Mainframe Application Modernization Based on Service-Oriented Architecture

Author

Koschel, Arne ; Kleiner, Carsten ; Astrova, Irina

Author_Institution

Dept. for Comput. Sci., Appl. Univ. of Sci. & Arts, Hannover, Germany

fYear

2009

fDate

15-20 Nov. 2009

Firstpage

298

Lastpage

301

Abstract

Declared `dead´ for quite a while now, many legacy mainframe applications are still happily productive and will continue to be. Within them mainframe database management systems like Adabas or IMS are utilized as well as related programming languages like Natural or COBOL. However, those applications are often only badly, if at all, integrated with newer enterprise applications. This article describes a case study for mainframe modernization based on integration technology and Web services. Used in conjunction, they serve as base for application integration into an up-to-date distributed service-oriented architecture (SOA).

Keywords

Web services; database management systems; programming languages; software architecture; Adabas database management; COBOL programming language; IMS database management; Natural programming language; Web services; legacy mainframe application; mainframe application modernization; service-oriented architecture; Application software; Art; Computer industry; Computer languages; Computer science; Concrete; Database systems; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Service oriented architecture; Web services; Experiences; Legacy Integration; Mainframe; Service-oriented Architecture;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Future Computing, Service Computation, Cognitive, Adaptive, Content, Patterns, 2009. COMPUTATIONWORLD '09. Computation World:

Conference_Location

Athens

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-5166-1

Electronic_ISBN

978-0-7695-3862-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ComputationWorld.2009.13

Filename

5359601