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MacKinney Systems, Inc.

Since 1980, MacKinney Systems has provided some of the most widely used z/OS and z/VSE tools in the mainframe industry. MacKinney Systems has developed tools used by Fortune 500 companies worldwide and has achieved global acceptance by providing the best price, performance and top-quality support.

TRACK, XRAY and Dump Detective are MacKinney Systems’ cost-effective mainframe application debugging and analysis tools for z/OS and z/VSE environments. These tools provide application developers with an interactive source-level debugging session for Assembler, COBOL and PL/1 programs. They enable fast and effective development, testing and maintenance for CICS and batch programs.

MacKinney Systems Testing and Debugging Tools

ISPF/VSAM Utility provides online access to the most used VSAM functions typically done with IDCAMS batch processing: allocating (defining), renaming, copying and deleting VSAM files with no LRECL or file size restrictions.

VSAM AdminAid aids in monitoring, tuning and reorganizing the production of VSAM files. VAA reduces online response times, batch windows, CPU cycles, DASD space usage and VSAM administration time.


Features include:

• CICS/MAPR II: Create or modify CICS screens fast and easily
• Easy Help for CICS: Easy-to-implement interactive help without program changes
• CICS/Forward Recovery: Quickly recovers corrupted or lost CICS VSAM files

Data Management

CICS File Availability provides file backup and reorganization with concurrent update access in CICS, bringing you closer to 24-7 availability. After a CICS to batch file copy, any tasks accessing the file are suspended for the time it takes for a file rename. Users see a slight delay during the rename instead of file closed error messages.

MacKinney Batch to CICS (MBC) allows you to control CICS resources from a batch. With more than 50 available commands, you can easily alter VSAM, RLS, the program, TranID and TDQ resources. Complete audit trails and total security make MBC a choice tool for Fortune 500 companies. An optional new MBC feature (MBC/FA) includes suspending and resuming logic to prevent users from seeing error messages when a file is closed.

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MacKinney Systems provides cost-effective and secured printing solutions for the mainframe. These printing solutions—including JES Queue for Printers, VTAM Virtual Printer, MacKinney Print Transform and VSE/Power Queue for Printers—deliver reports from the JES or VSE/Power spool to TCP/IP printers or print servers. Solimar and Xerox’s LCDS interface is provided. Traditional CICS printing is captured and redirected to a TCP/IP printer. Advance Function Presentation transforms to PCL, Postscript or PDF are available

Mainframe Printing

MacKinney Systems offers a cost-effective and secured document delivery and archival system for the mainframe. JES Report Broker delivers JES documents via a secure web browser, FTP or email with available AFP transforms to PCL, Postscript or PDF. JOB and Syslog Facility archives JES SYSLOG to the JSF database for ISPF viewing and other processing.


VTAM/Switch is a full-function multi-session VTAM manager. Session Manager for CICS/SWAP gives you up to eight CICS terminal sessions with the ability to launch specific applications per session. Session Manager for CICS/Menu lets you group users and gives menu access to CICS group-centric applications.

Session Management

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