Transform mainframe applications or IBM 3270 screens into web services
Rocket® Data z/Services software allows core mainframe systems to serve as both providers and consumers of web-services functionality. You can extend the many benefits of proven mainframe logic and system-of-record data into the distributed world of service-oriented architecture infrastructures.
Create powerful composite applications easily, and without overhead
Rocket Data z/Services transforms mainframe application logic and screen-based processes into ready-to-integrate web services. This allows for new composite applications that can directly access proven mainframe functionality at run-time. Internally, Rocket Data z/Services handles SOAP message processing and XML parsing to prevent any impact to mainframe applications.
Developers can expose mainframe data as a SOAP-based web service, shielding themselves from the complexity of mainframe data source interaction. Rocket Data transforms mainframe data into a virtual RDBMS, enabling distributed applications to transparently perform operations against mainframe data via a web service.
Consume external-to-host web services
Rocket Data z/Services transforms heterogeneous and distributed web services into familiar mainframe functions, allowing the mainframe to effectively consume distributed service-oriented architecture functionality. Additionally, z/Services reduces performance and scalability effects associated with the single-threaded nature of IMS/TM by ensuring that web service calls are made asynchronously within high-volume IMS/TM environments.