GT Software's Ivory Solutions are dedicated to supporting mainframe CICS applications, both BMS-based and COMMAREA applications, using existing skill sets. These capabilities will allow your thousands of CICS line-of-business applications to be redeployed as business services.
Some key features of Ivory solution for CICS are:
Development
- Powerful graphical environment 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, the Ivory product family can address all of your specific CICS requirements.
