The IMS™ Web 2.0 Solution for IBM® Mashup Center unleashes your IMS assets into XML, Atom, or RSS feeds.
Web 2.0 empowers users to manipulate data and combine various services into a single Web experience. It also enables businesses to gain a competitive edge when they put the vast amounts of data they own about themselves and their customers to creative uses.
IBM Mashup Center provides visual tools for creating, storing, transforming, and remixing feeds to be used in mashup and situational applications. It also offers a central catalog for users to tag, rate, and share assets. With the built-in IMS support in IBM Mashup Center, enterprise data can be made available to the Web 2.0 community, and your users can further remix and mash up the data to meet their business needs.
IBM Mashup Center provides a rich, effective Web interface to unlock information buried in information silos. Business users can quickly uncover new business insights by assembling information from multiple sources in a browser.
In IBM Mashup Center Version 2, you can create Atom feeds from both IMS transactions and IMS databases. With the embedded IMS Web 2.0 functionality, you can:
Create Atom feeds from IMS transactions that run on IMS Version 11 and IMS Version 10, with integrated IMS Connect.
Create Atom feeds from IMS databases that run on IMS Version 11 through the IMS Universal DB resource adapter.
Easily customize IMS transactions without the need to modify the original application. Through a Web interface, you can specify which input parameters to expose to users, as well as the default parameter values to invoke the feed. Feeds can be further restructured and customized by using the operators and functions of IBM Mashup Center.
Use the tooling support in IBM Rational® Developer for System z® Version 7.5 or later to generate the required XML converter driver and correlator. The XML converter driver is used by IMS Connect to transform the data between XML and bytes. The correlator is used to map the request and response messages to the input and output data structures of the IMS application. IMS Version 11 and IMS Version 10 customers are entitled to two complimentary, unwarranted copies of Rational Developer for System z.
Utilize the IMS Enterprise Suite DLIModel utility plug-in to translate IMS source files into metadata files. The metadata files describe the relational database view that enables you to issue SQL queries to the database in IBM Mashup Center to create a feed. Feeds can be further restructured and customized in IBM Mashup Center.
Getting started
See the IMS Web 2.0 Solution demo on YouTube
This demo shows you how to use IBM Mashup Center to convert IMS assets into ATOM feeds. It demonstrates how a manufacturer uses the IMS Web 2.0 Solution to increase the profitability of their IMS transactions and help their customers plan their purchases by providing them access to real-time stock information. This demo also shows how to use IBM Lotus Mashups (also included in the IBM Mashup Center Version 1.0) to generate a user interface that combines several related services to increase the usability of the newly created Web mashup application.
You will need to obtain Rational Developer for System z Version 7.5 or later (which can be downloaded from the IMS Enterprise Suite download site.
A tutorial is provided in the documentation for creating a feed from an IMS application.