The Ivory® solution from GT Software is dedicated to supporting mainframe IMS enterprises. Ivory is an integrated toolset that uniquely enables rapid Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) development for mainframe IMS applications, both MFS and non-MFS based applications using existing skill sets. Currently, there are very few tools available to accomplish the exposing of IMS resources as services. The tools required by an IMS shop need to be easy to use, scalable, and high performing systems that are written with the mainframe IMS mentality in mind. Using Ivory® solutions from GT Software, mainframe IMS-based enterprises can fully participate in SOA, both as a service provider and service consumer. These capabilities will allow your thousands of IMS line-of-business applications to be redeployed as business services in high performance architecture.
Some Key Features of the Ivory® solution for IMS 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.
- Multi-step, multi-operation composite business services can span multiple mainframe resources – IMS, CICS, DB2, IMS/DB, VSAM, etc.
- No coding requirements allows for creating business services at the right level of granularity from your IMS applications in a matter of minutes
- Full support for IMS Conversational Transactions
- Full support for access to IMS MFS and non-MFS applications
- Supports IMS Connect, OTMA, TN3270, or even direct database access to IMS
- No screen-scraping
Deployment
- Multiple deployment options enabling application agility, including mainframe, CICS region, zLinux, and Windows deployment options.
- Hybrid mainframe/distributed approach that provides MIPS savings
- Full support for mainframe Enterprise Security Manager (ACF2, RACF, TopSecret)
- Standard based with full support for Web service specifications:
- SOAP/HTTP 1.0, SOAP/HTTP 1.1, WSDL 1.1, WS-I Basic Profile 1.0.
- UTF8 conversion to z/OS code pages
Supported IMS Platforms:
- IMS 9.1 and higher. Please contact GT Software if you have an older IMS version and require support.
