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Arcati
Arcati Mainframe
Mainframe Yearbook
Yearbook 2007
2016
Mainframe strategy
The Arcati Mainframe
Yearbook 2016
The independent annual guide for users of
IBM mainframe systems
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Contents
Welcome to the Arcati Mainframe Yearbook 2016............................................................. 3
The smart alternative to IBM for mainframe hardware and support............................... 5
Knowing the future, and not flying blind in development and testing.......................... 10
An introduction to a z/OS real-time infrastructure and security practices .................. 14
How many IT security auditors does it take to screw in a light bulb?.......................... 19
Changing the core of everything...................................................................................... 25
Using Big Data analytics for real-time auditing of mainframe applications................. 29
Mainstreaming the Mainframe .......................................................................................... 37
The 2016 Mainframe User Survey..................................................................................... 43
An analysis of the profile, plans, and priorities of mainframe users
Vendor Directory................................................................................................................ 61
Vendors, consultants, and service providers in the z/OS environment
A guide to sources of information for IBM mainframers ............................................. 148
Information resources, publications, social media, and user groups for the z/OS
environment
Glossary of Terminology................................................................................................. 154
Definitions of some mainframe-related terms
Technical information...................................................................................................... 183
Mainframe hardware timeline 1952-2015; mainframe operating system development
SPONSORS
Action Software
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ASPG65
Azamour Solutions
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Beta Systems Software
25, 72
Compuware Corporation
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Data Kinetics
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DDV technologies
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ESAi
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ProTech Consulting & Training
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Software AG
29, 130
Software Diversified Services 19, 130
Type80 Security Software
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Welcome to the Arcati Mainframe Yearbook 2016
We are very grateful – as always – to all those who have contributed this year by writing articles, taking part in our
annual user survey, or updating their company profiles. In particular I must thank the sponsors and advertisers,
without whose support this Yearbook would not be possible.
2015 has been an interesting year. For the first time in a long time it’s begun to feel as
though organizations might just be considering spending some money. My impression
from vendors both large and small is that the mood amongst customers is beginning
to be slightly more optimistic. It feels like there might be deals to be done out there.
It’s as if the long winter has started to thaw and we might, just might, be able to see
the first snowdrops very soon.
IBM announced the z13 in January – an exciting start to the year. This new processor
has faster I/O, and can address up to 10TB of memory. It can house 141 processors,
and run 8000 virtual servers. It’s been designed with mobile users in mind (as well
as traditional users). The 5GHz processors have eight cores, and smaller, faster
transistors. It incorporate simultaneous multi-threading (SMT), allowing it to execute
two instructions in parallel on each clock cycle. It now supports single instruction,
multiple data (SIMD) – a parallel computing technology – and runs the DB2 BLU for Linux – an in-memory database
technology for analytics.
But at the same time, IBM’s fourth quarter earnings announcements were not good as people hoped ($15.75-16.50
per share) making only $24.1bn rather than the expected $24.77bn. Earnings were down 4 percent, and software
revenues had slumped along with everything else, making it the 11th successive quarterly sales decline. And the
year started with rumours of layoffs – some 111,800 staff to be let go, it was said, around 26% of its 430,000-strong
workforce.
In August, IBM announced the LinuxONE Emperor and Rockhopper – two Linux-based z Systems mainframes.
It’s now possible to own a Linux-only mainframe that comes with a range of open source tools including those for
big data and analytics. The IBM LinuxONE Emperor is the top-of-the-range system and is based on January’s z13
hardware. The LinuxONE Rockhopper is the entry-level
model and is based on the older zBC12 hardware.
LinuxONE Emperor can run up to 8,000 Linux virtual
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machines concurrently. There is an option to use the
Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) to operate virtual
Publisher: Mark Lillycrop
machines. That’s in addition to z/VM and PR/SM.
Editorial Director: Trevor Eddolls
Contributors: Colin Fettes, Peter Bastable, Stephen
D Rubin, William Buriak, Jerry Harding, Phil Norcross,
Bernhard Prüger, Becky Albin, Compuware
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In terms of big software announcements, during the
year, IBM announced CICS Transaction Server for
z/OS Version 5.3. And the company announced the
General Availability of IMS 14.
In February, William Data Systems, probably
best known for its ZEN networking products, was
acquired by Syncsort, probably still best known for its
eponymous data sorting product – although these days
specializing in big data, high speed sorting products,
and data integration software and services.
We heard new terms like M2M, which stands
for machine-to-machine. It’s used when talking
about machines, devices, and equipment that can
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communicate with each other, and that communication can be wired or wireless. The use of the term M2M
often goes with the term IoT (Internet of Things) because it describes how these different ‘Things’ are able to
communicate with each other. The other term that’s often used in the same breath as these other two is ‘smart’ as
in smart cities or smart grids. And, of course these days, ‘cloud’ is the other term that’s often used with the others.
M2M can be used in simple monitoring applications. A thermometer can send readings every 10 minutes and these
can be displayed on a phone app set for that location. Or it could be used to get information from smart meters
back to the utility supplier. It can be used for manufacturing, where it can identify items that need maintenance, and
so enhance the reliability and safety of complex systems. It can also be used to update adverts at different times of
the day, so the adverts displayed are most appropriate for that time of day.
Analysts Gartner produced one of their magic quadrants for Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) and placed
IBM, along with NTT Communications, and Sungard Availability Services at the top. Gartner visualizes three kinds
of cloud-based recovery service: DRaaS; recovery using infrastructure as a service; and recovery using Back-up as
a Service (BaaS). Gartner had a total of 14 vendors in their quadrant.
IBM is also at the forefront of research and, this year, demonstrated a quantum chip. Quantum computing will be
very much faster than the currently available computers. The new chip is the first to integrate qubits, the basic
devices needed to build a quantum computer, into a 2-D grid. The circuits in the chip are made from metals that
superconduct when cooled to just above absolute zero (-273oC). There is still a long way to go with this work, but
this is a fascinating start.
With the focus on mobile and cloud, IBM announced a new container service for Bluemix that’s based on the
open source Docker software container technology. It’s designed to help developers deliver applications across
hybrid cloud environments. Bluemix is a cloud Platform as a Service (PaaS) that supports multiple programming
languages and services, as well as integrated DevOps to allow developers to create, run, deploy, and manage
applications on the cloud. Bluemix is an implementation of IBM’s Open Cloud Architecture, which is based on
Cloud Foundry, an open source Platform as a Service. IBM’s cloud services is a $7.7 billion business, and IBM is
claiming a growth rate of 75%. By the way, DevOps is more a philosophical idea than a set of hard-and-fast rules
for software development where communication and collaboration between developers and IT staff is paramount.
In this way, companies can rapidly produce the software and services they need and improve operational
performance.
And IBM was quite acquisitive in 2015. In March it acquired AlchemyAPI, for use with big data. In April, it got
Explorys for healthcare analytics, and Phytel for health management software. In June it was Bluebox for its
Private Cloud as a Service. In July, it acquired Compose Inc for its Database as a Service. In August, it was back to
healthcare with Merge Healthcare Inc for its Healthcare imaging software. Then in September it bought StrongLoop
Inc for its mobile API capabilities, and Meteorix LLC for its consulting services for Workday applications. Then in
October, it was Cleversafe Inc for its object-based storage software, and The Weather Company’s Product and
Technology Businesses for weather forecast-related mobile and cloud-based services. In November, it acquired
Gravitant, Inc for its cloud brokerage software and cloud management.
As they say, plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose, and I have every confidence that in 2016 the mainframe
will continue to offer outstanding performance and reliability, and be at the heart of the world’s business-critical
applications.
IBM z/OS Connect EE V2.0 provides intuitive tooling that enables developers to create RESTful APIs from z/OS-based
assets. This means that business assets that run on z/OS can be enabled for the latest mobile communication protocols,
cloud deployment, hosting techniques, and message formats. The z/OS resources appear as any other RESTful API.
z/OS Connect EE V2.0 creates new deployment artifacts, referred to as API packages. These are deployed to the z/
OS Connect runtime to instantiate a z/OS-based RESTful API. The API package includes Swagger 2.0 definitions,
which consuming developers expect to find, to help easily incorporate the APIs into applications.
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The smart alternative
to IBM for mainframe
hardware and support
Colin Fettes, Azamour Solutions takes a look
at alternative ways to source and support your
mainframe infrastructure and examines its
impact on your bottom line.
As we know, IBM bring a new mainframe to
the market every second year – last year, 2015
saw the EC13, the most powerful and secure
computer ever, say IBM (just over fifty years
after the mainframe was born). The EC13 is a
new generation of mainframes designed and
built to take advantage of the increasing use of
mobile device transactions and a way to move
mainframe computing towards (and associate
it with the happy marketing habitat of) cloud
computing. IBM state that the EC13 can handle up
to 2.5 billion transactions a day, and they will be
targeting the largest financial companies with each
new processor, organisations that clearly need
more transaction power, better fraud detection
and security than they have today, as well as the
budgets to buy this new breed of mainframe from
Big Blue.
IBM’s continued investment in the mainframe
is certainly encouraging for the marketplace –
remember that they stopped making PCs in 2005
and then Intel servers in 2014.
As the mainframe evolves it still remains hugely
profitable for IBM and should of course continue
to be, with the EC13 and revenues from hardware
related sales, huge software revenues and of
course the various IBM services that are needed
to implement and run these new generations of
processor.
So all is still looking rosy for the future of the
mainframe and IBM – remember that only IBM
produce these systems today, with Amdahl and
Hitachi long gone as manufacturers of alternative
plug-compatible systems, 64 bit technology putting
an end to them.
The marketplace for new processors has changed
quite a bit over recent years – your IBM sales exec
or business partner used to roll up every 3 years
and sell you a nice new shiny processor (and you
could tell it was new as the stripe down the front
was a different colour, maybe gold or even green),
which would take away something like 10% of your
IBM software spend for the foreseeable – this of
course made everyone very happy, there was a
capital investment which was more than countered
by a forward operational saving, and of course a
hardware sale.
With recent models, this situation has changed
significantly, with IBM focusing on adding sexy new
capability and integration features to the platform,
marketing the system based on its ability to drive
your business forward in dynamic fashion, and
strongly differentiating the platform from the last
century perceptions of an expensive proprietary
Neanderthal lurking in your datacentre, waiting to
consume passing budgets without remorse.
Unfortunately IBM appear to have abandoned a
large number of its customers in the process –
whilst we see huge increases in quoted ‘MIPS on
the floor’ every year, the reality is that whilst the
platform is in growth, and very significant growth,
across a relatively small number of installations,
the platform and its workload is still in a steady
decline across much of its install base, most of
whom aren’t looking for a new processor with all
the new bells and whistles, just a way to keep
their legacy workload running and improve the
cost profile of their infrastructure. More than ever,
this equipment is being labelled proprietary and
expensive by IT Directors who don’t feel they have
good choices available to them.
So running costs are increasingly a headache for
smaller or declining workloads on the platform, and
there doesn’t appear to be much to alleviate that
pain from an IBM perspective. Leaving equipment
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to one side for the moment, perhaps the most
popular approaches to addressing operating costs
in recent years have been, in no particular order:
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Outsourcing
Reducing ISV software costs
Remarketed equipment
Third-party maintenance services.
It’s almost certain that every organisation below
500 MIPS and many with far more, have looked at
all four, but the most immediate and well-adopted
of these is the last, which is likely to yield a quick
return at a relatively low level of risk.
So where does IBM’s competition come from
today, competition that is needed to stop IBM
dictating the cost of the mainframe platform,
hardware maintenance and all of the other
services required to operate the environment
securely? Competition is surely needed to help in
extending the life of older generation mainframe
processors and storage in today’s cost-conscious
marketplace.
Today there are a large number of organisations
running mainframes that do not need the new
generation of processors, but do need an
alternative to IBM-sourced equipment and services
to have a chance of retaining the platform in the
future and protecting their long-term investment
in it.
There are hundreds of mainframe users worldwide
who don’t have a need for the new EC13
mainframe, who are happy with the security and
capability that their existing zEC12, zBC12, z114,
z196, z10, or older technology offers them, both
today and for the foreseeable future.
Mainframe users, who need hardware
maintenance, support and upgrades to their
existing installation need an alternative to IBM and
they have one from an established market place
that has been around for decades.
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The smart alternative to IBM is the independent
mainframe market place, which is large, established
and regulated, offering remarketed mainframe
equipment, hardware maintenance supporting
all generations of mainframe processors, and
associated storage.
Today many independent suppliers have enhanced
capability, some invading the domain of the
chosen few, with business continuity and disaster
recovery solutions, technical support, and pre and
post sales support for hardware and software.
Today a smart alternative to IBM does exist for the
mainframe, one that offers all the hardware and
support services that a customer will ever need.
Let’s take a look at some possible scenarios where
an investment in remarketed equipment and thirdparty services can be advantageous.
Reduce DR costs by running an in-house
service
Conditions around software use are more relaxed
for a DR workload, and older technology can be
hugely cost-effective when lots of cheap MIPS
will fit the bill. Imagine a user with two footprints,
both in production one at 500 MIPS one at 200.
In such a situation a remarketed processor that
can handle either or both workloads is commonly
a great choice.
When your requirements are changing or your
workload is in decline
Regardless of what IBM marketing tells us, a
large percentage of existing mainframe footprints
are now ‘legacy’ and struggling to find budget
now that they have become ‘non-strategic’ for
the organization, although their workload is still
critically important. Many mainframe sites run
effectively on previous generation processors
having been subject to a ‘rightsizing’ exercise
performed on their budget rather than their
capacity.
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A couple of years ago we were asked to put
together a cost profile for a customer considering a
z10 as new equipment, producing a five year cost
of ownership case. Their workload was declining
and somewhat uncertain in respect of part of the
business likely to split away with further impact
on workload.
We subsequently compared a new equipment
z10 taken at outset with a remarketed z9 at outset
then a remarketed z10 in year three – the results
were interesting:
• The remarketed processor route offered
significant savings over 60 months.
• The remarketed z10 placed in year three would
be newer equipment than the z10 placed at
outset.
• The remarketed route avoided the need for
additional spend in year one.
• The remarketed route would have resulted in a
smaller and more economical footprint at year
5 generating additional savings year 6 and
onwards compared with the new equipment at
outset .
Future workload requirements are uncertain
In such a situation, many are drawn to consider
new equipment with capacity on demand features
or purchased with downgrades in place that can
be activated later. In contrast it’s possible that
choosing a second user processor, perhaps a
previous model, and then others as appropriate,
may satisfy the capacity requirement with
significant savings. Similarly, many mainframe
customers feel forced into purchasing additional
capacity or downgrades when their processor
is about to be withdrawn from marketing, but
likewise a comparison with the use of remarketed
equipment can be a very useful exercise.
Over recent years we have seen a number of
examples where remarketed equipment has been
cost-profiled and compared with new, and for
the majority, particularly those with a decreasing
workload, the benefits have been immediate.
Other reasons
Some other reasons to consider remarketed
equipment and third-party support services
include:
• Speed of deployment – for full systems or
perhaps just peripherals like additional OSA
and FICON cards
• A quick win on costs with third party hardware
maintenance services
• When requirements are temporary – perhaps
when looking to implement an interim test and
development system
• Swing equipment for a location move, possible
later use for DR.
Can we be confident that remarketed equipment
is fit for purpose?
Absolutely – remember that before it was
remarketed a processor will have been running
a critical workload for a customer and been wellmaintained by IBM or a third party and sited in
a suitable environment. It will have been fit for
purpose then and it will be fit for purpose next time
around, having been tested and installed by either
an independent or IBM. Remarketed hardware is
always acceptable onto a third-party maintenance
contract or onto an IBM contract (if the hardware
is not End of Support with IBM), and can supplied
with an MSQ if required.
Can we get the services or value-add that we
need from a third-party service provider?
Yes – nearly all independent suppliers around
the world will offer assistance in configuring a
processor or advising on a configuration that
best suits the customer. Site surveys and preinstallation planning meetings are all available
along with full and comprehensive installation
services.
What kind of savings can we achieve?
Most remarketed mainframe hardware will typically
have a saving of between 50% and 90% of IBM list
prices, a pretty remarkable saving for equipment
which is as fit for purpose as it was on the day it
left the factory. Leasing, rental, outright purchase
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along with part exchange and upgrades are all
available, offering additional flexibility.
Most generations of mainframe hardware and
also high-end storage become available from the
second user marketplace as soon as six months
after IBM makes it generally available.
Conclusion
For some mainframe users, keeping up to date
with new IBM processors will always be the
preferred option, but for a large percentage of
users, remarketed mainframe equipment and
third-party services are very viable options which
can provide for stable, reliable, well-supported
systems at a far lower price-point.
Investigating alternative ways to source and
support your mainframe infrastructure can
significantly improve your bottom line!
About the Author
Colin has been an integral part of the mainframe
market place since 1991 and during these 25
years has bought and sold hundreds of mainframe
processors to and from mainframe customers
throughout the world, saving them millions of
pounds in the process. Clients include some of the
world’s major investment and commercial banks,
and span governments, aerospace, automotive,
healthcare, mail-order / e-commerce, petrochemical, retail, insurance and IT.
Today Colin heads up Azamour Solutions where
his team continue to work with mainframe users
offering and creating good choices when it comes
to their mainframe infrastructure – The Smart
Alternative to IBM.
You can contact Colin at colin.fettes@azamour-solutions.co.uk
Please note that the views expressed in this
article are Colin’s own, based upon his industry
experience.
About Azamour Solutions
Azamour Solutions are a leading supplier
of enterprise class computer Hardware and
maintenance services to corporate and SME
clients across the globe.
Today Azamour offers a full complement of IBM
and OEM Enterprise Class Computer Hardware,
comprehensive maintenance and support
services, including hosting and disaster recovery
solutions.
Our vision is to continue to be one of the most
respected IT solutions business’ in Europe.
www.azamoursolutions.com
What’s Bluemix?
IBM Bluemix is a cloud Platform as a Service (PaaS) that supports multiple programming
languages and services, as well as integrated DevOps to allow developers to create, run,
deploy, and manage applications on the cloud. Bluemix is an implementation of IBM’s Open
Cloud Architecture, which is based on Cloud Foundry, an open source Platform as a Service.
IBM says that Bluemix delivers enterprise-level services that can easily integrate with your
cloud applications without you needing to know how to install or configure them. Among the
programming languages that can be used are Go, Java, Node.js, PHP, Python, Ruby on Rails,
and Ruby Sinatra. Other languages can be supported through the use of buildpacks. When
choosing how to deploy their applications, users have three infrastructure compute technology
options. They are, cloud Foundry apps, OpenStack virtual machines, and Docker containers.
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Knowing the future,
and not flying blind in
development and testing
Peter Bastable, a director of DDV Technologies,
looks at solutions to the problem of testing
dates and times in a modern IT environment
Date and time sensitive logic
Date and time sensitive logic is embedded in
nearly all applications - for example billing dates,
rate change dates, policy renewal dates, payment
dates, investment maturity and rollover dates,
and so on.
Date and Time Simulation (DTS) time travel
testing lets you test application behavior at these
critical dates and times without impacting other
work running on the same system and without
requiring separate environments or disruptive
system restarts.
• Virtually all information and communications
technology (ICT) business applications contain
date and/or time dependent logic.
• This logic is often complex, changeable, and
subject to federal government and international
regulations based on managing data risks.
• Errors in date or time handling can lead to
failures that are highly visible, embarrassing,
expensive and damaging to customer
confidence. These errors in turn can lead to
exponential flow-on harm to your business, to
your partners and to your clients.
• Hidden data errors are a plague within Big
Data for data intensive technologies and data
scientist analysis.
• With most applications it is impossible to
demonstrate quality compliance and due
diligence with data risk without future testing
dates and times that are significant to the
application prior to business use and Big Data
projects.
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There have been high-profile examples of
failures in financial, insurances and government
institutions caused by date- and time-processing
errors. The actual number of these types of
data failures is believed to be much higher than
the reported rate due to a reluctance to admit to
problems.
Original date and time testing
Time travel testing your applications back in the
Y2K era was relatively simple in comparison to
today as you were typically dealing with only:
• a single hardware and OS platform
• only one or two languages, such as COBOL,
PL/I, Assembler, NATURAL
• a database such as DB2, IMS/DB or ADABAS
• and an online interface using CICS or IMS/TM
Back then, the need for time travel testing on
multiple z/OS Parallel Sysplex systems was in,
shall we say, “early adolescence” in comparison
to today where Parallel Sysplex technologies link
up to 32 servers within the most powerful clustered
systems available.
Do It Yourself (DIY) DTS testing
Some organizations perform DIY time travel testing
by manually re-IPLing an LPAR and resetting the
system clock, and DIY is part and parcel of how
they have always done it. However this approach
is highly problematic for reasons such as:
• it requires the entire system image to be shut
down and restarted, then dedicated to the
testing, then shut down and restarted again
• it can cause out-of-sequence auditing and log
records, e.g. for SMF data and CICS/IMS/DB2
logs
• it can cause automatic archiving/backup/
deletion products such as IBM’s DFHSM to
purge backups (believing them to be past their
expiry date)
• it can cause software product expiration
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• only one date at a time can be tested
• the highly disruptive nature of the testing
virtually guarantees that only very limited date
testing will ever be performed; it is essentially
impossible to integrate this process into normal
development lifecycles
Organizations are aware that DIY is tedious,
difficult, disruptive, time consuming and expensive
in manpower but it has sometimes become a de
facto way of doing DTS testing anyway. But DIY
DTS testing is a very risky approach. Inevitably it
is either never done at all, or only in an extremely
limited fashion as a final step before production leaving you effectively flying blind into the future.
By far, the best DTS testing ROI is serious software
time travel application release automation right
through to production. The more agile and flexible
the software is, the easier it is to fit into any current
or future changing development/test environments
and silios.
Modern date and time testing with parallel
sysplex
As stated by IBM:“Every server in a Parallel Sysplex
cluster has access to all data resources and every
“cloned” application can run on every server.
Using the z Systems “Coupling Technology”, the
Parallel Sysplex technology provides a “shared
data” clustering technique that permits multisystem data sharing with high performance read/
write integrity. This “shared data” (as opposed to
“shared nothing”) approach enables workloads
to be dynamically balanced across all servers in
the Parallel Sysplex cluster. This approach allows
critical business applications to take advantage
of the aggregate capacity of multiple servers to
help ensure maximum system throughput and
performance during peak processing periods.”
In this environment, with application components
potentially executing across multiple dynamically
changeable servers, you need DevOps-friendly
DTS testing processes that will easily and
automatically synchronize virtual clock settings
across all application components under test, no
matter which particular servers they happen to
be running on.
Modern date and time travel using WAS and
Java for z, USS/OMVS
When WAS (WebSphere Application Server) and
Java for z first arrived on the IBM mainframe it
was a dream come true for some, while for others
it raised eyebrows with concern regarding quality
assurance with the Java language.
If you are strategically integrating web-based
applications with mission-critical back-end
data, then your precious and core corporate
data suddenly becomes front-end not only to
consumers, but also to your more advanced
clients who clearly understand innovation.
The development/testing roller coaster is now
accelerating!
In addition to faster app releases, WAS and Java
for z often lead to development and testing silos,
as the skill sets for WAS/Java/UNIX System
Services are different to those for traditional
zSeries workloads. Additionally, IBM zEnterprise
now allows z/OS servers, Linux servers, Microsoft
Windows servers, AIX servers and more to be
managed in a tightly integrated and controlled
environment. With zEnterprise an organization
now has more control and flexibility for the future
than ever before, even if they don’t exactly know
their own future.
In these complex and very fast-changing crossplatform DevOps application environments it is
more critical than ever to fully test the accuracy
and integrity of application date and time logic
before it hits production. You need DTS processes
that run on all platforms, can seamlessly integrate
across multiple platforms, and are able to support
application components exploiting Java, WAS and
UNIX System Services on the mainframe as well
as Linux, UNIX and Microsoft Windows; enterprise
DTS testing and as agile as you can get.
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DTS testing more than 25 years into the future
(beyond 2042)
Many applications must deal with business events
that will occur more than 25 years into the future.
Some examples are life insurance policies, longdated investments, pension funds, 30-, 50-, 100
long-term loans and so on.
It is a limitation of current IBM zSeries hardware
and software that the system clock cannot return
a date beyond 7 September 2042. However,
to allow testing of the logic in your applications
that must handle events beyond this date, it is
important that your DTS processes can manage
simulated dates greater than 2042 and return them
to your applications. For example, many people
who were born in 1978 (aged 37 in 2015) could in
today’s theory retire after 2042 (65 years old) with
a superannuation policy that ends beyond 2042
but no one knows if any of the business app logic
is correct; a high risk problem where date and
time simulation testing is the simple key solution.
Global time zone virtualization
It is a very common occurrence for an enterprise to
have their data center in one time zone, but user
communities in various different time zones. In
order to present correct local time to mainframe
users in different time zones, a solution often used
has been to create separate LPARs IPL’ed with
different local times - one for each user community,
and each one running the applications needed by
that community.
This is an extremely expensive production solution
in hardware and software costs, as well as in
operational and management costs. Another
approach which can provide a much simpler
environment, as well as significantly reducing
costs, is to use a DTS tool that can simply
simulate different local times for the different
user communities, while they still all share the
same physical and application infrastructure;
consolidation with significant savings are easily
achieved by date and time software simulation
and still in the most continuous, high-volume
operation with high security and stability, namely
IBM z/OS.
About the Author: Peter Bastable is a director of
DDV Technologies since inception in 2002. Peter
has been involved with leading edge technologies
since becoming an Assembler programmer on
IBM mainframes and from there heavily involved
in major technology developments, sales startups and marketing whilst living in a variety of
countries across the globe. The new technologies
included distributed, networked computers, data
communications, telephony systems and 1G
mobile networks, including digital 2G when with
Ericsson of Sweden.
He joined Goal Systems (became Legent)
successfully selling automated mainframe
production systems. He joined Platinum Technology
with their DB2 database management products,
which included multiple leading edge technology
acquisitions by CEO Andrew Flip Filipowsky, with
PT later acquired by Computer Associates.
About DDV (Development, Digital & Vision)
Technologies: DDV develops the unique Softdate
Date and Time Simulation (DTS) Data Protection
Suite that is geared towards DevOps-friendly
environments for enterprise DTS testing across
IBM zSystems supporting z/OS, Linux, UNIX
and Windows. SETS (Softdate Enterprise Time
Synchronization) allows testing of date and
time logic utilizing cross platform environmental
management in an automated and integrated way
via single DevOps-friendly User Interfaces.
DDV also represents relational database tools
from SoftBase and UBS-Hainer for the extraction
of relational sub-sets of live, production data that
can be tested with Softdate in an easy and more
manageable manner.
In addition, DDV works with SilkRoad Equity
and their MissionMode PaaS incident command
system that is used for risk management and
collaboration in such areas as IT disaster recovery
for continuous, online DR testing support.
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An introduction to a z/OS
real-time infrastructure and
security practices
Stephen D Rubin, William Buriak, and Jerry
Harding take a look at security challenges on
z/OS and suggest ways to keep safe.
Introduction
Today’s world of state sponsored computer-crime
has greatly increased both the sophistication and
volume of unauthorized attacks and theft of highly
sensitive information both for the government
and private corporations. It was reported by
government officials that annual losses to U.S.
firms attributed to hacking-related attacks alone
amounted to billions. This malevolent hacking
behavior amounts to Cyber war. In this world the
threats to network security. However, they may
not be sufficient enough to detect an employee
with authorized access working with sensitive
corporate data from conducting unauthorized
activities. Employees with Sys/ID access if left
unchecked may have the opportunity to divert
company funds to their own accounts, alter data,
down load confidential data and more.
IBM mainframes running zSeries/Operating
System (z/OS) play an important role within
most corporations and government agencies.
Web connections to data residing on the z/OS
mainframe platform through z/OS Web Services,
CICS and TSO have added functionality to
legacy processing and brought transaction
processing to new levels. It has also introduced
a new perception of vulnerability. Mainframe z/
OS Security Administrators sometimes view it as
opening up the mainframe to “intruders.”
Protecting z/OS systems and their data is as
equally important as protecting all client operating
systems, servers and firewalls.
CSO can’t assume that individual departments
processing key company assets such as credit
cards, or health and customer account records,
etc. are safe unless the whole corporate enterprise
has the proper protections in place. The Cybercriminal will look for weaknesses throughout the
whole IT enterprise as points of entry and z/OS
systems are very large enticing targets.
But regardless of the industry or the regulation
mandate, every organization is at risk of losing
information. (I know first-hand after receiving a
letter from the US Office of Personnel Management
on the status of my own personal information).
Information security breaches may go beyond
organizational boundaries and exposes them
to unwanted legal actions. Security exposures
derived from the theft of data has led to three
class action law suits against the former Secretary
of Veterans Affairs. The security breach affected
26.5 million records with a VA estimate of between
An equal if not greater challenge to the CSO is that of
malicious activity by internal company employees.
Many security practices and technologies have
been designed to detect external cybersecurity
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$100 million and $500 million to prevent and cover
possible losses from data theft.
Unfortunately security is not always the highest
priority in an organization until it is named in the
lead story on the evening news or Wall Street
Journal and you are requested to testify before
Congress.
Organizations must focus on ways to monitor
z/OS security by thinking outside the box and to
develop an efficient security framework to monitor
security settings and protect confidential data from
‘bad guys’ in an effective and economical manner.
They must explore the tools that are available for
developing such a security framework.
The Problem
There are three security products available on the
IBM z/OS mainframe platform. These products
are: IBM’s RACF (Resource Access Control
Facility) and Computer Associates’ ACF2 (Access
Control Facility 2) and TSS (Top Secret Security,
not to be confused with Department of Defense
top secret security clearances). RACF, ACF2
and TSS simply either allow or dis-allow access
to a resource. They only provide auditing and
monitoring processing by running a batch process
the following day or by special request if a specific
event is being investigated (after the fact).
It is common practice for corporations and federal
agencies to license Security Information Event
Monitoring (SIEM) products like HP Arcsight and
security log collection software like Splunk. Some
organizations may have SIEM software but are
not sending their z/OS security logs to the SIEM
product. Instead they remain dependent on a
z/OS security administrator to run batch jobs to
monitor security events or breaches. This is what
we refer to as the “fox guarding the hen house”
scenario. It violates good security practices and
federal mandates for separation of duty.
SIEM products allow for the monitoring of security
logs and events by receiving client server and
firewall security logs in Real-Time . However, the
software vendors have failed to provide the same
Real-Time capabilities from z/OS. Instead they
mostly use an interval scheduled batch process
followed by an FTP to move the data across the
network to the security log collector. This design
often overloads the network and prolongs the
analysis of a possible security breach.
All of these examples violate a host of regulations
and demonstrate a bad continuous z/OS security
monitoring practice.
Hardening Your Organizations’ z/OS Real-Time
Infrastructure
An attack, especially on DB2 z/OS to obtain the
privilege settings of the DB2 System Administrator,
allows for a stealthy security breach. Therefore, it
is no longer efficient or safe to rely solely on batch
reporting and mainframe security systems that
work strictly inside the mainframe, only recording
incidents where security has been violated. It is
now possible to use products to monitor z/OS
mainframe security from outside the mainframe
itself and to track events EVEN IF THE USER
HAS THE PROPER AUTHORITIES.
Companies should not wait for the incident to
happen and make newspaper headlines before
they consider their own security issues. Although
the cost of protecting data effectively is high, the
cost of a security breach is even higher considering
the new laws governing the compromise of data.
Companies can breathe a sigh of relief now
that there is cost effective and comprehensive
mainframe software available in the market.
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outside of the standard quarterly security audit
• Ease of configuration and installation
• Small footprint of mainframe processing and
minimum performance impact on mainframe
systems.
So, don’t let data breaches derail your career,
or more importantly, your boss’s. Proactive
companies, having a track record of monitoring
security logs from outside the box, are in the
forefront of Government requirements and have a
solid framework in place to manage z/OS data and
its associated risks. Doing so puts you, regardless
of your industry, in a better competitive position,
with an ideal security posture that will allow them
to participate in the very important data-sharing
evolution taking place.
Some products meet the current needs of the
corporations in the area of securing confidential
records of their own businesses as well as of their
clients, and have all the qualities that are required
to counter today’s security threats. They work
efficiently with existing z/OS security products
and make use of SMF and console messages in
appropriate ways. They are capable of tracking
audited events, several types of insider threats,
delivering mainframe alerts in Real-Time and
easily integrating with other existing security
monitors.
Here are some criteria that you may consider when
evaluating a z/OS security monitoring product for
your organization:
• Scalable
• Ease of use
• Real-Time 24/7 access to resources and other
event monitoring
• Eliminating unwanted events by employing
customer defined filters
• Promotes true audit independence and
analysis, with decimal data presented in a
clear-text format so it may be interpreted
by non-technical personnel within the IT
organization.
• Facilitates spot security checks ‘anytime’
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The Solution
Type80 Security Software, Inc. (Type80)
develops and markets proprietary Real-Time
event notification software for insider threats
and intrusion detection against IBM mainframe
computers running on z/OS. Type80’s primary
software product is called Security Monitor Alerts
in Real-Time (SMA_RT).
SMA_RT enhances the collection and analysis of
the insider and foreign threat to organizations and
our national infrastructure by:
• Detecting malicious activity, including an
insider’s actions that have been authorized by
existing security settings
• Protecting against insider threats unlike any
other commercial mainframe software available
• Identifying internal patterns of abuse
• Meeting Government Security Requirements
and Mandates for continuous monitoring of
computer systems, separation of duties, and
file integrity monitoring
• Working in tandem with all other client, server
and firewall security monitoring products
already deployed to provide complete RealTime enterprise-wide threat management
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coverage
• Saving hundreds of hours searching through
batch reports when investigating a security
breach.
The delivery of security events in Real-Time is an
important aspect of any robust security program,
and may be required to maintain compliance
with the various continuous monitoring initiatives
within your organization. Type80’s SMA_RT
software does exactly that by enabling the Security
Operations Center (SOC) to know the true security
state of mainframe security moment by moment
and when working in concert with a SIEM product,
allows authorized SOC personnel to take the
appropriate actions associated with the level of
the security breach.
SMA_RT does this by Real-Time capturing
system management function (SMF) log data,
operating system messages, application program
messages, database messages, TSO (timesharing option) messages and customer-specific
events generated by using our API (application
programming interface for customized event
monitoring within an application program running
on the mainframe). These input streams are used
to determine possible security attacks or customer
defined event violations on the mainframe by using
a combination of configurable security rules and
basic anomaly detection abilities.
It is possible to have organizations running multiple
z/OS mainframes using different security products
(RACF, ACF2 or TSS) along with different SIEM
and security log collection products (HP Arcsight,
Splunk, Dell SecureWorks, LogRhythm, etc.). How
would one central Cyber Security Center be able
to oversee and monitor mainframe logs from all
of the various products?
The SMA_RT software runs independent of each
of the corporations’ or federal agencies z/OS
mainframe security products, their selection of
SIEM and security log collection software, and
sends mainframe logs and event notifications
to multiple locations. This transparency allows
the local mainframe Security Administrators to
perform their normal duties, the local SOC to
perform theirs, and permits a Managed Services
Cyber Security Center to monitor mainframe
logs and events from several customers in
Real-Time.
DB2®, CICS®, SMF®, and z/OS® are registered
trademarks of International Business Machines.
All references to them and field names remain
the property of International Business Machines
Corporation. All trademarks, trade names, service
marks and logos referenced herein belong to their
respective companies.
While we take every care to ensure the accuracy
of the information contained in this material, the
facts estimates and opinions stated are based
on information and sources which, while we
believe them to be reliable, are not guaranteed.
In particular, it should not be relied upon as the
sole source of reference in relation to the subject
matter. No liability can be accepted by the authors
for any loss occasioned to any person or entity
acting or failing to act as a result of anything
contained in or omitted from the content of this
material, or our conclusions as stated.
About the Authors
Stephen D. Rubin
Stephen D. Rubin is the founder and president
of MMI. Under his leadership MMI has a track
record of 20 years of financial success in creating
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business markets for information technology
services (IT) across North America. Areas of
business include training, consulting services, and
software. MMI has trained over 3,000 IT students
representing over 400 corporations in database
design, information security, capacity planning and
distributed application development. Professional
service engagements have included information
security, server consolidation, and the auditing of
capacity planning and chargeback methodologies
for both public and private sectors. Stephen has
authored white papers to drive market recognition
and helped create the United States marketplace
for a European software start-up client.
William Buriak
William Buriak has over 25 years of information
technology experience with an extensive
background in financial services, healthcare, and
technical and management consulting. Bill is a
Senior Executive with demonstrated experience
in planning, developing, and implementing cost
effective, innovative solutions to address complex
business problems. He has broad recognized
experience in managing mainframe systems, Web
based, and distributed systems. He has extensive
qualifications including vendor management,
consensus building, and strategic planning skills.
Currently working in the Security Engineering area
of a major world bank, Mr. Buriak is responsible
for compliance and control of a large number of
global products.
Jerry Harding
Jerry Harding is CEO of Type80 Security Software,
Inc. He has over 25 years of mainframe Systems
Programming experience, providing professional
services to commercial clients and government
agencies. He also has over 15 years of security
experience including providing training to NATO’s
Counterintelligence Agency (ACE CI), the
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(SHAPE), as well as other public and private
organizations.
About Type80:
Type80 Security Software is an IBM Business
Partner in software development and was founded
by experts in the areas of mainframe z/OS
Systems Programming and Information Security.
The company draws from a diverse background,
from providing cybersecurity training to NATO
counter intelligence, conducting enterprise-wide
security assessments for companies maintaining
the nation’s critical infrastructure, and developing
high-level mainframe applications for major
financial institutions.
Our primary software product is called SMA_RT
(Security Monitor Alerts in Real-Time). Our
SMA_RT software development began in 1998,
the product availability was announced in 2002,
and awarded a US Patent in 2007, making it the
first Real-Time mainframe intrusion detection,
z/OS SIEM agent and log event processing
software of its kind.
SMA_RT has been deployed across four continents
with commercial customers in the Financial,
Banking, Payment Card Processing, Automobile
Importers, Retail Sales, International Hotel/Travel,
Corporate Management, HealthCare, Insurance,
Educational, Telecommunications and Home
Security industries.
Please visit our website at www.type80.com
and contact us or one of our preferred reseller
partners for additional information or if you have
any questions on our software.
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How many IT security
auditors does it take to
screw in a light bulb?
Phil Norcross describes why and how to
secure z/OS file transfers by means of SSH
and/or SFTP
How many IT security auditors does it take to
screw in a light bulb? I promise you a punch line.
Soon. But long tradition says I worry you first by
describing the serious problem we can help you
solve.
Doom and Dread
Keeping your organization’s data out of the
hands of bad guys is an urgent matter of grave
importance. Failure to keep your data safe can be
very, very expensive, among other disadvantages.
The infamous breach of 2013, in which a big
retailer gave up millions of credit card records,
has cost that company $264 million. $90 million
was paid for by insurance. The rest was not. And
not all the bills have come in yet—the suits are
still in court.1
Last year, a U.S. government agency—the single
largest employer on the planet—gave up employee
records regarding security clearances. “Hackers
likely stole every background-investigation form
completed...since 2000.”2 Ain’t that scary: the
people who grant security clearances got hacked.
The boss, Katherine Archuleta, no longer runs the
agency.
In November 2015 they indicted the guy who
allegedly stole 83 million addresses from a big,
giant bank in New York. He and his people appear
to have used the addresses to persuade bank
customers to buy stock that the thieves had bought
low, so the price would go up, so the thieves could
sell high.3 Except for the getting caught part, that
sounds like a much cleverer use of stolen e-mails
than smuggling bank accounts for the Nigerian
prince.
Please forgive me for making light of these matters.
I do respect the high importance of data security.
I just don’t think you need to be reminded. If you
don’t already know that data security matters, a
lot, then you’ve been living under a rock, in the
dark, and some IT security auditor will very soon
direct you to turn on the lights.
How many IT security auditors does it take to
screw in a light bulb? Nobody knows. Auditors
don’t fix lights. They complain that it’s dark and tell
someone else—you for example—to do the fixing.
What do You Fix Next?
What do you fix next? TechTarget reported some
survey results last fall that boil down to this: The
hardest part of IT security is “risk management,”
the guessing where the greatest threats come
from and how much time and money to spend
on security right now.4 They make it sound like
gambling. To loosely paraphrase: “I bet the next
leak will appear at the FTP clients. This year, let’s
put our money and people on that, and gamble
that no one attacks us through the e-mail server
till next year.”
Think of it as investment, rather than gambling.
In that case, “What do we fix next?” is at least a
two-sided question: One, what investment of time,
money, and people will get us the biggest return
in crime prevented? And two, what are the small,
quick fixes we can implement with a relatively
small investment of time, money, and people?
And when the auditor points out a dark spot where
replacing the bulb will meet both of those criteria,
then Bingo! That’s the security problem you fix
next.
Take FTP for example. FTP has been in use for
a very long time. The bugs are worked out. It just
runs, and we can forget about it. Every night, a
scheduled batch job uses FTP to transfer today’s
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patient data across town quietly, competently.
Each morning, another job sends yesterday’s
credit card charges to the bank. On Saturdays, a
batch job transfers next week’s payroll numbers
to headquarters.
The trouble is, FTP was built long, long ago,
with no attention to security. The data is cleartext. The commands are clear-text. The IDs and
passwords are clear-text too. And you simply
can’t keep sending that clear-text data anywhere
outside the building, not anymore. No matter how
many long-running batch jobs you’ve got relying
on FTP, you’ve got to secure them, and probably
very soon, because the risk is high and the auditor
is complaining.
On the other hand, the solutions are surprisingly
simple. A simple bit of monitoring will show you
the extent of your FTP risk (See the sidebar). And
there are at least two very reliable ways to secure
that FTP traffic from z/OS—without revising a
single line of the JCL in those batch jobs.
Both of those solutions involve securing FTP traffic
by encrypting it with SSH.
Secure FTP with SSH and VitalSigns for FTP
Secure Shell (SSH) is a widely trusted cryptographic
protocol. It was first released in July 1995 as
a secure alternative to rlogin and telnet. It
spread quickly and widely. By the end of ‘95, it’s
inventor, Tatu Ylönen of the Helsinki University of
Technology, had founded SSH Communications
Security to manage further development.
The original freeware has evolved into OpenSSH,
a broad collection of tools that implement SSH
security. Ylönen’s company makes proprietary
improvements and now provides Tectia® SSH
Clients and Tectia® SSH Servers to implement
SSH on most significant platforms, including z/OS.
SSH uses public/private key encryption (a.k.a.
PKI) to authenticate users and machines, to
encrypt traffic, and ensure the integrity of data.
It is now the standard network security tool
in the Linux/Unix world. Remote access to a
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Linux/Unix system is almost always guarded by
SSH. Microsoft® promises a implementation for
Windows® this year.5
SSH encrypts IDs, commands, and data, and
passes them through a single connection between
client and server. Configuring firewalls to allow SSH
traffic is far simpler than FTP-TLS alternatives,
because SSH uses a single connection for both
commands and data, in both directions, through
one standard port number. That one connection
can even handle multiple simultaneous sessions.
SSH can secure z/OS FTP traffic in either of two
ways:
1 Send FTP transfers through an encrypted “SSH
tunnel.”
2 Convert FTP to Secure FTP (SFTP).
The difference is the number of FTP installations
involved. Tunneling means transferring data
between two FTP installations, with SSH in the
middle. FTP-to-SFTP conversion lets FTP and
SSH at one end transfer data to an SSH client/
server living alone at the other end—a common
situation on Linux/Unix boxes.
FTP through an SSH Tunnel
SSH tunneling means that a file transfer gets
encrypted before it leaves its home machine, then
decrypted after it is safely inside the destination
machine. SSH clients/servers reside at either end,
guarding the passage between the FTP clients/
servers and the outside world. The SSH tunnel
transports safely encrypted FTP commands and
data between them. See figure 1.
Converting FTP to Secure FTP (SFTP)
SFTP is the SSH version of FTP; it’s the file
transfer mechanism built into SSH clients and
servers. The SSH client/server supplies user
authentication, data encryption and compression,
connection management, data integrity checks.
But you can’t just issue FTP commands to an SSH
client/server and have SFTP come out the other
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Figure 1: z/OS FTP transfers encrypted and passed through an SSH tunnel
side. The command syntax is different, so you
need some kind of translator in between.
The harder part is telling the FTP clients/servers
to work with their SSH partners.
So you put an SSH client on z/OS, between your
FTP client and the outside world. The FTP client
passes commands and data to the SSH client.
The SSH device converts FTP to SFTP. Then
secure SFTP traffic travels the SSH connection
to the SSH server at the other end. See figure 2.
You might rewrite all the z/OS batch jobs that
use FTP, so that they tell the z/OS FTP client to
work through SSH tunnels, or to convert FTP to
SFTP, or both, or one or the other, depending on
the destination. But revising JCL to encode those
directions is definitely the hard way, about like
shoveling snow with a scrap of lumber.
What’s the Hard Part?
It is relatively simple to install the SSH clients/
servers and get them talking to one another.
The simpler alternative is smart controlling
software that wraps around the FTP client and
changes its configuration to match the job and
Figure 2: z/OS FTP transfers automatically converted to encrypted SFTP
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How Much FTP Traffic are You Sending?
It’s not hard to log FTP traffic to and from z/
OS to the z/OS System Management Facility
(SMF). One small change to FTP server
configuration will generate SMF 119 records for
the z/OS FTP server. Another small change to
TCP/IP stack configuration will generate SMF
119 records for the FTP client.
z/OS FTP Server Monitoring
In the server configuration member, typically
n a m e d T C P I P. F T P. D ATA , a d d t h e s e
parameters.
SMF TYPE119 ; SMF RECORDS USE STANDARD
SUBTYPES
SMFJES ; SMF RECORDING WHEN FILETYPE=JES
SMFSQL ; SMF RECORDING WHEN FILETYPE=SQL
Then re-start the server.
z/OS FTP Client Monitoring
To the stack configuration add the following
SMFCONFIG statement:
SMFCONFIG TYPE119 FTPCLIENT
You can add the statement by editing the stack’s
configuration member, TCPIP.PROFILE,
then re-starting the stack. Or you can add
the statement dynamically with an obeyfile
command:
the destination. Think of it as a proxy FTP client.
It sits between the batch jobs and the native z/
OS FTP client. You configure z/OS to use it as
the default for outgoing FTP commands and data.
Then when a batch job wants to send a transfer, it
talks to this proxy FTP client. The proxy looks at
the job name, or the user ID, or the destination,
then passes the message to native z/OS FTP
along with configuration instructions about SSH
encryption and/or conversion.
Conclusion
The system I’m describing is a VitalSigns for FTPSSH Tectia combination from Software Diversified
Services. VFTP-SSH on z/OS will secure any and
all outgoing FTP traffic that has an SSH installed
at the other end.
And VFTP-SSH will do that without you having to
re-write a single line of batch JCL code.
On top of that, VFTP provides far simpler and more
thorough monitoring of z/OS FTP traffic than z/OS
itself does. Auditors love it when you show them
monitoring records to prove that, yes, you did fix
that bulb. The lights are on. The rats stay away.
The data is safe.
Visit www.sdsusa.com/vftp/ssh
V TCPIP,TCPIP,O,TCPIP.PROFILE(membername)
where membername is a member that contains
the SMFCONFIG statement.
With a bit of massaging, filtering, and sorting,
those SMF records can tell you how many
FTP sessions and transfers your z/OS system
generates; the volume of traffic, by hour, day,
month; and the names and addresses of the
users generating that traffic.
For help analyzing the results, call an expert.
I suggest Software Diversified Services, 763571-9000, info@sdsusa.com.
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Notes
1 Evan Ramstad, “St. Paul judge certifies
class-action status to banks in Target breach
suit,” StarTribune, 15 Sept. 2015, http://
www.startribune.com/st-paul-judge-certifiesclass-action-status-to-banks-in-target-breachsuit/327772621/
2 Steven Norton and Clint Boulton, “Years of
Tech Mismanagement Led to OPM Breach,
Resignation of Chief,” Wall Street Journal, 10
July 2015, http://blogs.wsj.com/cio/2015/07/10/
3 Liz Moyer, “Prosecutors Announce More
Charges in Hacking of JPMorgan Chase,”
New York Times, 10 Nov. 2015, http://www.
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4 Michael Heller, “TechTarget Survey: IT risk
management, compliance top tasks,” 19 Nov.
2015, http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/
news/4500257593/TechTarget-Survey-IT-riskmanagement-compliance-top-tasks
5 Steve Lee, “OpenSSH for Windows Update,” 19
Oct. 2015, http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/
archive/2015/10/19/openssh-for-windowsupdate.aspx
About the Author and Software Diversified
Services
Phil Norcross is documentation chief at Software
Diversified Services (SDS), in Minneapolis, MN,
USA.
SDS is provides enterprise software for multiple
platforms, with a 30-year history of delivering
award-winning support and customer-centric IT
infrastructure solutions. www.sdsusa.com.
VitalSigns for FTP (VFTP) secures, monitors,
automates, and audits FTP traffic through z/OS
FTP clients and servers. It is one in the family
of VitalSigns network products for z/OS, a lowoverhead, easy-to-use suite that employs web
browsers to provide a modern graphic interface
to z/OS.
The SDS E-Business Server® provides industrystandard PGP encryption to automatically protect
corporate data in applications, email, file transfers,
and transaction processing.
Devops
The idea behind DevOps is to bring about more of an integration of people and roles, so
that the developers would write what the end users needed and the people looking after
the application understood what the developer was hoping to achieve. So, DevOps is more
a philosophical idea than a set of hard-and-fast rules for software development where
communication and collaboration between developers and IT staff is paramount. In this way,
companies can rapidly produce software and services they need and improve operational
performance.
The term, DevOps, seems to have originated with a couple of Agile software developers
called Andrew Clay Shafer and Patrick Debois in 2009. Agile software development is different
from the usual road-map type of development in that requirements and solutions evolve as
cross-functional teams meet and collaborate.
Using a DevOps approach means organizations can deploy software more quickly than
before, and the software is more likely to work as expected in a live environment. If it doesn’t
work, there is less time taken to fix the problem. And a high degree of automation can be
built into the software from the start. For many people unfamiliar with this way of working, it
can be surprising how many versions of the software there can be in a given period of time.
The IBM site (http://www.ibm.com/ibm/devops/us/en/) suggests that DevOps allows you to
build, test, and deploy mobile apps with back-end mainframe services securely in a hybrid
cloud. IBM offers a number of products and solutions that support the DevOps approach and
accelerate adoption. They are, the Web page claims, built on open standards and designed
to work in concert with each other, as well as with open source solutions.
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Changing the core of
everything
Bernhard Prüger, Manager Product Marketing,
Data Center Intelligence at Beta Systems takes
a look at why changing the core company
business application changes the whole
company IT. And how Beta Systems helps to
make this transition happen.
Many companies have thoughts about changing
their core business application, e.g. their ERP
system or – in this example – their core banking
system. Those changes are usually complex,
as the dependencies in IT and organization are
deep and sometimes unknown. Learn how a retail
bank is managing this transition process from its
custom legacy mainframe solution to a leading
retail banking core application in a renewed IT
environment.
Today, homogeneous IT landscapes based on
a technology stack (e.g. using IBM, Microsoft
or Unix/Linux systems) are no longer the norm.
Most customers with a longstanding Mainframe
background now employ hybrid infrastructures
comprising e.g. self-build programs run on the host
combined with server-based applications operated
on other systems. The retail bank started taking
this to the next level by migrating all mainframe
operations to a new server-based operating
system platform. This decision was made after
selecting a new core banking system which will be
operated on a linux platform. The comprehensive
migration project also requires the bank to migrate
all scheduling, output management and print
distribution products on the new platform.
Replacing custom or self-build, host-based and
batch-operated programs with state-of-the-art,
standards-based core banking software is the
key pillar of the customer’s present modernization
strategy and many other major banks as well.
Why changing the core banking application and
the IT environment:
• It allows financial institutions to reduce
expenditures for system operation and
maintenance.
• Implement new business processes much
faster and better meet increasing legal
requirements.
• Leveraging new functionality not available for
the legacy platform.
A modern core banking system such as Avaloq,
which the customer started to introduce in early
2015, allows the bank to meet challenges including
real-time banking, new functionality, compliance,
transparency and traceability of business cases
much more effectively.
Smooth Migration Service
Undertaking a technology shift of this scale
naturally also has a direct impact on the operating
platform. Beta Systems supports customers
whatever their choice: The Beta UX Suite delivers
software tools for log and output management
as well as archiving, thus complementing the
traditional host-based product range. The Bank
serves as an excellent example. They have
been using a comprehensive portfolio of Beta
Systems products to manage their host-based IT
processes for nearly 20 years. And now they are
moving to a new system landscape with the aid
of the Beta Systems Professional Services team,
which has developed a dedicated standardized
transition approach based on our knowhow, our
own tools and checklists that reflect the experience
gained in many projects. The project includes a
transition of scheduling & batch processing, log
management, output management as well as longterm document archive migrations.
Migration Started with the Document Archive
The first step in the customer migration project
involved replacing the long-term host-based
document archive with Beta UX ContentMaster.
This took precedence over introducing the new
core banking solution and replacing the z/OS
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platform. The Beta UX ContentMaster solution
from Beta Systems ensures forward-looking,
legally compliant archiving of a broad range
of different document types including account
statements, securities notifications, forms and
scanned incoming documents such as remittance
slips. A total of approximately 80 million documents
were transferred to the new archive.
Optimize Processes and Meet GRC Standards
through Job Management
Beta UX LogMaster offers functions for automatic
log processing, indexing and analysis, automatic
log event response, audit-compliant archiving
in the original format, company-wide provision
via a web-based interface browser and many
more features. When it comes to evaluating and
archiving job and process logs on the hardware,
operating system and application level, the tool is
an invaluable helper. It enables full documentation
and evaluation of business processes, thus driving
process optimization and helping the operator
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meet internal GRC standards as well as legal
regulations. The customer will use the software
to manage the logs of roughly 500,000 jobs per
month.
Logic Helps Regulate Output Management
Dispatch Control
The switch to Beta UX DistributionMaster also
improved the bank’s output management quality.
While the z/OS-based predecessor mainly
functioned as a ‘load distributor’ that allocated
incoming documents to the respective distribution
channel (printer, archive…), the customer can
now define their own logic to control document
dispatch. The documents are read and assigned
based on certain criteria. Beta Systems adjusts the
standard output management functions according
to the customer’s requirements. The bank’s
customers also benefit from this: For example,
thanks to bundling they will now receive a single
batch mailing or, even more conveniently, a PDF
via e-mail rather than five different mails.
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From Mere Scheduling to Workload Automation
Another task that needed to be carried out right
alongside implementing job log and output
management was to set up a new scheduling
scheme for the core banking system. The
customer decided to use the Streamworks
enterprise scheduling solution developed by Beta
Systems partner arvato Systems. Streamworks
surpassed competing solutions in key categories,
including clarity of structure: Streamworks offers
a consistent solution for any requirement. As
an added plus, the overall solution facilitates
operation thanks to an intuitive user interface.
Streamworks incorporates the know-how of
Bertelsmann Group’s own data center operations
and also includes the most valuable functions of
other server-based scheduling systems. Owing to
this design principle, the product offers the best
of both worlds: Standardization and consistent
structures based on the hosting environment help
to simplify workflows and risks, while the look-&feel is derived from the distributed world.
Summary
A migration project such as the one undertaken
by the customer requires deep integration both of
production planning and application development.
The project effort is extensive, but return on
investment is already achieved over the medium
term. Beta Systems is actively helping in the
transition and has supported the bank to meet
the challenging time frame set for the project.
Our products enabled the banks to renew their
IT landscape with solutions similar or superior
to the host-based legacy infrastructure. Due to
our mainframe experience built into our Beta UX
product the adoption by the bank operations team
was quick and needed less training effort than
expected.
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About the author
Bernhard Prüger is responsible for marketing of all
products in Beta Systems Data Center Intelligence
(DCI) product portfolio. He’s a marketing and
IT professional with nearly twenty years of
experience promoting B2B software and services
for the enterprise IT.
About Beta Systems
For over 30 years, Beta Systems has been
providing high-quality infrastructure software
products for the secure and efficient processing
of large volumes of data to ensure compliance
with all regulatory and corporate requirements.
The multiplatform software solutions for z/OS,
Unix, Linux and Windows environments automate,
document and analyze business-critical IT
processes in the datacenters of large enterprises,
IT service providers, public authorities and
midsized companies. Beta Systems datacenter
intelligence portfolio focuses on areas including
output management and archiving, log/security
information management, workload automation
and job management.
