New in version 6.0

• Enhanced logging with a WTO plugin,which allows you to log detailed eventmessages to the operator console.

• ‘On—host’ and ‘off—host’ load balancingand fault tolerance options.

• Core internationalization support towork in non English and multi—bytelocales.

• Support for conversational IMStransactions.

• Support for IMS LTERM—field settingby clients.

• Integrated with IONA Security Service(running ‘off—host’) and CORBA SecureInteroperability (CSIv2LO)

• Management plugin, which supportsthe development of custominstrumentation for managed CORBAservers and CICS/IMS adapters incombination with an ‘off—host’administration GUI console.

• New improved deployment for multipledomain configurations and customersusing the non—default—locale.

Orbix Mainframe Highlights

• Enables COBOL, PL/I and C++developers to expose existingmainframe applications as standards—based, reusable services.

• Gives middle-tier systems (J2EE, .NET,etc.) and mainframes access to each otherin a true peer—to—peer fashion. Provenhigh performance, scalability andreliability.

Orbix Mainframe 6.0IONA’s Orbix Mainframe makes it easy to integrate mainframe systems,including new and existing COBOL, PL/I, CICS, and IMS applications,with applications running on UNIX or Windows platforms. OrbixMainframe lets IT organizations reuse the business procedures andlogic locked up in their mainframe applications, transactions, and datain a consistent and broadly supported fashion. Orbix Mainframe canalso be used to make mainframe systems accessible to users or othersystems across the Internet or Intranet.

Orbix Mainframe provides COBOL, PL/I, and C++ language support,which makes it accessible to mainframe developers. It lets them usetheir existing skills to expose mainframe applications as businessservices that are immediately reusable by developers working in otherlanguages or platforms. Developers can add incremental functionalityto existing mainframe systems to meet new business needs. OrbixMainframe makes it easy to augment these new integrated systemswith enterprise services like 2-PC transactions, security, fault tolerance,and load balancing across mainframe partitions, or even within a singlepartition. For international environments, full code set negotiationfacilities and locales are supported.

IONA’s customers are using Orbix Mainframe in highly demandingenvironments, such as high volume finance and telecom applicationslike Internet banking or telecom billing, which often run several milliontransactions per day.

OS/390 SYSTEM: ORB

BATCH ENVIRONMENT IMS ADAPTER CICS ADAPTER

UNIX/WINDOWS SERVER

NAMING SERVICE

CORBA NAMING SERVICE

UNIX/WINDOWS SERVER

CORBA SERVER

CORBA SERVICE

J2EE APPLICATION SERVER/EJBs

UNIX CLIENT

VB/COM CLIENT C++ CLIENT

COM OBJECT CORBA SERVER

WINDOWS CLIENT

WEB SERVICES CONTAINER

UNIX CLIENT

C++ CLIENT CORBA SERVER

UNIX CLIENT

Enterprise Infrastructure—Product Performance & ScalabilityOrbix Mainframe is based on IONA’s patented Adaptive Runtime Architecture™(ART). ART gives Orbix Mainframe the chief benefit of seamless integrationwith IONA’s ART—based enterprise services, which results in support for cross—technology domain security, transactions, management, and high availability.

Customers use the product in production environments, which require highscalability, for example, running many multi-threaded instances in parallel.

Security for Integrated SystemsUsing standard SAF calls, Orbix Mainframe fully integrates with existingsecurity software on the mainframe, e.g. RACF, ACF/2. It also supportsSSL/TLS—encrypted security context propagation (integrated with SAF) and2—Phase—Commit transaction context propagation across EJB, CORBA, andIMS—based and CICS—based COBOL and PL/I customer applications. Bycombining Orbix Mainframe with IONA’s Security Service and Corba SecureInteroperability (CSIv2LO), which runs in the non—mainframe version of Orbix,seamless authentication and authorization across Web services, J2EE, CORBAand proprietary applications is easily possible.

Expose Mainframe Systems as Web ServicesOrbix Mainframe can also interoperate with IONA’s Artix technologies like ArtixMainframe. Artix Mainframe is a solution, which exposes CICS and IMStransactions directly as Web services running natively on the mainframe.Combining these technologies gives developers the ability to exposemainframe-based systems as “off host” Web services and to participateseamlessly in a multi-middleware-switch environment. In turn, this letsmainframe developers integrate mainframe assets with other systems andexpose them to the Web.

Server & Client Adapters (CICS & IMS)Orbix Mainframe’s CICS and IMS server adapters provide an easy way tointegrate distributed CORBA and EJB clients on various platforms withexisting and new mainframe CICS and IMS transactions. These serveradapters enable the development and deployment of ART-based COBOL andPL/I servers in CICS and IMS. Based on APPC/EXCI (CICS) or APPC/OTMA(IMS), they can integrate CICS and IMS servers with distributed CORBA clientsrunning on various platforms. They also facilitate the integration of existingCICS and IMS—transactions without modification—with distributed ‘off—host’and ‘on—host’ client applications.

Orbix Mainframe has full CICS and IMS client support. This support allows aCICS or IMS transaction to act as a CORBA client and communicate with aCORBA server. The client program running inside CICS or IMS uses IONA’scustom-built CICS/IMS micro-kernel runtime. This runtime supports APPCclient calls to the client adapter, which then forwards these client requests asGIOP messages over IIOP to the target server. The server can beimplemented in C++, Java, COBOL, or PL/I, and it can run in OS/390 batch,inside CICS or IMS, or on another platform.

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IONA, IONA Technologies, the IONA logo, Orbix, Artix, Orchestrator, MobileOrchestrator, Adaptive Runtime Technology, Transparent EnterpriseDeployment, and Total Business Integration are trademarks or registeredtrademarks of IONA Technologies PLC and/or its subsidiaries. Java and J2EEare trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. in theUnited States and other countries. CORBA is a trademark or registeredtrademark of the Object Management Group, Inc. in the United States andother countries. All other trademarks that appear herein are the propertyof their respective owners.

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• Full support for OS/390 ‘native’ andUnix System Service development anddeployment, including batch/STCsupport and Unix System Servicescripts.

• A set of mainframe—native applicationdevelopment and integration tools andservices.

• Integrates mainframe assets with othersystems, and exposes them to theinternet or intranet as Web services.

• Supports deployment of commonservices—security, transactions—acrossmainframe, CORBA, J2EE and WebServices application boundaries.

• Supports distributed multi—resourcetransactions, with two-phase commit.

• Offers load balancing for incrementalgrowth and for incremental spend.

• Frees mainframe programmers tofocus on business service provisionand utilization, not on distributedsystems technology.

• Network, communications andmessage representation taken care ofautomatically.

Specifications

Supported platforms:• IBM OS/390 V2R10, z/OS 1.2, 1.4

• IBM OS/390 V2R10, z/OS 1.2, 1.4

UNIX System Services.

Supported compilers:• IBM z/OS 1.2 (ANSI) C++ compiler.

• COBOL for OS/390 & VM compilerV2.1.2 or V2.2.1

• IBM Enterprise COBOL V3.2.0

• IBM PL/I for MVS & VM compiler V1.1.1

• IBM Enterprise PL/I V3.2.0

Supported IMS releases:• IMS V7, V8

Supported CICS releases:• CICS TS V1.3, V2.2