Announcement Summary - October 02, 2009

Improve competitiveness by strengthening business connectivity with partners and customers, and between internal organizations
Streamline seemingly complex but highly valuable SOA and XML applications with specialized, low total cost of ownership, drop-in appliances
Load balance service requests across your infrastructure
Extend existing Microsoft and TIBCO infrastructure with security, integration, and connectivity
Leverage z/OS infrastructure as part of your SOA enterprise
Shorten SOA application deployment times when using DataPower configuration-driven simplicity
Enhance B2B connectivity, protection, XML-level security, and Web service access control with powerful and thoughtful appliance security features
Accelerate message distribution, and XML and Web services processing with dedicated, high-performance capabilities
Assist in governing ever-valuable SOA infrastructure by adopting standardized run-time control points through DataPower
Comply with U.S. federal IPv6 network (XM70, XI50, XS40, and XA35 models)

For ordering, contact your IBM representative, an IBM Business Partner, or IBM Americas Call Centers at 800-IBM-CALL (Reference: NE001).

Overview

IBM WebSphere DataPower Appliances simplify, help govern, and enhance the security of XML and IT services. The five products in the portfolio extend the capabilities of your infrastructure by providing service-oriented architecture (SOA) connectivity, business-to-business (B2B) connectivity, gateway functions, and extremely low latency messaging. By offering an innovative, pragmatic approach to harness the power of SOA as purpose-built, easy-to-consume, and easy-to-use products, these appliances help you leverage the value of your existing infrastructure investments.

The rack-mountable IBM WebSphere DataPower Appliance family includes:

IBM WebSphere DataPower Low Latency Appliance XM70
IBM WebSphere DataPower B2B Appliance XB60
IBM WebSphere DataPower Integration Appliance XI50
IBM WebSphere DataPower XML Security Gateway XS40
IBM WebSphere DataPower XML Accelerator XA35

V3.8.0 firmware enhancements include:

Enhanced load balancing

Enables self-balancing across a cluster of appliances and backend server load balancing, based on weights from the backend servers (options for XS40 and XI50 only)

Enhanced interoperability

Out-of-the-box support for Microsoft .NET WCF Web services bindings
WebSphere MQ V7 support
Support for remotely hosted WebSphere Transformation Extender maps
FTP/FTPS improvements
Support handling for JavaScript™ Object Notation (JSON) and REpresentational State Transfer (REST) applications

Enhanced security features

Updated Web application firewall and threat protection
Integration with IBM Tivoli Security Policy Manager for distribution of WS-SecurityPolicy and Extensible Access Control Markup Language (XACML)
Online Certificate Status Protocol (OSCP) improvements
Integration with z/OS Communications Server PKI services

New B2B capabilities

Updated B2B protocol support with the addition of EDIINT AS1 and plain text e-mail (XB60 only)
B2B interoperability through the completion of Drummond Group AS2 certification (XB60 only)
Enhanced B2B transaction viewing by providing the ability to search and display AS Message IDs (XB60 only)
AS2 transaction performance enhancements over previous releases

Enhanced connectivity

Support for TIBCO EMS map messages (XI50, XB60, and XM70 only)
Support for TIBCO Rendezvous (XM70 only)
Support for transactional messaging with WebSphere JMS

Key prerequisites

Network interface and network cable
Network information (IP address, domain name server, gateway)
Computer and console with serial port, keyboard, and mouse
Power requirements for country specifications
Internet access for connecting to external trading partners (XB60 only)
WebSphere MQ Low Latency Messaging (XM70 only)

Planned availability date

November 13, 2009: Electronic GA
December 4, 2009: Physical GA

Software Announcements

209-291 IBM WebSphere Message Broker V7.0 products deliver enhancements for productivity, universal connectivity for SOA, and dynamic operational management

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At a glance

WebSphere® Message Broker V7.0 products deliver the following enhancements:

Simplified for productivity: fewer product components and prerequisities, IBM-supplied patterns for connectivity development, Message Broker Explorer for dedicated administration
Connectivity for service oriented architecture (SOA): extended publish and subscribe capability better integrated with WebSphere MQ, new nodes for Web 2.0, interoperability, message sequencing, and enhanced adapter nodes for SAP Software, Siebel Business Applications, and PeopleSoft Enterprise
Dynamic operational facilities for auditing, monitoring, and understanding Message Broker behavior and interactions with other products
Connectivity with WebSphere Process Server via new nodes and WebSphere Business Monitor through a new event-generation mechanism Service Component Architecture (SCA)
Exploitation of WebSphere MQ multi-instance queue managers for High Availability
Industry samples for TLOG retail support and Healthcare, including HL7 Minimal Lower Layer Protocol (MLLP)
64-bit support on z/OS®, performance monitoring tools, and reduced memory footprint

For ordering, contact your IBM® representative, an IBM Business Partner, or IBM Americas Call Centers at 800-IBM-CALL (Reference: YE001).

Overview

WebSphere Message Broker is the solution for clients seeking an enterprise service bus (ESB) that provides connectivity and transformation spanning heterogeneous IT environments.

The IBM Smarter Planet strategy shows us how the electronic world is becoming more instrumented, more interconnected, and more intelligent. With its support for a broad range of transports, protocols, and data formats, WebSphere Message Broker performs the necessary conversions between diversely instrumented systems, which allows them to communicate with each other freely. WebSphere Message Broker enables intelligent applications and services to receive and generate data based on an interconnected infrastructure and makes smarter decisions possible.

WebSphere Message Broker offers the solution your organization needs to transform and route business data between applications. Because it can function as a message and protocol switch, you can connect disparate applications and business data across multiple platforms. It also delivers transformation and intelligent routing capabilities for all your business information. It makes business data available exactly where you want it in the format you need it.

WebSphere Message Broker gives you a flexible and dynamic infrastructure to simplify application integration. With its robust design, scalable architecture, high performance, and ease of use, you can implement an enterprise-wide service oriented architecture (SOA) in stages.

With this flexible combination of functions, your organization is given the tools to solve your integration requirements from any starting point: a simple two-application solution or a multi-application, multi-platform design. As your business expands and the integration challenges multiply, WebSphere Message Broker can accommodate your changing business needs by:

Expanding your infrastructure without increasing the complexity
Protecting your existing and ongoing investments in applications and data structures
Seamlessly extending your connectivity capabilities

WebSphere Message Broker can accommodate many IT environments with support for an array of application and middleware technologies. In addition, it offers the following benefits:

Exploits the industry-leading WebSphere MQ messaging infrastructure
Supports a broad range of transport protocols (for example, integration with WebSphere MQ, JMS 1.1, HTTP(S), Web services (for example, SOAP and REST), files, Service Component Architecture (SCA), TCP/IP, and SAP Software and data formats (for example, binary, text, XML, and industry formats)
Offers numerous ways to customize mediation (for example, route, filter, transform, and filter)
Uses a simple programming model for connectivity and mediation, including a robust set of prebuilt patterns
Supports a wide range of transformation options with graphical mapping, Java™, ESQL, XSL, PHP, and WebSphere Transformation Extender
Delivers extensive administration and systems management facilities for developed solutions
Delivers similar performance to traditional transaction processing systems
Is available as Trial, Remote Adapter Deployment, Getting Started, and Enterprise modes

WebSphere Message Broker is the cost-effective solution for your enterprise's extensive integration and mediation needs today and will protect your investment into the future.

Key prerequisites

Refer to the Software requirements and Hardware requirements sections.

Planned availability date

November 6, 2009 (electronic software delivery)
December 4, 2009 (media and documentation)

209-352 IBM WebSphere Business Services Fabric V7.0 builds and manages modular, dynamically-assembled, extensible processes

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At a glance

IBM WebSphere Business Services Fabric V7.0 enhancements focus on increased productivity for business and IT users.

