Get the benefits of reusing your existing Message Format Service (MFS)-based IMS™ business logic on the web through TCP/IP, leveraging the web enablement and service-oriented architecture (SOA) support from the IBM Corporation.
IMS MFS SOA support
By using next-generation tools that offer IMS MFS SOA support, your business can benefit from:
Reusing existing MFS-based IMS business logic as web services, web pages, and Enterprise JavaBeans™ (EJB) components.
Integrating existing MFS-based IMS business logic into business process applications.
IMS MFS SOA Support is integrated into these development environments:
IBM® Rational® Application Developer for WebSphere® Software (Rational Application Developer) Version 7.5 and later.
IBM Rational Developer for System z with Java Version 7.5 and later.
IBM Integration Designer Version 7.5 and later.
By using the J2C Bean wizard in the Rational development environments, you can transform your existing MFS sources to J2C JavaBeans components and J2C Java™ data binding classes. You can create Java EE (or J2EE) resources, such as Java Server pages (JSPs), EJB beans, or web services, and package the functions of the generated J2C JavaBeans components.
At run time, client applications use the J2C JavaBeans components in the Java EE resources that run on WebSphere Application Server. The J2C JavaBeans components use data binding classes to build the input and output messages for the transaction, and submit the IMS transaction to IMS through the IMS TM Resource Adapter.
By using IBM Integration Designer, you can transform existing conversational and non-conversational MFS-based IMS applications into services for integration into Business Process Execution Language (BPEL)-based composite business applications. IBM Integration Designer provides a wizard that helps parse the MFS source files and generate service definitions and artifacts. The environment also helps provide a visual, drag-and-drop business integration design interface for engineering your business data flow. The generated application can be deployed to run on the IBM Process Server, which is part of the IBM Business Process Manager Version 7.5 product and later.
Packaged with Rational Application Developer, Rational Developer for System z with Java, and IBM integration Designer, the IMS MFS SOA support is available through the IMS TM Resource Adapter. In addition, the IMS MFS SOA support is also available as a download from the IMS TM Resource Adapter website.
IMS MFS Web Enablement
The IMS MFS Web Enablement solution helps enable you to modernize your existing MFS-based IMS business logic by converting “green screen” terminal-based applications into web-based applications.
The IMS MFS Web Enablement solution benefits you with these key features:
An MFS XML utility that imports existing source files to generate metadata files that describe the MFS-based application interface.
Runtime support on your WebSphere Application Server that dynamically renders MFS-based web pages on browsers.
Communication with host IMS (conversational) applications through the Java EE-compliant IMS TM Resource Adapter.
Double-byte character set support.
Runtime support for multiple device pages.
Web-enabled MFS applications can be displayed in standard browsers like Microsoft® Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox. The IMS MFS Web Enablement solution and samples are available on the MFS Web Enablement download page.
