Make the mainframe a key part of your SOA environment

LegaSuite Integration offers a high-performance mainframe integration and SOA architecture to leverage existing mainframe applications and data.

By enabling standards-based access to your mainframe, LegaSuite Integration leverages your mainframe resources in new ways without compromising the reliability, availability and security of critical mainframe assets.

Key Features

• Simplifies and speeds mainframe applications and data integration
• Non-invasive access to mainframe application screen logic, transaction logic, and data
• Eclipse development environment to easily service-enable mainframe assets
• Flexible server deployment to distributed and mainframe platforms or a hybrid of the two
• Provides a high volume, secure and scalable runtime architecture without impacting mainframe resources
• Support for advanced mainframe integration:
• Bi-directional web services (enable mainframe applications to consume external web services)
• Top-down service development
• Real-time event capture with CICS 4.1
• Leverages specialty engines like zIIP, zAAP, and IFL to dramatically lower mainframe costs

Mainframe Integration Choices

• Application Logic: Service-enable logic via screen interfaces including:
• CICS
• IMS
• IDMS
• Natural
• VME
• CA Ideal
• Transaction Logic: Service-enable CICS and IMS transactional directly
• Mainframe Data Access: Integrate with relational databases via JDBC or to non-relational databases such as VSAM

Flexible Deployment Architectures

LegaSuite Integration offers the most deployment flexibility of any mainframe integration and SOA architecture. Regardless of which option you deploy to, you can easily change your deployment to another environment to meet your changing business needs.

• Mainframe Resident: Runs on the mainframe in CICS, offering the highest performance possibilities. Invokes applications via COMMAREA (DPL), 3270 Bridge/FEPI or VSAM.
• Distributed: Runs on the mainframe in z/Linux or off the mainframe on distributed platforms like Linux, Windows, Sun Solaris, AIX, and HP-UX. Advantageous when your mainframe is outsourced or to reduce MIPS usage.
• Hybrid: A combination of the mainframe resident and distributed deployments. Allows you offload SOA processing to more cost-effective platforms (including specialty processors) while retaining the performance power of the mainframe.