IONA announces Artix Mainframe.Artix Mainframe is a member of IONA's Artix family of Web services (1) Loosely, any online service delivered over the Web. Such usage appears in articles from non-technical sources, but not in IT-oriented publications, because definition #2 below describes the correct use of the term. integration products which makes it possible to develop and deploy Web services based service-oriented architectures (SOA (1) (Start Of Authority) The first record in a DNS zone file. See DNS records. (2) (Service Oriented Architecture) The modularization of business functions for greater flexibility and reusability. ) on the mainframe. It is intended for enterprises with extensive investments in either IMS (1) See IP Multimedia Subsystem. (2) (Information Management System) An early IBM hierarchical DBMS for IBM mainframes. IMS was widely implemented throughout the 1970s under MVS and continues to be used under z/OS. , or CICS (Customer Information Control System) A TP monitor from IBM that was originally developed to provide transaction processing for IBM mainframes. It controls the interaction between applications and users and lets programmers develop screen displays without , or both. The product extends the life and value of these mainframe systems by making it easy for mainframe developers to expose IMS and CICS COMMAREA transactions as Web services in a larger service-oriented architecture. These reusable business-level services are accessible to virtually any other developer or application, which means that proven mainframe transactions can be combined and reused in new enterprise applications operating on other platforms. Artix Mainframe utilises existing mainframe security facilities to authenticate (1) To verify (guarantee) the identity of a person or company. To ensure that the individual or organization is really who it says it is. See authentication and digital certificate. (2) To verify (guarantee) that data has not been altered. and authorise access to mainframe-based services. It runs as a native mainframe process, which gives systems programmers control over its administration. It is available in two versions: * Artix Mainframe Developer is intended for users of IONA's CORBA-based Orbix Mainframe product. These can make wider use of the services they have already defined. * Artix Mainframe Transformer is intended for those organisations that have decided to use service-oriented architectures to extend their legacy applications. Like the Developer version, Artix Mainframe Transformer provides a suite of simple Windows-based GUI (Graphical User Interface) A graphics-based user interface that incorporates movable windows, icons and a mouse. The ability to resize application windows and change style and size of fonts are the significant advantages of a GUI vs. a character-based interface. tools for automating and managing the creation of new Web services interfaces to IMS and CICS transactions, without the need for coding or code generation. Using Artix Mainframe Transformer, organisations make existing mainframe applications available to the entire enterprise without invasive or heavyweight programming on the mainframe. www.iona.com |
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