IBM Mashup Center

Use IBM® Mashup Center to create mashups using data from a DB2® for z/OS® database. A mashup is a lightweight web application that you create by combining information from multiple sources to deliver new content.

A mashup can help solve a business problem by presenting data in a way that individual sources cannot. With Mashup Center, you can easily create and combine "mashable" objects, such as feeds and widgets, and then assemble them into mashups.

The main components of Mashup Center are MashupHub and the Lotus® mashups builder. MashupHub contains browser-based tools for creating, storing, transforming, and remixing feeds. The Lotus mashup builder is a graphical environment in which you assemble and wire widgets into mashups.

With Mashup Center, you can quickly move prototype applications that use DB2 for z/OS data into production. No coding is required. You can create reusable feeds and widgets to use as building blocks of applications and store them in the Mashup Center community catalog. Use the community catalog to share the objects with others on your team so that they can assemble mashups faster.

When you create a feed based on DB2 for z/OS data, you can add the feed to the Lotus mashup builder and display the data as a widget. You can then combine the widget data with information from other DB2 for z/OS servers. The full version of Mashup Center allows you to integrate data from disparate sources including the Internet, departmental data, or enterprise data.