ORBIX Mainframe offers a set of mainframe-native application development and integration tools and services that make it easy to integrate mainframe systems - including new and existing COBOL, PL/I, IMS and CICS applications - with applications running on UNIX or Windows platforms.

ORBIX Mainframe lets IT organizations reuse the business procedures and business logic locked up in their mainframe applications, transactions and data in a consistent and broadly supported fashion. IONAs product can also be used to make mainframe systems accessible to users or other systems across the Internet.

Who Should Use This Product Features
Organizations seeking to :
Incorporate their mainframe investments into their e-business strategy without rewriting these investments in Java

Link mainframe applications to other corporate computing resources using demonstrated, industry-standard application integration technologies
Deploy enterprise-quality Web services
Bridge component technology domains, such as COBOL and J2EE, using industry standard technologies including Web services

Integrates mainframe assets with other systems, and through Web services, exposes them to the Web
Lets COBOL, PL/I and C++ developers expose existing mainframe applications as reusable services
Gives middle-tier systems (J2EE, .Net, etc.) and mainframes access to each other in a true peer-to-peer fashion

Supports deployment of common services - security, transactions - across mainframe, CORBA, J2EE and Web Services application boundaries

Benefits Specifications
Allows mainframe programmers to focus on business service provision and utilization, not on distributed systems technology
Network, communications and message representation taken care of automatically
Promotes reuse of valuable mainframe assets, exposing them as services that can be accessed from virtually any client
Lets mainframe programmers achieve development and integration goals using their existing skills