Abstract: Techniques for implementing encoding standard conversion at an access level are disclosed. Applications to retrieve and store data to external media and convert the accessed data according to tags applied to accessing of the data. A program having a buffer operable with data in a first encoding standard accesses data in a second encoding standard on a remote storage device managed by a host and the host converts the data to the first encoding standard as it is accessed to be received by the program buffer. The data in the program buffer remains encoded in the first standard and the data in the storage device remains encoded in the second standard as the program accesses it.

Abstract: An apparatus, system, and method are provided for enabling web-applications to access enterprise managed data. The invention includes a recoverable resource manager (RRM), a transaction converter, an interface, and a results converter. The RRM provides transactional recovery and transactional access for a plurality of applications including the web-applications. The transaction converter, interface, and results converter cooperate such that relational data requests sent by the web-application access the non-relational data through the RRM and return relational results from non-relational results provided by the RRM. In one implementation, the present invention provides transactional access to web-applications for VSAM data accessible exclusively through a z/OS operating system.