The Ivory® solution from GT Software is dedicated to fully supporting mainframe customers of CA. Ivory Service Architect and Ivory Data Access have both achieved CA Smart Certification for the CA IDMS product family. Ivory offers support for both native CA IDMS /DC COBOL and CA ADS applications.
Ivory is an integrated toolset that uniquely enables rapid SOA development for mainframe CA IDMS applications, as well as CA Datacom and
CA IDMS databases using existing skill sets. Using Ivory
® solutions from GT Software, enterprises with an investment in CA IDMS and CA Datacom applications and databases can fully participate in SOA, both as a service provider and service consumer. These capabilities will allow your thousands of CA line-of-business applications to be redeployed as business services. Additionally, Ivory offers comprehensive support for CICS, IMS, and other mainframe transaction systems and databases.
Some Key Features of the Ivory® solution for CA IDMS applications and CA Datacom and IDMS databases are:
Development
- Powerful graphical environment that enables the easy orchestration of building-block functions into business services
- Drag-and-drop environment enables developers to define Web service inputs and outputs, and then graphically model the multi-step process to implement the service.
- No coding requirements allows for creating business services at the right level of granularity from your CA IDEAL and CA IDMS applications in a matter of minutes
- Supports CA IDEAL and CA IDMS panel map names
Deployment
- Multiple deployment options enabling application agility, including a runtime residing in a CICS region in addition to a hybrid mainframe/distributed approach that provides MIPS savings
- Support for HTTP 1.1
- Full support for mainframe Enterprise Security Manager (ACF2, RACF, TopSecret)
- UTF8-UTF16 conversion to z/OS code pages
- URIMap support for flexible URL assignments
- Support for all three IBM specialty engines - IFL, zIIP, and zAAP.
CA IDMS Support
- Map and Mapless transactions
- Native IDMS/DC programs
- ADS/O map and ADS/O map-less dialogs
Ivory offers unparalleled support for all three IBM mainframe specialty engines – IFL, zIIP, and zAAP. Ivory offers specialty engine support to customers not yet on CA IDMS r17, and for those that have made the upgrade to CA IDMS r17, Ivory complements and expands on the zIIP value proposition that CA offers with additional SOA and integration workload eligible for specialty engine support.
If you have a mainframe environment with an investment in CA IDMS and CA Datacom, and you’re looking to create composite business services to allow your mainframe to fully participate in your organizations SOA, GT Software’s Ivory product family can address all of your specific mainframe SOA requirements.
Ivory Service Architect Core Features
Core Features include support for:
Ivory Solutions for CA Customers
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