What's New in Ivory 4.0

Ivory 4.0 expands the platforms, environments, and formats supported by Ivory to include non-conventional interfaces and applications, both on and off the mainframe. Customers no longer have to limit their business services to standard mainframe interfaces.

Systems and technologies such as MQ Series, CORBA, custom applications – even encryption and compression routines – can now be seamlessly included within an Ivory developed Web service.   More importantly, this “inclusionary” approach ensures that virtually all functionality on the mainframe can be leveraged in a composite service removing massive barriers in the ability to design quality services.

Incorporate Custom / External Interfaces via Delegate Node

• Allows users of Ivory Server for z/OS and Ivory Server for CICS to provide and execute custom business logic to extent the Ivory product.
  • Supports C, C++, Assembler, COBOL and PL/I
  • Future support provides for Ivory Server for Java and Window
• Allows Ivory to orchestrate logic for any non-transactional logic
  • Examples: Compression routines, encryption, CORBA, MQ Series, Hogan Financials, Roll-Your-Own Applications, Custom function
• Ivory Studio
  • Delegate Point Node, Move to Delegate, Execute Delegate
• Ivory supplied Delegates
• Ivory Data Access integration
• Copybook association (post processing data layout over a BLOB)

Addition of BLOB (Binary Large Object) Data Type Support

• Defined at the Web Service Operation

Enhances SOA initiatives via the following:

• Delegate Node
• Callable Service Operations Nodes
• LINK/IMS Point Nodes
• Referenced Storage
• Channels and Containers
• Copybook association (post processing data layout over a BLOB)

Productivity

In addition to broadening the platforms and environments supported by Ivory, two other new features distinguish Ivory Service Architect 4.0 from other approaches to building or migrating to SOA systems:

Ivory’s Source Control Management System allows a new, higher level of team collaboration across Ivory projects, bringing a team-based, enterprise development approach to mainframe SOA.

Ivory also strengthens the concept of Callable Services, whereby anything developed in Ivory can be called by other programs on the mainframe to in-turn, call Web services that reside off the mainframe.  Now any Ivory Web service can be converted to a callable service, and vice-versa;   this new feature offers unparalleled productivity in changing how Ivory services are invoked.Export Callable Service to Web Services (and vice-versa)

• Support for popular Windows based Source Control management systems.
  • i.e.: Visual SourceSafe, PVCS, others that implement Windows Source Control standard
• Debugging / tracing Trace file XSLT formatting
  • Converts trace file XML into HTML for viewing.
  • Client customizable XSLT support

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