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Nonstop Business Rules: From Code to Business Specs with TIC Navigator
“What does this Nonstop application actually do? How does it work?” Business analysts, auditors, and managers ask these questions all the time. On HPE Nonstop systems, the answer usually lives inside COBOL, TAL, and TACL programs that have been built and modified over many years. The business logic is there, but it is buried in code that business users cannot read and developers have to trace by hand to understand. Why Answers Are Hard to Get When someone needs an explanation

Phil Ly
Jan 133 min read


WebCon’s New Features: How uLinga for Kafka Continues to Excel
In today's rapidly evolving data landscape, you as NonStop technical professionals understand the challenges of bridging the gap between...

Phil Ly
Mar 24, 20256 min read


2025: The Year to Transform Your HPE NonStop Platform for Tomorrow’s Challenges.
Should you maintain your current systems, invest in modernization, or consider alternatives?

Phil Ly
Dec 16, 20243 min read


Building a Web Interface to a centralized view of Application Logs with LogWatch
TIC LogWatch is a NonStop application log monitoring product that detects anomalies and raises alerts to enable proactive handling of errors

Phil Ly
Mar 18, 20243 min read


How to Aggregate NonStop Logs to Kafka in One Simple Step
Apache Kafka is a powerful streaming platform that has become a popular choice for log aggregation due to its ability to handle large...

Phil Ly
Nov 19, 20232 min read


Minimize Application Downtime with LogWatch Monitoring
LogWatch enables proactive detection of application errors, allowing for timely resolution and preventing potential crises.

Phil Ly
Oct 17, 20232 min read


LightWave Client™ supports more than JSON payload
RESTful API opens up NonStop by enabling its apps to interoperate with services within the enterprise, in the cloud or anywhere on the web.

Phil Ly
Mar 29, 20233 min read


JSON-Enable NonStop COBOL and C programs with JSON Thunder
JSON is a lightweight data-interchange format that has become an essential tool for interoperability between different apps and platforms.

Phil Ly
Feb 1, 20232 min read


Using TOP with NonStop TCP/IP
TOP is a great GUI for just about everything you need to do on your NonStop system.

Matt Riesz
Jan 23, 20235 min read


Swagger or no Swagger LightWave Client lets you create REST APIs in minutes
REST opens up NonStop by enabling its apps to interoperate with services within the enterprise, in the cloud or anywhere on the internet

Phil Ly
Jan 4, 20233 min read
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