WebSphere Application Server for z/OS

Kombiniert die marktführende Laufzeitumgebung sowie z/OS und stellt einen höheren Nutzen bereit.

Dank WebSphere Application Server wird die für Ihr Unternehmen unerlässliche Verfügbarkeit und Sicherheit unter gleichzeitiger Optimierung der Kosten bereitgestellt.

WebSphere Application Server for z/OS bietet die optimale, für Geschäftsziele bereitzustellende Infrastruktur und hält die Kosten für geschäftskritische Anwendungen in Grenzen oder senkt sie sogar, während der volle Funktionsumfang der z/OS-Umgebung genutzt wird.

• Nutzt die z/OS-Servicequalität, um optimierte Leistung und ständige Verfügbarkeit für geschäftskritische Anwendungen zu erreichen.
• Erzielt SOA-Hubfunktionalität mit minimaler Hardware und macht teure Datenübertragungs- und Netzhardware überflüssig.
• Ermöglicht den schnellsten Return-on-Investment (ROI) bei reduzierten Risiken durch bidirektionale Konnektivität unter Wiederverwendung bestehender Java-Assets in der IT-Infrastruktur.
• Fördert attraktives Nutzenpotenzial für Verbundanwendungen und geschäftskritische Workloads unter System z.
• Erleichtert die schnelle Einführung von SOA zur Unternehmensmodernisierung durch nahtlose Integration neuer Workloads.
• Senkt die Kosten für die Einhaltung von Sicherheitsbestimmungen und Governance durch Verbesserungen hinsichtlich Prüfung, Zugriffsmanagement und Integration in andere Subsysteme unter System z.

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• Java EE 6 programming model: Compliance with the latest Java EE specification which delivers ease of use and productivity enhancements and improves iterative development cycles for testing applications over previous version of the specification.

• Support for Java Platform, Support for Java Platform, Standard Edition 6.0, including the latest performance, security, and reliability enhancements delivered by the IBM Java SDK for z/OS V6.0.1 to accelerate Java application innovation.

• OSGi Applications programming model: Rapidly build, deploy, manage, and maintain modular applications using Java EE and OSGi technologies through versioned, isolated, and reusable OSGi bundles.

• Web 2.0 Mobile and programming model: Deliver richer user experiences and extend the reach of enterprise applications to desktop web and mobile web applications to improve customer satisfaction.

• Java Batch programming model: Reuse existing skills to quickly and cost effectively develop, deploy and manage batch applications. Higher throughput and lower resource consumption for Java batch processing on IBM z/OS when collocated with data subsystems

• XML programming model: Enable application developers to simply and rapidly process XML data and documents using World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) open-standards-based XML technologies.

• Service Component Architecture (SCA) programming model: Increase reuse and accelerate innovative application delivery and management in a SOA.

• Communications Enabled Applications (CEA) programming model: Simply and rapidly deliver rich and interactive user experiences by adding communications capabilities, like click to call and cobrowsing, to web applications.

• Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) programming model: Develop, deliver, and manage powerful large-scale mission-critical converged communications services and applications.

• Rapidly develop RESTful web applications through support for RESTful views of EJB applications and support for Contexts and Dependency Injection for Java (CDI) with JAX-RS.

• Accelerate development speed through the separately available IBM Rational Application Developer for WebSphere Software, with integrated programming model support for building and testing applications for WebSphere Application Server.

• Enhance reuse and extend application asset life when integrating SAP Software, Siebel Business Applications, Oracle E-Business Suite, JD Edwards EnterpriseOne, and PeopleSoft Enterprise packaged applications with a WebSphere Application Server application. A development and unit testing license to WebSphere Adapters V7.5 is provided with WebSphere Application Server to speed application integration and development.

• Realize greater TCO with performance enhancements to Java EE applications, OSGi applications, SOA applications, product startup times, application server creation times and installation times for typical business critical large applications.

