Service Flow Modeler is a tool
that enables you to create new services from existing applications in which
the enterprise has substantial investments in time and money.
The tool enables you to create new services of existing applications in
which the enterprise has substantial investments in time and money. You are
recommended to use Service Flow Modeler in IBM® Rational® Developer for System z® to use the latest
set of enhancements in the runtime environment.
The Service Flow Modeler consists of
several major components that are shown in the following figure.
Figure 1. Components of Service Flow Modeler
- Importers and editors
- The importers enable you to input application resources from an existing
Enterprise Information System (EIS) for the purpose of representing these
resources within a common information model. The resources that can be imported
include:
- 3270 screens from CICS® 3270 applications
- 5250 screens from 5250 applications on OS/400® systems
- COBOL record descriptions from existing CICS transactions
- BMS source code to build application data structures. (ADS)
The editors enable you to control what is imported, as well as modifying
the imported resources, modeling sequence flows and saving work.
- The Flow editor
- The Flow editor allows you to manually construct an adapter service that
represents a dialogue, as well as populate a sequence flow using a captured
WSDL dialogue. Alternatively, you can use the Flow editor to annotate a flow
with alternative paths of the host application that represent error paths,
as well as additional business behaviors that cannot be captured using the
importers.
- Runtime code generator and deployment wizard
- When you have finished modeling your flow, you can use the wizard to generate
an Adapter service that can be deployed into CICS Service Flow Runtime.
For more information about Service Flow Modeler,
see the relevant help sections in the tooling product.