Beta Systems Software AG (BSS, ISIN
DE0005224406) was founded in 1983, has been
listed on the stock ex-change since 1997 and
employs around 300 staff. Company headquarters
are located in Berlin, Germany. The company,
together with its 16 self-owned subsidiaries and
numerous partners, is active across the globe.
More than 1,300 customers all over the world
are currently operating over 3,200 installations in
more than 30 countries. They employ products and
solutions from Beta Systems to optimize their IT
landscape and maximize security. The company
is a leading mid-sized, independent European
software solution provider that generates about
half of its turnover abroad.
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Using Big Data analytics
for real-time auditing of
mainframe applications
Becky Albin, Chief Architect for Adabas
& Natural at Software AG, explores how
customers use big data analytics to
audit Mainframe applications to optimize
performance, protect sensitive information
and prevent fraud.
Big data analytics
It’s time to think differently about how you
approach the opportunities and risks of doing
business today. The velocity at which data flows
from a vast variety of data sources contains
valuable insights that must be detected and acted
upon immediately.
Big data analytics opens new opportunities to
greatly increase the value of your big iron’s
transactional data. Most Adabas & Natural
systems on the Mainframe or Linux®, UNIX®
and Windows® (LUW) already contain high-value
data and conduct mission-critical transaction
processes. By leveraging big data analytics, you
can monitor fast-moving operational data from
multiple sources, detect patterns and take action
immediately to optimize performance, protect
sensitive information and prevent fraud.
Big data analytics correlates, aggregates, filters
and queries large volumes of fast-moving data
from multiple sources to make intelligent decisions
with real-time visualization. Through streaming
analytics, you can enrich real-time events, detect
patterns and derive context to improve decisionmaking. Combine all that with an in-memory data
management architecture that provides scalability
and high availability with extremely low latency and
you have the tools you need to take advantage of
all that big iron and big data have to offer.
Let’s explore how two Software AG customers are
using big data analytics to audit their Mainframe
applications, increasing the value of their core
data and providing actionable intelligence from
data that is always changing.
Figure 1: Optimize performance, protect sensitive information and prevent fraud with
Big Data Analytics
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Driving innovation in government services
Managing the systems of a large government
organization is no easy task. The IT department
of the largest city in the U.S., a long-standing
customer of Software AG, knows it must
continuously enhance system performance in
order offer better services to its clients—a vast
network of 120 agencies, boards and offices, more
than 8 million residents, 300,000 employees, and
230,000 businesses every day—and 50 million
visitors each year.
Tasked with driving innovation, this department is
responsible for:
• Modernizing government technology
• Increasing digital literacy opportunities among
its citizens
• Facilitating a more transparent and open
government
• Creating innovative partnerships with
today’s leaders in technology to improve
IT infrastructure, service delivery and civic
engagement
To successfully execute against its responsibilities,
this IT department must:
• Monitor applications and infrastructure to
ensure optimal performance
• Deliver continuous availability of its systems
• Guarantee security of its systems
• Address challenging audit requirements
To meet these challenges, the IT department
implemented a big data analytics solution that
combines Software AG’s Digital Business Platform
with current software monitoring features. The
solution enables the IT department to visually
monitor a complex multi-platform environment
that spans across multiple agencies from a single
location.
How it works
Unlike traditional performance monitoring that
only provides insights into a single database at
a time, big data analytics captures event data
from multiple data sources in real time. These
streams of events are analyzed against unique,
multi-dimensional filtering mechanisms that
quickly detect sought-after patterns defined by
the IT department. The events are visualized on
an interactive dashboard that provides real-time
insights, triggering appropriate responses and
action.
Figure 2: Big Data Analytics capabilities
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To identify potential problems with database or
event service bus performance, these KPIs are
monitored and displayed using dashboard alerts:
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Excessive commands issued to the database
Database activity and usage trends
Database resource health
Unusual sever activity
Transactions and messages on servers for
potential runaway jobs
• Severs active or inactive status
The application monitoring tool measures the
response time of the distributed applications and
identifies error situations. Each call to a selected
service by a client application is monitored and
measured for the overall service response times,
the network transport times, the broker process
and wait times, the Remote Procedure Call (RPC)
server processing times, and the time spent for
database calls.
Each involved Software AG enterprise product
concatenates the monitored time(s) with the
service call. When the call returns to the client,
the client RPC runtime provides the event data
to an application monitoring data collector. The
information is then combined into application
monitoring reports that are generated every 60
seconds and automatically consumed by the
streaming analytics component (Apama) of the
Digital Business Platform to display the results
and alerts.
Software AG’s Apama Streaming Analytics
Platform monitors the rapidly moving event
streams, detects and analyzes important events
and patterns of events, and immediately acts on
events of interest. It combines event processing,
messaging, in-memory data management and
visualization to help the department put real-time
data in context to make intelligent decisions.
Processing events differs from traditional
applications; rather than continuously executing
a sequence of instructions, they listen for and
respond to relevant events. An event-based
system waits and responds appropriately to an
asynchronous signal as soon as it happens. In
this way, the response is as immediate or real
time as possible.
With big data analytics now in place, the
measurements of the predefined KPIs are now
visualized on a dashboard and SMS messages
and emails are produced to quickly alert the IT
department of performance issues.
The results
Through active 24/7 monitoring and email alerts,
the IT department can proactively resolve problem
Figure 3: Big Data Analytics identifies threats so action can be taken in real-time
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environments before end-users even notice there
is a problem. In other cases, the IT department
will have advance notice of an impending failure
so that recovery steps can be taken in a more
expeditious manner.
Visualizing the performance of all the system
components through a graphical dashboard
increases the efficiency of identifying performance
issues. The graphical dashboard leverages
drop-down menus to monitor all components
from a single location, eliminating the need to
log on, check the health and log off of multiple
environments. This greatly reduces the likelihood
of missing an environment health check and frees
up to 10 man-hours per week.
Executing against new and changing business
rules
Another state agency in the U.S. also turned
to event analytics to tackle fraud and address
changing regulatory requirements in health and
human services. This agency has long relied on
two Mainframe applications that manage child
support and public assistance. These applications
are very stable but every year business rules
change, new business rules are added and
integration with different applications is required.
Rather than buy or develop new applications to
address these needs, the department turned to
Software AG’s big data analytics.
Big data analytics gives this state agency a
mechanism to modernize its applications and
meet the regulatory and user demands for a
fraction of the cost to replace them. Since all the
data needed already exists, the solution streams
the applicable data to Software AG’s Apama
Streaming Analytics Platform where business
users are provided modern dashboards with
graphical data representations to productively
perform their job.
The state agency is tasked with identifying
unauthorized access to child support case data in
near real-time and reporting statistical and financial
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information about their state-administered Child
Support Enforcement (CSE) program to the U.S.
Federal Government’s Department of Health and
Human Services (HHS). This information is used
by the Secretary of HHS to comply with sections
409, 452(a) and (g), 458, and 469 of the Social
Security Act. This act requires the Secretary to
establish standards for an effective CSE program,
to establish minimum organization and staffing
requirements, and to make an annual report to
the Congress on program activities.
KPIs trigger fraud alerts
Apama Streaming Analytics uses Internet of
Things (IoT) queries to continuously analyze
streaming CSE data and provide predictive data
in real time. The state agency uses this data to
monitor unauthorized access to case data as well
user and case access thresholds.
To identify fraud, the following KPIs were identified
and measured:
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Unauthorized access by user
Unauthorized access by case
Latest unauthorized access violations
Most accesses by case number
Most accesses by user
Detailed report by month
Worker case load
Child support balance
If a particular case was viewed 20 times in the
past hour (which is not normal access activity), the
unauthorized access would be flagged as potential
fraud. This would prompt a quick investigation.
The results
Big data analytics helps this state agency
proactively identify cases of fraud and collect
accurate, predictive information based on current
and historic CSE data.
Using business intelligence to provide insights into
data thresholds enables staff to act on violations
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Figure 4: Identifying unauthorized access to case data with Big Data Analytics
proactively. Identifying fraudulent access in real
time will improve relations with citizens and
reduce the current dissatisfaction with latent
responsiveness.
Complying with Federal 156 reporting requirements
using accurate, predictive data will help the state
more quickly receive money needed from the
Federal CSE budget to staff the correct number
of personnel and resources needed for CSE
enforcement. The information submitted to HHS is
also used to evaluate state performance in running
its CSE program and determine appropriate
incentives.
Conclusion
What if you could stop fraud before it happens?
Monitor all of your data streams through
automation—real-time incoming alerts from
smart meters, database events and log data,
inconsistencies between consumption and billing,
changes in consumption patterns compared to
historical levels and processes associated with
investigating questionable service and security
levels. Then, by integrating these multiple streams
in a way that allows real-time comparison and
benchmarking, you provide your employees the
tools to identify fraud sooner, protecting your
infrastructure as well as your revenue.
With Software AG’s big data analytics and
Mainframe integration technologies, you now
have the ability to make business decisions on
real-time data from multiple sources including
your transactional data in Adabas & Natural
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applications. Through interactive, self-service
dashboards you can view real-time insights into
critical aspects of the business using your mobile
device, your laptop or any other platform you
choose. And more importantly, you can automate
intelligent actions to take place when certain
criteria or thresholds occur.
Prior to Software AG, Becky was with a federal
law enforcement agency for nine years. Becky
continues to travel the world helping customers
develop and refine their data management
strategies. Her proactive problem solving continues
to guide development of new features for the
Adabas family of products.
Embrace big data today—as one of the four
forces of mobile, social, big data and cloud—that
are reshaping expectations and possibilities. You
cannot ignore the opportunities of the big data
evolution.
About Software AG
Software AG offers the world’s first Digital
Business Platform. Recognized as a leader by
the industry’s top analyst firms, Software AG
helps you combine existing systems on premises
and in the cloud into a single platform to optimize
your business and delight your customers. With
Software AG, you can rapidly build and deploy
digital business applications to exploit real-time
market opportunities. Get maximum value from
big data, make better decisions with streaming
analytics, achieve more with the Internet of
Things, and respond faster to shifting regulations
and threats with intelligent governance, risk and
compliance. The world’s top brands trust Software
AG to help them rapidly innovate, differentiate
and win in the digital world. Learn more at www.
SoftwareAG.com.
About the author
Becky Albin is Chief Architect for Software AG and
is a leading authority on all that is Adabas. During
her career of more than 20 years with Software
AG, Becky has influenced product development,
marketing direction and partnership pursuits.
Her insights into real-world data management
challenges and their solutions are based on her
daily experience working directly with customers,
Professional Services and developers to fine tune
their databases and data strategies for optimal
performance.
What is Spark?
Spark is an open source cluster distributed framework and data processing engine and it
comes from Apache. It started life in 2009 at the AMPLab (Algorithms, Machines, People)
at UC Berkeley. It’s basically an alternative to Hadoop’s MapReduce – in fact, for some
applications, it can be 100 times faster than MapReduce. Developers can write applications
quickly in Java, Scala, or Python, and Spark has over 80 high-level operators making it easy
to build parallel apps. Plus, from the Scala and Python shells, it can be used interactively.
Spark allows users to combine SQL, streaming, and complex analytics. It provides a number
of high-level tools including Spark SQL, MLlib for machine learning, GraphX, and Spark
Streaming. These libraries can be combined in the same application.
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Mainstreaming the
Mainframe
Why Enterprise DevOps Should
Take Control of Legacy Applications—Now!
Like everyone else, you’re being bombarded with
content. So you probably read only a fraction of
what you encounter. We ask that you approach
this article differently, because at Compuware we
genuinely believe it offers insight that is unique,
fact-based, actionable and essential to the
success of any company with a mainframe. We
also ask that you read it even if you aren’t currently
Key Concepts
1) The clock is ticking on siloed mainframe
teams. Skilled mainframe professionals are
retiring—and there are few new ones to
replace them. Yet mainframe applications
remain essential. IT therefore needs a viable
strategy for maintaining and nimbly adapting
mainframe code in response to relentlessly
changing business requirements.
2) IT must respond by rapidly mainstreaming
the mainframe. Instead of continuing to
depend on mainframe specialists, IT must
empower DevOps staff with mainstream
skills to treat the mainframe as just another
platform in the multi-platform enterprise—
using the same DevOps tools and processes
they use for Java, x86 Linux servers, cloud,
etc.
3) Mainstreaming doesn’t just solve a
mainframe problem. It delivers competitive
advantage to the entire digital enterprise. To
excel in digital markets, it’s not enough to be
big. You have to be fast, too. An enterprise
DevOps environment that supports agility
and collaboration best practices across all
platforms—including the mainframe—is
therefore a competitive requirement.
responsible for your company’s mainframe—
because, as we argue, that responsibility now
needs to become part of mainstream IT.
THE END OF THE MAINFRAME SILO
For decades, IT has treated the mainframe as
a distinct functional silo. Mainframe staffs have
distinct skills, use distinct tools, employ distinct
processes and even possess a distinct subculture.
This silo came about for understandable reasons.
The mainframe, lest we forget, significantly
predates distributed computing—so for years it
was the only IT game in town. When distributed
computing finally emerged, mainframe teams
had concerns about protecting the stability and
integrity of their environments. And many of those
concerns—especially those regarding reliability,
complexity, cost and security—turned out to be
quite valid.
As with all tragedy, however, the isolation that kept
the mainframe stable and secure through decades
of technology tumult is now proving to be its
undoing. The mainframe has become like a secret
cult attended to by its own insular priesthood,
aloof and disengaged from the wider world of
commodity x86 infrastructure and the cloud. And
most IT leaders have exacerbated the situation by
aggressively cutting mainframe costs, rather than
investing in mainframe application development.
The result: mainframe environments are
insufficiently responsive to the business—not
because of any inherent property of the mainframe
itself, but rather because of how it has been
managed.
Also, because the mainframe has been siloed
and neglected for so long, few IT professionals
outside of the mainframe subculture know COBOL
or understand how MSUs work. They may write
code that calls DB2 on the mainframe—but the
platform itself is completely opaque to them.
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The siloed, non-agile approach to mainframe
DevOps is no longer tenable for several reasons,
including:
n Mainframe-specific skills attrition. The highly
skilled mainframe professionals who have been
managing the mainframe and its applications
are aging out of the workforce. There is little
likelihood that younger IT professionals with
similarly high technical aptitudes will want to
consign themselves to isolated mainframespecific careers.
n Irreplaceable code. Mainframe applications
are so evolved and ingrained into the business
that they are indispensable. And they cannot
practically be re-platformed. Companies must
therefore figure out how to preserve both
mainframe applications and the mainframe
platform over the course of the next decade
or more, despite attrition of their mainframe
specialists.
n Inter-platform dependency. Digital business
superiority depends in part on IT’s ability to
leverage all available application logic and data
across and beyond the enterprise, regardless
of platform or programming language. So
companies must do much more than merely
maintain their mainframe applications as
self-contained entities. They must also more
aggressively evolve and leverage mainframe
application code and data in tandem with their
non-mainframe assets.
n The need for speed. The pace of mainframe
development cannot continue to be egregiously
slower than the rest of IT. Agile responsiveness
is of the essence, especially when it comes
to back-end support for customer-facing
mobile apps. Slow DevOps processes on the
mainframe undermine business agility in a toxic
and potentially fatal way.
Simply put, companies cannot accept the
mainframe status quo at a time when mainframe
applications, data and processing power are
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A Brief History of Mainframe Territoriality
Mainstream IT has always struggled to
leverage mainframe resources in the context
of siloed mainframe territoriality. That struggle
has played out in five successive stages:
Terminal Emulation
Mainframe staffs permit access to
mainframe applications and data from
users’ PCs via “screen-scraping” and
other techniques.
Application Calls
Mainframe staffs allow distributed
applications to access mainframe
data, application logic and transaction
processing on a case-by-case basis.
End-to-end Monitoring
Mainframe staffs share selected
platform telemetry and enable limited
access by enterprise performance/
fault monitoring tools.
Batch Analysis
Mainframe staffs set parameters for
delivering data in bulk to mainstream
enterprise BI tools—and, later,
Hadoop-based environments.
Mainstreaming
Mainstream enterprise DevOps teams
are fully empowered to leverage
mainframe resources directly—with
appropriate policy-based controls.
more valuable to the business than ever. IT can
only give the business all the digital capabilities
it needs, when it needs them, if the mainframe is
just as agile and accessible to developers, data
analysts and operations as every other platform.
All IT leaders must therefore confront the
mainframe issue decisively and presently,
regardless of their personal prejudices and
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perceptions—and regardless of whether they
even have direct responsibility for the mainframe
as things stand today.
MAINSTREAMING THE MAINFRAME
The mainframe cannot continue in its current
siloed state. But IT must ensure its ongoing
viability, because its applications are indispensable
and cannot be re-platformed. The one logical
conclusion: IT must ultimately bring the mainframe
into its mainstream cross-platform DevOps work
processes.
This mainstreaming must address three core
areas of mainframe functionality:
Mainframe Applications
Existing mainframe applications present IT with
perhaps its most important and most challenging
mainstreaming objective.
This objective is most important because:
1) Mainframe application logic is extremely
valuable to the business.
2) The re-platforming of that application logic has
proven to be highly impractical.
Existing mainframe applications represent IT’s
most challenging mainstreaming objective
because:
1) Mainframe applications have been running
so long and have been modified so often that
they are usually not very well documented any
more—and may not even be well understood
by IT.
2) Fluency in legacy languages such as COBOL,
PL/l and Assembler tends to be pretty scarce.
The good news is code is code. So while Millennial
developers with mainstream skill sets may not be
familiar with the particular syntax of COBOL, the
basic principles of application logic still apply. And
given the proven adaptability of today’s developers
when it comes to learning new programming
language syntaxes, the current dearth of COBOL
expertise does not actually present IT with an
insurmountable problem.
In fact, mainstream developers can readily take
charge of mainframe applications simply by being
given the ability to:
n Write, modify, debug and manage mainframe
code in their preferred IDEs
n Receive immediate guidance and feedback on
software quality issues as they code
n Include mainframe code in the same automated
test and delivery environments they use
generally
n Better understand existing mainframe
application logic through visualization of
runtime behaviors, inter-program calls, etc.
Ultimately, the normalization of mainframe
application code into the broader enterprise
DevOps environment enables IT to treat mainframe
code just like any other code in any given agile
project—so it can be rapidly adapted to changing
business requirements without problematic
process friction or cost.
Mainframe Data
Unlike mainframe applications, mainframe data
can at least theoretically be re-platformed. And
there are some use cases where it makes sense
to export specific mainframe data sets to other
environments for application staging or analytic
purposes.
Generally speaking, however, it makes sense to
leave mainframe data on the mainframe. Reasons
for this include:
n Better application performance
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n Hosting data in multiple locations adds
avoidable cost
n Security, compliance and/or governance
requirements
That said, mainframe data should nonetheless be
visible and comprehensible to any mainstream
developer or data analyst with appropriate
needs and authorizations. So, as with mainframe
code, IT must give non-mainframe staff the
ability to intuitively discover and understand
mainframe data, metadata, data structures and
data dependencies across mainframe programs
and copybooks. And, again, this should ideally be
done with tools that have a familiar look and feel
(i.e. Java-like “projects”).
Mainframe Operations
Operations is a special case of mainstreaming—
because, at some level, all IT operations are
inherently siloed. Different technical teams with
different skills and tools manage Windows and
Linux systems, storage infrastructure, network
devices, databases, middleware, etc. So IT will
likely continue to depend on IBM z Systems
specialists to perform certain essential mainframe
management and tuning tasks.
But, as noted above, end-to-end application
service levels often depend on all these separate
components combined. To safeguard these
service levels, IT must more fully integrate
mainframe operations into enterprise operations.
This integration has two basic aspects:
1) Management of data and alerts from the
mainframe must be integrated into mainstream
enterprise management workflows.
2) Enterprise operations staff must be able to “drill
down” into the mainframe as they investigate
application service level issues—without
always having to depend on IBM z Systems
SMEs.
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Some IT organizations have already given their
mainstream operations staff some rudimentary
visibility into the health of certain mainframe
resources and processes. But the integration of
mainframe operations must be taken much, much
further if companies are to gain the considerable
benefits of true cross-platform DevOps.
The key principle across all three of these
imperatives is that normally skilled IT
professionals must be able to work on the
mainframe using their chosen tools and
processes. Yes, IT must safeguard the
integrity of the mainframe environment. But
the mainframe cannot continue as an isolated
silo in the enterprise. Responsibility for the
mainframe must ultimately be transferred to
mainstream developers, data analysts and
operations staffs.
THE MAINSTREAMING BUSINESS CASE
IT leaders have a lot on their plates. So there have
to be some pretty compelling reasons to escalate
mainstreaming of the mainframe to the top of the
2016 to-do list.
And there are. They include:
Mitigation of Existential Mainframe Risk
The looming loss of mainframe skill
sets is as serious a risk to the business
as Y2K was. It’s just that the date of
the disaster isn’t fixed. Companies that
continue to procrastinate on this issue will
eventually see the value of decades of
investment in business-critical application
logic evaporate.
Essential Business Agility
If you can’t modify your mainframe
application logic quickly and with confidence,
your business can’t be sufficiently nimble to
compete in today’s environment of constant
digital disruption. Enterprises simply have
to integrate mainframe code management
into their mainstream Agile/Continuous
Delivery SDLC processes.
More Value and a Better Experience for
the Customer
Companies in all markets need to leverage
information and insight to do more for their
customers than their competitors. Much
of that information and insight resides
on the mainframe. Companies that can’t
aggressively and adaptively leverage
that information and insight because
their mainframes are slow and closed will
invariably lose to nimbler competitors.
Compliance with Greater Confidence
and Less Friction
Silos are the enemy of compliance. They
prevent policies from being implemented in
a common manner across the enterprise,
and they fragment auditing in ways that add
cost and arouse the skepticism of auditors.
By more fully integrating the mainframe into
the broader enterprise environment, IT can
unify compliance processes to optimize
credibility while reducing costs.
Attracting Millennial Talent
Enterprise IT organizations have to get
the next generation of reasonably skilled
and motivated IT professionals working
on mainframe applications, data and
operations. That will be very hard to do with
tools and processes from the 80’s.
More Scalable, Reliable, Secure and
Cost-efficient Enterprise Computing
The IBM z Systems platform, it turns out,
is actually a terrific place to run all kinds
of Linux and open source workloads—
especially when compared to sprawling x86
infrastructure that is hideously complex,
unreliable and expensive to operate. By
de-siloing the mainframe, IT can take
advantage of its superior performance
and reliability, fixed physical footprint and
remarkably low incremental costs.
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No Platform Left Behind
Confronted with the importance of mainframe
applications and the historical difficulty of
making the mainframe fully Agile, a number
of leading industry pundits have suggested
something termed “Bimodal IT.” The essence of
Bimodal IT is that companies should abandon
any attempt to make the mainframe Agile—and
should instead simply segment itself into “stable
mode” and “agile mode.”
While this approach may be tempting to
those who flinch at the prospect of actually
transforming the mainframe, it is not a viable
alternative for several reasons:
n Business agility requires mainframe
agility.
Enhancements of the digital customer
experience frequently depend on core
databases, transaction processing systems
and highly-refined business logic that still
reside on the mainframe—and probably
always will.
n Stability and agility are not mutually
exclusive.
To suggest that they are is actually to deny
the whole movement towards DevOps,
Continuous Delivery, etc.
n Defaulting to the status quo is not a
strategy for competitive differentiation.
If it were easy to bring Agile best practices to
the mainframe, every company would have
already done it—and it wouldn’t offer such
significant competitive advantage.
n Mainframe reliability, performance at
scale, and security are needed more, not
less.
It has proven to be excessively expensive
(and often impossible) to replicate the
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mainframe’s qualities in distributed/cloud
environments. So IT should focus on better
exploiting them, rather than letting them go
to waste.
Ultimately, though, IT has to mainstream the
mainframe because it has little choice. Its current
condition won’t be tenable much longer, and it
cannot simply be eliminated. Mainstreaming offers
the only way out. It also offers a great way up.
Mainframe applications are irreplaceable and
incalculably valuable business assets. Bimodal
IT consigns them to irrelevance. Transformational
inclusion of the mainframe into enterprise DevOps,
on the other hand, ensures their long-term value
and optimizes the ability of large enterprises to
successfully compete in the world’s increasingly
digital markets.
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The 2016 Mainframe User Survey
An analysis of the profile, plans, and priorities of mainframe users.
Many thanks to all those who took part.
As usual, our annual mainframe survey provides
a snapshot of the System z user community’s
existing hardware and software configuration, and
also their plans and concerns for 2016.
Big Data, and Linux are changing the face of
mainframe computing. In addition, we have
continued to explore relative cost in more details,
asking respondents how fast their distributed
server costs are growing relative to the mainframe.
And we have investigated how important “green”
issues are to the mainframe community.
Chart Title
This year we have continued to track the growth
of mainframe integration with mobile and cloud
computing, and other areas of new development,
as well as gauging the extent to which BYOD,
And, as usual, we have invited comments from
our respondents.
10%
25%
Asia/Pacific
57%
Europe
Middle East/Africa
8%
North America
Chart 1: Distribution of respondents
Profile of respondents
The mainframe user survey was completed by
100 individuals between the 19 October 2015
and the 27 November 2015. Survey respondents
were either contacted directly by e-mail or other
Web-based means and invited to complete the
mainframe user survey on the Arcati Web site.
Responses from large mainframe vendors and
multiple entries from different people at the same
site were excluded from the survey.
Again this year, there were no respondents from
South America. The distribution of all respondents
is shown in Chart 1. Well over half (57 percent)
were from North America with a quarter (25
percent) from Europe, leaving 10 percent from
the Asia/Pacific region, and eight percent from the
Middle East/Africa.
As usual, a wide range of industry types are
represented in our sample (Chart 2). Banking and
government accounted for nearly a quarter each
(24 percent) of respondents, with IT accounting
for 18 percent. Insurance has ten percent and
retail eight percent, leaving health, transport, and
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2%
4%
Banking
4%
24%
Government
8%
IT
Insurance
10%
Retail
Health
24%
Telecom
18%
Transport
Manufacturing
Utilities
Chart 2: Industry sector of respondents
utilities with four percent each, and telecoms and
manufacturing with only two percent each.
A third way to categorize respondents is to look
at business size. As shown in Chart 3, half the
respondents are from companies with over 10,000
employees worldwide. Below that, with 33 percent
of respondents, are staff sizes of 1001-5000. With
11 percent of responses we have staff sizes of
0-200. That leaves six percent with staff sizes of
5001 to 10,000, and no-one in our survey having
staff sizes of 201 to 1000.
78 percent of our respondents were involved in
running in-house data centres, similar to last year’s
figure of 74 percent. 16 percent (much the same
as last year’s 18 percent) of respondents said they
were working in an outsourced operation with a
further two percent saying that they were partially
outsourced, and four percent being outsourcers.
Installed MIPS and capacity growth
As in previous surveys we have used MIPS as the
principal measure of size. We asked respondents
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0%
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50%
33%
201-1000
1001-5000
6%
5001-10,000
Over 10,000
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Under 500
501 to 1000
24%
32%
1001 to 10,000
10,001 to 25,000
Over 25,000
Not specified
Chart 4: Total mainframe MIPS installed
to indicate the total mainframe MIPS installed on
their systems, and the result is shown in Chart 4.
20 percent had under 500 MIPS (down from last
year’s 25 percent). 24 percent had 500 to 1000
MIPS (up slightly from last year’s 21 percent). 32
percent had 1000 to 10,000 MIPS (well up from
last year’s 23 percent). No-one reported having
10,000 to 25,000 MIPS (last year it was 8 percent).
And ten percent of respondents had over 25,000
MIPS (last year it was 15 percent). As in previous
years, we use installed MIPS later in the survey
to identify differences between small, mid-sized,
and larger users.
Chart 5 shows the annual MIPS growth of
respondents. 72 percent of sites (up from
last year’s figure of 68 percent) of mainframe
installations are experiencing some growth, with
12 percent of sites reporting growth greater than
10 percent and 60 percent reporting growth up to
10 percent. Only two percent (down from eight
percent last year) of sites are reporting a decline
in mainframe capacity growth. 12 percent of sites
(similar to last year‘s 11 percent) are not expecting
any kind of change in their MIPS this year. Looking
at Chart 6, however, we can see that the picture
varies considerably depending on the size of
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2%
2%
14%
12%
Declined
10%
None
1-10 percent
11-25 percent
60%
26-50 percent
Not sure
Chart 5: Annual MIPS growth of respondents
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90%
80%
70%
11 to 25 percent per year
60%
1 to 10 percent per year
50%
None
40%
Decline
30%
20%
10%
0%
Less than 1000
MIPS
1000 to 10,000
MIPS
Over 10,000 MIPS
Chart 6: MIPS growth by installation size
the system. It’s only the smaller sites that have
seen any kind of decline. And it’s the smaller and
medium-sized sites that have stayed the same
size, whereas the larger sites have all seen some
kind of growth. And when you look at the growth,
you can see that large sites are expecting that
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growth to be up to 25 percent. This is a very similar
pattern to last year’s results in that a few small
sites are seeing a decline, whereas many sites
are expecting growth with larger sites expecting
the most growth.
Over 50 percent
26-50 percent
11-25 percent
1-10 percent
None
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We also compared the rate of growth of the
mainframe with that of other IT platforms within
the enterprise. As shown in Chart 7, the System
z looks relatively strong in the slow-to-medium
growth range. Again, we are seeing sites expecting
Windows use to decline (but not Linux). When
the “don’t know” results have been excluded, we
find 83 percent of mainframes are experiencing a
growth of 1-50 percent per year. Unix, Linux, and
Windows sites are reporting growth greater than
50 percent per year. Again, this year, we found
40 percent of respondent have IBM i installed
of which half have experienced zero growth or a
decline, and half have experienced growth up to
25 percent.
Hardware and software currency
The IBM mainframe hardware range continues
to receive a regular makeover, with new highend and low-end systems generally being
announced on alternate years. January 2015 saw
the announcement of the z13 mainframe, which
has a new processor design, faster I/O, and can
address up to 10TB of memory. It can house
141 processors, and run 8 000 virtual servers.
It’s been designed with mobile users in mind (as
well as traditional users). The 5GHz processors
have eight cores, and smaller, faster transistors.
It incorporate simultaneous multi-threading
(SMT), allowing it to execute two instructions
in parallel on each clock cycle. It now supports
single instruction, multiple data (SIMD) – a parallel
computing technology – and gets the DB2 BLU
for Linux – an in-memory database technology
for analytics. In all, it’s quite a special piece of
kit to launch at the start of the year. And then in
August IBM announced LinuxONE, a mainframe
that can just run a Linux operating system. This
works with the new z13s (if you want to be top of
the range) and the slightly older zBC12s. Delivery
dates for each range are provided in the Technical
Information section of the Yearbook.
Our research suggests that, traditionally, users
upgrade on a regular basis to the most recent
hardware to take advantage of capacity increases
and cost benefits. Chart 8 shows that 15 percent
of respondents are using the new z13 machines
with 17 percent using the z12BC and 19 percent
using the z12EC. 17 percent have z114s and
9percent have z196s. That leaves 17 percent of
respondents using z10s and the rest using older
“z” mainframes. It is perhaps worth pointing out
here that many respondents had two different
models of processor in use at their site.
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2% 2%
4%
15%
z13:
15%
z12BC:
17%
9%
z12EC:
z114:
z196:
17%
19%
z10BC
z10EC:
z990:
z900:
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2%
5%
7%
z/OS 2.2
44%
42%
z/OS 2.1
z/OS 1.13
z/OS 1.12
z/OS 1.11
Chart 9: Primary mainframe operating system release in use
With the greater availability of Intel-based
machines such as z Personal Development Tool
Adapter or the Secure Enterprise Desktop, we
wanted to know whether anyone was actually
using them to run mainframe applications. We
found that ten percent of sites were using them for
development (up from last year’s six percent) and
six percent of sites were using them for production
(up from three percent last year).
We also took the opportunity to ask people
whether they were interested in LinuxONE Linux
mainframes and when they were likely to get one.
Disappointingly for IBM just about half (49 percent)
said they wouldn’t get one in the foreseeable
future. But, on the brighter side, four percent said
they’d get one as soon as they could, another four
percent thought they’d get one in six months, and
a further four percent thought they’d get one in
a year’s time. 18 percent expected to get one at
some time in the future.
Software currency (Chart 9) presents a more
mixed picture and tends to lag a little behind
hardware. This year’s survey found that 44 percent
of sites were using Version 1.13, and 42 percent
of sites were using Version 2.1, with only seven
percent using Version 2.2. That leaves five percent
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We asked respondents what, in their opinion,
are the main benefits for their organization of
the mainframe over other platforms. 86 percent
highlighted the benefit of availability, with 74
percent highlighting security. 66 percent identified
manageability, and further 60 percent picked
scalability as a mainframe benefit.
60 percent of sites (up from last year’s 52 percent)
thought mainframes are too expensive (or appear
to be), making it the biggest obstacle to mainframe
acceptance within the enterprise. Other obstacles
identified by respondents included 52 percent (up
from last year’s 28 percent) who said difficulty
in obtaining or retaining the necessary skills,
44 thought there were cultural barrier between
mainframe and other IT professionals, 34 percent
(same as last year) identified concerns about future
availability/support for mainframe applications,
and 24 percent (up from eight percent) thought
mainframes are too complex (or appear to be).
only two percent thought there were no obstacles
to mainframe acceptance – which is nice. Sadly,
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42%
Fully
Partly
Not yet
35%
No
5%
Chart 10: Do your mainframe applications participate in your Web services/SOA?
of the survey still illustrates the cultural divide
between mainframers and other IT professionals.
Within the industry as a whole, opinion is clearly
divided over the role of the mainframe in new
applications. For some companies the mainframe
remains a separate legacy environment while
others are leveraging the strengths of large
systems by using them in cloud and mobile
working. You hear mainframers talking about JSON
and RESTful interfaces along with smartphone
app designers. We found that 62 percent of sites
viewed their mainframe as a legacy system. That’s
well over half of all the sites surveyed. Happily,
16 percent (down slightly from 17 percent) still
viewed mainframes as strategic, and 22 percent
(down from 36 percent) viewed them as strategic
and legacy.
We asked respondents whether their z/OS
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systems participate in Web services and SOA
environments, and the results are shown in
Chart 10. 53 percent of organizations said that
their mainframes participate partly or fully in Web
services. In future, we will change this question to
focus on mobile working and the impact that has
on the mainframe.
30 percent (down from last year’s 34 percent) went
on to say that they run Java-based applications
on the mainframe. 22 percent of respondents
(down from last year’s 37 percent) said that
they run Linux on the System z, with another 4
percent (down from last year’s 15 percent) at the
planning stage). There are considerable cost and
management benefits of consolidating distributed
Linux workloads onto the mainframe. IBM made
the IFL (Integrated Facility for Linux) specialty
processor available in 2001, and announced the
LinixONE in 2015. Running Linux on a mainframe
could so easily be a mainstream technology.
And while we were thinking about Linux on
mainframes, we asked how many sites were
running Oracle under Linux on System z. Only six
percent of sites surveyed said that they currently
run Oracle on zLinux, which is down from last
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year’s figure of 8 percent. Another six percent of
respondents say they used to use it.
64 percent of organizations said that they are Webenabling their CICS subsystems (Chart 11), which
is similar to last year’s 62 percent. 56 percent of
sites are Web-enabling DB2, which is much the
same as last year’s 58 percent. 22 percent of sites
are Web-enabling IMS, down from last year’s 34
percent, and WebSphere Application Server rated
28 percent (exactly the same as last year). Only
two percent of sites are Web-enabling SAP. This
low figure probably reflects the smaller number of
sites using the product on a mainframe rather than
a reluctance to consider Web-service enabling it.
We asked whether respondents currently used
their mainframe for cloud computing. Four percent
of respondents said they did (down from last year’s
14 percent). 96 percent said they didn’t (way
up from last year’s 74 percent). We also asked
whether respondents were planning to adopt cloud
computing as a strategy. 50 percent (similar to last
year’s 48 percent) said they weren’t at present. 26
percent (up from last year’s 14 percent) thought
some mainframe applications would be cloud
enabled in the future. 12 percent (down from last
A mixture of strategies
Mostly ported to Windows
Mostly ported to Unix/Linux
Maintained and actively integrated
Maintained but not integrated
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MIPS
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MIPS
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40%
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30%
Declining
20%
10%
0%
Capacity
Technology
costs
People costs
Chart 13: How fast is your System z-related expenditure growing annually, on the
technology itself and on the people required to manage the technology?
year’s 20 percent) claimed that some of their
applications are currently using the cloud model.
As for the future of legacy systems, once again
the answer depends to a degree on the size and
maturity of the installation. In what stands out
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as an anomalous result, Chart 12 suggests that
the largest sites do not see integration as the
way forward, but would rather maintain and not
integrate, or else port to Windows! This year’s
results suggest that smaller sites are more likely
to integrate their mainframe applications, with
100% mainframe
80% mainframe: 20% nonmainframe
IT budget spend
Enterprise data
location
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mid-range sites slightly less keen to do so. Smaller
and mid-range sites might port to Unix/Linux, but
this doesn’t seem to be an option supported by
larger sites.
Relative cost
There are many ways of comparing the costs of
mainframe systems with those of other platforms,
but none of them are straightforward and few are
meaningful. CIOs and finance directors all too
often have little experience of the factors that
contribute to mainframe total cost of ownership
and there is still little published data available
to help them make informed comparisons. It is
beyond the scope of this short survey to go into
detail on cost, but the following questions explore
some areas where financial comparisons can be
made between large centralized systems and
distributed servers.
We asked respondents how fast their System
z-related expenditure is increasing, in terms of
the technology itself and the people needed to
support it. In Chart 13, we compare these results
with the growth in mainframe capacity. From
the graph, you can see that sites’ capacity and
technology costs are likely to see double-digit
growth at the most, but people costs are, at best,
in single digits – illustrating that fewer people are
doing more-and-more work. At the other end of
the scale, 16 percent of sites are seeing a decline
in technology costs and 22 percent of sites are
seeing a decline in people costs, but only two
percent are seeing a drop in capacity. 14 percent
(down from 39 percent last year) of respondents
reported capacity growth higher than 10 percent,
but luckily twenty percent reported technology
costs increasing by that amount, yet only four
percent reported people costs increasing above
10 percent. Perhaps management are beginning
to realize that you can’t always do more with less
– no matter how good the technology is.
Linux
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We went on to ask Windows
what proportion of the total
budget is absorbed by mainframe-related costs,
and what proportion of enterprise data resides on
the mainframe (Chart 14). This year’s results seem
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to indicate a close to 50:50 split between corporate
data stored on mainframes and off mainframes.
Organization’s spend on the mainframe and
distributed systems are disproportionate to the
data split, with 60 percent (84 percent last year)
of budgets going off mainframe. The figures
absolutely dismiss the view that System z soaks
up financial resources without providing a good
return on investment.
Again this year, we asked how fast respondents
believed their acquisition/maintenance and support
costs for distributed platforms were growing
relative to the mainframe, for an equivalent amount
of capacity or size of user population respectively
(Chart 15). In other words, did they think that their
mainframe costs were increasing faster or more
slowly than their Unix, Linux, Windows, and IBM
i costs. Of course, these numbers have to be
treated with great caution because we are asking
respondents to make direct comparisons, which,
as we have just stated, are very complex. Once
again, this chart can be used only as an indication
of a general trend, but it’s a very interesting trend
nevertheless! Anything above the green block in
each column suggests higher costs for alternative
platforms. Again this year, a substantial number
of respondents felt that their Unix, Linux, and
Windows user-support costs were increasing
faster than the mainframe for an equivalent
amount of capacity or support.
With the environment and environmental issues
getting so much coverage in the media these days,
we wanted to know whether IBM’s green initiatives
on things like power consumption and cooling
had made the mainframe more or less attractive
to our respondents. 80 percent of respondents
(up from 75 percent last year) said that IBM’s
green initiatives made no difference at all. No-one
said that the initiative made the mainframe less
attractive. 20 percent felt it made the mainframe
a little more attractive (down from last year’s 22
percent). Clearly “greenness” isn’t much of a
selling point for mainframes. Or perhaps our target
audience would have a mainframe whatever!
IBM versus the ISVs
The mainframe independent software vendor
(ISV) business is continually evolving, and there
have been a number of small companies acquired
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by larger organizations, but, on the whole, not any
obvious shifts in the landscape.
IBM regularly argues that some ISVs are too
inflexible and need to change their software pricing
strategies, while the third-party suppliers respond
that IBM is placing excessive pressure on them
by using its size and influence to win over their
customers. Mainframe management is now sold as
a way of allowing customers to maintain the quality
of the service they get from the mainframe without
the reliance on experienced mainframers. In other
words, the software will identify a problem and,
as well as informing a less-qualified human, will
take the necessary steps to negate the problem.
In addition, vendors are beginning to use GUItype screens, which younger IT people are more
familiar with, to display important information.
And much mainframe monitoring data can now
be accessed from a browser.
We asked respondents what makes them consider
a change of vendor for their mainframe tools and
utilities. It’s clear from Chart 16 that cost is by far
the biggest driver, even though cheaper tools often
offer less functionality. ISVs may be pleased to
know that although 18 percent of sites said they
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rarely if ever change their software, this figure is
down from last year’s 24 percent – so they may
be able to make new sales this year.
We also asked how much of users’ mainframe
software budget is spent on IBM/Tivoli software,
and how much on products from other vendors.
This year (see Chart 17) we found that just over
half (51 percent) of respondents pay more to IBM
for software than to other vendors. This is an
increase from last year’s 43 percent, but similar
to the previous year’s 58 percent.
Other issues
We asked about IBM’s ‘specialty’ processors
such as the Integrated Facility for Linux (IFL), the
Application Assist Processor (zAAP) intended for
Java applications, and the Integrated Information
Processor (zIIP) intended primarily for DB2. We
asked respondents which specialty processors
they had. 4 percent of sites had all three (down
from last year’s value of 8 percent) and a further
38 percent of sites had two of the three specialty
processors (up a little from last year’s 34 percent).
More sites had zIIP processors (56 percent – down
from 62) than any other. 24 percent (down from
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last year’s 36 percent) had IFL processors, and 27
percent had zAAP specialty processors (well up
from last year’s 16 percent). A third of sites don’t
have a specialty processor installed (up from 22
percent last year. The full results are shown in
Chart 18. We also asked whether respondents
thought that these specialty engines made the
mainframe more attractive in terms of reducing
costs and cost-justifying new applications. 51
percent said a little more attractive, 40 percent said
much more attractive, and seven percent said that
it made no difference. And one respondent thought
it made mainframes less attractive!
In the USA, regulations such as Sarbanes-Oxley
Act (SOX), HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability
and Accountability Act), and BASEL II, plus what’s
estimated to be over 150 state and federal laws
dictate the length of time that ElectronicallyStored Information (ESI) needs to be retained.
These regulations, and they do depend on the
industry, have greatly increased data retention
periods. Similarly, outside the USA there has
been a growth in regulation affecting the length
of time that data needs to be archived. Only 30
percent of sites (down from 60 percent last year)
said they were compliant, with a further 23 percent
nearly compliant, with these regulations. The
figure for sites not having an archiving strategy is
40 percent, almost double last year’s 21 percent.
Clearly, compliance is an important issue and
many organizations are making sure that they are
(or will be) fully compliant. But the others? The full
results are shown in Figure 19.
According to the IBM Web site: “PureSystems
combine the flexibility of a general purpose
system, the elasticity of cloud, and the simplicity
of an appliance. They are integrated by design and
come with built-in expertise gained from decades
of experience to deliver a simplified IT experience.”
We were interested to see whether sites were
taking advantage of this new technology. Only five
percent (same as last year) of respondents said
they were. And, again this year, no sites said that
they planned to use PureSystems. We were also
curious about the take up of business analytics
(IBM’s Smarter Analytics). Here no sites (down
from seven percent last year) said they are using
the technology and just four percent plan to.
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Chart 19: Data archiving strategies that comply with the latest regulations
There’s been a huge growth in the use of social
media in recent years, and we wondered whether
those people “using their dad’s technology” found
social media (Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, etc)
useful for their work on the mainframe. 25 percent
said that they did (down slightly from last year’s
figure of 27 percent), with eight percent not sure,
and the rest not using it at all. IBM has Facebook
pages dedicated to IMS, CICS, and DB2, it seems
a shame if they’re not being used.
With the growth in number of software products
that allow users to monitor the mainframe from
a browser on a tablet/iPad or smartphone, and
with IBM’s deal with Apple in mind, we thought it
would be interesting to see whether our survey
respondents were using these devices to monitor
or control their mainframe. Only 13 percent said
that they were (up from last year’s six percent).
Much has been made in the media about IPV4
addresses running out and the need for everyone
to migrate to IPv6, which has many more
addresses available. The change would require
a lot of effort for mainframers, but we wondered
users had any plans to introduce IPv6 in 2016.
Seven percent of sites already have IPv6, with
a further 11 percent (down from last year’s 18
percent) planning to implement it in 2016.
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Another hot topic through 2015 has been Big Data
and all the things associated with that (such as
Splunk, Hadoop, and Spark). We asked whether
sites had any plans to use Big Data. Again, 29
percent of sites said that they were already using
Big Data (an increase from last year’s 21 percent).
Finally we asked about BYOD (Bring Your Own
Device). We wanted to know how important sites
thought it was to make mainframe data available to
other platforms. 87 percent (similar to 85 percent
last year) of sites said that it was very important
to the way they work at the moment. Four percent
are in the planning stage, and further two percent
expect to do some work on this in the future.
When it comes to how important is the idea of
people using their own devices (BYOD) to access
mainframes, ten percent (down from last year’s
17 percent) of sites said it was very important to
the way they work now – but 54 percent (up from
last year’s 48 percent) said it wasn’t important.
Seven percent (up from last year’s two percent)
are in the planning stages, and 29 percent expect
to be in the future.
Survey comments
At the end of the survey, respondents were invited
to leave comments or other information. This
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year we didn’t really get any comments like in
previous years, just the odd note about a person’s
competency with some of the questions we asked.
We did, however, get the following comment:
“We have dropped our mainframe (and any
mainframe emulation system) entirely. We have
archived some of the data it housed. However, I
still haven’t let go of my interest in the mainframe.”
I think we all have some idea what that feels like.
CONCLUSIONS
This year’s survey had a slightly subdued feel to
it compared to previous years, there seemed to
be less excitement with mainframe technology
– which is surprising in the light of all the
presentations that include z/OS Connect, Mobile
First, DataPower, DevOps, and the Internet of
Things (IoT) that we must have all sat through.
There also seemed to be more of an acceptance
that mainframes would naturally get less in terms
of cash and human resources than distributed
systems. There seemed to be less of a ‘them’ and
‘us’ attitude that’s hard to quantify.
This reduction in the feeling that mainframes are
hard done by could be explained in two ways.
Either sites were beginning to see some money
being spent on mainframe resources, or there was
greater integration between the mainframe team
and their distributed IT colleagues – or a mixture of
both. The survey found that, typically, 60 percent
of an organization’ IT spend (well down from
last year’s 84 percent) went off mainframe. This
shows that mainframes aren’t as expensive as
many people think and that either the mainframe
budget is going up or distributed budgets are
coming down.
60 percent of sites thought mainframes are
too expensive (or appear to be), making it the
biggest obstacle to mainframe acceptance within
the enterprise. This value has increased from 52
percent last year.
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In terms of money being spent on the mainframe,
72% of respondents said they were seeing signs
of growth, and 15% of sites in our survey have the
new z13 mainframes. So it looks like there is some
spending going on mainframes at sites.
We said in the introduction that we are continuing
to track newer technologies such as cloud and
Big Data. So let’s have a look at how mature
these technologies are when they come off the
presentation slides and going into the real world.
Web servicing mainframe applications has been
going on for a number of years now, and it doesn’t
take too much coding to change what’s available
on a browser to a mobile app. We found that nearly
two-thirds (64 percent) of sites are Web-enabling
CICS and over half (56 percent) of sites are Webenabling DB2.
There is much less of a take up for cloud
computing. Only four percent sites currently
use their mainframe for cloud computing. About
a quarter (26 percent) of respondents thought
that some mainframe applications would be
cloud enabled in the future. We did find that 12
percent of sites thought some of their applications
were currently using the cloud model, which is
encouraging.
87 percent of sites said that making mainframe
data available to other platforms at their site was
very important to the way they work at the moment.
Although, when it comes to how important is the
idea of people using their own devices (BYOD)
to access mainframes, only ten percent of sites
said it was very important to the way they work
now, with seven percent of sites in the planning
stages. In the light of IBM’s deal with Apple, we
wondered how many sites were using iPads to
monitor or control their mainframe. 13 percent of
sites said that they were. We are expecting this
figure to grow in future surveys.
When it comes to Big Data (and things like Splunk,
Hadoop, and Spark), we found that almost a third
(29 percent) of sites said that they were already
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using Big Data, which clearly proves that it has a
value to organizations and isn’t just a nice idea in
a presentation.
Finally in our quick sweep of what might be
described as the more ‘exciting’ parts of a
presentation, we looked at Linux. Fewer than a
quarter of sites (22 percent) said that they run
Linux on the System z, with another 4 percent at
the planning stage. We also asked about the new
LinuxONE Linux-based mainframe. Again, for a
marketing strategy, the figures weren’t that brilliant
with about half the respondents (49 percent)
saying they wouldn’t get one in the foreseeable
future. On the brighter side, about 12 percent
thought they’d get one by this time next year, and
18 percent expected to get one at some time in
the future.
There seems to be a slowing of the trend towards
new operating systems. Nearly half of respondents
are on the latest but one operating system, and
a similar number on the version before that –
revealing a natural reluctance to avoid being on
the bleeding edge of technology, while getting the
benefits of newer software.
Nearly two-thirds (62 percent) of sites see the
mainframe as a legacy system, with just 16
percent viewing it as strategic. 22 percent thought
it was both. Unfortunately, the more that people
view the mainframe as a legacy system, the less
likely they are to use it for developing more modern
applications.
And yet, there is plenty of evidence that mainframes
should be used to support new development.
Despite the complexity of mainframe pricing, the
majority of respondents believe that their Unix
and Windows user-support costs were increasing
faster than the mainframe. Similarly, most sites
felt their maintenance and acquisition costs were
higher on Windows and Unix than on System z.
For sites with smaller mainframes, particularly
below 500 MIPS, there is always the option, or
perhaps threat, of migrating off the mainframe
to some other platform. Unusually, perhaps, this
year’s results indicated that larger sites (over
10,000 MIPS) did not see integrating as the way
forward and would rather stay as they were.
The bottom line is that the mainframe continues
to offer a cost-effective, secure, and powerful
platform for organizations with the necessary
background and expertise in place to support it.
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Vendors, consultants, and service providers working
in the z/OS environment
Details in this section are provided by the individual vendors and service providers, and Arcati
accepts no responsibility for their accuracy. We urge readers to contact the companies directly
for the latest information. Please assume that all product and company names are the registered
property of their owners.
If your company is not listed here and you would like a free entry in next year’s edition, visit
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MAINFRAME VENDORS LISTED IN THIS DIRECTORY
4bears Technologies
A Smart Option
ABIS
Action Software
Advanced Software Products Group, Inc.
(ASPG)
Alebra Technologies
Applied Software
Arcis Services
ASG Software Solutions
ATERAS
Atos SE
Attachmate
Attunity
Axios Products
Azamour Solutions
B & M Europe Ltd
Baer Consulting
Beta Systems Software
Blenheim Software
Blenheim Software International Ltd
Blue Sea Technology
BluePhoenix Solutions
BMC Software
BOB Tech Solutions
Bsecure – The Mainframe & Security
Company
CA Technologies
Canam Software
CASI Software
CDB Software
Cobbs Mill Consulting
Cole Software
Compu Management
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Compute (Bridgend)
Computer Management Sciences
Computer Measurement Group
Conexus Technologies
ConicIT
Connectivity Systems
CONNX Solutions, Inc
CopperEye
CorreLog
CPT Global Ltd
Critical Path Software
CSC
CSL International
Data Kinetics
DDV technologies
Dignus
DINO Software
DataVantage – Direct Computer Resources
DPI Software
DTS Software
Eccox Technologies
Edge Information Group
Enterprise Systems Associates, Inc.
(“ESAi”)
Epoka Group
EPV Technologies
European Mainframe Academy
Exspans Systems
EZ Source
Fischer International Systems Corporation
Fitz Software & Co
Flynet
Fujitsu
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Gary Bergman Associates
GT Software
H&W Computer Systems
Heitech Managed Services Sdn Bhd
Hexaware Technologies
Higobi Systems
HORIZONT
I/S Management Strategies
i3 Business Solutions
IBM
Illustro Systems International
Informatica
InfoSec, Inc
Innovation DP
Inspired Solutions (Software) Ltd
INTERCHIP AG
IntelliMagic
Interskill Learning
ISAM
ISI Pty Ltd
iTech-Ed
L3C LLP
Latuz LLC
Levi Ray & Shoup
Logicalis UK
Longpela Expertise
Looksoftware
Luminex
MacKinney Systems
Macro 4
Mainframe Co Ltd
Mainstorconcept GmbH
Maintec Technologies
Marist College
Matter of Fact Software
Metron
Micro Focus
Modern Systems
MOST Technologies
MPI Tech
NewEra Software
OGS Consulting
Oracle
PDFlib GmbH
Pegasystems
PerfTechPro
Phoenix Software Int
PIR Group
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PKS Software
PKWARE, Inc
Progress | DataDirect
ProTech Consulting & Training
QMSI-Quintessential Mailing
Software Incorporated
Relational Architects International
Rocket Software
RSM Partners
RSM Technology
SAS Institute
Serena Software
SMT Data
SoftBase
Softlib Software
Software AG
Software Diversified Services
Software Engineering GmbH
Software (Europe) Ltd
Software on Z
Solimar Systems
Sosa Cousins
SQData Corporation
SSH
Stonesoft
SV Group
Syspertec Communication
Systemwerx
T3 Technologies
TeamQuest
TechMaint, LLC
Techsys Software Services
The Source Recovery Co
Time Machine Software
TONE Software
Top Gun Technology
Trident Services
Triton Consulting
Type80 Security Software
Value-4IT Limited
Vanguard
Verhoef Training
WDR
Web Age Solutions
Xbridge Systems
zIT Consulting
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4bears Technologies
Address:
Alameda Mamorá, 503 - CJ 53, Barueri - São Paulo - SP,
06454-040, Brazil.
Phone: 5511997602242
Email: alexey@4bears.com.br
Web: www.4bears.com.br
Activity: Software vendor
Specialist areas: System management; storage
management; security; web integration and legacy
reengineering tools.
Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, OS/390,
Non-mainframe platforms supported: Windows
Pricing options: One-time charge, monthly/annual
license.
Company profile
4bears is a company developing solutions and services for
the IBM mainframe environment. Our products promote
better governance, management and monitoring of the
IBM environment, doing it efficiently, automated and not
consuming machine resources.
We use an innovative and disruptive technology called
NIMS (Non Intrusive Mainframe Software), a technology
that does no I/O to get, in real-time, important information
stored in mainframe logs..
A Smart Option
Address:
Loads of Mischief, South Street, Blewbury, Oxon OX11
9PX, UK.
Phone: +44 7802 900513
Email: brendan_heneghan@btinternet.com
Activity: Consultant.
Specialist areas: System management; data
management; storage management; asset and change
management; security; programming/testing; web
integration and legacy reengineering tools; network
performance/management.
Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, OS/390, VM/
VSE, z/Linux
Non-mainframe platforms supported: IBM i, AIX, Unix,
Linux, Windows, other
license, processor/capacity-based, workload/usage based,
other.
Company profile
We are a consultancy company who advice clients how to
maximise their spend on third parties to maximise value.
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ABIS
Address:
P.O. Box 220, Diestsevest 32, 3000 Leuven, Belgium.
Phone: +32-16-245610
Email: training@abis.be
Web: http://www.abis.be
Activity: Education.
Specialist areas: Data management; programming/
testing; Web integration and legacy reengineering tools.
Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, z/Linux
Non-mainframe platforms supported: Linux, Windows
Company profile
ABIS Training & Consulting provides high-level
technological ICT services for large and medium-sized
enterprises. The activities are based on specialized ICT
knowledge, which is offered as training and consulting.
ABIS was founded in 1984 in Belgium but it is also very
active in the Netherlands (with a separate subsidiary in
Woerden near Utrecht). Also active in other countries
around the world.
ABIS has invested heavily in mainframe related
expertise: z/OS, DB2, CICS, WebSphere and application
development.
Courses and consulting services can be grouped into three
main categories:
• z/OS Host Based Technology, with particular
emphasis on z/OS Enterprise Server as an application
development platform. The main focus is on z/OS and
DB2, as well as the application development process
on this platform. More specific courses and services
are offered on z/OS, TSO, DB2, CICS, traditional
application development (COBOL and PL/I) and RDz.