• Simplify local and centralized install and maintenance with automated prerequisite and interdependency checking for both distributed and z/OS environments using IBM Installation Manager.

• Reduce disk footprint requirements through enhanced component install granularity to optionally select whether to install WebSphere Application Server components, such as thin clients, EJB deploy and language packs

• Reduce developer time and effort during the edit-compile-debug development lifecycle with monitored directory-based install, update and uninstall of Java EE applications.

• Enhanced operational efficiency and business agility through ability to administratively extend OSGi Applications-based running applications with new functionality without changing the application artifact, to enable independent application extension and evolution as business needs change. Additionally, update a running OSGi Applications-based application by only impacting those bundles affected by the change, enabling rapid update of deployed OSGi Applications.

• Save time on problem determination and uncover potential performance bottlenecks by using the new High Performance Extensible Logging (HPEL) binary log and trace framework.

• Increase administrator productivity through automated cloning of nodes based on existing node configuration, job manager updates to manage profiles, and improved ease of locating and editing configurations

• Achieve enhanced high availability for messaging applications through improved integration with IBM WebSphere MQ and enhanced transactional integrity through tighter IBM DB2 integration.

• Reduce the cost of deploying and managing geographically dispersed applications through Flexible Management features in WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment to centrally administer applications across WebSphere Application Server, WebSphere Application Server - Express and WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment environments.

• Simply administrative tasks related to multi-component applications through WebSphere Business Level Applications

• Improve time to value and reduce risk of down time through migration support for WebSphere Application Server V6.0, V6.1 and V7.0 configuration information using command-line tools and the GUI-based Configuration Migration Tool. Additionally, accelerate application migration from alternative application servers and from WebSphere Application Server V5.1, V6.0, V6.1, or V7.0 to WebSphere Application Server V8.0 using the separately available, no charge, WebSphere Application Server Migration Toolkit.

• Lower risks through end-to-end security hardening enhancements including security updates defined in the Java EE 6 specifications, additional security features enabled by default and improved security configuration reporting.

• Improve ease of use and control through automation that allows administrators to copy a security domain, along with users and groups, at the global level

• Enhance security and auditability for applications requiring distributed and z/OS system access through the ability to use z/OS System Authorization Facility (SAF) security to associate a SAF user ID with a distributed identity.

• Improve security and ease of use through the simplified exchange of user identity and attributes in Web Services using Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) Token through WS-Security SAML Token Profile 1.1.

• Achieve faster time-to-value when delivering single sign on web services- based applications though ability to generate SAML tokens, request SAML tokens from an external Security Token Service (STS) and propagate SAML tokens in SOAP messages using the Web Services Security application programming interfaces (WSS API).

• Improve component reuse and agility through ability to configure a web service application to interoperate with multiple endpoint services, each with potentially different configuration requirements, through specifying multiple policy sets and bindings specific to each endpoint service.

• Improve security and interoperability through ability to generate and consume tokens using WS-Trust Issue and WS-Trust Validate requests for JAX-WS Web services that use Web Services Security. As a result of these requests, the login module issues, validates, or exchanges tokens with a WS-Trust Security Token Service providers, such as IBM Tivoli Federated Identity Manager.

• Minimize cross-site scripting vulnerabilities using new HTTPOnly browser attribute for single sign-on applications to prevent client-side applications from accessing cookies.

• Achieve greater ease of use through administration, and security enhancements for Java API for XML Web Services (JAX-WS) based applications.

