HIS 2009 Will Come
If you are not familiar with the Host Integration Server, you can learn from HIS official site. Currently there is a HIS 2009 RC version available from http://connect.microsoft.com/. HIS 2009 is fully integrated to Visual Studio 2008. Last time I worked on HIS project for screen level interface to mainframe (2370 protocol) and I found that much more features will come from HIS 2009. Screencast from HIS team below is very useful to give you ideas on data and application level integration to host systems.
- Acessing Offline Mainframe VSAM Data Using Host Integration Server 2009 Release Candidate
- Exposing Mainframe Applications as SQL Stored Procedures using HIS 2009 Release Candidate
In case you have a specific integration case to legacy in AS400/MainFrame in your company, feel free to put in comment below.
Cheers - RAM