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Mainframe strategy The Arcati Mainframe Yearbook 2018

The independent annual guide for users of IBM mainframe systems SPONSORED BY: PUBLISHED BY:

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Mainframe strategy Contents Welcome to the Arcati Mainframe Yearbook 2018...... 3 Staying secure and compliant ...... 5 How to Ditch Waterfall for DevOps on the Mainframe...... 10 Health Solutions Provider Accelerates Integration, Sparks IT Collaboration Using Server-Side JavaScript ...... 16 z/OS Code Scanning Is Essential to System z® Security ...... 21 DevOps for the mainframe...... 27 ‘Reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated’...... 33

The 2018 Mainframe User Survey...... 36 An analysis of the profile, plans, and priorities of mainframe users

Vendor Directory...... 52 Vendors, consultants, and service providers in the z/OS environment

A guide to sources of information for IBM mainframers ...... 136 Information resources, publications, social media, and user groups for the z/OS environment

Glossary of Terminology...... 142 Definitions of some mainframe-related terms

Mainframe evolution...... 173 Mainframe hardware timeline 1952-2017; mainframe operating system development

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Action Software 55, 56 Hostbridge Technology 16, 92 Azamour Solutions 61, 141 Key Resources Inc 21, 99 Compuware Corporation 10, 72 Software AG 27, 120 Data Kinetics 51, 76 Software Diversified Services 4, 121 EPV Technologies 83 UBS Hainer 129, 130 Fischer International Systems Corporation 85 2 © Arcati Ltd, 2018 ArcatiArcati MainframeMainframe YearbookYearbook 20072018

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Welcome to the Arcati Mainframe Yearbook 2018

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.

2017 seems to be picking up where 2016 left off and there seems to be a spring in the step of the mainframe world. Vendors, who never claim business is a bit flat anyway, seem to have bigger smiles when they tell me that business has been good. And at user group meetings, sites seem to be trialling newer software and techniques, whereas before there had been a certain reluctance to try anything new.

On the downside, of course, the IT world has been reeling from ransomware and other cyber attacks. In June 2017 Wannacry locked computers and messages appeared demanding $300 in Bitcoins to regain access. We also heard in 2017 that Members of the British Parliament had had their e-mails hacked. Deloitte was hit by a cyberattack, which accessed e-mails, usernames, passwords, health information, and details from Deloitte’s clients. Equifax had 143 million customer account details, including names, social security numbers, drivers’ licences, and credit card numbers of around 200,000 people hacked. And the list goes on.

In July, IBM announced the new Z14 processor and we all started saying “pervasive encryption”. The new mainframe had more total system capacity compared to the z13; faster uniprocessor performance than the z13; 170 cores to configure (141 on z13); up to 32TB of available Redundant Array of Independent Memory (RAIM) real memory per server; 2x more on-chip cache per core, compared to z13; hardware accelerated encryption on every core with the Central Processor Assist for Cryptographic Function (CPACF) feature; new instructions in Single Instruction Multiple Data (SIMD) which are designed to give a performance boost for traditional workloads using COBOL and new applications like analytics; and much much more.

But what is pervasive encryption? It doesn’t have an official definition, but generally means the The Arcati Mainframe Yearbook 2018 ability to encrypt everything everywhere without interfering with the user experience. The new IBM Mark Lillycrop Publisher: Z14 mainframe can do real-time encryption of Editorial Director: Trevor Eddolls Contributors: SDS, Compuware, Hostbridge, Ray all mobile transactions up to 12 billion encrypted Overby, Zvonimir Ivanetic, Mark Wilson transactions per day. The new mainframe has an encryption engine, which gives a 7 times increase © 2018, Arcati Limited. in cryptographic performance over the z13, with a 4 times increase in silicon dedicated to cryptographic All company and product names mentioned in this algorithms. It protects encryption keys with so-called publication remain the property of their respective owners. tamper responding hardware, which invalidates keys at any sign of meddling, and IBM says they can be This Yearbook is the copyright of Arcati Limited, and safely restored later. This capability can be extended may not be reproduced or distributed in whole or in part outside the Z14 to storage systems and servers in without the permission of the owner. A licence for internal the cloud. A Secure Service Container is claimed e-mail or intranet distribution may be obtained from the to protect against insider threats from contractors publisher. Please contact Arcati for details. and privileged users, providing automatic data and code encryption in-flight and at-rest, and tamper-

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resistance during installation and runtime. The Z14 can “pervasively encrypt data associated with any application, cloud service, or database all the time”.

The new processor lifted IBM’s spirits, as did its third quarter figures in October, which registered a strong recovery following a weak first half of the year. There was a 0.4 percent decline in revenue, to $19.15bn, and IBM’s pro forma earnings per share rose 11 per cent to $3.30. In the third quarter, revenue from the strategic initiatives (cloud, analytics, mobile, social and security) rose 11 percent. Cloud now represents 20 percent of IBM’s total revenue. Revenue from the mainframe business jumped 60 percent in the third quarter. The Z14 began shipping in mid-September.

IBM has been much less acquisitive in 2017, with only three companies. Firstly, in February it acquired Agile 3 Solutions for its Information security business. In May it acquired German-owned XCC (a division of TIMETOACT) for its collaboration software. And in October it acquired Australian Vivant Digital for its innovation consultancy business.

In terms of big software announcements, during the year, IBM announced CICS Transaction Server for z/OS Version 5.4. And the company also announced IMS 15.

2017 seems to have been the year when IBM changed case! Things that used to be capitalized no longer are, and things that weren’t capitalized are now. People still talk about System z, which changed its name to z Systems, but is now IBM Z (yes, that’s a capital). Or what about DB2, or, as we should now call it, Db2? The ‘b’ is now lowercase – putting the emphasis on the data and not on the base.

2017 also saw hackathons becoming more mainstream and a way for large organizations to offer better service to their customers. Whereas much mainframe software is still developed using waterfall methodologies, where two years could elapse between the identification of requirements and an application being delivered – and by then, the circumstances that led to the need for the software could be very different. For a hackathon to be successful, the existing technology needs to be commoditized and abstracted. APIs are the driver. And if the product that’s created by the end of the hackathon doesn’t work, then it can be treated as a learning experience for the people working on that project. For example Citibank runs Citi mobile challenges. These get people to look at different ways people can consume their banking services – it’s a way to get the next big idea from people outside their company. And Ciitbank can then monetize the ideas. Blockchain is great for hackathons because it is digital and secure.

As well as pervasive encryption, other words or acronyms people in 2017 were starting to use in connection with mainframes include: Swagger, Bluemix, GitHub, Jenkins, blockchain, GDPR, SIEM, Enterprise Content Management (ECM), Destruction Of Service (DeOS) attacks, Docker, Digital Transformation (DX), edge computing

It’s interesting to see what Gartner highlights as the three most dominant trends in 2017. They are Artificial Intelligence (AI) Everywhere, Transparently Immersive Experiences, and Digital Platforms. In addition, Gartner believes that the key platform-enabling technologies to look out for are 5G, Digital Twin, Edge Computing, Blockchain, IoT Platforms, Neuromorphic Hardware, Quantum Computing, Serverless PaaS, and Software-Defined Security. It’s interesting to see how many of those we see on mainframes already.

So it looks like the mainframe industry is getting its old buzz back. And with that in mind, I can confidently predict that 2018 will be an interesting year, and that the mainframe will continue to offer outstanding performance and reliability, and be at the heart of the world’s business-critical applications

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card numbers of around 200,000 people. CeX, Staying secure and a second-hand games, DVDs, and hardware compliant retailer, had around two million customers’ details stolen, including names, addresses, email SDS takes a look at the security challenges addresses, phone numbers, and encrypted credit that mainframe sites are facing and suggests card information from as far back as 2009. And ways for z/OS users to stay safe. the phone numbers, names, and PIN codes of six million Verizon customers were left online for THE BACKGROUND around nine days. The quality of data stored on a mainframe can be the difference between those companies that Gone are the days when hackers were high- successfully continue in business and those spirited teenagers who were just pushing the that don’t. That data might include information limits of their knowledge to see how far they could about customers, their purchasing preferences, reach inside ‘secure’ systems. Hacking is now big how much they like to spend, where they live, business. and what loans they have taken out. There may also be information about your suppliers, where Lists of names, credit cards details, and passwords they’re based, and how much they charge you are for sale on the dark web to any criminal that for whatever they’re supplying. Each piece of wants to make use of them. There’s evidence that data could be useful to your competitors and of state-sponsored cyber-terrorism, where to criminals. That’s why it’s so important to keep governments are paying the finest cyber brains data secure. And you must be able to prove that to find their way into the computers of other your data is secure because it’s how you show governments and international companies. that you’re compliant with all the regulations that apply to your industry. And if that weren’t troubling enough, there’s still the threat from your own staff in what can be best Is hacking that much of a problem? Just in 2017, categorized as a mixture of ignorance and malice. members of the British Parliament had their Insider threats can be more financially damaging emails hacked. The WannaCry global ransomware and more difficult to defend against. In the 2016 attack locked computers and delivered messages Cyber Security Intelligence Index, IBM found that demanding $300 in Bitcoins to regain access. U.S. 60% of all attacks were carried out by insiders, with pharmaceutical giant Merck said that its network three quarters involving malicious intent, and one had been “compromised.” Norway’s national quarter involving inadvertent actors. security agency said ransomware was affecting an unnamed “international company” in the country. Back in 2015, Proctor & Gamble filed suit against And Rosneft, a Russian government-owned oil four former Gillette Company employees, firm, said it was also targeted by a “massive hacker accusing them of wrongfully using and disclosing attack” on its servers. confidential information and trade secrets to a direct competitor. Similarly, an employee of Merit Global consultancy firm Deloitte was hit by a Health Northwest Mississippi was accused of cyberattack, which accessed emails, user names, removing patient information from the facility passwords, health information, and details from over a two-year period without authorization. This Deloitte’s clients. Consumer credit score company included patient names, addresses, dates of birth, Equifax had hackers access up to 143 million Social Security numbers, health plan information, customer account details, including names, social and clinical information. Those are examples of security numbers, driver’s licenses, and credit malicious employees.

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The other problem is human error, which can (Resource Access Control Facility) or Computer be a major factor in breaches, where trusted Associates ACF2 (Access Control Facility 2) and but unwitting insiders are to blame. Sometimes, TSS (Top Secret Security). Basically, RACF, ACF2, people trying to help will reveal passwords. Other and TSS maintain mainframe security by either people may unwittingly have their identities allowing or preventing access by, for example, a stolen by malware or phishing attacks. Too often, user or a program to a resource, such as a dataset. security systems are focused on the external What these products don’t do is provide any form threat and assume that all company employees of real-time auditing or monitoring. That is usually are trustworthy and savvy enough not to be fooled carried out by running a batch job overnight or, into revealing security-related information. if required, a special job investigating a specific event, after the event. It’s bad enough for a company to lose client data, but it could also lose confidential, business-critical Many organizations and federal agencies make plans for new products that competitors could use of Security Information and Event Monitoring obtain. And a company could find itself in court (SIEM) products, like HPE ArcSight and IBM for being in contravention of regulations such QRadar, and security log collection software such as FISMA, GLBA, HIPAA, PCI, SOX, and other as Splunk. A SIEM product works in near real standards. time and can monitor security logs and events by receiving security logs. However, these facilities On the plus side, mainframes enjoy an are not generally available for z/OS. Usually, a organizational structure and naming conventions batch job runs at regular intervals collecting the that are different from Windows and Linux data, which is then sent by FTP across the network machines and are less familiar to low-level to the security log collector. This increases the hackers. This ‘security by obscurity’ doesn’t make time before a security breach on the mainframe it completely safe. These days, mainframes are is analyzed. linking to mobile devices and the Internet of Things (IoT) — and that can provide a way for hackers to Other sites may have SIEM products installed, gain access to the mainframe. but don’t use them for their z/OS security logs. Instead, they rely on their z/OS security At first, web services allowed CICS transactions administrator to run the necessary batch jobs to using SOAP protocols to be exposed to off- identify any security-related events or breaches. mainframe users. These days, RESTful Web This is clearly a huge security issue because the applications can be developed, for example, z/OS security administrator is best placed to carry for Liberty in CICS. This brings the mainframe out data theft and is then able to cover their tracks. squarely into the world of computing that is familiar This is a ‘fox guarding the hen house’ scenario. to hackers and makes accessing information Not only does it violate good security practices, stored in IMS databases, DB2, or flat files but also federal mandates for separation of duty. much easier. With CICS TS 5.4, which supports Clearly, these examples not only violate any applications written to the Java EE 7 full platform number of regulations, but are also examples of specification, users can run JDBC, JCA, and bad practice for continuously monitoring z/OS JCICS in the Liberty JVM server. And Java is very security. familiar to hackers. Through stealth or through user error, it’s possible for hackers to get inside the mainframe and THE PROBLEM acquire appropriate privilege settings. Once they z/OS security relies on the use of an External have administrator-level capabilities they can then Security Manager (ESM) such as IBM RACF access all sorts of confidential information. They

