>We have a loan package software called CFI. Just recently I have been able to extract their data from their export module. I want to take this data and send the information via a dedicated line to OCS a service bureau where we have much of our work outsourced. OCS has a UNISYS mainframe. They need the data formatted to certain specifications that their program will understand. This is not the difficulty.
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> The problem is that I will need the ability to communicate with their mainframe for real time processing. Does anyone know how to communicate with a UNISYS mainframe via modem or how I might attack this problem?

The platform is not necessarily the problem. What RDBMS is the software using? Is it available via ODBC? We have a mainframe here (available through TCP/IP connection), but we have apps in DB2 and Oracle, both of which are available via ODBC. All you have to is create a connection to the database instance. Then you can submit SQL through the connection.