IMS integration 2017
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The document discusses the integration of IBM's IMS architecture, focusing on transforming enterprise IT environments to meet business demands in digital transformation, customer engagement, and data exploitation. It emphasizes the need for agile infrastructure and analytics to improve decision-making and operational effectiveness. Key features include support for modern applications, integration capabilities, and continuous innovation in leveraging mainframe technology.
IMS integration 2017
- 1. © 2017 IBM Corporation IMS Integration Architecture May 2017 Hélène Lyon Distinguished Engineer, European Technical Executive z Solutions Architect: IMS, Analytics, Platform Modernization IBM Systems, zSoftware Sales
- 2. © 2017 IBM Corporation Leading Entreprises adopt an integrated approach to bring Innovation to the Enterprise Systems of Record Need: How to transform IT environments to answer business needs around Digital Transformation? Systems of Engagement Need: How to transform customer, employee and citizen relationships by better exploiting new available technologies to personalize interactions? Systems of Insight Need: How to exploit / explore ALL types of data to get better insight and improve the business while reducing risk? Systems of Record Systems of Engagement Systems of Insight Customers Contracts Payment Business Transactions Exchanges Products Life events Call centers Image & Video Internet of Things Geo Localisation Historical data Social Media Emails Weather forecast Traffic Transactions 2
- 3. © 2017 IBM Corporation CIOs needs to take advantage of the three important shifts to change IT! 3 Harness data to improve decision making Deliver agile infrastructure Engage more deeply with customers and partners Being competitive means constantly optimizing and enabling innovation! Empower your businesses with controlled and secured access to your mission critical systems of record data Gone are the days when companies had plenty of time to adapt to new technologies and new ways of interacting with customers and partners. Simplification and standardization are needed. Data Hybrid Cloud Engagement
- 4. © 2017 IBM Corporation IMS Middleware – All You Need in One A z/OS middleware that inherit all strength of zEnterprise A Messaging & Transaction Manager – Based on a messaging and queuing paradigm – High-volume, rapid response transaction management for application programs accessing IMS and/or DB2 database, MQ queues – “Universal” Application Connectivity – Inbound & Outbound A Database Manager – The Original “No SQL” & “Big Data” Engine – Central point of control and access for the IMS databases based on a hierarchical database model • Used by companies needing high transaction rates – “Universal” Database Connectivity based on JDBC / DRDA – New Eclipse based graphical interface for developers & DB administrators A Batch Manager – Managing the batch-oriented programs — providing checkpoint/restart services when accessing IMS and/or DB2 database, MQ queues 4
- 5. © 2017 IBM Corporation IMS strategy supports optimization and innovation 5 Core Capabilities – Reduce path length, contention, I/O… – Reduce planned outages – More dynamic capabilities Data & Analytics – Accelerate time to insight Cloud/Mobile Access – Rapidly enable/control cloud & mobile access to IMS resources Innovate and extend the value of your IMS investment Expand and empower the IMS talent population Open interfaces & Java Modern tooling for administrators, developers and DBAs Strategic Intent Investment Continue to deliver the IMS Value Proposition – Superior performance, reliability, availability and serviceability – Minimize cost per transaction
- 6. © 2017 IBM Corporation SOA and API Integration Mobile Access Business Analytics Open Database Optimize Innovate Systems Management Database Management Tx Management Performance TCO Scalability IMS Tools • Complete Database Management • Optimize IMS Performance • Accelerate IMS upgrades Application Modernization Leaders are optimizing & innovating with IMS 6
- 7. © 2017 IBM Corporation IBM & Vendors help customers integrate analytics with core IMS transactions & batchs 7 Right-time insight at point of impact Increased business agility 55% of enterprise applications need mainframe to complete transactions Use Case Solution • In-transaction analytics Operational decision management with externalized business rules IBM Operational Decision Management on z/OS • Execution of predictive analytics in real time IBM DB2 Analytics Acceleraor • Imbedded queries on historical data Machine Learning on z/OS • Callout to non z/OS based analytic service Spark Services Watson Services, …
- 8. © 2017 IBM Corporation Tight Integration All components located on mainframe, and linkages are tightly coupled Service Oriented Loose coupling using network-based protocols such as SOAP/WSDL Web Access Screen-scraping of 3270 applications Messaging Using technologies such as IBM MQ API Economy Integration based on a set of well-understood and easily-accessible APIs, increasingly based on REST/JSON patterns This is where z/OS Connect fits into the picture These earlier patterns are still in use and in many cases are the best pattern for the application. Just because they came earlier, does not mean they are now obsolete. Evolution of Mainframe Integration Patterns 8
