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 GLINK FOR WINDOWS
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Glink for Windows
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GENERAL DESCRIPTION

General Desciption

General description
Glink is a communications package chosen by more than 500.000 users world wide for use when connecting to mainframes from Windows platforms.
Glink is designed to meet the needs of all major environments, including government, finance, industry and commerce. Glink is used to access typical mainframe applications such as payroll, inventory and accounting, and any other transactional and database systems running on Bull, IBM, DEC, Unix and Linux mainframes.

Secure access to core business applications
Employees at all levels in public and private enterprises use Glink for secure access to core business applications running on enterprise mainframe systems Operations personnel working on mainframe systems use Glink to monitor system operation and follow the progress of critical batch jobs Systems and application programmers use Glink when developing with mainframe development tools Operations personnel in telecommunications companies use Glink to monitor and control remote devices

Integrating access
Sales outlets use Glink to deliver transaction files to data processing centers Glink includes a powerful script language and all standard programmatic interfaces, making it the ideal tool for integrating access to core business applications with new front-office applications developed on Windows server platforms using modern programming productivity tools.
Glink users can connect to this wide variety of systems by Internet, Extranet, Intranet, X.25 or modem.