SOLA

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Access CICS applications as Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), or web services. Also allows CICS and batch applications to access other web services.

SOLA for IMS allows IMS applications to be accessed as web services.

Features include:

• COMMAREA Analyzer - create WSDLs from COMMAREAS
• 3270 Analyzer - create WSDLs from screen-scraping
• Outbound Analyzer - import existing WSDLs, and convert to COBOL and PL/I copybooks.
• Testing facilities for new web services created
• HTTP and Websphere MQ transport
• Monitoring facilities

Originally developed from 2001 as an internal tool by Merrill Lynch called X4ML. Acquired by SOA solutions in 2005, and marketed as SOLA.