• Database consolidation: training in the use and
integration of different databases. ABIS provides
training and expertise on DB2 for z/OS, DB2 for LUW,
Oracle, MySQL, and Big Data.
• Re-use and integration. The focus here is traditional
functional analysis and design on the one hand, and
Agile & Scrum on the other hand. Key to our approach
is the development of reusable components for
applications and web servers. Courses are offered on
WebSphere MQ, WebSphere Application Server, XML,
Scrum, DevOps, Java, Eclipse, Rational, TWS, ...
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Action Software GmbH
Address:
Alte Steinhauserstr. 1, CH-6330 Cham, Switzerland
Phone: +41 41 748 6266
Email: Marketing@ActionSoftware.ch
Web: http://www.actionsoftware.ch
Sales contacts:
America +1 905 470 7113, e-mail: Marketing@
actionsoftware.com
EMEA +41 41 748 6266, e-mail: Marketing@
actionsoftware.ch.
AsiaPac +1 905 470 7113, e-mail: Marketing@
actionsoftware.com.
Portugal, Spain, Mexico, South and Central America
+34 911845930, e-mail: Info@suasum.com
Italy and Italian speaking countries +39 039 999 2101,
e-mail: Sales@dpcssrl.com
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programming/testing.
Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, OS/390
Pricing options: Monthly/annual license, processor/
capacity-based, other
Company profile
We are an established software company based in Cham,
Switzerland, specialising in mainframe z/OS solutions
in the areas of security, availability, auditability, risk
management, continuity of business, system governance
and change management. These unique offerings are
designed for both MVS and USS (Unix System Services).
Our company supports the whole of Europe and our
personnel speak both fluent English and German.
Our business objectives are to help customers improve
their system’s availability, to optimize their control of
system changes and to provide accurate auditing.
Our products are:
• eventACTION (Change Tracker, Change Manager,
Reference Tracker and Command Manager)
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• ussACTION (Change Tracker, Change Manager and
Reference Tracker).
These have been implemented and used effectively for
many years by organizations such as the major banks,
insurance, and manufacturing companies. eventACTION
is the ideal solution for those corporations where
security, controls, auditing, and availability are the top
priority. eventACTION and ussACTION are essential for
organizations wishing to enforce Sarbanes Oxley and
COBIT requirements on z/OS systems.
Advanced Software Products Group Inc
(ASPG)
Address:
3185 Horseshoe Drive, South Naples, FL 34104, USA.
Phone: 239 649 1548 or (800) 662-6090
Email: aspgsales@aspg.com.
Web: www.aspg.com.
Activity: Software vendor.
management; security; other
Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, OS/390, VM/VSE
Pricing options: Monthly/annual license
Company profile
Headquartered in Naples, Florida since 1986, Advanced
Software Products Group, Inc. has provided the IT
community with cutting edge software solutions, support
and services. With a worldwide network of support,
including active roles as an IBM Partner In Development
and Microsoft Certified Partner, ASPG remains a leader in
the optimization of data center performance. ASPG offers
innovative software solutions for Data Security, Storage
Administration, Capacity Planning, System Productivity
and CICS Productivity. Data centers worldwide have
made ASPG software solutions their products of choice to
increase productivity, protect data, and solve critical issues
in their IT environments.
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• Mainframe Data Encryption [MegaCryption]
• Password Reset & Synchronization [ReACT]
• RACF Administration & Reporting [ERQ]
• DB2 Encryption [MegaCryption DB]
• ICSF Analysis [CryptoMon]
• SMF Data Management [SMFUTIL]
• Performance & Utilization Reporting
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• HSM Reporting [HSCAN]
• Macro to Command [Command CICS]
• DASD & VSAM Modeling [SpaceCalc]
• ICF Catalog Management [CIM]
• On-line CICS Help [Help/Key].
Alebra Technologies Inc
Address:
550 Main Street, Suite 250, New Brighton, MN 55112 USA
Phone: +1 651 366 6140
Email: pdmsales@alebra.com
Web: http://www.alebra.com.
management; web integration and legacy reengineering
tools; other
Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS
Non-mainframe platforms supported: AIX, other Unix.
Linux, Windows
Pricing options: One-time charge
Company profile
Alebra Technologies develops and markets proprietary
enterprise integration software to businesses worldwide.
Alebra’s software portfolio includes data sharing and
communications solutions that integrate mainframe
and open system environments. Alebra’s solutions
are marketed to mid-market and enterprise customers
worldwide through direct, partner, and OEM arrangements.
Alebra has over 200 Global 2000 accounts for its products
and services. Its products are installed worldwide.
Alebra offers enterprise software that provides host
connectivity and cross-platform data moving. Alebra’s
products are classified into the following families:
• Parallel Data Mover (PDM) is a cross platform
application that allows users to reliably transfer
large volumes of data using parallel data movement.
Connectivity options include a new world-first FICONFCP Gateway appliance as well as GbE.
• The Brixton PU2.1 SNA Server is the networking
software equivalent to the SunLink SNA 3270 Gateway,
enabling communications between your TCP/IP
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networked clients and IBM mainframe and mid-range
systems using SNA and other protocols.
• EXPRESS is the industry’s foremost host connectivity
software on an open platform. It brings together all
advanced SNA capabilities into one highly integrated
software package, unparalleled in the industry.
Applied Software Inc
Address:
737 Sandy Point Lane, Palm Beach Gardens, FL 33410,
USA.
Phone: +1 215-297-9441
Email: janis@appliedsoftware.com
Web: www.appliedsoftware.com
Specialist areas: Data management; security;
programming/testing; other
license, processor/capacity-based.
Company profile
Providing solutions for data transfer and data security in
the z/OS environment is our mission. The integrity and
security of the data is critical whether data is stored on the
network, during the file transfer process, or off-site. We
provide solutions which include user-friendly tools for file
transfer and data encryption using AES 128 encryption,
DES, Triple DES and DESX.
SSR Client/Server: superset replacement for IBM’s
IND$FILE. Unlike IND$FILE, SSR is fully supported,
improves file transfer performance up to 50% or more, and
is available for TSO and VTAM, CICS MVS Services, and
CICS.
Data Encryption Facility: Applied Software’s mainframe
encryption application that supports AES 128 encryption,
DES, Triple DES (3DES) and DESX encryption and
provides for management of encryption keys. DEF
supports IBM and plug-compatible CPUs with the z/OS
operating systems. CICS currently supported.
VTAM Multi-User Platform (VTAM MUP) supports SSR
and FSE+. VTAM MUP provides program services for
multiple users per address space and multiple address
spaces in a native MVS VTAM environment. Automatic
SAF calls provide security processing at the same level as
TSO. Provides TSO-like environment without TSO’s high
overhead.
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FSE+ a high performance editor, data set manager, and
job output previewer. Supports sequential files, PDS, and
PDS/E members with LRECLs up to 32760 all while using
up to 50% less overhead than ISPF/PDF. Operates under
TSO and VTAM MUP.
TSO Superset Utilities: group of nine TSO commands
providing functions unavailable in the standard TSO
environment. Commands include COMPARE, COPY,
FORMAT, FSHELP, LIST, LISTJES, MERGE, PRINTDS
and TSOSORT. Commands written in re-entrant Assembler
Language.
Arcis Services
Address:
Zwedenstraat 4 bus 9, 1060 Brussels, Belgium
Phone: +32 2 534 4977
Email: arcis@advalvas.be
Web: www.arcis-services.net
Activity: Education/research.
management; storage management; programming/testing
Company profile
Michel Castelein has more than 30 years experience in
developing and teaching ICT courses.
He also conducts course sessions in behalf of IBM.
Product_info Currently available:
• 3-day course z/OS Introduction
• 5-day course z/OS Job Control Language & TSO/ISPF
• 2-day course z/OS MVS & JES2 Operations
• 3-day course z/OS VSAM Fundamentals
• 2-day course z/OS ICF Fundamentals
• 5-day course (multi-platform) REXX Programming
• 2-day course z/OS CLIST Programming
• 5-day course z/OS ISPF Dialog Development
• 5-day course COBOL Programming in z/OS
• 7-day course z/OS Assembler Programming
• 5-day course C Programming in z/OS
• 5-day course (multi-platform) Java Programming
(J2SE)
• 2-month mainframe academy to train people “from
scratch”.
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ASG Software Solutions
Address:
1333 3rd Avenue S. Naples, FL 34102, USA.
Phone: 1.800.932.5536.
Email: sales@asg.com.
Web: www.asg.com.
Sales contacts:
EMEA +44 (0) 1.727.736.300, emea.north@asg.com.
AsiaPac +65.6332.2922, apac.central@asg.com.
management; security, programming/testing; Web
VSE, Linux, other
Non-mainframe platforms supported: i5, AIX, Linux,
windows, other.
Pricing options: Monthly/annual license, other
Company profile
A recognized innovator in Enterprise IT and business
software solutions, ASG Software Solutions has been
optimizing 85 percent of the world’s most complex IT
organizations for over 25 years. We create and deploy
unique software solutions that reduce cost, mitigate risk
and improve service delivery throughout the IT lifecycle.
ASG’s comprehensive solutions help you solve today’s
challenges, such as Cloud Computing and Big Data,
while driving your business forward by providing insight
and control across Cloud, Distributed and Mainframe
environments.
For the z/OS Mainframe environment ASG offers a
comprehensive suite of well established and respected z/
OS products used in Mainframe sites across the globe.
ASG offers to help z/OS customers by delivering excellent
z/OS products and services and also by offering to replace
competitive vendors and delivering a cost saving to help
lower the cost of z/OS based computing.
Product/ service information
ASG offerings for the z/OS platform include:
ASG TMON Suite for z/OS Systems Monitoring
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TMON CICS for Management of CICS Transaction Server
Performance
TMON DB2 for Complete Performance Management of
DB2
TMON IMS for Complete IMS TM/DB Management
TMON z/OS for Detailed Monitoring of IBM’s z/OS
Operating System
etc
ASG Smart Suite for Application Development/Testing
SmartTest for z/OS Interactive Code Testing and
Debugging
SmartScope for Fault Diagnosis and Dump Management
SmartFile for z/OS File and Data Management
Tritune to pinpoint z/OS Application performance
bottlenecks
Z-Series products for z/OS Systems Management
Zeke for z/OS Enterprise Event Scheduling
Zebb for Automated Job Restart/Rerun System
Zack for Automated Systems and Event Management
Zara for Automated Tape Management
Life Cycle Manager (LCM) for Application Change Control
PerfMan for z/OS based Capacity Planning and Modelling
Non-mainframe platforms supported: IBM i, distributed
Pricing options: One-time charge.
Company Profile
ATERAS has supported global enterprises for 25 years
offering value-driven legacy modernization solutions that
enable companies to leverage their IT assets for increased
business value and improved competitive advantage.
Global enterprises benefit from a comprehensive suite of
automated tools and services, from IT global assessments,
impact analysis, COBOL workbenches, automated
documentation to automated database and application
migrations.
ATERAS designed and developed an unique patentpending automation technology called DB-Shuttle, which
allows modernization with 100% conversion automation,
functional equivalency, and equal or better performance
at execution. ATERAS teams use DB-Shuttle to convert
legacy databases (ADABAS, VSAM, IDMS, IMS) to
relational technologies (such as IBM’s DB2) and legacy
applications (ADS/Online to Java or COBOL) to newer
more open languages. The technology is proven and
have several clients who have successfully migrated to
DB2 such as Progressive Insurance, University of Miami,
Edward Jones, State of NJ Office of Administrative Courts.
View Direct for Archiving and Storage of z/OS Business &
Systems Information
Becubic for z/OS Application Code Analysis and
Understanding
Comprehensive z/OS JCL Management through JobScan,
JCLPrep, and ProJCL
Please see a full product list at www.asg.com .
For further information please contact Peter Shkurko at
peter.shkurko@asg.com.
ATERAS
Address:
6600 LBJ Freeway Suite 210, Dallas, TX 75240, USA.
Phone: 972 664 9005.
Email: info@ateras.com.
Web: http://www.ateras.com.
Activity: Systems integrator/VAR.
Specialist areas: Data management and other areas
VSE, Linux, other
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Atos SE
Address:
River Ouest 80, Quai Voltaire, 95877 Bezons, France.
Email: mainframe.services@atos.net.
Web: www.atos.net/mainframe.
Activity: Outsourcer.
performance/management; other
VSE, z/Linux, other
Non-mainframe platforms supported: IBM i, AIX, other
Unix, Linux, Windows, other
capacity-based, workload/usage based, other.
Company Profile
Atos SE is a leader in digital services with 2014 pro forma
annual revenue of circa € 11 billion and 93,000 employees
in 72 countries. Serving a global client base, the Group
provides Consulting & Systems Integration services,
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Managed Services & BPO, Cloud operations, Big Data &
Cyber-security solutions, as well as transactional services
through Worldline. With its deep technology expertise and
industry knowledge, the Group works with clients across
different business sectors: Defense, Financial Services,
Health, Manufacturing, Media, Utilities, Public sector,
Retail, Telecommunications, and Transportation.
Atos is focused on business technology that powers
progress and helps organizations to create their firm of the
future. The Group is the Worldwide Information Technology
Partner for the Olympic & Paralympic Games and is
listed on the Euronext Paris market. Atos operates under
the brands Atos, Atos Consulting, Atos Worldgrid, Bull,
Canopy, and Worldline.
Atos is a leading supplier of innovative and flexible IBM
Mainframe Services at market competitive prices. The
managed services portfolio includes the whole spectrum
of mainframe services “as a cloud offering” scaling
from “support at the customer’s site” (Secondment) via
“Infrastructure as a Service” (IaaS) to “Platform as a
Service” (PaaS) and up to fully exploiting the capabilities
of mainframes: the offering “Mainframe as a Service
(MaaS)”. Our infrastructure portfolio is centered around
twin mainframe data centers with state-off-the-art fully
resilient processing, disk and tape technology and network
connections, offering the building blocks for flexible and
agile service offerings, including access to innovative
offerings like IDAA and mobile.
Our application management portfolio spans the full
application life cycle management including application
modernization, transformation, mainframe migrations and
new development (e.g. based on Java / XML).
Attachmate
Address:
1500 Dexter Ave N., Seattle, WA 98109, USA.
Phone: +1 800 872 2829
Email: salesrecept@attachmate.com.
Web: http://www.attachmate.com
Sales contacts:
EMEA: uksales@attachmate.com
AsiaPac: aus-info@attachmate.com
Specialist areas: Data management; storage
reengineering tools
VSE, Linux, other
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Non-mainframe platforms supported: i5, AIX, other Unix,
Company profile
Attachmate, owned by an investment group led by
Francisco Partners, Golden Gate Capital, and Thoma
Cressey Equity Partners, enables IT organizations to
extend mission-critical services and assure they are
managed, secure and compliant. Attachmate’s leading
solutions include host connectivity, systems and security
management, and PC lifecycle management. Our goal is
to empower IT organizations to deliver trusted applications,
manage service levels, and ensure compliance by
leveraging knowledge, automation and secured
connectivity.
Attachmate’s Reflection, EXTRA!, and INFOConnect
terminal emulation solutions provide reliable connections
from any Windows desktop or web browser to applications
on IBM Mainframe, IBM AS/400, UNIX, Linux, HP,
OpenVMS, Unisys, and Tandem systems. Advanced
features are designed to strengthen host security, improve
user productivity, and support existing and emerging
technologies (including Windows Vista).
Attachmate also offers legacy integration for IBM
mainframe platforms with Verastream. The Verastream
integration suite provides a complete range of mainframe,
web, and desktop modernization tools that speed the reuse
of legacy applications in service-oriented architectures.
Attunity
Address:
40 Audubon Road, Wakefield, MA, 1880, USA.
Phone: 781-213-5200.
Email: attunity@attunity.com.
Web: http://www.attunity.com.
Specialist areas; Web integration and legacy
reengineering tools
Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, OS/390, VMVSE,
Linux,
Linux, Windows, other.
Company profile
Attunity is a leading provider of enterprise data integration
software. Using Attunity’s products, companies can
seamlessly connect to mainframe data sources, stream
data changes across the enterprise, and federate
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heterogeneous information to achieve a single view of
their business. Attunity Mainframe Integration Products
enable companies to accelerate the integration initiatives
that require interaction with mainframe systems, while
dramatically reducing the cost of building and maintaining
such solutions.
Attunity provides remote access, open interfaces, secure
and highly reliable integration to all the major mainframe
information systems including CICS, IMS/TM, IMS-DB,
VSAM, DB2, Adabas and Natural:
• Attunity Connect allows seamless access to relational
and non-relational legacy data for business intelligence
and enterprise portals, and helps users to build .NET
and J2EE applications that interoperate with legacy
systems and accelerate EAI initiatives with certified
adapters.
• Attunity Stream, allows users to move mainframe
and enterprise operational data in real-time to data
warehouses and data marts, dramatically improving
the efficiency of ETL processes, synchronizing data
sources, and enabling event-driven business activity
monitoring and processing.
• Attunity Federate allows heterogeneous data sources
to be joined, to make them available as a virtual
data layer. The product employs distributed query
optimization and processing engines that reside
natively on enterprise data servers. Federate provides
superior performance, security, and transaction
management, and leverages Attunity Connect adapters
to access any data source in the enterprise.
Axios Products Inc
Address:
353 Veterans Highway, Suite 204, Commack, NY 11725,
USA.
Phone: 800-877-0990.
Email: info@axiosproducts.com
Web: www.axios.com
Specialist areas: System management; data management
Pricing options: Processor/capacity-based
Company profile
Axios Products develops, distributes, and supports
mainframe performance enhancement and management
software for z/OS, OS/390, and MVS environments. For
over 30 years, we have dedicated ourselves to providing
customers with useful, reliable, and cost-effective software
along with responsive technical support. Our strong
customer commitment to providing quality software
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products and service is the driving force behind the
continuing growth of our mainframe customer base.
RefWiz is a powerful analysis and documentation tool
that provides, in one place, comprehensive data about
application element interrelationships for mainframe
batch and CICS applications, including whether or
not the element is being used. This information is
available for immediate access in a variety of standard
or customized forms to suit your specific needs. RefWiz
is used for conversions, upgrades, audits, migrations,
daily maintenance, documentation, mergers, operations
management (including failure analysis), disaster recovery,
change scope analysis, and much more.
ROPES (Remote Online Print Executive System) is a
comprehensive CICS print spooling and transmission
software for IBM mainframe-based systems. ROPES
provides complete facilities for generating, retrieving,
browsing, distributing and printing reports from online
transactions, batch jobs, or the operating system spool.
Its versatile set of capabilities allows you to place report
data on the ROPES queue concurrent with online printing
operations. A comprehensive command structure allows
any authorized terminal operator to effectively control
ROPES, eliminating the need for dedicated control
terminals.
The SPI-TAB+ table management system provides one
simple product that will manage your tables using the same
standards for all applications, eliminating the need to write
programs for this process. SPI-TAB+ lets you quickly and
easily update, customize and maintain your tables, and get
your new applications on line faster, with less effort. Plus,
the same tool can be used on line or in batch. In addition,
the new SPI-TAB+ web interface component allows you
to list and update SPI-TAB+ tables via a web browser,
eliminating the need for traditional mainframe access and
ultimately expanding your user base by providing access
for less technical end users who may not have CICS
knowledge.
Azamour Solutions
Address:
E8 Ascot Business Park, Lyndhurst Road, Ascot, Berks,
SL5 9FE, UK.
Phone: +44 (0) 1344 280 280.
Email: enquiries@azamour-solutions.co.uk
Web: www.azamoursolutions.com
Activity: Supply, install, and maintain IBM mainframe
servers and storage
Specialist areas: Enterprise hardware and maintenance,
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hosting, business continuity and disaster recovery, system
storage and networking.
Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, OS/390, z/Linux
Pricing options: Flexible pricing options.
Company profile
Azamour have been working with customers globally for
over 15 years, assisting in all aspects of enterprise and
data centre computing. Today we operate from multiple
strategic locations in the UK, delivering high end data
centre products, solutions and maintenance services.
Azamour blends experience, knowledge, and technology to
deliver cost reductions and investment protection, serving
as an effective alternative to vendor products and services
for IBM z System Mainframes and Storage.
Azamour have been working with customers globally for
over 15 years, assisting in all aspects of enterprise and
data centre computing. Today we operate from multiple
strategic locations in the UK, delivering high end data
centre products, solutions and maintenance services.
Azamour blends experience, knowledge, and technology to
deliver cost reductions and investment protection, serving
as an effective alternative to vendor products and services
for IBM z System Mainframes and Storage.
Product/Service Information
Azamour is an infrastructure focused supply and
support organisation offering a comprehensive range
of enterprise computer products and services, 24/7
hardware maintenance services, and from a state of the
art datacentre, business continuity & disaster recovery
solutions.
We supply and support a wide range of Enterprise
Computer Hardware which includes, IBM z System
Mainframes – EC12 (2827), BC12, z114 (2818), z196
(2817), z10 EC (2097), z10 BC (2098), z9 EC (2094), z9
BC (2096), zSeries z890 (2086), z990 (2084), z800 (2066),
MP3000 (7060). IBM Enterprise Disk Storage includes,
DS8800, DS8700, DS8300, DS8100, DS6800, 2015-800
ESS. Enterprise Tape Storage includes, TS7700 Virtual
Tape Systems, TS3500 Tape Libraries, TS1140, TS1130,
TS1120 Tape Drives & Controllers, 3592, 3590 & 3490
Tape Drives & Controllers. Tape Media for all IBM Tape
Products.
If you are looking for a solutions provider that is well
regarded within the IT industry, you have found one – we
look forward to hearing from you and to hopefully working
with you and your team on your next project.
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B & M Europe Ltd
Address:
Whitehouse Farm, Silchester Road, Tadley RG26 3PY, UK.
Phone: 0118 981 1880
Email: info@bmeurope.com
Web: http://www.bmeurope.com/itservices.html
Activity: Consultant
reengineering tools; network performance/management
VSE, z/Linux
Non-mainframe platforms supported: System i, AIX,
other Unix, Linux
Company profile
B & M enables business-critical IT systems for large,
complex enterprises by delivering a tailored blend of
technical expertise, project management and efficient
administration. The company has delivered technical
support and consultancy services since 1992, working
exclusively on systems software and network connectivity
for z/OS, UNIX and Linux enterprise platforms. B & M is
completely vendor-independent and provides services to
Europe’s major organisations.
B & M offers a portfolio of technical services to meet
customers’ needs:
B & M ProTech delivers technical projects, fully managed
by B & M or managed by the customer
B & M Assure services provide contingency cover for
planned or unplanned shortages in key resources
B & M ProSupport second and third tier technical support
services can be delivered either on-site or remotely
B & M TechConsult offers consultancy for short-term,
bespoke projects
B & M ProLegacy is an enduring legacy support service
that ensures that systems software supports vital but
stabilised application systems
B & M SkillSource delivers contract support services,
notably for technical systems software on large enterprise
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B & M Permanent offers a specialist search and placement
service to fill permanent technical roles.
Baer Consulting
Address:
28154 Meadow Trail, Conifer, CO 80433, USA
Phone: +1 303 838-3374
Email: contactbci@baer-consulting.com
Web: http://www.baer-consulting.com
management; storage management; security;
programming/testing; web integration and legacy
VSE, Linux
Non-mainframe platforms supported: IBM i, AIX, Linux,
Windows
Pricing options: One-time charge, other
Company profile
Founded in 1982, Baer Consulting Inc. (BCI) provides
mainframe systems software administration and
management. BCI’s primary business is to assist our
national client base with selection, implementation, and
administration of IBM compatible operating environments.
Our clients range from small/medium businesses to
Fortune 500 corporations.
BCI’s project-based solutions include z/OS rollout projects,
data center implementations, migrations, upgrades,
business recovery, maintenance to third-party operating
systems and software, or server consolidations. BCI
project management, planning, and status reporting
procedures ensure all services are completed on schedule
and within budget throughout the project lifecycle.
Our services range from short-term, peak-load project
support to complete facilities management. Baer
Consulting offers individualized Mainframe Support
Services from T&M to 24x7 Support.
BCI consistently delivers high quality solutions to our
clients, while dramatically increasing the effectiveness
of their information systems management teams, project
management for Enterprise strategies, and Enterprise
systems support.
BCI draws on years of experience and training to provide
responsive and quality answers in core areas such as:
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Operating Systems
IBM z/OS, IBM S/390, IBM VM/ESA, IBM VSE/ESA, z/VM,
Linux, etc.
Subsystems
IBM Transaction Server (CICS), IBM DB2/UDB, IBM
Security Server, IBM MQSeries, IBM Tivoli Storage
Management, WebSphere, and ISV Installation/Upgrade/
Conversion, etc.
Network
TCP/IP, OSA Configuration, TN3270, NCP, SNA
Configuration, and Host-On-Demand, etc.
Storage Management
VTS/ATL, SAN, DASD, etc.
For longer-term solutions, BCI also provides a wide range
of expert services such as:
Storage Management Assessment through Implementation
Facilities/Outsource Management
Data Center Relocation/Consolidation
Project Management
Capacity/Performance Planning
Business Recovery
Security.
Beta Systems Software AG
Address:
Alt-Moabit 90d, D-10559, Berlin, Germany
Phone: +49 (0)30 726 118 0.
Email: info@betasystems.com
Web: www.betasystems-dci.com
Sales contacts:
America +1 (571) 348-4450
EMEA +33 (0) 1 43 90 17 40
Specialist areas: System management; security;
reengineering tools
Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, OS/390, Linux.
Non-mainframe platforms supported: AIX, other Unix,
Pricing options: one-time charge, monthly/annual license,
processor/capacity-based, workload/usage based.
Company profile
For over 30 years, Beta Systems has been providing
high-quality infrastructure software products for the
secure and efficient processing of large volumes of data
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to ensure compliance with all regulatory and corporate
requirements. The multiplatform software solutions for z/
OS, Unix, Linux and Windows environments automate,
document and analyze business-critical IT processes in
the datacenters of large enterprises, IT service providers,
public authorities and midsized companies. Beta Systems
datacenter intelligence portfolio focuses on areas including
output management and archiving, log/security information
management, workload automa-tion and job management.
Beta Systems Software AG was founded in 1983, has
been listed on the stock exchange since 1997 and employs
around 300 staff. Company headquarters are located
in Berlin, Germany. The company, together with its 16
self-owned subsidiaries and numerous partners, is active
across the globe. More than 1,300 customers all over the
world are currently operating over 3,200 installations in
more than 30 countries..
Data Center Intelligence Solutions
Modern data centers are IT production facilities subject to
similar requirements that govern industrial operations: justin-time, consistency, efficiency, failover mechanisms, high
quality and environmentally friendly processes.
The Data Center Intelligence solutions of Beta Systems
are a strategy for providing data centers with cutting-edge
tools that support such an IT production environment.
Features include automated IT workflows, ongoing
monitoring of IT production, early identification of issues
that impact production, as well as compliance with all
regulations applicable to the respective process, including
proof of compliance generated in an automated manner.
Comprehensive information regarding our Data Center
Intelligence solutions: www.betasystems.dci.com
Comprehensive information regarding our Identity Access
Management solutions: www.betasystems-iam.comr.
Blenheim Software
Address
29 The Park, Yeovil, Somerset BA20 1DG, UK
Phone: 0870 240 6771
Email: info@blenheim-sw.co.uk
Web: www.blenheim.sw.co.uk
Activity: Software Vendor
performance/management
Non- mainframe platforms supported: IBM i, AIX, other
Unix, Linux, Windows
license, processor/capacity-based, workload/usage based
Company Profile
Blenheim Software saves money for UK and Ireland data
centres by providing innovative solutions from around the
world.
For IBM mainframes, we improve operating system and
database performance, security, application development
and operation management.
Blenheim Software International Ltd
Identity Access Management Solutions
The Identity Access Management solutions of Beta
Systems comply with the vision of a strong provisioning
foundation combined with state-of-the-art governance and
analytics applications.
Address
11 Hollycombe, Englefield Green, Surrey TW20 0LQ, UK
Phone: +44-1784-437404
Email: blenheim@blenheimintl.co.uk
Web: www.blenheimintl.co.uk
The IAM suite has been enhanced and completed
concerning its three pillars Provisioning, Access
Governance and Access Intelligence.
management; security; programming/testing
VSE, Linux, other
Non- mainframe platforms supported: IBM i, AIX, other
Unix, Windows
In combination with major enhancements in the workflow
engineand a new version of Garancy Access Intelligence
Manager, Beta Systems offers sophisticated, robust and
highly scalable solutions based on more than 30 years of
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Company Profile
Blenheim, based near Heathrow in the Thames Valley, was
established over 15 years ago with a focus on the ADABAS
market in the UK mainframe community. Today almost all
active UK ADABAS sites use our software services.
We are also World-Wide distributors for “PEEK” our
ADABAS File Browser/Editor from ByteZone, Australia for
which we boast customers across Europe, The Americas
and elsewhere.
In addition, we are the UK Agent for Advanced Software
Products Group, Inc. who have provided the z/OS &
OS/390 Mainframe community with cutting edge Enterprise
Cryptography and Security Management software
solutions, support and services since 1986.
ADABAS/Natural Database Utilities:
ADAMAGIC - ADABAS C Files to UNIX Conversion
ADAREORG - ADABAS File Restructuring with minimum
risk and computer resource usage
ADASTRIP - ADABAS File Data Extraction Utility
DBAUDIT - ADABAS Database Logical Integrity
Verification
PEEK - ADABAS File Browser & Editor in use at over 60
sites world-wide
NIM - Purpose built TP Monitor for the Natural and
ADABAS environments as an alternative to CICS
Enterprise Cryptography and Security Management:
MEGACRYPTION - Enterprise Cryptography for z/OS,
WIN, UNIX & LINUX
CRYPTOMON - ISPF Cryptographic Key Manager
ReACT - Enterprise Password Reset & Synchronization
ERQ - Easy RACF Query, Automated RACF Administration
and Reporting
Generic Systems Management Software Offerings:
Providing a global view of your resource performance and
utilisation.
SMFUTIL / SMFVIEW — SMF Data Management can
reduce the dump & clear time by up to 70%
The Info Suite: Info/CPU - Info/DASD – InfoTAPE
As a suite or individually, the Info products provide a global
view of your resource performance and utilization.
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Blue Sea Technology
Address
Beckumer Str. 152, Germany
Phone: +49 (0) 2382 966225
Email: helpdesk@blueseasoft.de
Web: www.blueseasoft.de
management; security; programming/testing; network
Mainframe Platforms supported: z/OS, OS/390, VM/
VSE, Linux, other
Non- mainframe platforms supported: IBM i, other Unix,
Linux, Windows
license, processor/capacity-based
Company Profile
Blue Sea Technology is privately held software
development, technical support, consulting and training
company. Company supports over 30 multiplatform, MVS
and VSE mainframe systems products, which are used by
data centers of all sizes and configurations worldwide. With
our security solutions, large companies can manage their
security infrastructure. We are proudly distributing software
solutions from our Partners. Software Sales, Licensing,
and Technical Support are our priority. Our loyalty and
100% dedication to our Customers and Partners are well
known .
The philosophy of Blue Sea Technology is based on the
following: the simple ideology that Information Technology
must be developed and delivered for the end user. This
must serve both the company concerned and its staff.
The goals of this specialist company are to bring to the
users, software of the highest quality, coupled closely with
its professionally supported technical department and
documentation.
As would be expected this dependable consultancy unit is
well placed to assist its customer base, to attain maximum
ease of use of its preferred software packages.
Our company has gained invaluable close support contact
with its customer base. It can assist in your technical and
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IT based needs. This will enable its customers to make
clear and concise decisions based on the highly sort after
software it supplies.
Non- mainframe platforms supported: IBM i, other Unix,
Linux, Windows
Pricing options: One-time charge, monthly/annual license
Our mainframe solutions for the areas of Performance
Monitoring Software, CICS Utilities, Report & Backup,
Session & Print Management, File Transfer &
Compression, Multiplatform Scheduling, and Remote Print
Management are known for the highest quality software,
documentation and technical support in the business.
Company Profile
BluePhoenix Solutions (NASDAQ: BPHX) is a leading
provider of value-driven legacy IT modernization solutions.
BluePhoenix offerings include a comprehensive suite of
tools and services from global IT asset assessment and
impact analysis to automated database and application
migration, rehosting, and renewal. Leveraging over 20
years of best practice domain expertise, BluePhoenix
works closely with its customers to ascertain which assets
should be migrated, redeveloped, or wrapped for reuse as
services or business processes, to protect and increase
the value of their business applications and legacy systems
with minimized risk and downtime.
Our customers can rely on the quality software from
our partner, like Software Diversified Services (SDS), a
leading provider of enterprise software. We are proud to
present this high quality Software like VIP - VitalSigns for
IP the complete monitoring, alerting, diagnosis, and repair
for IP Networks on z/OS, or VitalSigns for FTP, Snap-in
security and encryption for FTP file transfer jobs on z/
OS. With Vanguard Security Solutions large companies
can manage their security infrastructure. The software
products are designed to meet today’s unprecedented
security challenges. The products bring together formerly
separate functions of security administration, access
and authentication, reporting and analysis, and policy
compliance.
Our professionals assist our clients through consultancy,
development, project delivery and training. By out-tasking
to our company our clients not only saving time and
money, but they get top technologies delivery and still
continuing its overall control. By that way of working, we
do not replace the customer’s teams and work places,
but helping them to be more competitive on the market, to
be able to react faster for the real time technological and
business development demands.
BluePhoenix Solutions
Address
8000 Regency Parkway, Suite 300, Cary, NC 27518, USA
Phone: +1 919 380 5100
Email: usa@bphx.com
Web: www.bphx.com
integration and legacy reengineering tools
VSE, Linux
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BluePhoenix provides modernization solutions to
companies from diverse industries and vertical markets
such as automotive, banking and financial services,
insurance, manufacturing, and retail. Among its prestigious
customers are: Aflac, DaimlerChrysler, Danish Commerce
and Companies Agency, Europe Assistance, Lawson
Products, Los Angeles County, Employees Retirement
Association, Merrill Lynch, SDC, Udvikling, and
TEMENOS. BluePhoenix has 15 offices in
the USA, UK, Denmark, Germany, Italy, France, The
Netherlands, Romania, Russia, Cyprus, South Korea,
Australia, and Israel.
BluePhoenix provides a wide range of legacy
modernization services:
Language Migration to C#, Java, COBOL, and Visual RPG
To migrate legacy language applications, our language
migration solution cleanly compiles programs, including
source code, copybooks, and comments documenting
program modifications. Our highly efficiency tools migrate a
range of languages, generating easy-to-read code with
no residual runtimes. The resultant code is typically
cleaner, more reliable than hand-generated code, and
contains fewer errors.
Database Migration to DB2, SQL Server, or Oracle
Reasons for database migrations include shrinking support
frameworks, multiple database systems,
connectivity, growing maintenance fees, and scarcity of
trained personnel.
Migrating from a non-relational database to an industry
standard relational database increases business agility
and ROI.
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Platform Migration and Rehosting
Migrating or rehosting systems on new hardware
and operating system environments such as Linux,
Unix, J2EE, and .NET reduces the ongoing costs of
existing applications and increases the pool of available
development and support professionals.
Enterprise IT Remediation
Automated solutions that enable companies to extend the
life of their existing IT systems by rapidly adapting to new
regulatory changes and business requirements. These
tools include data field adjustment, IT standardization,
and system consolidation. Products include FieldEnabler,
StandardsEnabler, COBOL/LE-Enabler, EuroEnabler, and
more.
BMC Software
Address:
2101 Citywest Blvd, Houston, TX 77042, USA.
Phone: +1 713 918 8800 or +1 800 793-4262
Email: www.bmc.com/contacts-locations/worldwide.
Web: http://www.bmc.com
Sales contacts:
America: 1-877-945-6325
EMEA: 00800 44444 262
AsiaPac: +61 3 96574443
reengineering tools; network performance/management.
VSE, z/Linux
capacity-based, workload/usage based, other.
Company profile
For more than 30 years, BMC has helped thousands of
companies around the world master tough IT challenges.
From mainframe to cloud to mobile, from the back room to
the boardroom, BMC delivers the automation, integration,
and sophistication that enable the business and IT to
perform like never before. It’s amazing what IT was meant
to be.
BMC Software offers a broad set of mainframe solutions
designed to help you optimize and control IT costs, while
ensuring the business remains available 24x7. Regardless
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of the environment, customers rely on our expertise
and solutions to manage their IT infrastructure. BMC
enables customers to align IT systems and services with
their business objectives. We provide comprehensive
mainframe solutions in these key areas: systems
monitoring, management, and automation; enterprise data
management; dynamic batch scheduling management;
middleware management, application performance;
storage resource management; cost analysis; and
performance and capacity planning.
BOB Tech Solutions
Address:
Madiwala, Bangalore, India
Phone: 08040016000
Email: rvphani@bob-technologies.com.
Web: www.bob-technologies.com
Activity: Consultancy
Specialist areas: Other.
Company profile
BOB Tech Solutions is a Bangalore-based software
development company with staff augmentation vertical.
We are working partners with above 60 clients in INDIA.
We have about 200+ professionals working with us. 100+
consultants in mainframes with different clients like MBT,
Patni, SPI, etc.
We are into consulting services. We have around 100+
consultants in Mainframe with skills like COBOL, JCL,
DB2, CICS, IDMS, IMSDB/DC, CSL with different kind of
tools like Endeavor, Xpeditor, panvalet, changeman, etc.
Bsecure – The Mainframe & Security
Company
Address:
c/ Isaac Newton, 1, office 42, Parque Tecnológico
de Madrid, 28760 Tres Cantos, Madrid, Spain.
Phone: +34 902 104 934.
Email: angel.gomez@go2bsecure.com.
Web: http://www.go2bsecure.com.
management; security; network performance/management
Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, OS/390.
Non-mainframe platforms supported: Linux; Windows
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Company profile
Bsecure - The Mainframe & Security Company is a
Spanish company that works in Spain and South America.
We provide mainframe services and software distribution to
the Spanish and Latin-America marketplace. We specialize in security services and mainframe products.
In security we produce special services like hacking,
security assessment, RACF administration and Top Secret
to RACF conversions.
We support and work with particular expertise in the
following areas:
• Vanguard Integrity Professionals, covering all aspects
of mainframe security
• Host Systems products to address IBM Catalogs
integrity. The main product is CIM (Catalog Information
Manager).
• EPV Products. Performance and Capacity
Planning products for all sizes of mainframe customers.
• Time Machine Products. Batch Performance products
to measure and improve all kinds of productions
executions doing more with less resources.
• Professional services and consulting for production
environments.
CA Technologies
Address:
One CA Plaza, Islandia, NY 11749, USA.
Phone: +1 800 225-5224
Email: info@ca.com
Web: www.ca.com/mainframe.
Sales contacts:
America: +1 800 225 5224.
EMEA: + 44 1753 577733.
AsiaPac: singaporesales@ca.com;
Singapore: 65 6337 2822.
Specialist areas: Big Data, AppDev, Workload
Automation, IT Automation, Performance Management,
Storage Management, Security, Access Control and
Compliance, Databases and Analytics, Software
Development, Testing Tools, and Software Change
Management.
Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, VM/VSE, Linux
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Company profile
CA Technologies (NASDAQ: CA) creates software that
fuels transformation for companies and enables them
to seize the opportunities of the application economy.
Software is at the heart of every business, in every
industry. From planning to development to management
and security, CA is working with companies worldwide
to change the way we live, transact and communicate –
across mobile, private and public cloud, distributed and
mainframe environments.
From mobile to mainframe platforms, our proven
portfolio of solutions spans the entire enterprise. Starting
with portfolio planning and service modeling in preproduction, to service assembly, automation, assurance
and management in production, CA Technologies offers
a practical approach to help customers transition from
maintaining IT systems to delivering new, innovative
services and value through IT.
The mainframe continues to be one of the most reliable
and cost effective platforms, and will retain its place as
a critical driver of the application economy. CA software
drives competitive advantage in the application economy
and is dedicated to enabling the mainframe to help further
your success.
We offer a comprehensive suite of solutions that empower
you to optimize efficiency, reduce risks and transform your
mobile-to-mainframe IT environment. By implementing our
best in-class solutions to simplify and automate your IT
infrastructure, organizations can begin to reap real costs
savings and improve effectiveness—increasing IT’s ability
to drive business value and innovation.
Canam Software Labs, Inc
Address:
5770 Hurontario Street Suite 310, Mississauga, ON
LR 3G5 Canada
Phone: +1 905 712 3840
Email: info@canamsoftware.com
Web: www.canamsoftware.com
Specialist areas: Programming/testing; web integration
and legacy reengineering tools
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Linux
Company profile
Canam Software Labs, Inc. is a Canadian global supplier
of automated software development and integration
solutions in the areas of XML, SOAP, JSON proicessing
with COBOL or C. With customers in over 50 countries
the company has a history of understanding and
satisfying technology needs and gaps for the Global 2000
community. With extreme customer focus, aggressive
execution and a dynamic work force Canam has enjoyed
long term successful relationships with its customers in
the areas of banking and finance, transportation, retail,
defense, telecommunications and other fields.
Canam Software Labs, Inc. (Canam) is the developer and
manufacturer of XML Thunder, an automated XML, SOAP
and JSON software integration solution for COBOL and C
language applications.
CASI Software
Address:
10231 Slater Avenue, Suite 117 Fountain Valley, CA 92708,
USA.
Phone: +1 800 378 1109.
Email: info@casisoft.com
Web: www.casisoft.com
other.
Company profile
CASI Software is a provider of software solutions to
transform and deliver z/OS print content.
CASI Software has three main product lines:
JES2Mail/JES2FTP – transforms z/OS report content
into PDF, HTML, RTF, .CSV, and XML, files and securely
delivers results to users via email, FTP, and RSS web
feeds. JES2Mail/JES2FTP’s report content processing
and PDF overlay capabilities enable creation of advanced,
final-form PDF output to replace printing and other
information delivery methods.
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CICS2PDF/zOS2PDF – transforms real-time CICS
information into PDFs and delivers that information to
users via email or directly to users via web-enabled CICS
application.
Mail2ZOS / FTPSweeper – is mainframe software that
receives email contents and attachments or retrieves files
from designated servers or FTP sites; decodes, processes
and stores these emails, attachments and files into MVS
datasets; dynamically composes job streams for execution;
and sends e-mail or text message notifications regarding
mainframe processing status.
CDB Software Inc
Address:
11200 Richmond Ave, Houston, TX 77082, USA
Phone: +1 800 627 6561
Email: info@cdbsoftware.com
Web: www.cdbsoftware.com.
Specialist areas: Data management
license, processor/capacity-based, other
Company profile
CDB Software is an innovative leader in data management
solutions for DB2 z/OS. CDB focuses its business on
DB2 for z/OS to provide unique and innovative solutions
that enable companies to expand their DB2 system to
meet business needs while controlling the overall cost
of the mainframe. Founded in 1985, CDB is a privately
held corporation based in Houston, Texas with offices
worldwide.
For more information visit: www.cdbsoftware.com.
CDB Software streamlines data management processes
so that enterprises can discover more performance and
availability from their z/Series DB2 environments to meet
the changing demands of business. Including solutions for
all facets of DB2 data management, the CDB Intelligent
Data Management (IDM) Suite features flexible, intelligent
automation and advanced processing techniques to reduce
overall management costs while improving DB2 reliability,
efficiency and staff productivity. So, no matter how much
data you manage, you remain flexible and in control.
CDB provides the solutions to improving your business’s
data management process through:
• Built-in intelligent decision making for data
management automation to streamline tedious
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processes so that you can focus on those tasks that
are more complex.
• Intelligent processing techniques have been specifically
designed to uncover new levels of performance and
availability from your DB2 enterprise.
• Flexible new products provide the flexibility you want to
meet the specific requirements of your business.
CDB’s Intelligent Data Management Solutions deliver
dramatic benefits for every DB2 z/OS data management
need:
• Database utilities
• Data backup and recovery
• Data replication
• Data propagation
• Partition management
• Compliance and auditing
• Data conversion to DB2
• Database statistics
• Storage reporting.
Cobbs Mill Consulting
Address:
129 Coachmans Trail, Asheville, NC 28803, USA.
Phone: +1 828 299 4649
Email: johnm@cobbsmill.com
Web: www.cobbsmill.com
Specialist areas: Data management; asset and change
management; programming/testing
Company profile
Cobbs Mill Consulting specializes in support for Phoenix
Software’s Key/101 data entry software (formerly Key/
Master from Mercator and TSI). We provide training
courses, implementation and conversion services for
Key/101. We have extensive experience with the Aperture
range of data center documentation tools. Our COBOL
dump debugging courses are popular with programmers
as they teach a lot of shortcuts in solving COBOL dumps.
We also work closely with Fantom Systems, CSI and DPI
Software to help develop their software in Assembler.
Cole Software LLC
Address:
736 Fox Hollow Road, Afton, VA 22920, USA
Phone: +1 540 456 8210
Email: bshimizu@colesoft.com.
Web: www.colesoft.com.
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America: 1 800 XDC 5150
EMEA +1-928-771-2003.
AsiaPac +1-928-771-2003.
Specialist areas: Programming/testing.
Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS.
Pricing options: Workload/usage based.
Company profile
Cole Software is dedicated to the continued development
of powerful software for sophisticated mainframe
programmers. Many of the industry’s foremost
programmers use Cole Software’s core product, z/XDC,
the indispensable debugging tool for Assembler programs.
Cole Software is an Advanced Business Partner in the IBM
PartnerWorld program.
Cole Software announced the availability of a beta test
program for z/XDC release z1.10 in August 2008. This
latest beta version of z/XDC includes support for IBM
System z10 processor machine instructions and “A La
Carte” configuration options. A major enhancement
available with z/XDC z1.10 is the support for displaying
and debugging IBM C/C++ programs with the new c/XDC
Feature. This feature is seamlessly integrated into the
existing z/XDC technology.
Compu Management
Address:
3010 Grand Concourse, New York, NY 10458, USA
Phone: +1 718-733-1861
Email: jcmcgil@attglobal.net.
VSE.
Company profile
We provide full life-cycle support to legacy IS systems. To
accomplish this objective, we will upgrade, renovate, or reengineer your current IS system to better integrate to your
current Enteprise Architecture across multiple-platforms.
We will can also provide you with a migration plan to
renovate your current Architecture to new Enterprise
Architecture.
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Compute (Bridgend)
Address:
8, Merthyr Mawr Road, Bridgend CF31 3NH, UK
Phone: +44 (0)1656 652222.
E-mail: admin@cbl.com
Web: www.cbl.com
Activity : Software vendor.
management; storage management; programming/testing;
other
VSE, z/LInux, other
Company profile
Since its inception in 1970, Compute (Bridgend) Ltd has
become respected internationally for its commitment to the
production of system software, mainly for IBM Mainframe
Computers.
CBL’s objective is to continue to produce software for the
user which is easy to use yet provides fast and powerful
data handling.
The SELCOPY Product Suite includes the powerful
SELCOPY batch utility language in which new applications
can be developed more easily than using compiled
languages such as Cobol but executing at comparable
speeds.
Complementing the SELCOPY batch utility programming
tool is SELCOPYi which offers a modern windows style
interface providing multiple edit sessions supporting both
ISPF and Xedit features.
SELCOPYi takes advantage of large 3270 screen
sizes and provides an integrated structured data editor
supporting displays of multiple record types, COBOL and
PL/1 copybook record mapping and sophisticated VSAM
support. There is also an FSU (file, search and update)
feature which makes it easy for a developer to identify
global changes that would occur before actioning them.
SELCOPYi allows for DB/2 table editing using multiple
views. SQL-style SELECT/WHERE commands are
supported also.
To aid debugging of the batch SELCOPY, it can be run
interactively under SELCOPYi where breakpoints can be
applied to the SELCOPY control statements and changes
in the values of defined fields can be seen.
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Also available is the CBLVCAT tool which allows the
user to generate reports of VTOC/Catalog contents and
IDCAMS tuning recommendations for VSAM data sets.
Computer Management Sciences, Inc
(CMS)
Address:
634 Lakeview Drive, Hartfield, VA 23071, USA.
Phone: +1 703 922 7027.
E-mail: Don_Deese@cpexpert.com
Web: www.cpexpert.org
Pricing options: Monthly/annual license.
Company profile
CMS was incorporated in 1986, and initially provided
consulting services in the IBM mainframe environment.
In 1991, CMS delivered its CPExpert software product.
Since 1991, CPExpert has been installed in over 200 sites
worldwide.
CMS offers CPExpert to help analyze performance
problems with z/OS environments. CPExpert automates
computer performance evaluation by detecting system
performance problems, identifying the causes of the
problems, and suggesting ways to improve performance.
Different components of CPExpert analyze performance
problems with WebSphere MQ, DB2, PR/SM, Workload
Manager, CICS, and DASD. CPExpert is written in SAS
and is composed of hundreds of expert system rules,
analysis modules, and queuing models. CPExpert
executes as a batch job, and analyzes standard SMF/
RMF data contained in either MXG, SAS/ITSV, or MICS
performance database. CPExpert’s low fee is affordable for
all sites!
Computer Measurement Group (CMG)
Address:
151 Fries Mill Road, Suite 104, Turnersville, NJ 08012,
USA
Phone: +1 800 436 7264
E-mail: cmghq@cmg.org
Web (US): www.cmg.org
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network performance/management.
VSE, Linux, other
Company profile
The Computer Measurement Group, commonly called
CMG, is a not for profit, worldwide organization of data
processing professionals committed to the measurement
and management of computer systems.
CMG in the USA hosts an annual conference the first
week of December every year. This conference provides
approximately 120 educational sessions covering all
aspects of computer measurement, performance and
capacity planning. All computing platforms are included.
CMG also supports many regional groups which meet
throughout the year, providing an opportunity for the
computer performance professional to gain knowledge
and share experiences. Information on the international
network of CMG groups can be found on the CMG website.
Address:
Compuware Corporation, One Campus Martius, Detroit, MI
48226, USA
Phone: +1 313 227 7300.
Email: www@compuware.com
Web: www.compuware.com
Sales contacts
America: (313) 227-7300
EMEA: +31 (0)20 312 0400
AsiaPac: + 61 2 8249 1888
management; asset and change management; security;
Windows
capacity-based.
Company profile
As the world continues to rely on the mainframe to support
business-critical applications, Compuware provides the
software, experts and best practices to ensure those
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applications work well and deliver value. For organizations
that need to optimize developer productivity, reduce costs
and improve service quality throughout the application
life cycle, Compuware’s industry-leading solutions help
them: understand code, optimize test data, test and
debug, pinpoint problems, validate quality, and tune
applications and performance. Compuware offers userfriendly and efficient solutions. To maximize productivity
and better enable the next generation of mainframe
developers, our solutions work in both a traditional green
screen environment or in a familiar open development
environment. Compuware provides mainframe services
and products for application development, testing and
application performance management. Our simple, elegant
tools bring application development agility and speed to
the powerful, secure and scalable z Systems platform,
empowering teams to continuously deliver competitive
advantages to their business.
Compuware provides mainframe services and products for
application development, mainframe testing and mainframe
application performance management.
Topaz’s elegant simplicity in design helps a new mainframe
development workforce quickly understand, update,
maintain and troubleshoot even the oldest, most complex
and/or most poorly documented systems.
File-AID provides a consistent and secure method to
access, analyze, edit, compare, move and transform
data across all strategic environments. File-AID resolves
production data problems and manages ongoing changes
to data and databases.
Xpediter delivers powerful analysis and testing capabilities
across multiple environments, helping developers test
more accurately, reliably and faster.
Hiperstation delivers complete pre-production testing
functionality for automating test creation and execution,
test results analysis and documentation. Hiperstation
also provides application auditing capabilities to address
compliance requirements
Abend-AID helps to diagnose and resolve application and
system failures. Automated failure notification helps speed
problem resolution and reduces downtime.
Strobe measures the activity of z/OS-based online and
batch applications, providing reports on where and how
time is spent during execution, to reduce the consumption
of mainframe resources and associated costs.
Test Data Privacy protects organizations from data
breaches by making test data anonymous. Test Data
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Privacy scrambles, translates, generates, analyzes
and validates test data for mainframe and distributed
applications.
Conexus Technologies Inc
Address:
8081 Twin Creek Trace, West Chester, OH 45069, USA
Phone: +1 513 779 5448.
Email: info@conexus-technologies.com.
Web: www.conexus-technologies.com.
Specialist areas: Asset and change management; other
Company profile
Conexus provides structured cabling solutions for the
raised-floor, data center environment. The company’s
core competency is in the design, provisioning,
installation, testing and documentation of physical cabling
infrastructure for the ESCON, FICON and Fibre Channel
architectures. Our services are available to Fortune 1000
corporations throughout North America.
Conexus provides fiber-optic trunk cabling, jumper cables,
patch panels, distribution cabinetry and conveyance/tray
systems for the raised-floor environment. The company
provides turnkey cabling solutions to provide physical
connectivity for data center moves, consolidations, new
data center construction, push-pull project initiatives and
technology refresh projects.
ConicIT
Address:
4 Derech Hashalom st, Israel
Phone: +972 546263343.
Email: eli.hizkiyev@conicit.biz.
Web: www.conicit.biz.
Specialist areas: Systems management; network
Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, OS/390, Linux
Linux
capacity-based
Company profile
ConicIT was founded by Yoram Kariv (the founder
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of ConicIT is a software vendor specializing in the
development of a unique self learning behavioral analysis
technology for optimizing mainframe performance. By
employing sophisticated mathematical tools and data from
existing monitors, ConicIT predicts performance problems,
helps solve them the first time they occur, as well as
prevent their re occurrence.
Our mission is to help IT Operations Managers control their
z/OS Mainframe environments by enhancing IT productivity
and performance, and proactively optimize SLA costs,
while reducing monthly license fees and operational costs
(overhead?).
ConicIT is an out of band, Linux-based production solution
that constantly analyzes mainframe system and application
performance information provided by existing mainframe
monitors. By utilizing proprietary mathematical models
and self-learning algorithms, ConicIT provides real time
tracking of critical resource behavioral patterns and
predicts abnormal behavior of these resources before it
occurs. ConicIT also analyzes composite relations between
physical and logical resources.
Based on this information ConicIT provides meaningful
alerts aimed at reducing re-occurrence of performancerelated malfunctions. No matter where they were when
the problem occurred, IT managers and performance
administrators have all the information needed to find the
root cause of problems, enabling IT staff to solve the actual
cause of the incident and not spend valuable time and
resources trying to battle the symptoms. By quickly getting
to the root of the problem after its first occurrence, IT staff
can now provide first fault problem resolution.
Connectivity Systems Inc
Address:
8120 State Route 138, Williamsport, OH 43164, USA
Phone: +1 740 420 5400.
Email: sales@CSI-International.com.
Web: www.csi-international.com.
Sales contacts:
America 740 420 5400.
EMEA 1 800 795 4914.
Specialist areas: Systems management; data
web integration and legacy reengineering tools; network
Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, VM/VSE
license, processor/capacity-based.
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CSI International was founded in 1995 to provide TCP/
IP connectivity for the VSE environment. From a single
employee and a $20,000 capitalization, CSI has grown to
a $12 million per year company, employing more than 40
people, and serving more than 2000 VSE sites worldwide.
CSI products are sold directly in North America and
through distributors and IBM to the rest of the world. In
early 2002, CSI acquired B I Moyle Associates in a cash
transaction. Contrary to modern acquisition processes,
all BIM offices remain open, and all BIM employees have
been retained. Three additional senior product developers
have been hired and a number of high-profile products are
under development. It is the CSI mission to ensure a long
and successful experience for those who select and use
the VSE operating environment.
CSI International is the major provider of TCP/IP products
for the VSE platform. Additionally CSI provides a wide
range of VSE system and security products through our
subsidiary company, BI Moyle Associates. We are certain
that if you have a VSE communications or systems
requirement, we have a solution for you. TCP/IP for VSE
provides a complete solution for connecting the mainframe
to the Internet.
CONNX Solutions Inc
Address:
2039 152nd Ave. NE, Redmond, WA 98052, USA.
Phone: +1 425 519 6600.
Email: sales@connx.com.
Web: www.connx.com.
Specialist areas: Data management; web integration and
legacy reengineering tools; other
VSE, z/Linux
other
Company profile
CONNX Solutions is a leader in the data access, migration,
integration, virtualization, and replication market with
solutions that enables quick, secure, and scalable SQL
access to legacy, non-relational, relational, Big Data, and
cloud data wherever it resides, however it is structured,
without any change to your core systems.
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CONNX Solutions, Inc is a leading provider of simplified
data access, management, and integration software
solutions. CONNX Solutions’ software provides:
• Real-Time Access to mainframe data (VSAM, DB2,
IMS, Adabas, and IDMS)
• Virtualize all relational, non-relational, cloud, and Big
data sources.
