The SGCO Universal Legacy API is the first ever API designed to give your applications direct access to your legacy data files in real time. the SGCO API is a JSON-based RESTful API Installed on your server which then listens for incoming JSON requests and then interacts with your data files.
Interact REALTIME with your Legacy data. The SGCO API enables your external application to: INSERT * READ * UPDATE * DELETE records in your almost any data files or tables in real time. For RMS functionality it includes file and record locking and all data types including binary as both keys and members of compound keys.
SGCO RESTful JSON API. Simple access to Legacy data. No ODBC. No more trying to pretend that Legacy data files is a SQL database! Use your legacy data files to create remote GUI type apps that interact real time with your Legacy Data files. For OpenVMS, Alpha or Itanium (no need to downgrade back to Alpha for emulation) 100% native OpenVMS and licensing 80% less than other less efficient or no longer supported solutions.
If your company is looking to migrate Legacy application to Windows, Linux or the cloud we may offer a better alternative. The SGCO OpenVMS RMS / RDB RESTful API is a Qlik Replicate alternative, don't replicate access your Legacy files Realtime. Modernization solution & services for every layer of your OpenVMS. Modernization for web, mobile or BI dashboards now available directly by using SGCO Universal Legacy RESTful JSON API.
If you're looking for an alternative from Attunity Connect based or Connx we can help.
The SGCO API OpenVMS RMS / RDB RESTful Dynamic API that enables you to implement the Windows, Web, and Mobile (Android / iOS) style GUI applications that your users want while still delivering the robust performance and proven reliability you've come to depend on from your OpenVMS/RMS systems.
As a professional, we'er confident you will immediately appreciate the unlimited opportunities this new API can mean for your existing system. With the ability to insert, real, update, and delete Legacy records in real-time, your Legacy system can communicate instantly with dashboards, web applications/portals, mobil devices, reporting services, even report templates.
The major design concern in architecting our API was to be light weight and efficient. The competing solutions put an unnecessary load onto the host computer resulting in the need to upgrade hardware to compensate. This in turn leads to more issues and a cycle of constant hard to identify problem.
Our API is the only 100% native Universal Legacy System API on the market. The web service will listen on your box on any assigned ports either HTTP or HTTPS as well as running multiple instances, on multiple ports so that you can have a prod instance on 443 SSL and a dev instance n 8443. the API uses config files to pass command line arguments so that sections of the JSON config file can point to different locations for data (again a prod instance and dev instance with prod pointing to the prod data and the dev pointing to the test data.) Our API consists of only a very small application that runs detached on the OS. it accepts JSON input via posts to a listener that can be assigned to any port, processes that input, performs the requested tasks on the data and returns and necessary response.
The SGCO API is ideal for users authentication and custom content filtering based on users ID or other characteristics. The SGCO API also plays well with others by interacting seamlessly with other APIs.
The fact it is 100% native gives you the flexibility to hit the web service with any standard JSON call from anywhere. Unlike Attunity Connect and Connx, you are not limited to connecting only from their client server solution. We have used our API in many different environments from Web Based cloud portals to iOS apps, MS power BI and other dashboards, and syncing large amounts of data from and to external databases. Again 100% native on your iOS. There is very little load on your box as well once the data files have been tuned with the needed indexing. This is an important step that is skipped open by the other solutions but, makes a huge performance difference. A recent use case for inserting large amounts of data vie the API with JSON calls gives up to 3,000 records per second performance.
Because it is dynamic, the SGCO API eliminates the multi-step process of creating copies of your data files, a requirement for other solutions. No duplicate of data or duplication of effort.
We all pay great attention to having granular control over the functionality of all levels of record and row locking.
Our API is by design as secure as possible. The API is not only limited to accept only properly structured JSON input but, will only accept the input stings that are structurally compatible with the target data file. This prevents the API from blindly accepting possibility dangerous input.
Security may also be further enhanced by front ending the API using a second network interface on the host box onto a dedicated LAN with two other entities: A PCI complaint - WAF enabled reverse proxy and a Cisco 5500 series firewall. The Cisco 5500 provides further traffic management as well as the ability to add Cisco Firebox IDS functionality.
It should be noted that this is addressing only the security of the API and that security for the remote applications that manipulate the filesystem via the API are a separate and equally important issues.
The SGCO API is ideal for user authentication and custom content filtering based on user ID or other user characteristics. the SGCO API also plays well with others by interacting seamlessly with other APIs.
The SGCO Universal Legacy API is now available for installation on your system. We offer and annual license for the API with support, complete installation, and training. We have a full team of developers and marketing personnel to assist in any of your needs. For pricing, licensing, or other product information please contact: The SGCO LLC, at info@sgco.com
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NEWS and UpdatesFebruary 22, 2021: SGCO OpenVMS RESTful JSON API allowing for remote portals, BI, spreadsheet etc. connectivity in 100% real time. Click Here To View Press Release
OpenVMS RESTful API update: Recent additions to our API have included server and all modules distributed compiled (huge performance increase), passing file and row locking parameters, multi-step insert/update routine and a few others. This OpenVMS RESTful API runs 100% native on VAX, Alpha and Itanium with no slinging data to MSSql!
OpenVMS Restful API performance tuned new module returns search results 5k records per second! Native and very lightweight. No more slinging data to MSSql.
SGCO OpenVMS RESTful API latest: query (search) tuned to 150,000 records returned in 20 sec, insert / update 10,000 records with local decision to insert or update (no DUP key, row lock when update) in 1 min.
“SGCO OpenVMS RESTful API: One of the more unexpected uses for our API has been keeping RMS databases in sync real time during development of the transition of RMS data to other platforms.”
OpenVMS RMS RESTful API: It’s amazing what tuning can do when you have to. Tuning end to end we can query RMS and returnover the wire JSON for 1m records in 70 seconds and insert 10k records in 25 seconds.
SGCO OpenVMS RESTful API query (search) tuned to 150,000 records returned in 20 seconds, insert / update 10,000 records with local decision to insert or update )no DUP key, row lock when update) in 1 min.
SGCO OpenVMS RESTful API new module perf tuned returns JSON array of search results 5k records per second! 100% native OpenVMS.
SGCO OpenVMS RESTful API update: Recent addiions to our API have included server and all modules distributed compiled, passing file and row locking parameters and multi-step insert/update. API runs 100% native on VAX Alpha and Itanium with no sling data to MSSql.
SGCO OpenVMS RESTful API now distributed and run as a compiled Python extension. 300% performance increase.
SGCO OpenVMS RESTful API update: We just completed the ability to fully interact with binary field types for complete CRUD functionality including simple and compound binary indexes.
OpenVMS RMS RestFul JSON API update: We just completed the ability to fully interact with binary field types for complete CRUD functionality including simple and compound binary indexes. hashtag#json hashtag#openvms hashtag#api.