CA Ideal and Web Services
Computer Associates has been a driving force in the mainframe IT world for many years. CA Ideal is the backbone of many mission critical applications of many corporations. GT Software has for years been able to help our customers successfully extend the capabilities of these technologies and provide added value to these already critical systems.
CA Ideal
CA Ideal™ for CA Datacom® is an advanced application development system that addresses program creation and maintenance and is closely integrated with CA Datacom/DB.
Ivory Service Architect now provides direct web service enablement for CA Ideal 3270 applications. Support for CA Ideal is now possible using Ivory’s high performance access to CICS screen
based applications.
In the above figure, CA Ideal panels are combined using the integrated screen wizard recorder and project builder to create SOAP based web services in a matter of minutes with no training and no coding. In addition, CA Ideal applications can call web services making Ivory Service Architect a complete web services solution.
To learn more about CA Ideal web service integration and other GT Software solutions, ie. offloading your mainframe SOA processing to Linux on System z, please visit the Ivory Resource Center.