Abstract: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for implementing an Information Management System (IMS) simple object access protocol (SOAP) gateway. The gateway extracts an identifier from a SOAP-based web service request received from a web service client and selects a correlation mapping based on the extracted identifier. The gateway builds a modified web service request, updated with parameters from the correlation mapping. The added parameters allow the gateway to direct the web service request to a specific IMS Connect software product instance, a specific IMS software product instance, a specific IMS application instance, and a specific datastore. The gateway also returns a web service response containing response values related to the original request to the SOAP enabled web service client.

Abstract: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for implementing an Information Management System (IMS) simple object access protocol (SOAP) gateway. The gateway extracts an identifier from a web service request received from an IMS application and selects a correlation mapping based on the extracted identifier. The gateway builds a modified web service request, updated with parameters from the correlation mapping. The added parameters allow the gateway to direct the web service request to a specific web service provider. Upon receiving a response from the web service provider, the gateway uses the correlation mapping including an IMS application identifier to properly route the web service response to a selected IMS application.

Abstract: Various embodiments of a computer-implemented method, system and article of manufacture enable an application to be accessed as a web service. In response to a command, a web service is deployed to a gateway server, and a connection bundle and a correlator file are provided such that they are accessible to the gateway server. The web service was generated based on a web service description language file that is based on an input-output message description of the application, and is accessible to a client using a SOAP message. The gateway server sends a request message to the application based on the SOAP message in accordance with the web service, and receives a reply message from the application. The connection bundle comprises connection information to interface with the application. The correlator file comprises a name of an interface module associated with the application and the name of the connection bundle.

Abstract: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for directly accessing a database management system (“DBMS”). A client communication module is included to transmit a data call between a client and a client interface wherein the client interface resides within a database network. A DBMS communication module is included to transmit the data call between the client interface and a hierarchical DBMS on a host within the database network. The client interface and hierarchical DBMS are free of user-defined code.