New feature details

Improvements in user tooling experience
- New user interface for context mapping extraction
- Performance improvements
Improvements in Business Process Management (BPM) runtime integration
- Common repository with WebSphere Process Server
- Dynamic assembly eventing monitor integration
- Enhanced problem determination with improved error code and messages
Enhanced installation experience with IBM Install Manager support
Basic support for four additional languages: Afrikaans, Armenian, Georgian, and Swahili
Support for SLES 11 and DB2® 9.7

For ordering, contact your IBM representative, an IBM Business Partner, or IBM Americas Call Centers at 800-IBM-CALL (Reference: YE001).

Overview

WebSphere Business Services Fabric, an extension to IBM WebSphere Process Server, builds and manages modular, dynamically-assembled, extensible processes. There are many benefits to taking complex processes, modularizing them into intelligent Business Services, then assembling these modules at run time.

WebSphere Business Services Fabric:

Extricates and makes accessible to business users formerly hard-coded process variability for easy, fast, and governed change
Enables new functionality to be added to a process without changing or redeploying the process
Separates the life cycle of individual modules and intelligent Business Services, making the manageability of complex BPM projects much easier by keeping small changes small
Organizes service-oriented architecture (SOA) and BPM infrastructure into shareable, reusable intelligent Business Services, for a fully-realized SOA vision of architectural agility and reuse

In general, it has been shown that WebSphere Business Services Fabric can help reduce the total cost of ownership of a complex BPM project by up to 50%, and help enable much faster reaction to change.

Note: Any performance data contained herein was determined in a controlled environment. Therefore, the results obtained in other operating environments may vary significantly. Some measurements may have been made on development-level systems and there is no guarantee that these measurements will be the same on generally available systems. Furthermore, some measurements may have been estimated through extrapolation. Actual results may vary. Users of this document should verify the applicable data for their specific environment.

WebSphere Business Services Fabric can help businesses to:

Quickly implement innovative new products and services without changing or redeploying core processes
React rapidly to new market conditions by enabling business users to make governed changes in their own processes
Help save costs by enabling reuse of major business capabilities across a corporation

WebSphere Industry Content Packs V7.0, packaged as part of WebSphere Business Services Fabric in prior releases, is now available as a separate product on the Windows® platform. This offering consists of prebuilt, industry-specific packs that are available for banking, insurance, healthcare, telecommunications, and industrial product life cycle management. For more information about the WebSphere Industry Content Packs, refer to Software Announcement 209-336, dated October 02, 2009.

Key prerequisites

For details, refer to the section.

Planned availability date

December 11, 2009: Electronic software delivery
January 15, 2010: Media packs

209-300 IBM WebSphere MQ File Transfer Edition V7.0.2 products enhance managed file transfer with further connectivity, platform coverage, and security

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At a glance

WebSphere MQ File Transfer Edition V7.0.2 enhances the IBM managed file transfer solution for both distributed platforms and z/OS on IBM System z®. These enhancements further increase the connectivity, platform coverage, connectivity, and security of this offering. WebSphere MQ File Transfer Edition leverages the proven WebSphere MQ transport to transfer files with auditability, visibility, and reliability. Enhancements include:

Support for the IBM i platform (iSeries®)
Ability to bridge to FTP and Secure File Transfer Protocol (SFTP) and Secure Shell (SSH) servers
Enhanced security with more granular access control for users and groups
Extended platform coverage for database archiving of file transfer audit log
Enhancements to ease deployment between test and production configurations
Documentation for configuring transfers through the business-to-business (B2B) gateway provided by WebSphere DataPower® B2B Appliance XB60

For ordering, contact your IBM representative, an IBM Business Partner, or IBM Americas Call Centers at 800-IBM-CALL (Reference: YE001).

Overview

WebSphere MQ File Transfer Edition products deliver a managed file transfer solution for moving files with auditability, visibility, and reliability. These products leverage WebSphere MQ messaging as its reliable transport mechanism for moving files and enables files to be moved regardless of size.

An audit log of file movements enables organizations to demonstrate that business data in files is transferred with integrity from source to target file system. Graphical configuration tooling, supplied with the product on distributed platforms and integrated with WebSphere MQ Explorer, enables quick and easy definition of transfers remotely from Microsoft® Windows or Linux® on x86 machines without the need for programming.

On distributed platforms, WebSphere MQ File Transfer Edition includes a copy of WebSphere MQ, the license of which is limited for use on the same machine as the product. It entitles the client to use its full WebSphere MQ messaging functionality.

Trade-up licenses are available for existing clients who want to upgrade machines running WebSphere MQ to WebSphere MQ File Transfer Edition. Clients who upgrade can continue to use the full messaging capabilities of the limited license copy of WebSphere MQ that is supplied with WebSphere MQ File Transfer Edition. Machines running WebSphere MQ File Transfer Edition provide a multipurpose connectivity solution for files and messages.

WebSphere MQ for z/OS is a prerequisite for WebSphere MQ File Transfer Edition for z/OS. A separate license of WebSphere MQ for z/OS is required for this product on the System z platform.

Organizations that run separate mechanisms for file and message traffic can consolidate on a single, reliable transport capable of handling both file and message traffic. Using a single reliable backbone can help achieve these operational efficiencies by reducing the need to deploy and manage separate parallel networks for messages and files.

Key prerequisites

For details, refer to the Hardware requirements and Software requirements sections.

Planned availability date

WebSphere MQ File Transfer Edition V7.0.2

November 27, 2009 (electronic software delivery)
December 4, 2009 (media and documentation)

WebSphere MQ File Transfer Edition for z/OS V7.0.2

December 4, 2009 (media and documentation)

209-324 IBM WebSphere Business Monitor V7.0 provides real-time end-to-end process monitoring to help business users anticipate and respond proactively to situations for better business results

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At a glance

IBM WebSphere Business Monitor V7.0 delivers:

Robust business activity monitoring (BAM) functions for the business user
End-to-end visibility into business process performance
Rich analytics for improved decision making based on historical and trending data
Early detection, alerts, and timely notifications for emerging business situations
Complete feedback mechanism with WebSphere Business Compass for continuous process improvement
Customizable Web 2.0 dashboards that enable business users to define and very easily view new key performance indicators (KPIs)

For ordering, contact your IBM representative or an IBM Business Partner. For more information, contact the Americas Call Centers at 800-IBM-CALL.

Reference: YE001

Overview

IBM WebSphere Business Monitor V7.0 is a comprehensive business activity monitoring (BAM) software that provides business users and managers with a real-time and end-to-end view of business processes and operations enabling you to proactively manage business problems or take advantage of business opportunities. A core part of the WebSphere Dynamic Process Edition foundational offering of the IBM Business Process Management (BPM) Suite, WebSphere Business Monitor is also available as a standalone product. It provides customizable business dashboards that calculate and display key performance indicators (KPIs) and metrics derived from business processes, business activity data, and business events from a wide range of information sources. Business users can view these KPIs, metrics, and alerts through various means including lightweight Web interfaces, Smartphones, via corporate portals, and on desktops. These offer business users immediate actionable information and insight into their business operations to mitigate problems or take advantage of opportunities. WebSphere Business Monitor enables business users to proactively manage business situations by providing advanced and earlier warning on impending situations. WebSphere Business Monitor helps you:

Increase revenue: Real-time visibility provided by WebSphere Business Monitor enables you to increase revenue, for example, by identifying business opportunities early to gain competitive advantage and improving customer satisfaction through improved customer service.
Reduce costs: Real-time visibility provided by WebSphere Business Monitor enables you to take proactive and informed action to reduce costs, for example, ensuring critical business processes meet commitments to customers, identifying inefficiencies in the processes, ensuring key business metrics meet targets, or improving operational planning based on volume analysis.

Rich analytics provide business users with additional insight into the business operations and processes to make better, more informed decisions based on historical and trending data. Tight integration with the IBM BPM suite of products enables you to rapidly improve critical business processes.

WebSphere Business Monitor enables the IT departments to focus on high value projects and innovative solutions rather than routine and inefficient data collection for their line-of-business users. WebSphere Business Monitor enables IT to very quickly develop monitoring solutions to provide business stakeholders with a comprehensive view of the business by collecting real-time events from a wide variety of sources.

