IMS SOA Integration Suite

The IMS™ SOA Integration Suite is a collection of IMS middleware functions and tools that supports your IMS on demand systems and your distributed IMS application environment.

Did you know that you can modernize your existing IMS applications by using IMS technology for connectivity, data representation, and application development? Do you want to have Web access to your IMS data and applications? Do you want to do ad-hoc queries? This technology is called the IMS SOA Integration Suite.

	Uses			Access to IMS data
	Access to IMS transactions			Presentations and events

You can use the IMS SOA Integration Suite to:

• Leverage your existing investment in IMS technologies and use your IT organization's existing skill set to deploy existing IMS-based applications over the Web to your customers without touching a single line of code
  
  
• Provide access to IMS transactions and data from any Web connection
  
  
• Modernize your IMS applications and enable them to interoperate with other clients, such as MicrosoftR .NET™ or SAP clients in a service-oriented architecture
  
  
• Integrate business logic that is embedded in your existing IMS applications with other IT systems, both within your enterprise and in the supply chain
  
  
• Improve development time by using Java, instead of PL/I, COBOL, or Assembler
  
  
• Access your IMS data directly for use by your applications from environments such as DB2®, CICS®, and WebSphere® Application Server
  
  
• Store and retrieve your XML content directly in IMS without any intermediate steps, and exchange data with other systems by using established schemas

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Access to IMS transactions

IMS SOAP Gateway is an XML-based connectivity solution that enables existing or new IMS applications to communicate outside of the IMS environment using SOAP.

IMS TM resource adapter (also known as the IMS Connector for Java), is a component of IMS that allows you to rapidly create and run Java applications which access IMS transactions over the internet.

IMS MFS Web Solutions, IMS MFS SOA support and IMS MFS Web enablement, provide support for reusing existing MFS-based IMS business logic.

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Access to IMS data

IMS DB Resource Adapter Solutions (Formerly known as IMS JDBC Connector) is a function of IMS that enables a programmer with minimal IMS knowledge to write Java application programs that access IMS databases.

IMS DLIModel utility uses IMS source files to generate metadata that can be used for Java application development. The utility also allows you to modify the metadata, generate XML schemas, import additional field information from COBOL copybooks, and write DLIModel trace logs.

IMS XML DB allows applications to view a traditional IMS database as an XML database. Using the IMS DLIModel utility to construct an IMS-to-XML mapping, IMS XML DB allows the storage and retrieval of XML documents from existing or new IMS databases. IMS XML DB currently runs as a Java application running in IMS, CICS, DB2, or WebSphere using retrieveXML() and storeXML() UDF extensions to the IMS Java JDBC driver.

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IMS on Demand Presentations and Events

IMS SOA Events
Seminars	English	French	Italian	Spanish
IMS SOA Application Development Seminar, Phoenix, AZ - Register here
Teleconferences
The IMS Integration Suite - Register here
IMS Transaction Manager on Demand - Readme
Presentation	English	French	Italian	Spanish
IMS SOAP Gateway, IMS Connector for Java and IMS MFS Web support overview
IMS SOAP Gateway and IMS Connector for Java demos
IMS Database on Demand - Readme
Presentation	English	French	Italian	Spanish
IMS Database Access and Connectivity and the IMS Control Center overview
DLIModel Utility and IMS Control Center demos