• Facilitates real-time data replication, reporting and BI,
data warehousing (including CDC), data analytics, and
disaster recovery.
• Web enablement to all data sources.
• CONNX has a very small footprint on the Mainframe
CONNX Solutions’ products, CONNX, DataSync, KPiSync,
and Excel Add-in, are installed in over 3,200 organizations
worldwide since 1989. CONNX solutions are installed
across a range of industries including government,
manufacturing, education, technology, human resources,
financial services, telecommunications and more.
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CONNX for VSAM, DB2 Adabas, IMS, and IDMS:
provides real-time, read/write, SQL access to mainframe
data sources including COBOL copybooks, using open
data access standards (ODBC, OLE DB, JDBC and
.NET). CONNX allows companies to connect to various
mainframe databases using any standards-based
compliant tool/application. CONNX allows companies to
integrate multiple relational, non-relational, Cloud, and Big
Data sources, wherever it resides, however it is structured,
without any change to your core systems. The CONNX
Data Dictionary offers a single SQL view of the data as if it
exists in a single relational database.
CONNX DataSync is an ETL Tool with CDC that captures
incremental changes from the source database and
delivers them at user-defined intervals to single or multiple
database targets. This is done in a fraction of the time
required by full extracts. DataSync delivers support for data
warehousing, BI, data migration, integration, replication,
and disaster recovery.
Excel Add-In: Enhanced Excel Reporting allows for
a quicker and easier data access to any data source
within Excel. If you prefer Excel for viewing, reporting,
and manipulating your business’ data, then this can be
accomplished in only two clicks.
CONNX KPiSync makes it simple to keep track of your
critical business metrics in real-time simply by defining a
key performance indicator (KPI’s). These are then pushed
to your tablet, or mobile devices real-time..
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CopperEye Ltd
Address:
Suite 47, Aztec Center, Almondsbury, Bristol BS32 4TD,
UK
Phone: +44 (0) 1454 203610
Email: contact@coppereye.com
Web: www.coppereye.com
Sales contacts:
America: 001 203-245-0611
EMEA: +44 (0) 1225 745500
Mainframe platforms supported: Linux
Linux
Pricing options: Processor/capacity-based, workload/
usage based.
scalar disk-optimized index technology. It eliminates
the traditional design compromises between real-time
application performance and prolific indexing for fast query
performance. It is applicable across virtually all data types.
Benefits include:
• greater performance: CopperEye’s indexing technology
breaks the disk I/O bottleneck, improving performance
a hundred-fold on that basis alone. This means that
large volumes of data can be loaded in a fraction of the
usual time.
• data center optimization: business event data can be
moved off an expensive relational database and into
flat files, dramtically reducing hardware requirements
while simultaneously enhancing access to the data
• lower cost: data can be handled and accessed more
rapidly, optimizing hardware investment.
CorreLog
Company profile
CopperEye is a provider of enterprise search software
for business transaction data that allows companies to
quickly retrieve exactly the records they need from months
or years of history and billions of business transactions
stored on low-cost file systems. Unlike other enterprise
search solutions that focus on unstructured data such as
web pages and word processing documents and return
ambiguous results, CopperEye specifically addresses the
needs of business transaction data that would otherwise
require a costly and complex database solution to provide
rapid retrieval of specific records.
Address:
1004 Collier Center Way, Naples, FL 34108, USA
Phone: +1 239-514-3331
Email: george.faucher@correlog.com
Web: www.correlog.com
CopperEye’s products are appropriate for use across all
industries and are intended for customers that have large
volumes of data – often held on a mainframe. Systems
integrators and consultancies are a central element
of CopperEye’s sales and marketing strategy, as are
software vendors who embed CopperEye’s technology
within their solutions. CopperEye has relationships with
industry-leading vendors including IBM and Logica. The
product is available through CopperEye’s flagship product
– Greenwich – an enterprise search solution; or through
the CopperEye Software Developer’s Kit (SDK), intended
for use by developers creating high-performance bespoke
databases.
Company profile
CorreLog, Inc. is the leading ISV for cross-platform IT
security log management and event log correlation.
Our solutions provide best-in-class, real-time event log
collection across both distributed and mainframe systems.
Event logs generated from CorreLog Agents are readyformat for the Windows-/UNIX-based CorreLog SIEM
(Security Information & Event Management) Correlation
Server or any SIEM correlation engine. SIEM Agent
for IBM z/OS resides in a mainframe LPAR, or multiple
LPARs, and in real time, converts mainframe security
events such as RACF, ACF2, Top Secret and DB2
accesses to distributed syslog format for enterprise SIEM
systems. In addition to mainframe SIEM functions, SIEM
Agent includes functionality for File Integrity Monitoring
(FIM) and Data Loss Prevention (DLP). For enterprises
that need extended mainframe visibility for users that don’t
have access to their SIEM, CorreLog offers Visualizer for
z/OS which delivers live mainframe security dashboards
through any standard web browse.
CopperEye’s underlying technology innovation is a
patented type of data indexing that represents a quantum
leap in performance over all other industry-standard
indexes. Where traditional approaches to improving
database performance have focused on data caching,
parallelism and specialist hardware, CopperEye attacks
the core of the problem by dramatically improving indexing
efficiency. The CopperEye technology is a general-purpose
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Specialist areas: Data management; security
Non-mainframe platforms supported: Other Unix, Linux,
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CorreLog SIEM Agent for IBM z/OS™
The CorreLog SIEM Agent for IBM z/OS expands the role
of your corporate IT security system – whether CorreLog
SIEM Correlation Server or other distributed SIEM collector
– to include real-time mainframe messages from RACF,
ACF2, Top Secret, DB2 accesses, and other important
user activity data relevant to network security. Complete
your SIEM strategy leveraging this powerful and unique
real-time mainframe security management component.
CorreLog Visualizer for IBM z/OS™
The CorreLog Visualizer is an affordable Security
Information and Event Management (SIEM) system
especially designed and pre-configured for use by z/
OS security administrators and system programmers.
It provides point-and-click functionality from a standard
web browser into z/OS security and operational events.
Visualizer provides dashboard views, event message
correlation, and can send text messages as alerts of
security events generated from z/OS.
CorreLog DAM Agent for z/OS (Database Activity Monitor)
competes with Guardium
CorreLog has partnered with McAfee to provide a certified
DAM agent for the McAfee Data Center Security Suite
(a.k.a. McAfee DAM). The CorreLog dbDefenderTM DAM
Agent is the solution you need to monitor real-time security
events for DB2 to minimize the risk to your most sensitive
mainframe data.
CorreLog dbDefender™ for z/OS scans DB2 activity and
delivers real-time DB2 monitoring and alert messaging
leveraging the following functionality:
• Collects real-time audit events for all DB2 access
activity, which is key for compliance standards.
• Creates an automated audit trail for all DB2 access
activity, including SELECTs, DML, data definition
language (DDL) and changes in access privilege.
Audits all valid and invalid attempts to access DB2
data. Invalid logical access attempts are sent to your
Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
system, a critical component for PCI DSS.
• Creates an audit trail for DB2 data structure changes,
another PCI DSS standard.
• Provides a more efficient approach for collecting DB2
events for Syslog conversion.
• Supports both static and dynamic SQL.
CorreLog SIEM Correlation Server™
CorreLog SIEM Agent for Windows, Linux, zLinux, SAP.
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CPT Global Ltd
Address:
Level 1, 4 Riverside Quay, Southbank VIC 3006, Australia.
Phone +61 3 9690 3911 .
Email info@cptglobal.com.
Web: www.cptglobal.com.
Sales contacts:
America +1-917-210-8668.
EMEA +44 20 8334 8085, infoUK@cptglobal.com.
Non-mainframe platforms supported: i5, AIX, Unix,
Linux
Company profile
CPT Global was founded in Melbourne in 1993 by Gerry
Tuddenham, who remains the CEO today. The company
has been listed on the ASX since 2000. The name ‘CPT
Global’ came from the abbreviation of Capacity Planning,
Performance Tuning and Testing. The focus of the
business remains specialist capacity and performance
management services although, in Australia, CPT offers a
wide range of additional services related to IT efficiencies.
Operations were extended into Europe in 1998, with offices
now in the UK, the Netherlands and Germany, as well as
further engagements in Ireland, Austria and Switzerland.
CPT expanded into the USA in 2003, setting up an office
in New York to service Tier One clients such as General
Motors and American Express.
CPT has over 120 clients worldwide, including many large
and well-known businesses such as ABN AMRO, AIB,
Audi, Bank of Ireland, Credit Swiss, Deutsche Bahn, ING,
Lloyds TSB, Lufthansa, Prudential, and UBS. CPT draws
on a network of over 200 specialist consultants, many
of whom are worldleaders in their fields. The depth of
experience offered and the range of clients allows CPT to
quickly identify performance and capacity problems, and
to design and implement practical cost-effective solutions
based on best practice.
CPT aims to reduce mainframe processing power
requirements by 10 to 30% at most clients. This allows
the clients to make substantial savings through deferred
processor upgrades, reduced MIPS usage, reduced
software costs and pre-outsourcing CPU reductions.
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CPT understands that many clients are unsure whether
such savings can be achieved on their sites, and so offers
a number of models to suit different companies. These
models range from Risk/Reward, where fees are based
upon savings achieved, to Fixed Price, which caps the total
cost to the client.
In Europe, CPT Global’s assignments are mostly focused
on mainframe performance tuning, but CPT also provides
expertise in IT management as well as Open Systems and
Windows technical services.
Critical Path Software
Address:
POB 697 Port Washington, NY 11050, USA.
Phone +1 212-686-4350.
Email bburns@cpsigroup.com.
Web: www.cpsigroup.com
www.turbotune.com.
management, other
license, other
Company profile
We are a mainframe cost reduction and performance
enhancement comp. We are 30 years in the business
and have a worldwide presence.We are an IBM Business
partner and have tuned 75 data centers. We license
our product and also tune as a service.We do a free
assessment.
Our suite of performance/tuning software has been
developed over the past 30 years. We delay upgrades,
enhance legacy software, improve user productivity and
offer the fastest ROI in the industry. We include all the
latest IBM enhancements in our software so a client is
always state of the art. We get rid of MIPS used to process
inefficient software, save DASD big time and eliminate
peak load spiking. We get paid a percentage of what we
save.
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CSC
Address:
Royal Pavillion, Wellesley Road, Aldershot, Hants GU11
1PZ, UK.
Phone: +44 (0) 1257 236017.
Email: dmcmahon@csc.com.
Web: www.csc.com.
Activity: Outsourcer.
Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, VM/VSE, Linux,
other
Linux, Windows
Company profile
CSC is a global leader in providing technology-enabled
solutions and services through three primary lines of
business. These include Business Solutions and Services,
the Managed Services Sector, and the North American
Public Sector. CSC’s advanced capabilities include
systems design and integration, information technology
and business process outsourcing, applications software
development, Web and application hosting, mission
support, and management consulting. Headquartered
in Falls Church, Va., CSC has approximately 92,000
employees and reported revenue of $16.2 billion for the 12
months ended July 3, 2009.
CSC provide outsourced Managed Services for clients
Mainframe Systems. CSC support over 200,000 IBM
MIPS world-wide and have expertise in z-OS, VM/VSE,
zLinux operating systemsm as well as Unisys Mainframe
systems. CSC have strategic Mainframe Data Centres in
Asia, Australia, Europe Middle East and Africa and North
America regions.
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CSL International
Address:
22 Maskit St, POB 12897, Hertzelia 46733, Israel.
Phone: +972 9 9540470
Email: sales@csl-int.com.
Web: www.csl-int.com.
Specialist areas: System management
Non-mainframe platforms supported: Linux
Company profile
CSL International provides software services to the
enterprise market for the last 5 years. Our engineers
combine zSeries (z/VM and z/OS) internals skills as well
as very strong Linux abilities. These combined skill set
allowed us to respond to the industry need for a simple yet
powerful virtualization management solution that makes
the zSeries the perfect infrastructure for virtual Linux server
farms - We call this solution: CSL-WAVE.
CSL-WAVE is a best-of-breed simplification, provisioning,
and management solution for zSeries- based virtual
server farms running Linux. CSL-WAVE answers
all the expressed needs of our customers in terms
of simplification and effective management. CSLWAVE targets the emerging need for management of
sophisticated virtual server environments such as Clouds
and large consolidation projects. Our solution provides
a graphical representation of the virtual data center with
advanced expert system abilities.
CSL-WAVE enables management of every virtual object
and operation procedure of the virtual server farms: server
attributes and server cloning, network switches, disk
storage and storage quotas, script management and much
more.
One of the most important value points CSL-WAVE
provides our customers is freedom from the need that
Linux sys-admins must have z/VM skills. Using CSL-WAVE
enables full autonomy for the Linux sys-admins. They are
able to carry out any task in the server farm that without
our solution would have required assistance from the
z/VM system programming team. The Linux sys-admins’
scopes and action permissions throughout the server farm
are easily managed via CSL-WAVE user management and
security subsystem.
CSL-WAVE allows your sys-admins to “Get z power,
without the need for z skills!”.
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DataVantage – Direct Computer
Resources Inc
Address;
120 Birch Road, Franklin Lakes, NJ 07417-2718, USA
Phone: +1 631-673-0077
Email: info@datavantage.com
Web: www.DataVantage.com
Specialist areas: Data management, security,
programming/testing, other
Non-mainframe platforms supported: Linux, Windows,
other
other
Company profile
Direct Computer Resources, Inc. (DCR) has provided
mainframe enterprise data management services for 35
years, beginning with the industry’s first-ever application
development testing tool, DataVantage for IMS. DCR
expanded the DataVantage suite quickly to include
solutions for DB2 and VSAM. More than a decade ago,
DCR added data masking and obfuscation functionality for
both mainframe and distributed computing environments.
The company has served hundreds of Fortune 500 and
Global 1000 companies internationally with an effective
and affordable portfolio of products that mask data and
facilitate data management, mitigating the risk of data
breaches and non-compliance.
DCR’s family of DataVantage software manages enterprise
data and masks production data for non-production uses.
The software protects Personally Identifiable Information
(PII) and other company private/sensitive data to help
prevent data breaches and pass compliance audits. Users
can view, edit, copy, mask and test data quickly, effectively
and affordably for training, application development,
testing, on- or off-shoring, data sharing and data analyses,
among other functions.
In 2014, the company launched DataVantage DME (Data
Masking Express), a z/OS Data Masking-only solution
for organizations with multi-layered, incumbent data
management software. DataVantage DME installs in hours
as an application program (z/OS release-independent)
with DB2, IMS and VSAM masking capabilities bundled
in one easy-to-use solution. Three flexible pricing models
include usage-based, tier and MIPS licensing, with
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no-term contracts, no upgrade fees between tiers and
generous trade-up policies. Price quotes available at www.
DataVantage.com/quote.
Mainframe Software Products:
Data Masking & Data Management:
DataVantage® for IMS
DataVantage® for DB2
DataVantage® for VSAM
Data Masking Only:
DataVantage DME™ (bundled for IMS, DB2 & VSAM).
Data Kinetics Ltd
Address:
50 Hines Rd, Ottawa, K2K-2M5, Canada.
Phone: 613-523-5500
Email: info@dkl.com
Web: www.dkl.com.
Sales contacts:
America +1-800-267-0730
Specialist areas: Data management; web integration and
legacy reengineering tools
Non-mainframe platforms supported: Linux,
Pricing options: One-time charge; monthly/annual
license; processor/capacity-based
Company profile
As the global leader in Data Performance and Optimization
Solutions, DataKinetics is relied upon by the world’s largest
banks, credit card, brokerage, insurance, healthcare,
retail and telecommunication organizations to dramatically
improve their mainframe data throughput and processing.
Fortune 500 companies trust DataKinetics.
With more than 35 years of experience in the field of
mainframe Data Performance and Optimization, we
continually help our clients leverage existing systems,
optimizing the issues that hold them back, and enabling
plans to propel them forward. Leveraging the experience
and success of working with our global clients, we deliver
proven solutions with worldwide success.
We continue to work with:
- Three of the top five global banks
- Three of the top five global credit card companies
- Three of the top five American property and casualty
insurance companies
- Two of the top five American health insurance companies.
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DataKinetics products:
tableBASE: a in-memory accelerator that manages
mainframe-based high-performance in-memory tables
for use in transaction intense corporate environments. It
improves mainframe performance at the application level,
makes mainframe data more accessible and available,
reduces the need for upgrades, and greatly simplifies
mainframe business rules processing.
VTS Edge: a high-performance, high-fidelity mainframe
data integration solution, and a complete web services
integration solution. Seamlessly integrates existing
mainframe applications with transactions initiated on the
distributed side.
ASC: a systems management solution for IBM z System
Mainframes that optimizes system performance while
controlling Workload License Charges (WLC). Allows
control of workload license charges by dynamically
modifying the LPARs defined capacity limits taking into
account the behavior and needs of all system LPARs.
SQData: a versatile data replication toolset, ideal for
organizations with a need to move and access enterprise
data that is contained in multiple databases on multiple
platforms in multiple data formats. Allows Big Data projects
to use mainframe data in near real time.
DB/IQ: an automated SQL quality control toolset that
improves the quality of application software, reduces costs,
resulting in a higher standard of performance. Implements
a systematic approach and a proven methodology to the
application development process.
DDV technologies
Address:
17B / 818 Pittwater Road (PO Box 1155), Dee Why, NSW
2099, Australia.
Phone: +61 (0)2 8213 9207
Email: sales@ddvtechnologies.com
Web: www.ddvtechnologies.com
dateandtimesimulationsoftware.com.
and legacy reengineering tools; other
license; processor/capacity-based, workload/usage based,
other
Company profile
DDV is a privately owned company developing an
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Australian z/OS-based product SoftDate and marketing
overseas solutions that directly resolve your often
troublesome and expensive overheads in IT, business
development and crisis management. Our solutions span
the IBM mainframe through Internet platforms and are
targeted primarily at speeding your business development
cycle.
SoftDate is a z/OS-based product for Date & Time
Simulation (DTS) Testing of applications, prior to
Production and Global Time Zone Virtualization of
Production applications (to reduce LPARs that are
dedicated to single Time Zones).
SoftDate is an SOA DTS product with many unique and
exclusive features not found in other DTS products such
as Parallel Sysplex, CICS MRO (multiregion operations),
64-bit support (for data above the 2-gig bar), WebSphere
Application Server & Java Language for z support for all
execution environments (e.g. batch, CICS, IMS).
Softdate contains every feature of every other DTS
product, is fully backward compliant, and can reside in the
same LPAR to make exchange easy.
Dignus LLC
Systems/C and Systems/C++ are compilers for the IBM
mainframe, with unique features that make development
of OS/390, z/OS, z/TPF, z/Linux, CMS and z/VSE code
easier and faster.
Systems/C and Systems/C++ are validated and supported
by the IBM TPF labs for use with z/TPF.
Systems/ASM, the Dignus assembler, is used for
assembling IBM mainframe assembler source. Systems/
ASM is compatible with IBM’s HLASM, supporting the
complete HLASM macro processing language.
All Dignus tools can operate in a cross-platform
environment, moving your development to your local
desktop to dramatically reduce mainframe development
costs.
DINO Software LLC
Address:
1912 Earldale Ct, S-200, Alexandria, VA 22306, USA.
Phone: +1 703 768 2610
E-mail: sales@dino-software.com
Web: www.dino-software.com
Address:
8372 Six Forks Road, Suite 203, Raleigh, NC 27615, USA.
Phone: +1 919 676 0847.
Email: sales@dignus.com.
Web: www.dignus.com.
Sales contacts:
America sales@dino-software.com
EMEA terry.heath@dino-software.co.uk, tel: +44 (0)20
7549 3657
AsiaPac sales@dino-software.com
Specialist areas: Programming/testing
VSE, z/Linux
Pricing options: Monthly/annual license, other
management; storage management; network performance/
management
capacity-based, other.
Company profile
Dignus, LLC is an innovative company, located in Raleigh,
Dignus, LLC is an innovative company, located in Raleigh,
North Carolina, committed to providing the best compilers,
Assemblers and development tools for the IBM mainframe,
including 370, ESA, 390, and the latest z/Architecture
series.
Dignus, LLC provides unique mainframe programming
and development solutions that offer savings in time and
effort, while streamlining development costs. Our solutions
are applicable to programming for a wide range of IBM
mainframe operating systems, including z/OS, z/TPF, z/
VM, z/Linux, and others.
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DINO Software came into existence after Softworks
was acquired by EMC in 2000. All of the original
product authors as well as many of the sales reps and
management subsequently reconstituted as DINO, and set
about the task of re-engaging our customers with better,
actively supported products. DINO’s vanguard product,
T-REX, incorporates over two decades of experience
gained from the development and support of Catalog
Solution and rapidly became the fastest selling ICF catalog
management and recovery tool ever released. The product
is in daily use by hundreds of Fortune 1000 companies and
is continually augmented and improved.
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DINO products are distributed and sold via the website,
through direct sales and a network of qualified distributors
worldwide. The company is based in the Washington DC
metropolitan area and maintains offices in the UK and
Germany. DINO is privately held and develops enterprisewide multi-platform solutions and services for the
optimization of complex IT environments.
T-REX is the newest, fastest and most comprehensive
catalog management tool on the market today. It contains
the functionality of six separate products in the market
place in a purpose-built, integrated framework. All of the
utilities needed to simplify management of catalogs and
tape subsystems are provided, as well as the critical
backup and recovery to protect data in the event of minor
problems or major disasters. T-REX ensures the health of
a user’s catalogs and TMC in five key areas:
•maintenance
•diagnostics
•reporting
• SMF management
• backup and recovery.
In addition to VSAM cluster support, TMC synchronization
and HSM validation, T-REX can repair any VSAM object
(BCS, KSDS, and Variable RRDS) with a broken index
within minutes. It can also REORG a catalog (or move a
catalog to a new volume) while it is OPEN and allocated
to CAS on any number of connected systems. T-REX
multi-tasks all major functions (not just back-up) and is
approximately nine times faster than Catalog Solution.
Released in 2006 were RAPTOR, an extended tape toolset
to simplify and facilitate tape drive and robotic/virtual
library capacity planning, and TERADON, a dynamic HSM
product.
DINO has a full range of training and professional
services packages related to catalog maintenance and
management.
DPI Software
Address:
P.O Box 14613, Lenexa, KS 66215, USA.
Phone: +1 919 426 6518
Email: ronp@filemarvel.com
Web: www.filemarvel.com
Sales contacts:
America +1 913-599-7987; dpisoft@kc.rr.com
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Specialist areas: Data management; programming/testing
license; processor/capacity-based
Company profile
DPI Software is a software development company
dedicated to making z/OS and the IBM mainframe a usable
platform for many years to come. We focus solely on
developing system software for z/OS. Our tools have been
available for many years, especially FileMarvel which has
over a hundred Fortune 500 users around the world. We
believe that mainframe software should be affordable and
that maintenance fees should include automatic upgrades
to new versions of the software.
FileMarvel
Use FileMarvel to look at and maintain any kind of dataset
– VSAM, SAM, BDAM or source, JCL etc in a PDS.
Even tape. Things you can do to your datasets using
FileMarvel include browsing, editing, changing the layout,
copying, sorting/merging, printing and allocating datasets.
Displays can be formated in a number of ways including
hex, character and (of particular interest to application
programmers) laid out to match a copy member.
DumpMarvel
DumpMarvel is an ISPF-based abend dump formatter
and analyzer that helps you analyze a z/OS application
or system program abend quickly. z/OS or MVS dump
analysis becomes a breeze because you can find your
way around the dump more quickly, locate storage areas,
and skip irrelevant control blocks. For new programmers,
it provides a more logical and less daunting view of a
program dump. For experienced programmers, it increases
the amount of information that can be obtained from a
complex application or system software dump.
DTS Software
Address:
4350 Lassiter at North Hills Ave, Suite 235, Raleigh, NC
27609, USA
Phone: +1 919 833 8426
Email: info@DTSsoftware.com
Web: www.DTSsoftware.com
Sales contacts:
America +1 770 922 2444
Specialist areas: Storage management
Pricing options: Other
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Company profile
DTS Software is recognized as a worldwide leader in
enterprise storage management technology. From the
original industry-standard Space Recovery System (SRS)
that eliminates storage-related production failures, to the
advanced Virtual Tape interface of the DLm Control Center
(DCC), DTS products are noted for their sophistication,
reliability, and ease-of-use.
Our integrated suite of products help organizations to
monitor, manage and control your storage subsystems.
For over 20 years, we have specialized in these storage
solutions and have developed them for the IBM z/OS,
Hitachi VOS3, and Fujitsu MSP operating systems.
Our corporate headquarters are located in Raleigh, NC
and our products are sold in the US and Canada through
our sales office in Conyers, GA. We distribute our products
worldwide through a network of international distributors
who cover all the major international markets.
We are dedicated to providing reliable designs, technical
innovations and a commitment to excellence.
DTS Software is recognized as a worldwide leader in
enterprise storage management technology. Our family
of products provides an integrated suite of storage
management programs that allow you to get the most
out of your storage dollars. Our products improve disk
space utilization, prevent storage-related errors, allow
installations to monitor the storage subsystem in real time,
and proactively control the use of storage space.
From the original industry-standard Space Recovery
System (SRS) that eliminates storage-related production
failures, to the advanced allocation of ACC, to the
modernization of assembler exits via EASY/Exit, to the
innovative storage monitoring using MONitor and Explorer
GUI, to the advanced debugging and tracing of SMS/
Debug, to the Predictive Recall of migrated data, to the
advanced Virtual Tape interface of the DLm Control Center
(DCC), DTS products are noted for their sophistication,
reliability, and ease-of-use.
Our integrated suite of products help organizations to
monitor, manage and control your storage subsystems.
For over 20 years, we continue to demonstrate reliable
designs, a history of innovation and a commitment to
excellence.
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Eccox Technologies
Address:
Avenida Sagitário, 138 - Torre II
2 andar, sala 203 - Alphaville - Barueri/SP, Brazil
Phone: +55 551141331969
Email: eccox@eccox.com.br
Web: www.eccox.com
management; asset and change management;
reengineering tools
Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, Linux
Non-mainframe platforms supported: Unix, Linux,
Windows, other
other
Company profile
Since 1992, Eccox has delivered integrated software and
services that automate and manage the processes used
for the creation and maintenance of IT environments
– from development to testing, through production and
maintenance.
Eccox enables IT organizations to proactively support
business objectives rather than only react to system
problems. Eccox clients can identify and build IT best
practices as well as strategically plan for the future using
accurate data and intelligent tools. With this advantage,
IT organizations can operate with measurable and visible
excellence.
Whether the IT organization is all internal, outsourced, or a
combination of both, Eccox products quantitatively improve
the management, quality, productivity and ultimately the
return on IT investments.
Eccox QC proactively detects errors in new and existing
application code as it is being developed. This helps the
overall system application software get done more quickly
and with higher quality.
Eccox QC for COBOL
Supports all IBM mainframe COBOL language versions
including CICS.
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Eccox QC for DB2
Assess and control IBM DB2 databases access from
analyzing SQL syntax and performance, independent of
programming language.
Eccox QC for Java
Supporting a variety of Java language versions.
Eccox QC will send clean rules violations descriptions
and incident reasons. It then suggests corrections to
the programmer and considers whether allow it as an
exception. Eccox QC identifies legacy programs and news
ones, controls violation justifications with expiration dates,
manages follow-up and simulates improvements.
Eccox/APT
Creating software to test software is time consuming and
uses valuable development and/or quality assurance (QA)
assets. Studies show that tests can account for up to 40%
of the application development budget. Even a simple
application update may require a development team to
reconstruct all of the previous tests. By creating an active
repository and storing tests for future use, Eccox APT
eliminates the need to recreate tests over and over again..
Edge Information Group, Inc
Address:
479 E Business Center Drive, Suite 115, Mt. Prospect, IL
60056-6037, USA
Phone: +1 847-297-2020.
Email: mhaupt@edge-information.com.
Web: www.edge-information.com
Sales contacts:
America: cgehr@edge-information.com.
EMEA: cgehr@edge-information.com.
AsiaPac: cgehr@edge-information.com.
Specialist areas: Asset and change management;
Pricing options: One-time charge, other.
Company profile
Edge Information Group, Inc. is the premier provider
of Language Environment (LE) management solutions
for upgrading to the latest levels of the IBM mainframe
operating systems, z/OS and related compiler and run-time
technologies.
We offer a unique LE and portfolio management tool – the
Edge Portfolio Analyzer – as well as consulting on LE,
compilers and other IT areas.
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The Edge Portfolio Analyzer (EPA) provides z/OS users
with the means to understand and control the contents
of their application portfolios. With the Edge Portfolio
Analyzer, you can reduce problems – and speed
implementation – when migrating to new compilers and
new Language Environment (LE) run-time environments.
You can also use the EPA to improve the performance
of your production environment and to assist in problem
source identification and problem determination.
Enterprise Systems Associates, Inc
(ESAi)
Address:
3259 Progress Drive, UCF Research Park
Orlando, Fl 32826, USA
Phone: +1-866-GO-4-ESAI (866-464-3724)
Email: sales@esaigroup.com
Web: www.ESAIGroup.com
management; asset and change management
Windows
Company profile
ESAi is a vendor that provides mainframe cost optimization
solutions, database productivity tools and professional
services for enterprise customers.
Our mission is to help IT get the job done while realizing
operational savings. Qualified database and IT staff
resources are in short supply, workloads are increasing,
and there are still only 24 hours in a day. The economic
pressures of today are forcing IT to do more with less.
ESAi can help with innovative solutions that save time,
money, CPU and staff resources.
The company is based in Orlando’s UCF Research Park
and is affiliated with the Florida High Technology Corridor
Council.
• zDynaCap® is an automated mainframe capacity
balancing and MLC cost optimization solution that
helps customers meet their SLAs at the lowest possible
MSU cost.
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• XDM™ is a premier Test Data Management tool for
fast automated data provisioning, data masking, and
cloning. Supports DB2, DB2 LUW, Oracle, SQL Server,
et.al.
• BCV4™ is a DB2® and/or IMS® subsystem cloning
tool that reduces cloning from hours/days down to
minutes. SAP and PeopleSoft users can have clones
and system copies in record time.
• BCV5™ is a high speed copy/migrate/refresh tool that
checks, automates and copies/refreshes DB2 target
environments faster than Unload/Load or other ISV
solution. BCV5 delivers on average 90% savings in
CPU, job elapsed time, and manual efforts.
• BPA™ is a buffer pool advisor product has replaced
the old, dated vendor solutions with a new level of
expert analysis that easily identifies, recommends,
and perform ongoing monitoring to ensure optimum
performance and more responsive DB2 systems.
• SQLQC™ easily identifies and analyzes problem SQL
from mainframe or distributed systems and offers
improvment simulation and advise.
• ULT™ is a log tracker/analyzer for DB2 answers
the question “Why is a good, reasonably priced log
analyzer so hard to find?” Functions include Undo/
Redo, identify, audit, and data propagate. A faster,
better, more economical alternative.
• ICPU gives programmers the ability to easily identify
code causing CICS® application performance
problems. Its very low overhead allows use in
production or test environments.
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Epoka Group A/S
Address:
Hjulmagervej 21, DK-9490 Pandrup, Denmark
Phone: +45 96 730 800.
Email: epoka@epoka.com.
Web: www.epoka.com.
www.ESAIGroup.com
Call 1-866-GO-4-ESAi
See our website for innovative
products for DB2® and z/OS®:
▪ Save on MLC Invoice & SCRT with
zDynaCap® Capacity Balancing
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▪ XDM™ Test Data Management for
DB2, DB2 LUW, Oracle, SQL Server
▪ BCV4™ Clone DB2. PeopleSoft, SAP
▪ BCV5™ Ultra-Fast DB2 Data Refresh
▪ Data Masking, Data Propagation
▪ ULT4DB2™ Log Analysis & Auditing
▪ BPA™ Buffer Pool Tuning/Monitor
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▪ SQLQC™ SQL Performance Tuning
▪ ICPU™ Improve CICS Performance
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Activity: Hardware vendor.
Specialist areas: Other
VSE, Linux, other
Non-mainframe platforms supported: IBM i, AIX
Company profile
Epoka Group A/S is an innovative supplier of pre-owned,
high-performance enterprise computer solutions. Our
extensive range of blue-chip brands extends from
mainframes, NAS and SAN solutions to best-of-breed
networking equipment.
Epoka is a reliable, triple-A rated company that offers
customers around the world quick access to quality
solutions at competitive prices. Based in Denmark since
1991, Epoka is committed to providing real value, worldclass service and continued expansion. Please browse
through our website to learn more about our products,
services and job opportunities.
IBM: zSeries 800, 890, 900, 990 • CMOS(9672) G2 - G6 •
Storage & Peripherals.
EPV Technologies
Address:
Viale Luigi Mancinelli 106, Rome, Italy
Phone: +39 0686399398.
Email: epv.info@epvtech.com.
Web: www.epvtech.com.
Linux, Windows
Company profile
It was founded in June 2003 with the goal of developing
and selling the EPV line of products.
EPV Technologies’ mission is to develop products that
provide high-quality and ready-to-use information to
customers allowing them to give a better service and
save money by improving their Capacity Management
processes.
EPV Technologies founders have more than 25 years
experience mostly in Capacity Management projects.
They built a very strong technical background working for
many years for Boole & Babbage, BMC Software, SAS
Institute, and then as independent consultants.
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Since the beginning, EPV Technologies sponsors and
presents at major technical conferences in Europe
such as CMG and GSE in Austria, Germany, Italy, and UK.
EPV Technologies partners:
• Benny Tal Marketing Software Solutions in Israel and
Benelux
• ddk-software in Northern Europe
• ESAi in USA
• Inspired Solutions in UK and Ireland
• JVL in France
• SEGUS in USA
• Senmesoft in Canada
• SoftPlex Inc. in Japan
• TPS-DATA in Austria, Germany, and Switzerland.
• ECCOX in Brazil and other SA countries.
EPV products have been designed to help system analysts
in Performance and Capacity Planning activities. EPV for
z/OS, EPV zParser, EPV for DB2, EPV for WMQ, EPV for
zLINUX, EPV for Unix (including Linux), EPV for VMware
and EPV for Windows are the main products. Same
products in two lines: SAS-based and PERL/SQL-based.
EPV zParser is written in PERL; it parses SMF, IMS, z/VM
monitor records, etc loading them in a SQL DB. It provides
input to EPV for z/OS, EPV for DB2, EPV for WMQ and
EPV for zLINUX.
Free agents provide input data to EPV for Unix and EPV
for VMware.
European Mainframe Academy
Address:
Obergass 23, 8260 Stein am Rhein, Switzerland
Phone: +41-52-5582040
Email: wolfram.greis@mainframe-academy.de
Web: www.mainframe-academy.de.
Activity: Education
reengineering tools; network performance/management.
VSE, Linux
Non-mainframe platforms supported: IBM i, Linux
Pricing options: other
Company profile
Education of new mainframers. Advanced training for
existing mainframers. Support of academic institutions.
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Basic blended learning course for system administrator (24
month)
Basic blended learning course for operator (18 month)
Special blended learning modules concerning storage
management, performance management, mainframe
security & RACF, z/VM and Linux and many more.
Exspans Systems Inc
Address:
PO Box 20082, Perth Mews, Perth, Ontario K7H 3M6,
Canada
Phone: +1 613 268 2057.
Email: info@exspans.com.
Web: www.exspans.com.
Pricing options: monthly/annual license
Company profile
Established in 1989. IBM business partner. Specializing
in automation products. Exspans is dedicated to the
continued success of z/OS systems, by providing high
performance automation, scheduling and systems
management tools, that reduce the total cost of ownership.
• AutoMan is a family of event automation and
scheduling products, that enables the user to select the
functionality they need. There is a version of AutoMan
that meets every need and budget.
• Matrix is an application programming interface that
provides high performance cross-memory and crosssystems control and data sharing. It makes dataspace
technology and cross-systems services available to the
high-level language programmers, without any need for
them to use Assembler.
• TapeMan is a cross-systems tape device sharing
technology for OS/390 and z/OS systems that are not
sysplex enabled. TapeMan V1.0 is provided free of
charge to the MVS systems community. TapeMan V2.0
is a low-cost alternative tape sharing solution.
EZ Source
Address:
Missenden Abbey Management Centre, London Road,
Great Missenden, Bucks HP16 0BO, UK
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Phone: +44 1494 867981
Email: contactus@ezsource.com.
Web: www.ezsource.com.
reengineering tools; other
VSE, other
Non-mainframe platforms supported: i5, AIX, Unix,
license, other
Company profile
Established in 2003 and with more than 50 customers
worldwide, EZSource is a market leader in automated
application analysis to drive legacy modernization,
software quality improvement and adherence to coding
standards. Our toolset addresses 95% of mainframe
system users globally. We have a proven track record
with high profile clients such as Aflac Japan, RBS, Aviva,
Electric Insurance Company, Transnet Freight Rail plus
strategic partnerships with IBM, CA, Compuware, Fujitsu,
Serena and Coverity.
EZSource is a unique, fully integrated suite of tools
providing robust, automated analysis and metrics for end to
end business applications spanning mainframe and open
systems platforms. This assists our customers in delivering
tangible business value from modernizing and transforming
their business applications through improvements in
quality, reduction in cost and removal of complexity.
EZSource provides an integrated solution for IBM RDz and
TWS on the mainframe via EZSource:Connect.
Fischer International Systems
Corporation
Address:
5801 Pelican Bay Boulevard Ste#300, Naples, FL 34108,
USA
Phone: 239-643-1500
Email: Contact@FISC.com.
Web: www.FISC.com.
management; storage management;
security; other
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Company profile
Fischer’s vision for software development over the last
thirty years incorporates the mainframe with the personal
computer as an essential part of the future enterprise
solution. Fischer provides mainframe service to Fortune
500 corporations, as well as institutional customers,
in a variety of industries, including the financial, retail,
manufacturing, transportation, healthcare, government
and educational marketplaces. In addition, Bloor
Research Named Fischer “Champion” in Identity & Access
Management Services on non-mainframe platform.
Fischer TapeStream® features a productive and costeffective Virtual Tape Library Server for your mainframe
systems. Benefit from the flexibility of TapeStream, an
appliance emulating the function of IBM 3480 and 3490E
tape devices and a tape volume library manager. Use it in
daily applications like a real tape, for system backups, DB2
logs, and application batch programs.
IOF, Interactive Output Facility, delivers powerful,
incomparable features for Jes2 Management, in both TSO
and CICS environments, such as : Job List Display, Job
Summary Screen, Interface Menu, Device detail screens,
System monitor, SYSLOG access, Data indexing, JES2
queue management, and SDSF conversion aids.
Fitz Software & Co
Address:
Kilcolta House, Crosshaven, Cork, Ireland
Phone: +353-21-4832131
Email: sales@fitzsoftware.com.
Web: www.fitzsoftware.com.
management; storage management;
asset and change management; programming/testing;
network performance/management; other
Company profile
Fitz Software & Co., established in 1991, provides z/OS
users with innovative and niche products that benefit their
evolving systems at justifiable prices.
From our offices located in Crosshaven in Ireland we
distribute and support (1st and 2nd level) products across
EMEA with remote and onsite support and training to our
customers. Our suppliers and partners include NewEra
Software, UBS Hainer, Data21, Astrom Software, and
CASISoftware.
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Our primary expertise lies in:
• z/OS Availability, Change Management, Audit &
Security
- Change management, audit and security
improvement with system integrity in z/OS, JES,
VTAM, TCP/IP, CICS, IODF, DB2 and SAF. Detect
the risks to availability while also ensuring secure
change management and notifications across
administration functions (Operator commands, Edit
sessions, ...).
• z/OS Database Productivity
- Reduce CPU service costs and service delivery
times: Fastest cloning of pre-production and test
DB2 (and other relational) sub-systems, databases
and tables with also masking & data reduction;
Automated DB maintenance enhancing existing
utilities; Bufferpool optimization; Exception Master to
determine problems before they hit the systems; …
• z/OS Application Life-Cycle
- File encryption and archiving, test data generation,
naming standards and audit; identifying the
business-critical files; integrated recovery
management solution designed to deliver a global
view of your critical data-as well as that data’s
backups at the application level
• z/OS Software Asset Management
- Who’s using what and when in the z/OS software
portfolio – IBM and ISV products and inhouse
applications including also 4GL, Interpreter
languages, ISPF, JCL.
Flynet Limited
Address:
King William House, Burwell, Cambs CB25 0DU, UK
Phone: +44 1638 611111
Email: Sales@FlynetViewer.com.
Web: www.FlynetViewer.com.
Specialist areas: Web integration and legacy
reengineering tools
VSE, zLinux, other
Linux, Windows
other
Company profile
Is your strategy in place when it comes to web, cloud,
BYOD …etc.?
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Are you torn between creating new feature-rich web-based
applications and continuing with writing new, fast, low cost,
green- screen applications?
Are you faced with a diminishing pool of mainframe
application expertise?
Is there a constant demand for new mainframe services?
FlynetViewer is the leading solution for modernising and
integrating mainframe applications with web and internet
based technologies. It allows you to do far more with less
mainframe expertise and IT budget.
As pioneers of integrating new technologies with
mainframe and legacy screen based applications, Flynet
developers were responsible for creating the first dial-up
terminal emulator, the first mainframe to internet gateway,
and most recently the world’s first ‘cloud-ready’ terminal
emulator.
Since 1994 Flynet has been supporting a global and varied
customer base supporting solutions with 10 to 10,000
users.
FlynetViewer integrates seamlessly with existing
conventional screen-based applications. Web services and
new graphical Interfaces can be easily sliced into existing
applications replacing commonly used screens to improve
both user experience and performance.
FlynetViewer is incredibly fast and can usually replace ALL
client-side traditional terminal emulators like Attachmate
Extra, Rumba or IBM etc…. FlynetViewer can be used in
association with existing terminal emulation deployments
providing additional functionality or integration with web
based applications as and when required.
FlynetViewer is a server-side, cross-browser, BYOD
compliant, zero client install, pure html and JavaScript
terminal emulation-based solution for 3270, 5250 and
VTxxx applications.
FlynetViewer provides rapid definition and generation of
ASP.NET web services and web pages integrating screenbased applications using minimal proprietary content.
Developers can enhance and extend the generated
applications using ASP.NET and .NET frameworks. Serverside logic provides navigation throughout the application
allowing the use of modern menu systems, i.e. hierarchical
drop-down, to replace clumsy single-screen menus.
FlynetViewer can generate web services to automate data
entry and other processes can share sessions with users
of the web terminal emulator to enable powerful synergies
between server-side automation and human intervention/
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associated with mainframe applications whilst reducing
user costs such as maintenance, training and support.
Fujitsu
Address:
Mies-van-der-Rohe Str. 4-10, 80807 Munich, Germany
Phone: +49 89 62060 1970.
Email: hans-joachim.dewor@ts.fujitsu.com.
Web: www.fujitsu.com/fts/products/computing/servers/
bs2000/.
management; storage management; security
Mainframe platforms supported: Other
Non-mainframe platforms supported: other
Company profile
Company profile:
Fujitsu is the leading Japanese information and
communication technology (ICT) company offering a full
range of technology products, solutions and services.
Approximately 170,000 Fujitsu people support customers
in more than 100 countries. We use our experience
and the power of ICT to shape the future of society with
our customers. Fujitsu Limited (TSE:6702) reported
consolidated revenues of 4.4 trillion yen (US$47 billion) for
the fiscal year ended March 31, 2013.
Fujitsu CEMEA&I:
In Continental Europe, the Middle East, Africa and India,
Fujitsu is the leading IT infrastructure provider with a
presence in all key markets serving large, medium-sized
and small businesses. The company offers a full portfolio
of IT products, business solutions and services, ranging
from workplace systems to datacenter solutions, managed
services, and cloud-based software and solutions. In
CEMEA&I Fujitsu employs approximately 13,000 people
and is part of the global Fujitsu Group..
BS2000/OSD is the mainframe OS offered by Fujitsu
CEMEA&I.
The BS2000/OSD mainframes (S- and SQ-Series)
are more than just servers: they represent a complete,
autonomous and dynamic IT infrastructure for different
kinds of applications. With his fully mainframe offering
Fujitsu Technology Solutions is committed and responsible
for the seamless and efficient interaction of all the BS2000/
OSD infrastructure components. BS2000/OSD guarantees
efficient, risk-free data center operation – 24 hours a
day, 365 days a year, today, tomorrow, whenever you
want. On-going innovations in hardware and software,
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based on proven technologies, will continue to make it
the most reliable and costeffectivplatform for many
largescale applications ensuring security of investment and
data today as well as in future. BS2000/OSD has been
the subject of continuous innovation for forty years
and has been adapted to take account of constantly
changing market requirements. For instance, BS2000/
OSD is a mainframe OS that can run on servers based on
classic mainframe architecture and on industry standard
processors. And with its open interfaces it offers futureproof integration into modern application architectures.
Gary Bergman Associates
enterprise organizations align their IT infrastructure,
including mainframes, with business strategy. GT
Software has unsurpassed expertise in mainframe
technology and helps companies easily overcome the
challenges associated with accessing mainframe data and
applications with no additional coding required.
Globally, more than 2,500 organizations trust GT Software
to help improve mainframe modernization initiatives,
including business intelligence, workforce productivity,
customer experience and mobility. GT Software’s solutions
are found at some of the world’s largest banks and
financial institutions, insurance companies, state and
local governments, as well as in retail, manufacturing and
energy companies.
Address:
14 Hickory Lane, North Brunswick, NJ 08902, USA
Phone: +1 732 247 2727
Email: Info@debugcics.com
Web: www.debugcics.com
Founded in 1982 with headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia,
GT Software is a privately held company that is currently
represented in the U.S., Canada, Asia, Europe, Australia,
Africa and South America.
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GT Software offers a variety of mainframe integration
and data virtualization solutions that simplify access to
legacy applications and data via robust Web services with
no additional coding required. GT Software’s integration
solutions help businesses empower customers and
employees with easy access to the information and
applications they need to be successful. Whether you want
to improve business performance with easy mobile access
to business critical applications or if you want to bring
your data together into one single view for better business
intelligence with GT Software’s data virtualization solution,
we can help you accomplish you objectives.
Company profile
Established in 1974 to provide debugging services for
CICS.
Advanced Debugging System (“ADS”) for the CICS
mainframe.
GT Software
Address:
6255 Barfield Rd NE, Suite 200, Atlanta, GA 30328, USA
Phone: +1 404-253-1300
Email: sales@gtsoftware.com
Web: www.gtsoftware.com
VSE, z/Linux
GT Software’s integration solutions include the Ivory®
Service Architect™ and enVue™ which allow you to
quickly and seamlessly integrate your mainframe with
other technologies such as mobile and Web applications,
packaged applications, business intelligence and cloud
initiatives.
GT Software Key Differentiators:
• Over 30 years of mainframe expertise
• Speed and ease of delivering massive amounts of data
to external solutions
• Requires no skillsets for writing code with “drag-anddrop”” tools
• Easy to install with minimal or no training
• Integrates all mainframe assets, regardless of
underlying platforms, languages and data formats
• Requires no additional mainframe resource usage
• Low total cost of ownership (TCO).
Company profile
For more than 30 years, GT Software has helped
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H&W Computer Systems
Address:
6154 N Meeker Place, Suite 100, Boise, ID 83713, USA
Phone: 208-377-0336
Email: webtrack@hwcs.com
Web: www.hwcs.com
license, processor/capacity-based, workload/usage based.
Company profile
H&W Computer Systems has been a leading provider of
quality business-to-business software since 1979. H&W
creates reliable, technically sound solutions that provide
long-term value to business units and IT organizations.
Today, hundreds of corporations worldwide, including many
Global 500 companies, trust H&W for their IT software and
services needs.
H&W’s industry-leading SYSB-II is a cost-effective
way to use existing VSAM-reliant CICS applications to
accommodate business growth without downtime due
to batch. The software allows CICS and batch to have
concurrent access to VSAM files any time, which provides
two advantages.
First, users have full read/write access to CICS
applications 24/7, even while batch runs, so they have
more time to use the system. This allows customers and
employess to be productive more hours of the day and
for CICS applications to be available in new ways, such
as part of web or mobile apps, without batch-related
downtime. Second, users have access to VSAM data that
is being updated closer to real time, so they don’t have to
wait for overnight changes or rely on “point in time” data.
Completing services like cutting checks, making payments,
or submitting claims becomes a faster process.
Simple and quick to implement, SYSB-II doesn’t
require application source-code changes, additional
hardware, data migration, or rearchitecting the existing IT
infrastructure. Gain a competitive edge while enhancing
customer satisfaction, improving user productivity, and
empowering employees and customers to make better
decisions based on better data.
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Heitech Managed Services Sdn Bhd
Address:
HeiTech Village 2,No 1, Jalan Astaka U8/81, Section U8,
40150 Shah Alam, Selngor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia
Phone: 60193106462
Email: johanaa@heitech.com.my
Web: www.heitech.com.my
Activity: System integrator
web integration and legacy reengineering tools; network
VSE, zLinux
Pricing options: One-time charge, processor/capacitybased, workload/usage based.
Company profile
HeiTech Managed Services, a subsidiary of a HeiTech
Padu Berhad (public listed), is providing services in area
of Data Centre, Network, Disaster Recovery and Cloud
Computing. We have a Call Centre that complement our
offering. HeiTech Padu itself (parent company) is focusing
on System Integration business, developing applications
on COBOL, C/C++, Java, on mainframe and nonmainframe platform.
We have been the IBM Mainframe market leader since
the 80’s. Our major customers ranges from Financial and
Government such as National Unit Trust Board, Inland
Revenue Board, Immigration, Road Transport, National
Registration.
We are also a Strategic and Authorized Service Partner to
most mainframe vendors such as EMC, Hitachi, Oracle,
IBM, Novell, CA Technologies and Red Hat.
We have established a pool of experienced engineers to
support the mainframe. We provide services is areas of:
• Sizing and Designing a Mainframe setup
• Operating System upgrades and maintenance (z/OS, z/
VM, zLinux, OS/390)
• Storage Managament
• Disaster Recovery
• Database Management
• Operation and Workload Automation
• L1 & L2 Mainframe support.
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Hexaware Technologies
Address:
H5, Sipcot IT Park, Navallur Post, Kancheepuram District
Chennai, Tamil Nadu 603103, India
Phone: 044 4745 1000
Web: www.hexaware.com
Activity: Consultancy
management; programming/testing; other
Linux
Company profile
Hexaware is a global provider of IT and Process
outsourcing services. We focus exclusively on maximizing
client returns from outsourcing and off-shoring. We have
extensive experience in managing large IT applications
in real time as well as in providing high value services
around packaged enterprise applications such as SAP and
PeopleSoft.
Higobi Systems
Address:
17 Smoke Lane, Reigate, Surrey, RH2 7HJ, UK
Phone: +44 (0)788 757 1953
Email: info@higobi.com
Web: http://www.higobi.com
Specialist areas: Data management; programming/
testing; web integration and legacy reengineering tools
Company profile
Higobi is a network of highly-motivated and experienced
consultants that along with our partners, provides
consultancy services, software products, education, and
combined offerings for the relational database, CRM, and
SAP markets. We concentrate our efforts on large systems
with high-availability requirements across multiple industry
sectors worldwide.
We have developed two unique DB2 for z/OS tools :
• zSQLMON – Dynamic SQL monitoring made easy
(www.zsqlmon.com)
• DB2CPI – Advanced productivity toolkit (www.db2cpi.
com)
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Both these tools have been “Designed by DBAs for DBAs”
,and all of our consultants have exclusive use of these
productivity tools when you engage us.
HORIZONT
Address:
Garmischer Str. 8, 80339 Munich, Germany
Phone: +49 89 540 162 0
Email: info@horizont.it.com
Web: www.horizont-it.com
Sales contacts:
America info@segus.com
management; asset and change management
Company profile
HORIZONT is a software development company located
in Munich, Germany. The company was founded in 1993
as R.O.S.E. by three OPC (TWS) consultants. Due to legal
conflicts, the name was changed to HORIZONT in 1997.
The company’s first product was OPC/Graph (now TWS/
Graph), net plan display software for TWS, which was
developed together with IBM Germany. With more than
150 customers worldwide, it has become the de facto
standard for TWS compatible software. Additional products
include TWS/BatchAD, TWS/BatchCP and TWS/Audit,
rounding off the TWS product line.
With the introduction of XINFO in 1997 (SmartIS in the
US in 1999), HORIZONT took a big step into a much
wider market. XINFO (SmartIS in USA) integrates with
schedulers other than TWS, for example CA-7, CAScheduler, APM, Control-M or ZEKE. In 2002 HORIZONT
released DSN/Change and SmartJCL, which are
completing the product line. And since 2003 HORIZONT
has a new ground-breaking product: TWS/WebAdmin
XINFO - The IT Information System (also known as
SmartIS).
XINFO is the information system for batch production. It
enables you to access and cross-reference all data from
various IT systems like JCL, TWS, CA-7, CA-Scheduler,
Control-M, ZEKE, SMF, RMM, CA-1, COBOL, PL/I and
much more. 100 satisfied customers worldwide!
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SmartJCL - The Easy Way to Faultless JCL.
SmartJCL is a new JCL checker. It offers an integrated
scheduler interfaces, reformat functions, batch mode and
much more.
that combines information about your licensed software
products, analysis of utilization data, and prices to provide
near real-time estimates of your software charges. LCS
allows sites to “tune” their IBM monthly software invoices!
DSN/Change - The Dataset Renaming System
If you want to carry out file name migration under z/OS
automatically, reliably and at low cost, DSN/Change is the
right tool for your data center.
Large and small sites have licensed LCS throughout the
USA and the world (Australia, Canada, the Netherlands,
Switzerland, Turkey, and the United Kingdom).
TWS Products - especially designed for TWS (Tivoli
Workload Scheduler).
These products are especially designed for TWS, you
cannot not use them if you are running schedulers other
than IBM’s TWS.
TWS/WebAdmin, TWS/Graph, TWS/Audit, TWS/BatchAD,
and TWS/BatchCP.
I/S Management Strategies
Address:
4942 N Hollywood Avenue, Whitefish Bay, WI 53217, USA
Phone: +1 414 332-3062
Email: al@sherkow.com
Web: http://www.sherkow.com
license, other
Company profile
Al Sherkow is a capacity planning and performance
consultant at I/S Management Strategies and author of
the LPAR Capacity and Software Usage Analysis Tool
(LCS). Al is a recognized industry expert regarding the
configuration and planning of processors and PR/SM
and IBM mainframe Workload License Charges, and has
worked with many companies around the globe to help
them reduce mainframe costs through efficient capacity
and licensing strategies. As principal of I/S Management
Strategies, Al has been helping clients since 1988 and is a
regular presenter at industry conferences. I/S Management
Strategies is a System z Development Partner of IBM and
we are also affiliated with IBM’s IT Analyst Relations.
The LPAR Capacity and Software Usage Analysis (LCS)
Software is the only tool available to assist installations
in planning for, implementing, monitoring and leveraging
IBM’s Workload License Charges (WLC). LCS reads your
SMF data and prepares interactive reports that can help
you decrease your IBM software charges month after
month. LCS is truly unique. No other tool is available
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i3 Business Solutions LLC
Address:
5005-B Cascade RD SE, Grand Rapids, MI 49546, USA
Phone: +1 616 956 6888.
Email: RHoekstra@i3BusinessSolutions.com.
Web: www.i3bus.com/
management; security; programming/testing
Linux, Windows
Company profile
i3 Business Solutions accelerates business results by
integrating information solutions. We are an IBM and
Microsoft Business Partner offering products and solutions
for iSeries, pSeries, xSeries, and zSeries. We also offer
consulting services in the manufacturing and distribution
sectors and planning, installation, and implementation
support for PM, EMR, ERP and CRM software.
i3 Business Solutions provides a full-range of z/OS,
OS/390, z/VM, and VSE/ESA system programming
services including version and release upgrades, day-today operating systems support, performance and tuning,
and on-site or remote 7x24 operating system support.
IBM
Address:
Route 100 Somers NY 10589, USA
Phone: +1-914-766-4589
Web: www.ibm.com
Sales contacts (hardware):
America Ernie Fernandez +1 914 642 3713
EMEA Martina Koederitz +33 1 41885653
AsiaPac Sheddrick Harrison +81 3 5572 2728
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Sales contacts (software):
America Dot Alexander +1 914 642 4952
EMEA David Wilson +44 1256 344682
AsiaPac Erik Elzerman +65 6418 2230
Activity: Hardware and Software vendor.
VSE, Linux
other.
Company profile
Originator of mainframe technology.
Identity Forge
Address:
5885 Cumming Hwy, Suite 108-350, Atlanta GA 30518,
USA.
Phone: +1 678 266 3399 x201.