IBM BPM Suite and Connectivity portfolio
Events from your applications and other third-party applications through the IBM Connectivity portfolio

New capabilities in WebSphere Business Monitor V7.0:

Ability to link strategic organization goals to operational metrics. This enables business leaders to identify metrics affecting strategic goals, and track progress and execution of the strategy.
Rapid development of monitoring solutions for monitoring processes on WebSphere Process Server.
Accelerated and enhanced delivery of monitoring solutions through WebSphere Industry Content Packs.
Improved end-to-end process monitoring by enabling event processing from other IBM middleware such as IMS™ and CICS®.
Increased productivity for IT developers when creating end-to-end process monitoring solutions through improved tooling for WebSphere Message Broker.
Easier management and configuration of WebSphere Business Monitor for System Z customers.
Wizard-driven topology configurations for optimal and rapid configuration of monitor installations.

Key prerequisites

Supported environments

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
HP-UX Itanium®
Microsoft Windows Server
Microsoft Windows XP Professional
IBM AIX®
Sun Solaris

Planned availability dates

December 11, 2009: Electronic distribution - U.S. English and national languages
January 15, 2010: Media packs - U.S. English and national languages

209-296 IBM WebSphere Service Registry and Repository Advanced Lifecycle Edition V7.0

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Overview

IBM WebSphere Service Registry and Repository Advanced Lifecycle Edition V7.0 stores, catalogs, and flexibly organizes assets and services; it allows customers to get a handle on what assets they have, making it easy to locate or distribute. This robust solution captures dependencies between services and applications, reducing risk with exposure to the business when making changes (or upgrading). With the ability to report on key metrics, WebSphere Service Registry and Repository Advanced Lifecycle Edition is a key ingredient to plan, assess, and improve assets and associated policies. This solution integrates with customers' existing SOA infrastructure and has designed-in capabilities to federate and leverage service information to and from other sources.

WebSphere Service Registry and Repository Advanced Lifecycle Edition is composed of:

WebSphere Service Registry and Repository, V7.0
IBM Rational® Asset Manager, V7.2

This comprehensive solution integrates service life cycle governance and asset management to deliver service and functionality:

Enables service design time to run time lifecycle governance through prescriptive service life cycle models. The service life cycle governance is powered by underlying design to federate metadata across the design time and run time stages with policies enabling proactive decision-making capabilities.
Establish governance of relationship between services with the associated business case and impacted business processes. Align IT with business by making better investment choices. Respond quickly to business needs, maximize return on investment, and optimize resource utilization.
Respond to changing customer demands, by correlating requirements management with service life cycle management, giving reduced effort and duplication in tracking requirements to services.
Leverage the collaborative software development asset management solution that provides best practices to efficiently govern and reuse software assets in an organizationally distributed development environment. This helps you identify, manage, and govern the design, development, release packages, and consumption of services as part of a service-oriented architecture initiative or other reusable assets for various development environments.
Minimize service outages and inefficiency with the ability to easily collaborate ownership of services and related assets, providing more informed changes based on better understanding of impact on stakeholders.
Utilize service contract and version management to meet changing business needs and service levels. This allows customer to maintain multiple service versions and manage expectations by facilitating contracts between service providers and consumers, resulting in reduced costs and increased efficiency. Protects investments and avoids downtime.
Improve reporting. Audit and reports to pinpoint the information necessary to control, providing various reports to fulfill business needs and track compliance, resulting in lower costs of compliance and avoidance of costly penalties.
Reuse existing services and protect investments with service discovery for Oracle/BEA and JBOSS. WebSphere Service Registry and Repository provides an enterprise service repository supporting a heterogeneous environment, giving cost savings in leveraging existing IT investments.
Manage software assets across the entire Application Lifecycle Management, leveraging new support for IBM Jazz™ technology; reduce time to deliver by centralizing on a strategic platform.
Acquire new analysis and reporting to better understand what assets you have, how to reduce duplication, and bring the most benefit to the organization.
Improve usability to save time submitting assets, and increase adoption of asset management practices

Without proactive service life cycle governance and management of service metadata in an SOA, it is difficult to optimize business results of SOA that indicate challenges in managing and a general lack of control over customers services. These typically include:

High development and maintenance costs with slow time-to-market
Much time and effort making changes to applications and processes; missed deadlines
IT capabilities, skills, and assets that can be leveraged is unknown
Trade-off between higher costs and customer satisfaction in serving varying customer needs

WebSphere Service Registry and Repository component integrates and complements numerous solutions from IBM, as well as external solutions from Business Partners, including:

Enhanced connectivity by increasing runtime flexibility of applications integrated using the Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) related products including WebSphere Datapower, WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus (ESB), WebSphere Message Broker.
Optimized use of services in SOA by exchanging rich service information with runtime monitoring tools and operational data stores including IBM Tivoli® Composite Application Manager (ITCAM) for SOA, IBM Tivoli Change Configuration Management Database (CCMDB).
Enabled governance and life cycle management of your high-value applications, such as WebSphere MQ, and CICS.
Enabled policy management across the SOA lifestyle, spanning various domains of policies including runtime policies as well as service governance policies.
The Service Federation Management Console simplifies the process of sharing business services between service domains.
Integration across Business Process Management solution as a foundation for service governance and metadata.

Rational Asset Manager component provides:

New Jazz-driven life cycle management capabilities to manage asset workflow from concept, development, build, deployment, and retirement.
New integrations with IBM Rational Team Concert and other Jazz products. Connect and federate an asset's metadata with the related Jazz Application Lifecycle Managed resources.
Updated SOA Asset Libraries.
New Build Forge® integration combines assets with the software assembly process.
Role-based client access licenses for collaborators who can search, use, and collaborate on assets.
Capability for publishers who also require the ability to publish and review assets.

You can purchase WebSphere Service Registry and Repository Advanced Lifecycle Edition as a standalone solution; or with existing WebSphere Service Registry and Repository licenses, you can add authorized user licenses to get to Advanced Lifecycle Edition functionality. To comply with the terms and conditions, when you purchase WebSphere Service Registry and Repository Advanced Lifecycle Edition solution as standalone product, customer must order both the Processor Value Unit (PVU) (full capacity or sub capacity) and authorized user part numbers. For details of the purchasing scenarios, refer to the Description section of the announcement letter.

For ordering, contact your IBM representative, an IBM Business Partner, or IBM Americas Call Centers at 800-IBM-CALL (Reference: YE001).

Key prerequisites

For details, refer to the Hardware requirements and Software requirements sections.

Planned availability date

December 23, 2009: Electronic software delivery

January 22, 2010: Media and documentation

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WebSphere Business Events V7.0

Enhances the business user experience and tooling -- Extends the business-focused design tools to the Web 2.0 mashup environment within IBM Business Space Framework
Expands the test capability for both IT and the business user to validate business logic
- Enables analysis of business logic before applying changes
- Delivers event capture and replay capability
- Offers a new test environment geared to the business user
Enhanced performance and reliability -- Provides increased throughput and decreased memory footprint
Extends reach and visibility, enabling more insightful, timely action
- Leverages IBM WebSphere ILOG JRules for key operational decisions
- Hosted trial available in IBM SOA Sandbox
- Introduced as a key component in the Energy and Utilities Industry Framework
- Interoperates with IMS to leverage existing IMS assets for event processing applications
Extends the Design components for interaction outside the tooling
- Surfaces programmatic interfaces to the Business User Design components to construct business logic outside the tooling
- Provides interfaces to tune business logic in a running WebSphere Business system
Provides additional platform and standards coverage
- WebSphere Application Server V7.0
- Government standards support - IPv6, Federal Desktop Core Configuration (FDCC), and Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) compliance

For ordering, contact your IBM representative, an IBM Business Partner, or IBM Americas Call Centers at 800-IBM-CALL (Reference: YE001).

Overview

Business Event Processing (BEP) is the next generation in event processing. It extends the capabilities and tools of traditional event processing approaches to the business user to sense and respond to business events-any occurrence or happening within business context-presenting opportunities or threats.

