New in version 6.

0
Enhanced logging with a WTO plugin, which allows you to log detailed event messages to the operator console. Onhost and offhost load balancing and fault tolerance options. Core internationalization support to work in non English and multibyte locales. Support for conversational IMS transactions. Support for IMS LTERMfield setting by clients. Integrated with IONA Security Service (running offhost) and CORBA Secure Interoperability (CSIv2LO) Management plugin, which supports the development of custom instrumentation for managed CORBA servers and CICS/IMS adapters in combination with an offhost administration GUI console. New improved deployment for multiple domain configurations and customers using the nondefaultlocale.

Orbix Mainframe 6.0

IONAs Orbix Mainframe makes it easy to integrate mainframe systems, including new and existing COBOL, PL/I, CICS, and IMS applications, with applications running on UNIX or Windows platforms. Orbix Mainframe lets IT organizations reuse the business procedures and logic locked up in their mainframe applications, transactions, and data in a consistent and broadly supported fashion. Orbix Mainframe can also be used to make mainframe systems accessible to users or other systems across the Internet or Intranet. Orbix Mainframe provides COBOL, PL/I, and C++ language support, which makes it accessible to mainframe developers. It lets them use their existing skills to expose mainframe applications as business services that are immediately reusable by developers working in other languages or platforms. Developers can add incremental functionality to existing mainframe systems to meet new business needs. Orbix Mainframe makes it easy to augment these new integrated systems with enterprise services like 2-PC transactions, security, fault tolerance, and load balancing across mainframe partitions, or even within a single partition. For international environments, full code set negotiation facilities and locales are supported. IONAs customers are using Orbix Mainframe in highly demanding environments, such as high volume finance and telecom applications like Internet banking or telecom billing, which often run several million transactions per day.

WINDOWS CLIENT

UNIX CLIENT

UNIX CLIENT

VB/COM CLIENT C++ CLIENT COM OBJECT CORBA SERVER

C++ CLIENT CORBA SERVER

WEB SERVICES CONTAINER

Orbix Mainframe Highlights

Enables COBOL, PL/I and C++ developers to expose existing mainframe applications as standards based, reusable services. Gives middle-tier systems (J2EE, .NET, etc.) and mainframes access to each other in a true peertopeer fashion. Proven high performance, scalability and reliability.
CORBA NAMING SERVICE CORBA SERVICE UNIX CLIENT OS/390 SYSTEM: ORB BATCH ENVIRONMENT IMS ADAPTER CICS ADAPTER

UNIX/WINDOWS SERVER NAMING SERVICE

UNIX/WINDOWS SERVER CORBA SERVER

J2EE APPLICATION SERVER/EJBs

 Full support for OS/390 native and Unix System Service development and deployment, including batch/STC support and Unix System Service scripts. A set of mainframenative application development and integration tools and services. Integrates mainframe assets with other systems, and exposes them to the internet or intranet as Web services. Supports deployment of common servicessecurity, transactionsacross mainframe, CORBA, J2EE and Web Services application boundaries. Supports distributed multiresource transactions, with two-phase commit. Offers load balancing for incremental growth and for incremental spend. Frees mainframe programmers to focus on business service provision and utilization, not on distributed systems technology. Network, communications and message representation taken care of automatically.

Enterprise InfrastructureProduct Performance & Scalability

Orbix Mainframe is based on IONAs patented Adaptive Runtime Architecture (ART). ART gives Orbix Mainframe the chief benefit of seamless integration with IONAs ARTbased enterprise services, which results in support for cross technology domain security, transactions, management, and high availability. Customers use the product in production environments, which require high scalability, for example, running many multi-threaded instances in parallel.

Security for Integrated Systems

Using standard SAF calls, Orbix Mainframe fully integrates with existing security software on the mainframe, e.g. RACF, ACF/2. It also supports SSL/TLSencrypted security context propagation (integrated with SAF) and 2PhaseCommit transaction context propagation across EJB, CORBA, and IMSbased and CICSbased COBOL and PL/I customer applications. By combining Orbix Mainframe with IONAs Security Service and Corba Secure Interoperability (CSIv2LO), which runs in the nonmainframe version of Orbix, seamless authentication and authorization across Web services, J2EE, CORBA and proprietary applications is easily possible.

Expose Mainframe Systems as Web Services

Orbix Mainframe can also interoperate with IONAs Artix technologies like Artix Mainframe. Artix Mainframe is a solution, which exposes CICS and IMS transactions directly as Web services running natively on the mainframe. Combining these technologies gives developers the ability to expose mainframe-based systems as off host Web services and to participate seamlessly in a multi-middleware-switch environment. In turn, this lets mainframe developers integrate mainframe assets with other systems and expose them to the Web.

Server & Client Adapters (CICS & IMS)

Orbix Mainframes CICS and IMS server adapters provide an easy way to integrate distributed CORBA and EJB clients on various platforms with existing and new mainframe CICS and IMS transactions. These server adapters enable the development and deployment of ART-based COBOL and PL/I servers in CICS and IMS. Based on APPC/EXCI (CICS) or APPC/OTMA (IMS), they can integrate CICS and IMS servers with distributed CORBA clients running on various platforms. They also facilitate the integration of existing CICS and IMStransactions without modificationwith distributed offhost and onhost client applications. Orbix Mainframe has full CICS and IMS client support. This support allows a CICS or IMS transaction to act as a CORBA client and communicate with a CORBA server. The client program running inside CICS or IMS uses IONAs custom-built CICS/IMS micro-kernel runtime. This runtime supports APPC client calls to the client adapter, which then forwards these client requests as GIOP messages over IIOP to the target server. The server can be implemented in C++, Java, COBOL, or PL/I, and it can run in OS/390 batch, inside CICS or IMS, or on another platform.

Specifications
Supported platforms:
IBM OS/390 V2R10, z/OS 1.2, 1.4 IBM OS/390 V2R10, z/OS 1.2, 1.4 UNIX System Services.

Supported compilers:
IBM z/OS 1.2 (ANSI) C++ compiler. COBOL for OS/390 & VM compiler V2.1.2 or V2.2.1 IBM Enterprise COBOL V3.2.0 IBM PL/I for MVS & VM compiler V1.1.1 IBM Enterprise PL/I V3.2.0

Supported IMS releases:

IMS V7, V8

Supported CICS releases:

CICS TS V1.3, V2.2

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