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could access IMS databases and DB2 databases • Provide real-time 24/7 access to resources and and send information off site. Because they have event monitoring acquired admin-level privileges, there’s no way • Eliminate unwanted events by employing to identify that a data violation has happened customer-defined filters until much later when a batch report is run. It’s • Promote true audit independence and analysis, quite likely that this violation would not be picked with decimal data presented in a clear-text up. What’s needed is the ability to monitor the format so it may be interpreted by non-technical mainframe from outside of the mainframe and people within the IT organization to monitor events even where the user has the • Facilitate security spot checks at any time appropriate authority. outside of the standard quarterly security audit • Be easy to configure and install Many sites feel that the amount of security they • Have a small footprint in terms of mainframe need is too costly for them to install at the present processing with the minimum performance time and they hope that everything will carry on impact on mainframe systems the way it always has. What they fail to take into account is that the cost of a security breach is even Software Diversified Services (SDS) markets higher. Like the companies mentioned earlier, VitalSigns SIEM Agent™ for z/OS (VSA), which they will not only find that losing data has a cost forwards z/OS system console and SMF messages to their company, but also the loss of customer in the proper format, as well as those from RACF, and partner confidence in them has an additional ACF2, Top Secret, DB2, CICS, and FTP, to a cost. The likelihood of a fine for contravening the central SIEM system such as HPE ArcSight, IBM regulations that apply to their business makes the QRadar, Splunk, LogRhythm, McAfee Enterprise availability of comprehensive and cost-effective Security Manager, Dell RSA Security Analytics, mainframe security software even more important. Dell SecureWorks, and others. It will gather intelligence from all z/OS systems and LPARs in the network. Mainframe data is then consolidated THE SOLUTION with security intelligence from other systems in the What’s needed is a product that meets all the enterprise, such as UNIX, Windows, and Cisco, for current needs of an organization in terms of total visibility into the z/OS environment, as well securing the confidential records for their own as distributed and open-systems environments. businesses as well as of the information about Enterprise-wide monitoring of security events is their clients. In addition, such a product must critical, not only for tracking malicious activity, but have all the qualities that are required to counter also to meet stringent compliance requirements. today’s security threats. It must work efficiently Once the data is in the SIEM, it can then be with existing z/OS security and make use of indexed, searched, analyzed, and visualized SMF (System Management Facility) and console across the spectrum. That means organizations messages. The product must be capable of no longer need multiple security teams to guard tracking audited events and insider threats, their enterprise’s multiple platforms. delivering mainframe alerts in real time, and easily integrating with existing security monitors. Administrators can define specific items of interest for extra levels of monitoring: for example, files that How can you choose from the z/OS security contain credit information, or health care details. monitoring products available? What criteria VSA uses both signature and anomaly-based should you use when evaluating such a product attack detection. It provides real-time alerts that for your organization? You want it to: can be managed, filtered, routed, and searched • Offer scalability using the SIEM’s GUI interface. And it comes with • Be easy to use

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APIs that allow TSO, CICS, and batch events to CONCLUSION be defined and filtered. VitalSigns SIEM Agent for z/OS gathers detailed information about security events on the mainframe. This brings your z/OS mainframes into the The SIEM interprets the data, normalizes it in center of your enterprise security infrastructure standard TCP/IP syslog format, then delivers it in without hassle and in real time. With VSA, your real time to the people and systems responsible organization’s security team has a central, end- for enterprise security. to-end view of all the events they need to capture and all the security threats they need to recognize. Proactive companies that have a track record of VitalSigns SIEM Agent can: monitoring security logs from outside the box are • Detect malicious activity, including an insider’s best placed to be compliant with new regulations actions that have been authorized by existing and have a solid framework to manage z/OS security settings data and its associated risks. VitalSigns SIEM • Protect against insider threats unlike any other Agent from SDS can help you stay compliant with commercial mainframe software available regulations, recognize security threats, and track • Identify internal patterns of abuse and uncover policy violations in real time. • Meet government security requirements and mandates for continuous monitoring of computer systems, separation of duties, and REFERENCES file integrity monitoring An Introduction to z/OS Real-time Infrastructure • Work in tandem with all other client, server, and Security Practices by Stephen D. Rubin, and firewall security monitoring products William Buriak, Jerry Harding. already deployed to provide complete real-time, enterprise-wide threat management About SDS • Save hundreds of hours searching through SDS provides enterprise software for multiple batch reports when investigating a security platforms, with a 30-year history of delivering breach. award-winning support and customer-centric IT infrastructure solutions. www.sdsusa.com.

A White Paper entitled The Business Value of the Connected Mainframe for Digital Transformation, was sponsored by IBM and CA Technologies, and concluded that mainframe computing is at a crossroads – it will either continue supporting enterprise operations or it can play an increasingly important role in enterprise digital transformations (DX). The modernized, “connected mainframe” integrates into an organization’s ecosystem – internally and externally – delivering innovations that drive revenue growth and improve operational efficiency – that’s what the White Paper says. The White Paper explains that: “Modernizing on the mainframe” is about “creating a platform that is integration-ready within the data center and with the outside world”.

To be successful, the mainframe must be connected to the rest of the data centre infrastructure and IT processes and the outside world. There’s a need to expose services and capabilities on the mainframe to mobile apps. Many sites were making use of internal and external APIs on the mainframe. Other popular things to do were to use DevOps and Agile development on the mainframe. And many sites were starting to utilize hybrid cloud strategies. to move forward successfully into the future.

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products and feature functionality to customers How to Ditch Waterfall for every 90 days. Here is our story. Use it as DevOps on the Mainframe guidance to plan, execute and accomplish your own waterfall-to-Agile transformation. The Story of Compuware’s Waterfall-to-Agile Transformation Recognizing the Problem: 40 Years of Waterfall People in business talk a lot about Development transformation. But most companies have only In 2014, we had an opportunity to transform a vague understanding of what a successful Compuware. Revitalized by new owners and transformation is, let alone how to accomplish management, the company set out to solve a one before nimble, digital disruptors swoop in major problem: it was a stagnant organization to steal customers. plagued with 40 years of waterfall development. Maintaining the status quo of a 12-to-18-month Defining what to do and how to do it is software development and delivery cadence especially hard for companies that rely heavily prevented us from providing customers with on the mainframe—a historically siloed innovative software to meet their shifting needs. platform encumbered by slow process and We recognized three realities that would help us outdated, esoteric tools. Regardless, as the change: system of record for your customer-facing web and mobile apps, it’s imperative to find 1. Fast Beats Slow a waterfall-to-Agile transformation path that In the modern digital economy, big doesn’t brings your mainframe out of the dark corners beat small anymore; fast beats slow. At the of the data center and into your broader Agile/ time, our business methodology prevented us DevOps environment. from outpacing competition and becoming a mainframe leader. We needed to accelerate. We accomplished this at Compuware, and today we’re a modern Agile/DevOps software 2. Ideation and Innovation Are Key to Success development organization delivering new Competitive, relevant companies create new

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things that delight customers. They do this by Agility establishing cultures that support innovation. We needed to perform agile, frequent, rightsized We needed to shift our culture to one that code changes to fulfill business needs. Not only encouraged Compuware employees to stay through Agile Development but also by advancing engaged and bring forward new ideas that business agility throughout the entire company. would dramatically alter what we off er customers. Confidence We needed to have confidence that the new 3. Measure, Maintain and Improve Quality products and enhancements we delivered would As a company accelerates and begins trying meet the needs of our customers. Part of attaining new things, generating new ideas, innovating that confidence would come from improving quality and transforming into a creator, maintaining, through automation and agile testing practices, measuring and improving quality must become but also through substantial collaboration with and paramount—this was especially true for regular feedback from customers. Compuware as a mainframe software vendor to major corporations around the world. Efficiency We needed to be efficient with our time and maximize skills by recognizing cross- organizationally who could help deliver what in the best way. Improving overall efficiency would help us meet the demands of customers more rapidly.

Ease of Use We needed intuitive, uncomplicated, modern tools that made information understandable and accessible in one place so our faster, more efficient processes could flow continuously with ease. This would improve overall developer productivity and enable less-experienced developers to efficiently and effectively make updates and enhancements to Compuware products.

Integrations Defining the Desired State and How to Get We needed to forge integrations with other tools There to create and thrive in a modern cross-platform Once we recognized our problem, we needed to DevOps environment. While our development define our desired state and determine how to focus is solely on mainframe software, we get there. To become more competitive, a thought recognized the importance of integrating with non- leader and an innovative mainframe company, we mainframe systems to help customers support set a goal of delivering new products and feature hybrid applications that interact with both systems functionality to our customers every 90 days, of engagement and systems of record. setting a new industry standard. We determined several things that would help us get there. See Figure 1.

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Figure 1: Integrations

Using the Right Tools to Make It Happen Cultivating Ideas Ultimately, integrating with and using the “right” Compuware uses Atlassian Confluence and Jira to Agile/DevOps tools made our transformation generate, organize and collaborate on ideas using possible. When our software toolchain became Agile Development methodologies like Scrum or easy to use, we gained the confidence to Kanban. This enables us to deliver what is needed implement an absolute DevOps culture across our and maintain what we’re currently providing to development organization. Topaz is the foundation existing customers. of our mainframe development and testing toolset, and integrations with both mainframe and non- Development Process mainframe partners have enabled the sharing of When an idea enters Jira, we enter the development results and use of common tools across systems. process, which entails a standard code creation This is what forms our DevOps toolchain—and the and updating phase. These are the tools we use: mainframe is an integral part of that. • Code Editing and Application Understanding See Figure 2. All development is accomplished within Compuware Topaz Workbench, our Eclipse- Here are the Compuware mainframe DevOps based IDE and modern development tools as well as a few vital product integrations interface that enables developers to stay in we leverage to move code through the software one environment. We also use Compuware development lifecycle. Topaz for Program Analysis, which improves

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Figure 2: Using the right tools

program understanding by generating visual Version Control representations of applications. Compuware ISPW is used for our mainframe source code management (SCM). By using • Validating and Debugging Code ISPW, we have the advantage of a modern While moving through the software development mainframe SCM that is built for DevOps practices lifecycle, Compuware uses SonarSource and can integrate with our other DevOps tools. SonarLint’s integration with Topaz Workbench ISPW allows us to easily manage the concurrent during continuous testing to ensure we’re development for multiple releases and provides following coding standards and maintaining powerful and flexible mainframe resident source code quality. We use Compuware Xpediter for change management, compilation/build processes debugging within Topaz. and deployment across multiple LPARs.

• Editing and Managing Data Continuous Integration and Code Quality We use Compuware File-AID’s integration We use Jenkins for Continuous Integration, with Topaz to create test data and obfuscate including kicking off automated testing through production data, allowing us to have a solid integrations with ISPW as well as orchestrating set of test data to work with in developing and other automations and integrations across the delivering our products and software. enterprise. Code Coverage capabilities within

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Xpediter enable us to capture code execution delivered or written but by the actual deliverables statistics for quick assessments of test-related that go to market. Customer-reported product risk and documentation of testing. defects have decreased year over year. As we increased test automation and fully integrated Test Automation it into our SCM and development process, we Test automation is key to maintaining code quality increased software quality. and delivering new updates with confidence. We use Compuware Topaz for Total Test to Going through our transformation, we also automatically create and execute unit tests; discovered there are 10 fundamentals to achieving Compuware Hiperstation for automated functional Agile Development on the mainframe. We created tests; and Compuware Strobe to ensure application a flexible step-by-step process available now as performance isn’t negatively impacted. All of these an eBook, “10 Steps to True Mainframe Agility.” products integrate through Topaz. We also use Zephyr, a Jira plugin that allows us to post test results to Jira, automatically update Jiras and track how well automated test suites are running.

Deploy Once testing is complete and quality is improved, we use Compuware ISPW Deploy to deploy mainframe software. Its REST APIs allow integrations with distributed tools, enabling the deployment of mainframe and non-mainframe software together.

Production Through these steps and the process discussed Once the application reaches production, in this paper, Compuware has “mainstreamed we monitor the application using Strobe for the mainframe” and enabled DevOps across performance and Compuware Abend-AID to detect our entire enterprise. Use our story as your faults and errors that occur. We use Compuware guide and remember that it’s possible for your Application Audit for real-time auditing to ensure mainframe team to accomplish a waterfall-to-Agile the security and integrity of the system. Using transformation and gain the agility, confidence and integrations with Jira, Abend-AID and Strobe, inspiration necessary to develop and deliver issues can be opened within Jira when an issue innovative products that meet your customers’ is found in production. Following Agile processes, rapidly changing needs. the Jira is opened, prioritized on a backlog and assigned to the appropriate team to move forward. About Compuware Compuware empowers the world’s largest The Desired State companies to excel in the digital economy by After implementing Agile Development and our fully leveraging their high-value mainframe DevOps toolchain over the last few years, our investments. We do this by delivering highly speed, innovation and quality have improved. innovative solutions that uniquely enable IT Through automating deployment, we’ve been able professionals with mainstream skills to manage to deploy software much more rapidly to carry out mainframe applications, data and platform Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery. operations. This hasn’t been measured by lines of code Learn more at Compuware.com.

