IBM  Solutions on mainframe (zSeries) platform

Central vault system    Retail banking system NBO

Solution description – business view

The solution provides overall technological support to bank officers in Vault and Cash Management Department for all their business processes and in the retail network for:

• ordered cash transfer to and from the vault,
• cash exchange,
• cash balance management and
• safe deposit facility

It also rationalises and standardises business processes.

The Web aplication caters for single data input, integral capture, processing, data transfer, business process management and monitoring, document printing including production of statistics and reports and provides for data import/export and management of valuables for corporate customers.

In later phase the solution will also maintain an automated book of valuables, keys/codes and transport roadmap.

Solution description – technical architectural view

• Front end – WebSphere – Java
• Back end – CICS COBOL DB2

Front end is a web based intranet JAVA application running on WAS platform. The client side platform is MS Explorer. Additionally, two Java applets are installed on client – one for providing single sign-on functionality and one to assure printing functionalities to financial printers.

The midtier (Java, WAS) is a fail-over and load balanced application server which implements only presentation logic and uses backend (CICS, COBOL, DB2) to assure business logic. Data mapping and synchronisation between front and backend systems is done with use of AGF framework (API Group Framework, KBC).

Business logic is handled by backend information-broker transactions which call adequate backend functions and modules and take care of request synchronization and committing.

IBM HW required

A mainframe system optionally equipped with IFL and/or ZAAP.
Front end: any HW, tested on zLinux and Win.
Backend: IBM mainframe.

Non-IBM HW required

No non-IBM HW components required.

IBM SW required

• zOS 1.6 or later
• WebSphere AS 5 or later
• DB/2 7 or later
• CICS 2.2 or later
• CTG for zOS 5.1
• COBOL II E (language environment)

Non-IBM SW used

• AGF (KBC proprietary)

References

• NLB d.o.o. Ljubljana, Slovenia