This pattern shows you how to modernize your business-critical mainframe batch printing workloads on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud by using Micro Focus Enterprise Server as a runtime for a modernized mainframe application and LRS VPSX/MFI (Micro Focus Interface) as a print server. The pattern is based on the replatform mainframe modernization approach. In this approach, you migrate your mainframe batch jobs to Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) and migrate your mainframe database, such as IBM DB2 for z/OS, to Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS). The authentication and authorization for the modernized print workflow is performed by AWS Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory, also known as AWS Managed Microsoft AD. The LRS Directory Information Server (LRS/DIS) is integrated with AWS Managed Microsoft AD. By modernizing your batch printing workloads, you can reduce IT infrastructure costs, mitigate the technical debt of maintaining legacy systems, remove data silos, increase agility and efficiency with a DevOps model, and take advantage of on-demand resources and automation in the AWS Cloud.
