Oracle Messaging Gateway Gateway to your CICS, AS400, and MQ Series applications

Enterprises have invested heavily in their legacy systems such as CICS and AS400. These applications perform important and irreplaceable business tasks. However, these applications need to communicate with the new e-business enabling applications, coordinating business processes and tasks in a consistent, reliable, secure, and autonomous manner. These applications also need to efficiently exchange information with customers, partners, and suppliers over low-cost channels such as the internet, while preserving a traceable history of events--a requirement previously satisfied through now obsolete paper forms.  Messaging Gateway, an Oracle database feature, e-business enables communication with your CICS, AS400, and other MQ Series accessible applications. It provides guaranteed automatic message propagation between MQ Series and Advanced Queuing queues in an Oracle database. Advanced Queuing (AQ) is the high performance message queuing functionality of the Oracle database. With advanced queues, the message communications are automatically audited, an important requirement especially for financial applications. Advanced queues can be accessed securely from the internet, thus internet-enabling your CICS and AS400 applications.  Below are some highlights of Oracle Messaging Gateway: Guaranteed and Automatic Message Propagation Message Gateway provides guaranteed, once and only once, and automatic propagation between AQ queues and MQ Series queues. Once scheduled, the gateway agent automatically picks up the messages intended for MQ Series queues from AQ queues and transactionally propagates them to MQ Series queues. Similarly, it propagates messages from MQ Series queues intended for AQ queues.  Automatic Message Transformation Messaging Gateway has automatic type conversion for the types that can be directly mapped from MQ Series datatypes to AQ datatypes. However, AQ supports the entire extensible type system of the Oracle databases. For these types, messaging gateway supports user-defined transformations that can be used to define mappings from Oracle's object type to an MQ Series message type. These user-defined transformations are automatically applied during propagation. Internet-enables MQ Series queue Advanced queues are internet-enabled, i.e. they can be securely accessed from the Internet. Messaging gateway automatically internet-enables the MQ Series queues. The messages destined for MQ Series queues are enqueued securely over the Internet into AQ queues and automatically propagated to MQ Series. Similarly, messages from MQ Series can be automatically propagated from MQ Series queues to AQ queues, and then sent to applications over the Internet. Unique Message Management Benefits In many situations, for example, when sending financial information, the messaging operations require not only guaranteed delivery but also reliable auditing. With messaging gateway, messaging operations are automatically audited. An entire message history can be queried using a SQL view. This history can also be used for extracting tracking information and business intelligence.    Messaging Gateway, an Oracle database feature, e-business enables your CICS, AS400, and other MQ Series accessible applications.    KEY FEATURES Asynchronous Integration with MQ Series   Automatic and guaranteed message propagation Asynchronous notifications   OCI, PL/SQL, Java, Email Multiple addressing modes   Point-to-multipoint and Publish/Subscribe Content-based subscriptions Automatic exception handling Extensive Message Structure Support Extensive type support for message structure Oracle object and scalar type support Large objects such as CLOB and BLOB Dynamic message structure with XML Automatic Transformation system-defined user-defined transformations Unique Message Management Benefits Integrated transaction, security, and programming  model   Single model for database and message queuing operations Automatic retention   Automatic auditing for   tracking, and business intelligence Querying and SQL access SQL access to message and its history Internet-enabled   Enqueue and Dequeue over the Internet (via Http, Https, and Email) Automatic message propagation over the Internet Email Notifications Authorized and authenticated access RELATED PRODUCTS AND SERVICES Oracle Advanced Queuing: Oracle's database-integrated message queuing feature. Oracle Enterprise Manager ("OEM"): Administrative tool to manage Oracle database. Oracle Workflow: Tool to model business events and processes. Oracle Application Interconnect: Tool for integrating packaged applications Oracle JDeveloper: Complete enterprise level Java development tool. GETTING STARTED Message Gateway is a feature of the Oracle9i Database EE. You can   Download Oracle9i Enterprise Edition from OTN : http://technet.oracle.com. Purchase Oracle9i Enterprise Edition from Oracle Store: http://oraclestore.oracle.com. Oracle Corporation World Headquarters 500 Oracle Parkway Redwood Shores, CA 94065 U.S.A. Worldwide Inquiries: +1.650.506.7000 Fax +1.650.506.7200 http://www.oracle.com/ Copyright © Oracle Corporation 2001 All Rights Reserved This document is provided for informational purposes only, and the information herein is subject to change without notice. Please report any errors herein to Oracle Corporation. 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