IBM Europe Announcement ZP07-0445, dated October 9, 2007 IBM WebSphere Message Broker for z/os V6.1 delivers the enterprise service bus built for connectivity and transformation Description...2 Product positioning... 4 At a glance This new release continues to deliver significant new function that satisfies major customer requirements. Ease-of-use improvements Enhanced support for service-oriented architecture (SOA) Extended connectivity Improved administration and system management facilities Extended platform support Improved performance Coexistence and migration support Overview WebSphere Message Broker for z/os V6.1 is the solution for clients seeking an enterprise service bus (ESB) that provides connectivity and transformation spanning heterogeneous IT environments. WebSphere Message Broker offers the solution your organization needs to transform and route business data between applications. Because it can function as a message and protocol switch, you can connect disparate applications and business data across multiple platforms. It also delivers transformation and intelligent routing capabilities for all your business information. It makes business data available exactly where you want it in the format you need it. WebSphere Message Broker gives you a flexible and dynamic infrastructure to simplify application integration. With its robust design, scalable architecture, high performance, and ease of use, you can implement an enterprisewide SOA in stages. With this flexible combination of functions, your organization has the tools to fulfill your integration requirements from any starting point: a simple two-application solution or a multi-application, multiplatform design. As your business expands and the integration challenges multiply, WebSphere Message Broker can accommodate your changing business needs by: Expanding your infrastructure without increasing the complexity Protecting your existing and ongoing investments in applications and data structures Seamlessly extending your connectivity capabilities WebSphere Message Broker can accommodate many IT environments with support for an array of application and middleware technologies. In addition, it offers the following benefits: IBM Europe Announcement ZP07-0445 IBM is a registered trademark of International Business Machines Corporation 1
Exploits the industry-leading WebSphere MQ messaging infrastructure Supports a broad range of transport protocols Offers numerous ways to customize mediation Uses a simple programming model for connectivity and mediation, including a robust set of prebuilt mediation functions Supports a wide range of transformation options with graphical mapping, Java, ESQL, XSL, and WebSphere Transformation Extender Delivers extensive administration and systems management facilities for developed solutions Delivers similar performance to traditional transaction processing systems WebSphere Message Broker is the cost-effective solution for your enterprise's extensive integration and mediation needs today and will protect your investment into the future. Key prerequisites Refer to the Software requirements and Hardware requirements sections. Planned availability date December 14, 2007 Description WebSphere Message Broker Version 6.1 delivers significant new function for integrating applications while continuing to improve performance, ease of use, and flexibility for developers and administrators. Ease of use Get a quick start with a simple installation through the Launchpad; install the run-time product and run a sample in less than an hour Shorten development time with a configuration-driven approach for all new nodes Use graphical tools and viewers to identify message locations and simplify routing and filtering for messages and databases Use the visual message trace for ease of debugging and testing Enhanced SOA support Supports Web Services Security and Web Services Addressing, and compliance with Basic Profile 1.1 Strengthens security and accelerates Web Services Security processing with DataPower SOA Appliance Integration and enhancement of WebSphere Service Registry and Repository support to virtualize services for greater reuse Extended connectivity Out-of-the-box nodes to simplify management and improve performance for key enterprise resource planning (ERP) integration scenarios (for example, SAP) through WebSphere Adapters packaged as native message-processing nodes Native support for large file processing, including FTP, to simplify processing of large, repeating complex file records without using excessive storage New E-mail Output node WebSphere Transformation Extender integration, including the Launcher, allows WebSphere Transformation Extender maps to run natively in WebSphere Message Broker IBM Europe Announcement ZP07-0445 IBM is a registered trademark of International Business Machines Corporation 2