WebSphere Business Events is a software system designed specifically for managing these business events flowing across systems and people with the goal of providing timely insight and response. Business events are discovered and described in business terms to meet business objectives based on high-level management goals. WebSphere Business Events allows business users to sense (detect and decide) and respond effectively to the impact of business events.

WebSphere Business Events delivers this capability through intuitive business user tools that define, implement, and manage business events. WebSphere Business Events uniquely provides graphical, codeless authoring for defining related elements:

Business event actions
Business interaction logic
External sources for event data enrichment
Consoles for task management and business event flow visualizations of charts, graphs, and dashboard layouts

Key features include:

Enables straightforward expression of business event interaction logic
Understands business language and vernacular
Senses business events and patterns and initiates the appropriate business actions
Includes codeless, graphical authoring tools
Delivers simple and integrated visualization dashboard support
Connects to existing islands of event information
Supports both simple and complex business event pattern correlations
Delivers an integrated development and execution system
Installs as plug and play to extend your existing environments
Operates with high performance, scalability, and high availability (HA)
Enhances existing Business Process Management (BPM), connectivity products, service oriented architecture (SOA) infrastructures, as well as mainframe applications
Offers simple exchange of events from third-party applications directly to WebSphere Business Events
Supports event processing requirements and demands across industries and application domains

WebSphere Business Events V7.0 and WebSphere Business Events forz/OS V7.0 continue to deliver enhancements to their industry-leading, business-focused design tools.

For V6.2, WebSphere Business Events delivered enhanced monitoring dashboard visuals within Business Space. With V7.0, WebSphere Business Events now provides additional enhancements to the business-focused design tools by offering its design capability for defining business event processing logic within the Business Space Framework. This delivers a simplified, consistent user experience for business users accessing the WebSphere Business Events Dashboards, Design and Test from a single view.

New capabilities in WebSphere Business Events V7.0

Extends the business user Design Tool to the Business Space Framework
- Enables business users to define and manage the event processing logic within Business Space
- Provides a consistent business user experience across the portfolio
- Offers a single interface for the business user to access and manage a variety of tasks
Expands test capabilities for the business user to validate business logic
- Offers a new test environment allowing the business user to define and test the business logic as it is created, without the need to deploy to the WebSphere Business Events runtime
- Allows the business user to visualize the affects of a change to a business rule component before it is applied to the entire set of rules
- Provides the capability to capture and replay events against the business logic and validate the outcome
- Enables the business user to maintain a running "window" of recent event streams to allow verification of their rules on yesterday's or last week's data in a safe, easy, integrated environment
- Offers test capabilities in Business Space alongside the WebSphere Business Events Design and Dashboards, to deliver an integrated design and test environment for the business user to design and test interactions as they are developed
Provides increased throughput and decreased memory footprint
- Increases responsiveness and accelerates the performance of high volume, data intensive event processing applications yielding higher throughput
- Reduces memory footprint resulting in higher memory density and potential lower memory cost
Extends the power of WebSphere Business Events
- Leverages WebSphere ILOG JRules for key operational decisions
- Includes support for interoperability with IMS enabling WebSphere Business Events to receive business event data directly from IMS applications
- Surfaces interfaces to tune business logic in a running WebSphere Business Events system
- Provides the ability for third-party applications to surface the user interface allowing business users to easily modify parameters such as amounts, delays, thresholds, and more, within interactions
Provides additional platform support and standards coverage
- Government standards - IPv6, FDCC, and FIPS compliance
- WebSphere Application Server V7.0
Delivers enhanced performance, predictability, and management with WebSphere eXtreme Scale
Supports key IBM Industry Frameworks including:
- Chemicals and Petroleum Industry Integrated Information Framework
- Health Integration Framework
- Retail Integration Framework
- Smart Sensors Solutions

WebSphere Business Events eXtreme Scale, a combined offering of WebSphere Business Events and WebSphere eXtreme Scale, extends business event processing to customers with an extreme volume of business events flowing through their enterprise. WebSphere eXtreme Scale provides efficient manipulation of data in the grid, filtering through an extreme number of raw events and passing only the actionable events through to WebSphere Business Events for business event processing pattern detection. The combination of WebSphere eXtreme Scale and WebSphere Business Events allows optimal event distribution, using partitioning to span both geographies and distribution across local servers.

New capabilities offered by WebSphere Business Events eXtreme Scale V7.0 include:

Enhanced performance and predictability
- Integrates with WebSphere Real Time to improve predictability of transaction completion times ensuring smooth, consistent performance
- Reduces memory footprint of the grid cache results in higher memory density and potential lower memory cost
Improved management of the WebSphere Business Events eXtreme Scale environment
- Provides metric access adapters to improve integration with IBM Tivoli Monitoring (ITM) and Hyperic HQ for better insight into the data grid operations and memory utilization
- Enables automatic handling of common exception logic in the WebSphere eXtreme Scale infrastructure

Key prerequisites

WebSphere Business Events for z/OS V7.0 requires z/OS V1.9, or later.

WebSphere Business Events V7.0 and WebSphere Business Events eXtreme Scale V7.0 supported environments

AIX V6.1
HP-UX 11i v3
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.0
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10.0
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11.0
Sun Solaris 10
Microsoft Windows Server 2003
Microsoft Windows Server 2008
Microsoft Windows XP
Microsoft Windows Vista Business
Microsoft Windows Vista Enterprise

For details, refer to the Hardware requirements and Software requirements sections.

Planned availability date

December 11, 2009

WebSphere Business Events for z/OS V7.0
Electronic distribution, distributed platforms
- WebSphere Business Events V7.0
- WebSphere Business Events eXtreme Scale V7.0

January 15, 2010

Media packs for distributed platforms

WebSphere Business Events V7.0
WebSphere Business Events eXtreme Scale V7.0

209-350 IBM WebSphere MQ Low Latency Messaging V2.3 adds intelligent self-management, assured delivery, and other new features

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At a glance

WebSphere MQ Low Latency Messaging V2.3 offers the following new capabilities:

Intelligent self-management through a centralized topic mapping service
Ability to specify number of acknowledgments for multicast reliability
Feedback notification for transmitting applications
Message store assured delivery
Synchronous event delivery
Split brain prevention and detection and other high-reliability enhancements
Multi Host Channel Adapter (HCA) support for Native InfiniBand
Reliable Unicast Messaging (RUM) latency monitoring
Linux on IBM System p® and Red Hat Enterprise MRG platform support
Documentation enhancements
Technology preview of support for clock synchronization technology

For ordering, contact your IBM representative, or IBM Americas Call Centers at 800-IBM-CALL (Reference: YE001).

Overview

Version 2.3 of WebSphere MQ Low Latency Messaging adds intelligent self-management, assured delivery, and other new features to the high-volume, low-latency reliable messaging capabilities previously available. These new features can make WebSphere MQ Low Latency Messaging an attractive solution for trading firms, exchanges and other organizations that need assured delivery of high volumes of data with low latency.