Email: info@identityforge.com
Web: www.identityforge.com
Specialist areas: Security
Company profile
Identity Forge (IdF) is a leading provider of identity
and access management solutions for mainframe,
midrange and/or other legacy systems. Our solutions
securely provide real-time bi-directional password and
identity synchronization and communication between
mainframe, midrange and legacy systems with identity
management systems, web services or enterprise
applications.
IdF has been providing Identity and Access Management
solutions and services for mainframe, midrange and
legacy systems since 2001. Building upon IdF’s core
technology Pioneer & Voyager Agents and the LDAP
Gateway. Identity Forge has recently released its vendor
editions. The new vendor editions provide “out of the box”
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integration along with a complete set of enterprise class
features for most of today’s leading identity management
vendors.
Identity Forge’s solutions and services are used worldwide.
Our solutions are being used by Norfolk Southern
Corporation, GE Healthcare, The Boeing Company, HBOS
PLC, Charles Schwab, ING House, KK Bank, Country
Wide, Scott Trade, JM Family Enterprises, Inc., Embarq and many others.
The Advance Adapter provides native real-time collection
of identity events and bi-directional issuance of
commands between the host target system and identity
management or external application. The IdF advanced
adapter suite comprises of adapters supporting IBM-RACF,
CA-ACF2, CA-Top Secret, and IBM-i5 target systems.
IdF LDAP Gateway
Advanced Adapter Suite
IdF Advanced Adapter for RACF
IdF Advanced Adapter for ACF2
IdF Advanced Adapter for Top Secret
IdF Advanced Adapter for System i
Vendor Editions names and listing:
IBM Tivoli Edition
Oracle Edition
Ping Identity Edition
Radiant Logic Edition
SAP NetWeaver Edition
Sentillion Edition
Sun Edition
SymLabs Edition.
Illustro Systems International
Address:
1950 Stemmons Freeway, Suite 5001, Dallas, Texas
75207, USA.
Phone: +1 214 800 8900
Email: info@illustro.com
Web: www.illustro.com
reengineering tools
license, workload/usage-based
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Company profile
illustro Systems focus on delivering software solutions that
empower today’s mainframe customer to lead the way with
innovation.
We believe that web-enabling mainframe applications
should mean return on investment in hours, not months.
And our z/Web-Host product provides just that. And with
the rapidly emerging standard of SOA and using Web
Services and XML as the method of exchanging data
between computers, our z/XML-Host product delivers a
powerful yet simple solution. Our customers have their
Internet-enabling projects in production in the same time it
takes just to evaluate competitive solutions.
illustro’s z/Ware family of products have earned the
reputation of being easy. The z/Web-Host product
transforms any 3270 application, whether CICS or nonCICS, directly into a fully functional, web-based interface
that anyone can use – all without touching the original
application. And with z/XML-Host, mainframe data can
be automatically converted into XML documents and
accessed via Web Services using SOAP, meaning your
data and business-critical logic can be shared with any
platform or application. This includes languages like Java
and .Net, or Web-Services-enabled platforms including
IBM’s WebSphere and Microsoft Office.
What’s more, both z/Web-Host and z/XML-Host run directly
on either z/OS (OS/390) or z/VSE (VSE/ESA), so there’s
no need to add cost and complexity to the process by
using a different, less reliable platform just to Internetenable your mainframe.
And now that your mainframe data can easily be made
available on the ‘Net, security is an important issue. That’s
where our iCYA network appliance comes in. The iCYA
delivers full Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protection so your
data is encrypted until it reaches a trusted source.
Informatica Corporation
Address:
2100 Seaport Blvd, Redwood City, CA 94063, USA.
Phone: +1 650 385 5000 (800-970-1179 in the USA).
Email: ukinfo@informatica.com
Web: www.informatica.com
Sales contacts:
America: +1 (888) 635-0899
EMEA: +44 (0)1628 511311
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Specialist areas: Data Integration; web integration and
legacy reengineering tools; Data Privacy; other
Linux, Windows, IBM i
Company profile
Informatica Corporation (NASDAQ: INFA) is the world’s
number one independent provider of data integration
software. With over 3,000 employees distributed in over
28 countries around the globe, Organisations can rely
on Informatica to realise their information potential and
drive top business imperatives. Worldwide over 5,000
Enterprises already depend on Informatica to fully leverage
their information assets from devices to mobile to social
to big data residing on-premise, in the Cloud and across
social networks.
Informatica’s PowerExchange products enable data
connectivity to many of the commonly used mainframe
(z/OS & i/Series) data sources e.g. DB2, IMS, Adabas
etc.. Data can be delivered according to the demands of
the consuming applications; offering data extractions in
either complete batch-type accesses or “delta” updates
from previous extractions delivered in Real-Time. Couple
the connectivity to Informatica’s world renowned data
integration products and Enterprises will quickly see
reward from any Informatica deployments.
With Informatica’s PowerCenter ability to run on the IBM
mainframe z/Linux platform Enterprises can, if required,
build fully centric, mainframe based data integration
environments, on possibly the world’s most resilient and
reliable data processing architecture. PowerCenter for z/
Linux leverages the business-critical aspects of mainframe
computing while providing the same time-to-value and
cost-of-ownership advantages that PowerCenter brings to
non-mainframe environments via its inherent “Map-Once
deploy anywhere” Vibe powered architecture. Informatica
also integrally supports the needs of the modern Enterprise
by providing other industry recognised (Forrester,
Gartner etc.) technology products used for Data Masking,
Application Life Cycle Data Management, Data Quality,
Data Replication as well as a complete and comprehensive
Master Data Management capability. Using Informatica
can help enterprises extend the value of their mainframe
investments with near-universal mainframe access and a
holistic view of enterprise information, while maximizing
the reliability and reducing the costs of data integration
processing.
Informatica not only enables a performing and cost
effective data integration platform but can also help
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architect and implement an Enterprises solution by
providing skilled resources either via its own highly skilled
and trained Professional Services network or via its ECO
system of Systems Integrators and Partners. Whatever
the need for Data Integration, Informatica has both the
solution and the skill to help Enterprises succeed. For
more information around the Informatica products portfolio
please refer to the Informatica Website.
InfoSec Inc
Address:
14001-C St. Germain Drive, Suite 809, Centreville, VA
20121, USA.
Phone: +1 703 825 1202
Email: sales@infosecinc.com
Web: www.infosecinc.com
programming/testing; network performance/management
Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, OS/390 ,VM/
VSE, Linux
Company profile
InfoSec Inc provides high-quality software and services to
mainframe customers resulting in increased operational
efficiencies, improved compliance and decreased costs.
Our goal is to help you to leverage your mainframe
investment.
InfoSec provides mainframe consulting resources to
help our customers continue to leverage their mainframe
investment. Our specialty is mainframe security and
compliance, but we can perform any mainframe-related
services including systems programming, database
management, workload management, output management
and more. With all of the regulation and legislation in place
today for compliance related initiatives, organizations need
support to help them achieve that compliance.
INNOVATION Data Processing
management
VSE, Linux
Company profile
INNOVATION Data Processing has over 33 years
experience of providing backup/restore, non-disruptive
protection and storage management solutions for
enterprise-scale z/OS and OS/390 mainframe and open
systems (SAN/LAN/Unix, Windows, Novell, and Linux)
installations. INNOVATION partners with BMC, Compaq,
Computer Associates, EMC, Hewlett-Packard, Hitachi,
IBM, Informix, Lotus, Microsoft, Novell, Oracle, Red Hat,
StorageTek, Sun, SuSE Linux, Sybase, Turbo Linux and
others.
INNOVATION’s prime objective in partnering with
software companies is interoperability and co-existence
with operating system platforms and databases; while
partnering with storage vendors allows the creation of
unique solutions that provide customers with the benefits
of advanced storage management.
Best recognized as the provider of the Fast Dump Restore
(FDR) suite, INNOVATION solutions offer enterprise
storage management and non-disruptive business
protection. FDRINSTANT supports Timefinder, FlashCopy,
ShadowImage and SnapShot Copy for non-disruptive
backup of off-line volumes.
IAM allows users to achieve performance enhancements
and system resource savings for most applications that
utilize VSAM datasets. FDRPAS provides non-disruptive
volume relocation of z/OS disk volumes from one device
to another, while FDRERASE provides safe, secure, fast
erasure of z/OS data volumes. FDR/UPSTREAM allows
users to position the OS/390 or z/OS mainframe as a
backup server, with additional support for zLinux.
Sites with EMC Symmetrix arrays rely on FDRSOS for
high-speed network-free volume-level backup/restore
across ESCON/FICON channels. FDR/UPSTREAM/SOS
extends this protection with logical file granularity, central
administration and policy-based management.
Address:
275 Paterson Ave, Little Falls, NJ 07424. USA.
Phone: +1 973 890 7300
Email: sales@fdrinnovation.com
Web: http://www.innovationdp.com
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Inspired Solutions (Software) Ltd
IntelliMagic
Address:
208, Moor Lane, Salford M7 3PZ, UK.
Phone:+44 (0) 161 7926540
Email: info@inspired-solutions.co.uk
Web: www.inspired-solutions.co.uk
Address:
Lokhorstraat 16, 2311 TA Leiden, The Netherlands
Phone:+ 31-71-5796000
Email: sales@intellimagic.com
Web: www.intellimagic.com
management; asset and change management; other
VSE, Linux
Windows
other
license, other
Company profile
Save Money on the Mainframe
Inspired Solutions and Blenheim Software work together to
distribute software in the UK and Ireland. Our cost-effective
software covers many of the most important areas in the
data centre for both mainframe and distributed platforms.
Several of the tools and software we supply are either the
de facto standard for their area, or soon will be.
As well as performance management and capacity
planning tools, we also provide XINFO, the data centre
repository; tools for TWS for zOS (OPC) and Distributed ;
JCL Checking; CICS, VSAM, VTAM, and developers’ tools,
DB2 tools, utilities and tuning for zOS & distributed.
More details at our partners websites:
Enterprise Performance Vision for Performance & Capacity
Planning - www.epvtech.com
Horizont GmbH for TWS Products - www.horizont-it.com
MacKinney for CICS, VSAM, VTAM Products - www.
mackinney.com
Responsive Systems for DB2 Buffer Pool Tuning - www.
responsivesystems.com
Relational Architects International and Insoft Software for
DB2 tools - www.relarc.com
ITGain for UDB DB2 products - www.itgain.de
InSoft for DB2 tools - www.insoft-software.de.
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Company profile
IntelliMagic solutions create visibility into hidden risks in
critical IT infrastructure resources. Some of the world’s
largest corporations rely daily on IntelliMagic to proactively
identify issues that endanger the availability of their
enterprise storage and systems. IntelliMagic enables
companies to maintain more efficient configurations with
lower risk and better performance.
IntelliMagic Vision pro-actively analyzes the performance
utilization and health of all storage system components
on a daily basis and translates the outcome into
intuitive dashboards and rated charts. Direct benefits
are the reduction of availability risks, the prevention of
performance issues, faster problem resolution, and more
efficient usage of storage hardware. IntelliMagic Vision
is available for z/OS mainframe attached disk and for z/
OS mainframe attached Tape and Virtual Tape. SAN
environments are supported as well.
INTERCHIP AG
Address:
Elektrastrasse 6, 81925, Germany.
Phone: +49 89 9914 990
Email: info@interchip.de
Web: www.interchip-software.com/.
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Sales contacts:
America: +1 800 225 5224.
EMEA: + 44 1753 577733.
AsiaPac: singaporesales@ca.com;
Singapore: 65 6337 2822.
Specialist areas: Storage management.
Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, OS/390.
Company profile
INTERCHIP AG with international headquarters based in
Munich, Germany, was founded in 1987.
The company is privately held and provides enterprisewide, multi-platform solutions for the optimization of
complex IT environments.
In addition to representing selected software companies
in Germany, Switzerland and Austria, INTERCHIP AG
develops its own market-leading products. INTERCHIP
AG’ s flagship product, RealTime Defrag (RTD), is currently
in daily use at some of the largest banks, insurance
companies and government agencies worldwide.
RealTime Defrag (RTD) is a proven product in use since
1995 that eliminates DASD fragmentation and the need for
over-allocation of disk space thereby avoiding x37 abends
and out-of-space conditions. Running continuously and
efficiently in the background, RTD quickly reorganizes disk
files, recovering available storage space and eliminating
file and DASD fragmentation. Unlike standard operating
system utilities, no batch or weekend maintenance jobs are
needed.
Disk storage waste caused by over-allocation is eliminated,
since files are continuously and automatically groomed.
RTD can be customized to meet your defragmentation
needs through a variety of parameters that take effect
immediately. RTD includes full support for the latest level of
the operating system (z/OS) and EAVs. Additional options
are available to support FlashCopy Version 2 and Preserve
Mirror (Remote Pair FlashCopy).
Interskill Learning
Sales contacts:
EMEA: +44 1625 441120, gilesnewson@interskill.co.uk
AsiaPac: +61 3 8796 8400, d.scott@interskilllearning.com
Activity: Education
VSE, Linux
Non-mainframe platforms supported: IBM i, AIX, Linux
Company profile
nterskill Learning is the world leader in technology-based
training solutions for the IBM Mainframe Computing
industry. We offer the industry’s ONLY up-to-date,
comprehensive, self-paced elearning curriculum!
Our learning designs are informed by contemporary
learning theory and are interactive, contextualized and
responsive to diverse learning styles. We believe in
immersing learners in relevant authentic activities designed
to motivate, engage, and produce quantifiable change.
For over 25 Years, and for thousands of mainframe
organizations globally, we have proven our expertise at
developing and delivering the finest and most affordable
Mainframe Workforce Training solutions
The IBM z Systems Mainframe Computing industry’s
ONLY broad spectrum curriculum of self-paced, mainframe
elearning!
At only dollars per course, it delivers 12 months unlimited
access to over 250 online IBM z Systems and IBM Power
Systems courses, Mainframe Skills Assessments, Analytics
& Reporting, and Tools for easy development of your own
in-house mainframe Classes/Webinars. This extensive
mainframe training resource delivers superior quality
training and dramatically cuts training costs for the world’s
top mainframe organizations!
Superior Training. Massive Cost Savings. Unparalleled
Training ROI.
No Travel Costs. No Class Cancellations. Instant Global
Access.
Address:
11770 Haynes Bridge Road, Suite 205 PMB 526,
Alpharetta, GA 30009-1970, USA.
Phone: +1 770-872-4278
Email: info@interskill.com
Web: www.interskill.com
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ISAM (Information Systems
Asset Management)
Address:
4152 North River Run, Minneapolis, MN 55044, USA
Phone: +1 952 322 4726
Email: mswanson@isamgroup.com
Web: www.isamgroup.com
VSE, z/Linux
distributed Unix, Linux, Windows, other
Pricing options: Other,
Company profile
Founded in 1996, ISAM specializes in helping
procurement, vendor management, and data center
managers reduce overall software expenses and
compliance risk. GreenBook, the software industry’s
largest and most comprehensive database by ISAM
contains more than 100 million software cost, product
usage and categorization data points from over 800
software vendors across 1,000 data centers worldwide.
Armed with the knowledge of the actual software costs
paid by data centers like yours, GreenBookSM provides
the backbone for numerous applications to guide data
centers to best in class software pricing.
IBM Audit support, Software Vendor Negotiation, Data
Center Optimization.
ISI Pty Ltd
Address:
Level 1, 645 Harris Street, Ultimo, New South Wales 2007,
Australia
Phone: +61 2 8905 8900
Email: info@isi.com.au
Web: www.isi.com.au
Activity: Integrator
management
Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, OS/390, z/Linux
Non-mainframe platforms supported: AIX, distributed
Linux, Windows
Company profile
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the Australian business sector. With a focus on outcomes,
our success stems from a company-wide commitment to
fulfilling customer needs and leveraging new technologies.
In 1995, ISI became the first IBM zSeries reseller in
Australia and New Zealand. Today we remain the only IBM
Premier Partner operating in the System z market and is
at the forefront of the next wave of ‘Large Scale Server
Deployments’ utilising Open Systems on System z – the
most reliable, scalable and cost effective ‘Business Class’
computing platform in the world. ISI also sells and supports
the complete range of IBM products including Power and
System x Servers, software, storage and support services.
iTech-Ed Ltd
Address:
iTech-Ed House, 16 Brinkworth Close, Chippenham, Wilts
SN14 0TL, UK
Phone: +44 1249 443256.
Email: trevor@itech-ed.com.
Web: www.itech-ed.com.
reengineering tools; network performance/management;
other
Non-mainframe platforms supported: AIX, Windows
Company profile
iTech-Ed Ltd provides a source of highly technical
information and expertise for people using IBM
mainframes, servers, the Internet, mid-range computers,
PCs, and tablet devices. iTech-Ed provides consultancy
on a wide variety of mainframe-related areas, produces
technical articles and White Papers on current trends
in computing, performs software reviews, writes up
research in technical areas, and edits marketing copy
to avoid ambiguities and eliminate any technical errors.
The company can also provide in-house training (with
documentation) in a variety of mainframe-related areas,
as well as Microsoft Office training. iTech-Ed also designs
and creates modern-looking Web sites using, for example,
JQuery, that fit W3C standards.
More recently, iTech-Ed has been helping organizations
with their social media policies and a very hands-on
approach has seen companies produce Facebook pages,
produce well-supported Twitter feeds, and make the best
use of YouTube.
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CEO Trevor Eddolls’ work in the mainframe community has
been recognized and he has been awarded the prestigious
title of IBM Champion every year since 2009.
Popular blogs can be found at it.toolbox.com/blogs/
mainframe-world/ and the Destination Z Web site. Articles
have appeared regularly in technical journals and on Web
sites.
Since 2004 iTech-Ed Ltd has offered motivational training
for staff as well as help with personal development and life
coaching.
L3C LLP
Address:
25 Sackville Street, London W1S 3AX, UK
Phone: +44 207 887 6331.
Email: info@l3cllp.com
Web: www.l3cllp.com
Activity: Outsourcer
Specialist areas: Storage management; asset and change
management; security; network performance/management;
other
VSE, Linux
Non-mainframe platforms supported: IBM i, AIX,
distributed Unix, Linux, Windows, other
Company profile
L3C is an UK-based company offering cross platform
enterprise cloud services with IBM System Z at the core.
We believe in the right workload on the right cloud and
complement our System Z cloud with Power8 (AIX, I
Series), Linux across all platforms and Windows along with
tiered storage. We bring the performance, reliability and
security of the mainframe to our partners offering dev/test,
POC, Pre-Prod Production and DR environments.
Our Z platform allows you to test and deploy Open Source
solutions on Linux on Z as well as new mobile, analytic and
social workloads by providing not just a front end but also
the key ability to integrate these into existing data sets and
systems of record. We can also support your legacy z/OS
environments and provide DR solutions. We are founding
members of the Open Mainframe Project and members of
Linux Foundation.
Linux on Z offers significant opportunity for license savings
on SW that uses a Core-based pricing methodology. Up
to 12:1 license savings can be achieved by consolidating
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Oracle DB on Linux on Z. Our Linux on Z cloud also
provides an excellent platform to develop and deploy
Open Source solutions on Linux on Z and we can offer
elastic pricing for SUSE. We are partners of all major Linux
distributions, Oracle and MongoDB amongst others. We
can offer IFLs or subsets of IFLs for short term or long
terms projects and supporting infrastructure on Power8,
Intel and tiered storage where needed.
We also offer z/OS based cloud infrastructure solution
for development, DR or even production modes to our
Integrator and SW vendor partners enabling them to
address legacy environments for their end clients. Our
cloud services are delivered from UK Tier3 data centres
with Tier4 on request.
Our resourcing capability also allows us to support you
with niche resources when necessary to complement your
projects delivered via a near shore and onshore model.
Latuz LLC
Address:
20533 Biscayne Blvd, Suite 311, Aventura, FL 33180, USA
Phone: +1 (305) 851-2807.
Email: latuz@latuz.com
Web: www.latuz.com
management; security; network performance/management;
other
VSE, Linux, other
Non-mainframe platforms supported: IBM i, Linux
Company profile
We started this company in 2005 because we want to
make the world a better place by using our skills to help
companies adopt, expand and optimize the use of IBM
mainframes, since we believe they are the most advanced,
modern, powerful and efficient computers in the world.
This is why our team has been working with mainframes
for over 30 years, and why we believe that by helping
customers make the best use of this energy efficient, green
platform, we can improve the world we are living in.
We specialize in mainframe services, including system
programming, development, migrations and conversions,
and project management. Our skills cover every subsystem
available on the z Systems platform, and every operating
system currently supported.
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Levi Ray & Shoup Inc
Address:
2401 West Monroe Street, Springfield, Illinois, USA
Phone: 217 793 3800.
Email: asklrs@lrs.com
Web: www.lrs.com
Sales contacts:
EMEA: +44 1242 537500, lrsuk@lrs.com, Regent House,
Rodney Road, Cheltenham, Glos, GL50 1HX, UK.
AsiaPac: lrsjapan@lrs.com.
Specialist areas: System management; security
VSE, Linux, other
Non-mainframe platforms supported: OS/400, AIX,
other Unix, Linux, Windows
license, processor/capacity based, workload/usage based
Company profile
Since 1981, Levi, Ray & Shoup, Inc. has been providing
software solutions that help customers save money,
improve business productivity, and provide assured
delivery of business-critical documents. Ninety-five percent
of the Fortune 100 companies trust LRS solutions to
deliver their most critical documents.
VPS and VPS/TCPIP. The VPS software suite manages,
monitors and delivers documents to network destinations
through the organization. Originally designed for VTAMcontrolled SNA networks, LRS added TCP/IP functionality
and pioneered the migration of enterprise printing to the
TCP/IP network protocol. The VPS solution offers webbased monitoring and control, enabling administrators,
operators and end users to control production printing.
VPS/Secure. VPS/Secure offer encrypted distribution
of confidential documents from host to printer or host to
host. It uses the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES),
supporting the exchange of encrypted data between
Windows, Unix, OS/390 and z/OS mainframes.
VPS/E Mail. This expands the print distribution channel to
include direct e-mail delivery from the host.
DRS/Output Manager. With DRS/Output Manager, SAP
R/3 users gain full control over document printing, along
with feedback on print status, without leaving the SAP app.
PageCenter. PageCenter archives documents received
from VPS for secure viewing with web browsers on multiple
platforms.
Logicalis UK
Address:
110 Buckingham Avenue, Slough, Berks SL1 4PF, UK
Phone: +44 (0) 01753 777200
Email: info@logicalis.com
Web: www.logicalis.com
VSE, z/Linux
other Unix, Linux, Windows
licence, processor/capacity based, workload/usage based
Company profile
Logicalis is an international IT solutions and managed
services provider with a breadth of knowledge and
expertise in communications and collaboration; data centre
and cloud services; and managed services.
Logicalis employs nearly 3,700 people worldwide, including
highly trained service specialists who design, specify,
deploy and manage complex ICT infrastructures to meet
the needs of almost 6,000 corporate and public sector
customers. To achieve this, Logicalis maintains strong
partnerships with technology leaders such as Cisco, HP,
IBM, CA Technologies, NetApp, Microsoft, VMware and
ServiceNow.
VPS/PDF. VPS/PDF provides dynamic conversion of
AFP documents to Portable Document Format (PDF) for
delivery via e-mail, web or file.
The Logicalis Group has annualised revenues of $1.6
billion, from operations in Europe, North America, Latin
America and Asia Pacific, and is fast establishing itself
as one of the leading IT and Communications solution
integrators, specialising in the areas of advanced
technologies and services.
DRS captures, manages and controls documents
originating from any platform via the LRS Enterprise Output
Server.
The Logicalis Group is a division of Datatec Limited, listed
on the Johannesburg and London AIM Stock Exchanges,
with revenues of over $5 billion.
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Logicalis are skilled in infrastructure and new workload
planning, Linux and Websphere implementations, software
migrations, performance and capacity assessments,
systems programming, security audits and sub-capacity
Workload License Charge (WLC) management.
We also provide customised briefings for System z clients.
Our pro-active approach to managing risk improves the
efficiency of any deployment. Post-implementation, we
continue our involvement with customised lifecycle and
managed services support.
We assist you in procuring the best in class IBM mainframe
hardware and software solutions, and then provide
the integration services to roll these into your existing
environments and provide insight for future IT planning.
Longpela Expertise
Address:
1 Lilly Street, South Fremantle WA 6162, Australia
Phone: +61 404 757 821
Email: info@longpelaexpertise.com.au
Web: www.longpelaexpertise.com.au
Specialist areas: System management; programming/
testing
Company profile
We have provided mainframe technical and systems
programming services since 1992. We help companies
with mainframe problems, projects and plans throughout
Australia and South Asia. We have over 20 years
experience in System z mainframes and related systems
software including z/OS, CICS, and IMS.
We also contribute to the mainframe community with free
articles on our website, our book “What On Earth is a
Mainframe”, and the mainframe software website http://
www.lookupmainframesoftware.com.
Longpela Expertise offer three service ‘streams’:
1 Systems services. Our consultants can cover for
systems programmers on leave, perform Assembler
programming projects, assist with skills such as dump
reading and performance analysis, or simply add an
extra resource to get a project moving.
2 Mainframe Consulting. General Mainframe technical
advice to groups such as auditors, managers, and
non-mainframe technical people. We can answer your
Mainframe questions, provide advice on the mainframe
sector, and help you control your project. From a one
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provide an expert to use when and where you need.
3 Training. We can provide a mentor for junior
systems programmers, perform fast ‘Mainframes for
Beginners’briefings, or provide other training and
assistance you require.
Looksoftware
Address:
9/622 Ferntree Gullu Road, Wheeler’s Hill, Melbourne,
Australia
Phone: 61 3 9535 4444.
Email: info@looksoftware.com
Web: www.looksoftware.com
Sales contacts:
America: 678-354-1094, toddf@looksoftware.com
EMEA: 61 3 9535 4444, kimf@looksoftware.com
AsiaPac: 61 3 9535 4444, kimf@looksoftware.com.
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Windows
license, processor/capacity based, workload/usage based
Company profile
Dynamic application modernization and integration
solutions for customers and application vendors. Our
on-the-fly architecture automates the modernization
process, requiring no changes to your back-end System z
applications. Front-end modernization supporting: • Rich, thin and mobile multi-channel GUIs • Integration with virtually any desktop, web and backend application • Delivery of core applications in popular UIs like Outlook
and Google • Integration with most portals • Offline support.
Back-end modernization supporting:
• Creation of SOA compliant Web services from
unchanged back-end applications • Two-way Web services support • DDM, ADO, RPC, 5250, 3270 support. Composite Solutions Environment:
• Supports on-the-fly delivery of new solutions
• Assemble composite application components with
external applications and services.
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*Developer Product Suite*
newlook Dynamic generation of smart, thin and mobile user
interfaces (UIs). Use newlook to rapidly webface and
create new UI’s. Access 5250/3270 applications from
virtually any front-end including: Outlook, SharePoint,
Notes, WebSphere, Google, Apple iPhone, PDAs, rich
clients, AJAX, .Net, and Java, etc. soarchitect Creates web services from modules of code within existing
applications. Provides a complete solution for re-using,
extending and integrating your existing applications.
Heterogeneous database access and web services
consumption make multi-platform integration easy.
*Deployment Product Suite*
lookserver It enables customers to access iSeries applications
from any device that supports a browser, or from mobile
devices including PDAs.
thinclient
Zero deployment UIs are best suited to external users
like partners and customers. Support for most popular
browsers running Linux, Mac or Windows makes thin
clients an easy option for instant global access. mobileclient
More and more employees are on the road using wireless
devices such as web pads, PDAs, and phones. smartclient Suits knowledge workers needing smart/rich client support
including high performance, advanced UI support (such as
datagrids, tree controls and many more), offline support,
desktop integration, web services consumption and
database access. No touch deployment and automated
updates make smartclient deployment a breeze.
Luminex Software Inc
Address:
871 Marlborough Avenue, Riverside, CA 92507, USA
Phone: +1 951 781 4100.
Email: info@luminex.com
Web: www.luminex.com
VSE,
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Founded in 1994, LUMINEX is a leading developer and
provider of disk-based mainframe virtual tape products
and technologies. LUMINEX Channel Gateways allow
mainframe enterprise users around the world to take full
advantage of the benefits of Modern Mainframe Virtual
Tape to eliminate or reduce physical tape, improve RTO
and RPO, lower capital and operating costs and improve
data security. With the LUMINEX Channel Gateways,
enterprises can now have a single backup and recovery
program for their mainframe and open systems data.
The Channel Gateway enables mainframe customers to
channel attach industry leading and proven open systems
enterprise storage solutions. The Channel Gateway
supports both FICON, up to 8Gb/s, and ESCON channel
connectivity. Existing mainframe backup software simply
sees the Channel Gateway as a recognized mainframe
tape device. No software changes are required.
Channel Gateway Enhancement Options:
• LTMON brings mainframe console integration to
Channel Gateway Modern Mainframe Virtual Tape
solutions.
• RepMon provides real-time monitoring of virtual
tape data writes and replication to a remote disaster
recovery site.
• SyncCopy enforces tape data consistency across
Channel Gateway-attached replicated storage
systems and provides remote status monitoring of tape
availability and integrity.
• HA-Grid provides fully redundant local storage of virtual
tape data, with automated failover for high-availability
operations, leveraging the capabilities of both
SyncCopy and LTMON.
LUMINEX also offers non-disruptive tape and data
migration service. Migration from your aging tape and
backup infrastructure to the modern LUMINEX solution is
easy and automated.
MacKinney Systems Inc
Address:
4411 East State Highway D, Suite F, Springfield, MO
65809, USA
Phone: +1 417 882 8012
Email: sales@mackinney.com.
Web: www.mackinney.com.
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Company profile
Since 1980 MacKinney Systems, a member of IBM
PartnerWorld and SHARE, has been the industry leader
in top-quality, low-cost mainframe software. MacKinney
products are compatible with all IBM-supported releases of
z/OS, VSE and CICS.
MacKinney Systems offers customers value-priced
software with freedom from over-priced machine upgrade
fees. We have competitively priced software to replace
many competitors’ software to eliminate excessive upgrade
charges and maintenance fees. Our highly applauded
support is second to none, delivered by individuals
who know the code and have worked in the production
environment. 417 882 8012 is answered 24/7 by a live
person.
We participate in IBM’s Early Test Programs and Technical
Disclosure Meetings to ensure our products are compatible
with new versions of z/OS, VSE and CICS as they become
generally available from IBM.
CICS upgrade assistance:
• VS/Cobol Interpreter allows programs written and
compiled with OS/VS COBOL to execute in CICS
Transaction Server 3.1 and above.
• Macro Level Interpreter allows running macrolevel code in z/OS or VSE versions of CICS TS
environments without any coding changes.
Cost-effective printing solutions:
• JES Report Broker manages the access, distribution
and archival of reports. Archive reports for viewing via
web browser. E-mail and FTP reports securely.
• MacKinney Print Transform is a server product that
provides document transformation services for client
products.
• ES Queue for Printers prints any report from the
system spool to printers defined to VTAM or TCP/
IP. Supports LPD and Direct Socket. Interfaces with
Solimar Systems and Xerox.
• VTAM Virtual Printer captures existing VTAM
application (CICS, IMS, etc) print and creates a report
in the system spool without any programming changes.
Simplified program testing and debugging:
• Track is an online testing and debugging product for
CICS application programs. Detects and corrects
multiple errors in a single debugging session.
• XRAY provides the same capabilities for batch
applications.
• Dump Detective solves program abends by
automatically formatting and analyzing CICS dumps.
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Productivity-enhancing tools:
• MacKinney Batch to CICS gets your batch processing
on the fast track! Close and open files, dynamically
allocate and unallocate files, send CEMT commands.
• SimpList is a powerful and highly productive mainframe
interface that makes ISPF much easier to learn and
use.
• VTAM/Switch allows users to switch between VTAM
applications without logging on and off, and provides
single sign-on to applications.
Macro 4
Address:
The Orangery, Turners Hill Road, Worth, Crawley, West
Sussex, RH10 4SS, UK
Phone: +44 1293 872000
Email: market@macro4.com
Web: www.macro4.com
Sales contacts:
America: +1 800 766 6224 market.usa@macro4.com
EMEA: as UK
AsiaPac: as UK
VSE, Linux
Linux
Company profile
For your critical business applications, Macro 4 is
the software specilaist that enables performance
improvement by making the complex simple.
Organizations are often hindered by the unnecessary
IT complexity which results from business growth and
technology evolution. Our philosophy is to derive enhanced
performance by making the complex simple.
This approach has come about through a dedication to
understanding user needs developed during the 40 years
we have been serving our customers.
Macro 4 solutions:
• Assist IT operations to analyze and fix failures in
mission critical applications, quickly and efficiently.
• Allow developers to interactively develop, troubleshoot
and resolve program errors with unprecedented speed.
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• Deliver files and test data to developers, allowing a
precise and secure testing and debugging environment.
• Measure and report on application performance, quickly
identifying opportunities for performance improvement.
Macro 4’s solutions are a world-leading range of
software tools that increase operational efficiency in
IBM’s mainframe environments. Today, these solutions
are delivering significant cost savings and efficiency
improvements as well as assuring the reliability of missioncritical applications in thousands of IT departments
globally.
Fault Analysis:
• DumpMaster high performance fault diagnosis of
mainframe application failures.
• TraceMaster source level interactive program testing
and debugging.
• M4Explorer Unique web interface for DumpMaster and
TraceMaster which improves productivity by up to 20%.
Application Integrity:
• TraceMaster CodeTrack CICS codepath analysis and
pre-emptive storage violation detection.
Application Performance:
• FreezeFrame comprehensive, yet easy-to-use
application performance measurement.
• ExpeTune automated application performance
management and analysis partner for FreezeFrame.
• ExpeTune DB focused on helping users manage DB2
performance, especially dynamic DB2 workloads.
Data Manipulation:
• InSync simplifies the process of data management by
providing fast and easy access to the business data
used by key applications.
Mainframe Co Ltd
Address:
ul. Zielona 18, 05-090 Raszyn, Poland
Phone: +48 22 7156950
Email: info@mainframe.pl
Web: http://www.mainframe.pl
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Independent software vendor, professional services,
outsourcing of mainframe enviroment
generally everything about your mainframe environment.
Replacement of RACF (security server)
Database engine
z/OS documentation (auditing z/os enviroment).
Mainstorconcept GmbH
Address:
Fiduciastr. 2, 76227 Karlsruhe, Germany
Phone: +49721790760
Email: info@mainstorconcept.de
Web: www.mainstorconcept.de
Activity: Hardware vendor
management; programming/testing; other
VSE, Linux
Windows, other
other.
Company profile
mainstorconcept GmbH is an IT consultancy company
and one of the leading specialists for Mainframes and
tape virtualization. Mainstorconcept provides individual
solutions for Mainframes, virtual tape and storage. Our
core business are virtual tape libraries for Mainframes. Our
customers are large and medium-size companies from all
business fields, insurance companies, banks, and public
sector companies. Besides Germany mainstorconcept has
project experience in several European countries, the USA
and Middle East.
mainstorconcept provides professional consulting services
in all IBM Mainframe Operating Systems, including
installation, customization and maintenance tasks. From
Mainframe Hardware perspective, mainstorconcept
focuses on Mainframe Virtual Tape Library solutions from
EMC. Our expertise contains more than 80 successful
installations throughout the world, at customer of different
branches, different operating systems and different size.
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Further mainstorconcept develops software solutions
for IBM System z, including multiplatform access to the
Mainframe (e.g. Android, Linux). Further we offer custom
software add-ons for MDL and EMC DLm devices, like tape
management software, reporting and statistic modules,
WORM features or all kind of write out functionalities to
another media (e.g. USB drives or Tape). We also provide
customized hardware / software solutions. Therewith, we
help the customer getting intelligent backup and disaster
recovery solutions, beyond the standard offerings from
hardware providers, which fit the customer’s requirements
and needs.
As our employees are also experts in Mainframe Emulation
Solutions, we can support migrating old Mainframe
installations and performing Mainframe Disk and Tape
Migrations onto new platforms.
Maintec Technologies
Address:
8311 Brier Creek Pkwy, Suite 105 – 513, Raleigh, NC
27617, USA
Phone: +1 919 424 6323
Email: sgupta@maintec.com.
Web: www.maintec.com.
Activity: Outsourcer
VSE, z/Linux
Non-mainframe platforms supported: IBM i, AIX
Company profile
Maintec Technologies provides a range of services such as
data center management, IT staffing, including the popular
Hire Train Deploy solution; corporate training services and
on-site/off-shore project management. Maintec is also
uniquely positioned to service customer requirements by
leveraging services in future technologies such as big
data, business intelligence, social media, cloud and mobile
technologies.
As the generation that began the mainframe retires,
the need to train the next generation of mainframe
developers and systems programmers is becoming critical.
Therefore, Maintec helps businesses with large mainframe
installations reduce data center management total cost
of operation and overcome resourcing challenges by
providing well-trained talent.
Maintec’s ability to train employees with “skills on demand”
is a key value Maintec offers its clients. Maintec coined
the term “Hire Train Deploy”, a concept solution bridging
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the gap between industry needs and skills available
in the general market. Maintec’s four service offerings
complement each other thus providing a comprehensive
solution to its clients.
Data Center Management: Maintec’s Mainframe
industry knowledge is a perfect blend of on-site and
offshore resources, offering comprehensive datacenter
management services on IBM mainframe and midrange
platforms. The company’s datacenter management
services help IT organizations securely, remotely
and proactively manage their datacenter for optimum
performance in a 24/7 environment.
IT Staffing Services: Maintec’s IT staffing services offer
the hassle free way of recruiting qualified and trained
offshore resources in IBM Mainframe platforms through
its Hire Train Deploy (HTD) solution. HTD is a turnkey,
no-obligation solution for clients that develops employees
deeply educated in niche skills not readily available in most
markets.
Corporate Training Services: Maintec offers training
across the verticals with programs exclusively designed
for corporate clientele; their training program covers IBM
mainframe, midrange, Microsoft and web technologies.
Customized training solutions and tools enhance corporate
associates’ core competencies and skill sets. The training
program boosts the overall productivity of the corporate
courtesy the ProEd-trained workforce that easily diagnoses
any problem.
On-site & Off-Shore Projects: With worldwide locations in
the U.S., UK, Philippines and an off-shore development
center in Bangalore, India, and offices in Noida, Pune,
and Chennai, Maintec offers comprehensive on-site
and off-shore project solutions. Maintec couples data
center management services and IT staffing solutions to
give clients an unparalleled advantage. With over 600+
consultants, Maintec has capabilities to provide project
support on various technologies: SAP, Oracle, Peoplesoft,
Java and .net technologies.
Marist College
Address:
3399 North Rd, Poughkeepsie, NY 12601, USA
Phone: 845-575-3588
Email: susan.scanlon@marist.edu
Web: http://idcp.marist.edu/learnzos
Specialist areas: other
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Non-mainframe platforms supported: AIX, other
Company profile
The Institute for Data Center Professionals (IDCP) at
Marist College offers convenient, affordable, 100% online,
asynchronous certificate programs covering topics that are
relevant to professionals working in data center operations
and/or enterprise computing environments. Courses are
taught by academic professionals and industry experts,
some of whom have had a hand in developing the
technology. Full curriculum for z/OS system and application
programmers.
We offer three levels of education for the z/OS systems
programmer.
z/OS Associate, Professional and Expert Tracks - each
comprised of three courses delivered fully online
For the application programmer, we offer COBOL, IMS,
Assembler and DB2 tracks each comprised of three
courses delivered fully online. We also offer a 2-course
certificate covering AIX on Power.
Matter of Fact Software
Address:
60 Old Town, Peebles, Scottish Borders EH45 8JE, UK
Email: enquiries@matteroffactsoftware.com
Web: www.plexspy.co.uk
Specialist areas: Systems management; web integration
Company profile
We create and market innovative software solutions that
address business challenges. We are specialists in IBM’s
CICS on z/OS and provide consulting services in addition
to our software.
ur PlexSpy software product builds upon IBM’s CICSPlex
SM to provide enhanced service management capabilities.
Our CICS JS/Server product makes it easy to design, build
and operate novel CICS web applications.
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Metron
Address:
Osborne House, Trull Road, Taunton, UK
Phone: +44 (0)1823 259231
Email: ian.upton@metron-athene.com
Web: www.metron-athene.com
Specialist areas: Systems management; data
management; storage management; network performance/
management
Pricing options: Pricing options: One-time charge,
monthly/annual license, processor/capacity-based,
workload/usage based, other
Company profile
Metron has been leading the way in Capacity Management
since 1986 and is justifiably proud of its history. An
independent company, Metron delivers Capacity
Management solutions across the Globe and has an
impressive client list of Fortune 500 and FTSE 100
Companies including ACS, Internal Revenue Service, LA
County, Deloitte, Marriott, US Customs, EE, WH Smith,
Telefonica O2, Nestle and LloydsTSB.
Delivering a quality service, assessing acceptable levels of
risk, and running a cost-conscious operation are the day to
day issues facing today’s IT department. To be successful,
IT Directors and Managers must be able to understand
thoroughly what is happening in complex systems. They
must know exactly why systems are performing as they are
and anticipate the effect of future changes.
With products and services to cater for every size of
organization, Metron is the standard in Performance
Management, providing measurement, analysis,
planning and reporting capabilities for all physical and
virtual platforms including z/OS, UNIX, Linux,Windows
servers,and VMware.
athene ES/1
Expert Systems Performance Analysis for z/OS
ES/1 is ‘The One’ for mainframe performance analytics.
ES/1 offers automated expert systems analysis of all key
z/OS performance metrics. Areas of performance concern
are highlighted and expert advice offered on actions that
will help tune the system to overcome those issues and
ensure better on-going performance from your mainframe.
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Micro Focus
Address:
The Lawn, 22-30 Old Bath Road, Newbury, Berks RG14
1QN, UK
Phone: +44 (0) 1635 32646.
Web: www.microfocus.com.
Sales contacts:
America: Sales.US@microfocus.com / +1 (301) 838-5000
EMEA: UKSales@microfocus.com / +44 (0) 1635 565200
AsiaPac: UKSales@microfocus.com / +65 6510 4200
VSE, Linux
other
Company profile
The Micro Focus Enterprise product set tackles the
application modernization needs of IBM mainframe
development and delivery teams. Our enterprise
application knowledge, development, test and workload
deployment tools significantly improve the efficiency of
business application delivery, IT leaders to transform their
z System environment.
• Dramatically increase development, testing and service
delivery throughput.
• Improve IT and business agility.
• Make significant efficiency gains and reduce operating
costs.
Modern Systems
Address:
22-30 Old Bath Road, Newbury, Berkshire RG14 1QN, UK
Phone: +44 1635 32646.
Email: ricko@modernsystems.com
Web: www.modernsystems.com.
management; web integration and legacy reengineering
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Company profile
Modern Systems offers products and services to help
customers transition from legacy systems to modern
platforms. What makes us different is that we take a
“lifecycle” approach, enabling customers take a phased
approach to modernization that meets their business
needs.
Our Legacy Forensics service enables deep inventory
and assessment of Z/OS mainframe applications written
in COBOL, Natural, CA GEN and more. Our Mainframe
DataShare service enables integration of nonrelational
mainframe databases like IDMS, ADABAS, VSAM and
more with relational databases like SQL Server, DB2 and
Oracle Database, empowering true data warehousing and
holistic business intelligence. Our automated conversion
technology enables COBOL, Natural and CA GEN apps to
be converted to Java or C# for use in open systems or on
the mainframe.
MOST Technologies
Address:
4, Haharash str., Hod-Hasharon 45244, Israel
Phone: +972-3-9115511.
Email: info@mosttechnologies.com.
Web: www.mosttechnologies.com.
Sales contacts:
America: MOST Technologies, Inc, 400 Northridge Road,
Suite 250, Atlanta, GA 30350, USA, Tel: (678) 420-7470.
AsiaPac: MOST Technologies Japan K.K.#301 1-1416 Nishiazabu, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan, 106-0031, Tel:
(81) 3 5412-8662, Fax: (81) 3 5412-8664, Email: info@
mosttechnologies.co.jp.
VSE, z/Linux, other
other
Company profile
MOST Technologies, a global leader in legacy
modernization, is in a unique position to address the needs
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of organizations with investment in mainframe application
assets.
MOST’s legacy modernization offering provide the
customer with following benefits:
• Reduction in total cost of ownership related to the
operation of legacy applications
• Renew the value of legacy applications and data in new
services
• Improve accessibility to these application assets
real time so as to support business intelligence and
customer service initiatives
• Increased flexibility and interoperability with internal
and external services
• Tighter control over budget through reducing scope of
change
MOST Technologies offering to mainframe customers with
investment in Legacy Applications include:
• Solutions
• Expertise
• Services.
MF-Test is a leading testing solution from MOST
Technologies that was developed specifically for testing
mainframe applications, databases and their supporting
environments. It provides automatic execution of the
application testing scenarios as well as advanced reporting
mechanism to allow multiple tests on parallel testing
environments.
MF-Test is a mature technology that is helping various
mainframe customers around the world to test their
mainframe applications in a low risk, low cost environment.
Using MF-Test can reduce the burden out of the testing
phase, so resources can focus on keep developing the
applications.
MF-Test capabilities:
• Multiple isolated test environments – Enable parallel
testing for a larger number of testing scenarios
• Smart and flexible pre/post change comparisons –
Ensuring that the application outcome remains exactly
the same after the application modifications, unless a
change is expected
• Test results collection – All results are collected and
kept in a central location, for comparison and tracking
purposes
• Test auditing, control and security – For management
of larger testing teams, located in different locations
and testing different applications
• Central user interface – Windows based graphical user
interface for tests’ creation, execution and track
• Ease of use and scalability – Using standards
languages for external funcationality additions.
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MPI Tech
Address:
Anchor House, 50 High Street, Bagshot, Surrey GU19
5AW, UK
Phone: 0844 800 9801.
Email: sco@mpitech.com.
Web: www.mpitech.com.
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VSE, z/Linux
Company profile
The MPI Tech Group is a leading provider of document
management and document output solutions that put the
customer in charge for over 30 years. With our software
and hardware solutions we enable customers to create,
print, secure, transform, distribute and archive their
information.
Our services run on multiple operating systems making
it possible for our customers to manage all their paper
and electronic output through a coherent software and
hardware platform.
MPI Tech is a manufacturer and developer of mainframe
data stream conversion software and hardware solutions
with over thirty years of pedigree. MPI Tech’s products
enable a complete end to end solution for mainframe
output offering a myriad of delivery options, in addition to
printing. These include seamless interaction with existing
emailing, faxing, archive, print costs accounting and
secure print solutions, all without any changes to the host
application. MPI Tech’s products can be tailored to suit
your organisations exact requirements delivering a robust,
feature rich and cost effective solution for company wide
output.
For more information on our latest solutions including
MPI Tech’s print transform for z/Linux and integrating
host application printing into an enterprise secure printing
structure please visit contact MPI Tech on 0044 844 800
9803, email sales.uk@mpitech.com, or visit our website
www.mpitech.com.
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NewEra Software Inc
Address:
18625 Sutter Boulevard, Suite 950, Morgan Hill CA 95037,
USA
Phone: +1 408 201 7000 (or 800 421 5035 toll-free in
North America).
Email: info@newera.com.
Web: www.newera.com.
Sales contacts:
EMEA: +353 21 4832131 sales@fitzsoftware.com.
security.
Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, OS/390Pricing
options: One-time charge, monthly/annual license,
processor/capacity-based
Company profile
NewEra Software, Inc. was founded in 1989 with the
specific goal of developing, marketing and supporting
innovative system management software tools and
services. Thanks to the continued support of thousands
of systems professionals worldwide that have come to
depend on NewEra, the company has become an industry
leader and its products the industry standard for repair,
recovery, data erasure, enhanced system configuration
control and integrity of large systems.
The Image Control Environment (ICE) is a collection of
Integrated Applications - Image FOCUS, The Control Editor
and IPLCheck - that are used to validate the ongoing
integrity of the z/OS Image/Sysplex configuration, their
major subsystems and operational components; document
configuration access and changes and/or control/limit
access to MVS and/or UNIX system configuration elements
and provide a global access point from which insight can
be gained into the operational integrity of the Sysplex and
its Images.
Image FOCUS provides inspection and baseline services
to users of z/OS. It performs a “Virtual IPL” of each Image,
validating the IPL Unit Address, LOADPARM, PARMLIB
and PROCLIB, checking members for syntactical
correctness and related datasets for referential integrity,
thereby alerting staff to future IPL failures.
The Control Editor (TCE) compensates for the control
and productivity gap that exists between a site’s External
Security Manager (ESM) and its Change Management
System. TCE/RBAC defines, assigns and enforces roles
by enhancing role based access control already in place
by the ESM. ICE/OPER provides a secondary level of
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Commands, thereby allowing for the establishment of
higher level standards over individual users.
IPLCheck is designed to help users of z/OS to manage and
protect the integrity and security of their operating system
environment and critical business applications. IPLCheck
works under the control of the IBM Health Checker for z/
OS. It performs a detailed inspection of an LPAR’s IPL
status, reporting discovered weaknesses and/or structural
risk in IPL components or pathing to the Health Checker.
OGS Consulting
Address:
Suite 885, 279 Balestier Road, #01-01 Balestier Point,
Singapore 329727
Phone: +65 9626-7045
Email: peter@ogsconsult.com
Web: www.ogsconsult.com
Activity: Systems integrator
capacity-based , workload/usage based, other
Company profile
OGS Consulting Pte Ltd covers Singapore, Malaysia,
Thailand, and China supporting mainframe sites to provide
training, consultancy, and legacy migration services
related to the z/OS, z/VSE and iSeries platforms. OGS
also partners with principals for software distribution of
database, performance, utility tools, network and storage
management.
OGS provides training in the mainframe environment
including z/OS, JCL, VSAM, CICS, DB2, Security Audits
and COBOL. Legacy migrations include migrations
between databases and/or platforms (one of which is the
mainframe). Software tools include DB2 z/OS database
tools for performance, CICS, administration, backup/
recovery, sorting, printing and reporting. Other tools include
storage management, tuning, and productivity add-ons and
competitive replacements.
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Oracle
Address:
500 Oracle Parkway, Redwood Shores, CA, USA
Phone: +1 603-502-7635
Web: http://www.oracle.com
and low-cost computing. Oracle Database RAC supports
the transparent deployment of a single database across a
cluster of servers, providing fault tolerance from hardware
failures or planned outages. RAC provides scalability using
any hardware, regardless if you prefer small systems or
large boxes.
management; programming/testing; web integration and
legacy reengineering tools
Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, OS/390, Linux,
other
Windows, other
Pricing options: Workload/usage based, other
For application relability, scalability and availability, Oracle
offers the Oracle WebLogic Application Grid. Oracle
WebLogic Application Grid works with any application
server – including Oracle WebLogic Server, IBM
WebSphere Application Server, and JBoss Application
Server – or in a pure grid environment without an
application server
Company profile
Oracle has a worldwide team dedicated to modernization
and migration projects – the Platform Migrations Group.
This team is part of Oracle Server Technologies (Oracle
Development) and has over 300 resources worldwide.
These resources are knowledgable in legacy systems
and modernization, Oracle Grid Database, Oracle Fusion
Middleware, Oracle Development tools and Oracle
Modernization Alliance partners’ tools and products. Each
modernization project is assigned an Oracle lead from
the Oracle Modernization Solutions team. The team has
direct linkage into Oracle development, and has close
relationships with Oracle Product Managers.
Oracle’s PTS Modernization Solutions team has been a
key member for hundreds of modernization project over
the past four years. The team has engaged at a number of
levels including: architecture design, modernization tools
selection, modernization assessments, evaluation and
portfolio analysis, project scoping and estimating, proof of
concepts, project advisor, hands on technical enablement,
and trusted technical advisor. The projects have been for
oth Oracle customers, Oracle System Integrator partners,
Oracle Independent Software Vendor partners, and Oracle
modernization partners.
The projects have spanned many industries and utilized
a variety of modernization approaches. The projects have
also encompassed many source technologies from DB2,
IMS, COBOL, RPG, Adabas to PL/I, Sybase, Informix,
Powerbuilder and Assembler.
Oracle has also been involved with 150 customer
mainframe modernization projects where Oracle BEA
Tuxedo is the application serer and transaction processing
platform for legacy COBOL, CICS and JCL/batch systems.
Oracle offers the only open systems active/active grid
database platform. Oracle’s Database Real Application
Clusters (RAC) running on clusters provides Oracle’s
highest level of capability in terms of availability, scalability,
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PDFlib GmbH
Address:
Franziska-Bilek-Weg 9, 80339 Munich, Germany
Phone: +49 89 452 33 84-0
Email: info@pdflib.com
Web: www.pdflib.com
Specialist areas: Security; web integration and legacy
Unix, Linux, Windows, others
Pricing options: One-time charge, processor/capacitybased
Company profile
PDFlib GmbH is completely focused on PDF technology.
Customers worldwide use PDFlib products since 1997. The
company closely follows development and market trends,
such as ISO standards for PDF. PDFlib GmbH products
are distributed in 100 countries all over the world with
major markets in North America, Europe, and Japan.
Customers of PDFlib GmbH are using the software for
automated and high volume generation and processing of
PDF documents in business and prepress workflows or for
online billing systems. The development tools of PDFlib
GmbH are readily available for all common environments
of operating systems and programming languages.
The PDFlib Product Family
PDFlib is the leading developer toolbox for generating and
manipulating files in the Portable Document Format (PDF).
PDFlib’s main targets are dynamic PDF creation on a Web
server or any other server system, and to implement “Save
as PDF” in existing applications. The PDFlib product family
is available in three different flavors: PDFlib, PDFlib+PDI
(PDF Import), and PDFlib Personalization Server (PPS).
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PDFlib+PDI includes all PDFlib functions plus the PDF
Import Library (PDI). With PDI you can open existing PDF
documents and incorporate some pages into the PDFlib
output.
PDFlib Personalization Server (PPS) includes PDFlib+PDI
plus additional functions for variable data processing using
PDFlib blocks.
PDFlib PLOP
PDFlib PLOP (PDF Linearization, Optimization, Protection)
is a versatile tool for linearizing, optimizing, repairing,
analyzing, encrypting and decrypting PDF documents.
PDFlib PLOP DS
PLOP DS (Digital Signature) is based on PDFlib PLOP.
Additionally it offers the ability to apply digital signatures
to PDF documents. It supports the latest trends and
standards in digital signature technology including PDF
2.0 according to the forthcoming standard ISO 32000-2
and PAdES (ETSI TS 102 778), which in turn is based on
CAdES (ETSI TS 101 733).
PDFlib TET
The PDFlib Text and Image Extraction Toolkit (TET) is a
developer product for reliably extracting text, images and
metadata from PDF documents. TET optionally converts
PDF documents to an XML-based format called TETML
which contains text and metadata as well as resource
information.
Pegasystems
Address:
One Rogers Street, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA.
Phone: +1 617-374-9600
Web: www.pega.com.
Sales contacts:
America: +1 617-374-9600.
EMEA: +44 (0) 118 9591150.
AsiaPac: +61 2 9581 7000.
Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, z/Linux.
Pricing options: Monthly/annual license, workload/usage
based, other.
Company profile
Pegasystems is the only BPM company consistently
ranked by analysts as the industry leader for the past five
years, including both Forrester and Gartner.
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Pegasystems is furthermore a recognized leader in CRM
by both Forrester and Gartner.
Pega BPM, Pega CRM, Pega Healthcare Solutions,
Pega Decision Management, Pega Financial Services
Solutions, Pega Life Sciences Solutions, Pega Insurance
Solutions, Pega Energy & Utilities Solutions, Pega
Manufacturing Solutions, Pega Government Solutions,
Pega Communications Solutions.
PerfTechPro
Address:
4071 Heather Court, Northampton, PA 18067, USA.
Phone: +1 855 737 3832
Email: info@PerfTechPro.com
Web: www.PerfTechPro.com.
Sales contacts:
America: info@PerfTechPro.com.
EMEA: info@value-4it.com.
AsiaPac: info@PerfTechPro.com.
Specialist areas: System management.
Pricing options: Monthly/annual license.
Company profile
PerfTechPro is a 21st-century IT Capacity and
Performance Management company offering solutions
designed for busy, cost-conscious IT professionals who
want maximum value and performance.
PerfTechPro was borne out of decades of experience
designing and selling IT capacity management solutions
for organizations of all sizes. Our company was specifically
formed to provide solutions to meet the affordability and
flexibility needs of today’s IT management professionals.
PerfTechPro provides business value by ensuring
enterprise server resources are sized correctly for
maximum performance and cost-savings. We also take
great pride in making sure that we are easy to do business
with, and simplify rather than complicate, our customers’
lives.
PerfTechPro delivers all the insight you need to maximize
the value and performance of your enterprise servers,
and does it for a fraction of the cost of other Capacity and
Performance Management tools.
