1. A method, comprising: writing, by a mainframe computing resource, data to a shared file system; indicating, by the mainframe computing resource, to a data processing appliance that data exists that is ready for processing; removing, by the data processing appliance, mainframe semantics from the data; processing, by at least one of the data processing appliance or a distributed system, the data; writing, by the data processing appliance, processed data to the shared file system in a mainframe tape format; and notifying, by the data processing appliance, the mainframe computing resource that the processing data is ready for further processing by the mainframe computing resource, wherein the notification includes at least one of a success return code or failure return code.