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Customer Profiles
pcMAINFRAME customer profile: DKB Data Services
JERSEY CITY, NJ -- pcMAINFRAME is helping a bank service bureau extend the reach and usefulness of the bank's mainframe in a low-cost, uncomplicated manner, without requiring elaborate programming or hardware.
DBK Data Services, Inc., is a data processing service bureau for Daichi Kangyo Bank, one of Japan's largest banks. The company is responsible for data processing mainly for the bank's subsidiaries in the New York city area.
One of the services the bank provides its customers is called "Custody." In this service, a bank agrees to be the custodian of securities which its customers have bought, pending subsequent sale of those securities. A key part of this service is sending clients acknowledgments of receipt and delivery of securities (the formal term is "advices"). These confirm to customers that the bank has performed the actions the customer requested, and has appropriately credited or debited the customer's account.
The advices are produced on DKB Data Services' IBM VSE mainframe, and then downloaded to the service bureau's PCs, using pcMAINFRAME as the data transfer program.
Each day, at a pre-set time, pcMAINFRAME's scheduler "wakes up" and downloads advices from the IBM mainframe into an ASCII text file on a PC. That file in turn is moved to another PC-based system, which sends the advices via the Telex network.
"It's an inexpensive, efficient, reliable way to move data from the mainframe out to the telex network," notes Ed Chaparro, Vice President for DKB Data Services. "We needed something that would run on our VSE system, and there was no other product like this which would do that. In addition, pcMAINFRAME was priced right, and gave us the ability to extract fields from mainframe files without the need to write a program, which made it extremely attractive to us."
DKB Data Services also uses pcMAINFRAME to meet requests from its customers for one-time reporting. "For example, if one of our users needs some information from a mainframe file, we're most likely to download the file from the mainframe -- using pcMAINFRAME -- and then use some PC-based product to get users the data they need," notes Chaparro. "That's the important point -- pcMAINFRAME assists us in that and allows us to bypass mainframe development work.
Based on its utility, reliability, and simplicity, DKB Data Services is contemplating using pcMAINFRAME for other systems, such as in a fax interface. "It would be an intermediary between our mainframe and a PC. In our shop, pcMAINFRAME has been a particularly convenient way to move data between the VSE mainframe and PC," Chaparro observed.
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