Generic Systems

Shadow RTE

Shadow RTE - provides a robust technical architecture to support the broad range of business requirements for mainframe integration. As a framework upon which organizations can integrate mission critical mainframe resources into a Real-Time Enterprise, Shadow RTE provides support for the following NEON offerings:
Shadow z/Services – mainframe Web services
Shadow z/Events – real-time events
Shadow z/Direct – direct data/program access
Shadow z/Components – Java and .NET components
Shadow z/Presentation – Web-enablement of mainframe assets
Shadow RTE is a Mainframe Services Bus (MSB) which enables standards-based mainframe integration support of Web services for Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), real-time events for Event-Driven Architecture (EDA), SQL for direct data access and transactional support, as well as automatic presentation layer generation for extending screen-based applications to the Web. With Shadow RTE, organizations have a mainframe integration in frastructure that at its core delivers a secure, reliable and scalable framework for all mainframe integration.

Shadow z/Services - Shadow z/Services provides a secure, reliable and scalable foundation for mainframe integration which enables bi-directional use of existing legacy screens, programs and mainframe data with SOAs. Shadow z/Services provides an adaptable computing architecture based upon the needs of the enterprise, enabling the mainframe to participate in SOA as a Web services consumer or Web services provider. k

Shadow z/Events - events occur thousands of times per second in the scalable environments of mainframe processing. Event-Driven Architectures are designed to utilize real-time events to automate heterogeneous business processes or maintain data consistency between distributed databases and mainframe systems of record. Without touching the application code, events are captured in real-time from Adabas, IDMS CICS, DB2 and IMS and "pushed" asynchronously via multiple messaging and communication protocols, such as WebSphere MQ and HTTP/HTTPS. At the core of Shadow z/Events is a secure, high performance mainframe event manager deployed inside the Shadow RTE address space, optimized for mainframe eventing and leveraging the power of the mainframe and Shadow RTE to deliver the utmost in performance and reliability.

Shadow z/Direct - Shadow z/Direct supports easy SQL access to mainframe resources from any ODBC, JDBC or J2CA (JCA) mainframe data or application environment without any intermediate hardware gateways. Shadow z/Direct provides a secure, reliable and scalable foundation for mainframe integration for tightly coupled, bi-directional re-use of legacy screens, programs and mainframe data with Service-Oriented Architectures (SOAs). NEON also supports publishing Web services from mainframe databases.

Shadow z/Components - As enterprise organizations weigh options for re-use of legacy assets, components continue to provide a viable option for extending mainframe applications - and now for data, as well. Shadow z/Components delivers an industry standard integration option that reduces the complexity of integrating mainframe assets to allow Java or .NET developers to use existing tools and skills. Shadow z/Components provides a secure, reliable and scalable foundation for mainframe integration which enables re-use of existing legacy screens, programs and mainframe data. Whether COBOL, J2EE or .NET-based, the vision for component technologies serves as a precursor for the current service-oriented architecture paradigm. Shadow z/Components automatically exposes mainframe applications (both BLI and SLI) and data as ready to use COBOL, .NET and J2EE components. Shadow z/Components delivers a high-performance solution, no matter which runtime fits your needs, and enables organizations to maximize existing investments in legacy computing while moving forward with deployment of a modern component-based architecture.

Shadow z/Presentation - Integrating your disparate systems and applications means you must have the ability to seamlessly integrate old and new applications across a variety of platforms and architectures, all working simultaneously with multiple mainframe or midrange hosts. Shadow z/Presentation, a component of the Shadow RTE mainframe integration suite, is a suite of products offering rapid legacy extension solutions for refacing and web-enabling 3270 screen-based applications - a critical need for organizations migrating to Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA). Shadow z/Presentation gives developers a powerful capability for application transformation, enabling them to fuse one-to-one, many-to-one and one-to-many transactions on the back end, replacing the rigid, fixed granularity of mainframe screen-based applications with a streamlined Web-oriented application.

Shadow z/Services distributed - provides a secure, reliable and scalable solution for mainframe Web services, Shadow z/Services Distributed also provides the Shadow Developer to aid in exposing valuable screen-based mainframe and iSeries application logic as XML-based Web services - coupled with a distributed middle-tier runtime that is independent of the mainframe or iSeries platform. The service-enablement of host applications delivers two key benefits: Facilitates the creation of a true Service-oriented architecture, with mainframe and iSeries applications participating as publishers and consumers of Web services and reduces the complexity of integrating mainframe and iSeries resources.

Shadow zServices for CICS - provides a solution for those organizations that need to leverage their investment in CICS. Shadow z/Services for CICS leverages the powerful features of IBM's CICS and CICS TS platforms, while providing customers with the added benefits of Shadow's ease of development, implementation and operation. Shadow z/Services for CICS eliminates many of the complexities associated with Web services enablement of mainframe applications.

Shadow/zServices Consumption - There are products on the market today that generate and deploy Web services from mainframe transactions. However, for an organization to truly realize the benefits of a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), the mainframe must not only publish Web services but actually consume Web services as well. Once this occurs, the mainframe can enjoy access to a wide array of data sources. With an innovative Application Programming Interface (API) that actually allows for the consumption of a distributed WSDL on the mainframe, Shadow z/Services Consumption is the only tool on the market today that answers this need.

Shadow z/EnterpriseWeb Server - provides a native Web server that allows companies to Web-enable mainframe data applications without the costs and complexity of multi-tier server architectures. Shadow z/EnterpriseWeb Server is architected to provide extreme scalability, whether users number in the hundreds or hundreds of thousands, while providing a single Internet access and integration infrastructure to z/OS data, ensuring data consistency, availability and reliability from a Web browser, improved throughput and hastening response time. Extreme scalability ensures applications will perform as designed today and in the future, adapting easily to volume increases and new technologies that accompany internal and external corporate change. Multiple address space load balancing, workload management and dynamic thread pooling enable high-volume user access.

Client Builder - As part of the NEON mainframe integration suite, ClientBuilder is a comprehensive integration solution for web-enabling 3270 and 5250 screen-based applications - a critical need for organizations migrating to service-oriented architectures. While providing HTML transformation, ClientBuilder gives developers the powerful capability to fuse many-to-one and one-to-many transactions on the back end, replacing the rigid, fixed granularity of mainframe screen-based applications with a streamlined Web-oriented or thick-client application.

OCA

OCA-MQSeries - Provides Advantage CA-IDMS applications with the MQSeries programming interface to connect existing transactions to other environments. From within Advantage CA-IDMS, programs can use MQSeries directly and communicate across platforms using the standard MQSeries programming interface.

OCA-TCP/IP - Provides a TCP/IP sockets interface to Advantage CA-IDMS applications. Advantage CA-IDMS programs have the ability to access IBM's TCP/IP for MVS services from within Advantage CA-IDMS. Application programs can share data with partners executing on any platform on your network, intranet or the Internet.

OCA-Commit - Enables Advantage CA-IDMS to participate in the two-phase commit process from CICS. This is a great tool to ensure 100% integrity between both databases.

OCA-SYSLINK - Gives Advantage CA-IDMS applications the ability to transfer workloads to other regions on any machine in the sysplex. Allows users to take advantage of all the computing resources available and move workloads across any machine in the Sysplex.

OCA-EXCI - Allows Advantage CA-IDMS programs to directly invoke CICS programs.

OCA-DB2 - Enables Advantage CA-IDMS applications to make calls to DB2 relational databases using standard SQL calls.