About NSI
Nusantara Software Industry
Nusantara Software Industry (NSI), a house of Nusantaran creative and innovative software artists, engineers and developers, is the first and only mainframe software technology industry in Nusantara. NSI neither represents nor affiliated with nor provides services for any party's products and technology. NSI represents itself and sells its own products and technology that it created itself. NSI is very proud to be itself.
NSI has produced zJOS-XDI© or XDI versi 2©, a package of 3 automation tools, (1) system-events manager for non-cycled or non-periodic and unsolicited operation automation, (2) workloads scheduler for cycled or periodic (calendar basis) and solicited operation automation and (3) spool outputs distribution.
NSI realized that being itself and being at the manufacturer level for the software industry was not as easy as being a trader. Traders can at least choose which product is most likely to make the fastest or biggest profit or both. Traders don't have to think about how to create, develop and maintain the products they trade.
Instead, being manufacturer must have at least 3 important factors to get started. The first factor is carefulness in determining what product to develop. This must consider the market situation and conditions as well as the level of difficulty and complexity of the technology behind the products.
The second factor is the level of capacity of knowledge and skills of the human resources they have. It would be very disappointing, to make such a perfect design but it cannot be implemented into a product because no one is capable of doing it. This is the importance of a designer, an architect or an engineer who must also have very strong programming and coding skills. So, she/he doesn't just show the slides to present the design. But also provides examples and guidance on how to code it. She/he must also always be ready to correct the programmers' mistakes if they have difficulty correcting them themselves. Specifically for NSI there is no problem with this factor, because the designer and coder are the same person.
The third factor is environmental support. In the country where NSI was born, moral support has been around since along time ago. Leaders always endorse local products. Unfortunately only limited to speeches and chatting. It has not yet reached the legal and regulatory area. So, new players like NSI hardly find a place in their own country. It's too hard to bootstrap. It has to spend extra effort to compete with some mature brands. Committing to high-quality products, technology and support is not enough. It should also promise extra low costs, free if necessary. That's not necessarily something to consider.
Nevertheless, NSI won’t surrender fighting people’s wrong paradigm. Brands and corporate images are nothing to do with the products and supports qualities. NSI keeps trying to provide the best qualities in both products and supports to its existing customers. And thanks God, fortunately zJOS/Sekar© and zJOS/Puspa© have been running safely and smoothly on customer’s mainframe systems since 2006 and XDI/AutoXfer© since 2004.
The error occurred several times during the transition from z/OS V1R13 to V2R3 from Nov 2019 to March 2020. However, it turned out to be a corrupt database whose presence was accompanied by the appearance of the IOS000I message. So it has absolutely no impact on source code corrections.
The error also occurred in mid-February 2024 and April 2024. Seeing the fact that the product running is still at the same update level and still with the same OS, z/OS V2R3, it is very likely that it is not a software error. If the error this time turns out to not be a software error, then NSI can be proud that its product has never experienced an error since it was installed on the customer's site. However, if this time it turns out to be a software error, then NSI can still be proud that this is the first error since it was installed on the customer's site 20 years ago.
History of NSI
NSI was originally a freelance team led by the founder that specialized in mainframe technical services that were outside the standard of services provided by its primary vendor. Usually product customization is related to programming work. For example, arranging a special ISPF panel, creating a user-exit, creating an interface between certain components or processes or even between user-exits and so on.
Why were this kind of services necessary in those days? Even though many user-exit templates are provided by IBM in SYS1.SAMPLIB. Mainly because most people don't understand assembly. Also because in the sample modules and documents there are many real needs that are never explained. For example, how do user-exits share data or information with each other? Apparently, the lack of explanation was a blessing for this freelance team.
Especially for the founder at that time, in his free time he sometimes prepared template modules that he estimated would be needed for future orders.
Starting in 2003, the team was then converted to NSI and focus on commercial software industry, mainly in system-level or control-level application development. The first 3 products, zJOS/Sekar©, zJOS/Puspa© and XDI/AutoXfer©, are bundled into a single package called zJOS-XDI© and have been marketed since 2004.
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