Administration and systems management Enterprise-wide identity, authentication, and authorization with Tivoli and Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) servers to enforce service policy at the user level for greater security Administration of WebSphere MQ and WebSphere Message Broker networks through one console with the WebSphere Message Broker Eclipse-based Explorer Platform support and improved performance 64-bit capability on Linux and UNIX, Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) XA support, and Java 5 on all supported platforms Ultra High Performance XML parser, including schema validation Compacted memory footprint Real-time graphical performance analysis Significant performance improvement on all supported platforms Coexistence and migration support for previous levels Assets created in Message Broker V5.0 and V6.0 without change Roll-back available with a single action Migration to V6.1 at your own pace Consulting and services: IBM Services has the breadth, depth, and reach to manage your services needs. You can leverage the deep technical skills of our WebSphere lab-based services and the business consulting, project management, and infrastructure expertise of the IBM Global Services team. Also, IBM Services extends its reach through IBM Business Partners to provide an unmatched portfolio of capabilities. Together, they provide the global reach, intellectual capital, industry insight, and technology leadership to support any critical business need. For information on IBM Global Services, visit http://www.ibm.com/services To learn more about IBM Software Services, visit http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/websphere/services/ To locate an IBM Business Partner, visit http://www.ibm.com/software/solutions/isv Value Unit-based pricing Value Unit pricing for eligible IBM eserver System z IBM International Program License Agreement (IPLA) programs enables a lower cost of incremental growth and enterprise aggregation. Each System z IPLA product with Value Unit pricing, has a single price per Value Unit and a conversion matrix, called Value Unit Exhibit, for converting from some designated measurement to Value Units. Most commonly millions of service units (MSUs) is the measurement designated by IBM to be converted to Value Units. Some other measurements are engines or messages. Since MSUs are the most common measurement, that measurement will be used for the remainder of this description. Value Unit pricing offers price benefits for you. For each System z IPLA program with Value Unit pricing, the quantity of that program needed to satisfy applicable IBM terms and conditions is referred to as the required license capacity. Each of the various Value Unit Exhibits stipulate that the larger your required license capacity, the fewer Value Units per MSU you will need. Value Unit Exhibits are uniquely identified by a three-digit code and referred to using the nomenclature VUExxx, where xxx is the three-digit code. Subsequent acquisitions of Value Unit priced programs offer additional price benefits. The IBM Europe Announcement ZP07-0445 IBM is a registered trademark of International Business Machines Corporation 3
quantity of each System z IPLA program that you have acquired is referred to as entitled license capacity. To increase your entitled license capacity for a System z IPLA program, the calculation to determine additional needed Value Units is based upon the number of Value Units already acquired. For each System z IPLA program with Value Unit pricing, you should: Determine the required license capacity, in MSUs Aggregate the MSUs across the enterprise Convert the total MSUs to Value Units, using the applicable Value Unit Exhibit Multiply the price per Value Unit by the total number of Value Units to determine the total cost To simplify conversion from the designated measurement to Value Units or vice-versa, use the Value Unit Converter Tool. For additional information or to obtain a copy of the Value Unit Converter Tool, visit the Value Unit Converter Tool Web site http://ibm.com/zseries/swprice/vuctool Note that Value Units of a given product cannot be exchanged, interchanged, or aggregated with Value Units of another product. To determine the required license capacity for the System z IPLA program you selected, refer to the Terms and conditions section. Product positioning The WebSphere family of products includes software to meet your diverse integration needs as they span varying programming models, qualities of service, and multiple data types. Whether you are looking to exchange a limited amount of data or implement an enterprisewide SOA, you can meet your current and future needs with WebSphere. WebSphere Message Broker makes full use of the transport and connectivity options from WebSphere MQ and WebSphere Application Server. It offers additional routing and transformation capabilities to implement or extend an ESB. WebSphere Application Server is the leading J2EE application server and development environment, and includes a built-in JMS engine, for messaging between J2EE applications. WebSphere MQ, available on more than 80 platform configurations, is the core of application integration connectivity, and integrates many differing platforms, systems, and applications. It delivers heterogeneous messaging, extending your ESB with assured, reliable message delivery. WebSphere Message Broker with Rules and Formatter Extension offers the full level of function provided by WebSphere Message