At a glance

Highlights of WebSphere Transformation Extender V8.2:

• New industry pack for Financial Information eXchange (FIX) Protocol
• Enhanced B2B partner management with WebSphere Transformation Extender Trading Manager V8.2
• HIPAA Pack updates that enable US Healthcare providers to meet 5010 format compliance
• Individual pricing announced for selected products on System z
• EDI Packs refreshed toV8.2

Overview

WebSphere® Transformation Extender (WebSphere TX) is a universal data transformation and validation engine for Smart SOA. It is designed to deliver business agility through IT agility by tackling one of the most significant challenges of integrating enterprise business systems, processing complex data. WebSphere TX delivers transformation and content validation for large volumes of complex formatted, and large multipart documents using a codeless, graphical approach to development.

The WebSphere TX family delivers editions for both batch and event driven messaging, extending an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) or Business Process Management (BPM) solution, and for embedding with custom applications written in C, COBOL, or written for Java™ or .Net. On the IBM System z™ platform, blue-chip clients deploy WebSphere TX in z/OS® Batch, CICS®, IMS™, and DB2® environments seeking high performance, and the reliability of transaction control.

This announcement complements the following V8.2 announcements:

• Software Announcement ZP07-0517, dated December 11, 2007, IBM WebSphere Transformation Extender V8.2
• Software Announcement ZP07-0518, dated December 11, 2007, IBM WebSphere Transformation Extender for z/OS V8.2

Enhancements

• WebSphere TX Trading Manager partner management application supports the latest revisions of the EDIFACT, X12, and HIPAA EDI standards, and includes customer-requested enhancements.
• WebSphere TX industry packs are designed to accelerate delivery and lower maintenance costs, when using WebSphere TX to integrate internal business systems with those of trading partners using standard exchange formats either required by regulatory bodies, or promoted by industry associations.
  • WebSphere TX packs for EDI completes the grouping of packs under industry aligned product IDs.
  • IBM WebSphere Transformation Extender Pack for Financial Information eXchange (FIX) V4.2.2, for the financial services sector, delivers prebuilt data transformation content for FIX Protocol. FIX is used in electronic trading of equities and WebSphere TX is viewed as an essential component for providing universal transformation services for straight-through-processing (STP) solutions.
  • WebSphere TX Pack for HIPAA enhancements support healthcare insurers and practitioners in the United States who are required, by law, to become compliant with the latest HIPAA 5010 EDI revision. Also included is support for national payment IDs and clinical data architecture revision 2 for claims attachments.

Per Application Instance and Per Establishment pricing is available for selected WebSphere TX products for use in System z environments

For more information about the WebSphere TX family, visit

http://www.ibm.com/software/integration/wtx

Planned availability date:

March 21, 2008: Electronic software delivery

March 21, 2008: Media and documentation

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Description

New features

WebSphere Transformation Extender Pack for Financial Information eXchange (FIX) V4.2.2

WebSphere TX Pack for FIX is an industry solution packdesigned to accelerate delivery of SOA data transformation and connectivity solutions for electronic trading in derivatives, fixed income, and foreign exchange markets. The pack contents are deployed with WebSphere TX Design Studio to generate transformation and content validation for deployment to a WebSphere TX runtime.

Beginning in 1992, the FIX specification was conceived as a bilateral communications framework for equity trading between Fidelity Investments and Salomon Brothers. Today, the specifications are managed by the FIX Protocol Limited (FPL) organization. For more information, visit

http://www.fixprotocol.org

The FIX Protocol is a set of XML as well as older tag-value format message specifications for automated trading of financial instruments and is used widely in Straight Through Processing and Collaboration scenarios by banks, brokers, dealers, and market makers, including foreign exchange markets.

The pack contents includes:

• Type Trees for Tag=Value V4.0-4.4, V5.0
• Type Trees for FIXML 4.1-4.4 (XML DTD )
• Type Trees for FIXML 4.4, 5.0 (XML Schema)
• Sample converter map tag=value to XML (V4.4 )

The pack requires FIX Protocol members to download XML Schema or DTD directly from the FIX Protocol Web site.

http://www.fixprotocol.org

WebSphere Transformation Extender Packs for EDI V8.2

The new version number for WebSphere TX Packs for EDI aligns it with other products.

EDI Packs include:

• X12
• EDIFACT
• TRADACOMS
• ODETTE
• EANCOM

License entitlement for selected products on System z

Per Application Instance license entitlement metric for industry packs for System z is available for SAP, SAP XI, Siebel, and PeopleSoft, Launcher Agent, SNMP Collection, Secure Adapter Collection, and Trading Manager. Previously, only a per Establishment entitlement was available.

