IMS

IMS TM Resource Adapter Version 10.2 provides the following new features:

• Support for the invocation of IMS applications by using complex data types from distributed platforms
  
  With WebSphere® Transformation Extender Design Studio, you can build applications that send complex data formats to and from IMS applications. WebSphere Transformation Extender is a transaction-oriented, data integration solution that automates the transformation of high-volume, complex transactions across the enterprise. You can use its Type Designer to generate a type tree from your COBOL copybook and then specify rules for transforming and routing the data in the Map Designer.
  
  With WebSphere Transformation Extender, IMS applications can further participate in your SOA solution when complex data formats are involved, including data format standards such as Electronic Data Interchange (EDI), Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA), Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunications (SWIFT), and Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).
  
  
• Support for reestablishing any stale connection in a connection pool when the connection encounters a communication failure.
  
  This enhancement enables you to recycle IMS Connect during system maintenance without having to resubmit any IMS TM resource adapter interactions from the client application.
  
  When a request comes in and uses a connection that just turned stale, the IMS TM resource adapter will throw an exception and set up an internal flag about this connection issue. When the next request comes in and tries to use the same connection, the IMS TM resource adapter will check to see if IMS Connect is up. If IMS Connect is up, the IMS TM resource adapter will reconnect and submit the interaction. Because the IMS TM resource adapter will reconnect the socket after it confirms that IMS Connect is up and running, you do not need to manually manage the socket connection or resubmit any interactions.
  
  
• IMS MFS SOA support
  
  IMS MFS SOA support is integrated with the Enterprise Metadata Discovery (EMD) framework in Rational® Application Developer Version 7.5 or later to transform existing MFS-based IMS applications into J2C Java beans and J2C Java Data Binding classes. After you create a J2C Java bean, you can create Java EE artifacts, such as JSPs, EJBs, or Web services, to deploy the generated J2C Java bean.
  
  
• Rerouting undelivered output messages to a specified destination for commit mode 0, SYNC_SEND interactions on sharable persistent sockets
  
  The reroute function allows undelivered output messages to be rerouted to a specified destination. Previously, the reroute function was supported for only commit mode 0 (CM0), SYNC_SEND_RECEIVE interactions on sharable persistent sockets. This enhancement supports the reroute function on CM0, SYNC_SEND interactions on sharable persistent sockets.

The runtime environment is the same as the target WebSphere application server where the IMS TM resource adapter is deployed.