Solutions for IDMS Developers

Increase the Productivity of IDMS Developers

IDMS database and application environments present particular challenges to developers wishing to integrate them into the heterogeneous enterprise. As a solution, DataDirect offers the OCA family of APIs designed to free developers from restrictions traditionally encountered within IDMS environments — restrictions impeding the ability of IDMS data and applications to interact with common web-based, messaging, database, and mainframe standards as well as with other IDMS regions.

Where developers attempting to solve business problems through integration were formerly stymied or else resigned to the latency introduced by batch ETL (Extract Transform Load) processing, DataDirect now provides a set of powerful keys to unlock new potential.

• Communicate using the standard Internet protocol — OCA TCP/IP allows IDMS applications to open a TCP/IP socket for bi-directional messaging, making the rich business potential of web-based integration available to IDMS developers.
• Integrate IDMS with IBM WebSphere MQ Series — OCA MQ provides an MQ API that enables opening a queue, putting a message on a queue, or retrieving a message on a queue, bringing integration via the popular MQ Series within reach of IDMS developers.
• Ensure transactional integrity — OCA Commit now enables 2-phase commit (2PC) to ensure completion of IDMS transactions in distributed database environments, giving an organization’s data the improved accuracy that 2PC ensures.
• Call CICS routines into IDMS programs — OCA EXCI enables your developers to incorporate CICS processing invoked from within IDMS applications, letting IDMS developers bring in CICS transaction processing capabilities including password security and transaction logging and reports, improving the security and aiding in the administration of their IDMS-based business applications.
• Bring the flexibility of relational data into IDMS — OCA DB2 enables your developers to execute SQL calls to a DB2 database from within IDMS applications, giving IDMS-based business applications powerful and flexible new data access capabilities.
• Distribute IDMS workloads across regions — OCA Syslink enables developers to create applications in one IDMS region that access resources, such as transactions, in other IDMS regions, making the IDMS environment much more open and letting developers work more efficiently within it.

Let DataDirect Help You Extend the Value of Your IDMS Applications

If your organization runs an IDMS application and/or database platform, one or more of the OCA products described here can open up new possibilities for your developers and allow your organization to extend the value of your IDMS applications.

To speak with an expert about how your IDMS systems can take advantage of the OCA family of API products, please call 1-800-876-3101 or submit a Request for Information form and an account executive will contact you.