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Solution: Health Solutions Provider • HB.js – the HostBridge JavaScript Engine, Accelerates Integration, the only server-side JavaScript solution for the IBM mainframe Sparks IT Collaboration Outcomes: Using Server-Side • Create and deploy reusable APIs, web services, and microservices faster and more JavaScript easily than ever before • Address tactical objectives with reusable Mainframe-Based HB JavaScript Speeds API/ APIs and services while building strategically Services Creation toward a RESTful enterprise architecture • Provide integration solutions that improve efficiency, productivity, and economy – and Executive Summary work for business. A leading health care and pharmacy solutions provider uses HB.js – the HostBridge® JavaScript Engine – to rapidly integrate Introduction its core business systems with any other A leading provider of healthcare and pharmacy systems anywhere. As a result, the company solutions – including pharmacy benefit provides modern solutions to employees and administration and prescription drug claims customers, streamlines technology-driven processing – continues to grow steadily in its fast- business processes, and innovates to better paced industry. Keys to its mission are maximizing compete in its rapidly evolving industry. HB.js clinical outcomes for patients while managing specifically enables the company to develop operating expenses, which it achieves in part by and deploy RESTful APIs, web services, and gathering and sharing information with greater microservices to modernize and integrate speed and agility. critical IBM® z Systems® applications, data, and business logic. The solutions provider is a mature mainframe shop, running its most critical business processes Objectives: on an IBM z13® mainframe with CICS TS V5.1 • Improve operations and outpace the applications, DB2 databases, zIIP and zAAP competition by integrating employee-, specialty engines, and other mainframe tools. partner-, and customer-facing systems Representing decades of investment, these deliver • Maintain proven CICS® applications and exceptional processing power and reliability. DB2® databases as operational systems of record Like every organization that uses information to • Deploy web services as the best means drive business, the company must continually to modernize and extend the value of integrate information systems, whether it has mainframe assets used them for decades or they are just now • Accelerate and simplify web services emerging. Some years ago, the company turned modernization and integration by from tightly coupled system-to-system integration transitioning to a RESTful services to more flexible, loosely coupled SOAP-based approach. web services. The SOAP services were a dramatic improvement, but development cycles

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remained slow, and a widening skills gap between callable from COBOL, Java, C#, Python, PHP, or mainframe and web developers threatened to slow any other programming language. development further.

Implementation Examples RESTful APIs and Services with HB.js – the To date, the company has completed a range of HostBridge JavaScript Engine HB.js APIs, services, and microservices, improving In 2014, to address these concerns, the company integration with partner systems, developing began adopting a faster, easier, more efficient streamlined internal tools for employees, and integration methodology, transitioning most extending mainframe business logic to distributed of its services projects from the heavy SOAP platforms to achieve new business objectives. Two methodology to a lighter, more agile RESTful brief examples are outlined here. approach. RESTful Integration of a Third-Party Tool with To power this new approach, it chose HB.js, the DB2 Databases HostBridge JavaScript Engine. HB.js is the only Like most providers across the health care server-side JavaScript for the mainframe, and all solutions industry, the company uses a third-party HB.js processes and services are eligible to run formulary management tool to manage drugs on the lower-cost System z Integrated Information covered under benefit plans. Entering data into the Processor (zIIP). HB.js suited the provider’s third-party tool and in-house databases required environment in other ways as well. Like the separate data entry processes. To eliminate mainframe and many other enterprise platforms, duplication of effort and improve productivity HostBridge uses Eclipse for its development and efficiency, the company developed a simple environment and CA Endevor® for deployment integration of the third-party tool with its claims processes. processing databases.

Along with all related HostBridge components, Using HB.js, developers wrote and embedded a HB.js is mainframe-based integration software. RESTful API in the formulary tool’s user interface. Running under CICS, it delivers exceptional Now, whenever an employee or claims agent performance and reliability. HB.js is a JavaScript enters data into the tool, the data is automatically development and runtime engine for web services/ sent via JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) to API integration; the HostBridge base product HostBridge. HB.js services then interact with DB2, auto-generates XML from CICS applications, entering the data into every database relevant to providing exact replicas of CICS screens within the claims processing. This integration was designed, HostBridge Eclipse IDE for easier, more intuitive developed, tested, and deployed in three weeks. services development. Streamlining Membership Card Reissues The solutions provider chose HB.js specifically Before HB.js, whenever the provider’s members for the flexibility of its RESTful, object-oriented needed membership cards reissued, employees approach. With HB.js, customers can easily started a lengthy, labor-intensive process that create a service from any application function or was prone to errors. Call center personnel took CICS screen. These can readily be aggregated requests over the phone and then created an into higher-level services or into effectively Excel spreadsheet listing requests alongside new applications. HB.js also provides a unique member information. The spreadsheet was sent to and powerful way to orchestrate and automate another team, which ran an ad-hoc batch process complex CICS micro flows as single web services. to update a single database parameter with a And HB.js services are language-agnostic, value indicating the need to reissue cards. Nightly,

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the process would review all records and create Agility cards for those whose records now included the Lightweight, reusable HB.js services and indicator. microservices make the provider more agile from both the technology and business perspectives. At Developers created a simple HTML front end the most basic level, a simple web service might and used HB.js to develop services that enable “serve” several backend systems. For example, employees to complete the process in a single a mailing address web service based on a DB2 step. The web page calls an HB.js service, which database can instantly deliver address change then updates the member’s database record and information to any other application or database initiates the card creation process. running anywhere – in-house, at partner sites, or in the cloud. Outcomes and Benefits With HB.js, the solutions provider now develops At the highest levels, the RESTful approach APIs and web services – and completes integration effectively enables the creation of entirely new projects – far faster and more easily than with business applications by decoupling services from any other method, including Java-based SOAP both source and destination applications. Services development. The provider’s services strategy has from any number of applications and platforms can also evolved as development cycles have grown be aggregated and repurposed to serve the most shorter, deployment/migration simpler, and time complex and fastest-changing business functions. to market faster. Continuous Delivery Development teams now focus increasingly on A benefit related to the agility of RESTful services microservices – simple, discrete services based is continuous delivery – changes to any given on self-contained functions that can be reused backend application have almost zero impact and aggregated with other services running on the on any higher-order business services. Though mainframe or any of its other enterprise platforms. aggregated services might be comprised of dozens or hundreds of microservices, changes Interoperability and Process Improvement to backend systems are likely to affect only a few The single greatest benefit of RESTful services microservices, and only those few services require integration using HB.js is that the solutions updates. The overall services-based business provider is achieving its IT and business objectives. application and the vast majority of microservices On the technology side, the provider more remain unchanged. As such, business applications readily integrates its mainframe assets with run without interruption. other enterprise systems and with web and mobile applications – even as it builds a flexible, Collaboration Across IT Teams functional services architecture. On the business Thanks to HB.js and its JavaScript-based side, services-based integration implementations programming, the solutions provider realized deliver improved process efficiency, greater another, unexpected benefit. Walls that had productivity, lower operating costs, and new existed between development teams broke opportunities for business growth. down, and cross-team collaboration improved. Historically, mainframe and web teams focused With HB.js, the provider does more with and on different tasks. After years of disconnection, gains new value from its mainframe, adopts the groups functioned as if they were in discrete disruptive technologies as they emerge, and siloes. Bridging the gap was a challenge. meets the changing expectations of employees and customers.

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HostBridge JavaScript changed this dynamic. Web 2016, the number of web services processed per teams already knew JavaScript, but now they could year increased by more than 90 percent and now readily observe how HB.js interacted with CICS exceeds 1 billion. applications and other z Systems assets, leading to a better understanding of and appreciation As it repeatedly realizes the core benefits of for the mainframe. COBOL programmers knew HB.js – ease of use, renewed collaboration, what the mainframe was doing, so they quickly services agility, faster time-to-market, and broader, grasped how JavaScript could extend mainframe more flexible integration – the company will functionality. Soon they were learning JavaScript, continue shifting more of its integration workload finding it easy to understand and use, and enjoying to HostBridge and the HostBridge JavaScript the opportunity to gain a new skill and join the large Engine. and growing JavaScript community.

Footnote The Future 1 Alternatively, HostBridge can run inside z/OS The solutions provider continues to expand its but outside of CICS. In this configuration, all use of HB.js to make improvements where it HostBridge processes and services are eligible to matters most – in day-to-day operations, employee run on the zIIP. For more information, see “zIIP- productivity, customer service, and the bottom line. Enabling CICS Integration Workloads: HostBridge And as APIs, services, and microservices have for zIIP” at http://hostbridge.com/index.php/library/ come online and proven their value, the company zIIP-enabling-CICS-integration-workloads. has accelerated its implementations.

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IBM has announced that it will deploy Docker Enterprise Edition across all its Linux-based systems. This will enable IBM to deliver on its goal of moving the app to the data rather than the data to the app. So, what is Docker? Docker is a software container platform. Everything you need to make the software work is packaged into this container. It includes libraries and settings to run on any platform. This way, you get an efficient, lightweight, self-contained system, plus the assurance that the software will always run the same, no matter where it’s deployed. Container architecture introduces a change to how the code behaves with hardware, in effect, it abstracts the application from the infrastructure.

Developers can use Docker to collaborate on the development of software while potentially working on completely different hardware. According to the Docker Web site, operators use Docker to run and manage apps side-by-side in isolated containers to get better compute density. Enterprises use Docker to build agile software delivery pipelines to ship new features faster, more securely, and with confidence for both Linux and Windows Server apps.

Docker runs on Ubuntu, Debian, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, CentOS, Fedora, Oracle Linux, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, Microsoft Windows Server 2016, Microsoft Windows 10, macOS, Microsoft Azure, and Amazon Web Services.

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to their QRadar® SIEM. They also provide ESM z/OS Code Scanning Is administrative support. Essential to System z®

Security Yet, it only takes one zero-day code-based vulnerability in the OS layer to afford a hacker Security analysts often state that, in order to with the ability to bypass everything that is effectively safeguard the vast data volumes considered essential and best practice in securing stored on a mainframe, an organization must the applications and the source data associated establish configuration-based security controls with those applications. These vulnerabilities, and then continuously monitor these controls when exploited, allow the exploiter full access to determine effectiveness and compliance to any data and any application residing on that to standards. Establishing a baseline of the system. Note that External Security Managers security configuration and then automatically (RACF®, CA ACF2™, and CA Top Secret™) are monitoring and alerting on that status for “drifting” not part of the solution; nor are any Application is considered a best practice in order to minimize Security Testing tools or Run-time Application the risk of exposure. Self Protection (RASP) tools. No current ESM or Application Security Testing Tool can identify these Vendors translate this best practice into security vulnerabilities, notify you when they are exploited, software and services that focus on securing the nor remediate the vulnerabilities. Ensuring system enterprise through application code penetration integrity is outside the scope of the current testing for known vulnerabilities and security External Security Managers. The ESM’s are not configuration monitoring against compliance designed to enforce a security policy when a standards such as the DoD STIGs. For example, hacker (external or internal) uses an OS layer as shown below, IBM Security’s zSecure suite vulnerability to circumvent z/OS system integrity provides products that audit configurations for by altering his security authority in memory, and standards compliance and reports on anomalies gains unauthorized access to the system.

IBM’s Statement of Integrity Security professionals understand how to mitigate the risks caused by configuration- based vulnerabilities. They have robust tools to monitor network traffic, scan applications, and monitor security configurations for documented vulnerabilities. Unfortunately, these tools are incapable of detecting zero day code-based vulnerabilities at the OS layer, and in practice OS layer vulnerability assessments uncover serious exposures unrelated to “drifting” configurations and excessive access. How is this possible when integrity and security are so integral to System z that the operating system will not start unless an ESM has been specified in the system configuration?

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Traditionally, the mainframe has depended upon provided in the system, the installation must the IBM Statement of Integrity as the cornerstone assume responsibility for the following: for the security of the mainframe. In 1973, IBM • Physical environment of the computing system. announced its Statement of Integrity for its new • Adoption of certain procedures (for example, Operating System, OS/VS2. OS/VS2 was the the password protection of appropriate system predecessor to MVS and z/OS. In its current form, data sets) that are a necessary complement to the IBM Statement of Integrity states: the integrity support within the operating system itself. “IBM’s commitment includes design and • That its own modifications and additions (3rd development practices intended to prevent Party Software) to the system do not introduce unauthorized application programs, any integrity exposures. That is, all installation- subsystems, and users from bypassing z/ supplied authorized code (for example, an OS security – that is, to prevent them from installation SVC) must perform the same or an gaining access, circumventing, disabling, equivalent type of validity checking and control altering, or obtaining control of key z/OS that the system uses to maintain its integrity. system processes and resources unless allowed by the installation. Specifically, z/ OS “System Integrity” is defined as the Code-based Vulnerabilities inability of any program not authorized by a Code-based vulnerabilities are caused by poor mechanism under the installation’s control design and coding errors in programs that to circumvent or disable store or fetch reside in the mainframe’s OS layer (PC routines; protection, access a resource protected SVC’s). They do not follow the rules laid down by the z/OS Security Server (RACF®), or by the IBM Statement of Integrity. Most z/OS obtain control in an authorized state; that is, systems have tens of thousands of authorized in supervisor state, with a protection key less programs, including software from internal teams than eight (8), or Authorized Program Facility and independent software vendors. Operating (APF) authorized. In the event that an IBM system code, Independent Software Vendor System Integrity problem is reported, IBM will (“ISV”) supplied products, and installation-added always take action to resolve it. “ authorized programs and interfaces are part of the operating system layer and can contain these It is important to note in the first statement security vulnerabilities. that IBM does not state that z/OS will have no system integrity problems, but rather that if one is In most cases these vulnerabilities must be reported, they will always take action to resolve it. remediated by the code owner. The code owners And, the second reference clearly states that it is are, in the case of z/OS, IBM, and in the case of the installation’s responsibility that any authorized third-party add-on products, either IBM or an ISV, code they add (and this would include products or – in the case of internally developed code – the from Independent Software Vendors and any Company. installation developed code) also conforms to the same high level of standards that z/OS uses to One of the strengths of z/OS is that programs can maintain its integrity. be developed anywhere in the world and (for the most part, given similar supporting software) will According to IBM’s z/OS Authorized Assembler run unchanged on any other system in the world. Services Guide you are responsible for the In the case of OS-level code vulnerabilities, this following for each z/OS system you have to is a danger because it means that vulnerabilities ensure that system integrity is effective and to can be researched and developed anywhere and avoid compromising any of the integrity controls the exploits can be “imported” into any company’s

