At last week's SHARE conference in Orlando, Fla., GT Software announced an enhancement of its
Ivory Service Architect that allows developers to build Web services that natively access CA IDMS
programs and data.
Ivory Service Architect allows mapped and mapless CA IDMS database transactions to access external
services hosted on SOAP, REST XML and JSON servers. Additionally, an Ivory Data Access tool in the
overall Ivory Studio suite provides SQL data access to CA IDMS via ODBC or JDBC.
''The business logic in IDMS [requires] that you pass in parameters to get a response,'' said Steve
Able, CTO, GT Software. ''We access the IDMS as a native process.'' Ivory Service Architect
developers thus pave the way for Java, .NET, PHP and JSON developers who are now able to access
IDMS as Web services.
JSON support is important today, suggests Able, because it allows traditional mainframe assets to
be re-integrated using standard enterprise mashup interfaces. The software lets the JSON developer
make a standard REST request to the server, and receive back a JSON object, he said.
''The SOA paradigm along with REST and JSON makes a lot of options available to more and more
people,'' said Able. This enables you to shift integration and SOA-related workloads off the
mainframe where appropriate.
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