Architecture

z/Scope Anywhere is based on a 3-tier architecture:

The Client

HTML5-capable Web Browser

The Server

z/Scope Anywhere Server

The Host

IBM Mainframe, Midrange or Unix system.

How It Works

The remote user connects to the z/Scope Anywhere server using any HTML5 compliant browser. Once the connection is established the server will interpret and send commands to the specific host/protocol, and send back the results after converting the updated screens to native web structures.

Load Balancing Architectures for z/Scope Anywhere

z/Scope Anywhere can be configured in two different load balancing architectures:

z/Scope Anywhere Load Balancer
z/Scope Anywhere Load Balancer with a Domain Name System (DNS) for multiple brokers

Requirements

Client

OS independent
HTML5-compliant Web Browser:
Internet Explorer 9.0, 10.0, 11.0
Edge 10+
Firefox 17+
Chrome 22+
Safari 6.0.1+
iOS 5.1.1+
Android 2.3, 4.0+

Server

Windows XP 32-bit / 64-bit
Windows Vista 32-bit / 64-bit
Windows 7 32-bit / 64-bit
Windows 10 32-bit / 64-bit
Windows Server 2003 32-bit / 64-bit
Windows Server 2008 32-bit / 64-bit
Windows Server 2012 32-bit / 64-bit
Windows Server 2016 32-bit / 64-bit

Host

IBM Mainframe
AS/400
Unix