The IMS™ SOA Integration Suite is a collection of IMS middleware functions and tools that support your IMS on demand systems and your distributed IMS application environment. You can modernize your existing IMS applications by using IMS technology for connectivity, data representation, and application development, enable Web access to your IMS data and applications, and do ad hoc queries.
The most current versions of some IMS SOA Integration Suite tools, IMS DLIModel utility and IMS SOAP Gateway, are included as components of the IMS Enterprise Suite.
You can use the IMS SOA Integration Suite to:
- Leverage your existing investment in IMS technologies and use your IT organization's existing skill set to deploy existing IMS-based applications over the Web to your customers without touching a single line of code
- Provide access to IMS transactions and data from any Web connection
- Modernize your IMS applications and enable them to interoperate with other clients, such as Microsoft® .NET™ or SAP clients in a service-oriented architecture
- Integrate business logic that is embedded in your existing IMS applications with other IT systems, both within your enterprise and in the supply chain
- Improve development time by using Java™, instead of PL/I, COBOL, or Assembler
- Access your IMS data directly for use by your applications from environments such as DB2®, CICS®, and WebSphere® Application Server
- Store and retrieve your XML content directly in IMS without any intermediate steps, and exchange data with other systems by using established schemas
Access to IMS transactions
- IMS Enterprise Suite Connect APIs provides a simple way to specify and to configure TCP/IP socket connections and the interactions with IMS Connect and IMS that you want to perform on those connections through the use of reusable profiles.
- IMS Enterprise Suite SOAP Gateway (formerly called IMS SOAP Gateway) is an XML-based connectivity solution that enables existing or new IMS applications to communicate outside of the IMS environment by using SOAP.
- IMS TM resource adapter (also known as the IMS Connector for Java), is a component of IMS that allows you to rapidly create and run Java applications which access IMS transactions over the internet.
- IMS MFS Web Solutions, IMS MFS SOA support and IMS MFS Web enablement, provide support for reusing existing MFS-based IMS business logic.
- IMS Web 2.0 Solution for IBM Mashup Center enables the integration of existing IMS assets into Web 2.0 mashup and application solutions, providing access to IMS transactions through RSS, Atom, or XML feeds.
Access to IMS data
- IMS Enterprise Suite DLIModel utility plug-in (formerly called IMS DLIModel utility) transforms your IMS database information (program specification blocks, database descriptions, and COBOL copybooks or PL/I includes) into application-independent metadata that can be used for Java application development.
- IMS DB Resource Adapter Solutions (Formerly known as IMS JDBC Connector) is a function of IMS that enables a programmer with minimal IMS knowledge to write Java application programs that access IMS databases.
- IMS XML DB allows applications to view a traditional IMS database as an XML database. Using the IMS DLIModel utility to construct an IMS-to-XML mapping, IMS XML DB allows the storage and retrieval of XML documents from existing or new IMS databases. IMS XML DB currently runs as a Java application running in IMS, CICS, DB2, or WebSphere using retrieveXML() and storeXML() UDF extensions to the IMS Java JDBC driver.
- IMS Web 2.0 Solution for IBM Mashup Center provides access to IMS data through RSS, Atom, or XML feeds. With IBM Mashup Center and IMS Version 11, mashup application developers can create feeds to access IMS data by using standard SQL queries.
Two limited usage licenses (without support) of IBM Rational Developer for System z are provided for each license of IMS Version 11 and IMS Version 10 for customers who also use IMS SOA Integration Suite components. Terms and conditions are outlined in the Rational Developer for System z licensing, along with Rational Developer for System z.
Rational Developer System z Version 7.1.1 can be used with the base functions in IMS Enterprise Suite SOAP Gateway. Customers using new features in IMS Enterprise Suite SOAP Gateway should download the trial version of Rational Developer for System z Version 7.6 from the Rational Developer for System z trial site. A special version with license terms for IMS Version 11 and IMS Version 10 customers will be available shortly with installation instructions.
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