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internal environment. Therefore, it is not a viable programs and credentials are located in the OS risk assumption that very few individuals with layer. A common exploitable vulnerability within access to the company’s systems would have the application security interfaces is caused by the expertise to carry out an attack. There is a large failure to place application security programs and distinction between developing an exploit and credentials in the OS layer. being able to implement it. In fact, the majority of security code vulnerabilities can be exploited using Note that security credentials for all current a CLIST or REXX Exec. ESMs (RACF, ACF2, and Top Secret) should be in the OS layer. This denies application The balance between defenses and exposures programs the ability to directly update security isn’t static or even predictable; it’s impossible to credentials associated with the authorization and monitor and comprehend consequences of vendor authentication of resources associated with the development and maintenance streams. In the application. An OS layer program must be used same way that PCs and servers need constant for an exploiter to modify security credentials. monitoring so do mainframes. Scanning application code for vulnerabilities will NEVER find severe security vulnerabilities that allow OS layer programs or memory to be OS Layer Vulnerabilities modified. While there are benefits to scanning Within the application and operating system application layer programs for vulnerabilities, layers of z/OS are programs and memory. When finding severe security code vulnerabilities is not memory is allocated to a program by the operating one of them. system a storage key is assigned to it. This storage key dictates whether the storage belongs In the case of a storage alteration vulnerability, an in the application layer (storage key 8) or the OS authorized program allows a non-authorized user layer (storage keys 0-7). In the application layer, the ability to modify operating system memory application programs have the ability to modify locations. These locations would include where the application memory. Application layer programs ESM, i.e. RACF®, keep their security credentials. are normally run within the application layer Storage alteration vulnerabilities occur when a PSW Key 8 problem state. The PSW key allows non-authorized user can invoke an authorized these programs to alter any private area storage function (e.g., a SVC or PC routine) that will modify key 8 memory (APPLICATION DATA) in their operating system memory. A non-authorized user address space. This is known as a non-reentrant will usually be able to control which addresses are application program state and the data is loaded modified by the authorized function. into storage key 8 memory and can be modified directly by application layer programs. To exploit a storage alteration vulnerability a non-authorized user would invoke the authorized Reentrant (RENT) programs are loaded into program passing an address to be modified the OS layer memory and cannot be directly (e.g., the z/OS or ESM security credentials). The updated by an application program. However, authorized program would update the address if an application layer program is given READ specified by the non-authorized caller, while authority by the ESM to the program libraries it can executing in an authorized PSW Key. The exploit copy them to another library, modify the programs of this vulnerability could be written as a script stored in that library, then load and execute the (CLIST or REXX) or an assembler program. modified copy. Using a storage alteration vulnerability the exploiter could: Application programs CANNOT directly modify OS layer programs or memory. Typically, ESM

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• Change exploiters authority Deep Intelligence Provides Greater Security – Elevate z/OS authority to allow MODESET or bypass password authority – Elevate ESM authority to allow access to protected resources – Change ESM credentials to impersonate other users • Make changes to the operating system – Disable or bypass ESM security checks – Disable z/OS logging (SMF) – Allow the capture of Userids and password or other sensitive data – Modify network configuration to allow sensitive data to be sent out into the network – Allow signon/logon without the proper credentials

Comprehensive Risk Management scanning can test for zero-day vulnerabilities in Today, System z supports z/OS integrity with the operating system layer caused by poor coding controls that include separation of functions, techniques. This is known as Operating System 2 factor authentication, logging of privileged Integrity Testing™ (OSIT). Code reviews, isolated access, standards based defaults for system and manual, are not only impractical and costly, configurations, the ability to classify data, and but inaccurate. Dynamic review of code during encryption of sensitive data. testing or run-time goes further, but cannot point to the line of code where the vulnerability originated. The focus has always been to protect data using the ESM’s Access and Authentication security The recommended approach is a persistent, strategies. Unfortunately, protecting the volume interactive approach to identifying z/OS and of data coming from the numerous sources application code vulnerabilities. Interactive available today makes this traditional methodology application and OS layer code vulnerability impractical, and hackers have sophisticated scanning, with dynamic testing to determine means to bypass these traditional strategies to the location of the vulnerability in the code, is exploit exposures. necessary to ensure that both data and systems are protected. To successfully manage the z/ A comprehensive security compliance program OS security code vulnerability problem requires should always include analysis for configuration- an Operating System Integrity Testing™ (OSIT) based and code-based vulnerabilities. Mainframes approach using an interactive and persistent need constant evaluation for exposures created testing methodology, along with monitoring of not only by configuration changes, but also vendor critical z/OS and ESM functions. The outcome for software releases and patches. Failure to do both you is a mainframe that both maintains its system leaves your mainframe system at risk. integrity and delivers effective security that in the end provides the least risk of exposure to breaches

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the scope of the External Security Managers. The It does, however, recall the sage advice: “Trust ESM’s were not designed to enforce your security but verify”. Mainframes remain the ideal platform policy when an OS-layer code vulnerability is for supporting business processes and especially exploited, and bypasses the ESM security controls for building future successes (mobile, cloud, allowing unauthorized and undocumented access payment), but their use must include appropriate to data. verification that the system’s architectural foundation -- z/OS -- provides no “basement System integrity is a critical component of z/ kitchen window” exposures. OS. Regardless of which ESM you have, they all depend upon system integrity in order to function properly. Your z/OS system is vulnerable About the author with a single system integrity exposure. Without Ray Overby is the President and CTO at Key Operating System Integrity there can be no Resources, Inc. a mainframe software and System Security. security services firm founded in 1988. Ray is a recognized authority in mainframe security, risk Where does all this lead? It surely does not and compliance for IBM zSystem environments. undermine the mainframe’s well-deserved For the past 12 years, he has been providing reputation for integrity; no other platform rivals security consulting services to Fortune 500 what its integrated architecture, development institutions focusing on comprehensive z/OS and maintenance philosophies, and fundamental vulnerability assessments. reliability mindset provides.

A hackathon is a way to bring together like-minded people, divide them up into teams, and develop customer-focused ideas very quickly. The important things for a hackathon are: creativity and innovation; adopting a start-up mentality, rapid prototyping and producing a Minimum Viable Product (MVP); and including your mainframe. Teams will combine internal APIs with externally-available APIs to produce something new and unique using modern programming languages such as node.js and swiftlang.

But would any self-respecting mainframe-using business indulge in hackathons? The answer is definitely ‘yes’, because they provide a way to circumvent waterfall development methodologies where a new application could be two years away and by then out of date. Citibank runs Citi mobile challenges. These get people to look at different ways people can consume their banking services – it’s a way to get the next big idea from people outside their company. And Ciitbank can then monetize the ideas. Blockchain is great for hackathons because it is digital and secure.

So what’s needed for a hackathon to be a success? Here are some ideas: positive energy, IT skills, a venue and a date, sponsorship, a code of conduct, mixer sessions, and resources (venue, food, and drink). On the day, you need a keynote speaker, food and drink, and people to develop their ideas. At the end of the hackathon, teams should have produced a viable product that has been tested and can be shown. It can then be further developed and tested and possibly used commercially. A hackathon is definitely an idea that’s worth giving a try.

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The main goal of a DevOps approach is to develop DevOps for the mainframe and deploy innovation faster—to meet the needs of your customers or constituents. But speed DevOps has moved beyond being the latest, cannot come at the price of quality. As leading trendy buzzword to mainstream. Today, it industry analysts’ note: “DevOps emphasizes receives attention from industry analysts, collaboration, automation and integration of marketers, bloggers, software developers development and operations teams, resulting in and, more importantly, IT departments in large more frequent releases at higher quality”.1 and small enterprises. Why? DevOps helps

businesses compete by delivering innovations CIOs are keen to use DevOps in order to respond to customers faster and more reliably. Learn to Line of Business (LOB) requirements faster by how the mainframe can be part of the DevOps leveraging agile development. When development conversation. is agile, small teams work interactively on tasks in iterative work cycles with focus on delivering What is DevOps and why should I care? value to customers. By taking down the walls of hierarchy, there is transparency between teams Occasionally, I am asked if DevOps is a tool that ensuring better coordination. Harmonizing the can be bought. If only it was that easy. DevOps change management and development processes is really about organizational change. It is the also allows CIOs to better scale development practice of Development and IT Operations teams. working together through the entire software lifecycle, from design through the development process to production. This not only requires 1 a change in behavior and culture but the A CIO’s Guide to DevOps, On-Demand Video implementation of processes and the use of a - Watch Anytime, Anywhere. Retrieved from new tool-chain to bring it all together. https://www.gartner.com/webinar/3165618.

Figure 1: The Benefits of DevOps

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Yes, you may say, our Java® teams and new In the mainframe world, this break-neck speed developers are using DevOps but we are the of change is just not realistic. But this does not mainframe team so this isn’t relevant to us. I beg preclude mainframe teams from participating in to differ. Mainframe teams can play an integral role DevOps. While mainframe developers don’t have in the DevOps processes of your organization. a culture of implementing changes willy-nilly and Don’t let your CIO overlook your team’s ability to certainly don’t throw out changes continuously, participate. they can benefit from many of the principals of DevOps such as repository-based development and Continuous Integration. If mainframe teams Why DevOps is relevant for the Mainframe? can get to a state where they can deploy on A key feature of DevOps is continuous a weekly basis using DevOps, this is a big deployment—which means tests are automated advantage over the waterfall models which take and immediately deployed to production. Google® months and lock processes. and Amazon® do this—they make changes to live apps at a rate of 20,000 deployments per day. It is estimated that “Amazon deploys every 11.6 Repository-based development supports seconds”.2 They are the pioneers of DevOps and parallel development need the speed to meet the dynamic needs of their As simple as it sounds, it is a big change in the market place. The speed of change is breathtaking mindset of mainframe developers to realize that in this environment. a repository like Git takes lead over the source code. All changes are now committed to this 2 Hacker News. Retrieved from https://news. repository and from there, distributed to the ycombinator.com/item?id=2971521. corresponding environments. Developers have to Lawton, George (2013, Sep 5). How Amazon Made pull source code out of the repository, implement the Leap to a DevOps Culture. Retrieved from: and change code on a local workspace, then http://servicevirtualization.com/how-amazon- execute and test in a private and isolated mode made-the-leap-to-a-devops-culture/. on a remote development environment. Using the

Figure 2: DevOps on the Mainframe with NaturalONE

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Natural programming language as an example, a singular stability metric: a working automated the single source of truth is now the repository build of the software.”3 and no longer the FUSER. Development happens in an EclipseTM-based platform like NaturalONE. Any modification is uploaded and compiled in Private mode supports work performed in parallel an isolated private mode. Once a developer has by allowing developers to test and execute their finished the work on a feature, he makes the implementation in isolation from each other. A changes available to others by committing the source code repository supports “branching” changes to the repository. Through Continuous where multiple teams can work on multiple Integration, the new changes are transferred branches of the code then merge the branches from the repository to the central development upon completion. In your typical mainframe environment. It ensures our application is built environment today, without DevOps, you have successfully and should run unit-tests to prove all to lock modules and no one else is able to make functionality is still given. changes. The waiting for unlock kills efficiency and productivity. By working on a repository in parallel, Continuous Testing is required for DevOps you are not blocked. success Faced with increasingly complex applications What happens next if all this code is developed delivered at dramatically faster speed, software in parallel conflicts with one another? Fortunately, testers have the potential to be the bottleneck that at the end it all gets merged with the help determines if a DevOps initiative fails or succeeds. of the merge capabilities of the source code To implement full DevOps, the testing process management system. After committing and must be automated and transformed to happen pushing your changes, Continuous Integration continuously. This should dramatically reduce the ensures your application can be built with your level of effort required for testing. Testing must also changes incorporated into the shared development be collaborative to ensure quality while reducing environment. the time it takes to deliver new features.

Fortunately, there are a number of tools available Continuous Integration ensures application in the market that can help. Like Java developers, build is successful mainframe developers using Natural can also “A cornerstone of DevOps is Continuous Integration establish and automate unit tests using NaturalONE (CI), a technique designed and named by Grady and Continuous Integration tools such as Booch that continually merges source code Jenkins®. All modules can be continuously tested updates from all developers on a team into a to ensure quality and even Natural programs can shared mainline. This continual merging prevents be fully tested using the newly available Natural a developer’s local copy of a software project screen-based Tester. For Natural mainframe from drifting too far afield as new code is added developers, NaturalONE tools like Profiling and by others, avoiding catastrophic merge conflicts. Code Coverage for runtime testing complement In practice, CI involves a centralized server that the testing process. These tools ensure that the continually pulls in all new source code changes as performance of the components delivered meets developers commit them and builds the software the business requirements and the code coverage application from scratch, notifying the team of of your unit tests is high enough. any failures in the process. If a failure is seen, the development team is expected to refocus 3 Cois, Aaron (2015, Jan 26). Continuous and fix the build before making any additional Integration in DevOps. Retrieved from https:// code changes. While this may seem disruptive, insights.sei.cmu.edu/devops/2015/01/continuous- in practice it focuses the development team on integration-in-devops-1.html.

