Re: Web Services with IBM solutions

[Kelly Cookson <KCookson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

We have a pretty diverse environment:

1. We use OS/400 (soon 6.1), AIX, and Windows operating systems on different servers. 
2. We use MS SQL Server, DB2400, and Oracle databases. 
3. We're running applications written in COBOL, RPG, CL, SQL, SQR, PeopleCode, and .NET (mostly VB). 

We need to communicate across a lot of these systems. For example, our e-commerce system (Windows, .NET, SQL Server) needs to exchange data and orchestrate program flow with our IBMi applications (OS/400, COBOL/CL, DB2) and with our PeopleSoft financials modules (Windows, PeopleCode/SQR, SQL Server). Our warehouse systems (AIX, SQL, Oracle databases) need to interface with all of these systems. 

We're looking at messaging solutions to exchange data, transform data (one stream file format to another stream file format), and to orchestrate the sequence of programs and processes.

So, we don't want too much from messaging solutions... ;-)

Thanks,
Kelly Cookson
Senior Programmer/Analyst
Dot Foods, Inc.
217-773-4486 x12676
www.dotfoods.com


-----Original Message-----
From: web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Michael Ryan
Sent: Friday, October 15, 2010 8:35 AM
To: Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Re: [WEB400] Web Services with IBM solutions

What type of systems do you need to communicate with? What types of
messaging?

On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 9:23 AM, Kelly Cookson <KCookson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> Thanks. That helps put things into perspective. I have a better idea of how
> to go about doing further research on these technologies.
>
> Kelly Cookson
> Senior Programmer/Analyst
> Dot Foods, Inc.
> 217-773-4486 x12676
> www.dotfoods.com
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of Nathan Andelin
> Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2010 10:57 PM
> To: Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries
> Subject: Re: [WEB400] Web Services with IBM solutions
>
> I haven't used any of these products, so I can only offer a brief bird's
> eye
> (high-level) overview.
>
> If you have an interface in an ILE program that you're interested in
> exposing as
> a web service, you can use IWS wizzards to generate a WSDL and Java
> components
> to call your RPG program from Websphere.  You can offer the WSDL to enable
> web
> service clients to generate an interface that matches yours.
>
> Message Broker is a highly engineered product that you might use to
> exchange
> messages between otherwise disparate systems, using various protocols.  I
> use
> the term "product", but in order to use and deploy it, you're probably
> going to
> need somebody from IBM Global Services to help you under a business systems
> integration project.
>
> If Message Broker is a job for Global Services, then Enterprise Service Bus
> is
> even more so.  It's a collection of technologies under one brand name.
>  After
> you hire IBM to help you implement a business integration strategy they may
> be
> likely to recommend ESB in conjunction with Message Broker.
>
> Large scale business process integration is serious business for IBM.
>
> -Nathan
>
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Kelly Cookson <KCookson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries <web400@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thu, October 14, 2010 1:26:17 PM
> Subject: [WEB400] Web Services with IBM solutions
>
> Sorry, I intended to make this a new thread...
>
> I was recently asked to look at options for messaging on the IBMi. The
> first IBM
> solutions that I happened to come across were WebSphere Message Broker,
> WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus, and Integrated Web Services.
>
>
> I'm not limiting my search to IBM solutions, but I would like to know more
> about
> them.
>
> What are some of the pros and cons of these three IBM solutions? Has anyone
> used
> these solutions? What were your experiences?
>
> Thanks,
> Kelly
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