Replace Mainframe MDp and Early Cloud with SOA-Compliant LegaSuite Integration

LegaSuite for CICS is a perfect alternative for customers seeking to migrate from MDp to a SOA integration solution.

LegaSuite delivers a strategic migration path for customers using IBM’s Message Driven processor (MDp) (also referred to by some customers as “Early Cloud”). LegaSuite lets you replace MDp without any changes to your mainframe applications. And you can even replace MDp with no changes to the client applications that connect to MDp!

With MDp, customers had an excellent solution for exposing mainframe applications and data as callable business functions. Modern client applications could invoke these MDp business functions without any pre-requisite knowledge of the mainframe host.

Although MDp had many strengths, today MDp does not provide the flexibility required for standards-based integration solutions. In addition, IBM has announced withdrawal of support for MDp, and encouraged customers to migrate to alternate solutions.

The integration modules of LegaSuite for CICS feature many of the inherent strengths of MDp and leverages core CICS functionality to give customers all the capabilities of MDp and more – including faster performance and SOA standards-based integration.

Simplify the Migration from MDp

Seagull Software offers several conversion utilities to assist customers in their migration from MDp to LegaSuite. The goal is to replace MDp as transparently as possible to the other applications on either end of MDp; providing a smooth migration path to the LegaSuite SOA integration solution.

Benefits of LegaSuite Integration for the Mainframe

With LegaSuite for CICS customers receive the following benefits in addition to replacing MDp with a supported solution:

• LegaSuite for CICS is a complete platform of integration and UI solutions for CICS
• Your reusable SOA services can execute in four different runtime architectures
• Enter CICS at any level in the stack: COMMAREA, screen-based (3270 Bridge/Link, FEPI or Telnet 3270) or database
• Integrated GUI solution – LegaSuite GUI
• Supports both J2EE and .NET projects

Contact Us

Seagull Software’s knowledge and experience assures a successful migration from IBM’s Message Driven processor while continuing to maintain equivalent or better quality of service. Call us today to find out more or request a personal demo.