You are in luck. IMS is fully web complient. It has a MFS SOAP gateway that supports the web out of the box.
It seems like your monster application is also important. If it was not simply retiring it would be an option. Is the monster application stable and not in need of business updates beyond the user interface? If it is not stable I advise speaking to the people who currently maintain the application. These people are often known as developers and they have done things recently to this application. If the application is stable and not disposable I am sorry but there is no choice besides learning IMS, it is required even if you want to rewrite it. Morale is always important. Praising IMS and its virures will move the project along better than a bad attitude. Why would you think a main frame group would have an interest in getting this application to a different platform? IMS was originally confined to very large businesses and applications. While CICS announced on the same day as IMS ran on small machines IMS required the big iron. That being said, it stands to reason that there are people in this group who may have intimate knowledge of both the site and application if you could provide a hint about the business you are discussing. Related to CICS one should ask is the 3270 data communications driver IMS or something else like CICS. By the way, do you know the monster application MS Word once shipped on a single floppy disk? As tools developed to better manage user presentation the size of MS Word grew. IMS originally required monster machines with 512k memory to run. This old monster application you are reviewing will be a family of monsters on steriods if you follow the path you seem to be suggesting. On Mon, 6 Jan 2014 16:56:05 -0500, Sanya Off <sanya...@gmail.com> wrote: >Folks, > >I wonder if some of you may share the experience and opinions with regards >to approaching a grand task of making an old IMS-based monster application >more friendlier to users and developers: > >- users want web-based access; > >- developers are limited in their skills (particularly, z/OS skills) > >Specifically, I think of using MQ to intercept/separate 3270-bound flow... >Any advice? > >I'd be grateful... > >A.I. > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
