Ivory provides technology to integrate CICS® and IMS™ applications with distributed systems. Distributed systems could be full application environments like .Net or Java™. It could also be browser based solutions, and mobile applications integrated with mainframe systems.

Ivory Studio, a graphical tool for building application flow for Web Services follows a modeling process. Services integration is done through standards based SOAP web services, JSON or RESTful requests. This breadth of support for different service requests enable our clients to pick the technology they want to use, and know it could be integrated with their system z® applications in CICS, or IMS.

No XML knowledge is required by CICS/IMS Application programmers to provide SOAP based Web Services.
The Studio in conjunction with the Server provides the ability to build multi-operation WSDL files for Web Services. Target applications on CICS can be any combination of 3270 BMS, COMMAREA and IMS processing.

This support provides Composite application processing, which can also include external Web Service applications accessed by Ivory on behalf of the CICS system. CICS developers can use Ivory to access Web Services via an API call to Ivory, the outbound SOAP API is a simple CICS LINK process passing a COMMAREA or GETMAIN storage area. Ivory supports HTTP/HTTPS and security functions via standard CICS TCPIPSERVICEs.

Ivory provides top-down & bottom-up Web Service development for CICS.

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• Functional details

  Ivory Server is a CICS® Transaction Server process that provides the SOAP processing without the need for any middle tier servers. Ivory Server processes the information collected by Ivory Studio and calls the IBM® 3270 Bridge and/or CICS COMMAREA applications. The server accepts XML input, and uses processing rules and the WSDL (Web Services Descriptor Language) SOAP packet to process the business rules defined in the graphical model. It then builds results for the return SOAP packet.

  Ivory Server provides SOAP support via HTTP and HTTPS protocols. There is no need for IBM® BTS (Business Transaction Services) support. Outbound SOAP processing API for CICS applications.

• Business problem

  • Expose mainframe application in CICS®, and IMS™ via services
  • Integration between pureSystems™ and system z® applications
  • Ease integration between mainframe, and non mainframe systems
  • Support multi-platform deployment (Windows®, Linux®, Linux on z, CICS, z/OS®)
  • Exploit specialty engines on z.OS (zIIP, zAAP)
  • Integrate mainframe with browser application
  • Integrate mainframe with mobile solutions

• Business opportunity

   

  • Mainframe integration
  • CICS® integration to distributed application
  • IMS™ Integration to distributed application
  • Provide users with a common and familiar interface to host based systems eliminating the need for retraining
  • Give remote users secure access to host data without expensive hardware or software
  • Reduce traditional emulation hardware and software support requirements
  • The simplicity of a 2-tier architecture
  • Works on Windows®, UNIX®, Mac® and LINUX® based clients

   

• Return on investment

  ROI with Ivory is provided by very fast time to market for SOA based solutions. Development time is reduced to hours instead of weeks for each Web Service. The development time savings alone justify the price of the product.

  WSDL files are created by Ivory removing that process from developers. All SOAP XML processing is provided by Ivory removing the need for developers having to parse XML.

• Competitive advantage

  Ivory Service Architect provides an integration solution between disparate systems based on industry standards – SOAP, JSON, and JavaScript®. People on these different systems do not learn technologies on systems they do not use. Ivory makes this integration transparent to them.
  Ivory Studio is used to define the orchestration of mainframe applications, and its use of use means clients see results very quickly.
  Differentiators for Ivory Service Architect is easy graphical tooling to build service flows, multi-platform support for Ivory servers (Windows®, Linux® (Intel®, Linux on z), CICS®, z/OS® started task, and all of these benefits assure speed to market for new applications you need to develop in your business.
  Ivory services are standards based and can use consumed by .Net, and Java™ application, but also from a browser or mobile device.

