Maximize Your Mainframe Investment
As companies look to deploy new initiatives such as business process management (BPM), packaged applications, and customer portals, Ivory Service Architect 4.2 from GT Software enables you to integrate mainframe applications and data – so you can exploit existing mainframe investments including CA Ideal, CA IDMS and CA Datacom.
Ivory Service Architect helps developers create and publish Web services quickly and easily, with little or no training. By preserving and web-service enabling CA Ideal-based applications, Ivory 4.2 allows you to derive even more business value from your investment in mainframe systems.

- An intelligent Ideal panel analyzer that allows a web service designer to use the actual CA Ideal fields from the panel definitions when building web services with Ivory.
- The ability to exploit the 3270 bridge facility in CICS to execute CA Ideal screen based transactions.
- CA Ideal applications can now invoke web services using standard program calls making Ivory Service Architect a complete web services solution for CA Ideal customers.
- A new interface module allows direct access to CA IDMS mapless programs via a web service.
- Enhanced BMS feature enables group fields to be defined using the graphical map builder of the Ivory Studio.
- Field attributes can now be exposed to the web service designer which allows decision logic to be applied based on the attribute (color, enhanced, etc.) of a field.
- Windows and Linux server engines allow the execution of custom .NET and Java programs greatly increases the coverage and scope of functionality by including routines like: compression, un-compression, data manipulation routines, or custom functions.
- Enhanced wizards that allow web services to be created easier and faster.
- Enhanced Windows shortcut keys and new functions in the Function Node.
- Compatibility with the latest Microsoft environments, including Windows 7.
Patented, Proven, Robust, and Rapid
Ivory Service Architect 4.2 is based on GT Software’s patented web services technology, and continues GT Software’s record of continuous performance improvements for CICS and z/OS servers, delivering increased throughput and decreased MIPS consumption. Proven at hundreds of organizations running thousands of Web services serving millions of transactions, Ivory enables developers to create and publish Web services quickly and easily with no coding and no formal training, to deliver effective integration for enterprises’ mainframe applications.
GT Software Can Help
We understand your business requirements may be unique, however Ivory can speed up the modernization of legacy systems whether it’s CA Ideal, CA IDMS or CA Datacom. Let us demonstrate how Ivory can ...
- Expose CA Ideal and CA IDMS as Web Services
- Enhance, Automate and Modernize UIs
- Integrate CA Legacy Environment to your IVR, Web & CRM Portals
- Integrate CA Environments with BPM tools
- Integrate to Oracle, SAP, etc.
- Leverage Linux on z
- And much more...