- 9. © 2017 IBM Corporation About End-to-End Integration of IMS Apps IMS Connect O T M A IMS DB IMS WebSphere Servers WAS, WTX, IIB, BPM Any JavaEE server IMS SOAP Gateway IBM DataPower Connect API (Java) MQMQ Client RYO Client Web Service Consumer IMS TM Resource Adapter WAS – WebSphere Application Server WOLA - WebSphere z/OS Optimized Local Adapters WTX – WebSphere Transformation Extender IIB – IBM Integration Bus (was WeSphere Message Broker) BPM - IBM Business Process Manager (BPM) Advanced API DB2 WAS / WOLA D B JCA JMS or MQ API IIB or DataPower MQ IMS Bridge MQ Trigger Monitor B Business logic D Data Access DB2 SP (DSNAIMS) JDBC / ODBC Callin SOAP / XML zApps as Service Provider z/OS Connect TCP/IPonz/OS 9
- 10. © 2017 IBM Corporation Accelerate your integration of enterprise apps with APIs API API API API API API IBM apiconnect Enterprise APIs Cloud and Mobile REST APIs IBM z/OS Connect EE CICS IMS WebSphere DB2 Rapid extension of core applications to the cloud IBM z/OS Connect EE, a common interface for cloud, mobile, web developers to z/OS - no need for mainframe skills – Enables API developers to create RESTful APIs from z/OS-based assets with industry standard tooling – Delivers APIs as a discoverable resource using the OpenAPI specification (formerly swagger) – Intend to support: A COBOL/PLI developer can invoke an Open API (swagger) in a consistent way across runtimes using a common library • Based on z/OS Client Web Enablement Toolkit IBM API Connect – Delivers enterprise-class API management, consumer registration, API security, and versioning – Reduces app developer requirement for z expertise Create Run Manage Secure 10
- 11. © 2017 IBM Corporation IMS Connect O T M A IMS DB IMS DB2 D B About IMS Application Business Transformation Asynchronous and synchronous callout capabilities WebSphere Servers WAS, WTX, IIB, BPM Any JavaEE server IMS TM Resource Adapter IMS SOAP Gateway MQ MQ Server RYO Server Web Service Provider WAS – WebSphere Application Server WOLA - WebSphere z/OS Optimized Local Adapters IIB – IBM Integration Bus (was WeSphere Message Broker) RYO Server - .Net, BizTalk, Oracle SP, SAP, PayPal services, and any application server, etc. IIB B Business logic D Data Access DB2 for z/OS Any DB2 Platform Call-Out IBM DataPower TCP/IPonz/OS ODM / zRESWAS / WOLA IMS UDF zApps as Service Requester z/OS Connect (soon) API Provider 11
- 12. © 2017 IBM Corporation IBM & IMS Lab have been on a journey to transform IMS DB 12 2009 2011 2015 A developer can access IMS DB from any platform using industry standard APIs and syntax Access Integrate Act Open Database (IMS 11) Catalog (IMS 12) Dynamic Change & DDL (IMS 13 & 14) Developers, system programmers, and DBAs can integrate and connect IMS DB with standard tools for modeling, discovery and data insight A DBA can evolve the IMS DB structure and schema using industry standard syntax without taking an outage <meta> 2000 A developer can use Java language in z/OS applications to access IMS DB. Open Java JDBC (IMS 7+)
- 13. © 2017 IBM Corporation IBM & Vendors provide a range of analytics solutions on IMS Databases today 13 72% say greatest value will come from analyzing transactional data Pain Point/Opportunity Solution QMF• Real-time BI and dash boarding of IMS Data • Analyze IMS data with unstructured data • Deep and fast analysis of IMS data IDAA • Visualize / explore all data assets including IMS data Watson Explorer • Secure and monitor IMS Data access • Hybrid cloud integration InfoSphere Guardium • Apply analytics across large volumes of data
- 14. © 2017 IBM Corporation Access Routes into IMS Databases 14 D R D A IMS Connect O D B M IMS DB IMS WebSphere Servers WAS, WTX, IIB, BPM Any JavaEE server IMS Explorer for Dev IBM DataPower Web Service Consumer IMS DB Resource Adapter WAS – WebSphere Application Server WTX – WebSphere Transformation Extender IIB – IBM Integration Bus (was WeSphere Message Broker) BPM - IBM Business Process Manager (BPM) Advanced Web 2.0 Client D DB2 SP REST / JSON SOAP / XML CICS Apps IMS Apps WAS Apps JDBC or DLI SCI JDBC or DLI JDBC or DLI D R A COGNOS Data Studio Watson Explorer IMS Universal JDBC driver JDBC or DLI JDBC or DLI SQL SQL SQL SQL SQL JDBC / ODBC TCP/IPonz/OS Spark on z/OS Machine learning on z/OS
- 15. © 2017 IBM Corporation More Information “An Introduction to IMS” – Published March 2012 IMS on the Web: ibm.com/ims – Presentations, white papers, newsletters, fact sheets, announcement letters, Redbooks, community links – Schedule of webcasts and conferences IBM Information Management Software for z/OS Solutions Information Center – Enables search across IMS, DB2 and Tools documentation – http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/dzichelp/v2r2/index.jsp Additional technical support info at ibm.com/support/techdocs (search on IMS) Get Information from DeveloperWorks IBM’s IMS – Myths, Realities and Opportunities – The Clipper Group, Navigator, published July 2013 (Report #TCG2013015LI) Youtube – IBM IMS 15