The challenge of creating the e-business-enabled enterprise is a primary driver behind the exploding enterprise application integration market. Companies must simplify and automate their operations and extend access to previously internal systems to customers, partners and suppliers. This leads IT managers to the obvious question: "How are we going to do this?"
The promise of object-oriented programming is to promote the reuse of code. Unfortunately, in most object-oriented programming languages, software reuse occurs at the source or binary object level. Component programming is an extension to the concept of object-oriented programming that allows programmers to make use of reusable objects dynamically, using only binary representations of objects.
It seems that every few years we embrace some new "trend" that trumpets the dawn of the corporate IT revolution. The trend dujour could very well become Enterprise Application Integration. But should we really be thinking Departmental Application Integration instead?
As software developers enter the new millennium, they are challenged to bring the value of the network to the enterprise, and to leverage the assets developed over the years into components of a ubiquitous computing environment.
With the availability of Java-stored procedures for DB2 for OS/390, the era of portable, vendor-neutral, database programming will really be with us. This article looks at how you can use the Java programming language with large-scale enterprise databases, namely DB2 for OS/390.
IBM evoloves a suite of middleware products designed to help customers add new applications to their legacy systems.
When addressing the challenge of delivering enterprisewide applications, the combination of generations of components has brought about a new model for delivering strategic applications -- the integration-centric model.
With a strategic enterprise application integration infrastructure in place, organizations can finally get a comprehensive look at their corporate data – both operational and informational – across all applications, databases and systems, from legacy to ERP.
In the conclusion of this two-part article, tips and techniques of software defect investigation and resolution are discussed.
In the first of his two-part article, the fundamentals of software defect investigation and resolution are discussed, in order to help MVS developers by presenting a methodical approach to understanding the process of tracking down and solving a production software error.
As a building block to the performance management process, I/O management, acheduling, CPU resources and quality metrics can prove essential to increasing customer satisfaction, while decreasing costs.
While IT professionals look for ways to integrate their applications internally, IBM's message-oriented middleware MQSeries provides a way for legacy applications to communicate with the newer applications
Developing an enterprisewide integration strategy is possibly the most difficult undertaking IS managers face today. But not to fear, there are choices in selecting your integration effort.
In the conclusion of this two-part article, Carol Shanesy explores Receive and Send Commands, Mapping Inputs, ADS, Critical Restrictions, and Intercepts and Syncpoints.
In the selection of a renovation tool set, an executive's ability to quantitatively recommend the "right" organization to support their renovation efforts and to make the "right" decision correctly, can have a major financial impact on the profitability/survivability of the business.