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Project and change management must be change in workforce. This is particularly true, collaborative especially in the case of IT departments that still Last but not least, effective project and change use Natural on the mainframe. management is a key component in setting up DevOps in your organization. It is good practice NaturalONE is the recommended development in DevOps that no development and no change environment for Natural because it is fully should happen if it is not linked to a proper task integrated with the DevOps tool chain familiar in a project or change management tool. So to Java developers who will also appreciate even at the beginning of DevOps, project and NaturalONE’s familiar Graphical User Interface change management stands and all activities (GUI) and wizards. Because NaturalONE is should support an existing task. Every source Eclipse-based, you can standardize on a single code change and every build and deployment platform across all program languages. You should be tracked and, of course, fully automated. can efficiently cross-train personnel to deploy This will give you full transparency into the whole resources where they’re most needed—and at development lifecycle of your organization. a moment’s notice. You’ll find it easier to recruit new programmers who will appreciate the For mainframe developers running mission-critical collaborative DevOps support of NaturalONE for applications, the stakes are high. You need the agile development and Continuous Integration. right tools to effectively coordinate and govern your systems development lifecycle. Fortunately, if you It is also interesting to mention that Natural use an Eclipse-based platform like NaturalONE, applications running on a Mainframe can very there are many open source and third party tools successfully run on Open Systems platforms as that you can leverage to help manage your project. well. In fact, about the half of Natural applications NaturalONE integrates with all tools with Eclipse operating worldwide are running on Linux, UNIX plugins like Atlassian Jira® and Redmine, an open or Windows. If your company is thinking about source tool. re-hosting its Natural applications, to Linux for example, your implemented DevOps approach can be fully applied the same way in your new Benefits of DevOps for the Mainframe Open Systems environment. It can even be a From the CIO down to the application developer, valuable first step when heading in this direction. implementing DevOps means delivering better code, faster and more efficiently. Productivity is improved by automating processes and Jump start DevOps for your mainframe with leveraging Eclipse and repository-based tools NaturalONE for parallel development. Transparency is also If you run Natural on a mainframe, I strongly greatly improved with a change-management encourage you to give NaturalONE a try. record which contains a history of all changes, NaturalONE embraces the DevOps approach version comparison and the ability to roll back to to development, enabling you to develop new a previous version. With Continuous Integration, applications and modernize existing Natural test efforts are reduced while quality of deployment applications—faster—to meet changing business is improved. requirements and reduce application development costs. One of the most empowering reasons CIOs will want to pursue DevOps is that it will help NaturalONE operates in Linux® or Windows® reduce the risk of business disruption due to the and, because it is based on Eclipse, easily retirement of skilled workers—the generational integrates with multiple Eclipse-based tools. Since

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‘Reports of my death have hear a leader speak so candidly, describing a company’s transformation from “a declining been greatly exaggerated’ business oppressed in annual waterfall release cycles to an energized software company 100% With vinyl music back in fashion, the mainframe committed to Agile and DevOps.” He has already is in vogue again too, writes Mark Wilson, lived through what he is proposing others should Technical Director at RSM Partners’ do: genuine digital transformation underpinned by a ‘mainstreamed mainframe’. The mainframe is already the centre of gravity for many organizations. Should it be at the We’re seeing this trend with our own clients, too: heart of your world too – underpinning your the mainframe is more in vogue today than has enterprise’s digital transformation journey? been for more than 20 years, and is becoming even more critical to an organization’s business The keynote address at the 2017 Guide Share success (and good health). The mainframe has Europe (GSE) UK conference came from Chris become a streamlined super-fast data monster; O’Malley, CEO and President of Compuware. Titled a transaction eating behemoth, the system of The Future Ready Imperative: A Mainstreamed record. There is a good reason why z stands for Mainframe, his central point was that the mainframe “zero downtime”. It is the only platform you can is not only here to stay but that the value of its really, properly trust. stock is rising fast. (By the way, the Mark Twain quotation heading this article is actually a misquote As people recognize that today’s mainframe is but it’s the version in common use, and neatly brilliant at what it does, a logical next step is to sums up my starting position.) In his keynote, Chris ask “why don’t we ‘mainstream the mainframe’ described the mainframe as the most future-ready and move it to the centre of everything we do?” platform in the world: the most reliable, securable, The problem, as Chris O’Malley noted in his scalable and cost efficient. He said it remains “the GSE keynote, is that not everybody possesses dominant, growing and vital backbone” for the the in-house experience or skills they believe are global economy. The problem, however, is that required. But times, and technology, are changing. “outdated processes and tools ensnared in an apathetic culture doggedly resistant to change, prevent far too many enterprises from unleashing From 1964 to 2018 its unique technical virtues and business value.” In 2018, mainframe technology is all about As I blogged at the time, it was fascinating to modernity, speed and agility. Modern intuitive user

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interfaces mean green screens can be consigned this technology can now help a business to save to the dustbin of history. The mainframe sits at serious money and work ever more efficiently, from the heart of the API community. It’s the best cloud absorbing workload spikes to reducing energy server on the planet. And we’ve been doing it costs: to do more with less. Indeed, allied with Z since 1964. virtualization capabilities, it can make a massive difference to bringing down IT costs, enabling If you’ve got one already, then you should ask the running of hundreds of virtual Linux servers yourself, what more could it be doing to support concurrently, with ensured isolation of each for and secure my enterprise? The opportunity is to security and recoverability. Solutions like Red sweat the mainframe, to exploit it, and achieve Hat for management and automation, Docker more with it. for software containerization, Kubernetes to automate deployment, scaling and management If you haven’t got one and want to tap into all of containerized applications – and many many those acknowledged benefits – quality of service, more – all run on IBM Z just as well if not better reliability, availability, scalability and security – but than on other platforms. And in an age of massive are worried about a lack of knowledge and skills data breaches and security concerns, one of the around the z/OS operating system, then you can best things is that it can all be all so secure. look to the open source resource of Linux.

A new era in security: Crypto as a Service Making it easy: Linux for Z For enterprises that don’t currently run Z, one It may be worth remembering at this point the of the biggest benefits to be gained is in the amazing degree to which the economy depends security space. Of course, security is critical for on the mainframe, a fact that few non-mainframe any organization that has embarked on a ‘digital ‘civilians’ appreciate. They don’t know just how transformation journey’ and wants to expose its much is underpinned by the platform. The majority services to external and internal clients. As we of ATM transaction, debit or credit card transaction know, the IBM Z hardware architecture, along touch a mainframe in one form or another. Airlines with several software solutions, ensure that Z is run on them. Most of the big banks, insurers and a true market leader: the most securable server retailers depend on mainframes in some way. It on the planet. And goodness knows, that’s what has been estimated that more than 70% of global we need. If you look at the serious data breaches Fortune 500 companies use the mainframe to run that have taken place over the last few years, the core business functions. The platform is part of sobering fact is that only four percent of the data critical national infrastructure. stolen was encrypted. 96 percent was clear and unencrypted, so it was free and available for use. With IBM Z hardware known for RAS – Reliability, Could the mainframe become the advanced crypto Availability, Security – using open source Linux for service provider (ACSP) for the enterprise? The Z means organizations can benefit from all those simple answer is, yes. Z capabilities and strengths in a simple, efficient and secure way: enabling data security and With IBM’s development and launch of the z14, business continuity, operational efficiency, high Crypto cards and Pervasive Encryption (PE) in availability, superior performance, DevOps and 2017, the Z world has met the challenges of cyber application development, content management, security in the modern world head on, tackling and on and on. More than a decade old, Linux the threats while creating new opportunities. IBM for Z originated as two separate efforts to port said these capabilities “usher in a new era of Linux to IBM’s biggest servers, Bigfoot (i370) and game-changing security capabilities” and I agree. Linux for s/390. Server consolidation enabled by The huge potential of Pervasive Encryption is 34 © Arcati Ltd, 2018 ArcatiArcati MainframeMainframe YearbookYearbook 20072018

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clear: you can now encrypt enterprise business in August 2017 made it clear that “Demand for data relatively quickly and easily, at scale, with mainframe programmers is about to take off... minimal overheads, and at rest or in flight. And 10,000 baby boomers are retiring every day. It is the implications go way beyond the Z world into overwhelmingly this generation that was trained the non-mainframe security community. If we to program mainframes. Compounding the can do this using the mainframe, at high speeds issue is the expectation that 20% of mainframe and to such a remarkable degree of quality, then programmers will retire in the next five years.” I pervasive encryption might just be the harbinger of am increasingly confident that a new generation a big change: the mainframe becoming a trusted is already in the pipeline, with a growing number security service provider for the entire enterprise. of institutions designing and delivering mainframe- Crypto as a Service (CaaS) becomes a reality. related education. For example, Manchester Metropolitan University, which is part of IBM’s My own team at RSM Partners has a potential Academic Initiative programme, introduced a collaboration with IBM to develop a ‘black box’ four-year mainframe-specific degree course in appliance or container solution to deliver Crypto September 2017 for up to 25 students. This is as a Service into enterprises that do not have the designed as a highly practical degree, and so time or resources to develop their own capability includes work-based projects. Other universities in-house, or who can’t afford to, and for data are developing their own courses. At the same centers and hosting providers who want to provide time, the big banks including Barclays and Lloyds CaaS as another service offering to their own Banking Group have started running mainframe clients. This appliance would deliver capabilities apprenticeship programmes. And IBM has its own including secure data encryption and public Master the Mainframe challenge, which promotes key infrastructure (PKI) directly into distributed computing to schools and university students in platforms. Exciting times. If trust is genuinely “the more than 35 countries across six continents. new currency that drives the economy” then end- to-end protection, made easy for all, will surely The mainframe is, I’m very glad to say, here to have a significant impact. stay. If I had to summarize recent developments in our world and particularly the progressive upturn in the mainframe’s fortunes, it would be this: Meanwhile, in academia... the future is bright. Or more precisely, the Running alongside these developments in Z future is Z. technology and security is the resurgence in interest we’re seeing in the academic world, among students and institutions, which is highly About the author encouraging. People are continuing to wake A passionate advocate of all things Z and up to the potential of the mainframe and to the international speaker in mainframe technology rising demand for skilled people – not least as and security, Mark Wilson heads RSM z specialists from previous generations finally Partners’ Technical and Security teams. hit retirement. An article in University Business www.rsmpartners.com

by Trevor Eddolls and2018 Mark user Lillycrop survey The 2018 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 of mainframe computing. In addition, we have snapshot of the IBM Z user community’s existing continued to explore relative cost in more details, hardware and software configuration, and also asking respondents how fast their distributed their plans and concerns for 2018. server costs are growing relative to the mainframe.

This year we have continued to track the growth Profile of respondents of mainframe integration with mobile and cloud The mainframe user survey was completed by 100 computing, and other areas of new development, individuals between the 1 November 2017 and as well as gauging the extent to whichChart BYOD, Titlethe 30 November 2017. Survey respondents were Big Data, and DevOps are changing the face either contacted directly by e-mail or other online

4% 4% 4%

North America

34% 54% Europe Midde East/Africa South America Asia/Pacific

Chart 1: Distribution of respondents means and invited to complete the mainframe user As usual, a wide range of industry types are survey on the Arcati Web site. Responses from represented in our sample (Chart 2). IT was the large mainframe vendors and multiple entries from largest group with nearly a third (32 percent) of different people at the same site were excluded respondents. Almost as large, with 28 percent of from the survey. responses, was banking/finance. Retail accounted for 12 percent and insurance, manufacturing, The distribution of all respondents is shown in and government were eight percent each. And Chart 1. Over half (54 percent) were from North transport accounted for just four percent. This America with a third (34 percent) from Europe, year, there were no respondents from education, leaving 4 percent from each of the Asia/Pacific healthcare, utilities/energy, or telecommunications. region, the Middle East/Africa, and South America.

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8% 4% 8% 32% IT 8% Banking Retail Insurance 12% Manufacturing

28% Government Transport

Chart 2: Industry sector of respondents

A third way to categorize respondents is to look at same as last year’s figure. 21 percent (again, business size. As shown in Chart 3, The largest the same as last year) of respondents said they group of respondents are from companies with were working in an outsourced operation with a 1001 to 5,000 employees worldwide (43 percent). further four percent saying that they were partially Just over a third (35 percent) had over 10,000 outsourced, and we had no responses from staff. Nine percent had 5,001 to 10,000 staff, and outsourcers. nine percent had 200 or fewer staff. That left just four percent of respondents with 201 to 1000 staff. Installed MIPS and capacity growth As in previous surveys, we have used MIPS as the 75 percent of our respondents were involved principal measure of size. We asked respondents in running in-house data centres, whichChart is the Title to indicate the total mainframe MIPS installed on

9% 4% 35%

0-200 201-1000 1001- 5000 43% 5001-10,000 9% Over 10,000

Chart 3: Number of employees woldwide in organizations surveyed

9% 5% 24%

Under 500 500-1000 1000-10,000 38% 24% 10,000-25,000 Over 25,000

Chart 4: Total mainframe MIPS installed their systems, and the result is shown in Chart 4. differences between small, mid-sized, and larger 24 percent had under 500 MIPS (down from last users. year’s 29 percent). 24 percent had 500 to 1000 MIPS (up from last year’s 14 percent). 38 percent Chart 5 shows the annual MIPS growth of had 1000 to 10,000 MIPS (the same as last year’). respondents. 78 percent of sites (the same as Five percent had 10,000 to 25,000 MIPS (down last year’s figure) of mainframe installations are from last year’s 14 percent). And nine percent experiencing some growth, with 57 percent of of respondents had over 25,000 MIPS (last year sites (up from last year’s 48 percent) reporting it was five percent). As in previous years, we growth up to 10 percent, and 17 percent reporting use installed MIPS later in the survey Chartto identify Title growth between 10 and 25 percent. Four percent

4% 18% 17% 4% Declined No growth 0-10 percent 10-25 percent Over 50 percent 57%

Chart 5: Annual MIPS growth of respondents

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100% 90% 80% 70% Over 50 percent 60% 11 to 25 percent 50% 1 to 10 percent 40% None 30% Declined 20% 10% 0% Less than a 1000 1000 to 10,000 Over 10,000 MIPS MIPS MIPS

