Managed Data Transport Family Overview

Data movement is a mission-critical business function that most people take for granted until something goes wrong. As organizations grow, the ability to manage the growth and distribution of this information becomes increasingly more important. Properly implemented, our data transport products family, listed at right, can provide a reliable and guaranteed delivery of your important corporate data.

Spanning the industry's widest range of platforms, our data transport products facilitate unattended and automatic data transport. Our value added file transfer and retail polling solutions enable efficient and guaranteed bi-directional bulk file transfer, with fast 100% error free file transfer using MLINK™ or Advantage Data Transport™ protocols. Let us work with you to determine the ideal solution for your data transfer problem. If you require a high-performance, cost effective data transport solution adaptable to today's expanding network environments please give us a call or drop us an email to info@g-and-z.com.

These products all share the following mission critical features:

  • Customization capabilities
  • High-performance and scalability
  • Data Compression
  • Checkpoint Restart
  • Guaranteed delivery
Managed Data Transport Family -PollView Enterprise

-PollView Advanced

-PollView eXpress

-ACM

-MLINK

-Advantage Data Transport

-Polling Manager


A graphical explanation of the PollView Solution Family



CA-ACM™ (MLINK Server) Overview

If you need a UNIX powered file transfer system then the Advanced Communications Manager is right for you! If a Windows based system is desired then checkout out the additional capabilities of our ca smart ceritified PollView Solution Family

The Advanced Communications Manager™ (ACM), also known as MLINK Server™, directs and enhances the underlying MLINK software by scheduling transfers and commands; automating operations; and collecting auditing information. It is comprised of four logical components: Database, Communications Controller, Scheduler and Auditor.

Using these components, it automatically schedules and executes communications with sites, controls session execution, error recovery and retry, and maintains complete logs of all activity. The ACM database is the heart of the system, containing all the information required to communicate with each site.

ACM provides 24 x 7 management of complex data transport and task automation. ACM is available on the following platforms:

  • Windows NT/2000/2003/XP
  • IBM RS/6000
  • HP9000
  • Sun Solaris
  • SCO UNIX
  • DG AviiON
  • Most Other UNIX platforms

For existing MLINK/ACM users, check out

Now Available: new releases of ACM, AWS and MLINK for Windows & UNIX.
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(280K PDF) CA-MLINK™ Overview

CA-MLINK™ is the rock solid file transfer technology that powers our ACM and PollView products. Utilizing industry-standard TCP/IP and asynchronous communication protocols, it is the ideal solution to the problem of automated data transport. CA-MLINK provides robust capabilities for reliable, unattended transfer of files between your target systems. It allows any system to initiate data transfer and perform bi-directional, unattended transfers.

The four primary functions of CA-MLINK include:

  • Send File - Allows you to send a data file to be written on a remote system;
  • Receive File - Allows you to retrieve a remote data file to be written on a local system
  • Local Command - Allows you to execute a command locally
  • Remote Command - Allows you to send a command to be executed on a remote system

In addition to robust file transfers MLINK also provides terminal emulation capabilities on DOS and UNIX. Use it to perform remote system support and ad hoc file transfers to your UNIX based systems.

Every machine within your system that will be polled, or will transfer data to another machine, requires a license of MLINK. We often refer to these MLINKs as targets, and MLINK supports the following Target Platforms:
  • Windows NT/2000/2003/XP
  • Windows 3.1/95/98
  • DOS
  • IBM RS/6000
  • HP9000
  • Sun Solaris
  • SCO UNIX
  • IBM 4690
  • QNX
  • Compaq/DEC True 64
  • Linux
  • & many more (call for info)
Now Available: new releases of ACM, AWS and MLINK for Windows & UNIX.
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PollView Enterprise™ Overview

Our complete Retail Systems Management Solution, PollView Enterprise™ - Rightsized™ & Rightpriced™ for today's retailer. A value-priced combination of proven technologies from Computer Associates International, with key integration components from G & Z Systems, now provides you with the ability to centralize your systems, network, and applications management in one intuitive, graphical interface. Includes the exclusive Worldview map-based interface and our own PollView Explorer-style interface. Both give at-a-glance status of your retail environment. Your sites are grouped and mapped to match your business processes. Quickly and easily control the system with a simple click of the mouse. Using the power of PollView Enterprise, you will have a single point of control over the following mission critical areas:

