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© Copyright 2012 | First Data Corporation

jVMx Overview

VisionPLUS® IP Inventory

January 2012

2 | © Copyright 2012 | First Data Corporation

Agenda

• Introduction

• What is jVMx?

• System Structure

• Key Features & Functions

• Benefits


Introduction

Card processing platforms need to be able to integrate in

real-time with a financial institutions core platforms

Current mainframe

solutions are resource

intensive.

How can you access your

card data in an efficient

and cost effective

manner?


Introduction

The VisionPLUS IP Inventory…

• is a collection of globally developed VisionPLUS

solutions that form part of First Data’s intellectual

property

• provides clients and FirstVision teams with access to

First Data designed functionality that is not in the

VisionPLUS global license product

The VisionPLUS IP Inventory contains solutions to

address these issues


• jVMx is a service-based application

to support access to VisionPLUS

data

• jVMx allows VisionPLUS to:

• Request information from other

applications

• Send information to other

applications

• jVMx allows other applications to:

• Request information from

VisionPLUS

• Update information in VisionPLUS

What is jVMx?

jVMx is a real-time gateway between VisionPLUS and other

mainframe and non-mainframe applications

jVMx

IVR Web Mail CSR email

Non-Mainframe Applications

Other Non-

Mainframe

Applications VisionPLUS

Other Mainframe

Applications

Translate

Validate

Format

MQ

SDM Action Response


What is jVMx? Background to jVMx

Developed in 2009 for the

FirstVision processing

platform in China to support:

• Message conversion in

an open systems

environment

• Separate logs by services

and indexed by

transaction IDs to allow

differentiation by client

• Increased security control

jVMx created benefits for

First Data and its clients

through:

• Cost savings on

mainframe CPU

utilization and reduced

storage space

• Easier production support

with separated logs

• Better performance

monitoring and alerts


What is jVMx? jVMx vs VMx

• Connection management

• Message conversion and

formatting

• Message validation

• Invoke SDM services

• Message logging

• Performance reports

• Alerts

VMx

jVMx

• Includes all of the

functionality of VMx plus:

• Matching of fields on

input and output

messages for security

verification

• Better transaction

tracking

• Improved performance

reporting


System Structure

HTTP

MQ

TCP

MQ

TCP

Java EE CICS Environment (MRO Complex)

jVMx

Client

Applic

atio

ns

SDM

VisionPLUS

Applications

Service 1

Service 2

Service n

Master

Data

Service

Directory

Metadata

Repository (cached)


Key Features & Functions

jVMx

Message

Conversion

Message

Validation

Communication

Modes

Reports & Alerts

Transaction

Tracking



Communication

Modes

• jVMx provides real-time access to

information through a variety of message

exchange options:

Server Post Box

Client Post Man Initia

ted b

y…

Vis

ionP

LU

S

Consum

er

Communication Mode

2-way 1-way



Input

Processing

• jVMx validates incoming and outgoing

requests for correct formatting including

message structure and metadata

• Fields on request and response

messages can be checked to ensure

data matches and prevent security

issues (e.g. card number is the same on

both messages)

• Metadata repositories allow new

messages to be defined using online

screens and exposure to new services

do not required coding changes

Message

Validation



• jVMx supports messages in various

protocols including TCP/IP, Websphere

MQ, HTTP and SOAP

• It unwraps incoming requests from its

transport protocol and rewraps the

response message into the same

protocol

• Incoming requests are also transformed

into a format that can be processed by

SDM and outgoing responses from SDM

are converted back to the original format

Message

Conversion



• jVMx logs all request and response

messages for transaction tracking,

security and service usage

• These messages can be written to

different log locations based on message

type which facilitates ongoing technical

support

• A search module is also available to find

and view messages

Transaction

Tracking



• Performance reporting provides statistics

by message types within a specific time

period

• jVMx can trigger error events which can

be monitored by data centre operations

(e.g. consecutive average response time

is greater than a defined threshold)

• Parameters are also available to define

acceptable timeout intervals

Reporting &

Alerts


Beyond jVMx

• First Data’s experience with its own processing platforms and

managed services clients can help you to improve your ongoing

system performance

• Our quarterly monitoring service allows you to gain access to

best practices and recommendations for optimizing performance


Benefits

Leverages

First Data’s

experience in

managing

system

performance

Reduces the

burden on

mainframe

CPU usage

Provides

seamless

access to

VisionPLUS

data

First Data’s jVMx offering allows you to handle high

message volumes quickly and efficiently

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