The Ivory® solution from GT Software is dedicated to supporting mainframe CICS enterprises. Ivory is an integrated toolset that uniquely enables rapid Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) development for mainframe CICS applications, both BMS-based and COMMAREA applications using existing skill sets. Using Ivory® solutions from GT Software, mainframe CICS-based enterprises can fully participate in SOA, both as a service provider and service consumer. These capabilities will allow your thousands of CICS line-of-business applications to be redeployed as business services.
Some Key Features of the Ivory® solution for CICS 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 CICS applications in a matter of minutes
- Full support for access to CICS applications and business logic: COMMAREA, 3270 Bridge/Link, TN3270, or even direct database access
- No screen-scraping requirements - Ivory Studio is integrated with Ivory BMS/TS, guaranteeing that the Ivory based business service won't break when changes to the CICS BMS map occur
- Overcomes CICS COMMAREA 32k limitation
- Supports Channel / Containers
- Full integrates and extends CICS TS 3.X
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 all versions of CICS and CICS TS
- Support for HTTP 1.1
- CICS as an HTTP server and HTTP client
- Full support for mainframe Enterprise Security Manager (ACF2, RACF, TopSecret)
- UTF8-UTF16 conversion to z/OS code pages
- URIMap support for flexible URL assignments
Supported CICS Platforms:
- CICS: CICS/ESA 4.1, CICS TS 1.2, 1.3, 2.2, 2.3, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3
If you have a CICS-based mainframe environment 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 CICS and SOA requirements.