Low Latency Messaging can help provide a flexible, manageable messaging environment with a wide range of messaging quality of service options along with support for a highly-available, tiered, replicated environment. Version 2.3 adds the following enhancements to existing capabilities:

Intelligent self-management through a centralized topic mapping service

Lets you configure topics to map transport details automatically, to help make it easier for developers to create applications that can take advantage of Low Latency Messaging capabilities
Allows for centralized management of topic mapping rules

Ability to specify number of acknowledgments for multicast reliability, or Wait-N ACK support

Offers the ability for an Reliable Multicast Messaging (RMM) transmitter to a specify a number ("n") of different receivers from which it must receive positive acknowledgement (ACK) before it will remove a packet from the stream's history queue
Extends the previously supported Wait-1 ACK single acknowledgement offered
Adds the concept of mandatory acknowledgers so that a message will not be dropped from the queue until it is acknowledged that all specified mandatory receivers have received the message
Allows receiver control of acknowledgements to specify which applications need to confirm receipt of messages

Positive acknowledgement feedback notification for transmitting applications

Lets an application know when a message that it has sent is positively acknowledged
Increases the range of control that the application can have over feedback notifications
Supports both asynchronous and synchronous modes
Adds a fast ACK notification topic parameter to help avoid delays associated with synchronous ACK notification

Message store assured delivery

Enhances Low Latency Message Store feature to allow a transmitting or receiving application to confirm that a message is written to disk or other nonvolatile storage
Offers store and forward form of assured persistence with high performance
Adds the ability to set a maximum time limit after which messages are automatically written to disk
Offers a high level of assured delivery along with high performance when combined with ACK feedback notification to applications

Synchronous event delivery

Specifies that when a defined condition is detected an event notification is immediately delivered
Prevents additional messages from being delivered on the associated topic until the event is processed by the application
Helps in cases in which packet loss is viewed as a critical problem, and helps reduce overhead associated with unnecessary sequence number checking

Support for split brain prevention and detection

Enhances Reliable and Consistent Message Streaming (RCMS) high-reliability capabilities by helping to address issues that can occur in multi-tiered environments that feature component replication
Addresses split brain situations in which more than one server acts as the primary server
Offers both simple arbitrator implementation from a sample and API interface to allow users to create custom arbitrators
Adds synchronization checkpoints to help identify an incorrect situation in which tier members produce different outputs
Is supported on Linux only

RCMS message filtering

Provides a mechanism that allows an application to use message properties and TurboFlow on RCMS topics in the same way they are used on other RMM topics
Ensures that messages are filtered in a consistent manner by all the tier members
Performs message filtering at the underlying transport layer of the tier leader, and synchronizes between tier members to be consistent with the tier leader

RCMS stream acceptance callback

Allows an RCMS topic receiver to be configured to accept streams without knowing the name of topics in advance
Requires that all tier members receive the same data on each tier topic and that all streams are identical

Multi Host Channel Adapter (HCA) support for Native InfiniBand

Provides the ability for a single Low Latency Messaging instance to use more than one HCA interface when using native InfiniBand
Is supported on Linux only

Reliable Unicast Messaging (RUM) latency monitoring

Extends the previously supported RMM latency monitoring to the reliable unicast transport
Provides information on the internal latency within RUM transmitters and receivers
Provides statistics on the status of key queues, which may indicate accumulation of packets or messages leading to increased latency
Supports dynamic setting of latency monitoring parameters to help balance between resources consumed and the amount of information provided

Additional platform support

Linux on IBM System p
Red Hat Enterprise MRG

Documentation enhancements

Includes enhancements to the problem determination section of the online Information Center featuring additional documentation on Low Latency Messaging notification messages with descriptions and user response for each
Adds a performance tuning section to the Information Center with techniques and recommendations to help optimize Low Latency Messaging performance on Linux

Technology preview¹ of support for clock synchronization technology

Offers the ability to synchronize clocks accurately across machines
Provides a Coordinated Cluster time (CCT) source, which is a high-resolution clock that is synchronized across machines
Monitors latency accurately across multiple machines, and accurately synchronizes timestamps with the Low Latency Message Store
Operates on Linux on x86 only

1: IBM provides this technology preview without obligation of support and "as is," with no warranty of any kind, either express or implied, including the warranty of title, non-infringement or interference and the implied warranties and conditions of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. The entire risk arising out of the use or performance of the technical preview code remains with the user.

Key prerequisites

Refer to the Hardware requirements and Software requirements sections.

Planned availability date

November 30, 2009

Electronic software delivery
Media and documentation

209-325 IBM WebSphere Business Modeler V7.0 and IBM WebSphere Business Compass V7.0 bring your BPM solution to life from process modeling to deployment

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IBM WebSphere Business Modeler V7.0 and IBM WebSphere Business Compass V7.0:

Support the ability to change from business modeling to solution deployment
Support a managed test environment for solution validation
Provide new capabilities for business leaders to help scope and refine Business Process Management (BPM) projects
Help improve productivity and empowerment across all roles, and provides converged capabilities between business authoring and model publishing
Provide new extensions for WebSphere Business Services Fabric tooling to provide deeper integration within WebSphere Dynamic Process Edition
Support WebSphere Industry Content Packs
Improve functionality for documenting strategic intent and motivation

For ordering, contact your IBM representative or an IBM Business Partner. For more information, contact the Americas Call Centers at 800-IBM-CALL (426-2255).

Reference: YE001

Overview

IBM WebSphere Business Modeler and IBM WebSphere Business Compass provide a comprehensive set of tools for business process modeling, Business Process Management (BPM) design, and modeling collaboration.

IBM WebSphere Business Compass is the new name for IBM WebSphere Business Modeler Publishing Server.

V7.0 focuses on improving the overall end-to-end BPM experience with capabilities to empower business users and business leaders to deliver quick time to value with well scoped business solutions.

Key prerequisites

WebSphere Business Modeler

Microsoft Windows XP
Windows Vista Business
Windows Vista Enterprise

WebSphere Business Compass

Microsoft Windows Server 2003
Windows XP Professional
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server on Intel®
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server on System z
Red Hat Enterprise Linux on Intel
Red Hat Enterprise Linux on System z

Planned availability dates

December 11, 2009: Electronic distribution - U.S. English and national languages
January 15, 2010: Media packs - U.S. English and national languages

209-299 IBM WebSphere Transformation Extender V8.3 for Distributed is designed to increase business flexibility by extending SOA applications and services beyond organizational boundaries

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Highlights of IBM WebSphere Transformation Extender V8.3 for Distributed:

WebSphere TX core engine running on WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus and WebSphere Process Server
Improved user interface, development tooling, and trace/audit capabilities
New WebSphere TX Healthcare Packs that include individual packs for HIPAA, HL7, and NCPDP
New WebSphere TX EDI Packs that include individual packs for X12, EDIFACT, and TRADACOMS
New single WebSphere TX Pack for SWIFT, which provides the capabilities once requiring SWIFTNet FIN and SWIFTNet Funds packs
WebSphere TX industry pack updates to HL7, ACORD, EDIFACT, and X12
Support on Linux on IBM System z

For ordering, contact your IBM representative or an IBM Business Partner. For more information, contact the Americas Call Centers at 800-IBM-CALL (426-2255).

Reference: YE001

Overview

IBM WebSphere Transformation Extender (WebSphere TX) is a universal integration and data transformation engine for Smart service oriented architecture (SOA). It increases the speed and reliability with which SOA applications and services can be extended beyond organizational walls to partners, suppliers, and customers. Work smarter and improve business agility by enabling rapid deployment and management of industry transformation solutions delivering transformation and content validation for large volumes of complex information.

This announcement complements the following V8.3 announcements:

Software Announcement 209-305, dated October 02, 2009, IBM WebSphere Transformation Extender V8.3 for z/OS
Withdrawal Announcement 909-216, dated October 02, 2009, Withdrawal of selected components of WebSphere TX and WebSphere Adapters

V8.3 enhancements:

WebSphere TX enhancements expand the ability to integrate transformation solutions with the WebSphere portfolio of Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) and integration servers. They also improve the overall productivity of the offering with updates to the tooling, user interfaces, audit/trace/error handling features, and the offerings ability to handle large files.
WebSphere TX industry pack enhancements update predefined type tree templates, conversion maps, and validation maps to remain current with HL7, ACORD, EDIFACT, and X12 messaging and data transmission standards.
WebSphere Transformation Extender Pack for SWIFT V4.2.5 incorporates changes made in the latest Standards Release Guide (SRG) 2009 and SWIFTNet FIN updates, including ISO 20022 and ISO 15022 data dictionaries for MT-MX message coexistence and the complete catalog of SWIFT messages and SWIFT business rules.
WebSphere TX Healthcare Packs deliver packs for HIPAA, HL7, and NCPDP to address multi-standard exchange formatting requirements of the healthcare industry.
WebSphere Transformation Extender EDI Packs deliver packs for X12, EDIFACT, and TRADACOMS to address various electronic data interchange formatting requirements.

