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Industry: Email Alert RSS FeedMainframe shops eye Web services; Web services has an obvious place in legacy integrations, but you'll need to use caution--it's still early in the game. (host integration).
Enterprise Systems Journal, June, 2002 by McKendrick, Joseph
Web services seem tailor-made for large legacy IT shops--particularly because they provide the ability to wrap COBOL or other legacy code and expose it as a Web service. Some are already using early versions to deliver legacy data to Web users.
But remember, Web services are still in the infant-to-toddler stages. Ultimately, just about any mainframe or host-centric application will be fair game for Web services. "This includes applications that ate under the control of mainframe transactions managers--CICS and IMS," according to Dietmar Kuebler, senior software engineer for IBM. Mainframe environments also offer plenty of advantages over other server platforms, including a key one, high scalability. "The number of potential users for a Web service often cannot...
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