As a company focused only on IT capacity management
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tools, we can offer personal service and extremely
competitive pricing.
PerfTechPro for z/OS is a software solution to provide
automated data collection, analysis, reporting and
modeling. It is a Capacity Planning and Performance
Measurement tool specifically designed for the cost
conscious and savvy 21st Century data center.
PerfTechPro for z/OS is the next evolution in Mainframe
Capacity Planning tools, having been architected from
ground zero using the latest techniques. PerfTechPro for
z/OS provides sophisticated capacity and performance
management capabilities, affordable by any sized data
center.
PerfTechPro is one of the first capacity management tools
that provide automated collection, analysis and reporting of
the SMF 113 Records produced by the CPU Measurement
Facility of IBM Mainframes.
One of IBM’s most sophisticated advances, the CPU
Measurement Facility can provide detailed information on
how its hardware is interacting with specific workloads.
Capacity management professionals can use this
Information to see how data and instructions are moving
within processor cache and memory areas.
PerfTechPro for z/OS is designed to deliver sophisticated,
affordable, easy-to-use solutions for IT management
professionals looking for fast, insightful help without highcost, complex and time-consuming licensing requirements.
Phoenix Software International
Address:
831 Parkview Drive North, El Segundo, CA 90245, USA.
Phone: +1 310 338 0400
Email: sales@phoenixsoftware.com
Web: www.phoenixsoftware.com
Specialist areas: System management; programming/
testing, other
Company profile
Phoenix Software International, Inc. is a major systems
software development company, providing advanced
software applications to enterprises around the globe. We
offer a wide range of products for the IBM and compatible
mainframe platform, personal computers, and local and
wide area networks.
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Phoenix customers range from small entrepreneurial
companies to major federal and state agencies to Fortune
500 leaders in the automotive, telecommunications, and
insurance industries.
Phoenix has been providing software since 1979.
A privately held corporation not required to provide
shareholders with quarterly profits, it can focus on longrange, customer-oriented projects and goals. Phoenix is
nimble, quickly capitalizing on new hardware and software
technology with product enhancements.
Phoenix does business in all 50 states and around the
world through our network of distributors. Corporate
headquarters are located in the Los Angeles area of
California, with a satellite office in Raleigh, North Carolina.
CONDOR®: A library management and program
development system designed for use in all z/VSE® and z/
OS® environments.
CYGNET®: An integrated, fourth-generation language/
compiler designed for application development.
(E)JES®: A universal JES management interface that lets
authorized users collect, view, and manipulate JES spool
data, parameters, and resources. In addition to the 3270
interface, (E)JES is accessible from a web browser.
FALCON®: An efficient, easy-to-use, on-line data entry
system that is fully-functional in IBM environments.
Falcon64 is a complete Windows version of FALCON.
Key/101®: (formerly Key/Master) A software solution for
integrating data input via mainframe platforms, personal
computers, data capture devices and networks.
NetTester/1®: A z/OS VTAM® utility that measures endto-end response times and line integrity by generating
adjustable levels of network traffic.
PHX-Adders®: Allows you to handle decentralized or
migrated data entry functions. Adders migrates and
expands with your enterprise.
PHX-KeyPlus®: An online data entry system that runs on
IBM mainframe platforms.
PHX-ODE®: An online tool designed for reliable headsdown data entry, data entry application development and
sophisticated system control facilities.
zHISR®: A z/OS application profiler that generates hot spot
analysis reports of customer, vendor or operating system
program execution.
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PIR Group, Inc
Address:
345 North Canal, Ste C202, Chicago, IL 60606, USA.
Phone: +1 312 756 1000
Email: info@pirgroupinc.com
Web: www.pirgroupinc.com
Activity: Software
and legacy reengineering tools; other
Non-mainframe platforms supported: IBM i
Pricing options: One-time charge, processor/capacitybased, other
Company profile
PIR Group provides migration tools for legacy COBOL
and RPG applications. We move legacy custom systems
that reside on the IBM mainframe and zOS systems to the
more cost effective and Power i. The average migration
project takes less than six months and the customer first
year ROI is often in the millions of dollars. PIR Group has
been and IBM business partner migrating IBM mainframe
customers since 1998.
COBOL KeePIR for the AS/400 automates the conversion
of legacy applications. Mainframe CICS online / batch
programs are converted into native ILE COBOL, DDS and
CLP. MVS/VSE JCL is converted into CL. The mainframe
database is duplicated under DB2/400.
COBOL KeePIR guarantees identical functioning of the
interactive screen and online processes. Automated
conversion options can enhance the look of screens.
Batch program processing time is reduced. The batch
programs/reports function and look the same.
The JCL is converted one for one into CL.
COBOL KeePIR is designed to comment out the
mainframe source replacing with the appropriate ILE
COBOL code and subroutines. The resulting documented
source code changes assist the supporting resources in
maintaining the converted application.
COBOL KeePIR duplicates the databases under DB2/400.
Email: sales@pks.de
Web: www.pks.com
reengineering tools
Non-mainframe platforms supported: System i
Company profile
We are passionately committed to the maintenance and
improvement of valuable legacy applications. We preserve
investments in applications and staff. In doing so, we make
an important contribution to the corporate success and
continuity of our customers.PKS stands for:
• Intelligent Tools “Made in Germany”: We achieve a
high degree of automation with custom-tailored tools
of the highest quality. This guarantees optimal costeffectiveness at minimal risk for customers around the
world.
• Implementation Expertise: We have a high degree of
specialized knowledge, traction, and are true gogetters. We not only look for solutions, but we also
implement them.
• Mutual collaboration: From our experience, we know
that 1 + 1 = 3: The combination of application and
technological know-how is what makes our projects so
successful.
• Accountability: Our customers trust us when it comes to
the future of their most important applications. Both the
owners and staff of PKS are aware of this responsibility
and are personally dedicated to the success of
projects.
Optimizing Application Development
Eclipse based IDEs (RDz); application understanding;
improving code quality
Adabas / Natural migration
Adabas to RDBMS migration; Natural and Java
coexistence; Web 2.0 for Natural MAPs
Application transformation
consolidation from 4GL to Cobol; zIIP Enablement - Cobol
to Java; custom-made transformation solution.
PKS Software
Address:
Georgstraße 15, 88214 Ravensburg, Germany.
Phone: 0049 751/56140 229
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PKWARE
Progress | DataDirect
Address:
201 E. Pittsburgh Ave, Suite 400, Milwaukee, WI 53204,
USA.
Phone: +1 414 289 9788
E-mail: sales@pkware.com
Web: http://www.pkware.com
Address:
3005 Carrington Mill Boulevard, Suite 400, Morrisville, NC
27560, USA
Phone: +1 800 876 3101
E-mail: insidesales@datadirect.com
Web: www.datadirect.com
Sales contacts:
America: +1 414 289 9788
EMEA: +44 (0) 208 899 6060
AsiaPac: +81 3 5456 5599
Sales contacts:
America: 800 876 3101
EMEA: 0800 169 1907
AsiaPac: 0120 209 613
reengineering tools
other Unix, Linux, Windows, others
Pricing options: Processor/capacity-based, other
Company profile
The PKWARE Solution is the only complete solution for
reducing, securing, moving and storing data across the
extended enterprise, both internally and externally, from
mainframes to servers to desktops and into the cloud.
PKWARE offers software solutions to critical IT problems,
namely the explosive growth of data, the need to secure
data, and the emergence of data in the cloud. PKWARE
offers the only total solution for reducing and securing data
in motion or at rest, so data can be securely moved or
stored anywhere. The PKWARE Solution is used billions
of times each day to manage risks associated with data
security breaches while avoiding increased storage costs
with data reduction of up to 95% and improving service
delivery. PKWARE is a privately-held company based in
Milwaukee, WI with additional offices in New York, Ohio
and the United Kingdom.
Files that contain sensitive data, whether stored or
being transmitted, need to be protected. SecureZIP®
makes securing these files an effortless task. SecureZIP
is the industry leading security and compression utility
that greatly reduces transmission times and required
storage space while securely protecting data, in transit
and at rest. The combination of application, system,
and ICSF integration make SecureZIP® for z/OS®
an optimal solution for reducing processing times,
increasing operational efficiencies, and leveraging existing
investments within the mainframe environment. SecureZIP
for z/OS includes OpenPGP support enabling enterprises
to encrypt and decrypt using OpenPGP keys in both ZIP
and OpenPGP formats.
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Progress DataDirect is a leader in data connectivity and
mainframe integration software for corporate enterprises
and independent software vendors, including IBM.
Progress DataDirect Shadow is the industry’s only unified
integration platform for mainframe data access and SOA
enablement. Shadow delivers secure, high performance
and scalable access to a broad range of mainframe data
and application environments – with unique capabilities to
extend System z specialty engine exploitation beyond DB2
for dramatically lower mainframe TCO.
Progress Software Corporation (Nasdaq: PRGS) is a
global software company that enables enterprises to
be operationally responsive to changing conditions and
customer interactions as they occur – to capitalize on new
opportunities, drive greater efficiencies and reduce risk.
The company offers a comprehensive portfolio of bestin-class infrastructure software spanning event-driven
visibility and real-time response, open integration, data
access and integration, and application development and
deployment – all supporting on-premises and SaaS/Cloud
deployments.
Shadow is the industry’s only single, unified platform for
mainframe SOA enablement and data connectivity. From
this single integration architecture, Shadow supports a full
range of standards-based mainframe integration products:
• Shadow z/Services comprehensive, bi-directional
mainframe Web services to support SOA and
Orchestration, including transformation ofbusiness
logic and/or 3270 screens into reusable Web services,
or data via SOAP interface, as well as support for
mainframe consumption of external, distributed Web
services.
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• Shadow z/Events - a comprehensive facility for realtime mainframe data change capture, transformation,
and publishing in support of event driven integration,
BI and data warehousing.
• Shadow z/Direct - high performance data connectivity
APIs (ODBC, JDBC, ADO.NET) to enable direct, SQL
access and transactional support to a broad range of
mainframe datasources.
• Shadow z/Presentation - supports automatic
presentation layer generation for extending screenbased applications to the Web.
Shadow’s unique exploitation of IBM’s new mainframe
specialty engines allows customers who have purchased
the System z Integration Information Processor (zIIP)
and System z Application Assist Processor (zAAP), the
added benefit of diverting workloads to these unmeasured
environments, which has the proven ability to dramatically
lower Total Cost of Ownership by up to 99% and improve
performance.
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ProTech Professional Technical Services
Address:
355 Fifth Avenue, Suite 300 Pittsburgh, PA 15222, USA.
Phone: 800-373-9188 (international +1 412 810 8855).
Email: info@protechpts.com
Web: www.protechpts.com
Activity: Education, consulting, and software
VSE, Linux, other
Pricing options: one-time charge
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Company profile
ProTech is an expert professional services firm specializing
in Enterprise Systems Management, IT Service
Management (ITSM/ITIL), and Data Center Automation.
Utilizing both Direct-to-Client and partnered with firms such
as IBM, CA & BMC, our company specializes in providing
consulting, training and software products for IBM
Mainframe and Enterprise UNIX/Linux systems.
Our training division, ProTechTraining.com trains over
10,000 IT professionals each year from a curriculum of
over 500 instructor-led courses in traditional and virtual
classroom, as well as a library of self-paced elearning
offerings. ProTech provides open-enrollment and onsite
training courses worldwide.
that goal with every customer. QMSI’s principals,
developers - and customers - are accessible to anyone
who sees the value in - and wants to learn about - lowering
CPU overhead, I/O resource utilization and overall
processing time ... with the guarantee of saving money!
With a combined experience level of more than 80 years
in systems architecture design, and over 50 years in the
mailing industry, QMSI brings a very unique perspective to
new product development.
“Customers want to run more work - concurrently - allowing
production to be completed on time or early!” That’s our
major design criteria! We also want installing and using
QMSI products to be quick, easy - and intuitive.
RMF Redux - Analyzes WLM data for better policy
management implementation by creating real-time reports
of actual SMF 70/72 records of system behavior.
As a result, converting to QMSI software has been easy
- and our customers have, in return, provided insightful
suggestions to make great products even better and time
for those who change.
EZChange for OPS/MVS - aids in change control for OPS/
MVS data center rules and REXX applications.
Product information
QCODE, our premier USPS CASS-Certified product, is
the only modern postal software that takes full advantage
of IBM’s System z hardware and software architecture.
QCODE can run on a zIIP (IBM’s Integrated Information
Processor) and QCODE’s unique DataSpaceDataBase
(DSDB) is a significant reason for QCODE’s amazing
performance, yet by placing your page datasets on SSD
(Solid State DASD) devices, QCODE’s performance is
even better! All while utilizing less CPU and I/O resources,
and running faster than other CASS products.
REXXexpress - a set of productivity tools and functions
developed by literally thousands of hours working in the
ESM & DCA field. Let our experience help you!
EZReport for OPS/MVS - Creates detailed management
reports for better analysis and “big picture” oversight of
customer’s data center automation efforts.
Please call for more information or product sheets on any
of these software solutions.
QMSI-Quintessential Mailing Software
Incorporated
Address:
5800 Ager Beswick Road
Montague, CA 96064-9423, USA
Phone: +1.866.284.1001
Email: info@quintmail.com
Web: www.quintmail.com.
Specialist areas: Other.
Pricing options: Workload/usage based
Company profile
QMSI’s charter is to significantly reduce the cost of postal
processing for mainframe mailers. We have accomplished
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Our customers welcome inquiries to dispel any disbelief!
QSORT is the only single-purpose presort for First Class
Mail (cards, letters and flats) that does not contain all the
extra code and overhead found in other multi-purpose
products. It’s the perfect complement to QCODE and
ready for the USPS Full Service requirements beginning in
January 2014.
QVIEW is a sub-second response time, online query
tool for look-ups in the USPS Zip4 database. It is a
complementary component of QCODE, and runs under
CICS, IMS or CA’s IDMS.
Together, these products provide the most cost-effective,
resource-efficient Postal Processing software available.
How is this possible? Because this entire software
application suite was designed by system-level software
architects.
QCHANGE, an NCOA product, is next!
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Relational Architects International
Address:
33 Newark St, Hoboken, NJ 07030 , USA
Phone: +1 201 420-0400
Email : sales@relarc.com
Web: www.relarc.com
Company profile
Relational Architects provides best-of-breed point products
for z/OS and DB2 for z/OS.
An Advanced IBM Business Partner, founded in 1987 and
runs its own zBC12. Relational Architects develops z/OS
system software ‘extensions’ for our enterprise customers.
Smart/RESTART enables z/OS batch applications to run
restartably - often without changes to source code. Smart/
RESTART is a robust, reliable, and proven solution that
Global 2000 organizations worldwide use to run their
mission-critical z/OS batch applications.
RLX designates a family of REXX Language Xtensions
that endow REXX with additional capabilities for DB2/z,
VSAM, and z/OS .
Launch Express provides a complete solution and
methodology for Dynamic ISPF.
Rocket Software
Address:
77 Fourth Avenue, Waltham, MA 02451, USA
Phone: +1 781 577 4321
Web: www.rocketsoftware.com
reengineering tools; network performance/management;
other
VSE, z/Linux
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Company profile
Rocket Software is a leading global developer of software
products that help corporations, government agencies and
other organizations reach their technology and business
goals. 1,100 Rocketeers on five continents are focused
on building and delivering solutions for more than 10,000
customers and partners – and five million end users – in
five key areas. These solutions are focused on Intelligent
Infrastructure, Mobile, Cloud, and Big Data. Rocket is
engaged in business and technology partnerships with
IBM, EMC, Fujitsu, HP Enterprise Services, Hitachi Data
Systems, Avaya, Motorola, Epicor, and many others. Visit
us at www.rocketsoftware.com.
Rocket Mainframe Solutions provide software and
professional service solutions that ensure effective
utilization of System z environments. Our mainframe
solutions:
• Provide swift ROI - lower “per computing unit” cost than
x86 servers and reduce management overhead
• Optimize transaction processing, delivering millions of
reliable, secure transactions per day
• Meet demanding SLAs for performance/response
times, uptime/availability and back-up/disaster recovery
We help you maximize the value of your existing
mainframe investments through our ongoing technology
evolution and expertise. You can count on Rocket
Mainframe Solutions to enable you to:
• Achieve high availability and data protection from
storage-aware data management
• Access and modernize System z applications
• Make your private cloud work for you
And we can help you get even more out of your mainframe
with newer technologies like zBX, IDAA, and zIIP. A full
listing of all of our products that can help make the most of
your mainframe investment can be found here: http://bit.
ly/16jvoO4.
RSM Partners
Address:
The Courtyard, Buntsford Drive,Stoke Pound, Bromsgrove,
Worcs B60 3DJ, UK
Phone: +44 (0)0870 050 1004
Email : info@rsmpartners.com
Web: www.rsmpartners.com
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VSE, z/Linux
Pricing options: Time and Materials or Fixed Price
Company profile
With a sole focus on mainframe systems infrastructure,
RSM Partners are widely acknowledged as the leading
independent specialists in this area.
A 40 strong team, the most junior having 22 years
experience, indicates the unrivalled wealth of expertise and
knowledge that RSM Partners brings to any client issue.
Operating their own mainframes, from high tech offices
in Birmingham, RSM is a trusted ally to many in the
mainframe industry.
RSM Partners offers a range of services under 3 key
pillars: Skills; Services; and Support.
Skills: offers reliable, skilled resources and consultancy –
either individually, or as a team – assisting; backfilling; or
taking full responsibility for project delivery.
Services spans 3 main areas: Security; Migrations; &
Cost Reduction. Security includes Audit preparation,
Remediation, Risk & Compliance. Migrations covers
software, storage & hardware migrations. Cost Reduction
delivers best-in-class optimisation, license cost reduction &
workload consolidation.
Support provides 24/7 support & managed services, to
match customer requirements.
RSM Technology
Address:
Dralda House, 24-28 Crendon Street, High Wycombe,
Bucks HP13 6LS, UK
Phone: +44 (0)1494 45 13 13
Email : courses@rsm.co.uk
Web: http://www.rsm.co.uk
Activity: Training
Company profile
Founded in 1980, RSM is the UK’s leading independent
provider of technical education & training for users of IBM
mainframe systems. Working in partnership with the British
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in developing and launching the Mainframe Technology
Professional series of examinations and qualifications.
Publicly presented and customised, one-company training
and education courses covering such areas as: z/OS,
CICS Transaction Server, DB2 for z/OS, WebSphere MQ,
IMS TM & DB, WebSphere Application Server, TCP/IP for
z/OS.
SAS Institute
Address:
SAS Institute Inc, 100 SAS Campus Drive, Cary, NC
27513-2414, USA
Phone: +1 919 677 8000
International Headquarters:
SAS Institute GmbH, PO.Box 105340, Neuenheimer
Landstr. 28-30, 69043 Heidelberg, GERMANY
Phone : +49 6221 4160
Web: www.sas.com
Company profile
• Business intelligence. With SAS business intelligence,
you can integrate data from across your enterprise,
and deliver fast access to self-service reporting and
analysis to all levels of user. Easy-to-use interfaces
make it simple for decision makers to get the answers
they need – saving you time while driving better
decisions.
• Analytics. With SAS, you can deliver analytic results
to all users to share insights and drive fact-based
decisions.
• Data integration & ETL. With SAS, you gain an
integrated approach for managing your increasing
volumes of enterprise data. You can simplify the
process of data extraction, transformation and loading
while improving data quality and achieving true data
integration.
Serena Software Inc
Address:
1850 Gateway Road, 4th Floor, San Mateo, CA 94404,
USA
Phone: +1-800-457-3736
Email: info@serena.com.
Web: www.serena.com.
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Sales contacts:
America: +1-800-457-3736.
EMEA: +44 (0) 1727 812812.
AsiaPac: +65 6834 9931.
Specialist areas: Asset and change management; other.
VSE, z/Linux
licence, processor/capacity-based, workload/usage based,
other.
Company profile
Providing Software Change and Release Management
in the most technically challenging and dynamic
environments in the world has been Serena’s core
business for more than 35 years. With more than 2,500
enterprise customers Serena is the largest independent
ALM vendor and the only one focused on the processes
that bring together application development and
operations.
From mainframe to mobile Serena delivers solutions that
support your application processes. In the words of Doug
Troxel, our Founder and CTO, “We created ChangeMan
ZMF so that Dev and Ops could work better together and
improve the throughput of quality code from development
to test to production.”
As you face mounting complexity, condensed timeframes,
burdensome compliance, technological diversity, you need
the support of the one partner who leads the industry. You
need the only vendor who has the experience and who still
invests in solving this problem. You need Serena.
ChangeMan® ZMF is the industry’s leading mainframe
software change, configuration and release management
solution. Whether you’re developing in Eclipse or in ISPF
we support your development process, methodology
and platform. With full end-to-end support we make
development to deployment safe, repeatable and
predictable.
Serena® Release Control controls and coordinates your
release processes across distributed, cloud, mobile and
mainframe applications. It’s unique capabilities provide
the only integrated, cross-platform solution for enterprise
release management.
will detect, alert, track and record changes to system and
application data. On command SSM can restore files to
their original state or propagate changes across multiple
instances.
COMPAREX® compares all forms of data (encrypted or
unencrypted), flat-file, database, text, XML and directories
all in a single product. Available on z/OS, z/VM, and z/VSE
platforms, Comparex’s unique capabilities are accessible
via both ISPF and batch interfaces.
StarTool® is a suite of productivity products designed
for application developers, systems programmers and
performance tuners. From automated dump analysis to I/O
optimization to powerful text search and file manipulation
StarTool is a trove of powerful tools you’ll use every day.
SMT Data
Address:
Kongevejen 400B, 2840 Holte, Denmark
Phone: +45 3962 8887.
Email: sales@smtdata.com.
Web: www.smtdata.com.
VSE, z/Linux
licence, workload/usage based.
Company profile
SMT Data’s IT Business Intelligence (ITBI™) solution
delivers transparency into the relationship between IT
and business. This transparency allows the customers
to optimize their IT infrastructure, operations, finances,
and application development, resulting in significant cost
savings and better alignment with business needs.
ITBI Products: Software solutions that create complete
transparency of the interaction between IT and business
operations. The SMT Data ITBI™ and TRANSPARNCY
software and services can be applied for the common
platforms both on mainframe and open systems, eg
z/OS, Windows and Solaris. The solution provides you
with standard, dynamic report presented in a portal with
vizualization for either PC, tablet, or smart phone.
ChangeMan® SSM tracks changes to critical datasets.
Using a unique, patented, fingerprinting technology, SSM
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SoftBase
Address:
20 Fall Pippin Ln Ste 202, Asheville, NC 28803, USA
Phone: (800) 669-7076.
Email: sales@softbase.com.
Web: www.softbase.com.
Specialist areas: Data management; programming/testing
Pricing options: Processor/capacity-based, workload/
usage
Company profile
SoftBase is a leading provider of application testing
and tuning solutions for IBM’s DB2® database utilizing
the OS/390® and z/OS® operating systems. SoftBase
solutions enable our customers to build and maintain
high-quality DB2 applications that run as reliably and
cost-effectively as possible. SoftBase was founded in 1987
and is recognized globally for our long term service and
commitment to our DB2 mainframe customers.
TestBase™
TestBase™, our test data management solution, allows
you to quickly retrieve manageable subsets of referentially
intact data from DB2® databases around the enterprise,
thoroughly test and validate proper functioning of all DB2
application enhancements, and ensure that all sensitive
production data remains completely private during testing.
Using TestBase Slice™, Application Developers can now
manage their own test data and run unlimited tests to
properly verify that ALL application SQL code and changes
are working properly. As a result, DBAs no longer need to
maintain a multitude of test beds.
Batch Healthcare - Attach Facility
Attach Facility™ reduces CPU costs by using patentpending technology to allow older applications to utilize
multi-row FETCH, without code changes. Attach Facility
also enhances the batch DB2 environment by eliminating
the use of TSO and allows the proper handling of step
abends and return codes.
Batch Healthcare - Checkpoint Facility
In the event that critical DB2 batch jobs do fail due to
unforeseen health problems, the Checkpoint Facility™
allows you to safely restart and complete these jobs
as quickly as possible to ensure that all critical online
applications are available when needed.
messages in the joblog of both jobs involved in the
deadlock, timeout or resource unavailable condition. In this
way, application developers can troubleshoot their jobs
without the assistance of a DBA.
Softlib Software
Address:
65th Yigal Alon St. Tel Aviv, Israel
Phone: +972 3 5615190.
Email: info@softlibsw.com.
Web: www.softlibsw.com.
Sales contacts:
America: +1 551 226 6069 .
EMEA: +32 477 202 911 .
VSE, z/Linux, other
Other Unix, Linux, Windows, other
licence, other
Company profile
Softlib is a pioneer and leading provider of Knowledge
Delivery and Management software, helping our customers
accelerate time to resolution in their IT, support and
helpdesk organizations. Our customers include financial
organizations, insurance companies, government
agencies, manufacturing companies, High Tech, Medical
equipment, Telecom etc. Our intelligent software products
help mainframe experts get to the right knowledge quickly
and easily, thus improving productivity.
iSolve is the only technical reference covering all possible
information sources - vendor technical information, Web
news groups, Web forums and internal/corporate sources.
iSolve for Mainframe covers abend codes, commands
and all other essential information Mainframe experts
need to get their job done. Built for system and application
programmers, iSolve is delivered as a Cloud or Onpremise software. For more information see http://www.
softlibsw.com/mvs.aspxt.
Batch Healthcare - DeadLock Advisor
DeadLock Advisor™ makes the job of pinpointing these
issues and which job caused them effortless by placing
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Software AG
Address:
Uhlandstrasse 12, 64297 Darmstadt, Germany
Phone: +49 6151 92 0 (Germany)
Email: webinfo@softwareag.com
Web: www.softwareag.com
Sales contacts:
America: 1 703-860-5050 (USA) or www.softwareag.com/
Corporate/contact_us.
EMEA: www.softwareag.com/Corporate/contact_us
AsiaPac: www.softwareag.com/Corporate/contact_us.
integration and legacy reengineering tools; other.
Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, VM/VSE, z/Linux
Company profile
The Software AG Group consists of four business
divisions: Business Processes, Integration, Big Data and
Adabas-Natural. Software AG’s Adabas-Natural business
division provides software solutions for mainframes and
modernizes mainframe-based IT systems. In this way, we
ensure the long-term protection of customers’ investments.
Adabas offers our customers an enterprise class database
that is known for its ultra-high performance, scalability and
iron-clad reliability. For decades, the Natural development
environment has been the foundation of hundreds of
thousands of software applications that make up the
technical backbone of core processes at large companies
and government agencies. Today, customers modernize
their application infrastructures with Software AG’s help
by optimizing their performance and opening up their
business-critical systems to new environments such as the
Internet and digital business. The Adabas-Natural business
line includes technologies such as database management,
application development, and application modernization.
Adabas and Natural
Software AG is a member of zSeries® Partner in
Development and actively adopts IBM® mainframe
hardware and software innovations. In November 2012,
Software AG tested the latest version of Adabas, v8.2.5,
and its add-on products on new IBM mainframe hardware
and operating system software at the IBM System z®
Benchmark Center in Poughkeepsie, NY. Adabas attained
incredible transaction speeds of more than 1 Million
commands per second – a record speed on a commercial
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mainframe system. This new performance benchmark
is more than triple the speed of a previously recorded
benchmark from 2006. Software AG achieved unmatched
performance for OLTP environments, benefiting customers
with large mission critical applications that access huge
Adabas databases. Software AG and IBM’s joint customers
with ultra high-end performance requirements, processing
ever increasing volumes of data, now have no limits on the
growth of their business and virtually unlimited throughput
and scalability. During the testing, Adabas 8.2.5 also
took advantage of new IBM z/OS functionality, such as
new support for zHPF I/O. zHPF facilitates support for
IBM z/OS users, providing performance improvements in
I/O activity. To dive into the detailed test results, please
read the Adabas Performance Test white paper at www.
softwareag.com/adabasperformance. Software Diversified Services (SDS)
Address:
1322 - 81st Ave NE, Spring Lake Park, MN 55432-2116,
USA
Phone: 763 571 9000
Email: info@sdsusa.com
Web: www.sdsusa.com
Specialist areas: System management; security; network
VSE, z/Linux
Windows
Company profile
Hundreds of the world’s largest enterprises and
government organizations rely on SDS, a leading provider
of enterprise infrastructure software for multiple platforms,
with a 30-year history of delivering award-winning support
and customer-centric IT infrastructure solutions.
SDS installed in your enterprise enables you to manage
and protect your data and your brand, and drive more
value from your IT investment.
Our VitalSigns family of NETWORK products for z/OS is
built from the ground up as low-overhead, easy-to-use
suite that employs web browsers to provide a modern
graphic interface to z/OS.
The VitalSigns suite provides a complete solution
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to address the challenges of your z/OS NETWORK
management. It easily pinpoints the source of network
delays, and monitors the performance and availability of
your z/OS network in real-time.
SDS E-Business Server is a comprehensive product that
uses industry-standard PGP encryption to automatically
protect corporate data within applications, email, file
transfers, and transaction processing.
The SDS E-Business Server enables you to securely and
cost-effectively exchange confidential information internally,
and with partners and remote offices via the Internet.
Enabling compliance with key regulations, and backed
by the award-winning SDS support team, E-Business
Server features the industry’s most advanced algorithms
and key management to encrypt and decrypt data. SDS
E-Business Server software is easy to install and use, with
straightforward APIs to integrate security with applications
and processes. It is available on multiple platforms
including z/OS, Linux, Windows, HP-UX, and Solaris.
VitalSigns for FTP (VFTP) secures, monitors, automates,
and audits FTP traffic through z/OS servers and clients.
VitalSigns for Network Automation and Control (VNAC) is
an ideal, and lower-cost, replacement for NetView(TM) or
NetMaster(TM).
VNAC provides network and system automation, and
immediate, customizable response to performance alerts
and system messages. VNAC makes it easy to issue
console commands to any system in a sysplex.
VitalSigns for IP (VIP) provides real-time, browser-based
management of TCP/IP networks. VIP is noted for breadth
of monitoring scope, for ease of use, and for minimal
demands on CPU resources.
VIP fully monitors IPv6, OSAs, DVIPAs, and data link
control. It fully monitors z/OS HPR connections..
Software Engineering GmbH
Address:
Robert-Stolz-Strasse 5, 40470 Dusseldorf, Germany.
Phone: +49 (0)211 96149 0
Fax: +49 (0)211 96149-32
Email: se.info@seg.de
Web: http://www.seg.de
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Sales contacts:
America: SEGUS Inc
14151 Park Meadow Drive, Chantilly, VA 20151
Email: info@segus.com
Phone: +1-800-327-9650
Web: www.segus.com
EMEA: se.info@seg.de
AsiaPac: se.info@seg.de
Activity: Software vendor and consulting
Specialist areas: Database performance, maintenance,
recovery
Pricing options: Processor/capacity based, other
Company profile
Software Engineering GMBH has been developing
standardized DB2 software and providing DB2 consulting
services for more than 25 years. By combining intensive
research with target-oriented development of new DB2
software products, we have established powerful skills
in DB2 solutions. Driven by customers, consultants, and
other highly skilled DB2 users at our Design Councils,
we develop practical innovations to keep DB2 in the best
shape.
RealTime DBAExpert insures high data availability, as
well as fast and secure recoverability, 24x7. RealTime
DBAExpert automates the management of DB2 for z/OS
databases. Using real-time statistics and user-defined
thresholds, combined with continuous monitoring of DB2
objects, RealTime DBAExpert detects and responds to
database problems immediately. Seamless integration
with all job schedulers and existing IT procedures
secures existing investments and the exploitation of latest
technologies saves valuable resources.
Bind ImpactExpert completely automates the evaluation
of access paths for static and dynamic SQL. Integration
into all existing rebind and bind procedures automatically
determines the rebinds and binds necessary to insure
consistent or improved performing access paths, as well as
to avoid those that are unnecessary. Used as a migration
aid, Bind ImpactExpert predicts the access paths that
will result under a new DB2 version and categorizes the
changes into version-specific results.
SQL PerformanceExpert for DB2 z/OS insures well-tuned
SQL statements, which translates to efficient CPU usage,
improved reponse time, reduced I/O activity and reduced
resource locking. SQL PerformanceExpert automates the
analysis of SQL performance (both static and dynamic)
and identifies tuning changes that improve application
performance, pinpointing problem areas and saving time
and money associated with inefficient applications. It also
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automates package management and catalog change
management, as well as the optimization of performance
indexes.
PiT Recovery for DB2 z/OS automates, controls, and
speeds up all the necessary actions needed for a point
in time (PIT) recovery of ERP and CRM systems like
Peoplesoft, SAP, and Siebel. Pit Recovery not only
generates, executes, and controls the necessary jobs,
it even weighs different scenarios like using DB2 image
copies, flashcopies, or even the new DB2 V8 RESTORE
SYSTEM feature. Additionally, it provides all the required
information necessary to forecast how long a specific
outage will last.
Recovery HealthCheck for DB2 z/OS verifies all Recovery/
Restart relevant prerequisites of a production database.
It also provides recovery time objectives for each object,
pinpointing the period of time that is required for a
recovery. Recovery HealthCheck for DB2 z/OS makes the
prerequisites for a critical recovery scenario transparent
and enables proactive adjustments and optimization before
an outage occurs.
Software (Europe) Ltd
Address:
Nibley House, Low Moor Road, Doddington Road, Lincoln,
Lincolnshire LN6 3JY, UK
Phone: +44 (0)1522 881300
Email: marketing-info@software-europe.co.uk
Web: www.software-europe.co.uk
management; security, programming/testing, web
Linux
license, processor/capacity-based, other.
Company profile
Software Europe was formed in April 1989 to market and
support mainframe systems software. We have exclusive
contracts to distribute supplier products in the UK and
Eire and market a variety of business solutions developed
at our Lincoln Office. Our client list includes many of the
best-known UK blue-chip and FTSE 100 companies. We
provide frequent training courses and run product user
groups and regular seminars for all clients, ensuring an
unrivalled service 24/7.
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Products marketed and supported by Software Europe
include:
• Consul zSecure Suite: consists of modular components
that enable customers to easily administer their
mainframe, monitor for threats, audit usage and
configuration, and enforce policy compliance.
• ETF/A: a set of very powerful utilities to assist ACF2
security administrators.
• Catalog Information Manager (CIM): covers all aspects
of catalog management from maintenance and backup
to diagnosis and complete recovery.
• Cross Sysplex Manager: synchronous and remote data
access.
• RMF Magic: zSeries disk subsystem analysis &
reporting, consolidates information from all hosts
• SmartProduction: reduces the CPU resources required
to run your batch workload, by identifying all your
product inefficiencies.
• Smart TS XL: an intuitive browser-based search engine
for the mainframe/mini environment.
• E-SRF: a comprehensive security reporting facility
designed specifically for information security and audit
professionals.
• Capacity Magic: calculate the effective storage capacity
of your current and future disk subsystems through an
easy-to-use graphical dialog.
• Batch Magic: a powerful application for tape and batch
window tuning and capacity planning.
• Disk Magic: provides users with a thorough
understanding of current disk subsystem performance
and enables them to make better purchase and
configuration decisions.
Software on Z
Address:
15714 SE 25th Street, Bellevue, WA 98008-5410, USA
Phone: +1-425-351-2316.
Email: Brian.Hoare@softwareonz.com.
Web: www.softwareonz.com
management; network performance/management
Company profile
SoftwareOnZ specializes in optimizing your usage of
System z. Our software solutions will help your reduce
the amount of time, effort, and human error involved in
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implementing and maintaining a cost-effective mainframe
computing environment. Whether you are a DBA, a
capacity manager, a systems programmer, an application
developer, or a development manager, SoftwareOnZ has
a solution for improving your workload and reducing your
computing costs.
Our solutions can help you to reduce the cost of mainframe
computing while more effectively managing vWLC,
improving the administration and performance of your DB2
databases and applications, enhancing the visibility of
the impact of application and system changes, as well as
improving your overall system operations.
At SoftwareOnZ we really do offer a better way on z.
SoftwareOnZ offers mainframe software solutions for
capacity planning and management, change management
and compliance, DB2 administration, and systems and
application management.
For capacity management, SoftwareOnZ offers
AutoSoftCapping (ASC). This solution maximizes
software cost efficiencies for IBM zSeries platforms. ASC
automatically adjusts defined capacity by LPAR based
upon you actual workload, while maintaining a consistent
overall defined capacity for your CPC. In this way, ASC can
reduce the monthly software bill for customers using vWLC
pricing.
For DB2 environment, SoftwareOnZ offers solutions for
improving performance by automating access path control
(zAPX), more effectively managing storage (zSPM),
automating DB2 utilities (DB-Genie), and improving
application development (RDBA).
Managing change is a constant battle, even more so in
this day and age of regulatory compliance. SoftwareOnZ
offers solutions for tracking and managing the changes you
make to your system software (SYSchange) and to your
applications (Ripple-Trac).
SoftwareOnZ also offers solutions for improving mainframe
systems and applications management. RealTime Defrag
provides automated storage defragmentation, enabling
you to continuously and reliably recover disk space while
your systems remain operational. Additional solutions offer
automated ISPF screen painting capabilities (PADEST)
and mainframe sort automation (Express Sortware).
Solimar Systems
Address:
1515 Second Avenue, San Diego, CA 92101, USA
Phone: +1 619 849 2800.
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Email: sales@solimarsystems.com.
Web: www.solimarsystems.com
VSE, Linux, Other
Non-mainframe platforms supported: Windows, i5, AIX,
other Unix, Linux
Pricing options: One-time charge, Monthly/annual license
Company profile
Founded in 1991, Solimar Systems Inc is a leading
developer of enterprise output management solutions
for digital document creation, production and distribution
environments. Installed in thousands of sites around the
world, including nearly 40% of the Fortune 100, Solimar
solutions satisfy a wide range of customer requirements by
combining integrated connectivity, data stream transforms,
print optimization, document re-engineering/repurposing
and sophisticated print queue management with secure
web-based document presentation, distribution and
tracking.
Experts in legacy and modern data streams, Solimar
solutions provide essential infrastructure to organizations
in a variety of industries including insurance, financial
services, banking, pharmaceuticals, telecommunications,
healthcare, government, education, retail, manufacturing,
utilities, distribution and print service bureaux.
Products include:
• Solimar Print/Director Enterprise – Client/server
based enterprise output management solution that
provides multi-level security, remote administrator and
operator access, email alerts, powerful job routing/
tracking capabilities, and industry leading data stream
transforms.
• iCONVERT – Stand-alone powerful transform engine
for AFP environments that automatically routes
mainframe and AS/400 print reports directly to
networked desktop and production PostScript printers,
viewing stations and archive systems. Files are parsed
and renamed with job events module.
• SOLscript – PostScript preamble that emulates
and optimizes Xerox VIPP software by generating
DSC compliant PostScript, extending the reach of
VIPP applications to virtually all types and brands of
workgroup and production printers, as well as ERM/
COLD and archive systems.
• SOLsearcher – Highly scalable and secure electronic
document delivery and web presentation solution
that enables organizations to effectively index, store,
search and retrieve large collections of transactional
and/or scannned documents. Ideal for B2B and B2C
environments.
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Sosa Cousins
Address:
USA
Phone: +1 770-671-9392.
Email: support@sosacousins.com
Web: www.sosacousins.com
Specialist areas: Data management; asset and change
management; programming/testing;
VSE, Linux
Non-mainframe platforms supported: Other Unix, Linux
Company profile
Sosa-Cousins, Inc is a hand- on InformationTechnology
consulting firm with over 35 years of global experience
in consulting and systems development for the financial,
insurance, and travel industry. Our belief is that by
using teamwork we can achieve the best load control
management system tailored to your application.
Expertise lies in:
zTPF and TPF 4.1 systems
Implementation and Solution Services
Communications
Project and Product Management
Applications
Development tools
Databases.
Sosa-Cousins, Inc has developed the first commercially
available TPF Load Control Management (LCM) System,
automating the management of promotion and staging
processes for all programs deployed onto any test and
production host environments.
Development lifecycle management for testing and
acceptance.
Single button application builds.
Automatic and coordinated deployment to mixed platforms
Audit trail compliance
Auditing facilities track source version.
Automatic on-line fallback notification
Flexible deployment dates
Concurrent Development support
Leverages extensive metadata to ensure quality
Sosa-Cousins is proud of its ability to create realistic
project implementations that will minimize the change
management process. Project plans are created jointly with
prospective customers with realistic milestones agreed to
ensure fail safe implementations.
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SQData Corporation
Address:
4620 Sunbelt Drive Suite 202, Addison, TX 75001, USA
Phone: 214.695.6484
Email: sales@sqdata.com.
Web: www.sqdata.com.
Non-mainframe platforms supported: AIX, Other Unix,
Linux, Windows
license, processor/capacity based
Company profile
SQData is a leading provider of high-performance,
near-real-time changed data capture, replication and
data integration software for mainframe and distributed
databases. SQData’s software allows customers to
address a variety of business needs ranging from data
conversions/migrations to active/active data replication to
near-real-time population of data warehouses.
A leading enterprise-class data integration offering that
provides a cost-effective solution to multiple business
needs out-of-the-box.
Companies use SQData for:
• Continuous Availability of Critical Applications
Keeping multiple databases synchronized in an active/
active or active/stand-by mode to ensure that critical
applications remain operational in the event of an
outage.
• Eliminating / Reducing Costly ETL Processes
Leveraging changed data capture (CDC) to collect
only the data that has changed. Existing ETL can be
enhanced to process the data changes or eliminated
altogether.
• Real-Time Business Event Detection
Detecting key business events as soon as they occur
enables quick reaction while maintaining a competitive
edge.
• Real-Time Business Intelligence
Ensuring key business decisions are being made
based on current data vs. data that is days, weeks or
months old.
• Data Conversions / Migrations
Utilizing SQData’s ETL & CDC to perform data
migrations for legacy modernization, data warehouse
population, etc.
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SSH Communications Security
Address:
SSH Communications Security Corp, Valimotie 17,
FI-00380 Helsinki, Finland.
Phone: +358 205007000.
Email: info@ssh.com.
Web: www.ssh.com.
Sales contacts:
America: +1 781 247 2100 / sales.americas@ssh.com.
EMEA: +358 20 500 7000 /ssh.sales@ssh.com.
AsiaPac: +81 3 3459 6830 / sales.jp@ssh.com.
Non-mainframe platforms supported: AIX, Other Unix,
Linux, Windows
Pricing options: One-time charge, processor/capacity
based, workload/usage based
Company profile
SSH Communications Security is a world-leading
provider of enterprise security solutions and end-to-end
communications security, and the original developer of the
Secure Shell protocol. The company’s SSH Tectia solution
addresses the most critical needs of large enterprises,
financial institutions, and government agencies. With
SSH Tectia, organizations can cost-effectively secure
their system administration, file transfers and application
connectivity against both internal and external security
risks. As the original developer of the Secure Shell protocol
and other key network security technologies, SSH has
for ten years developed end-to-end communications
security solutions specifically for the enterprise. Currently
more than 100 of Fortune 500 companies are using SSH
security solutions. SSH shares are quoted on the Helsinki
Exchanges Main List.
SSH Tectia is the leading end-to-end communications
security solution for the enterprise. SSH Tectia is based on
the SSH Secure Shell and SSH’s other industry leading
technologies, used by millions worldwide. SSH Tectia
enables secure system administration, secure file transfer
and secure application connectivity with centralized
management throughout the internal and external network.
SSH Tectia provides transparent strong encryption and
authentication and easily integrates into heterogeneous,
multi-platform environments.
Secure System Administration offers system administrators
the ability to remotely manage servers in a heterogeneous
operating system environment. SSH Tectia replaces
legacy login (eg Telnet and Rlogin) and remote command
execution methods with enterprise-class administator tools
based on the SSH2 standard.
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Secure File Transfer enables secure automated and
interactive file transfers throughout the network, both for
internal and external file sharing. SSH Tectia provides
secure drop-in replacements for FTP and additional APIs
that facilitate effortless transition from legacy file transfers
to strong file transfer security.
Secure Application Connectivity offers end-to-end
confidentiality, integrity, and authentication for application
connections between workstations and servers. SSH
Tectia protects transparently both in-house developed
and commercial business applications without the need to
modify the applications or the supporting IT infrastructure.
Stonesoft Inc
Address:
1050 Crown Pointe Parkway Suite 900, Atlanta, GA 30338,
USA
Phone: +1 770 668 1125.
Email: sales@stonesoft.com.
Web: www.stonesoft.com
Sales contacts:
America: info.americas@stonesoft.com.
EMEA: info.emea@stonesoft.com.
AsiaPac: info.asiapacific@stonesoft.com.
Activity : Software vendor
VSE, Linux
Non-mainframe platforms: i5, Linux, Windows
Company profile
Stonesoft Corporation (HEX: SFT1V) is a worldwide
company focused on enterprise-level network protection
and business continuity assurance. Its StoneGate security
platform unifies firewall, VPN and IPS to deliver defense
agility combined with high availability for business-critical
applications. StoneGate incorporates the award-winning
load-balancing technology of StoneBeat. Enterprises that
require advanced network security and always-on business
connectivity can choose StoneGate for the lowest up-front
costs, best price-to-performance ratio, and highest ROI of
any high-end firewall, VPN and IPS solution.
Founded in 1990, Stonesoft Corporation has international
headquarters in Helsinki, Finland; Americas headquarters
in Atlanta, Georgia; and Asia Pacific regional headquarters
in Singapore.
StoneGate Firewall and VPN protects against unwanted
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visitors, illegal access, and unauthorized connections to
customers’ networks and data. It is a perimeter firewall
as well as an internal enterprise firewall and VPN, which
means that the mainframe is protected from the outside
and from within. Traffic inside the mainframe is monitored
as well as the traffic to and from the mainframe –
regardless of operating system used.
The centralized management system of StoneGate allows
administrators to monitor, upgrade, and control firewall
and VPN instances remotely, through a graphical user
interface, which eases the administrative task and lowers
the total cost of ownership. With its built-in patented
Multi-Link technology, StoneGate provides Internet
communication high availability. StoneGate for zSeries
removes the need for external firewall servers, and offers
security right up to the mainframe.
SV Group
Address:
Albrechtova 32, HR-10000 Zagreb, Croatia.
Phone: +385 1 2958740.
Email: info@svgroup.hr.
Web: www.svgroup.hr/
management; security; programming/testing; network
performance/management;
VSE, z/Linux
Non-mainframe platforms supported: AIX, Unix, Linux,
Windows
Pricing options: One-time charge, processor/capacitybased, workload/usage based
Company profile
SV Group d.o.o. is a project-oriented IT company founded
in 1995.
Customers of SV Group solutions and services are
companies whose activities have for years been dependent
on IT technologies and solutions that directly support their
business. This is why our customers seek a reliable and
proven partner to realize their IT projects
SV Group d.o.o. provides you with:
• Application development,
• Innovative, reliable IT solutions based on proven
technologies and concepts adjusted to your specific
business needs,
• Supervision of information projects and solutions
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Sale of hardware, software and services:
Hardware (IBM System z, IBM Power Systems, IBM
System Storage),
IBM Software (B2B Integration, Information
Management software, Lotus software, Rational
software, Tivoli software, WebSphere software, System
z software, SPSS software),
VMware software
Microsoft software
RedHat software
Services provided by our certified experts, IBM services
and services provided by our partners,
Enterprise content management (ECM),
IT asset management,
IT infrastructure virtualisation,
Secure data back up,
Proactive IT system and application monitoring,
Proactive and reactive support and maintenance
of SV Group applications (Life Insurance, Office
Management, Call Centre, New Croatian Personal
Identity Card, Personal Identity Card for Foreigners,
Croatian Passport, National Border Management
Information System – NBMIS), Statistical Monitoring
of Visits to Web Sites – S3a, and other application and
system solutions .
Syspertec Communication
Address:
196 Bureaux de la Colline, 92213 Saint-Cloud Cedex,
France
Phone: +33 (0)1 46 02 60 42
Email: cominfo@syspertec.com
Web: www.virtelweb.com
Sales contacts:
America: (925) 937-5816 / info@syspertec.us.
reengineering tools
VSE,
Pricing options: Monthly/annual license, workload/usage
based.
Company profile
SysperTec is an international software publisher with over
20 years’ experience of on-the-fly protocol conversion
between mainframe and heterogeneous servers and
terminals.
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The company’s objective is to sustain legacy applications
by integrating new technologies (TCP/IP, HTML, XML...)
that raise productivity and modernize ergonomics.
SysperTec relies upon experienced System z mainframe
experts who develop software solutions that simplify the
integration of applications and networks and facilitate
communication from/to mainframe System z applications
and data.
SysperTec‘s objective is to provide customized solutions
that allow the seamless evolution of Information Systems
including cost reduction, user comfort, high performance
and simplicity of implementation. SysperTec also provides
trainings and services to educate new and experienced
users to sustain critical applications.
SysperTec has licensed over 300 products worldwide in
banking, service, insurance, government, manufacturing,
and distribution.
Virtel Web Suite extends legacy systems through webenablement.
Developed on a unique and original architecture, Virtel
is a comprehensive web-enablement middleware that
serves legacy host applications such as CICS, IMS,
Natural or TSO as web pages or web services over TCP/
IP connections. Web-enabling extends the relevance and
investment of critical legacy systems. It is simpler, faster,
and more cost effective than redeveloping, replacing, or
re-hosting.
• Virtel Web Access extends 3270 applications securely
to thin-client web browsers with “classic green screen”
presentation and ergonomics.
• Virtel Web Modernization creates rich web pages
(GUIs) combining legacy 3270 data streams with
JavaScript widgets and AJAX-based application
features.
• Virtel Web Integration creates interactive connections
between mainframe and web applications.
• Virtel IMS Extender simplifies calls to web services
from IMS applications and keep web technology
outside legacy IMS application code
Virtel Kix Suite improves web-initiated CICS transaction
processing to rapidly reduce CPU consumption and
associated costs.
• Virtel Transaction Gateway is a high-performance
connector between CICS transactions and the web
• Virtel Transaction Accelerator allows to process CICS
Transactions faster and to reduce mainframe resources
consumption.
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Systemwerx
Address:
PO Box 1195, Bedford, MK42 8WY, UK
Phone: +44 207 0606601.
Email: sales@systemwerx.co.uk.
Web: www.systemwerx.co.uk.
Activity: Software vendor and consultancy.
Specialist areas: System management, security, web
integration and legacy reengineering tools.
Linux, Windows.
Company profile
Systemwerx has, for over 10 years, provided our
customers with solutions to their business needs.
Our system specialists provide our customers with pratical
experience in the development of business applications
and exploiting operating system, networking, database,
and cryptography across multiple platforms.
Product/service Information
We provide a number of products to help z/OS users:
PassGen: a solution to generate one-time RACF
passwords ( Passtickets ) – this allows applications off
host to securely communicate with z/OS applications and
databases. Passgen is available in a native Windows
version and a Java version that executes on any system
with a JRE.
Mimic: a solution to assist users migrating from
Connect:Direct and CA-XCOM to another managed file
transfer system. Mimic allows removal of existing products
by providing an emulation of existing products and
converts existing systems to the users chosen replacement
product.
DR/VFI: a product that identifies critical files for Disaster
recovery and compliance.
Megacryption: a z/OS encryption and PGP suite for
complaince and easy to use encryption.
DataExhange: a publishing system to make z/OS data
available to any user with a browser independent of its
source.
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T3 Technologies Inc
Address:
1408 Westshore Blvd, Tampa, Florida 33607, USA
Phone: +1 813 288 9800.
Email: info@t3t.com.
Web: www.t3t.com
Sales contacts:
EMEA: Concorde House, Trinity Park, Solihull, Birmingham
B37 7UQ UK. Phone +44 (0) 121 635 5571
Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS,OS/390, VM/VSE,
Linux
Company profile
Since our inception in 1992, T3 has been dedicated
to providing the mainframe community with more cost
effective solutions than traditional systems. Our tServer is
now the world’s best selling mainframe under 80 MIPS and
has helped over 600 clients maintain and modernize their
data centers.
Product/service infromation
Now T3 will be offering even greater choice as we
introduce a new generation of plug-compatible mainframes
(PCMs), capable of handling larger and more complex
environments, and based on technology originally
developed by Amdahl Corporation. With models ranging
to 300 MIPS and supporting 64-bit architecture, “Liberty”
brings back freedom of choice to mainframe data centers.
TeamQuest Corporation
Address:
One TeamQuest Way, Clear Lake, Iowa 50428, USA
Phone: +1 641-357-2700
E-mail: info@teamquest.com
Web: www.teamquest.com
Sales contacts
America: sales@teamquest.com
EMEA: emea@teamquest.com
AsiaPac: asiapacific@teamquest.com
Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS., OS/390, Linux,
other
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Pricing Options: One-time charge, monthly/annual
Company profile
TeamQuest Corporation is the global leader in IT Service
Optimization (ITSO). Specializing in software that helps
IT organizations consistently meet service levels while
minimizing costs, TeamQuest provides quick and accurate
capacity modelling and performance solutions.
Companies around the world trust TeamQuest to help them
improve IT service delivery while mitigating risks, allowing
them to proactively optimize IT resources while minimizing
infrastructure costs. TeamQuest software is especially wellsuited for use in heterogeneous and virtualized computing
environments. Complementing and supporting ITIL best
practices, SOA and BSM goals, TeamQuest software can
help organizations manage IT from both the business and
IT perspectives.
TeamQuest Performance Software is made up of a suite of
four integrated products that help organizations optimize
IT services, from performance management and reporting
to event monitoring and capacity modelling. Products can
be used individually or in combination to address various
needs, and they scale to thousands of servers in complex,
heterogeneous and virtualized environments.
TeamQuest Performance Software uses a client/server
architecture. Connections are made between the client and
the server via TCP or HTTP for TeamQuest On the Web.
The client portion – TeamQuest Model, TeamQuest View,
TeamQuest Alert, and TeamQuest On the Web – runs on
your workstation or wherever you want to analyze the data.
The server portion – TeamQuest Manager, which includes
data collection agents and a performance database –
is installed on each server you want to manage. (One
exception is that, for IBM System z and i, TeamQuest
Manager is installed on a separate system and retrieves
performance data from the server being managed.)
TechMaint, LLC
Address:
4360 Hanover Road, Winston-Salem, NC 27127, USA
Phone: +1 336-724-1638
E-mail: techmaint@techmaint.com
Web: www.techmaint.com
management; storage management; security; network
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Company profile
TechMaint has a team of consultants that work in the z/
OS operating system space. Most consultants have
over 30 years experience as system programmers.
TechMaint is partners with major IT vendors that provide
staff augmentation and also work on system type
projects. MVS, OS/390, and z/OS maintenance and
migrations including disaster recovery, security, and
network. TechMaint has a group of Unix, AIX, Solaris, and
application developers on the mainframe.
TechMaint services consists of many years experience in
the mainframe space including most third-party products.
Security, disaster recovery, hardware installations, and
most z/OS services.
Techsys Software Services Inc
Address:
PO Box 1070, Coppell, TX 75019, USA
Phone: +1 972-725-9315.
Email: sales@techsyssoftware.com.
Web: www.techsyssoftware.com.
VSE, Linux
Company profile
Techsys Software Services LLC helps mainframe
technology providers who have a part-time, short-term, or
on-demand need for mainframe expertise. Our mission
is to provide our customers with an affordable alternative
to hiring or outsourcing their systems management and
technical support staff, while saving them up to 80% on
staffing costs. If you can’t afford, or don’t want, a full-time
mainframe systems programing or technical applications
development staff, let us customize a support package
to meet your needs. Give us a call at 877-390-4878 to
discuss
We provide the following types of services for our
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• Mainframe Staff Mentoring.
The Source Recovery Company
Address:
1070 Applecross Drive, Roswell, GA 30075, USA
Phone: +1 770 667 5043.
Email: jrahm@source-recovery.com.
Web: www.source-recovery.com.
Activity: Service provider
Specialist areas: COBOL or Assembler Source Recovery
Pricing options: per program or engagement timeframe.
Company profile
Source Recovery is the sole provider of the recovery of
COBOL or Assembler source code from IBM MVS or VSE
executable programs. Our company is an IBM Developer
Business Partner. We have recovered over 10 million
lines of source code utilizing our patented ReSource™
technology.
The Source Recovery’s primary service is to recover
Cobol or Assembler source code. We support any version
of COBOL running on an IBM mainframe. Through our
validation process, we are able to compare the recovered
source to the original executable to guarantee the accuracy
of our recoveries. Our recoveries are guaranteed to
produce 100% functionally equivalent source code.
Additional services include the recovery of copybooks and
reconciling existing source to production executables.
Time Machine Software
Address:
255b Dizengoff, Tel Aviv, Israel
Phone: +97236876717.
