Mainframe Application Transition to SOA Environment Using CICS Service Flow Feature

Many enterprises nowadays are faced with a problem: Their mainframe legacy systems have great differences with the interface of the newly-developed system. Then a realistic problem is how to seamlessly integrate existing legacy systems into new systems, while not change the interface of legacy systems. By discussing the Improve transition method to transit the mainframe 3270 applications to the SOA environment, the mainframe application usage in the SOA environment is proposed. The article´s focal point is the modeling of the business process, which does some expansion on the foundation of the Web service. Using CICS service flow feature, by Service Flow Modeler tool, an entire or partial business process is published as web services through service flow modeling method.