Broker with additional support for the Rules and Formatter capability from New Era of Networks. This provides continuity for clients who require the use of IBM Rules and Formatter nodes. WebSphere MQ Extended Security Edition enhances WebSphere MQ with end-to-end, application-level data protection features. It enables enterprise-wide, remote management of security policies on your MQ network and can be deployed to existing production environments without changes to existing WebSphere MQ applications. WebSphere Partner Gateway is an environment for creating and managing supply chain partners integrated into your business. It also supports sending and receiving multiple data types over multiple protocols and transport layers. Whether you need to connect to just one or two key supply chain partners or define a network of potentially thousands of partners, editions of this offering can meet your needs. Product extensions offer additional supported function available as a download from the Internet. These product extensions are available from http://www-306.ibm.com/software/ integration/support/supportpacs/ Market-leading application integration software from IBM, including WebSphere MQ and WebSphere Message Broker, helps you: IBM Europe Announcement ZP07-0445 IBM is a registered trademark of International Business Machines Corporation 4
Quickly and economically address business integration issues Become more agile and take rapid advantage of new business opportunities Stay flexible Maintain customer orientation Gain competitive position advantage WebSphere Message Broker allows you to maximize flexibility as an integrated, On Demand Business by: Leveraging existing resources much more widely than was part of their original design Improving speed of implementation of changes to applications to respond to new opportunities, ensuring that application design and changes are focused on business logic rather than infrastructure details Anticipating and rapidly implementing IT changes as your business changes Service-oriented architecture (SOA) and an enterprise service bus (ESB) In an SOA, a connectivity layer often referred to as an ESB optimizes information distribution between service requesters and service providers. Each enterprise can deploy its own unique ESB, reflecting how far it has advanced toward becoming an On Demand Business. As key members of the IBM WebSphere software portfolio, WebSphere MQ and WebSphere Message Broker enable you to begin deploying or widening the deployment of your ESB today. Some businesses may find that simple messaging-based connectivity between well-matched applications provides the aspects of integration that they require to implement an effective ESB. Other businesses may find that to extend these capabilities into their wider deployed infrastructure, they realize value of other parts of the WebSphere software portfolio. These programs help maximize the value of your IT investment by broadening the range of environments this connectivity layer can reach, such as hardware and operating system platforms and non-standards-based programming models as well as J2EE and.net. For connecting these diverse programming models there needs to be proven delivery of messages and data between the applications. The proven delivery mechanisms of WebSphere MQ and WebSphere Application Server can extend the standards-based enterprise service bus with reliable connectivity throughout the enterprise. WebSphere Application Server messaging resources provide an optimal Java Message Service (JMS) implementation for use with J2EE-hosted applications. WebSphere MQ seamlessly extends those messaging resources to non-j2ee environments to integrate with virtually anything, across more than 80 platform configurations. WebSphere Message Broker adds services such as message routing, transformation enrichment, and support for a range of message distribution options and protocols to improve their flexibility and performance. You can integrate many application types on a wide range of systems, exchanging their data together in real time. WebSphere software delivers integration capabilities that enable you to begin reaping the benefits of SOA with connectivity and integration through an ESB today. IBM can help you to grow project-by-project toward an On Demand Business. WebSphere MQ, WebSphere Application Server, and WebSphere Message Broker play a pivotal role in creating SOA solutions. It will continue to do so as IBM delivers enhanced capabilities to accelerate the deployment of an integration infrastructure that spans the entire IT ecosystem. Trademarks System z is a trademark of International Business Machines Corporation in the United States or other countries or both. WebSphere, z/os, Tivoli, and eserver are registered trademarks of International Business Machines Corporation in the United States or other countries or both. Java is a trademark of Sun Microsystems, Inc. UNIX is a registered trademark of the Open Company in the United States and other countries. IBM Europe Announcement ZP07-0445 IBM is a registered trademark of International Business Machines Corporation 5
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