  • Data Transport (including polling)
  • Remote Control (Remote Operator)
  • Software Delivery
  • Event monitoring, automated response and notification
  • Backup and disaster recovery
  • Asset Management, including hardware and software inventory
  • Virus prevention, detection and eradication

PollView Enterprise™, conceived by G & Z Systems, Inc. in partnership with Computer Associates, recognizes the unique environment in which retailers must deploy their technology. The challenges are many, including widely dispersed systems, lack of trained personnel at the store level, low bandwidth and/or intermittent network connections, increasing demand for data communications, increased security risks, rapidly changing software applications and the escalating cost of downtime because of increased dependency on automation. PollView Enterprise sucessfully meets these challeges.

Automate, Monitor & Control: the entire retail enterprise.

PollView Advanced™ Overview

More than just polling, end-to-end managed data transport. PollView Advanced™ is designed for retailers with multiple store locations. A powerful polling solution available for a wide range of platforms, PollView Advanced provides automated, unattended, schedule driven data transport and job execution in multi-site environments, as well as management of the polling server. Includes the exclusive Worldview map-based interface and our own PollView Explorer-style interface. Both give at-a-glance status of your retail environment. Available with a variety of options, including Mlink, FTP, XCOM, and Advantage Data Transport. PollView Advanced is also an integral part of our full featured Retail Systems Management Solution, PollView Enterprise.

The Benefits/Features of PollView Advanced:
  • Guaranteed Error Free data transport across a wide variety of platforms
  • Easy to set up, administer, and manage
  • Lower Costs with data compression and checkpoint restart
  • Reliable delivery of time-critical information
  • No intervention required at store: Fully Automated
  • Central system console for all systems messages, an enhanced live log
  • Monitor key processes on the polling server
  • Remote workstation capable

Automate, Monitor & Control: data transport.

PollView eXpress™ Overview

PollView eXpress™ is an easy to use, reliable polling solution designed for retailers with up to 50 store locations. It is a full featured polling solution, but does not have the server management capabilities of PollView Advanced or PollView Enterprise. Includes the exclusive PollView Explorer-style interface for at-a-glance status of your polling environment.

The Benefits of PollView eXpress are:
  • Guaranteed Error Free data transport across a wide variety of platforms
  • Easy to set up, administer, and manage
  • Lower Costs with data compression and checkpoint restart
  • Reliable delivery of time-critical information
  • No intervention required at store: Fully Automated

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Automate, Monitor & Control: data transport.

Advantage Data Transport Overview

Previously known as TransportIt or Unicenter Data Transport Option. Robust, secure, and guaranteed delivery of mission critical eBusiness information in a timely manner across your enterprise-wide systems is paramount to the success of your eBusiness today. Advantage Transport provides end-to-end management of content delivery securely, reliably, and efficiently across multiple platforms, protocols, networks, and data formats, helping you to synchronize, distribute, update, replicate, and validate data across the enterprise.

Advantage Transport is a comprehensive solution for managing data transfer between systems. It is used widely in industries such as retail, banking, and insurance as well as restaurant-chains, gas-stations or other distributed environments where data needs to be transferred on a regular basis. It provides fast, reliable, and efficient transport across a wide set of operating systems, protocols, and data formats. Advantage Data Transport is very simple to set up, execute, and manage and automates many of the data transfer functions including security settings, network management, data compression, monitoring, and automated problem resolution. Advantage Data Transport manages data transfer while insulating the data delivery process from topology, protocols, hops, connections, or networking.



Polling Manager™ Overview
The MLINK Polling Manager™ is a legacy polling solution, now used only in environments where the polling server is running DOS or Windows 95/98. It provides schedule and/or event driven execution of any combination of the following tasks:
  • Send File
  • Receive File
  • Execute Command Locally
  • Execute Command Remotely

The Polling Manager is an extension of the MLINK Data Transport System. The underlying MLINK software provides compressed, error-free transfer of text and binary data. The Polling Manager can be run in unattended, supervised, or demand poll mode. In unattended mode, the Polling Manager runs in the background, allowing hands free automatic daily polling. In supervised mode, session logging is directed to the display for analysis and troubleshooting. Demand poll mode is used to override schedules for ad hoc data transfer and repolling of failed sites.



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