For more information about the WebSphere TX family, visit

http://www.ibm.com/software/integration/wdatastagetx/index.html

Key prerequisites

IBM System p
IBM Power® Systems
HP IA64 (Itanium)
Intel x86-32, x86-64
Sun SPARC

Planned availability date

December 11, 2009: Electronic software delivery

January 15, 2010: Media and documentation

209-309 IBM WebSphere Process Server, WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus, and WebSphere Integration Developer V7.0 help optimize business performance

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WebSphere Process Server, WebSphere ESB, and WebSphere Integration Developer:

Support WebSphere Application Server V7 and WebSphere MQ V7 enablement
Exploit the versatility of the Human Tasks and Workflows widgets for the seamless integration of humans into business processes
Let you easily model and execute scenarios where a human task is routed in parallel to several people
Deliver migration of running processes to new process model versions
Include guided task flows and additional built-in reusable solution patterns and a pattern explorer for learning concepts and performing tasks, and for faster solution development
Improve the user experience for iterative development between WebSphere Business Modeler and WebSphere Integration Developer
Improve human task client support with Web-based forms through Business Space and Lotus® Forms Server V3.5.1
Include enhanced mapping capabilities and a navigable catalog
Improve productivity: faster builds, faster deployment, smaller technology footprint, and usability enhancements
Support XML-centric data models and enhanced recovery from external system outages
Include selective installation of only the tooling you need for better control over memory footprint utilization

For ordering, contact your IBM representative, an IBM Business Partner, or IBM Americas Call Centers at 800-IBM-CALL (Reference: YE001).

Overview

WebSphere Process Server is at the heart of your business process management (BPM) solutions. It is designed to help ensure that the processes you design in WebSphere Business Modeler or WebSphere Integration Developer are executed consistently, reliably, securely, and with transactional integrity. Built on open standards, WebSphere Process Server deploys and executes processes that orchestrate services (people, information, systems, and trading partners) within your service oriented architecture (SOA) or non-SOA infrastructure. When combined with the power of WebSphere Business Monitor, processes can be optimized to meet changing business requirements, giving the business a competitive advantage. WebSphere Process Server is built upon, and contains, WebSphere ESB functionality.

WebSphere Integration Developer is the user-friendly authoring environment for end-to-end integration in your SOA. It is the Eclipse-based tool for building SOA-based BPM and integration solutions across WebSphere Process Server, WebSphere ESB, and WebSphere Adapters. It simplifies integration with rich features that accelerate the adoption of SOA by rendering existing IT assets as service components, encouraging reuse and efficiency. WebSphere Integration Developer enables integration developers to assemble complex business solutions -- whether processes, mediations, adapters, or code components -- using drag-and-drop technology to define, in a visual way, the sequence and flow of business processes. The supplied visual editors minimize the need to write code.

WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus (WebSphere ESB) is a flexible connectivity infrastructure for integrating applications and services, designed to enable the development of an SOA. Built on top of WebSphere Application Server for an integrated SOA platform, WebSphere ESB delivers a standards-based connectivity and integration solution that allows you to create and deploy interactions quickly and easily between applications and services, with a reduced number and complexity of interfaces. You can focus on your core business, rather than on your IT.

Media Extender for WebSphere Process Server provides extended service mediation facilities that can be used as components in workflows that handle large multimedia files, making the workflow simpler. The mediation facilities form part of a solution to enable business transformation by linking business and content systems together for effective media, or other rich content, management. These facilities can radically simplify the construction of media-oriented integration projects and workflows. The three mediation primitives can be used to enable registry-based decision making that respects media formats, content location, and resource availability. The primitives are programmed using WebSphere Integration Developer, resulting in ESB mediation flows. When deployed into WebSphere ESB, these mediations resolve media transformation and movement requirements. They can be used as simple services in business workflow models, hiding the complexity of media and rich content processing.

WebSphere Adapters help with business integration by connecting application and information assets to the ESB. They accelerate business integration projects with rapidly deployable, enterprise-ready connections based on best practices. The WebSphere Adapter portfolio provides a comprehensive set of capabilities to service-enable your assets, including packaged, custom, and legacy applications, technology protocols, and databases.

Refer to the Description section for details of new features.

Key prerequisites

Refer to the Hardware requirements and Software requirements sections.

Planned availability date

December 11, 2009 (electronic software delivery of distributed products and physical software delivery of z/OS products)
January 15, 2010 (physical software delivery, distributed products)

209-322 IBM WebSphere Dynamic Process Edition V7.0 helps business work smarter by providing end-to-end capabilities for dynamic business process management

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WebSphere Dynamic Process Edition V7.0 combines modeling and simulation, rapid deployment and change, real-time visibility, and end-user interface and collaboration capabilities to continuously optimize dynamic business processes across your enterprise. It is ideal for organizations that must continuously adapt their process activities in response to changing client needs, evolving market conditions, or increased compliance and regulatory requirements.

Enhancements include:

Supportive out-of-the-box experience through enhanced documentation, samples and installation consistency across both the runtime servers and the tool and testing pack
Improved user experience with expanded capabilities of Business Space, the common WebSphere business process management (BPM) user interface
Increased consistency with enhanced operating environments, problem determination, and usability
Delivery of BPM solutions based on industry standards through BPM prebuilt assets designed to ensure improved time-to-value, consistency, and reuse. These assets, packaged as WebSphere Industry Content Packs, are useful across the BPM life cycle of WebSphere Dynamic Process Edition.
Other improvements that are provided by the products that are within WebSphere Dynamic Process Edition.

For ordering, contact your IBM representative, an IBM Business Partner, or IBM Americas Call Centers at 800-IBM-CALL (Reference: YE001).

Overview

WebSphere Dynamic Process Edition is a software solution for end-to-end BPM with built-in support for dynamic change required for today's rapidly changing business environment.

Service oriented architecture (SOA) can deliver significant value by aligning organizations to business process objectives. WebSphere Dynamic Process Edition works best with processes that require interaction across multiple divisions, departments, or applications that require higher frequencies of business-driven change than typical solutions.

To make it easier to implement business process management (BPM), WebSphere Dynamic Process Edition V7.0 can help bring together the foundational capabilities for integrating end-to-end dynamic business processes across an enterprise, including:

Helping achieve real sustainable performance and return on investment through dynamic process optimization including human workflows
Business user empowerment to change dynamic processes in a controlled environment
Rich exploitation of SOA infrastructures to provide increased process flexibility
Visibility to adapt and respond to changing business conditions
Collaboration and alignment of business and IT around their processes

For details on other products, refer to the section in this announcement for links to other product announcements. The topic provides a brief statement about several BPM products.

Key prerequisites

For details, refer to the section.

Planned availability date

December 11, 2009: Electronic software distribution
January 15, 2010: Media packs

209-305 IBM WebSphere Transformation Extender for z/OS V8.3 is designed to increase business flexibility by extending SOA applications and services beyond organizational boundaries

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Highlights of IBM WebSphere Transformation Extender V8.3 for z/OS:

WebSphere TX core engine running on WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus and WebSphere Process Server
Improved user interface, development tooling, and trace and audit capabilities

For ordering, contact your IBM representative or an IBM Business Partner. For more information, contact the Americas Call Centers at 800-IBM-CALL (426-2255).

Reference: YE001

Overview

IBM WebSphere Transformation Extender (WebSphere TX) is a universal integration and data transformation engine for Smart SOA. It increases the speed and reliability with which SOA applications and services can be extended beyond organizational walls to partners, suppliers, and customers. Work smarter and improve business agility by enabling rapid deployment and management of industry transformation solutions delivering transformation and content validation for large volumes of complex information.

The WebSphere TX family delivers editions for both batch and event driven messaging, extending an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) or Business Process Management (BPM) solution. On the IBM System z platform, blue-chip clients deploy WebSphere TX in z/OS Batch, CICS, IMS, and USS environments seeking high performance, and the reliability of transaction control.