Chart 6: MIPS growth by installation size

of sites have growth in excess of 50 percent! 18 at Chart 6, however, we can see that the picture percent (up from nine percent last year) of sites varies considerably depending on the size of are reporting a decline in mainframe capacity the system. This year, we find that the larger growth. Four percent of sites (down from last systems are anticipating steady growth in the 1 year’s 13 percent) have not experienced any to 10 percent range. Some middle range sites are kind of change in their MIPS this year. Looking showing amazing growth of over 50 percent, while

100% 90% 80% Over 50 percent 70% 26 to 50 percent 60% 11 to 25 percent 50% 1 to 10 percent 40% No growth 30% 20% Declined 10% 0% Mainframe Unix Linux Windows i5 Chart 7: Mainframe capacity growth compared with other platforms

© Arcati Limited, 2018 39 Arcati Mainframe Yearbook 2018 2018 user survey at the same time some sites in that category are the z13; 170 cores to configure (141 on z13); expecting to see a decline in capacity. The smaller up to 32TB of available Redundant Array of sites are showing some decline or no growth, but, Independent Memory (RAIM) real memory per on the whole expect to see some growth. server; double on-chip cache per core, compared to z13; hardware accelerated encryption on We also compared the rate of growth of the every core with the Central Processor Assist for mainframe with that of other IT platforms within Cryptographic Function (CPACF) feature; new the enterprise. As shown in Chart 7, the IBM Z is instructions in Single Instruction Multiple Data the only platform showing any decline, while at the (SIMD), which are designed to give a performance same time, like all platforms other than the IBM i, is boost for traditional workloads using COBOL and showing growth in excess of 50 percent. The IBM new applications like analytics; instant insights and i is the platform showing the largest percentage machine learning; blockchain with transparency of zero growth. Both Linux and Windows are and security; and simplified administration – showing strong patterns of growth, although Unix from anywhere. Delivery dates for each range of also shows some sites with no growth. processor are provided in the Mainframe evolution section of the Yearbook. Hardware and software currency The IBM mainframe hardware range continues to Our research suggests that, traditionally, users receive a regular makeover, with new high-end and upgrade on a regular basis to the most recent low-end systems generally being announced on hardware to take advantage of capacity increases alternate years. July 2017 saw the announcement and cost benefits. Chart 8 shows that just over half of the new Z14 mainframe, which came with of the sites surveyed had a z13 or z13s installed. pervasive encryption. The new mainframe had The slightly older z12BC was the next most more total system capacity compared to the popular mainframe to have installed. The Z14 has z13; faster uniprocessor performance than only just become available and so it is no surprise

20 Series1

0 Z14 z13s z13 z12BC z12EC z114 z196 z10BC

Chart 8: Mainframe processors installed

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4% 8%

z/OS 1.3 38% 50% z/OS 2.1 z/OS 2.2 z/OS 2.3

Chart 9: Primary mainframe operating system release in use that there are so few of them showing up in this mainframe over other platforms. 92 percent of year’s survey. It must be noted when looking at respondents highlighted the benefit of availability, these statistics that many sites had more than one with 80 percent highlighting security. 64 percent model of mainframe installed. identified scalability, and further 52 percent picked manageability as a mainframe benefit. Strangely, We also took the opportunity to ask people the figures are lower than last year. whether they were interested in LinuxONE Linux mainframes and when they were likely to get one. 68 percent of sites (down from last year’s 75 Disappointingly for IBM 60 percent (down from last percent) thought mainframes are too expensive year’s 76 percent) said they wouldn’t get one in (or appear to be), making it the biggest obstacle the foreseeable future. But, on the brighter side, to mainframe acceptance within the enterprise. 52 four percent said they already had one, with 20 percent of respondents (well down from last year’s percent (the same figure as last year) expecting 70 percent) thought there were cultural barrier to get one at some time in the future. between mainframe and other IT professionals. Other obstacles identified by respondents included Software currency (Chart 9) presents a more 40 percent (down from last year’s 45 percent) mixed picture and usually lags a little behind who said difficulty in obtaining or retaining the hardware. This year’s survey found that 50 percent necessary skills, 36 percent (up from last year’s of sites were using Version 2.2, and 38 percent of 30 percent) identified concerns about future sites were using Version 2.1, with only four percent availability/support for mainframe applications. using Version 2.3. Eight percent were still using And another 12 percent (down from 30 percent) z/OS 1.3. This year, no sites said their primary thought mainframes are too complex (or appear operating system was Linux (last year, the figure to be). As has been the case for a number of was five percent). years, this part of the survey still illustrates the cultural divide between mainframers and other IT Mainframe strategy professionals. We asked respondents what, in their opinion, are the main benefits to their organization of the

19% 19% 43% 43%

Fully Fully Partly Partly 38% No 38% No

Chart 10: Do your mainframe applications participate in your Web services/SOA?

Within the industry as a whole, opinion is clearly app designers. We found that 68 percent of sites divided over the role of the mainframe in new viewed their mainframe as a legacy system (up applications. For some companies the mainframe from last year’s 50 percent). Worryingly, only eight remains a separate legacy environment while percent (down from 22 percent last year) still others are leveraging the strengths of large viewed mainframes as strategic, and 20 percent systems by using them in cloud and mobile (down from 28 percent) viewed them as strategic working. You hear mainframers talking about JSON and legacy. and RESTful interfaces along with smartphone

90 80 70 CICS 60 IMS 50 WebSphere 40 Db2 30 Other 20 10 0 CICS IMS WebSphere Db2 Other

Chart 11: Which middleware have you, or do you plan to enable, with Web services?

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We asked respondents whether their z/OS 84 percent of organizations said that they are systems participate in Web services and SOA Web-enabling their CICS subsystems (Chart 11), environments, and the results are shown in which is up from last year’s 71 percent. 52 percent Chart 10. 57 percent of organizations said that of sites are Web-enabling DB2, which is down on their mainframes participate partly or fully in Web last year’s 58 percent. 32 percent of sites are Web- services (down from last year’s 65 percent). enabling IMS, much the same as last year’s 33 percent, and WebSphere Application Server rated 40 percent (down from last year’s 50 percent) went 24 percent (down from last year’s 37 percent). And on to say that they run Java-based applications on only four percent of respondents are Web-enabling the mainframe, with a further 20 percent planning other software. to. 32 percent of respondents (similar to last year’s 35 percent) said that they run Linux on Z We asked whether respondents currently used Systems, with another eight percent (down from their mainframe for cloud computing. Again, no- last year’s 13 percent) at the planning stage. There one said that they did. We also asked whether are considerable cost and management benefits respondents were planning to adopt cloud of consolidating distributed Linux workloads onto computing as a strategy. 24 percent (down the mainframe. IBM made the IFL (Integrated from last year’s 52 percent) said they weren’t at Facility for Linux) specialty processor available present. 36 percent (double last year’s 18 percent) in 2001, and announced the LinuxONE in 2015. thought some mainframe applications would be Running Linux on a mainframe could so easily be cloud enabled in the future. 12 percent (up from a mainstream technology. last year’s nine percent) planned that all of their applications would use the cloud model.

All of the above to a degree 100%

90% Mostly outsourced 80%

70% Mostly ported to Windows 60%

50% Mostly ported to Unix/Linux 40%

30% Maintained and actively 20% integrated/enhanced with new 10% apps Maintained but not integrated with 0% new apps Over 10,000 1000 to 10,000 Less than 1000 MIPS MIPS MIPS

Chart 12: Legacy application plans over the next three years

As for the future of legacy systems, once again mainframe systems with those of other platforms, the answer depends to a degree on the size but none of them are straightforward and few are and maturity of the installation. Chart 12 clearly meaningful. CIOs and finance directors all too shows that two thirds of the largest sites expect often have little experience of the factors that their legacy applications to be maintained but contribute to mainframe total cost of ownership not integrated with new apps, whereas the and there is still little published data available other third expect their legacy applications to to help them make informed comparisons. It is be maintained and actively integrated/enhanced beyond the scope of this short survey to go into with new apps. For mid-range sites, the picture detail on cost, but the following questions explore is less clear and anything can happen. Nearly a some areas where financial comparisons can be quarter (22 percent) expect their applications to made between large centralized systems and be maintained but not integrated with new apps, distributed servers. and the same percentage think they will be actively integrated. And just over 10 percent expect legacy We asked respondents how fast their IBM applications to be outsourced or ported to Linux, or Z-related expenditure is increasing, in terms of the ported to Windows. And the rest think all options technology itself and the people needed to support are possible! For smaller sites, 60 percent believe it. In Chart 13, we compare these results with the that their legacy applications will be maintained growth in mainframe capacity. From the graph, you and actively integrated/enhanced with new apps, can see that 78 percent of sites have seen some with twenty percent of responds expecting the kind of increase in capacity, and 75 percent have applications will be maintained, but not integrated, seen an increase in technology costs, but only 52 and another 20 percent expecting every outcome. percent of sites believe their people costs have increased or stayed the same! 10 percent of sites Relative cost are seeing a decline in technology costs although There are many ways of comparing the costs of 17 percent have seen a drop in capacity. Certainly,

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100% 90% 80% 60% mainframe: 40% non- 70% mainframe 60% 40% mainframe: 60% non- 50% mainframe 40% 20% mainframe: 80% non- 30% mainframe 20% 10% 0% IT budget spend Enterprise data location Chart 14: IT budget and corporate data: mainframe and distributed systems compared the people costs aren’t increasing to match the (Chart 15). In other words, did they think that their capacity increases. At some stage, management mainframe costs were increasing faster or more will have to realize that you can’t always do more slowly than their Unix, Linux, Windows, and IBM with less – no matter how good the technology is. i costs. Of course, these numbers have to be treated with great caution because we are asking We went on to ask what proportion of the total IT respondents to make direct comparisons, which, budget is absorbed by mainframe-related costs, as we have just stated, are very complex. Once and what proportion of enterprise data resides again, this chart can be used only as an indication on the mainframe (Chart 14). For the first time of a general trend, but it’s a very interesting trend ever, the two graphs look very similar. This year’s nevertheless! Anything below the green block in results indicate that much more data (75 percent each column suggests higher costs for alternative to 25 percent) is stored off the mainframe than platforms. Again this year, a substantial number on it. Organizations’ spend on the mainframe of respondents felt that their Unix, Linux, and and distributed systems, for the first time ever, is Windows user-support costs were increasing proportionate to the data split, with 75 percent of faster than the mainframe for an equivalent budgets going off mainframe. The figures would amount of capacity or support. seem to indicate that sites are spending the right amount of money compared to where their data is IBM versus the ISVs stored. In the past, more money has been spent The mainframe independent software vendor off mainframe compared to the amount of data (ISV) business is continually evolving, and there stored off the mainframe. have been a number of small companies acquired by larger organizations, but, on the whole, not any Again this year, we asked how fast respondents obvious shifts in the landscape. believed their acquisition/maintenance and support costs for distributed platforms were growing IBM regularly argues that some ISVs are too relative to the mainframe, for an equivalent amount inflexible and need to change their software pricing of capacity or size of user population respectively 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 100% a way of allowing customers to maintain the quality 90% of the service they get from the mainframe without 80% the reliance on experienced mainframers. In other Much slower 70% words, the software will identify a problem and, 60% asA littlewell slower as informing a less-qualified human, will 50% takeAbout the the necessarysame steps to negate the problem. 40% InA littleaddition, faster vendors are beginning to use GUI- 30% type screens, which younger IT people are more familiarMuch faster with, to display important information. 20% And much mainframe monitoring data can now 10% be accessed from a browser. 0% Unix Linux Windows IBM i We asked respondents what makes them consider Are your distributed acquisition/maintenance costs a change of vendor for their mainframe tools and 100% growing faster or slower than mainframe? utilities. It’s clear from Chart 16 that cost is by far 90% the biggest driver, even though cheaper tools often 80% offer less functionality. ISVs may be pleased to 70% Much slower know that although 20 percent of sites said they 60% A little slower rarely if ever change their software. This figure is 50% About the same much the same as last year’s 17 percent. 40% A little faster We also asked how much of users’ mainframe 30% Much faster software budget is spent on IBM software, and 20% how much on products from other vendors. This 10% year (see Chart 17) we found that by far (72 0% percent) of respondents pay more to IBM for software than to other vendors. Unix Linux Windows 100%IBM i 90% Other issues 80% We asked about IBM’s ‘specialty’ processors 70% Much slower such as the Integrated Facility for Linux (IFL), the A little slower 60% Application Assist Processor (zAAP) intended for 50% AboutJava the applications, same and the Integrated Information 40% AProcessor little faster (zIIP) intended primarily for DB2. We 30% Muchasked faster respondents which specialty processors 20% they had. This year, no sites had all three (down 10% from last year’s value of 12 percent) but nearly a 0% third of sites had just two specialty processors. Unix Linux Windows IBM i More sites had zIIP processors (64 percent – up Are your distributed user support costs growing from 44) than any other. 20 percent (down from faster or slower than mainframe? last year’s 26 percent) had IFL processors, and 16 percent had zAAP specialty processors (much Chart 15: Relative growth of expenditure: the same as last year’s 18 percent). 16 percent mainframe versus distributed of sites don’t have a specialty processor installed

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50 To reduce costs 40 To reduce the number of vendors supported

30 To gain new functions To obtain better service/support from vendor 20 Other 10 Rarely (if ever) replace mainframe software 0 To reduce costs To reduce the To gain new To obtain Other Rarely (if ever) number of functions better replace vendors service/support mainframe supported from vendor software Chart 16: What are the most important reasons for replacing mainframe tools and applications?

