Recently, one of GT Software’s first Ivory Service Architect for CICS customers — a large insurance company — took a very exciting step with mainframe web services. With hundreds of web services in production, they embarked on an initiative to control mainframe MIPS-related costs, as well as maximize the usage of Linux on System z. GT Software provided a strategy for them to achieve both objectives quickly and easily. 

Making room for growth 
Without sacrificing any functionality or rebuilding any of the Ivory services, they were able to simply “move” their Ivory workload from CICS to Linux on z without any redevelopment work. In addition, they moved a significant amount of their WebSphere work there as well. Both efforts helped them save money by leveraging their investments in IFL engines.
 
With more than a half million services a day, and an hourly peak of 60,000 services using only about 5% of the environment allocated, it was well worth the conversion effort to Linux for z. Now, there is room for growth.
 
Offloading 100% of web services workload
The Ivory Server for Linux on z allows you to offload 100% of your web services workload — meaning that mainframe integration has zero impact on your general purpose processor (GPP). Instead, the workload is passed on to IFL specialty engines.
 
· Reduce MIPS while still implementing web services
· Lower mainframe upgrade costs
· Continue to use your primary application server
· Generate no additional code and deploy quickly
 
Processing at near memory speed
Using Ivory with Linux on z also enhances communications back to the GPP due to the availability of Hipersockets, which provide near memory speed within the zServer architecture for IP processing.
 
Adapting to change without painful redevelopment — just another reason why Ivory is the leading mainframe integration solution.