iWay Legacy Adapters Overview

Overview

iWay Legacy Adapters are a part of the iWay Universal Adapter Framework, which contains off-the-shelf adapters to provide easy access to any legacy and transaction-based system, and exchange data with other application, database, or external business partner systems.

Key Features and Advantages

Key features and advantages that are provided through iWay Legacy Adapters include:

Eliminating the need for most custom integration code, allowing resources to focus on critical operations so better decisions can be made based on the data.
Simple access and interaction with disparate data and systems.
Allowing organizations to access data at every latency level from real-time, zero latency transactions to staged data in the most summarized data mart.
Increased productivity, reusability, flexibility, and business agility when strategically positioning the iWay Universal Adapter Framework.

Documentation Roadmap

The following table lists and describes the documentation for iWay Legacy Adapters that is currently available on the iWay Technical Library:

Documentation Title

Description

iWay Emulation Adapter (3270/5250) User's Guide

This documentation describes how to use the iWay Emulation Adapter (3270/5250) to capture mainframe 3270 or 5250 screens and their output to create a Java™ program, an XML file for a Remote Procedure Request (RPC) solution.

iWay Transaction Adapter for IMS User’s Guide

This documentation describes how to use the iWay Transaction Adapter for IMS to execute IMS/TM transactions. This adapter supports automatic transaction invocation, message transformation, and error recovery. In addition, this adapter enables applications to call IMS/TM transactions and to work with the native features and syntax of IMS/TM.

iWay Transaction Adapter for CICS User’s Guide

This documentation describes how to use the iWay Transaction Adapter for CICS to execute Customer Information Control System (CICS) programs. This adapter supports automatic transaction invocation, message transformation, and error recovery. In addition, this adapter enables applications to call CICS programs and to work with the native features and syntax of CICS.

Documentation Title	Description
iWay Emulation Adapter (3270/5250) User's Guide	This documentation describes how to use the iWay Emulation Adapter (3270/5250) to capture mainframe 3270 or 5250 screens and their output to create a Java™ program, an XML file for a Remote Procedure Request (RPC) solution.
iWay Transaction Adapter for IMS User’s Guide	This documentation describes how to use the iWay Transaction Adapter for IMS to execute IMS/TM transactions. This adapter supports automatic transaction invocation, message transformation, and error recovery. In addition, this adapter enables applications to call IMS/TM transactions and to work with the native features and syntax of IMS/TM.
iWay Transaction Adapter for CICS User’s Guide	This documentation describes how to use the iWay Transaction Adapter for CICS to execute Customer Information Control System (CICS) programs. This adapter supports automatic transaction invocation, message transformation, and error recovery. In addition, this adapter enables applications to call CICS programs and to work with the native features and syntax of CICS.