CA-CF implements Virtel to inject data into IMS from an external HTTP server THE CUSTOMER CA-CF (Crédit Agricole Consumer Finance) is a French company resulting from the merge of Sofinco and Finaref, two major players in the field of consumer credit. THE CHALLENGE The CA-CF credit granting application runs on IMS in a central z/OS environment. This application required the collection of information located on an external HTTP server, hosted by a third party partner . The retrieved data needed to be directly integrated into the IMS framework in strictly less than one second. Unfortunately, due to limitations of IMS v13, it proved impossible to treat such requests with tra- ditional ICAL and IMS-connect processes. In addition, there was a requirement to return the retrieved data in

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