(up from 12 percent last year. The full results are and Accountability Act), and BASEL II, plus what’s shown in Chart 18. estimated to be over 150 state and federal laws dictate the length of time that Electronically-Stored In the USA, regulations such as Sarbanes-Oxley Information (ESI) needs to be retained. These Act (SOX), HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability regulations, and they do depend on the industry,

100% 90% 20% IBM: 80% other vendors 80% 40% IBM: 60% other vendors 70% 60% IBM: 40% other vendors 60% 50% 80% IBM: 20% other vendors 40% 100% IBM: 0% other vendors 30% 20% 10% 0% 1 Chart 17: How much software budget goes to IBM and how much to ISVs?

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50 40 IFL zIIP 40 30 Series1 zAAP 30 20 none 20 10 10 0 0 IFL zIIP zAAP None IFL zIIP zAAP none Chart 18: Specialty processors installed have greatly increased data retention periods. not sure and the rest not using it at all. IBM has Similarly, outside the USA there has been a growth Facebook pages dedicated to IMS, CICS, and in regulation affecting the length of time that data DB2, it seems a shame if they’re not being used. needs to be archived. And new EU regulations (GDPR) come into force in May 2018, which With the growth in number of software products affects all companies storing any data about EU that allow users to monitor the mainframe from citizens (airlines, car hire, banks, etc). Just over a a browser on a tablet or smartphone, and with third (35 percent) of sites (down from 47 percent IBM’s deal with Apple in mind, and the fact it last year) said they were fully compliant, with a joined Microsoft’s Surface Enterprise Initiative, further 29 percent (well up from last year’s 16 we thought it would be interesting to see whether percent) nearly compliant, with these regulations. our survey respondents were using these devices The figure for sites not having an archiving strategy to monitor or control their mainframe. 13 percent is 18 percent, much the same as last year’s 16 said that they were (up from last year’s 5 percent), percent. Clearly, compliance is an important issue but not a disruptive technology! and many organizations are making sure that they are (or will be) fully compliant. The full results are Much has been made in the media (for years) shown in Figure 19. about IPV4 addresses running out and the need for everyone to migrate to IPv6, which has There’s been a huge growth in the use of social many more addresses available. The change media in recent years, and we wondered whether would require a lot of effort for mainframers, but those people “using their dad’s technology” found we wondered whether users had any plans to social media (Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, etc) introduce IPv6 in 2018. No sites said they already useful for their work on the mainframe. Only 12 have IPv6, although 23 percent (up from last percent said that they did (down from last year’s year’s 20 percent) said that they were planning figure of 27 percent), with a further 12 percent to implement it in 2018.

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29% 35% Yes, our data archiving strategy is fully compliant No, not at present

Not yet, but we are implementing a 18% compliance strategy 18% We are almost fully compliant with the latest regulations

Chart 19: Data archiving strategies that comply with the latest regulations

Another hot topic recently has been Big Data and sites have already got it installed and 24 percent all the things associated with that (such as Splunk, are planning to install it. Hadoop, and Spark). We asked whether sites had any plans to use Big Data. Five percent of Finally we asked about BYOD (Bring Your Own sites said that they were already using Big Data. Device). We wanted to know how important sites A further 19 percent of respondents said that they thought it was to make mainframe data available were planning to use Big Data (down from last to other platforms. 80 percent (down slightly year’s 25 percent). from last year’s 83 percent) of sites said that it was very important to the way they work at the DevOps has also been talked about a lot during moment. Four percent (down from nine percent 2017 and so we were interested to see whether last year) are in the planning stage, and a further sites were actually embracing the technology. The four percent expect to do some work on this in survey found that a third of sites were already the future. When it comes to how important is the using DevOps, with a further third planning to idea of people using their own devices (BYOD) use it. to access mainframes, No-one (down from last year’s 13 percent) said it was very important to the Similarly, we asked whether sites had any plans way they work now. And nearly half (48 percent, to publish and reuse APIs to speed up application down from last year’s 57 percent) said it wasn’t development. Using APIs means that organizations important. Eight percent (down from last year’s 13 can re-use the best parts of their existing programs percent) are in the planning stages, but 28 percent and new or updated applications can be created (up from last year’s figure of 17 percent) expect much faster by combining existing APIs. 13 to be in the future. It looks like this idea may be percent of sites said that they were already using moving onto the back burner. the technique with a further 56 percent planning to.

One way that CICS, IMS, and DB2 sites can easily CONCLUSIONS allow their applications to link to mobile working is It was an interesting survey this year to see how to use the Liberty profile. This is a cut down version various sites are adopting the new technologies of the WebSphere Liberty product. 14 percent of that seem to come out every year and how the

© Arcati Limited, 2018 49 Arcati Mainframe Yearbook 2018 2018 user survey world of the mainframe seems to be integrating with expensive (or appear to be), making it the biggest the other IT platforms used by most organizations. obstacle to mainframe acceptance within the Clearly, working with mainframes is an interesting enterprise. Interestingly, this value has decreased way to spend your day – particularly as they are from 75 percent last year. able to reach out to mobile devices and the way they can speed up what was a very slow process Reinforcing the value of the mainframe to of application development. In fact, even CICS organizations, the survey found that 78 percent now has quarterly updates that add value to the of sites have seen some kind of increase in product. capacity, and 75 percent have seen an increase in technology costs, and yet 48 percent of sites In terms of what’s new (or, perhaps more correctly, believe their people costs have decreased or what appears on a lot of PowerPoint slides), the stayed the same! survey found that five percent of sites are already using Big Data, with a further 19 percent planning But no organization is going to develop an asset to use it. A third of sites were already using unless they view it as having a future, and we DevOps, with a further third planning to use it. And all know the mindset that still exists about the 13 percent of sites are already using APIs with a mainframe, treating it as little more than your dad’s further 56 percent planning to do so. technology. Unfortunately, the survey found that 68 percent of sites viewed their mainframe as a When it comes to Web-enabling subsystems, we legacy system (up from last year’s 50 percent). found that 84 percent of organizations were Web- Worryingly, only eight percent (down from 22 enabling their CICS subsystems; 52 percent were percent last year) still viewed mainframes as Web-enabling DB2; and 32 percent of sites were strategic, and 20 percent (down from 28 percent) Web-enabling IMS. In contrast, only 14 percent viewed them as strategic and legacy. of sites already use the Liberty profile, with 24 percent planning to install it. Interestingly, the survey found that 52 percent of respondents thought there were cultural barrier In order to do more with the mainframe, sites need between mainframe and other IT professionals to spend more money, but many organizations (down from last year’s worrying 75 percent). already take the view that mainframes soak up And yet 92 percent highlighted the benefit of the as much money as they can already. The survey mainframe’s availability, with 80 percent highlighting looked at that in more detail to see whether it security 64 percent identifying scalability, and was the case. Firstly, the survey compared the further 52 percent picking manageability as a amount of data stored on a mainframe against mainframe benefit. that stored on distributed systems. Surprisingly, it looked like 75 percent of data is now stored off However, there must be money being spent by the mainframes and just 25 percent on mainframes. mainframe community because last year saw the This is the first year that the disparity has been prevalence of z12 and z114 mainframes in use, so big. Perhaps cloud storage has something to yet this year just over half of the sites surveyed do with it – Microsoft offer 1TB of cloud data with had a z13 or z13s installed. The new Z14 was OneDrive for Office 365 users. This might lead to only announced in July. And in terms of operating the conclusion that the spend on the two types of system, 50 percent of sites were using Version 2.2, platform is in the proportion 3:1. And this is exactly and 38 percent of sites were using Version 2.1, what the survey found. with only four percent using Version 2.3.

Perhaps in line with the previous results, 68 It’s interesting to see that cloud computing is percent of sites thought mainframes are too not really making much impact this year. Again

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this year, not a single respondent said that they in the survey said their primary operating system were currently using their mainframe for cloud was Linux. computing. 24 percent (down from last year’s 52 percent) of respondents said they weren’t planning Going back to costs, the survey found that at to adopt cloud computing as a strategy. Looking the majority of sites, the support costs of Unix, to the future, 36 percent thought some or all their Linux, and Windows were growing faster than the mainframe applications would be cloud enabled mainframe’s. in the future. As is so often the case, the bottom line is that Linux is often in the news, so it was interesting the mainframe continues to offer a cost-effective, to see what our respondents had to say about it. secure (now with pervasive encryption), and Around a third of respondents said that they run powerful platform for organizations with the Linux on the Z System, with another eight percent necessary background and expertise in place to at the planning stage. There are considerable support it. It seems that non-mainframe IT staff and cost and management benefits from consolidating managers are not getting the opportunities to find distributed Linux workloads onto the mainframe. out about the multitude of advantages that using a 60 percent of respondents weren’t interested in mainframe can bring to an organization – in terms LinuxONE mainframes, although four percent said of security, reliability, availability, flexibility, as well they already had one, with 20 percent expecting as understanding the true total cost of ownership to get one at some time in the future. But, no sites figures for the platform.

Vendor Directory Vendors, consultants, and service providers working in the z/OS environment

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MAINFRAME VENDORS LISTED IN THIS DIRECTORY

4bears Technologies Compu Management A Smart Option Compute (Bridgend) ABIS Computer Management Sciences Accelerated Outsourcing Computer Measurement Group Action Software International Compuware Corporation Advanced Software Products Group, Inc. Conexus Technologies (ASPG) ConicIT Alebra Technologies Connectivity Systems Applied Software CopperEye Arcis Services CorreLog ASG Technologies CPT Global Ltd Atos SE Critical Path Software Attachmate DataKinetics Attunity DDV technologies Axios Products Dell Services Azamour Solutions Dignus B & M Europe Ltd DINO-Software Corporation Baer Consulting Direct Computer Resources (DataVantage) Beta Systems Software DTS Software Black Hill Software Eccox Technologies Blenheim Software Edge Information Group Blenheim Software International Ltd Enterprise Systems Associates, Inc. Blue Sea Technology (“ESAi”) BMC Software Epoka Group Bsecure – The Mainframe & EPV Technologies Security Company ERGO Soluciones SRL CA Technologies European Mainframe Academy Can Do Systems Exspans Systems Canam Software Fischer International Systems Corporation Cartagena Software Fitz Software & Co CASI Software Flynet Circle Software Forecross Corporation Cobbs Mill Consulting Fundi Software Cole Software Fujitsu

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Gary Bergman Associates Pegasystems GT Software PerfTechPro H&W Computer Systems Phoenix Software Int Heitech Managed Services Sdn Bhd PIR Group Hexaware Technologies PKS Software HORIZONT PKWARE, Inc HostBridge Technology Progress I/S Management Strategies ProTech Consulting & Training i3 Business Solutions QMSI-Quintessential Mailing IBM Software Incorporated Illustro Systems International Relational Architects International Informatica Rocket Software InfoSec, Inc RSD SA Innovation DP RSM Partners Inspired Solutions (Software) Ltd RSM Technology INTERCHIP AG SAS Institute IntelliMagic Selenity Interskill Learning SMT Data ISAM SoftBase ISI Pty Ltd Software AG iTech-Ed Software Diversified Services Key Resources Inc Software Engineering GmbH L3C Ltd Solimar Systems Latuz LLC SQData Corporation Levi Ray & Shoup SSH Logicalis UK SV Group Longpela Expertise Syspertec Communication Looksoftware Systemwerx Luminex T3 Technologies MacKinney Systems TeamQuest Macro 4 The Source Recovery Co Mainstorconcept GmbH TONE Software Maintec Technologies Top Gun Technology Marist College Trident Services Matter of Fact Software Triton Consulting Micro Focus UBS Hainer GmbH Modern Systems Value-4IT Limited MOST Technologies Vanguard MPI Tech Verhoef Training NewEra Software WDR OGS Consulting Web Age Solutions Oracle Xbridge Systems PDFlib GmbH ZETO Katowice

Product/service information 4bears Technologies all vendors Tier 1 , 2 AND 3. Address: Alameda Mamorá, 503 - CJ 53, Barueri - São Paulo - SP, 06454-040, Brazil. ABIS Phone: 5511997602242 Email: [email protected] Address: Web: www.4bears.com.br P.O. Box 220, Diestsevest 32, 3000 Leuven, Belgium. Phone: +32-16-245610 Activity: Software vendor Email: [email protected] Specialist areas: System management; storage Web: www.abis.be management; security; web integration and legacy reengineering tools. Activity: Education. Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, Specialist areas: Data management; programming/ Non-mainframe platforms supported: Windows testing; Web integration and legacy reengineering tools. Pricing options: One-time charge, monthly/annual Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, z/Linux license. Non-mainframe platforms supported: Linux, Windows

Company profile Company profile 4bears is a company developing solutions and services for ABIS Training & Consulting provides high-level the IBM mainframe environment. Our products promote technological ICT services for large and medium-sized better governance, management and monitoring of the enterprises. The activities are based on specialized ICT IBM environment, doing it efficiently, automated and not knowledge, which is offered as training and consulting. consuming machine resources. ABIS was founded in 1984 in Belgium but it is also very active in the Netherlands (with a separate subsidiary in We use an innovative and disruptive technology called Woerden near Utrecht). Also active in other countries NIMS (Non Intrusive Mainframe Software), a technology around the world. that does no I/O to get, in real-time, important information stored in mainframe logs.. Product/service information ABIS has invested heavily in mainframe related expertise: z/OS, DB2, CICS, WebSphere and application A Smart Option development.