• Industries

  Aerospace & Defense Industry
  Automotive Industry
  Banking Industry
  Chemicals & Petroleum Industry
  Computer Services Industry
  Consumer Products Industry
  Education Industry
  Electronics Industry
  Energy & Utilities Industry
  Financial Markets Industry
  Government Central/Federal industry
  Government, State/Provincial/Local Industry
  Healthcare Industry
  Industrial Products Industry
  Insurance Industry
  Life Sciences Industry
  Media & Entertainment Industry
  Professional Services Industry
  Retail Industry
  Telecommunications Industry
  Travel & Transportation Industry
  Wholesale Distribution & Services Industry
  

• Solution areas

  Cross industry
  

• Customer size

  Midmarket Business (100 to 499 employees)
  Midmarket Business (500 to 1000 employees)
  Large Business (greater than 1000 employees)
  

• Languages supported

  English
  

• Countries/regions available for distribution

  Africa

  Americas

  Asia Pacific

  Europe

  Middle East

• Solution collateral

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• Hardware/OS platforms

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
     IBM System z (Mainframe)
  Other Linux Distribution
     Other non-IBM servers
     IBM System z (Mainframe)
     IBM System p (pSeries)
     IBM System x (xSeries)
  z/VSE and VSE/ESA
     IBM System z (Mainframe)
  Windows 2000
     IBM System x (xSeries)
  Windows Server 2003 (inclusive)
     Hewlett-Packard servers (incl. Compaq)
     Other non-IBM servers
     Fujitsu Siemens servers
     Sun Microsystems servers
     IBM BladeCenter HSxx (Intel processor-based)
     IBM BladeCenter LSxx (AMD processor-based)
     Dell servers
     IBM System x (xSeries)
  Windows XP
     IBM System x (xSeries)
  Other Operating System (Software as a Service)
     Other non-IBM servers
     IBM System x (xSeries)
  RHEL5
     Desktops and Notebooks (all brands, including ThinkPad/ThinkCentre PCs by Lenovo)
     Other non-IBM servers
     Sun Microsystems servers
     IBM BladeCenter HSxx (Intel processor-based)
     IBM BladeCenter JSxx (POWER processor-based)
     IBM BladeCenter LSxx (AMD processor-based)
     IBM System z (Mainframe)
     IBM System p (pSeries)
     IBM System i (iSeries)
     IBM System x (xSeries)
     IBM Power Systems
  SLES10
     Other non-IBM servers
     IBM BladeCenter HSxx (Intel processor-based)
     IBM BladeCenter JSxx (POWER processor-based)
     IBM BladeCenter LSxx (AMD processor-based)
     IBM System z (Mainframe)
     IBM System p (pSeries)
     IBM System i (iSeries)
     IBM System x (xSeries)
     IBM Power Systems
  Windows Server 2008 (inclusive)
     IBM BladeCenter HSxx (Intel processor-based)
     IBM System x (xSeries)
  SLES11
     IBM System z (Mainframe)
     IBM System p (pSeries)
     IBM System x (xSeries)
     IBM Power Systems
  z/OS 1.12
     IBM System z (Mainframe)
  RHEL6
     IBM System z (Mainframe)
     IBM System p (pSeries)
     IBM System x (xSeries)
     IBM Power Systems
     IBM PureFlex System
  z/OS 1.13
     IBM System z (Mainframe)
  

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  Education & Training
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  Industry Leadership Solutions
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  Other Network Services
  Other Services
  

• Software

  CICS
     IBM CICS Transaction Gateway
     IBM CICS Transaction Gateway for Multiplatforms
     IBM CICS Transaction Server for z/OS V4.1
     IBM CICS Transaction Server for z/OS V4.2
     IBM CICS Transaction Server for z/OS V5.1
     IBM CICS Universal Client
  Information Management
     IBM DB2 for z/OS
  IMS
     IBM IMS Transaction Manager
     IBM IMS
        IBM IMS 12
  WebSphere
     IBM WebSphere Application Server
     IBM WebSphere Application Server - Express
     IBM WebSphere Application Server Community Edition
     IBM WebSphere Application Server for Developers