Use existing skills to modernize COBOL and C applications
IBM® WebSphere® eXtended Transaction Runtime is a distributed environment to modernize COBOL and C applications within IBM WebSphere Application Server. It enables you to use existing skills to extend and reuse COBOL and C applications in a Java Enterprise Edition (Java EE) environment.
Standardizing assets natively within WebSphere Application Server provides transactional integrity, security and scalability and improves flexibility and administrative productivity within an enterprise service-oriented architecture (SOA).
WebSphere eXtended Transaction Runtime helps you:
- Modernize and deploy composite, transactional applications to extend and reuse core business assets and information across the enterprise.
- Create a responsive, integrated infrastructure for COBOL, C and Java workloads that simplifies integration, administration and management.
- Uses IBM Mixed Language Application Modernization Pattern to extend the capability of WebSphere eXtended Transaction Runtime.
Modernize and deploy composite, transactional applications
- Enable developers to focus on business logic through simplified interoperability between Java EE, COBOL and C workloads.
- Provide standard interfaces to invoke COBOL and C applications from Java.
- Simplify development and integration and increase productivity with COBOL and C application errors propagated as Java exceptions.
- Deploy composite transactional applications on distributed topologies in clustered environments with greater ease.
Create a responsive, integrated infrastructure for COBOL, C and Java workloads
- Take advantage of global transactions with two-phase commit that spans COBOL, C and Java workloads.
- Increase operational efficiency by using simplified, unified administration to centrally manage multi-language workloads.
- Simplify integration and improve the agility of your SOA-enabled application infrastructure to support growth.
- Optimize your infrastructure with WebSphere Application Server family’s extensive business capability on distributed platforms.
- Improve productivity and efficiency through near seamless problem determination and development across mixed language applications.
Uses IBM Mixed Language Application Modernization Pattern
- Extends WebSphere eXtended Transaction Runtime capabilities within IBM PureApplication™ Systems and IBM Workload Deployer supported environments.
- Facilitates deployment of mixed language applications in a cloud environment.
- Hosts COBOL and C applications that require transaction capability with an IBM CICS® application programming interface (API).
- Supports tooling to assist in the migration of host applications that use the Oracle Tuxedo ATMI API.
WebSphere eXtended Transaction Runtime
- Announcement letter: IBM Mixed Language Application Modernization Pattern helps extend and reuse time-tested, COBOL and C application assets within a modern, cloud-ready Java Enterprise Edition framework
Learn how you can optimize the value of your COBOL and C applications.
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Use existing skills to modernize COBOL and C applications
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The following minimum operating system and hardware requirements must be met on the server to support the basic installation and use of WebSphere eXtended Transaction Runtime.
| Operating system | Software and hardware requirments |
|---|---|
| AIX | View detailed system requirements for WXTR V2.1 and WXTR V1.0 |
- Application foundation
- Application Performance Analyzer for z/OS
- CICS Deployment Assistant for z/OS
- CICS VSAM Recovery for z/OS
- Debug Tool for z/OS
- Fault Analyzer for z/OS
- File Manager for z/OS
- IBM Session Manager for z/OS
- IBM XWork Server
- TPF Toolkit
- Unified Messaging for WebSphere Voice Response
- WebSphere Application Server - Express
- WebSphere Application Server
- WebSphere Application Server Community Edition
- WebSphere Application Server for z/OS
- WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment
- WebSphere Application Server Tools Edition
- WebSphere Application Server Liberty Core
- WebSphere eXtended Transaction Runtime
- WebSphere Translation Server for Multiplatforms
- WebSphere Voice Response for AIX
- WebSphere Voice Toolkit
- Workload Simulator for z/OS and OS/390