• Web services support including WS-Business Activity, WS-Notification and WS-I Basic Security Profile, helps you more securely extend your reach and gives better application portability and control. On top of already extensive Web services support, Web 2.0 and a powerful Java Messaging Service (JMS) engine help you extend the reach of your existing applications and maximize asset utilization

• Pre-integrated support for WebSphere MQ and tight integration with WebSphere ESB — the combination of these products form a powerful Enterprise Service Bus that can integrate the most diverse set of applications and environments

• Deployment manager enables you to manage previous versions of WebSphere Application Server so that you can adopt newer infrastructure as your plans require

• Multi-cell support and compatibility features offer the ability to seamlessly adopt newer infrastructure and run applications developed in previous Java Enterprise Edition versions (backwards compatible to JEE v1.2) for WebSphere Application Server to eliminate intensive cost and resource requirements

• WebSphere Application Server Datasheet (294KB)

• Redbook: WebSphere Application Server Administration and Configuration Guide

  This IBM® Redbooks® publication provides system administrators and developers with the knowledge to configure a WebSphere® Application Server runtime environment, to package and deploy applications, and to perform ongoing management of the WebSphere environment.

• RedBook: WebSphere Application Server for z/OS Administration

  In this Redbook publication, we look at the administration features unique to WebSphere Application Server for z/OS.

• eBook: WebSphere Smart SOA Application Foundation

  This eBook will demonstrate how companies can modernize their application infrastructure to work smarter, reduce costs and roll out new services faster for every size business, no matter what industry you’re in.

Operating System	Software	Hardware
AIX, HP-UX, IBM i, Linux, Solaris, Windows, z/OS	See the detailed software requirements	See the detailed hardware requirements

Operating System	Software	Hardware
z/OS, z/OS.e	z/OS 1.6 (5694-A01), z/OS.e (5655-G52), or operating systems Communications server (TCP/IP) or equivalent z/OS UNIX® System Services and the hierarchical file system (HFS) zSeries® File System (zFS) can be used in addition to the Hierarchical File System (HFS) Security Server (RACF®) or equivalent security management product System logger System SSL security required when using SSL Workload management in goal mode Resource recovery services The following z/OS elements, features, and components are optional: IBM HTTP Server for z/OS or equivalent. SecureWay® Security Server Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) Server. If your application environment uses a DB2® database, then DB2 Universal Database® (UDB) Server for OS/390® and z/OS, V7 (5675-DB2), or later, is required (may coexist with existing levels of DB2 programs used by other applications). CICS® Transaction Server (CICS TS) If your application environment uses CICS TS, (5655-147), then CICS TS for OS/390 V2.2, (5697-E93), or later, is required. If your application environment accesses CICS TS through the CICS Transaction Gateway (CICS TG) for z/OS, then CICS TG V6.0 or V6.1 (5655-M69) is required. For details, visit Information Management System (IMS™) — If your application environment accesses IMS through Java DataBase Connectivity (JDBC), or through IMS Connect/Connector for Java, then IMS V8 (5655-C56), or later, and appropriate maintenance is required. If, however, your application environment uses JCA 1.5, then IMS V9 (5655-J38) or later, and appropriate maintenance is required. For details, visit	Any hardware that supports z/OS 1.6, or later

Operating System	Software	Hardware
z/OS, z/OS.e	z/OS 1.4 (5694-A01), z/OS.e (5655-G52), or operating systems Communications server (TCP/IP) or equivalent z/OS UNIX® System Services and the hierarchical file system (HFS) Security Server (RACF®) or equivalent security management product System logger System SSL security required when using SSL Workload management in goal mode Resource recovery services	Any hardware that supports z/OS 1.4, or later

Operating System	Software	Hardware
z/OS, z/OS.e	z/OS (5694-A01) 1.2, or later, z/OS.e (5655-G52) 1.3, or later, operating systems Communications server (TCP/IP) or equivalent z/OS UNIX® System Services and the hierarchical file system (HFS) Security Server (RACF®) or equivalent security management product System logger System SSL security required when using SSL Workload management in goal mode Resource recovery services.	Any hardware that supports z/OS 1.2, or later

Operating System	Software	Hardware
Windows 2000, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT	Microsoft® Windows® 2000; Microsoft Windows NT® 4.0 (with server pack 3, or later); Microsoft Windows 95 (with server pack 1 or 2); or Microsoft Windows 98