Legacy environment streaming

A method for streaming data in a legacy mainframe environment, the method comprising:

• receiving at an interface a subscription request from a first consumer application;
• selecting a consumer instance to provide production data to the first consumer application;
• configuring the selected consumer instance with a first set of configuration parameters from at least one consumer library;
• receiving at the consumer instance the production data from a KAFKA streaming platform cluster;
• and
• forwarding the production data to the first consumer application.

A system for streaming data in a legacy mainframe environment, the system comprising:

• a KAFKA streaming platform abstraction layer interface in communication with a first publisher application;
• at least one producer instance configured in accord with a configuration parameter from at least one producer configuration library, wherein the KAFKA streaming platform abstraction layer interface selects a producer instance to receive publication data from the first publisher application;
• at least one consumer instance configured in accord with a configuration parameter from at least one consumer configuration library, and
• a KAFKA streaming platform client layer interface configured to:
• forward the publication data from the selected producer instance to a KAFKA streaming platform cluster, and
• forward consumer data based on the publication data from the KAFKA streaming platform cluster to the consumer instance, wherein the consumer instance is configured to communicate the consumer data to a first consumer application.