New Release Provides Direct Web Service Enablement for CA Ideal 3270 Applications to support BPM initiatives
ATLANTA, May 17, 2010 –
GT Software, a provider of integration solutions that leverage mainframe resources, today announced a new version of its flagship mainframe integration solution, Ivory Service Architect 4.2, with native support of CA Ideal. As companies look to deploy new initiatives such as business process management (BPM), packaged applications, and customer portals, the Ivory toolset quickly and easily enables the integration of mainframe applications and data, ensuring these organizations can exploit existing mainframe investments.
A proven solution in the most demanding of applications infrastructures, Ivory enables developers to create and publish Web services quickly and easily, with little or no training, and execute those services on zOS, Linux, Windows, or Linux on System z. CA Ideal, from CA Technologies (formerly CA, Inc.), is an advanced application development system for the relational database environment. By preserving and Web service-enabling CA Ideal-based applications, Ivory 4.2 will enable enterprises to derive even more business value from their investment in mainframe systems.
“Enterprises that leverage CA Ideal and CA IDMS applications can now integrate these applications quickly and cost-effectively using Web services,” said Mark Combs, distinguished senior vice president in CA Technologies’ Mainframe business unit, “GT Software’s Ivory solution provides customers with an excellent means of quickly and easily achieving this important objective to realize new benefits from their CA Ideal and CA IDMS investments.”
Features of Ivory 4.2
Native CA Ideal support features for Ivory include:
- An intelligent CA Ideal panel analyzer that gives a Web service designer the ability to use real CA Ideal fields from the panel when building services with Ivory;
- The ability to exploit the 3270 bridge facility in CICS to execute CA Ideal screen based transactions avoiding Telnet-based “screen scraping” at runtime;
- The capability for CA Ideal applications to invoke Web services using standard program calls making Ivory Service Architect a complete Web services solution for CA Ideal customers.
Ivory also now supports the inclusion of .NET and Java code, in addition to mainframe applications and data when assembling Web services. Examples include compression, encryption, data manipulation, and APIs to packaged applications.
The new release 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.
“Starting with its genesis as Computer Associates, CA Technologies has been a driving force in the mainframe IT world for many years. Products like CA Datacom, CA Ideal, and CA IDMS are the backbone of many mission critical applications of many corporations,” said Rob Morris, chief strategy officer for GT Software. “GT Software has for years been able to help customers successfully extend the capabilities of these technologies and provide added value to these already critical systems. This latest release of Ivory continues that record of excellence.”
Compatible with the latest Microsoft environments, including Windows 7, Ivory Service Architect 4.2 is available immediately and pricing for the solution starts at $10,000.
