Ivory Service Architect integrates inbound and outbound data. Its bi-directional web services functionality enables you to call any service, whether mainframe-centric, distributed within the corporate network, or external to the organization.
Ivory Service Architect provides for bi-directional web services with the additional capabilities of External Services and Callable Services.
External Services: Inside an Ivory service (WSDL), you can orchestrate the execution of mainframe artifacts (such as IMS, CICS, and data) and call web services (WSDL) on any other platform, aggregate the answers, and return a single and concise response.
Callable Services: Anything developed in Ivory as a web service can also be called by other programs on the mainframe via standard mainframe program calls. You can also enable mainframe transactions (IMS, CICS, IDMS/DC or batch) to call web services on any platform.
Ivory Services Architect's support for the publishing of simple mainframe transactions, and the consumption of external web services, allows the mainframe to serve as the hub of your corporate IT initiatives.
