Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) requires a new way of looking at integration between subsystems. The primary subsystems of interest on z/OS are CICS, IMS, and DB2. There are many ways to integrate WebSphere Application Server on z/OS with those subsystems. In this IBM Redbooks publication, we focus on Web Services integration scenarios and scenarios using an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) solution. In the IBM Redbooks publication WebSphere for z/OS V6 Connectivity Handbook, SG24-7064, we elaborate on both Web Services and J2C scenarios. The scenarios in this book are described from a...

The Patterns for e-business are a group of proven, reusable assets that can be used to increase the speed of developing and deploying Web applications. This IBM Redbook focuses on the Self-Service::Stand-Alone Single Channel application pattern for facilitating user access to business sites, and on the Self-Service::Directly Integrated Single Channel application pattern for including one or more point-to-point connections with back-end applications. Part 1 guides you through the process of selecting an Application pattern and a Runtime pattern. Next, the platform-specific Product mappings are...

IBM WebSphere Application Server has grown to be a successful application server platform. With IBM WebSphere Application Server on z/OS, the preferred application server platform gains the benefits of capacity and robustness from the mainframe legacy. It also gains access to data and transactions residing on z/OS subsystems such as DB2 and CICS. In essence, the nature of the operating environment of WebSphere on z/OS is quite different from its distributed counterpart. UNIX System Services, although similar to a UNIX-like environment, has fundamental differences, such as workload...