Jacada integrator provides direct access to CICS and IMS transactions.Jacada Ltd. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :JCDA JCDA Journal of the Canadian Dental Association JCDA James Carpenter Design Associates JCDA Johnson City Development Authority (Johnson City, TN) JCDA Japan Craft Design Association JCDA Junior Catholic Daughters of America ) has expanded the capabilities of Jacada Integrator by adding a new connector for directly accessing IBM mainframe 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 and 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. transactions. Based on proven acquired technology, this new release paves the way for additional transaction connectors to CA-IDMS/DC, IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) TPF (Transaction Processing Facility) An operating system for IBM mainframes specialized for large transaction processing systems such as airline reservations. TPF supports thousands of terminals with a typical response time of two to three seconds. , HP3000 and Fujitsu Siemens BS2000. Jacada Integrator is the leading solution for rapidly integrating core legacy business systems, including the data and processes in those systems, with any front-office, call center, CRM (Customer Relationship Management) An integrated information system that is used to plan, schedule and control the presales and postsales activities in an organization. , or Web application as well as with a wide variety of middleware solutions. The new Jacada Integrator Host Transaction Connector is a highly automated solution, which enables any type of developer to quickly access CICS and IMS mainframe transactions in a secure, scalable and non-intrusive manner, without relying on presentation logic such as the 3270 data streams or other screen-based protocols. Jacada Integrator Host Transaction Connector transforms CICS and IMS transactions into services that can be deployed natively in a J2EE (Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition) A platform from Sun for building distributed enterprise applications. J2EE services are performed in the middle tier between the user's machine and the enterprise's databases and legacy information systems. environment as a JCA resource adapter or as an EJB (Enterprise JavaBean), or as XML, Web services, and .NET components. "The ability to transform CICS and IMS transactions into reusable components provides organizations with tremendous value in leveraging the core business functionality of the mainframe and integrating these valuable applications into new e-business development efforts," said Dale Vecchio, Research Director--Application Development of Gartner. "In addition to the myriad of other heterogeneous environments at most large companies, mainframe organizations are increasingly looking toward these existing systems as sources of business value." Most notably, this new ability to directly access CICS and IMS transactions is released as an integrated feature within the Jacada Integrator suite of products. Combined with the existing capabilities of Jacada Integrator Host Screen Connector, companies can now access the business logic and data in their legacy mainframe environments either through a non-intrusive, screen-based approach or by directly connecting to the existing CICS or IMS transactions. "Regardless of the `condition' of a mainframe application, Jacada can easily connect the business logic in the legacy system with any third-party application, middleware, or application development environment--all from one tool," said David Holmes, executive vice president of Jacada. Jacada Integrator Host Transaction Connector is generally available, and released as a new, integrated connector within version 3.8 of Jacada Integrator. |
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