This announcement complements the following V8.3 announcements:

Software Announcement 209-299, dated October 02, 2009, IBM WebSphere Transformation Extender V8.3 for Distributed
Withdrawal Announcement 909-216, dated October 02, 2009, Withdrawal of selected components of WebSphere TX and WebSphere Adapters

V8.3 enhancements

WebSphere TX enhancements expand the ability to integrate transformation solutions with the WebSphere portfolio of ESB's and integration servers. They also improve the overall productivity of the offering with updates to the tooling, user interfaces, audit/trace/error handling features, and the offerings ability to handle large files.

For more information about the WebSphere TX family, visit

http://www.ibm.com/software/integration/wdatastagetx/index.html

Key prerequisites

System z
z/OS

Planned availability date

December 11, 2009

209-294 WebSphere Service Registry and Repository V7.0

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WebSphere Service Registry and Repository helps maximize the business value of your service oriented architecture (SOA). This industry-leading solution that enables you to publish; find; enrich; manage; and govern services and policies in your SOA.

To order, contact your IBM representative, an IBM Business Partner, or the Americas Call Centers at 800-IBM-CALL Reference:

WebSphere Service Registry and Repository                  YE001

Overview

WebSphere Service Registry and Repository (WSRR) delivers the foundation for enabling service lifecycle governance as part of the IBM service oriented architecture (SOA) governance. As customers adopt effective SOA solutions, the need to proactively govern the service life cycle through prescriptive capabilities offered by WebSphere Service Registry and Repository becomes important. WebSphere Service Registry and Repository also integrates and complements numerous solutions from IBM as well as external solutions from business partners, including:

Enhanced connectivity by increasing runtime flexibility of applications integrated using the Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) related products including WebSphere DataPower, WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus (ESB), WebSphere Message Broker
Optimized use of services in SOA by exchanging rich service information with runtime monitoring tools and operational data stores including IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager (ITCAM) for SOA, IBM Tivoli Change Configuration Management Database (CCMDB)
Enabled governance and lifecycle management of your high-value applications, such as WebSphere MQ, and CICS
Enabled policy management across the SOA lifestyle, spanning various domains of policies including runtime policies as well a service governance policies
The Service Federation Management console simplifies the process of sharing business services between service domains.
Integrate across Business Process Management solution as a foundation for service governance and metadata

A key part of this updated release WebSphere Service Registry and Repository is to deliver the advanced capabilities necessary to leverage the solutions as an Enterprise Service Registry and Repository in driving the success of customer SOA deployments.

Make smarter investment decisions by tracking ROI of service investments. Better business-level information empowers business users to better align IT decisions and offerings.
Accelerate SOA adoption with the seamless integration of services life cycle with IT operations lifecycle and process management. Empower decision makers with information for smarter capacity/resource planning and change management by federating service life cycle and IT Service Management lifecycle with change and configuration Management.
Track, measure, and improve compliance with organizational and industry policies. SOA Policy Monitoring Analytics for service lifecycle governance and runtime metrics such as SLA and contracts ensure that the information flowing through processes is in compliance with organizational policies and goals.
Better manage visibility of service across SOA domains. By using the Service Federation Management console to simplify the process of sharing business services between service domains, you can improve the connections within an organization, and increase reuse of services and information by extending the reach of existing assets across the organization and beyond.
Faster time to market of new applications with lower costs to meet customer needs. Faster time to market with new ATOM feeds enabling Web 2.0 style interactions in a REST fashion.

WebSphere Service Registry and Repository helps manage service interactions and dependencies by handling policies, versioning, classification, and usage throughout the life cycle of the service to promote optimal interaction of services in the SOA. WebSphere Service Registry and Repository enables management and governance capabilities for you to get the most business value from your SOA. It facilitates storing, accessing, and managing service information (service metadata) enabling service consumers to easily select, invoke, govern, and reuse services.

WebSphere Service Registry and Repository delivers visibility and control of the services in the SOA. It helps drive business flexibility by managing the services that align IT with business objectives.

With these capabilities, WebSphere Service Registry and Repository throughout the SOA life cycle (model, assemble, deploy, and manage) helps govern access, monitor service vitality, manage policies for publishing, and use and retire services.

Without proactive service lifecycle governance and management of service metadata in an SOA, it is difficult to optimize business results of SOA that indicate the challenges in managing and a general lack of control over your services. These typically include:

Tracking and managing SOA services and business critical documents
Providing reliable SOA services for business applications and processes
Reducing complexity and cost of securing services and applications
Greater sharing to increase return on existing assets

Key prerequisites

For details, refer to the Hardware requirements and Software requirements sections.

Planned availability date

December 11, 2009: Electronic software delivery

January 15, 2010: Media and documentation

209-295 IBM WebSphere Service Registry and Repository for z/OS , V7.0 delivers advanced capabilities necessary to drive the success of your SOA deployments

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WebSphere Service Registry and Repository helps maximize the business value of your service-oriented architecture (SOA). This industry- leading solution enables you to publish, find, enrich, manage, and govern services and policies in your SOA.

WebSphere Service Registry and Repository V7.0 delivers updated capabilities and associated benefits to provide service visibility and governance:

Make smarter investment decisions by tracking return on investment (ROI) of service investments. Better business-level information empowers business users to better align IT decisions and offerings.
Accelerate SOA adoption with the seamless integration of services life cycle with IT operations life cycle and process management. Empower decision makers with information for smarter capacity/resource planning and change management by federating service life cycle and IT service management life cycle with change and configuration management.
Track, measure, and improve compliance with organizational and industry policies. SOA policy monitoring analytics for service life cycle governance and runtime metrics such as SLA and contracts ensure that the information flowing through processes is in compliance with organizational policies and goals.
Better manage visibility of service across SOA domains. By using the Service Federation Management console to simplify the process of sharing business services between service domains, you can improve the connections within an organization, and increase reuse of services and information by extending the reach of existing assets across the organization and beyond.
Achieve faster time to market of new applications with lower costs to meet customer needs: Faster time to market with new ATOM feeds enabling Web 2.0 style interactions in a REST fashion.

For ordering, contact your IBM representative, an IBM Business Partner, or IBM Americas Call Centers at 800-IBM-CALL (Reference: LE001).

Overview

WebSphere Service Registry and Repository delivers the foundation for enabling service life cycle governance as part of the IBM SOA governance. As customers adopt effective SOA solutions, the need to proactively govern the service life cycle through prescriptive capabilities offered by WebSphere Service Registry and Repository becomes important. Additional capabilities in the area of associating policies with services becomes an essential part of service life cycle management and governance. WebSphere Service Registry and Repository integrates and complements numerous solutions from IBM as well as external solutions from Business Partners, including:

Enhanced connectivity by increasing runtime flexibility of applications integrated using the Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)-related products, including WebSphere DataPower, WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus, and WebSphere Message Broker
Optimized use of services in SOA by exchanging rich service information with runtime monitoring tools and operational data stores, including IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager (ITCAM) for SOA, and IBM Tivoli Change Configuration Management Database (CCMDB).
Enabled governance and life cycle management of customer high-value applications such as WebSphere MQ and CICS.
Enabled policy management across the SOA lifestyle, spanning various domains of policies, including runtime policies as well as service policies.
The Service Federation Management console simplifies the process of sharing business services between service domains.
Integrate across Business Process Management solution as a foundation for service governance and metadata.

A key part of this updated release of WebSphere Service Registry and Repository is to deliver the advanced capabilities necessary to leverage the solution as an enterprise Service Registry and Repository in driving the success of your SOA deployments.

WebSphere Service Registry and Repository performs critical functions in the area of SOA governance and service life cycle management.

WebSphere Service Registry and Repository V7.0 delivers updated capabilities and associated benefits to provide service visibility and governance. WebSphere Service Registry and Repository helps manage service interactions and dependencies by handling policies, versioning, classification, and usage throughout the life cycle of the service to promote optimal interaction of services in the SOA. WebSphere Service Registry and Repository enables management and governance capabilities for you to get the most business value from your SOA. It facilitates storing, accessing, and managing service information (service metadata), enabling service consumers to easily select, invoke, govern, and reuse their services.

