Patent ID: 7418508

Claim:
A method comprising: Receiving an input request at an information management system (IMS) connect program from a user computer, wherein the user computer is associated with a client that provides software to access the IMS connect program independent of a web server; Transmitting the input request to a queue header of the IMS connect program, when the input request is an extensible markup language (XML) input request; Retrieving an input request control block from the queue header; Invoking a specified data transformer to parse and translate the input request to create an input request byte array; Transmitting the input request byte array to an IMS application program; Receiving an output response byte array from the IMS application program; Transmitting the output response byte array to the queue header; Retrieving an output response control block from the queue header; Invoking the data transformer to parse and translate the output response byte array to create an XML output response; and Transmitting the XML output response to the user computer via a communication path that is independent of the web server.