Email: support@tmachine.com.
Web: www.tmachine.com.
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license.
Company profile
Time Machine Software is a software company established
in 1995 to develop and market innovative, high quality
software products in the area of computer center
operations.
The Company offers two lines of products:
1) performance optimization tools, and
2) backup auditing tools.
SmartProduction® is an innovative software product
that will dramatically reduce your batch window and will
increase your system online time by reducing run time
and resource consumption of batch jobs and applications.
It examines and analyzes job flow and application
inefficiencies rather than system capacity and system
performance.
TONE Software Corporation
Address:
1735 S. Brookhurst Street, Anaheim, CA 92804, USA
Phone: +1 714 991 9460
Email: info@tonesoft.com.
Web: www.tonesoft.com.
Non-mainframe platforms supported: Other Unix, Linux
Pricing options: One-time charge; monthly license charge
Company profile
TONE Software is a software development firm specializing
in business computing solutions for IBM mainframe
platforms and several distributed platforms. Based in
Anaheim CA, TONE is a privately held firm that answers to
customers, not shareholders. TONE has built a reputation
for delivering premier solutions, exceptional expertise, and
unparalleled customer service and support 24x7.
TONE’s commitment to technology advancement is
apparent, devoting over 25% of annual revenues to
research and development. TONE enjoys strategic
alliances with industry leaders such as IBM, Sun, Hewlett
Packard, and AT&T. These relationships, together with
TONE’s progressive development culture, ensure that our
products deliver maximum benefit to each user.
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TONE’s mainframe-based product line includes powerful
solutions to manage the corporate IT infrastructure, and
increase system and human productivity to meet the
overall business objectives of the client. TONE’s solutions
include OMC-FLASH JES2 and JES3 spool viewing and
management; OMC-PRINT host and TCP/IP output routing
and print management; DYNA-STEP dynamic STEPLIB
and library management; ACC host console automation
and management; SyBridge VTAM interface to NetView;
and VTAM application automation. TONE products are
marketed and supported throughout North America directly
from the Anaheim headquarters, and across Europe,
Australia, Asia, and South America through authorized
distributors.
Top Gun Technology
Address:
5500 Cottonwood Lane SE, #106, Prior Lake, MN 55372,
USA.
Phone: +1 952 226 9700
Email: sales@topgun-tech.com.
Web: www.topgun-tech.com.
Non-mainframe platforms supported: IBM i, AIX, Linux
Company profile
Top Gun Technology, a Veteran Owned Small Business,
is your best source and logical resource to answer your
questions regarding zSeries processors and related
peripherals. We have the largest independent inventory
of zEC12 & z196/z114 processors and older generation
technology; whole systems, features and parts. Processors
and complete systems are certified and banded by IBM
before they leave our technical center.
Top Gun Technology’s management, product engineers
and sales staff have an average of 25+ years experience
providing guidance to data center clients. We have built
an infrastructure and team to support your hardware needs
with helpful and forward-thinking planning and consultation.
Our intent is to have you think of Top Gun Technology
as a “resource” - a company that you can rely upon for
thoughtful information, guidance and a unique approach
to planning for and acquiring large-platform hardware and
associated services at competitive prices that maximize
your budget dollar.
Top Gun Technology is committed to being the industry’s
most logical alternative to the manufacturer. We provide
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an independent view of the market with expert, in-house
solutions. Our goal is to offer options that cost far less
than the manufacturer’s or any business partner’s solutions
in these areas: IBM System z :zEC12/2828, z196/2817,
z114/2818 & z10 Processors and Feature upgrades; IBM
Power Systems-Power7, Power7+, Power6 as well as
previous generation pSeries and iSeries, IBM Storage
for mainframe and open systems platforms: Disk, tape,
libraries & VTS; Brocade & IBM FICON directors, switches,
blades & SFPs. HP(new/refurbished), Cisco, STK &
EMC hardware is also available. Call if you have surplus
hardware, need data center consolidation or leasing
services.
Top Gun Technology – “Your Ultimate Data Resource”. Trident Services
Address:
1260 41st Ave Suite K, Capitola Ca 95010, USA.
Phone: +1 831 465 7661
Email: osem@triserv.com.
Web: www. triserv.com.
Sales contacts:
America: 800-887-4336
EMEA: 800-887-4336.
AsiaPac: 800-887-4336
capacity-based.
Company profile
Since founding in 1978, Trident Services has established
a solid reputation for the excellence of our software, the
responsiveness of our support team, and the expertise of
our consulting staff.
Trident Services, Inc is a committed member of the
mainframe community and an IBM Business Partner for
over 30 years. Since launching our first software solution
in 1988, we have continued to develop and enhance our
software products and services to keep pace with industry
changes, emerging technologies, and client-driven needs.
Our flagship product, zOSEM (zOperating System
Environment Manager) is a powerful software tool of
strategic importance in the System Z environment. zOSEM
is enabling customers to reduce & control ISV costs,
eliminate exit migration issues, and provides an easy to
use DFSMShsm Optimizer which can dramatically improve
HSM performance..
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The latest version of our flagship product, zOSEM 6.2 (z
Operating System Environment Manager), is a powerful
software tool of strategic importance in the System Z
environment. zOSEM now offers routing at the step-level,
which has a dramatic impact on ISV cost reduction. ISV
step level routing routes single step program calls to a
penalty LPAR or box, sized significantly smaller than your
entire environment, allowing you to reduce your key ISV
licenses to the size of your penalty environment.
Driven by a simple ISPF interface, zOSEM encompasses
a multitude of features for improved control, throughput,
and processing efficiency in a z/OS environment. zOSEM
is enabling customers to reduce and control ISV costs,
eliminate exit migration issues, and provides an easy to
use DFSMShsm Optimizer that can dramatically improve
HSM performance.
zOperating System Environment Manager is one solution
for total system management of z/OS, the goal is to
simplify and modernize how we manage z/OS. Triton Consulting
Address:
The Royal, 25 Bank Plain, Norwich, Norfolk, NR2 4SF, UK.
Phone: +44 870 2411 550
Email: marketing@triton.co.uk.
Web: www.triton.co.uk.
management; storage management; security
Windows, other
Company profile
Triton Consulting is a highly focused, independent data
management services provider. Renowned in the industry
for our levels of DB2 expertise, we are proud to be the
home of an IBM Gold Consultant, two IBM Champions and
some of the most highly qualified DB2 experts in the world.
zTune
Triton can help you to regain control of your software
charges by running an audit of your current environment
and identifying when and where the workload peaks occur.
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Initial Analysis – Typically customers can reduce their peak
CPU charges by a minimum of 3% with no performance
impacts whatsoever and many customers can reduce their
peak by 5% from this initial analysis.
Performance Tuning – The majority of mainframe users
have significant potential for further reducing resource
consumption (and therefore costs) through performance
tuning of key workloads. This is especially true for
those with older applications that haven’t been actively
maintained for a while or who have lost some of their deep
middleware skills through retirement or redundancy.
By tuning these workloads, ongoing software costs can
be reduced and mainframe upgrades potentially deferred.
In addition, application performance will be enhanced and
overall Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) reduced.
Our unique zTune service will identify potential mainframe
workload management improvements and could
immediately reduce your IT spend. Type80 Security Software
Address:
211 North Union Street, Suite 100, Alexandria, VA 22314,
USA
Phone: (703) 717-6574
Email: info@type80.com
Web: www.type80.com
Company profile
Type80 Security Software is an IBM Business Partner
in software development and was founded by experts in
the areas of mainframe z/OS Systems Programming and
Information Security. The company draws from a diverse
background, from providing cybersecurity training to NATO
counter intelligence, conducting enterprise-wide security
assessments for companies maintaining the nation’s
critical infrastructure, and developing high-level mainframe
applications for major financial institutions.
Type80’s flagship product, SMA_RT, is a revolutionary
host-based intrusion detection and alert notification product
for IBM mainframe computers running on the zSeries/
Operating System. Type80’s products are designed
to protect information stored on IBM mainframes by
detecting the presence of unauthorized and suspicious
activity and delivering relevant alerts to SIM, SIEM and log
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consolidation software products in Real-time. By allowing
quick and easy access to important Mainframe-specific
security events, Type80’s products provide a valuable
role in helping organizations around the globe meet
various Governance, Risk Management and Compliance
regulations.
Our primary software product is called SMA_RT (Security
Monitor Alerts in Real-Time). Our SMA_RT software
development began in 1998, the product availability was
announced in 2002, and awarded a US Patent in 2007,
making it the first Real-Time mainframe intrusion detection,
z/OS SIEM agent and log event processing software of its
kind.
SMA_RT has been deployed across four continents
with commercial customers in the Financial, Banking,
Payment Card Processing, Automobile Importers, Retail
Sales, International Hotel/Travel, Corporate Management,
HealthCare, Insurance, Educational, Telecommunications
and Home Security industries.
Value-4IT Limited
Address:
7 Wright Road, Long Buckby, Northampton NN6 7GG, UK.
Phone: +44 (0) 845 0579386
Email: info@value-4it.com.
Web: www.value-4it.com
VSE, z/Linux
Non-mainframe platforms supported: AIX, distributed
other
Company profile
Value-4IT are an independent software & professional
services company offering diverse and in-depth business
facing experience for IBM System z Mainframe, UNIX,
Linux and Windows platforms.
Our experienced personnel provide our valued customers
with a wide range of business, process & technical skills
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for maximizing the business value for IT resources within
your organization.
Therefore our philosophy is a combination of pragmatic
and structured delivery via TCA, TCO, & ROI
methodologies, safeguarding the timely implementation
of cost efficient IT solutions for business improvement
initiatives.
Value-4IT are focused on delivering cost efficient and
strategic IT solutions that meet or exceed business
requirements. Our customer-facing personnel all have
many years experience working with leading IHVs, ISVs
and Professional Services organisations, designing and
integrating value-added solutions for many global Blue
Chip customers.
Through a combination of innovative and evolving
processes, the raison d’être of Value-4IT is to collaborate in
long-term and rewarding partnerships with our customers,
becoming their trusted advisor, by consistently delivering
timely and cost-efficient solutions.
Value-4IT also maintains an independent viewpoint of the
IT market place and are ideally placed to provide pragmatic
third-party input into technology selection and IT portfolio
review for our customer base. We are honoured to have
been chosen to be the UK territory distribution channel for
a modicum of best-of breed software solutions, while we do
so with a Software Asset Management (SAM) focus, using
straight-forward, competitive and no-small-print caveat
pricing regimes. Value-4IT are UK partners for DinoSoftware, INTERCHIP, PerfTechPro, Phoenix Software
International, Technical Storage and zIT Consulting,
supplying high-function zSeries Mainframe Systems
Management solutions, with short-term ROI and optimized
TCO, when compared with similar products.
Vanguard Integrity Professionals, Inc.
Address:
6625 S. Eastern Avenue, Suite 100
Las Vegas, NV 89119, USA.
Phone: 702-794-0014
Email: marketing@go2vanguard.com.
Web: www.go2vanguard.com
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Vanguard Integrity Professionals provides enterprise
security software and services that solve complex
security and regulatory compliance challenges for large
enterprises and government agencies around the world.
With solutions for Identity and Access Management, Audit
and Compliance, Security Administration and Intrusion
Detection, Vanguard automates processes necessary to
identify and mitigate the risks customers face. Vanguard’s
customers receive a rapid return on investment and are
able to focus on other critical business needs thereby
becoming more productive and more secure. For more
information, visit www.go2vanguard.com.
Security Management Solutions
Vanguard Administrator - Automated security administration
Vanguard Advisor - Event detection, analysis, and reporting
Vanguard SecurityCenter - Windows-based security
administration of RACF
Vanguard Enforcer - Intrusion detection and management
system for z/OS and OS/390 mainframe systems
Vanguard Policy Manager- A “Best Practices” enforcer for
z/OS Security Server RACF Commands
Compliance and Audit Solutions
Vanguard Analyzer - System integrity and analysis
Vanguard inCompliance - Continuous system compliance
verification
system for z/OS and S/390 mainframe systems
Vanguard Policy Manager - A “Best Practices” enforcer for
z/OS Security Server - RACF Commands
Access Management Solutions
Vanguard Authenticator - Scalable, modular, and integrated
authentication solution for entire enterprise
Vanguard ez/SignOn - Enterprise identity management and
intrusion detection
Vanguard ez/Token - A two-factor authentication solution
integrated with RACF for users logging on to the
mainframe
Vanguard Tokenless Authentication - Delivers strong
authentication capabilities by generating and sending a
one-time use, time-sensitive passcode to a communication
device the user already possesses: the user’s cell phone,
PDA, Blackberry and more
Vanguard ez/Integrator - Security programming tools that
allow your applications to inherit the enhanced security of
RACF
Vanguard ez/AccessControl - Extending RACF access and
identity management to desktops and servers
Vanguard PasswordReset - User reset of forgotten
passwords
Intrusion Detection Solutions
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system for z/OS and S/390 mainframe systems
Vanguard Advisor - Event detection, analysis and reporting
Vanguard ez/SignOn - Enterprise identity management and
intrusion detection.
Verhoef Training Ltd
Address:
11 Kingsmead Square, Bath BA1 2AB, UK
Phone: +44 (0) 1225 339705.
Email: davidw@verhoef-training.co.uk.
Web: www.verhoef-training.co.uk
Activity: Education
performance/management, other
VSE, Linux
Unix, distributed Linux, Windows, other
other.
Company profile
On 1st November 2015, Verhoef Training became a 21
year old company. We deliver Technical Training for IT
Professionals. With its roots firmly in the Enterprise Server
field, Verhoef is an independent training vendor with
Official IBM and independent ’Grey’ courses encompassing
Applications, Service Delivery, Systems and Database
Support, Architecture and Infrastructure across all the
IBM operating system and subsystem platforms including:
z/OS, z/VM, IBMi, AIX and Linux, CICS, DB2, IMS,
WebSphere Application Server, WebSphereMQ, Integration
Bus, Rational, Tivoli, InfoSphere, Cognos, Connections,
Business Process Manager and Web Content Manager.
JCL
JES2 Operator Training
System Programmer Fundamentals
SMP/E
Parallel Sysplex
WLM
HMC
HCD
Security Server
USS
z/VM
Storage Area Networking
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DB2 SQL for z/OS or LUW
DB2 Administration
DB2 Data Recovery
DB2 Performance and Tuning
IMS Fundamentals
IMS Programming
IMS Transaction Manager Programming
Informix 11.7 Database or System Administration
Informix 4GL
WAS Administration
WAS Problem Determination
WAS Scripting and Automation
WAS Performance
WAS Intelligent Management
BPM Performance and Tuning
BPM Problem Determination
WebSphere Portal
WebSphere Portal Applications
WebSphere Transformation Extender
MQ Introduction
MQ Administration for z/OS or Windows & Linux
MQ Clusters
MQ Programming
Integration Bus Administration
Integration Bus Applications
CICS Command Level
CICS Application Development for SOA and Web Services
CICS Tailoring
CICSPlex System Manager
TXSeries
Java SE6
Jazz Team Server Administration
DOORS Foundation and Practitioner
Customizing DOORS Using DXL
IBM Rational DOORS Next Generation,
Tivoli System Automation
Tivoli Monitoring
Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager
Tivoli Business Services Manager
Tivoli Workload Scheduler for z/OS
Tivoli NetView
Tivoli Storage Manager
Assembler
COBOL
PL/1
REXX
Connections
Process Modelling with BPM
Developing Applications in BPM
BPM Administration
BPM Problem Determination
Developing websites using Web Content Manager
InfoSphere
Guardium
DataStage
QualityStage.
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WDR Ltd
Address:
Park Lodge, 60 London Road, Horsham, West Sussex,
RH12 1AY, UK
Phone: +44 (0)1403 268251.
Email: info@wdr.co.uk.
Web: www.wdr.co.uk
performance/management, other
VSE, Linux
Linux, Windows
Established nearly 40 years ago by two senior ex-IBM
Executives, WDR is one of the UK’s leading IT specialists.
The early years, through hands-on consultancy, training
courses, seminars and systems development, were
dedicated to improving performance and management
predominately in the IBM mainframe market. Always the
niche company, WDR remains attracted to the difficult
challenges that others may miss.
mid-range systems to networks and distributed systems to
the desk-top and server-based systems of today.
Throughout, we have remained current in all these
activities.
WDR have an attractive office and training centre at
Horsham, an old market town in West Sussex in the South
of England, and maintain facilities to give seamless support
to our many prestigious clients.
Web Age Solutions
Address:
Suite 1, 436 York Road, Jenkintown, Montgomery County,
PA 19046, USA
Phone: +1 215 517 6540.
Email: gwagner@webagesolutions.com.
Web: www.webagesolutions.com
Activity: Education
web integration and legacy reengineering tools
Windows
WDR has since broadened its focus from mainframes to
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Mainframe Market Bulletin
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you to new opportunities - and new
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Web Age Solutions supports the following technology
and methodology areas through training, mentoring and
consulting.
Mainframe – DB2 – WebSphere – WebLogic – Linux –
UNIX – Python – Java EE – OOAD – Spring – Hibernate –
Oracle – Big Data – Service Oriented Architecture – Cloud
– Enterprise Architecture – Mobile Computing (Android
and i/OS) – JBoss – HTML5 – Open Source–- Microsoft –
Web services – AJAX – Data Warehousing – XML/XSLT –
Virtualization – ITIL – Web 2.0.
Specific to our mainframe curriculum, we provide training in
subjects as diverse as MVS Concepts and Utilities,CICS,
COBOL, DB2, TSO/ISPF, IMS, z/OS Systems
management and others. Our courses are developed by
industry experts and run using IBM mainframe computers.
Xbridge Systems
a template for a pinpointed implementation of encryption,
tokenization, or deletion services.
DataSniff allows you to automate the mainframe data
discovery process, immediately define and manage
risk exposure, and finally bring your mainframes into
compliance, once and for all.
zIT Consulting
Address:
Moorstrich 38, 26349 Jade, Germany
Phone: +49 4454 206 9897
Email: info@zit-consulting.com
Web: www.zit-consulting.com
Sales contacts:
America: +1-866-464-3724
EMEA: +49 4454 206 9897
AsiaPac: +61 2 62348014.
Address:
1941 Landings Drive, Mountain View, CA. 940430, USA
Phone: +1 866 356 1515
Email: sales@xbridgesystems.com
Web: www.xbridgesystems.com.
Specialist areas: System management.
license, processor/capacity-based
Non-mainframe platforms supported: IBM i, Windows,
license, processor/capacity-based,
Company profile
zIT Consulting GmbH specializes in MLC optimization:
reduce your monthly license cost while - often - even
improving your service level agreements by optimizing the
WLM settings.
Company profile
Xbridge Systems is committed to providing businesscritical mainframe data access, query, delivery, discovery,
and loss-protection solutions to companies that aspire to
know their data.
Xbridge’s DataSniff software product is the first step in
PCI compliance - and is the world’s FIRST and ONLY
automated data discovery solution for the mainframe.
DataSniff helps you understand the extent of your PCI
exposure and automatically defines the scope of your PCI
initiative.
DataSniff’s unique capabilities allow clients to quickly and
easily comply with data security regulations (PCI, HIPAA,
SOX, HiTech Act, etc.) by searching for, discovering, and
mapping the location of potentially sensitive data at rest
throughout the enterprise, then providing that data map as
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Our products are and always have been a direct result of
our consulting assignments and are therefore very much
based upon practicaly experiences.
Our consultants and developers have many years of
experience in IBM’s z/OS area, zIT consulting itself is
an IBM certified ISV and IBM Development Partner. Our
solutions can also be found on IBM’s Global Solutions
Directory.
Reduce your MLC charges, fast and easy: In many data
centers the largest single monthly invoice is the IBM’s z/
OS Monthly License Charge. With our products zDynaCap
and zPrice Manager and our consulting services we are
specialized in automated capacity optimization. The new,
very clear and very straightforward approach focusses on
balancing capacity over LPARs and on optimized defined
capacity settings.
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MSU savings range from 5% to 25%, which often implies
immediate reduction of the MLC invoice ranging from 3%
to 20%!
Linux, Windows
Contact us for more information and for a first analysis,
giving you an idea about the possible savings in your
environment: info@zit-consulting.com. Visit our Website at:
www.zit-consulting.com.
Company profile
zSoftware specializes in analysing your Software Portfolio,
the workload, Software licenses and Software contracts.
Based on the outcome of a health check, zSoftware
advises you on saving software software costs and therefor
optimizing the value of you Software Assets.
This service is not limited to your IBM-zEnterprise platform,
but can be executed cross platform.
zSoftware
Address:
Kloosterwei 320, 2361 XR Warmond, The Netherlands
Phone: +31 71 3011178.
Email: info@zsoftware.nl.
Web: www.zsoftware.nl.
Specialist areas: asset and change management, other
Virtual IMS user group
Virtual CICS user group
The Virtual IMS user group can be found at at www.fundi.com/virtualims. The
Virtual CICS user group can be found at at www.fundi.com/virtualcics. They are
independently-operated vendor-neutral sites run by and for their user communities.
Look out for their regular webinars and newsletters.
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A guide to sources of information for IBM mainframers
Newsletters, magazines, user groups, and social networking information resources
for the z/OS environment
Although there are now relatively few publications focusing specifically on the mainframe, there
are plenty of ways to gather information and comment on large systems. Apart from traditional
magazines, there are numerous e-zines, blogs, discussion groups, and other online resources,
and this guide offers a personal selection for readers to sample. A list of the main mainframe
user groups is also included, which are one of the best sources of information available. Please
feel free to suggest other sites/titles for inclusion in the next edition of the Yearbook (email
mainframe@arcati.com).
Enterprise Tech Journal
Whereas its predecessor, zJournal,
was purely mainframe focused,
this journal describes itself as
being for IT technicians in the
world’s largest multi-platform
enterprises. The associated Web
site at enterprisesystemsmedia.
com contains articles, news, jobs,
events, and a store.
enterprisesystemsmedia.com/magazines/
enterprise-tech-journal/
Enterprise Executive
Formerly Mainframe Executive,
this is the sister publication to
Enterprise Tech Journal, and is
aimed at IT managers in the world’s
largest multi-platform enterprises.
It is a less technical, but no less
informative, than ETJ, and both are
available as flipbooks..
enterprisesystemsmedia.com/magazines/
enterprise-executive/
Enterprise Systems
Based on the once-celebrated Enterprise Systems
Journal, the Enterprise Systems Web site and
newsletter did provide some very interesting
articles and discussions on mainframes and other
platforms. It claims to provide high-end datacenter
and server solutions. It has a regular newsletter,
and there are white papers available too.
www.esj.com
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IBM Systems Magazine, Mainframe Edition
IBM Systems Magazine also comes in AIX, IBM i,
Power, and Linux on Power versions. The content
is online with regular e-mail newsletters.
www.ibmsystemsmag.com/mainframe/
IBM Data Magazine & Analytics Hub
In the spring of 2015, IBM Data magazine was
consolidated into the IBM Big Data & Analytics
Hub. There are headings for Use Cases, Industries,
Analytics, Technology, Events, Around the Web,
and For Developers.
www.ibmbigdatahub.com/technology/all
Mainframe Market Information Service (MMIS)
Through Arcati’s MMIS
subscription service, Barry
Graham keeps users up
to date with mainframe
hardware and software
pricing trends and helps
them to negotiate the best deals. The full MMIS
service includes the detailed quarterly Mainframe
Market Monitor as well as phone/e-mail support.
The monthly e-mail Mainframe Market Bulletin is
also available separately.
www.arcati.com/mmis
SearchDataCenter
TechTarget publishes a range of Web-based
newsletters, and under the ‘Topic’ drop-down
menu, you can find a number of datacenter topics,
but nothing specifically for mainframes any more.
searchdatacenter.techtarget.com/
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SHARE’s Five Minute Briefing: Data Center
Database Trends and Applications publishes a
number of Five Minute Briefing newsletters, but
the Data Center title should appeal directly to
mainframers. Published in
conjunction with user group
SHARE, the newsletter
provides an excellent
weekly round-up of relevant
announcements.
www.dbta.com
IBM Publishing
IBM’s publishing arm covers the company’s
diverse products and services, architectures, and
business solutions. Titles help users: prepare for
IBM certifications; master implementation; and
support IBM products and solutions; and educate
and inform.
http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/ibmpress/
IBM Redbooks
IBM Redbooks publications provide a wealth of
real-world installation, configuration and usage
insights into myriad technologies with a multitude
of titles.
http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/
Mainframe social media
it.toolbox.com/blogs/mainframe-world/, written by
Arcati associate Trevor Eddolls.
In addition to the ever-growing number of blogs
focusing on mainframe-related topics, it’s now
possible to interact with mainframe-minded people
on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and other social
media.
There’s always something interesting in the CA
Technologies blog at http://blogs.ca.com/. They
seem to cover quite a wide range of topics.
IBM has its IBM Mainframe Insights blog at: www.
ibm.com/blogs/systemz.
IBM Destination z hosts a variety of bloggers,
who write on different topics each week. It also
hosts a variety of articles. You can find the blog at
www.destinationz.org/Community/ EvangelizingMainframe.
There’s the new Millennial Mainframer blog,
which they describe as a fresh look at all things
mainframe. It’s primarily aimed at college students
and early mainframe professionals interested
in IBM mainframe technologies. That’s at www.
millennialmainframer.com.
Also worth a look is Marc Wambeke’s Mainframe
Watch Belgium at mainframe-watch-belgium.
blogspot.com.
And don’t miss the Mainframe World blog at
Willie Favero’s Getting the Most from DB2 for
z/OS and System z blog is at it.toolbox.com/blogs/
db2zos. Other DB2-related blogs are: DB2utor
by Troy Coleman at ibmsystemsmag.blogs.
com/db2utor/; and An Expert’s Guide to DB2
Technology by Chris Eaton at it.toolbox.com/blogs/
db2luw/. And, not to be missed, Craig Mullins’ DB2
Portal blog at db2portal.blogspot.co.uk/.
Alan Radding describes himself as a 20-year IT
industry analyst and journalist covering mainframe,
midrange, PC, web, and cloud computing. His
DancingDinosaur blog – Mainframe computing in
the 21st century – can be found at dancingdinosaur.
wordpress.com.
There’s a group of techie/creative people working
in and around IBM’s Hursley Park Lab in the UK.
They produce an interesting blog at eightbar.
co.uk/.
There are a number of very insightful blogs at
IBM’s My developerWorks. You can click on
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the links from www.ibm.com/developerworks/
mydeveloperworks/blogs/.
Other interesting blogs are: Drunken Data by
Jon Toigo at www.drunkendata.com/; Jeff Jonas
by Jeff Jonas at jeffjonas.typepad.com/; Irving
Wladawsky-Berger by Irving Wladawsky-Berger
at blog.irvingwb.com/blog/; and Mainframe
World by Trevor Eddolls at it.toolbox.com/blogs/
mainframe-world/. Another interesting blog is
James Governor’s Monkchips site (www.redmonk.
com/jgovernor). And there’s Dinesh Dattani’s blog
at mainframesecuritymatters.wordpress.com/.
For the latest data center news and trends,
t h e r e ’s t h e I T K n o w l e d g e E x c h a n g e a t
itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/datacenter/.
IBM pages can be found on Facebook at www.
facebook.com/pages/IBM/16859753656387 for
just IBM: at www.facebook.com/DB2community
for DB2; at www.facebook.com/IMSFans for IMS;
and www.facebook.com/IBMCICS for CICS.
The Virtual CICS user group is on Facebook
at www.facebook.com/VirtualCICS. And the
Virtual IMS user group is at www.facebook.com/
VirtualIMS.
There are mainframe-related discussions
on LinkedIn. For example, there’s the IBM
MAINFRAME - Unofficial Group at www.linkedin.
com/groups?gid=670987; Mainframe (COBOL,
JCL,DB2,CICS,VSAM,MVS,Adabas/Natural)
Experts at www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=910927;
Mainframe Experts Network at www.linkedin.com/
groups?gid=55779; and System z Advocates
a t w w w. l i n k e d i n . c o m / g r o u p s / S y s t e m - z Advocates-155723; for mainframers.
If you’re interested in DB2 there’s DB2 Professionals
at www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=45375;
IDUG: International DB2 Users Group at www.
linkedin.com/groups?gid=46747; DB2 for z/
OS at www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=1171547;
and DB2 for z/OS DBAs at www.linkedin.com/
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groups?gid=2008475; amongst many others.
There’s the CICS Special Interest Group at www.
linkedin.com/groups?gid=1534227; IBM CICS at
www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=4304249; and the
Virtual CICS user group at www.linkedin.com/
groups?gid=3847862.
For IMS there’s IBM IMS at www.linkedin.com/
groups/IBM-IMS-1949922; and the Virtual IMS user
group at www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=379256.
In future, LinkedIn might consider using vanity
names like Facebook does.
On Tumblr there’s Mainframe Tumblr at http://
mainframe50.tumblr.com/. They say that the
Mainframe Tumblr is your hub for exploring IBM
mainframe-enabled innovation. Follow us for
stories, insights, videos, and datagrams that
celebrate a different System z theme each week
and show how the mainframe is empowering big
opportunities in both new and familiar areas.
If you go to YouTube (www.youtube.com) there
are numerous short videos about mainframes and
mainframe-related topics.
On Twitter, here’s a fairly random assortment of
good tweeters to follow:
@IBM_CICS, @IBM_DB2, @IBM_Informix,
@IBM_InfoSphere, @IBMdatamag, @IBMDB2,
@IBMSTG, @_PeUR, @ARCserve_Europe,
@Attachmate, @BarrySchrager1,
@Bcrusso, @bethflood, @BigData_paulz,
@BMCMainframe, @BMCSoftware,
@BobThomas_ESM, @bosnews,
@BrillTechnology, @BTRG_MikeMartin,
@CAmainframe, @CAUKI, @CenSoft,
@craigmullins, @cristianmolaro, @crshnburn,
@DaniSchererBMC, @dianegjohnson,
@DTurnerBlogs, @GlobalKnowledge,
@GreerJP, @herbpayne, @IDUGDB2,
@iixpeering, @ironarchitect, @Isaac_Yassin,
@jodiraquel, @jondbray, @KCandLoveData,
@kennethfogarty, @Macro_4, @Maintec_Inc,
@martinpacker, @MattBullamore, @MichaelDag,
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@microfocus, @mitzihunter, @MSFTBusinessUK,
@mwambeke, @myzcommunity, @pablocabra,
@PlexSpy, @rochanet2, @russellbonner,
@Sheena_Seguin, @simonbu, @susvis,
@Syncsort, @sysprog101, @t_eddolls,
@Tanglewould, @TeamARIN, @termalabs,
@ThFalissard, @ToolboxforIT, @tweet2thousif,
@vidierre, @VirtualCICS, @VirtualIMS, @wcfink,
@wfavero, and @zOShelpForums.
It may not be a definitive list, but it’s a good place
to start!
Other online information
RACF-L
A discussion group that focuses on RACF.
Wikipedia
Although not a newsletter or journal, Wikipedia is
a great online encyclopaedia that is written and
maintained by its readers. The editors work hard to
make sure that valuable content is not vandalized,
and the site contains a surprisingly up-to-date
range of mainframe-related definitions.
http://en.wikipedia.org/
IBM-MAIN listserv
The IBM Mainframe discussion list has been
maintained for many years by the University of
Alabama, and continues to be well supported.
Unlike the high-level blogs, this is the place for very
specific technical discussions. Subscribers can
sign up to receive useful summaries of message
threads.
In addition, there are lots of mainframers on
Google plus, and there are now mainframers
using Instagram (eg @ibm, @ibmsports, @
ibminterconnect, @t_eddolls).
listserv.uga.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A0=RACF-L
Assembler-List
A discussion group that focuses on Assembler.
www.lsoft.com/scripts/wl.exe?
SL1=ASSEMBLER-LIST&H=LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
IMS
A discussion group that focuses on IMS.
http://imslistserv.bmc.com/scripts/waBMC.exe?A0=IMS-L
CICS
A discussion group that focuses on CICS.
https://listserv.uga.edu/cgi-bin/
wa?A0=CICS-L
listserv.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Enterprise Social
Networking
Enterprise Social Networks are identifiable by the
fact that they integrate with existing platforms and
applications and they appeal directly to end users.
In effect, they bring the benefits of social media
to the enterprise. So how would you recognize an
Enterprise Social Networking (ESN) product? It
would be something like Microsoft’s Yammer, Jive
Software’s Jive, Salesforce’s Chatter, and IBM’s
Connections. In fact, those are Gartner’s four
leading products in the sector (Gartner Inc “Magic
Quadrant for Social Software in the Workplace” by
Nikos Drakos et al, September 2013).
Drakos and colleagues estimated the market will
be worth $1.4 billion in revenue by 2016, and
described it as “dynamic and highly competitive”.
Gartner looked at the top 20 vendors in the
sector. Apart from the top four mentioned above,
Gartner’s Visionaries were: Google, Telligent
(Zimbra), SAP, Cisco, and Acquia. The Niche
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players were: OpenText, Huddle, blueKiwi, Igloo,
Novell, Liferay, and Zyncro. And the Challengers
were: Tibco Software, VMware, NewsGator, and
Atlassian.
According to Gartner, “Leaders are well-established
vendors with widely used social software and
collaboration offerings. They have established
their leadership through early recognition of
users’ needs, continuous innovation, overall
market presence, and success in delivering userfriendly and solution-focused suites with broad
capabilities”.
If you’re thinking of getting an Enterprise Social
Network, what are you going to use it for?
“S.O.C.I.A.L. – Emergent Enterprise Social
Networking Use Cases: A Multi Case Study
Comparison”, by Kai Riemer and Alexander
Richter (2012), analysed nearly 7500 messages
from across five mature networks and found that
virtually all the messages could be grouped into
one of eleven generic categories. They were:
• Problem solving – what can I do with x that I
can’t do with y?
• Idea generation – how we can make this group
more useful to its members?
• Status updates – I’m in my weekly meeting with
customers
• Work coordination – @bob Can you raise tom’s
permissions
• Information storage – checklist for H&S
• Discussion and opinions
• Input generation – #NHF recommends
• Meeting organization – I can’t make that time,
can we shift to 4pm?
• Event notifications – 19 May for leaving drinks.
• Social praise – thanks for all your hard work on
cut-over day.
• Informal talk – congratulations on your new
baby.
Gartner has suggested that the business objectives
of Enterprise Social Networking projects are to:
• Improve general communication and information
sharing
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• Boost team productivity and effectiveness with
projects and business processes
• Support communities that stimulate learning
and innovation, diffuse best practices, and
encourage peer-to-peer networking that
strengthens professional and interpersonal
relationships.
So let’s take a brief look at those market leaders.
Yammer was launched in 2008 and was bought
by Microsoft in 2012. The plans seem to be that
it will tightly integrate with Office, SharePoint,
and application programs running on Windows.
Yammer lives in the cloud and looks pretty much
like Facebook, so users can find their way round
it fairly easily. With Office 365, sites can run their
Microsoft infrastructure in the cloud too.
Jive Software’s Jive was previously known as
Clearspace, then Jive SBS, then Jive Engage. Jive
(the company) was founded in 2001. Salesforce.
com was founded in 1999, and provides a variety
of different services to its customer base. Both
offer a Facebook-like product.
IBM’s product is IBM Connections. It was
announced at Lotusphere in 2007, and is
currently at Version 4.5. Its components include a
homepage, microblogging, profiles, communities,
ideation (the ability to crowdsource ideas), media
gallery, blogs, bookmarks, activities (a tool for
groups of people to work together on a specific
project or task), files, wikis, forums, and a search
facility.
The ten IBM Connections components are J2EE
(Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition) applications
that are hosted on IBM WebSphere Application
Server. In this way, the components can be hosted
independently of each other, and large-scale
deployments can be supported.
Importantly, if this is going to get any take up
outside of IBM-controlled environments, IBM
Connections uses plug-ins to integrate into
existing applications, including:
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Google Android Phones
WebSphere Portal.
There’s also platform support for IBM WebSphere
Mainframe user groups
The IBM mainframe world has attracted numerous
user organizations and special interest groups
(SIGs). Most hold regular meetings and
conferences, often with satellite groups and
chapters throughout the world. Here are a few
of them:
• SHARE. The oldest (1955) and probably most
influential IBM user organization with SIGs
focusing on various aspects of IBM software,
hardware and security. Known as GUIDE/
SHARE in Europe and Interaction in Australia.
http://www.share.org
http://www.gse.org
http://www.interaction.com.au
• zNextGen is part of SHARE, and invites people
who are new to enterprise computing, in a new
role with z Systems servers, or working as new
z Systems professionals, to participate.
http://www.share.org/page/meet-the-znextgen
• CMG. The Computer Measurement Group is
widely supported and specializes in capacity
planning and performance issues (mainframe
and increasingly distributed). There is a large
network of CMG organizations worldwide.
http://www.cmg.org
• IDUG – International DB2 User Group.
http://www.idug.org
Application Server V8 and DB2 10, as well as
support for the IBM i operating system.
It’s likely that once people start to use them,
Enterprise Social Networks will take on a life of
their own and new uses will be found for them.
My feeling is that their use will continue to grow
and you’ll begin to find them embedded in every
organization that you visit – and you’ll find people
checking them on their smartphones and tablets
when they’re out and about.
• WAVV – World Alliance of VSE, VM (and now
Linux apparently).
http://www.wavv.org
• TPFUG – TPF User Group (yes, it’s still out
there, handling 5000 transactions per second).
http://www.tpfug.org
• Global WebSphere Community.
http://www.websphereusergroup.org/
• International zSeries Oracle SIG for companies
licensed for Oracle on z/Linux and/or z/OS.
http://www.zseriesoraclesig.org
There are also two large user organizations
for data center managers with a focus on
infrastructure (including mainframe):
•
AFCOM (http://www.afcom.com)
•
7x24 Exchange
(http://www.7x24exchange.com)
Apart from the Virtual IMS user group (www.fundi.
com/virtualims), regional IMS user groups include
the long-established Dallas/Fort Worth group and
a number of newer ones.
Canada has CIPS, Canada’s Association of IT
Professionals, which has been in existence since
1958 and can be found at http://www.cips.ca/.
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Glossary of Terminology
Definitions of some mainframe-related terms
This glossary is intended as an aide memoire for experienced
mainframers and a useful reference for those new to the z/OS world.
If you would like to suggest any new entries for the next edition,
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3270
IBM’s family of dumb, block-mode synchronous screen
and printer terminals, which became the standard for
terminal/mainframe connectivity.
3270 data stream
Format used by 3270 devices for communication, and
much used for emulation to make PCs look like dumb
terminals.
5250
Terminal standard for the iSeries/400, System/3x etc.
ABARS
Aggregate Backup And Recovery Support. A disaster
recovery feature within DFSMShsm for automatically
creating files containing back-ups of critical data. The
main use of ABARS is to group all the datasets relating
to a particular application together.
Abend
ABnormal ENDing. IBMspeak for an unexpected
termination to a program run, eg a crash.
Above the line
In z/OS, z/VM, and VSE/ESA, above the line refers to
virtual/real memory locations with an address greater
than 16MB. The 16MB limit resulted from earlier
operating systems supporting 24-bit addressing.
Access method
IBM-specific jargon for software that moves data
between main storage and I/O devices.
ACF/VTAM
Advanced Communications Function / Virtual
Telecommunications Access Method is IBM’s proprietary
telecommunications software.
ACID
This acronym describes the properties of a transaction.
Atomicity refers to a transaction’s changes to the state
– either it all happens or nothing happens. Consistency
refers to the state of a transaction. It must not violate
any of the integrity constraints associated with the state.
Isolation refers to the transaction not being affected by
others. Durability refers to the survival of changes to
state after a transaction completes.
ACL (1)
Access Control Lists control which users or groups of
users can access which files and programs. They are
part of the security system and are checked by RACF.
ACL (2)
Automated Cartridge Library. Synonymous with ATL
(Automated Tape Library).
ACB
Access Control Block. The control block used to tie an
application program to a VSAM dataset.
ACO
Automated Console Operations. Automated procedures
that replace or reduce the number of actions an
operator takes from a console in response to system
or network activities.
Access control
Enforcing rules governing use of computer resources
by restricting both the use and type of use to authorized
individuals and the computer resources they are
responsible for.
ADA
Programming language much loved by the military
(ADA is a US government standard), which uses it for
writing systems for controlling guided missiles and the
like. Withdrawn August 1994.
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Address Resolution Protocol
The Internet Protocol (IP) used to dynamically map IP
addresses to physical hardware Media Access Control
(MAC) addresses.
Address space
The virtual storage allocated to an executing task in a
mainframe. Generally used within z/OS to mean the
space used by one of batch job, system task, or TSO
user.
AIX
Advanced Interactive eXecutive. IBM’s version of
Unix for mid-range systems (System p). It is one of
four commercial operating systems that are certified
to The Open Group’s UNIX 03 standard. It is currently supported on IBM Power Systems alongside
IBM i and Linux.
AJAX
Asynchronous Javascript And XML is a way of
creating interactive Web applications using a group
of technologies together. These technologies include
XHTML (or HTML) and CSS; the Document Object
Model; and the XMLHttpRequest object.
AMASPZAP
z/OS batch utility to apply a fix directly to object code in
situ. Often protected against unauthorized use because
of its additional ability to make direct changes to disk.
AMODE
Addressing MODE. Attribute of z/OS programs
indicating the length (in bits) of the addresses used
in the program. Introduced in MVS/XA to differentiate
between the then new 31-bit addressing that expanded
the addressable space from 16MB (24 bit) to 2GB. z/
OS introduced 64-bit addressing.
AMS
Access Method Services. z/OS and VSE subsystem
for performing various data-related actions on VSAM
and ICF catalogs, including defining VSAM datasets,
and deleting and copying most dataset types. In short,
a multi-purpose utility. Also known as IDCAMS because
that is the program name.
APAR
Authorized Program Analysis Report. An official report
of a software error to IBM. Also used to refer to the patch
supplied by IBM to fix the error (PTF is the correct term).
API
Application Program(ming) Interface. Documented
programming procedures to access a given piece of
software; typically an entry point name and parameter
list.
APL
A Programming Language, conceived within IBM by K E
Iverson, and popular on the mainframe in the late ’70s
and early ’80s to support end-user activities.
APM
Application Performance Management monitors and
manages the performance and availability of software
applications in order to meet business needs.
App
This usually refers to a mobile application found
on Android and Apple smartphones and tablets.
Applet
A small application program written in the Java that
can be retrieved from a Web server and executed in
a browser.
APPN
Advanced Peer-to-Peer Networking architecture is
an enhancement to SNA architecture. It can handle
dynamic multipath routing.
ARM
Automatic Restart Management is a sysplex-wide
integrated restart mechanism that can restart MVS
subsystems after an abend, restart workloads on
another MVS image after an MVS failure, and restart
a failed MVS image.
AS/400
Application System/400. IBM’s mid-range processor,
announced in June 1988. It was replaced by the IBM
Power Systems in April 2008.
ASCII
American Standard Code for Information Interchange.
A modification of the international code which has
become a de facto standard (except for IBM which also
uses the EBCDIC code) for transmitting data. Uses
seven bits plus a parity bit, and includes alphanumeric
and control characters. ASCII must be converted to
EBCDIC for uploading to IBM mainframes.
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ASM
Auxiliary Storage Manager. The part of z/OS that looks
after the I/O operations relating to paging – specifically
the pages and page slots on external storage (typically
DASD).
Assembler
Programming language that allows the user to get
close to the hardware on IBM mainframes. Assembler
statements correspond one-to-one with mainframe,
machine-level instructions.
BASIC
Beginners All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code.
Universal interactive programming language.
Batch
An accumulation of data brought together for processing
or transmission, usually unattended. Less formally,
the processing of such data, as opposed to online
processing where a user is present to respond
interactively.
ATL
Automated Tape Library (also known as Automated
Cartridge System – ACS, tape silo, or silo). Type of
mass storage system (MSS) in which industry standard
tapes are loaded by a robotic arm.
BCD
Binary-Coded Decimal. A binary-coded notation in
which each of the decimal digits is represented by
a binary numeral. This differs from the pure binary
notation, where the entire number is represented as a
single binary numeral.
Augmented reality
Using a device, such as a smartphone or tablet, to
view an object, such as server, and see on that device
additional information about the object – such as
performance information.
BCS
The Basic Catalog Structure and the VVDS are the two
parts of the ICF catalog. The BCS contains dataset and
alias names and volume serial numbers.
Auxiliary storage
All storage needing a channel I/O to access it (basically
cache, SSD, disk, tape, mass storage).
AWLC
Advanced Workload License Charges is a new monthly
licence pricing metric from IBM and applies to z196s.
Backout
A process that removes all database updates performed
by an application that has abended (qv).
BAL
Basic Assembler Language. The machine language on
the original S/360 from which the modern Assembler
languages are derived.
Bandwidth
A measure of how fast a network can transfer
information, originally measured in Hertz (Hz), but now
used for any measure of network throughput. The more
precise definition: frequency range within a radiation
band required to transmit a particular signal. Measures
the difference between the highest and lowest signal
frequencies in millions of cycles per second.
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BCU
A Balanced Configuration Unit comprises processor
memory, I/O, storage, and DB2 resources. It is the
smallest combination of these that work together
efficiently. As more work is added to the system,
so more BCUs can be added. This avoids any one
component being too big in terms of the others.
BDAM
Basic Direct Access Method allows programmers to
access specific blocks of data on DASD.
Benchmark
An agreed workload used as a standard against which
to compare the performance of different hardware/
software. For a benchmark to be useful it needs to be
a public standard.
Big Data
The SNA/APPN command used to activate an LU-LU
session following the successful completion of the SNA/
APPN session initiation processing.
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Big SQL
This allows users to access Hadoop-based data
using familiar SQL statements. It utilizes InfoSphere
BigInsights.
BIND
The SNA/APPN command used to activate an LU-LU
session following the successful completion of the SNA/
APPN session initiation processing.
BIOS
Basic Input/Output System. The I/O component of a
simple operating system defining the interface between
the operating system and the outside world.
Bitcoins
Bitcoins originated in a 2008 concept paper by Satoshi
Nakamoto. Bitcoins are a virtual currency that are
‘mined’ by solving complex algorithms and are usually
stored in a digital wallet. Bitcoin exchanges are
completely private, which makes them popular with
criminals! Many legitimate companies offer products
for sale using bitcoins.
BLOB
Binary Large OBject. A generic term for a file containing
some kind of binary data (text, image, document,
sound, etc). Typically BLOBs can be transferred and
manipulated across a wide range of platforms.
Block
A string of data elements, such as characters, words,
or physical records, that are recorded or transmitted
as a unit.
Bluemix
Bluemix is an open-standards, cloud-based platform for
building, managing, and running all types of apps, for
Web, mobile, big data, and smart devices. It includes
Java, mobile back-end development, and application
monitoring, all provided as-a-service in the cloud.
BMS
Basic Mapping Support. An interface between CICS
and an application to control the movement and
presentation of datastreams to and from a dumb
terminal. BMS allows data to be displayed without
allowing for display-dependent formatting characters.
Boolean
An operation that follows the rules of Boolean algebra.
Boot
To prepare a computer system for operation by loading
an operating system.
BPAM
Basic Partitioned Access Method is a low-level access
method used to access Partitioned DataSets (PDSs).
BSAM
Basic Sequential Access Method, along with QSAM, is
an access method used to access sequential datasets.
Bus
Generic term in data communications to describe a
wiring topology (such as that used in Ethernet) in which
devices are connected along a single linear medium.
BYOD
Bring your own device is the policy many companies
are adopting to allow employees to bring their own
mobile devices (laptops, tablets, and smartphones) to
their workplace, and to use those devices to access
privileged company information and applications.
BYOI
Bring Your Own Identity is the growing practice of taking
a validated identity with you and so not needing to
remember different user-ids and passwords for different
environments. There are security issues.
Byte
A string of 8 bits that represents one EBCDIC character.
The IBM mainframe architecture is organized around
the concept of the byte.
C
A programming language developed at Bell Labs in
1972, so named because its predecessor was named
B. Unix was written in C.
C/C++
An optional, separately priced feature of z/OS, available
with or without Debug Tool. The C/C++ IBM Open Class
Library is included with z/OS, but is only enabled when
C/C++ is licensed.
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Cache
High-speed buffer between a fast device and a slow
device. In large IBM systems cacheing may take
place in the CPU (in main or expanded storage), the
controller, device head-of-string, or the device itself
(eg in a track buffer). It is used to reduce access time.
Capacity on Demand
Processors can be purchased with extra capacity
already on-board but not functioning. When extra
capacity is required at a site, it is turned on. This is
non-disruptive and customers don’t pay for the extra
capacity until they start using it.
Catalog
A dataset that contains information about other
datasets, eg type, location, size, format. The z/OS
master catalog usually also contains entries for user
catalogs.
CCL
Communication Controller for Linux (CCL) on zSeries
runs the Network Control Program (NCP) software
product in Linux, enabling users to get rid of their legacy
3745 communication controllers running NCP-based
SNA workloads to zSeries servers.
CDS
Configuration DataSet.
CGI
Common Gateway Interface. A mechanism used
by HTTP servers to invoke arbitrary programs for
additional processing of certain requests; typically,
those involving database access.
Change management
The methodology for planning and controlling software
changes.
Channel
A specialized computer used in the IBM mainframe
architecture to control transfers between devices and
the processor unit. The channel offloads some of the
processing associated with I/O from the main CPU.
Channel adapter
Hardware unit to attach a channel to a processor.
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Channel attached
Devices that are directly attached to the processor by
cable rather than over a communications link.
Channels
CICS TS 3.1 introduced a replacement for sizerestricted COMMAREAs – they are channels and
containers. Any number of containers can be passed
between programs and they are grouped together in
channels.
CHPID
CHannel Path IDentifier. A single byte binary value used
to uniquely identify each channel path on an eServer
zSeries and previous mainframe systems.
CICS
Customer Information Control System. General
purpose TP monitor for terminal-oriented and intersystem transaction processing in z/OS and VSE/ESA
environments. Now with added SOA.
CICS Explorer
This is a system management tool for CICS systems
that’s based on the Eclipse platform.
CICSplex
A CICS complex (CICSplex) is a group of intercommunicating CICS systems.
CICSPlex System Manager (CPSM)
This provides system management as well as
automation and workload management.
CKD
Count Key Data is a way to format disk drive using
cylinder number, track number, and physical record.
Client/server
Generic term for systems (also known as server/
requester) in which one machine provides a range of
services to one or more other machines.
CLIST
Control language used to manage interactive
applications in the z/OS TSO environment. Largely
superseded by REXX.
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Cloud computing
A new name for something similar to client/server
computing. A user launches a browser and clicks a link.
Somewhere else an application launches and work is
done. The mainframe seems to have always worked
in this way. Organizations like Microsoft, Amazon, and
Google are trying to become big players in this ‘new’
paradigm.
CMOS
Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor. A chip
technology used widely by IBM in its processors,
superseding the water-cooled ECL chips on the
mainframe.
CMS
Conversational (originally Cambridge – the lab where
it was built) Monitor System. Operating system running
under VM, and providing timesharing and program
development facilities.
COBOL
Programming language, very widely used for
commercial applications on the mainframe. Some
sources suggest that CICS and COBOL account for
85% of all transactions processed.
Communication Server
IBM’s all inclusive, multi-platform, software bundle that
provides a plethora of terminal emulation, Web-to-host,
and networking capabilities.
Compile
The translation of a high-level programming language
(source program) into a machine language program
(an executable program).
Compiler
A program that translates high-level programming
languages into machine language programs.
Composite applications
A composite application is an application built by
combining multiple services. This tends to mean
taking part of a really useful mainframe application
and combining it with some other code so that the
mainframe application becomes available over the Web
Compression
Generic term for a method of reducing the amount of
space needed to store data, by encoding the data. This
is achieved through the elimination of empty fields,
gaps, redundancies, and unnecessary data to shorten
the length of records or blocks.
Connector
One way of integrating CICS applications as Web
services is to use connectors on the mainframe and
use native interfaces to permit tight integration with the
target application.
Containers
CICS TS 3.1 introduced a replacement for sizerestricted COMMAREAs – they are channels and
containers. Any number of containers can be passed
between programs and they are grouped together in
channels. Channels are deleted when no programs
are using them.
Control Point
SNA/APPN/HPR functionality that performs
authorization, directory services and configuration
management.
CORBA
Common Object Request Broker Architecture. Set of
standards for distributed object management from the
Object Management Group (OMG).
Coupling
Generic term used to mean connecting of processors
together into a more or less tightly-knit computing
complex. Used specifically by IBM to mean the
connection of multiple eServer zSeries processors in
a Sysplex.
Coupling Facility
Hardware from IBM, where common tables can be
shared in a Sysplex, for high-speed cacheing, update
locking of shared data, list processing and workload
balancing between multiple processors.
CPC
Central Processor Complex.
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CPU
Central Processing Unit. Processor. The part of a
computer that executes instructions.
CRM
Customer Relationship Management refers to the
way organizations manage their relationships with
customers - including finding, marketing to, selling to,
and servicing these customers.
CTG
CICS Transaction Gateway provides J2EE standardsbased access to CICS applications, which means it’s
an easy way to make existing CICS applications part
of a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA).
CTC
Channel-To-Channel connections would link two
mainframes and provide high-speed communication.
Cylinder
The tracks, in an assembly of magnetic disks, that
can be accessed without repositioning the access
mechanism.
DASD
Direct Access Storage Device. IBMspeak for disk.
DAT
Dynamic Address Translation. The process by which
virtual addresses are converted into real addresses
during instruction execution.
DataPower
IBM WebSphere DataPower SOA Appliances is a family
of pre-built, pre-configured rack mountable network
devices that accelerate Web services deployments
while extending SOA infrastructure.
Dataset
A unit of data storage and retrieval consisting of one
or more data records. Outside of the IBM mainframe
environment, people call them files.
DB2
Database/2. Relational database management system
first announced for mainframe environments in 1983.
Originally promoted as an end-user tool, but is now
IBM’s preferred DBMS for just about everything and
runs on all platforms.
Debug
The human problem determination process for
software. Literally, to remove bugs.
DEDB
Data Entry DataBases are one of two types of IMS fast
path database. These databases do not have indexes
and are stored in VSAM files.
Defragmentation
The use of a software utility to improve access
and retrieval time by rewriting fragmented data to
contiguous sectors of a computer storage medium.
Data dictionary
A data dictionary (DD) is a database containing
information about the way items of data are used.
Typically a DD contains details of data names, data
usage, data structures, data models, and so on.
Denial of Service
An insidious, carefully-orchestrated attack on computer
systems or networks to overload their resources with a
barrage of requests in the hope of discovering overloadinduced vulnerabilities within the targets or to just
disrupt the mission-critical activities of an enterprise.
Data mining
The practice of using a data warehouse for highly
complex, ad hoc queries.
Device
Any computer peripheral, such as tape or DASD, or
any object that appears to be a peripheral.
Data warehouse
General term for a collection of database, middleware,
and query tools that allow fast, flexible access to nearoperational corporate data.
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DevOps
Part DEVelopment and part OPerations, DevOps
is a philosophy emphasizing the collaboration and
communication between software developers and
other IT people, so that building, testing, and releasing
software, can happen rapidly, frequently, and more
reliably.
DFSMS
Data Facility Storage Management Subsystem. An
element of z/OS and also available for z/VM, as
DFSMS/VM. The idea is that you simply tell the system
about your storage, back-up, performance, and other
requirements of the data, and the system does the rest
for you. Of course, it’s not really that simple.
DFSMSdfp
DFSMS Data Facility Product. A component of DFSMS
that provides functions for storage, data, program, and
device management, in conjunction with distributed
data access. Enables the definition of the services
to be assigned to new datasets. Handles catalog
management and access methods.
DFSMSdss
DFSMS DataSet Services. An optional, separately
priced feature of DFSMS that handles device migration,
copy, space management, and dump/restore. It
also converts existing data between non-SMS and
SMS volumes, and provides an interface for storage
administrators (ISMF).
DFSMShsm
DFSMS Hierarchical Storage Manager. An optional,
separately priced feature of DFSMS. It is a sophisticated
automated system for both back-up and hierarchical
storage management. It includes an ISPF interface
for end users who wish to migrate, recall, back-up, or
recover individual datasets, or to override the default
migration and/or back-up parameters.
DFSMSrmm
DFSMS Removable Media Manager. Its goal was to
integrate the system managed storage principles of
DFSMS into all removable media, most notably tape
and optical.
DL/I
Data Language/I. The I is the Roman numeral One. The
data manipulation language within IMS DB. DL/I is also
the product name for IBM’s VSE/ESA implementation
of IMS DB.
DLSw
Widely-used SNA/APPN(/NetBIOS)-over-TCP/IP
transport mechanism which, however, unlike EE, does
not support SNA COS or routing.