Tracking and managing SOA services and business-critical documents
Providing reliable SOA services for business applications and processes
Reducing complexity and costs of securing services and applications
Greater sharing to increase return on existing assets

Key prerequisites

For details, refer to the Hardware requirements and Software requirements sections.

Planned availability date

December 11, 2009

209-336 IBM WebSphere Industry Content Packs V7.0 improves time-to-value for WebSphere BPM-based industry solutions

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IBM WebSphere Industry Content Packs can accelerate delivery of WebSphere BPM-based industry solutions using prebuilt assets. Key details are:

Banking Content Pack
- Library of banking assets for core banking, payments, customer care, and integrated risk management
- Out-of-box mortgage refinancing and corporate payments solution scenarios that serve as starting points for proof of concept (POC) and solution implementations
Healthcare Content Pack
- Library of healthcare assets for enrollment, case management, employer and group management, claims management, and provider collaboration
- Out-of-box benefits eligibility and real-time claims adjudication solution scenarios serve as starting points for POC and implementations
Insurance Content Pack
- Library of insurance assets for product management, distribution policy life cycle, claims life cycle, and customer management
- Out-of-box claims status solution scenario serves as a starting point for claims POCs and solution implementations
Telecom Content Pack
- Library of telecom assets for fulfillment, assurance, billing, customer interaction, inventory, catalog, and media life cycle processing
- Out-of-box order feasibility and incidence and problem management solution scenarios that serve as starting points for POCs and solution delivery
Product Lifecycle Management Pack
- Library of PLM assets for product data management, engineering change management, bill of material management, and supplier collaboration
- Out-of-box product data exchange and engineering change request solution scenarios that serve as starting points for POCs and solution delivery

For ordering, contact your IBM representative, an IBM Business Partner, or IBM Americas Call Centers at 800-IBM-CALL (Reference: YE001).

Overview

IBM WebSphere Industry Content Packs V7.0 is a rich set of prebuilt, industry-specific assets to help accelerate and enhance delivery of WebSphere BPM-based industry solutions for banking, insurance, healthcare, telecommunications, and industrial product life cycle management. These assets are based on industry standards and help ensure consistency and reuse across the enterprises and their ecosystems. The content pack assets can be extended to meet an organization's unique business needs.

Key prerequisites

For details, refer to the section.

Planned availability date

December 11, 2009: Electronic software delivery
January 15, 2010: Media packs

209-302 IBM IMS V11 easier than ever

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IMS V11 Database Manager enhancements

IMS Open Database support offers direct distributed TCP/IP access to IMS data, providing cost efficiency, enabling application growth, and improving resilience.
Broadened Java and XML support and tools can ease IMS development and access to IMS data.
IMS Fast Path Buffer Manager, Application Control Block library, and Local System Queue Area storage reduction utilize 64-bit storage to improve availability and overall system performance.
Enhanced commands and user exits simplify operations and improve availability.

IMS V11 Transaction Manager enhancements

IMS Connect (the TCP/IP gateway to IMS transactions, operations, and now data) enhancements offer improved IMS flexibility, availability, resilience, and security.
Broadened Java and XML tooling eases IMS application development and connectivity, and enhances IMS Web services to assist developers with business transformation.
Enhanced commands and user exits simplify operations and improve availability.
IMS Application Control Block library and Local System Queue Area reduction utilize 64-bit storage to improve availability and system performance.

For ordering, contact your IBM representative, an IBM Business Partner, or IBM Americas Call Centers at 800-IBM-CALL (Reference: YE001).

Overview

IMS is IBM's high-performance application and data server for IBM System z. No other solution offers the combination of extremely high performance, scalability, rock-solid reliability, and runtime efficiency. When it comes to running core applications that are at the heart of business processing, most large corporations worldwide continue to depend on IMS.

Today's Enterprise IT needs are more closely tied to the business than ever before. The business requires efficiency to meet the cost challenges and responsiveness demanded by the global economy. Enterprise IT must support growth, allowing the business to rapidly develop new products and services to remain competitive while at the same time increasing productivity and flexibility on demand. Business today also requires IT systems to be resilient, helping reduce business risk and helping the business to comply with regulations and business processes.

IMS and IMS tools continue to evolve to provide value and meet these needs for enterprise customers. They have provided investment protection for nearly four decades.

IMS V11 provides unmatched capabilities to address your On Demand Business needs through enhanced integration, openness, manageability, and scalability. IMS V11 benefits:

Integration and open access improvements provide you with flexibility and support your business growth requirements.
Manageability enhancements optimize system staff productivity by improving ease-of-use and autonomic computing facilities, while also providing increased availability.
Scalability: IMS V11 delivers improvements to the well-known performance, efficiency, availability, and resilience of IMS by exploiting 64-bit storage.

IMS V11 includes many additional features and improvements that along with the System z platform will help you meet your IT and enterprise data center cost challenges, as well as efficiency, resilience, and flexibility needs.

To learn more about IMS products and tools, visit

http://www.ibm.com/ims

For additional information, refer to Software Announcement 208-258, dated September 16, 2008.

Key prerequisites

IMS V11 can be used with all IBM processors capable of running z/OS (5694-A01) V1.9, or later. Additional prerequisites exist for specific IMS V11 functions.

Planned availability date

October 30, 2009

209-361 IBM WebSphere Business Services Fabric for z/OS , V7.0, builds and manages modular, dynamically-assembled, extensible processes

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IBM WebSphere Business Services Fabric for z/OS, V7.0 enhancements focus on increased productivity for business and IT users.

New feature details

Improvements in user tooling experience
- New user interface for extracting context mapping
- Performance improvements
Improvements in Business Process Management (BPM) runtime integration
- Common repository with WebSphere Process Server
- Dynamic assembly event monitor integration
- Enhanced problem determination with improved error code and messages
Enhanced installation experience with IBM Install Manager support
Basic support for four additional languages: Afrikaans, Armenian, Georgian, and Swahili
Support for SLES 11 and DB2 9.7

For ordering, contact your IBM representative, an IBM Business Partner, or IBM Americas Call Centers at 800-IBM-CALL (Reference: LE001).

Overview

WebSphere Business Services Fabric for z/OS, V7.0, an extension to IBM WebSphere Process Server, builds and manages modular, dynamically-assembled, extensible processes. There are many benefits to taking complex processes, modularizing them into intelligent Business Services, then assembling these modules at run time.

WebSphere Business Services Fabric for z/OS:

Extricates and makes accessible to business users formerly hard-coded process variability for easy, fast, and governed change
Enables new functionality to be added to a process without changing or redeploying the process
Separates the life cycle of individual modules and intelligent Business Services, making the manageability of complex BPM projects much easier by keeping small changes small
Organizes service-oriented architecture (SOA) and BPM infrastructure into shareable, reusable intelligent Business Services, for a fully-realized SOA vision of architectural agility and reuse

In general, it has been shown that WebSphere Business Services Fabric for z/OS can help reduce the total cost of ownership of a complex BPM project by up to 50%, help enable much faster reaction to change, and over time, can dramatically reduce new project development time and cost.

WebSphere Business Services Fabric for z/OS allows businesses to:

Quickly implement innovative new products and services without changing or redeploying core processes
React rapidly to new market conditions by enabling business users to make governed changes in their own processes
Help save costs by enabling reuse of major business capabilities across a corporation

WebSphere Industry Content Packs, previously packaged as part of WebSphere Business Services Fabric for z/OS in prior releases, is now available as a separate product on the Windows platform in WebSphere Industry Content Packs V7.0, which provides prebuilt, industry-specific packs that are available for banking, insurance, healthcare, telecommunications, and industrial product life cycle management. For information about WebSphere Industry Content Packs V7.0, refer to Software Announcement 209-336, dated October 02, 2009.

Key prerequisites

For details, refer to the section.

Planned availability date

December 11, 2009

Withdrawal Announcements

909-216 Software withdrawal: Selected components of WebSphere Transformation Extender and WebSphere Adapters - Some replacements available

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