Deployment Information for the iWay Transaction Adapter for IMS

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The iWay Transaction Adapter for IMS works in conjunction with one of the following components:

When hosted in an iWay environment, the adapter is configured through iWay Service Manager and iWay Explorer. iWay Explorer is used to configure adapter connections, create web services, and configure event capabilities. Service Manager can access this configuration information through the iWay 7.0 Service Manager repository to create a robust integration solution.

When the adapter is hosted in a third party application server environment, iWay Explorer, used to configure IMS/TM connections, create web services, and configure event capabilities, can be configured to work in a web services environment in conjunction with the iBSP.

Deployment Information Roadmap

The following table lists the location of deployment and user information for components of the iWay Transaction Adapter for IMS.

Deployed Component

For more information, see

iWay Service Manager

Chapter 6 of this guide

iWay Service Manager User's Guide

iWay Explorer

Chapters 2 and 3 of this guide

iWay Installation and Configuration

iWay Business Services Provider (iBSP)

iWay Installation and Configuration

iWay Service Manager

iWay Service Manager is the heart of the Universal Adapter Framework. It is an open transport service bus that uses graphical tools to create metadata from target applications, transform and map interfaces, and manage stateless processes to create sophisticated integration services without writing custom integration code. Its capability to manage complex adapter interactions makes it ideally suited to be the foundation of a service-oriented architecture.

iWay Explorer

iWay Explorer uses an explorer metaphor to browse the IMS/TM system for metadata. The explorer enables you to create XML schemas and web services for the associated object. In addition, you can create ports and channels to listen for events in IMS/TM. External applications that access IMS/TM through the iWay Transaction Adapter for IMS use either XML schemas or web services to pass data between the external application and the adapter.

iWay Business Services Provider

The iWay Business Services Provider (iBSP) exposes, as web services, enterprise assets that are accessible from adapters regardless of the programming language or the particular operating system.

iBSP simplifies the creation and execution of web services when running:

  • Custom and legacy applications
  • Database queries and stored procedures
  • Packaged applications
  • Terminal emulation and screen-based systems
  • Transactional systems

Web services is a distributed programming architecture that solves Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) hurdles that other programming models cannot. It enables programs to communicate with one another using a text-based, platform and language independent message format called XML.

Coupled with a platform and language independent messaging protocol called SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol), XML enables application development and integration by assembling previously built components from multiple web services.