I took the Ivory Service Architect and created a very nice service based on IMS transactions. I then went into the Oracle BPEL process manager and created a BPEL process that included the aforementioned service.

So in a matter of ten minutes I had a BPEL business flow that call the IMS service as a partner-link(BPEL – Speak). I also created a composite service in Ivory that actually orchestrated multiple IMS transactions , then included that into a BPEL flow, which means the orchestration takes place on the mainframe where it belongs and does not require the BPEL tool to have to deal with multiple mainframe transactions. So yes you can easily include “ANY” mainframe artifact in a service that can be included into a BPEL flow…in minutes, not days or weeks.