Enhancements

IBM WebSphere Transformation Extender Pack for HIPAA V4.3

WebSphere Transformation Extender Pack for HIPAA EDI includes ready-to-execute template definitions for the complete ASC X12N standard for HIPAA including

• HIPAA 4010 addendum, as well as CMS (formerly HCFA) formats for legacy NSF
• UB-92 Claims and Coordination of Benefits
• 4010 flat file formats for Professional and Institutional Claims and Coordination of Benefits

In addition, you get compliance validation checking, and handling of claims attachments.

Enhancements include:

• HIPAA EDI 5010 message templates
• HIPAA EDI 4010 to 5010 maps
• National provider ID requirement support
• Clinical data architecture Release 2 claims attachments support

IBM WebSphere Transformation Extender Trading Manager V8.2

WebSphere Transformation Extender Trading Manager integrates information between the enterprise and your trading partners. It features enhancements for managing X12, EDIFACT, and HIPAA, and includes a performance enhanced EDIFACT subsystem. It manages and controls the B2B integration of partner relationships and message flow.

V8.2 delivers enhanced Trading Manager application features and support for the latest versions of EDI and healthcare standards including:

• EDIFACT D.06A, D.06B
• X12 5040
• HIPAA EDI 5010

Based on your requests, you also get:

• Reporting enhancements
• Additional Post Office configuration
• E-mail alert update
• Database password sync
• Configuration assists for functional acknowledgments

Product structure

IBM WebSphere TX offerings deliver data transformation and validation wherever required in your IT infrastructure.

Base editions provide the core engine, associated infrastructure, and components necessary for production data transformation environments. All implementations require one or more base editions, depending on the enterprise architecture and location where WebSphere TX is implemented. Technology adapters for integrating with other technologies in the enterprise, such as WebSphere MQ, are included in the base products.

Note: Not all adapters are supported on all platforms. For example a subset of adapters is supported on System z and includes WebSphere MQ, file, and FTP. The adapters not included are those with royalty bearing encryption and security protocols, and those delivered in optional packs.

The following editions are available on Windows®, AIX®, Solaris, and HP-UX and Linux™ X86 as well as on the IBM System z platform:

• IBM WebSphere Transformation Extender for Application Programming is used to deploy the transformation engine in custom applications and application servers, and uses the APIs provided to execute a transformation map.
• IBM WebSphere Transformation Extender with Command Server allows the transformation engine to be called directly from a command line, shell script, or timer. System z users of MVS™ Batch, CICS, and IMS environments use this edition. For System z users, this edition includes the components in the Application Programming edition.
• WebSphere Transformation Extender with Launcher includes the Command Server capability, and provides a standalone map launcher service which activates transformations based on event triggers. Example of triggers include messages arriving on a message queue, or files present in a directory. The Launcher also provides conditional event processing, for example, browsing for certain messages in the queue, availability of files, and scheduled events.
• WebSphere Transformation Extender for Integration Servers offers the transformation engine packaged ready to install and deploy with WebSphere Process Server, WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus, or WebSphere Message Broker.

Development tooling includes Design Studio tools that run standalone, or plugged into an existing Eclipse standard workbench, and a Software Developer Kit for interfacing WebSphere TX in a custom programming environment. All WebSphere TX implementations require at least one order of WebSphere Transformation Extender Design Studio to develop, test, and deploy transformations.

Industry packs deliver significant value in the development and implementation of WebSphere TX. Industry and enterprise connectivity packs are designed to accelerate time to value by populating the Design Studio with prebuilt assets.

Industry enterprise packs deliver significant value integrating WebSphere TX with leading Enterprise Information Suite applications from SAP, Siebel, and PeopleSoft.

Secure adapters, SNMP, and Launcher enhancements extend the functional capabilities of the WebSphere TX editions.

Trading Manager is a complementary B2B application for WebSphere TX with Launcher for managing EDI transactions with Business Partners.

Accessibility by people with disabilities

A US Section 508 Voluntary Product Accessibility Template (VPAT) containing details on the product accessibility compliance can be requested via IBM's web site at the following URL:

http://www-3.ibm.com/able/product_accessibility/index.html

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Reference information

For more information about the WebSphere Transformation Extender family of products, refer to:

• Software Announcement ZP07-0518 dated December 11, 2007
• Software Announcement ZP07-0517 dated December 11, 2007
• Software Announcement ZP07-0555 dated December 11, 2007

Trademarks

System z, IMS, and MVS are trademarks of International Business Machines Corporation in the United States or other countries or both.

WebSphere, CICS, z/OS, DB2, and AIX are registered trademarks of International Business Machines Corporation in the United States or other countries or both.

Windows is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation.

Java is a trademark of Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Linux is a trademark of Linus Torvalds in the United States, other countries or both.

Other company, product, and service names may be trademarks or service marks of others.

This announcement is provided for your information only. For additional information, please contact your IBM Representative or visit the IBM worldwide contacts page at: http://www.ibm.com/planetwide/

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