise hosts. With built-in industry standard RSA encryption, support for RACF (Resource Allocation Control Facility) and SNA session level security, it is the most secure solution available today.

WebConnect offers additional flexibility in that it can be deployed in an AS/400 environment or UNIX System Services Shell. The WebConnect for AS/400 runs in an AS/400 environment that uses the latest version of the OS/400 operating system with an IPDS board, by utilizing WebConnect for NT as the interface. WebConnect for S/390 is a UNIX System Services Shell-based SNA Web co-processor that enables direct access to host applications over the Internet.

These solutions leverage the reliability and scalability of the IBM mainframe and create a simple host-based architecture, without middleware servers - enabling direct access to mainframe and midrange applications from the Web.