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most customers need a unique gateway inside DMZ zone as DataPower for all kind of inbound/outbound protocols to enforce central security and governance. This is a different position from AppConnect which is more working inside enterprise zone for integration. Also the customers want to leverage DataPower to accelerate their legacy applications to expose API and do XML/Web Service conversion.
This has been a road block for DataPower penetrate the major banks for couple years to use DataPower as a gateway for ESB, mainframe or part of SOA framework such as CIMB(the Group's commercial bank in Malaysia) and Maybank(Malaysia's largest financial services group and the leading banking group in South East Asia), ICBC(Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) is among the largest commercial banks in China) and BOC(large commercial bank in China and the fourth largest bank in the world) etc. Also there are many other customers because they have many home made applications are using raw TCP.
There are 3 major scenarios:
ISO8583 socket stream
legacy socket applications modernization ( socket <-> Web Service)
socket applications to mainframe ( socket <-> copybook @mq)
IST/Switch is a high-performance credit and debit processing switch for all transaction processing needs for both acquirers and issuers. ABM Broker is a customer application that connect IST, SG and other service. SG is ScotiaGlobe, a customer core-banking application.