If you have mainframes, chances are you are planning to leverage your investment in them for years to come. To connect these valuable information assets to your distributed systems and web applications, we offer the industry’s leading product for running XML Web Services on CICS mainframes. We call it SOLA, which stands for Service Oriented Legacy Architecture, Developed at Merrill Lynch and proven in some of the most demanding production environments in the world, SOLA is a true high performance mainframe SOA tool.
Key benefits of SOLA include:
- Web Services on the Mainframe
- No Middleware
- Proven in Fortune 500
- Centralized and Standards Based
SOLA and IBM’s CICS TSv3.1:
- Takes advantage of TS 3.1 Enhancements
- Expands pipeline capabilities
- Adds much needed functionality
- Adds support for BMS3270, VSAM Access and more
SOLA is a single, comprehensive solution for Web Service and SOA on the mainframe.
A unique, standards based single solution, SOLA provides proven, quick, efficient and cost effective application integration by publishing legacy applications as Web Services. This is accomplished without any additional hardware, middleware, software, coding or cross platform skills training. SOLA’s powerful toolset — and Web Services — dramatically reduce application development cost and time to market.
Key Features include:
- Easy to use and deploy - “one click” creation of web-services.
- Very high performance, production proven
- Comprehensive monitoring and error logging for easy problem diagnosis and resolution
- Integrated testing and debugging tools
- Services created from the “Inside Out” - the person who knows the program the best - creates the services
- Global Dictionary that allows for the automatic translation of COBOL field names without affecting the source program.
- Brower based development environment
- Security based on WS-Security and WS-Policy
- UDDI 3.0 Registry/Directory
- Support for Architectural Standards
- Standards Based
- Customization APIs
- Batch Capabilities
- Orchestration using BPEL (Business Process Execution Language for Web Services)
- Publishes legacy applications as Web Services, allowing them to easily integrate with .Net, J2EE or any other development environment.
- Can create web services from Commarea programs, 3270 transactions, stored procedures, Adhoc SQL, Callable APIs and VSAM Access.
- Inbound and outbound web services support (the mainframe can act as a web services server or a web services client)
- Global dictionary, WSDL first development and powerful WSDL customization features for unparalleled flexibility and support for architectural standards.
- WC3-compliant Assembler XML parser for superior performance and low parsing costs.
- Central UDDI directory for easy discovery and Enterprise-wide reuse.
- Single sign-in using LDAP or SAF
- Outbound services support for SSL and proxy
- Supports both http and MQ transport layers
- CICS 3.1 Integration - If required, SOLA can be integrated directly into the CICS 3.1 pipeline.