DMZ
A De-Militarized Zone is used in the on-going war
against viruses and malware etc. Typically, one
computer accepts incoming data and send outgoing
data. Behind it is a firewall, and behind that is the
protected LAN.
Domino
Web server technology from Lotus (June 1996), which
allows browsers to interact with Notes and access Notes
databases. Now closely integrated with WebSphere.
DRaaS
Disaster Recovery as a Service is the replication and
hosting of physical or virtual servers by a third-party to
provide failover in the event of a catastrophe.
EBCDIC
Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code.
Coded 8-bit character set (giving 256 characters) used
by IBM mainframes.
e-business
Used to refer to business transactions that use the
Internet.
ECI
The External Call Interface is used by CICS to allow
non-CICS programs to invoke programs under CICS.
Eclipse
Eclipse is an Open Source IDE. IBM’s version is sold
as WebSphere Studio Workbench. The Eclipse platform
comprises the platform run-time, the workspace, the
workbench, the Standard Widget Toolkit (SWT), the
Version and Configuration Management (VCM), and
the help system. Eclipse comes with a large number
of plug-ins. The user interface for Eclipse is known as
the workbench.
ECLipz
A not very secret IBM project to use many of the same
components on its different server lines (i, p, and z) and
thereby save huge amounts of money on development
costs. It was also suggested that the plan was to thwart
Sun Microsystems’ server plans – as in “total eclipse
of the sun”.
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EE
HPR-over-UDP/IP, created by committee and codified
in RFC 2353 in 1998, which permits SNA/APPN
networking, replete with native COS and routing, across
IP networks.
EJB
Enterprise JavaBeans. A server-side, transactionoriented extension to the JavaBeans component model
specification published by Sun. EJB are JavaBeans, but
have no user interface and are designed to run within a
special EJB container. In principle, any properly coded
EJB should run within any fully compliant EJB container.
Enqueue
The z/OS expression (often abbreviated to ENQ) for
requesting resource serialization. ENQ can be used to
put a user-named entry in the system resource queue
in order to prevent another program using a serially
usable resource.
Enterprise Extender
Enterprise Extender (EE) is a combination of SNA
encapsulated in IP packets, so it can be thought of as
a kind of protocol.
EPI
A CICS External Presentation Interface service is an
implementation of a service that can be created from a
3270 terminal. EPI provides communication with 3270
terminal-based CICS applications.
ERP
Enterprise Resource Planning systems try to integrate
all the data and processes that exist within an
organization into a single unified system.
Error log
A dataset or file that contains a record of machine
checks on device errors, which are stored for later
analysis.
ESB
An Enterprise Service Bus is a software architecture
construct that is standards-based and flexible. It is an
attempt to separate the service being called and the
required transport medium.
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ESCON
Enterprise System Connectivity. The high-speed
fibre-optic channel architecture (using a serial, packetswitched protocol) first available on ES/9000 and
3090Js and many peripherals. Replaced by FICON in
May 1998, though still available.
ESDS
Entry Sequenced DataSet is a VSAM sequential
dataset.
ESM
An External Security Manager is software that controls
access to applications and data externally. RACF is an
External Security Manager.
ESS
The Total Storage Enterprise Storage Server, codenamed shark, is a high-speed data storage product.
EWLC
Entry Workload Licence Charges allow customers only
pay for peak z/OS usage, not for full machine capacity.
FBA
Fixed Block Architecture is a way of formatting disk
drives where space is allocated in fixed-length blocks
rather than cylinders.
FDBR
Fast DataBase Recovery creates a separate IMS
control region (the Fast Database Recovery region)
to monitor an IMS subsystem. If it detects a failure, it
will recover any database resources that are locked
by the failed IMS, so they’re available for other IMS
subsystems.
Fibre optic channel
Channel technology which replaced copper bus-andtag channel cables with fibre-optic links.
FICON
FIbre CONnection. Mainframe channel that implements
the ANSI FCS transport. Each FICON channel
can handle over 4,000 I/O operations per second,
equivalent to eight ESCON(qv) channels. The FICON
channel link speed is 100MB/sec full duplex, compared
with 17MB/sec simplex with ESCON links.
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Firewall
Specialized software designed to prevent unauthorized
access to a computer system while permitting validated,
non-harmful interactions to get through.
Flat file
Any file (dataset, mainframe parlance) stored in a file
access method without an index which, of course,
eliminates all relational DBMSs.
Floating point
One of several methods of storing numbers on an
IBM mainframe and most other computers. Similar to
scientific notation, such as 3.75 times 10 to the 25th
power, only it is 2 or 16 that is taken to some power.
Gateway
One way of integrating CICS applications as Web
services is to use gateways, which run off the
mainframe on middle tier servers and may well use
traditional methods, such as screen scraping.
GDG
Generation Data Group. Collection of (z/OS non-VSAM)
datasets all with the same logical name (GDG Base
Entry); the individual datasets are uniquely identified
by the generation number which is stored as part of
the dataset name.
FLPA
The Fixed Link Pack Area is an area of storage
containing modules loaded at IPL time.
GDPS
Geographically Dispersed Parallel Sysplex is an
application to manage z/OS remote copy configuration
and storage subsystems, to automate various tasks,
and perform failure recovery for a sysplex located at
two sites.
FORTRAN
FORmula TRANslation. A programming language best
suited for engineering, scientific, and mathematical
applications.
GTF
Generalized Trace Facility. An optional z/OS utility that
records system events, which can be used for problem
diagnosis.
Fragmentation
When an operating system writes data to disk or other
storage media, and there is insufficient contiguous
space, the data is then written to discontiguous
sectors. The result is fragmented data. Fragmentation
can cause increased data access times because the
operating system must search different tracks for
information.
GUIDE
Guidance for Users of Integrated Data processing
Equipment. For many years, an international user
group for users of large IBM equipment. Main GUIDE
interests were in applications and the commercial world.
Depending on the area of the world you live in, it either
stepped aside for SHARE or merged with SHARE (now
GUIDE/SHARE in Europe, for example).
FTP
File Transfer Protocol is an application layer protocol
that uses TCP and Telnet services to transfer bulk data
files between machines or hosts.
Hadoop
An open-source software framework for storage and
large scale processing of data-sets, ie Big Data. On
a mainframe, it runs in a Linux partition (Linux on
System z).
FWLC
Flat Workload License Charge. A flat monthly charge
for a software product, no matter what size of zSeries
server it is being run on.
Gamification
A way of making using the software more fun – like
in a game – and so people are more likely to do it. It
has applications in mundane tasks such as updating
a knowledgebase.
Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS)
A filesystem used to store Big Data.
HALDB
High-Availability Large Databases are the newest
(since V7) IMS databases. They are like souped-up
very big full-function databases.
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HBase
This is a non-relational, distributed database, written
in Java that is used to store Big Data.
HCD
Hardware Configuration Definition is an interactive tool
used to define the hardware configuration.
HDA
Head/Disk Assembly. The read/write head and
associated bits and pieces that read data from disks.
The implication is also of a sealed unit, at least from
the customer perspective, as opposed to a removable
disk pack.
Hub
A generic term for a device that has a single connection
to the host and many connections for other devices to
connect to it.
I/O
Input/output. Refers to the transmission of data into
or out of a processor’s memory. This would include
communication lines and peripherals such as disk
drives.
ICETOOL
An enhanced DFSORT utility that includes the OUTFIL
feature.
HFS
Hierarchical File System comes with Linux and refers
to the way files are stored.
IBM i
An operating system running on IBM Power Systems.
It was originally named OS/400 and ran on AS/400s.
HiperBatch
A way of running batch jobs in hyperspace, so there
was far less I/O and things ran faster.
ICF
Integrated Catalog Facility contains catalog information
about datasets. It is made up BCS and VVDS.
HMC
Hardware Management Console used to manage
hardware.
ICF
Integrated Coupling Facility is a component of a Parallel
Sysplex. It allows multiple processors to share, cache,
update, and balance data access.
Host
A computer system that is a server and/or serves
attached terminals. Often used to refer to mainframe.
HPR
High-Performance Routing is an extension to APPN
networking providing improved routing performance
and reliability.
HSA
High-Speed Adapter is the name for subchannels on
some servers.
HTML
HyperText Mark-up Language is a “mark-up language”
for defining the structure of a document – eg Web
pages.
HTTP
HyperText Transfer Protocol is the protocol used to
request, transfer, and display hypertext documents.
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Integrated Cryptographic Service Facility is part of MVS
security, protecting data on the mainframe.
IDAA (IBM DB2 Analytics Accelerator)
This high-performance appliance integrates IBM
Netezza and zEnterprise technologies, providing fast
results for complex and data-intensive DB2 queries on
data warehousing, business intelligence, and analytic
workloads.
IDCAMS
Access Method Services. Multi-purpose batch VSAM
utility program.
IDE
Integrated Development Environment. Salesmen say it
stands for “It Does Everything”, and unlucky customers
as “I Do Everything”! An IDE could be a glorified text
editor right up to all-singing all-dancing software like
Eclipse and Visual Studio.
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IEBCOMPR
z/OS Compare Datasets utility does a logical compare
of datasets. Replaced by SuperC in ISPF/PDF.
IEBCOPY
z/OS Library Copy utility for copying members of
a partitioned dataset (PDS), unloading a PDS into
a sequential dataset and back again. Unloading is
especially useful for copying a PDS to tape.
IEBGENER
z/OS Sequential Copy/Generate Dataset utility.
Replaced by ICEGENER in DFSORT and several
non-IBM products.
IEBPTPCH
z/OS Print-Punch utility for producing a hard copy of
datasets and library members. Replaced by ISPF/
PDF’s hardcopy capabilities.
IEBUPDTE
z/OS Update Dataset utility. Can only be used for PDS
members and sequential datasets with fixed-length
records no greater than 80 bytes in length.
IEHLIST
z/OS List System Data utility for listing a VTOC or the
directory of a PDS.
IEHMOVE
z/OS Move System Data utility for moving or copying
logical collections of operating system data. Replaced
by DFSMSdss.
IETF
Internet Engineering Task Force. An open community
of network designers, operators, vendors, and
researchers concerned with the evolution of the Internet
architecture and the smooth operation of the Internet.
IFL
Integrated Facility for Linux. Dedicated Linux processor
on the zSeries.
IIOP
Internet Inter-ORB Protocol is an object-oriented
protocol that makes it possible for distributed programs
written in different programming languages to
communicate over the Internet.
IML
Initial Microcode (sometimes Machine) Load. The
first step in starting up a mainframe, during which the
firmware is automatically copied into the machine.
IMS
Information Management System. Vintage but
extremely powerful system for transactional workloads,
still underpinning many of the world’s business-critical
applications. Composed of two systems: Database
Manager (IMS DB) and a Transaction Manager (IMS
TM).
IMS catalog
The IMS catalog contains information about IMS
program resources, database resources, and relevant
application metadata that IMS controls.
IMS Connect
This is an integrated TCP/IP gateway for IMS, allowing
user-written applications to access IMS data and
transaction services from any TCP/IP client. It also
supports callout from IMS applications to outside
services.
IND$FILE
Mainframe file transfer program.
Info/Man
IBM Information/Management. Software problem,
change and configuration management software. Now
called Tivoli Information Management for z/OS.
Internet of Things
This refers to devices such a remote sensors, CCTV,
weather satellites, etc that will be monitoring thrughout
the day, and producing data that can be captured and
analysed.
IOCDS
Input/Output Configuration DataSet. The dataset
specifying the I/O devices that can be connected to a
mainframe.
IOCP
Input/Output Configuration Program. The program
describing the I/O configuration to the channel
subsystem.
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IP
Internet Protocol. An Internet protocol that routes data
through networks. IP acts as an intermediary between
the higher protocol layers and the physical network. It
does not provide error recovery or flow control.
IP address
The numerical Internet Protocol (IP) address of an
Internet computer. Every computer has a unique
numerical IP address. IPv6, which offers 64-bit
addressing, is meant to replace IPv4, which only offers
32-bit addressing. One day, all the addresses available
with 32-bit addressing are meant to be used up!
IPL
Initial Program Load. The first part of the process of
loading an operating system into a machine.
IRC
Inter-Region Communication is a CICS facility providing
communication between CICS regions using functions
such as Multiregion Operation (MRO) and Distributed
Program Link (DPL).
IRD
Intelligent Resource Director. z/OS feature for
redistributing workloads on the fly.
ISHELL
ISHELL (ISPF Shell) is the name of the panel displayed
after issuing the ISH command. It can be used to view
files and directories.
ISPF
Interactive System Productivity Facility. Menu and
screen management system.
ISPF/PDF
ISPF/Program Development Facility. ISPF facility
providing access to application development services
for end users and programmers. Incorporates C and
REXX programming support, and some support for
programmable workstations.
ISV
Independent Software Vendor. A software vendor
which isn’t part of and/or doesn’t belong to a hardware
manufacturer.
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ITIL
Information Technology Infrastructure Library. ITIL
provides a framework of best practice guidance for IT
service managers. The actual ITIL publications cover
areas such as service strategy, service design, service
transition, service operation, and continual service
improvement.
J2EE
Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition. The Java Software
Development Kit (SDK) tools, APIs, and run-time (ie
execution) environment targeted at Java developers
building enterprise-class, server-side applications.
Java
An object-oriented programming environment
developed by Sun towards the end of 1995. Java
creates applets which can be downloaded across the
Internet, and which will allow clients to interact with
objects on the Web and intranet servers.
Java Virtual Machine
The facility allowing Java applets/source code to run
on a computer.
JavaBeans
A platform-independent, software component
technology for building reusable Java components
called Beans. The JavaBeans component model
specifies how to build reusable software components,
how the resulting Beans describe their properties to
visual rapid application development tools, and how
they communicate with each other. Beans can be
combined to create applications or applets.
JavaScript
An interpreted scripting language.
JCA
J2EE Connector Architecture is used to connect CICS
with a J2EE platform.
JCL
Job Control Language. The language used on the
mainframe to describe the steps of a batch job (files
to be used, programs to be run, etc).
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JDBC
Java DataBase Connectivity. An API that is designed
for use by Java database applications, and has the
same characteristics as Open Database Connectivity
(ODBC).
JDK
Java Development Kit. Software development kit from
Sun consisting of a Java compiler, a debugger, standard
Java classes, and a Java run-time (ie JVM) for Unix.
JES2 and JES3
Job Entry Subsystem 2. One of two batch processing
subsystems available for z/OS, both developed in the
1960s and with a different heritage and different control
statements. Each reads batch jobs in, schedules their
execution and spools their output. JES2 is by far the
more popular.
JMS
The Java Message Service is a Java API to messageoriented middleware (MOM).
JNDI
Java Naming and Directory Interface is really two APIs
used to keep track of, and access, dispersed data.
JNI
The Java Native Interface is a programming interface
for writing Java native methods and embedding the
Java virtual machine into native applications.
JSON
JavaScript Object Notation is an open standard format
using human-readable text to send data objects as an
alternative to XML.
JSP
JavaServer Pages. Uses XML-like tags and scriptlets
to encapsulate logic that fills out the dynamic content
of HTML pages.
JVM
see Java Virtual Machine.
Kantara Initiative
This is an organization dedicated to advancing
technical and legal innovation related to digital identity
management. It isn’t a standards body, buts make
recommendations to standards bodies about digital
identity management.
Kerberos
Security system for Unix environments derived from
MIT’s Project Athena. Uses a trusted server to ensure
that there are no unwanted systems in the network.
Kernel
The core of an operating system that performs basic
functions such as allocating hardware resources.
Kilobit
1024 bits, or 2 to the 10th power, when referring to
processor storage, real and virtual storage, and channel
volume. However, when referring to disk storage
capacity it is 1000 bits. Abbreviated as Kb.
Kilobyte
1024 bytes, or 2 to the 10th power, when referring to
processor storage, real and virtual storage, and channel
volume. However, when referring to disk storage
capacity it is 1000 bytes. Abbreviated as KB.
KSDS
Key Sequenced DataSet is a type of VSAM dataset in
which the physical location of records is controlled by
the key used.
LAN
Local Area Network. A generic term for the transport
mechanism for a local (eg site or building) network. The
thing that makes current LANs special is their intimacy
with the connected machines; effectively the LAN acts
as an extension to the internal bus of the attached
system, and allows a single system to be built from
physically dispersed components.
Language Environment
LE provides a common run-time environment for major
programming languages. The common library of runtime services includes message handling, condition
handling, storage management routines and time/date
functions.
Latency
A measure of response time. On a disk drive, how long
it takes for the first bit of requested data to rotate under
the head. In a network, the minimum elapsed time for a
message to be transmitted, consisting of the aggregate
delay contributed by the communications links and
devices along the way.
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LDAP
Lightweight Directory Access Protocol. An Internet
directory management standard that provides a
consistent way to manage user access to network
resources, such as information, applications and
systems.
LPA
Link Pack Area. The z/OS area used for resident
programs, eg those programs which are most frequently
used and (usually for performance reasons) should not
be loaded by each application program from libraries
stored on disk.
LDS
Linear DataSet is a type of VSAM dataset that can
be kept permanently in memory thus improving
performance.
LPAR
Logical PARtitioning is a way of dividing up a
processor’s capacity.
Legacy system
The description given to any system that’s been around
longer than the programmer who wants to change it.
Some ‘legacy systems’ can be comparatively recent
and, despite popular perceptions, they are certainly
not exclusive to the mainframe.
LIFO
Last In, First Out. A queuing technique where the most
recent addition to the queue is processed first. Also
known as a push-down stack.
Linear Dataset
A VSAM dataset type, similar to an ESDS, but which
always has 4096 byte blocks, and which can be kept
permanently in memory for enhanced performance.
Linux
An Open Source Unix variant that seems to run on
everything from workstations (where Microsoft haters
insist it will replace Windows) to mainframes (where
IBM has spent bags of money making it run well).
Listener
An application that ‘listens’ for input on a line and then
acts on it.
Load module
A program in a form that can be loaded into memory
for immediate execution.
Logical Partitioning
A way of dividing up a processor’s capacity under PR/
SM into physically separate areas (LPARs or Logical
PARtitions) for resilience, performance or security
reasons.
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LSR
Local Shared Resources. A technique for improving
CICS performance by the sharing of a common buffer
pool for VSAM datasets.
LU
SNA’s software interface (or ‘port’) through which end
users gain access to the SNA network.
LU 6.2
SNA’s protocol suite for program-to-program
communications.
LUW
Logical Unit of Work is the amount of work that will be
backed out in the event of a failure. For example, a
CICS transaction is processing away happily and then
something goes wrong. The LUW defines how much
of what has been processed will be backed out and
how much that occurred previously can be left. Large
LUWs are efficient providing that failures are rare. Small
LUW use processing power, but are more efficient for
recovery after a failure.
M2M
Machine-to-machine is used when talking about
machines, devices, and equipment that can
communicate with each other. And that communication
can be wired or wireless.
MAC
Media Access Control. Generic term for the way in
which workstations gain access to transmission media.
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Macro
A preprocessor (precompiler), and the statements
it processes, for Assembler. Generates Assembler
instructions and machine instruction mnemonics as well
as allowing assembly time conditional logic.
Mainframe
A high-performance computer serving many people
at once and running many different applications
concurrently.
Man-in-the-Middle
Data siphoning scheme where fraudulent software
manages to insert itself, undetected, between two
network partners by actively emulating the two partners
being deceived.
MapReduce
A process used on Big Data at runtime that maps the
data and reduces it.
Master catalog
The z/OS catalog where the search begins for a
dataset.
MCM
The MultiChip Module (MCM) contains the Central
Electronic Complex (CEC) of a S/390 system.
Measured usage
The method of charging for software based on the
monthly usage. Same as Usage-based pricing.
Megabit
1,048,576 bits. Abbreviated as Mb.
Microcode
Although it can have very specific alternative meanings,
its most common usage is as a synonym for firmware.
Microsecond
1/1,000,000 of a second.
Microsoft
The company that made the shrewd move of persuading
IBM to use its DOS operating system for the IBM PC.
The rest is history.
Middleware
Though it defies definition, its primary role is to provide
connectivity and other shared services between
platforms. There are numerous types.
MIME
Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions. An encoding
format allowing e-mail messages containing a variety
of media forms (audio, video, image, and text) to be
sent across the Internet.
MIPS
Million Instructions Per Second (or Meaningless
Indicator of Processor Speed). A crude and not very
meaningful way of expressing raw computer power,
widely used for comparing the power of different
mainframe models and for demonstrating the futility of
comparing the mainframe with other platforms.
Mirroring
The technique of constantly maintaining a parallel copy
of critical datasets, so that the duplicate data can be
used if there is a problem with the main data.
Megabyte
Roughly one million bytes – actually 1,048,576 bytes.
Abbreviated as MB.
MLPA
The Modified Link Pack Area is an area of storage used
to contain re-enterable routines from APF-authorized
libraries.
MFLOPS
MegaFLOPS. One MFLOPS is one million floating
point operations per second – a common measure of
numerically intensive compute power.
MobileFirst
MobileFirst is a set of mobile software, services, and
solutions for businesses offered by IBM.
MIB
Management Information Base. Generic term (often
used specifically in relation to the SNMP management
protocol) for the database of the objects managed in a
network – usually a LAN.
MOM
Message Oriented Middleware. For example,
WebSphere MQ.
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MongoSQL
This is an Open Source NoSQL database that uses
JSON-like documents with dynamic schemas for speed.
MPF
Message Processing Facility. A utility in z/OS that
controls message display and message processing,
typically to suppress unnecessary system messages.
A first step towards automated operations.
MQSeries
Messaging and Queueing Series – see WebSphere
MQ.
MRO
Multi-Region Operation is a function of the CICS InterRegion Communication facility enabling communication
between CICS regions.
MSDBs
Main Storage DataBases are one of two types of IMS
fast path database. These databases do not have
indexes and are stored in VSAM files.
MSS
Mass Storage System is hardware for storing large
amounts of archive data, typically involving the use of a
jukebox mechanism to retrieve discrete data cartridges.
MSU
Millions of Service Units. Measure of mainframe
compute power, used selectively by IBM as an
alternative to MIPS. Opinions vary as to how the two
metrics compare.
MTBF
Mean Time Between Failures. The average value of
the length of time between consecutive failures under
stated conditions of a system.
MTO
Master Terminal Operator. Software enabling a terminal
to control a subsystem, eg CICS.
MTTR
Mean Time To Recovery or Repair. The average time
required for corrective maintenance. See also MTBF.
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Multiplexer
A generic device (also known as a mux) that combines
data from two or more devices, transmits the data as a
single datastream over a high-speed communications
medium, and disentangles (de-multiplexes) the data
at the other end.
Multi-point
Communications configuration in which a single primary
node communicates with two or more secondary nodes
(which cannot communicate with one another, except
through the primary). Also known as multi-drop.
MVS
Multiple Virtual Storage. In z/OS’s long history, MVS
has the honour of being its name for the longest
period (about 20 years), and the operating system is
still referred to as MVS by many mainframe technical
specialists. Popularly believed to stand for Man Versus
System.
Nanosecond
1/1,000,000,000 of a second.
NAS
Network Attached Storage.
.NET
.NET is a Microsoft strategy for creating Web services.
In essence, a Windows user should be able to run
applications locally or over the Web without noticing
the difference. Visual Studio .NET is a development
environment that is currently available.
NetView
SNA network management product. Announced
mid-1986. Although it started off life as a rather halfhearted bundling of various mainframe-centric network
management products (including NCCF, NLDM,
NPDA, VNCA, and NMPF), by mid-1995 it had turned
into a fully-fledged distributed network management
system, with a strong focus on distributed Unix boxes
as network management workstations. Replaced by
Tivoli NetView and other products.
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NFS
Network File System. Set of Unix protocols (originally
developed by Sun Microsystems) for file sharing across
a LAN. Built on top of Ethernet and TCP/IP.
OLE
Object Linking and Embedding. Microsoft-sponsored
standard for moving and linking data and other objects
between applications and systems in Windows.
NJE
Network Job Entry. JES facility enabling multiple hosts
to share job queues and system spools.
OLTEP
On-Line Test and Execution Program. IBM engineer’s
tool for analysis of hardware problems.
Node
In SNA, a total unit of network-attachable functionality,
realized in software, that gets implemented within a
device or runs on a computer.
OLTP
On-Line Transaction Processing. Generic term for highthroughput, very resilient transaction systems. OLTP
tends to be used to refer to systems with some degree
of fault tolerance.
NoSQL
NoSQL databases don’t have to use SQL, but may.
They are different from traditional relational databases..
Notes
Lotus groupware product that IBM took on in June ’91.
OAuth
This is an open standard for authorization. It allows
people to access third-party Web sites using their
validated Facebook or Twitter IDs.
OCR
Optical Character Recognition. OCR software is used
to convert scanned documents into machine-readable
text files.
ODBC
Open DataBase Connectivity. An API created by
Microsoft that allows Windows applications to access
relational databases, such as DB2 and Oracle, and
other data sources using SQL statements.
OEM
Original Equipment Manufacturer. An OEM is a
manufacturer who makes a product and sells it to
another company, which puts its own badge on it and
sells it to the end user.
OLAP
On-Line Analytical Processing. A term coined by
database guru Ted Codd and used to refer to multidimensional analysis and reporting applications of the
EIS and Information Warehouse type.
OMG
Object Management Group. A group of vendors
responsible for standards for object management and
interoperability including CORBA, UML, MOF and
CWM. IBM joined in 1991.
OMVS
The OMVS command is used to invoke the z/OS Unix
shell.From here you can use shell commands or utilities
requesting services from the system. You could also
write shell scripts and run shell scripts or programs
written in C.
Online Reorganization (OLR)
Using OLR with IMS HALDBs, the databases
remain available to applications throughout the OLR
reorganization process.
Open Systems
Computer systems that provide either interoperability,
portability, of freedom from proprietary standards,
depending on your perspective.
OpenEdition
‘Open’ version of MVS that was replaced by Unix
System Services in z/OS and OpenEdition Shell and
Utilities in z/VM.
OpenID
This provides a way for users to consolidate their digital
identities by having a single OpenID when connecting
to different Web sites.
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ORB
Object Request Broker. A specialized object that allows
other objects to communicate with each other to make
and receive requests and responses.
OS/390
Replacement for MVS, announced in 1995. Now
superseded by z/OS, but still used in some mainframe
sites.
OSA
Open Systems Adapter is an integrated hardware
feature allowing zSeries 900 platforms to provide
connectivity directly to clients on LANs.
OSA Express
Open Systems Adapter-Express are an IBM adapter
family consisting of integrated hardware features that
are designed to provide direct connection for zSeries
and S/390 Parallel Enterprise Servers G5 and G6 to
high speed routers and switches, to other high speed
servers, and to clients on LANs.
OSAM (Overflow Sequential Access Method)
This is an IMS-specific access method that optimizes
the I/O channel program for IMS access patterns.
OTC
One Time Charge. An initial license charge. Caused a
furore when the concept was introduced, but people
seem to have got used to it now. At the beginning
of 1999, OTC was dropped from any mainframe
software product for which a monthly charge option
was available.
OTE
Open Transaction Environment was introduced with
CICS TS 1.3. Its aim is to open up the CICS application
execution environment, allowing applications to be
defined to execute under their own TCBs within CICS
and allowing CICS to better exploit multiple processors.
OTMA (Open Transaction Manager Access)
This IMS facility is a transaction-based connectionless
client/server protocol that functions as an interface for
host-based communications servers accessing IMS
TM applications using the Cross Systems Coupling
Facility (XCF).
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The notion of contracting out part or all of your IS
function to an outside organization. Used to be often
used synonymously with facilities management,
although strictly speaking facilities management
involves delegating responsibility for the whole service
rather than just part of it.
PaaS
Platform as a service provides a platform, allowing
customers to develop, run, and manage Web
applications without the complexity of building and
maintaining the infrastructure typically associated with
developing and launching an app.
Page
An essential process within virtual storage technology.
Fixed sized blocks (typically 4096 bytes) of memory are
freed up by writing their contents to a paging device
until any virtual address within that block is referenced.
Parallel Sysplex
See Sysplex.
Parity bit
A binary digit check bit appended to a group of binary
digits to make the sum of all the digits, including the
appended binary digit, even or odd, depending on
whether Even or Odd Parity is being used.
Parmlib
Parameter Library. A dataset in z/OS containing
parameter settings. The most important is SYS1.
PARMLIB which contains parameter settings for z/OS
and many key subsystems.
Parse
The analysis of the operands entered with a command
in addition to the creation of a parameter list for the
command processor. It can also refer to the initial
processing of source code by a compiler, when it
divides up each program statement into its component
parts, also known as tokens.
PASCAL
Programming language, mainly used in academia,
though even there it is rarely seen these days.
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Patch
A code modification to correct a reported problem that
is sent to software product users after the release of
a product.
PAV
Parallel Access Volumes are used to eliminate I/O
supervisor queueing against DASD. Thus improving the
performance of anything accessing the disk devices.
PCI
Peripheral Component Interconnect. Extremely popular
PC bus standard originally promoted by Intel and soon
supported by IBM, even though it meant dropping its
beloved MCA.
PCMCIA
Personal Computer Memory Card International
Association. Industry-standard interface (not just for
memory, but for modems, network interfaces, etc) for
laptop and notebook computers.
PDF
Portable Document Format. File definition format used
by Adobe Acrobat.
PDS
Partitioned DataSet. A z/OS feature that is really made
up of datasets within a dataset. Each PDS is made
up of zero or more members. Each member has all
the characteristics of a standard sequential dataset,
though all members share the same attributes: those
that were defined for the PDS when it was allocated.
Each member has a one to eight character name that
follows the same rules as a level of a standard z/OS
dataset name (DSN). Each PDS has a directory of its
members, which can also (optionally) contain other
information, known as Statistics, which are maintained
by software such as the ISPF/PDF editor.
PDSE
Partitioned DataSet Extended. Software which enables
the space freed by expired or deleted PDSs to be
reused. Introduced in 1989 in an attempt to address
the limitations of the PDS.
Peer-to-peer
A form of distributed system in which all participating
nodes can function as both client and server.
PERL
Practical Extraction and Reporting Language. A
general-purpose Unix scripting language, which
is popular for writing CGI programs. Its speed and
flexibility make it well suited for form processing and
on-the-fly page creation.
Petabyte
1024 terabytes (TB) – 2 to the fiftieth power, or
1,125,899,906,842,624 bytes. Abbreviated as PB.
PF key
Program Function key. A single keystroke can be used
to perform a specific command.
PGP
Pretty Good Privacy. Encryption technology which uses
the public key approach. Messages are encrypted using
a public key, but can only be decoded using a private
key kept by the intended recipient of the message.
Phishing
A malicious scheme to obtain the credentials necessary
to access a secure system by masquerading as that
system and fooling people into entering the sought
after credentials.
Picosecond
1/1,000,000,000,000 of a second. A time span during
which even <insert your least-liked company name
here> would not be able to put up prices.
PING
Packet INternet Groper. A test of reachability in TCP/IP
networks. A PING is a program used to test the ability
to reach destinations by sending an echo request and
waiting for a reply.
Pipeline
In Linux and other Unix-like operating systems, a
pipeline is a set of processes chained together. Output
from one process is then input for the next process until
all the processes have executed.
PL/I
Programming Language/One. Language developed by
IBM. A sort of love-child of COBOL and FORTRAN, it
was widely used on the mainframe for many years but
never quite achieved the ‘universal standard’ status
that IBM had hoped.
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Plain text
Data that is not encrypted. Typically refers to data while
it is being transmitted across a network.
PLPA
Pageable Link Pack Area is part of memory containing
system-level programs that may be run by multiple
address spaces.
Polling
Generic name for a method for controlling devices
(eg networked workstations or terminals), in which
a computer calls (polls) each device in turn to see
whether it wants to communicate.
POP
Principles of Operation. The name of the manual
that defined the S/360 and subsequently the S/370
architecture.
Port
Generic noun and/or verb. As a noun, it means a point
at which data can enter or leave a data network or
individual device; as a verb it means to convert a piece
of software written for one environment so that it runs
in another.
POSIX
Portable Operating System Interface Standard.
Operating system interface standard from the IEEE,
designed as a procurement reference standard for
ensuring source-level application code portability.
PostScript
Language/protocol cum page description language
developed by Adobe Systems for driving high-resolution
page printers.
Power Systems
Originally, IBM had the System i running IBM i (OS/400)
and the System p series running AIX or Linux. In 2008,
IBM merged the two lines of servers and workstations
under the same name, Power Systems, with identical
hardware and a choice of operating systems, software,
and service contracts.
PPP
Purchasing Power Parity is Gustav Cassel’s theory
(1920) that, in an efficient market, identical goods must
have only one price.
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PR/SM
Processor Resource/Systems Manager. Logical
partitioning hardware technology that makes a single
system, even if it has only one processor, look like
multiple systems each of which is a Logical PARtition
(LPAR).
Private area
Area within z/OS which contains the user’s own data/
programs.
Private key
A key known only to the sender or receiver of an
encrypted message.
Problem State
A term used in performance measurement to indicate
when the machine is performing end-user work. The
opposite is Supervisor State, when the machine is
spending time generally managing itself.
PROLOG
PROgramming in LOGic. Language mainly used for
developing artificial intelligence and expert systems.
PROP
PRogrammable OPerator. A facility in z/VM that allows
remote control of a virtual machine, enabling limited
automation of routine operator activities.
Proprietary
Proprietary is used to refer to architectures and
standards owned by a hardware or software vendor.
The term is usually used in opposition to ‘open’.
Proxy server
A server that receives and fulfils requests intended for
another server.
PRPQ
Programming Request for Price Quotation. IBM
terminology for a customer request for a price quotation
on alterations or additions to the functional capabilities
of system control programming or licensed programs.
PSLC
Parallel Sysplex License Charge, a monthly license
charge designed to support the design of a Parallel
Sysplex cluster. In a fully qualified Sysplex environment,
PSLC software charges are based on the total MSU
value for only those machines where the products
execute.
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PSW
Program Status Word. A hardware register (double
word) in the mainframe. The PSW contains the address
of the next instruction to be executed and, when an
application or system software error occurs, why it
happened and other status information.
PTF
Program Temporary Fix. An official IBM temporary
patch to a program – often less temporary than IBM
and its users would wish. PTFs are distributed on PUTs.
Sometimes the term APAR is used instead of PTF.
Public key
A published key value used as one of the two keys in
public key encryption.
PWFI
The pseudo wait-for-input option means an IMS MPP
region can stay scheduled until another input message
appears, avoiding additional application program
termination and rescheduling.
RAM
Random Access Memory, also known as system
memory, is the amount of physical memory that is
addressable by and directly accessible to the processor
chips on the motherboard.
RAS
Reliability, Availability, and Serviceability – the three
most desirable properties for IBM computers.
RDBMS
Relational DataBase Management System. Database
system based on relational principles. DB2 is IBM’s
preferred RDBMS for just about every platform.
Read-only mode
A mode that does not allow updates to the data being
read.
Real storage
The combination of central and expanded storage. Also
known as processor storage.
QMF
Query Management Facility. Query and report-writing
system for DB2 with some analysis and graphics
features.
Red teaming
This refers to the practice of viewing a problem from
an adversary or competitor’s perspective – and that
usually means looking at issues with security.
QSAM
Queued Sequential Access Method is an access
method for communicating with sequential datasets.
Redbook
A more readable version of an IBM manual
RACF
Resource Access Control Facility. Security and
access control system under z/OS and z/VM. The z/
OS version is a component of SecureWay Security
Server, but is also available as a stand-alone product.
RACF authorizes access to resources (datasets,
mini-disks, TSO/CMS/CICS/IMS TM log-on, etc) and
logs unauthorized access attempts and accesses to
protected datasets.
RAG
Red/Amber/Green status lights used to indicate in an
easily interpretable way the status of a system, with
red indicating poor system health.
RAID
Set of redundancy standards for disk subsystems
(RAID 0-6), developed by the University of Berkeley
and adopted by the RAID Advisory Board.
Relational database
A type of database that allows information in one set
of database tables to be connected to information in
another set of tables without requiring duplication of
information.
RESTful
REST (Representational State Transfer) is an
architectural style used to build Web services that are
lightweight, maintainable, and scalable. A service based
on REST is called a RESTful service. It links mainframe
applications with mobile and cloud apps.
REXX
Restructured EXtended eXecutor language. A widely
used job control language, REXX has become a
replacement for existing procedural languages such as
CLIST. REXX is an effective programming language in
its own right with powerful string processing facilities.
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RJE
Remote Job Entry. Dedicated RJE terminals include
2780/3780 or 3770.
RMF
Resource Measurement Facility. On-line performance
and resource monitor for z/OS. Also includes a
formatter for printing performance reports. An optional,
separately priced feature of z/OS.
RPG
Report Program Generator. Programming language
widely used on the eServer iSeries 400 and its
predecessors, AS/400 and System/3x. As its name
implies, originally used mostly for report generation
and very strong sort/merge facilities, where it can be
used completely non-procedurally.
RRDS
Relative Record DataSet is a type of VSAM file. Each
record is accessed directly by its record number.
RSM
Real Storage Manager. The part of z/OS that controls
real memory.
SAF
Security Authorization Facility can be used for example
with CICS to divert requests to an ESM (External
Security Manager – such as RACF). In this way, security
can be added to an operating system of subsystem.
SAML
Security Assertion Mark-up Language addresses the
issue of Single Sign-On (SSO). The SAML specification
defines three roles: the principal (typically a user), the
identity provider (IdP), and the service provider (SP).
SAN
Storage Area Network.
SAP (System Assist Processor)
A System Assist Processor is a specialized processor
that assists a central processor on a mainframe.
SCEM
Supply Chain Event Management examines all possible
events and factors that might disrupt a supply chain.
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SCM
Supply Chain Management applies to all movement
and storage of raw materials, work-in-process
inventory, and finished goods from point-of-origin to
point-of-consumption. It is the process of planning,
implementing, and controlling the operations of the
supply chain as efficiently as possible.
Screen scraping
A programming technique for interacting with online
host applications that generate text-only display output.
The display output is read (scraped) right off a virtual
screen by the workstation-based software and input
generated on a virtual keyboard. What the user sees
is quite different, and usually includes a GUI.
SDEPS (Sequential Dependents)
Sequential dependent segments (SDEPs) may be
included in an IMS Data Entry Database (DEDB).
SDSF
System Display and Search Facility. Online tool for
programmers and operators monitoring jobs awaiting
execution in the JES2 input spool queues and, most
commonly, viewing the printed output of batch jobs in
the Held output spool queues, to save printing it on
paper.
Serial number
Term used to denote the machine which you own
today, which may be very different from the one you
originally bought.
Server
A device providing database information, or Web pages,
any other information. It usually has a number of clients
or users of this data.
Service Level Agreement
Generic term for an agreement between a user and the
people providing a computer service. The SLA specifies
such things as response time, availability, etc.
Service Unit
The basic charging unit in usage-based pricing.
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Servlet
A Java applet, without a user interface, that is executed
on a Web server. Often used to replace CGI routines,
because they support dynamic HTTP requests.
SFM
Sysplex Failure Manager is used when one of the
systems in a parallel sysplex fails. It is responsible for
recovery of the system and subsystem.
SGML
Standard Generalized Mark-up Language. The
canonical mark-up language from which HTML and
XML are derived.
SIGP
SIGnal Processor.
Skeuomorphism
is making one thing look like something else, eg making
the digital interface look like a paper one - you often see
it with calendar applications that look like desktop paper
calendars. The GUI emulates real physical objects that
the user will be familiar with. Including skeuomorphism
in a UI design is a good idea because it makes an
unfamiliar interface look like something familiar - and,
therefore, its use becomes more intuitive.
SLA
A Service Level Agreement is a formally negotiated
agreement between two parties (the IT department
usually being one of them) where the level of service
is formally defined.
SMF
System Management Facilities. Function within z/OS
which collects data on all system activities for use in
accounting, performance monitoring, capacity planning,
etc. SMF creates log entries (SMF records) of this data.
SMP/E
System Modification Program / Extended is used to
install most software products.
SMS
System Managed Storage. The philosophy of letting the
computer system manage the storage of data rather
than having it done by a human data administrator.
SMTP
Simple Mail Transfer Protocol. The protocol allowing the
transmission of e-mail messages across the Internet.
SNA
Systems Network Architecture. IBM’s extremely
powerful but complex data communications architecture
defining levels of protocols for communications between
terminals and applications, and between programs.
While SNA-only networks have all but disappeared,
SNA applications are still very much in evidence in the
large enterprise.
SNMP
Simple Network Management Protocol. Unix protocol
originally developed for management of TCP/IP
networks.
SOA
A Service-Oriented Architecture is a collection of
services that communicate with each other. The
services are self-contained and do not depend on
the context or state of the other service. Mainframe
applications become available to Web browsers
and now mainframe applications can call other Web
services.
SOAP
Simple Object Access Protocol. A lightweight form of
middleware for accessing services, objects, and servers
in a platform-independent manner.
Sockets
Software interfaces that allow two Unix application
programs to talk to one another using TCP/IP protocols.
Spool
Simultaneous/Shared Peripheral Operation On-Line.
DASD storage used as a temporary storage area
between devices – eg printer and processor.
SQA
System Queue Area. Storage area in z/OS.
SQL
Structured Query Language. IBM and ANSI standard
(they diverge and converge regularly with the passage
of time) for access to relational databases.
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SRB
Service Request Blocks are requests to execute a
service routine and they are usually initiated by system
code executing from one address space to perform an
action affecting another address space.
Swapping
The process of transferring a complete program
between main memory and auxiliary storage (usually
disk).
SRM
System Resources Manager. Software which is meant
to improve throughput by optimizing the use of system
resources.
Syncpoint
A point in a transaction’s life when updates are
committed. In a distributed environment, where the
transactions may be across several databases, the
syncpoint enables the commit to be delayed until all
the participants can commit simultaneously.
SSCP
SNA’s System Services Control Point, in an hierarchical
network, typically implemented on a mainframe within
VTAM, that is responsible for directory services and
configuration management. Now superseded by the
peer-to-peer oriented functionality of APPN/HPR
control points.
SYSGEN
System Generation. The process of creating a
customized version of an operating system. In the IBM
environment this was a complex, error-prone and timeconsuming process.
SSL
The Secure Sockets Layer is a much-used protocol
for managing the security of messages sent over the
Internet.
Stand-alone dump
A display of all used memory locations, typically stored
on DASD or tape, created with a program that does
not required the operating system to be functioning
normally.
Superuser
A user ID with minimal security restrictions.
Supervisor State
A term used in performance measurement to indicate
when the machine is spending time generally managing
itself. The opposite is Problem State, when the machine
is performing end-user work.
SupportPac
A SupportPac is supplied by IBM and contains
complementary software, which may be new utilities,
or class libraries, or things that IBM thinks will make
the product more usable or work better.
SVC
SuperVisor Call. An interface to operating system
functions that is used to protect the operating system
from inappropriate user entry. It can also refer to the
SVC Assembler mnemonic or machine language
instruction it represents.
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System i
Formerly iSeries and now called just i – a later
incarnation of the AS/400 family of hardware that runs
on Power hardware.
System p
Formerly pSeries – this is the latest incarnation of the
RS/6000 family of hardware.
System z
Formerly zSeries – this is the name for mainframes
running z/OS and/or z/VM and/or other operating
systems.
SYSOUT
z/OS output intended for a printer. The name
comes from the JCL DD parameter SYSOUT, where
SYSOUT=A means send the output to the JESx Class
A spool queue.
Sysplex
SYStem comPLEX. A processor complex which is
formed by loosely coupling System/390 processors
together into a single unit (using channel-to-channel
adapters or ESCON/FICON fibre-optic links); the
processors are synchronized using the Sysplex Timer,
and can be managed as a single system image.
Tablet
For many executives, the must-have device is an iPad
from Apple or an Android device from Samsung and
other suppliers. As a consequence, these now need to
be connected to corporate data, with all the concomitant
security issues.
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TCB
Task Control Blocks represent tasks executing within
an address space. There are usually several TCBs
associated with each address space, so more than one
task could be running in any one address space at any
one time. TCBs are created when a program issues the
ATTACH macro to initiate a new task.
TCP/IP
Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol. Set
of protocols for the network and transport layers of
a packet-switched data network, most notably the
Internet. Developed in the US for the Department of
Defense ARPAnet system and has become the de
facto standard for most forms of data communication.
tn3270e
Improved version of tn3270 that supports colour, the
3270 System Request key and other capabilities not
present in tn3270.
TPF
Transaction Processing Facility. Low-function but high
performance mainframe TP monitor for very large
communications systems. Derived from ACP (Airline
Control Program), which was derived from PARS
(Programmed Airline Reservation System).
TPIPE
IMS Connect communicates with IMS through logical
connections called transaction pipes (TPIPEs).
telnet
The remote, or virtual, terminal protocol for the Internet.
Allows users to log-in to their home machine from any
other machine, or vice versa.
Transport layer
The network layer responsible for quality of service
and accurate delivery of information, ie error detection/
correction occurs here.
Terabyte
1024 gigabytes or 1,099,511,627,776 bytes. Abbreviated
as TB.
TSO
Time Sharing Option. These days, everyone just says
TSO when they mean TSO/E.
TeraFLOPS
1000 GigaFLOPS, a measure of supercomputer
performance.
TSO/E
Time Sharing Option/Extensions. An element of z/OS
that provides an on-line interactive environment for
programmers and users. Best known for the ISPF/PDF
environment that runs on TSO/E. Can also be used to
test batch programs.
Third platform
This is meant to represent the next phase of the IT
revolution. The first platform is the mainframe; the
second is the PC; and the third comprises cloud
services, mobile computing, social networking, and
big data analytics.
Threadsafe
Originally introduced with CICS 3.2, threadsafe refers
to the ability of an application to process multi-threaded
programs at the same time safely.
TXSeries
A merging of CICS, Encina and IBM Transaction Server.
UCB
Unit Control Block is used to control access to devices.
tn
Refers to tn3270, tn3270e and tn5250 collectively or
interchangeably.
UDDI
Universal Description Discovery and Integration
is a directory model for Web services. UDDI is a
specification for maintaining standardized directories
of information about Web services, recording their
capabilities, location, and requirements.
tn3270
Specialized TCP/IP telnet protocol which provides
compatibility with a 3270 datastream by emulation of
the screen buffer. Used for mainframe host access
across the Internet and internally within organizations
to replace SNA terminal-to-host access with TCP/IP.
Unified Resource Manager
The Unified Resource Manager is an integrated
System z management facility responsible for platform
management on z196s. This tool set enables clients
to install, monitor, manage, optimize, diagnose, and
service resources and workloads from a single point.
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Unit of work
The statements executed between one commit point
and the next – usually a group of SQL statements which
would need to be rolled back as a group if any single
statement in the group could not be executed. It’s the
basic recovery unit.
Unix
A misspelling of UNICS (UNiplexed Information
and Computing Service). A hardware-independent
operating system originally for minicomputers.
Unix System Services
A full function Unix implementation under z/OS
that complies with the POSIX standard. Originally
introduced as OpenEdition.
Usage pricing
The principle of charging for software on the basis of
the amount of work done, eg the number of transactions
or the amount of batch data processed.
User catalog
In z/OS, an ICF catalog created to reduce the number
of entries in the Master Catalog, thereby improving
performance.
VIO
Virtual I/O. Hyper-efficient z/OS paging technique.
Simulates DASD using real storage and so avoids the
overhead of channel activity.
VIPA (Virtual IP Addressing)
This frees hosts from depending on a particular physical
network interface for communication with a TCP/IP
stack.
Virtual storage
A technique for giving programs the illusion that they
have massive quantities of main storage to themselves.
The technique works by allowing programs to address
lots of virtual memory, but making the operating system
page the required data in and out of real main store
and to and from a paging device at the appropriate
time. The technique enables cheap DASD to be used
instead of expensive main storage.
VM
Virtual Machine. Mainframe operating system which
can act as a hypervisor, enabling users to run multiple
OSs on a single machine. There are two components
to VM – the hypervisor itself, which provides resources
to the virtual machines; and CMS, which provides
conversational and timesharing facilities. VM was
on the way out when IBM discovered a new role for
the software: z/VM can host hundreds (technically
thousands) of Linux images on the mainframe at a
fraction of the cost of distributed hardware.
VOLSER
Volume Serial Number. The key identifying a tape or
other storage volume. Maximum six characters. Most
installations use a six-digit VOLSER for in-house tapes
to easily differentiate them from DASD volumes.
Volume
The unit of physical storage. Originally the volume
equated to a single disk or tape, but logical volumes
are more the norm today, especially with most current
DASD devices emulating previous products and VTS
doing volume stacking on tape.
VSAM
Virtual Storage Access Method (aka Very Slow And
Mysterious). IBM mainframe proprietary software for
direct (by key or by record number) or sequential
processing of fixed and variable length records on
DASD.
VSE
Virtual Storage Extended. For many years, VSE was
IBM’s principal operating system for small to mediumsize mainframes. A few years back it looked as if VSE
support would slowly be withdrawn, but customer
support is strong and the re-dubbed z/VSE now looks
set to continue for some time.
VTAM
Virtual Telecommunication Access Method. The main
SNA subsystem resident in the mainframe, which
manages session establishment and data flow between
terminals and application programs, or between
application programs.
Virtualization
A way of dividing up a computer’s components and
sharing them in order to maximize their usefulness.
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VTOC
Volume Table Of Contents. The area of a disk used to
store the directory of components, including datasets,
held on that volume. Anything that takes DASD space
is listed in the VTOC. For example, the index and data
components of a VSAM KSDS file are listed in the
VTOC, but not the cluster name, which is only listed
in the catalog.
VVDS
The VSAM Volume DataSet along with the BCS make
up the ICF catalog structure. The VVDS is a special
type of ESDS. It is created automatically whenever a
VSAM component (including a BCS) is allocated on a
volume which does not yet have a VVDS. The VVDS
is always called SYS1.VVDS.Vvolser.
VWLC
Variable Workload License Charge. IBM software
pricing scheme that allows users to license a product
for a capacity less than the total capacity of the system.
Replaced by AWLC on zEnterprise mainframes.
WAS
WebSphere Application Server. IBM’s Java application
server. WAS for z/OS version 6.0.1 supports J2EE 1.4
and many mainframe-specific functions.
WebSphere MQ (WMQ)
Originally MQSeries. IBM software/middleware that
provides a message queuing infrastructure; it sits on
various systems in a heterogeneous environment,
providing integration between disparate systems and
applications.
WebSphere Optimized Local Adapters (WOLA)
A part of WAS for z/OS that provides a low-overhead
communication mechanisms for exchanging high
volumes of messages.
Web service
Web services are essentially “mini” applications that
include a description of what another application does,
how to accesses it, and what data it requires. They are
often utilized in integration projects where disparate
systems may have difficulty interacting with each other
without the use of the common standards.
WLM
Workload Manager. Feature within SRM for simplifying
the management of system resources such as CPU
and storage. eWLM reportedly adds the ability to define
business performance objectives across disparate
systems.
Watson Explorer
Watson Explorer combines content and data from
different systems and presents it in a single view.
Workload License Charges
An IBM software licensing scheme which charges
according to required software capacity, not hardware
capacity.
Web 2.0
A practically meaningless term in itself (the Web is
not software with version and release numbers) that
can be used as a way of highlighting some of the new
technologies that are available over the Internet and
identifying the companies that are using them, like
Google Earth, Flickr, etc.
WSAT
Web Services Atomic Transaction is now supported
in CICS TS 3.1. Web services can be configured to
take part in an extended or global unit of work. This is
known as an atomic transaction. Recoverable updates
are not committed or backed out until instructed to do
so by the Web service.
WebSphere
An IBM Internet-focused software platform that supports
e-business applications and sits at the heart of IBM’s
middleware strategy. The foundational products are
WebSphere Application Server and WebSphere MQ.
WSDL
Web Services Description Language is the standard
format for describing a Web service. A WSDL definition
describes how to access a Web service and what
operations it will perform. WSDL (along with SOAP
and UDDI) is one of the three foundation standards of
Web services.
WebSphere Application Server (WAS) Liberty
profile
This is a cut-down version of WAS containing only
the features required by the applications used on the
server.
WSRR
WebSphere Service Registry and Repository is used
with WebSphere in SOA environments.
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WTO
Write To Operator. A message sent to the mainframe
operator console from JCL or an application program.
thing – it creates programs in which the object code
does not agree with the source, and which are hence
totally unmaintainable.
XML
eXtensible Mark-up Language is a W3C recommendation
and provides a standard approach for describing,
capturing, processing, and publishing information.
zBX
The zEnterprise BladeCenter Extension (zBX) on
operates as a tightly-coupled extension to the z196
and z114 mainframes through a high-performance
private network. Users then add POWER7 or System
x blades to four racks.
X-Terminal
A type of terminal developed in the Unix world that
provides a GUI type environment (usually X-Windows)
without the need for a programmable workstation.
z/Architecture
IBM’s latest architecture for mainframes and peripherals.
z/OS
The latest incarnation of MVS, the principal operating
system for the IBM mainframe. Announced in October
2000, it brought with it support for 64-bit addressing
and a broad range of technical innovations. As well
as running on zSeries machines, it also runs on
System/390 G5 and G6 processors and Multiprise
3000 systems.
z/OS Connect
z/OS Connect is built on IBM WAS Liberty profile
running on z/OS, and is a gateway providing a way
to discover and invoke applications and data on z/OS
from mobile, cloud and Web applications.
Z/TPF
The latest version of the Transaction Processing
Facility, a low-function but high-performance TP monitor
for very large data communications systems.
z/VM
The latest version of the much-loved Virtual Machine, a
hypervisor that enabled users to run multiple operating
systems on a single machine.
zAAP
A Java co-processor for the z890 and z990, which
allows customers to offload Java application processing
without paying software costs for the additional capacity.
Zap
Affectionate name for various utilities (AMASPZAP,
aka SUPERZAP in z/OS), which can be used to apply
a fix directly to object code in situ. Zapping is a bad
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Zero day vulnerability
This is a hole in a piece of software that is unknown
to the vendor.
zFS
zSeries File System is a Unix file system that can be
used in addition to HFS. zIIP
z9 Integrated Information Processor. A co-processor
similar to zAAP (the idea is that you pronounce them
ZIP and ZAP), but designed to off-load DB2 work and
integrate data across the enterprise. Like zAAP, you pay
for the hardware but do not incur IBM software charges
for the additional capacity. Minimum requirement: z9109 with z/OS 1.6 or later and DB2 V8.
zIIP
z9 Integrated Information Processor. A co-processor
similar to zAAP (the idea is that you pronounce them
ZIP and ZAP), but designed to off-load DB2 work and
integrate data across the enterprise. Like zAAP, you pay
for the hardware but do not incur IBM software charges
for the additional capacity. Minimum requirement: z9109 with z/OS 1.6 or later and DB2 V8.
Zombie computers
These are used to spread e-mail spam and launch
distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks.
Zombie data
This is old forgotten data that you thought you’d deleted,
but hadn’t.
Zombie programs
These are the programs that hackers use to gain
access to your computer. They are often called ‘bots’.
This glossary is based on the former Xephon
publication, the Handbook of IBM Terminology.
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Technical information
Mainframe hardware timeline 1952-2015
Mainframe operating system development
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1979
IBM
431/4341
1977
IBM
3031/3032/3033
1976
IBM
S/370-138/148
1972
IBM
S/370-125/158/168
1971
IBM
S/360-22
1973
IBM
S/370-115
1971
IBM
S/360-135
1970
IBM
S/360-25
1969
IBM
S/360-195
1968
IBM
S/360-25
1966
IBM
S/360-91
1965
IBM
S/360-44/75
1964
IBM
S/360-30/40/50
1962
IBM
1440/7094
1960
IBM
1410/1730
1959
IBM
1401/1620
1958
IBM 7090
1957
IBM 709
1954
IBM 704/705
1953
IBM 701/702
1952
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2015
IBM z13
2013
IBM zEnterprise BC12
2012
IBM zEnterprise EC12
2011
IBM zEnterprise 114
2010
IBM zEnterprise 196
2008
IBM z10
2005
IBM z9
2003
IBM
zSeries 990
2001
IBM
Multiprise 3000H30/H50/H70
1997
IBM
S/390-PES G4
1990
IBM ES/9000
1983
IBM 4361/4381
1980
IBM 3081
Source: Mark Wilson and Staffan Tylen
2008
IBM z9EC/BC
2004
IBM
zSeries 890
2002
IBM
zSeries 800/900
2000
IBM
S/390-PES G5/G6
1994
IBM S/390-PES
1985
IBM 3090
1982
IBM 3083/3084
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Mainframe operating system
development
Source: Mark Wilson
and Staffan Tylen
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Sept 30-Oct 2, 2016 Nov 4-6, 2016 @Camp Tadmor

Slides - systor 2016