Orbix Mainframe

Orbix Mainframe lets IT organizations reuse the business procedures and business logic locked up in their mainframe applications, transactions and data in a consistent and broadly supported fashion. IONA's product can also be used to make mainframe systems accessible to users or other systems across the Internet.

Who Should Use This Product

Organizations seeking to:

• Incorporate their mainframe investments into their e-business strategy without rewriting these investments in Java
• Link mainframe applications to other corporate computing resources using demonstrated, industry-standard application integration technologies
• Deploy enterprise-quality Web services
• Bridge component technology domains, such as COBOL and J2EE, using industry standard technologies including Web services

Features

• Integrates mainframe assets with other systems, and exposes them to the internet as Corba objects or Web services.
• Lets COBOL, PL/I and C++ developers expose existing mainframe applications as reusable services
• Gives middle-tier systems (J2EE, .Net, etc.) and mainframes access to each other in a true peer-to-peer fashion
• Supports deployment of common services - security, transactions - across mainframe, CORBA, J2EE and Web Services application boundaries including full SSL/TLS support and integration with the IONA Security Service - IS/2
• Exposes Orbix Mainframe servers as Web services that accept client requests via SOAP over HTTP/S.
• Allows developers to initiate two phase commit transactions from IMS & CICS programs
• Incorporates enterprise management features and integrates with the off-host IONA Administrator Console.

Benefits

• Allows mainframe programmers to focus on business service provision and utilization, not on distributed systems technology
• Network, communications and message representation taken care of automatically
• Promotes reuse of valuable mainframe assets, exposing them as services that can be accessed from virtually any client
• Lets mainframe programmers achieve development and integration goals using their existing skills