Address: Courses and consulting services can be grouped into three Loads of Mischief, South Street, Blewbury, Oxon OX11 main categories: 9PX, UK. • z/OS Host Based Technology, with particular Phone: +44 7802 900513 emphasis on z/OS Enterprise Server as an application Email: [email protected] development platform. The main focus is on z/OS and DB2, as well as the application development process Activity: Consultant. on this platform. More specific courses and services Specialist areas: System management; data are offered on z/OS, TSO, DB2, CICS, traditional management; storage management; asset and change application development (COBOL and PL/I) and RDz. management; security; programming/testing; web • Database consolidation: training in the use and integration and legacy reengineering tools; network integration of different databases. ABIS provides performance/management. training and expertise on DB2 for z/OS, DB2 for LUW, Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, VM/VSE, z/Linux Oracle, MySQL, and Big Data. Non-mainframe platforms supported: IBM i, AIX, Unix, • Re-use and integration. The focus here is traditional Linux, Windows, other functional analysis and design on the one hand, and Pricing options: One-time charge, monthly/annual Agile & Scrum on the other hand. Key to our approach license, processor/capacity-based, workload/usage based, is the development of reusable components for other. applications and web servers. Courses are offered on WebSphere MQ, WebSphere Application Server, XML, Company profile Scrum, DevOps, Java, Eclipse, Rational, TWS, ... We are a consultancy company who advice clients how to maximise their spend on third parties to maximise value.

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Accelerated Outsourcing Action Software International

Address: Address: 39 Mountain St, Bristol, VT 05443, USA 107-20 Valleywood Drive, Markham, Ontario L3R 6G1, Phone: +1 404-351-3382 Canada Email: [email protected] Phone: +1 (800) 821-4551 Web: www,accelout.com Email: [email protected] Web: www.actionsoftware.com Activity: Consultant Specialist areas: System management; data Sales contacts: management; storage management; EMEA +41 41 748 6266, e-mail: Marketing@ Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, VM/VSE, Linux actionsoftware.ch. on System z Non-mainframe platforms supported: IBM i Activity: Software vendor Specialist areas: System management; storage Company profile management; asset and change management; security; Deciding if mainframe outsourcing is the right strategy programming/testing. for your organization is a difficult decision. It can be Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS a complicated and time consuming task. Accelerated Pricing options: Monthly/annual license, processor/ Outsourcing provides cost/benefit analysis and bench- capacity-based, other marking services for companies that are exploring outsourcing. We help our clients to understand the Company profile potential savings/costs associated with outsourcing. We Action Software International is a division of Mazda also help our clients find the best vendor to manage their Computer Corporation. Located in Toronto, Canada, systems should they decide to outsource. We have been Mazda Computer Corporation has been producing superior in business over a decade and our clients include many systems and network management software since 1980. well-known public and private organization. The Company’s products are widely deployed within Global 2000 companies, as well as numerous government Product/service information and institutional sites. Mazda Computer Corporation’s Outsourcing Cost Analysis mission is to provide easy to use high performance When discussing mainframe outsourcing, costs is number systems management solutions to the IBM z/OS system one question executives want to know. user community, based on highly functional products and 1 How much will outsourcing save/cost me? exceptional customer service. 2 How quickly can I realize the savings? 3 How can I quickly assess my environment to determine Action Software GmbH is a reseller for Action Software Intl. if outsourcing makes financial sense? Product/service information Until now, companies would have to go through a lengthy Specialist areas: z/OS System Management, proactive RFP process to obtain bids, and perform their own internal real-time Change Management, Compliance – SOX, cost analysis. Our solution is to provide you with a cost/ CoBIT, ITIL, EU-GDPR etc., Software Asset Management, benefit analysis by bench-marking your in-house costs system problem resolution and speedy recovery to the against current market pricing for outsourcing. This will point-of-impact. give you the insight to see if outsourcing makes financial sense for you. Achievable Improvements: In z/OS in the areas of Security, Availability, Recovery, Auditability, Change Control and the removal of old code/programs that present a danger to the Vendor Selection Process stability of the systems. We can help you find the best vendor to manage your mainframe. We’ll write a comprehensive RFP. We will These unique z/OS offerings are designed both for MVS then evaluate each vendor’s response and provide a and USS (UNIX System Services). report that compares their offerings. We’ll also coordinate Action Software GmbH supports the whole of Europe, Q&A calls, reference calls, set up site visits, and schedule Middle East and Africa and our personnel speak both fluent vendor presentations. We will review the vendor contracts English and German. and give you insight into red-flags and provide you with negotiation points. We essentially manage each step of the Our products eventACTION and ussACTION provide the RFP process and give you the peace of mind that you have following: found the best vendor at the best cost..

• Event tracking helps localise the cause of problems Advanced Software Products Group Inc • Change tracking and controls prevent unauthorised and undocumented changes (ASPG) • Change controls potentially reduce system centric problems Address: • Enforce SAM (Software Asset Management) 3185 Horseshoe Drive, South Naples, FL 34104, USA. • Reduce risks Phone: 239 649 1548 or (800) 662-6090 • Improve security Email: [email protected]. • Provide an accurate audit trail Web: www.aspg.com. • Provide transparent compliance to SOX, CoBIT, ITIL, EU-GDPR and worldwide equivalents Activity: Software vendor. • Potentially reduced costs for both internal and external Specialist areas: System management; storage z/OS audits management; security; other • Free trial and free Webinars Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, VM/VSE Non-mainframe platforms supported: Other Unix. Linux, Up to date information on our products can be found on Windows our shared Web-Site: (http://www.actionsoftware.com). Pricing options: Monthly/annual license

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Company profile communications solutions that integrate mainframe Headquartered in Naples, Florida, Advanced Software and open system environments. Alebra’s solutions Products Group, Inc. has provided the IT community with are marketed to mid-market and enterprise customers cutting edge software solutions, support, and services worldwide through direct, partner, and OEM arrangements. since 1986. With a worldwide network of support, including Alebra has over 200 Global 2000 accounts for its products active roles as an IBM Partner in Development and and services. Its products are installed worldwide. Microsoft Certified Partner, ASPG remains a leader in the optimization of data center performance. ASPG offers Product/service information innovative software solutions for Data Security, Storage Alebra offers enterprise software that provides host Administration, Capacity Planning, System Productivity, connectivity and cross-platform data moving. Alebra’s and CICS Productivity. Data centers worldwide have made products are classified into the following families: ASPG software solutions their products of choice. • Parallel Data Mover (PDM) is a cross platform application that allows users to reliably transfer Product/service information. large volumes of data using parallel data movement. Product/Service Information: Connectivity options include a new world-first FICON- • Mainframe Data Encryption [MegaCryption] FCP Gateway appliance as well as GbE. • IDMS Data Encryption [MegaCryption IDMS] • The Brixton PU2.1 SNA Server is the networking • IMS Data Encryption [MegaCryption IMS] software equivalent to the SunLink SNA 3270 Gateway, • Password Reset & Synchronization [ReACT] enabling communications between your TCP/IP • RACF Administration & Reporting [ERQ] networked clients and IBM mainframe and mid-range • DB2 Encryption [MegaCryption DB2] systems using SNA and other protocols. • ICSF Analysis [CryptoMon] • EXPRESS is the industry’s foremost host connectivity • SMF Data Management [SMFUTIL] software on an open platform. It brings together all • Performance & Utilization Reporting [InfoDASD, advanced SNA capabilities into one highly integrated InfoTAPE, InfoCPU] software package, unparalleled in the industry. • HSM Reporting [HSCAN] • Macro to Command [Command CICS] • DASD & VSAM Modeling [SpaceCalc] • ICF Catalog Management [CIM] Applied Software Inc • On-line CICS Help [Help/Key] • RACF Auditing & Reporting [ERA] Address: • User Provisioning [ProACT] 737 Sandy Point Lane, Palm Beach Gardens, FL 33410, • OfflineAccess Recovery [OAR]. USA. Phone: +1 215-297-9441 Email: [email protected] Web: asisoft.com/ Alebra Technologies Inc Activity: Software vendor. Address: Specialist areas: Data management; security; 550 Main Street, Suite 250, New Brighton, MN 55112 USA programming/testing; other Phone: +1 651 366 6140 Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, VM/VSE Email: [email protected] Non-mainframe platforms supported: Windows Web: www.alebra.com. Pricing options: One-time charge, monthly/annual license, processor/capacity-based. Activity: Software vendor. Specialist areas: System management; storage Company profile management; web integration and legacy reengineering Providing solutions for data transfer and data security in tools; other the z/OS environment is our mission. The integrity and Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS security of the data is critical whether data is stored on the Non-mainframe platforms supported: AIX, other Unix. network, during the file transfer process, or off-site. We Linux, Windows provide solutions which include user-friendly tools for file Pricing options: One-time charge transfer and data encryption using AES 128 encryption, DES, Triple DES and DESX. Company profile Alebra Technologies develops and markets proprietary Product/service information enterprise integration software to businesses worldwide. SSR Client/Server: superset replacement for IBM’s Alebra’s software portfolio includes data sharing and IND$FILE. Unlike IND$FILE, SSR is fully supported,

© Arcati Ltd, 2018 57 Arcati Mainframe Yearbook 2018 Vendor Directory improves file transfer performance up to 50% or more, and • 5-day course z/OS Job Control Language & TSO/ISPF is available for TSO and VTAM, CICS MVS Services, and • 2-day course z/OS MVS & JES2 Operations CICS. • 3-day course z/OS VSAM Fundamentals • 2-day course z/OS ICF Fundamentals Data Encryption Facility: Applied Software’s mainframe • 5-day course (multi-platform) REXX Programming encryption application that supports AES 128 encryption, • 2-day course z/OS CLIST Programming DES, Triple DES (3DES) and DESX encryption and • 5-day course z/OS ISPF Dialog Development provides for management of encryption keys. DEF • 5-day course COBOL Programming in z/OS supports IBM and plug-compatible CPUs with the z/OS • 7-day course z/OS Assembler Programming operating systems. CICS currently supported. • 5-day course C Programming in z/OS • 5-day course (multi-platform) Java Programming VTAM Multi-User Platform (VTAM MUP) supports SSR (J2SE) and FSE+. VTAM MUP provides program services for • 2-month mainframe academy to train people “from multiple users per address space and multiple address scratch”. 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. ASG Technologies

FSE+ a high performance editor, data set manager, and Address: job output previewer. Supports sequential files, PDS, and 708 Goodlette Rd North, Naples, FL 34102, USA. PDS/E members with LRECLs up to 32760 all while using Phone: +1 239.435.2200. up to 50% less overhead than ISPF/PDF. Operates under Email: [email protected]. TSO and VTAM MUP. Web: www.asg.com.

TSO Superset Utilities: group of nine TSO commands Sales contacts: providing functions unavailable in the standard TSO EMEA +44 (0) 1.727.736.300, [email protected]. environment. Commands include COMPARE, COPY, AsiaPac +65.6332.2922, [email protected]. FORMAT, FSHELP, LIST, LISTJES, MERGE, PRINTDS and TSOSORT. Commands written in re-entrant Assembler Activity: Software vendor. Language. Specialist areas: System management; data management; storage management; asset and change management; security, programming/testing; Web integration and legacy reengineering tools; network Arcis Services performance/management. Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, VM/VSE, Linux Address: on Z Zwedenstraat 4 bus 9, 1060 Brussels, Belgium Non-mainframe platforms supported: i5, AIX, Distributed Phone: +32 2 534 4977 Unix, Linux, windows Email: [email protected] Pricing options: Monthly/annual license, other Web: www.arcis-services.net Company profile Activity: Education/research. ASG Technologies helps customers with complex Specialist areas: System management; data IT environments solve problems across their entire management; storage management; programming/testing enterprise. Its solutions empower businesses to achieve Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS unprecedented productivity, gain an accurate and timely understanding of the information that underpins business Company profile decisions and address compliance needs with improved Michel Castelein has more than 30 years experience in visibility of cross-platform data. ASG can proudly say that developing and teaching ICT courses. more than 70 percent of global Fortune 500 companies trust it to optimize their existing IT investments. ASG is a He also conducts course sessions in behalf of IBM. global provider of mission-critical technology solutions with more than 1,000 people supporting a global customer base Product/service information across 4,000 midmarket and enterprise customers. Product_info Currently available: • 3-day course z/OS Introduction

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ASG’s products enables the worlds’ most demanding Atos SE enterprises to run the applications that power their business, manage content while extracting intelligence Address: from data and processes and delivering access to all 80 Quai Voltaire, 95877 Bezons, France. applications of the enterprise to their users through a Phone: + 33 1 73 26 00 00 single pane of glass. ASG’s solutions are uniquely focused Email: [email protected]. on achieving these outcomes across any infrastructure Web: atos.net/ whether on a public cloud, private cloud, mainframe or personal device. We call this mix of infrastructure that is Activity: Outsourcer. the norm in every large business, the hybrid enterprise. Specialist areas: System management; data Thousands of the world’s largest businesses trust ASG management; storage management; asset and change products to operate seamlessly, stay compliant and ensure management; security; programming/testing; web ubiquitous access to applications from any device. Learn integration and legacy reengineering tools; network more at www.asg.com. performance/management; other Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, VM/VSE, Linux Product/ service information on Z, For the z/OS Mainframe environment ASG offers a Non-mainframe platforms supported: IBM i, AIX, other comprehensive suite of well established and respected Unix, Linux, Windows, other z/ OS products used in Mainframe sites across the globe. Pricing options: One-time charge, monthly/annual ASG offers to help z/OS customers by delivering excellent license, processor/capacity-based, workload/usage based, z/OS products and services and also by offering to replace other. competitive vendors and delivering a cost saving to help lower the cost of z/OS based computing. Company Profile Atos is a leading supplier of innovative and flexible IBM Product/ service information ASG offerings for the z/OS Mainframe Services at market competitive prices. The platform include: service portfolio includes the whole spectrum of mainframe ASG TMON Suite for z/OS Systems Monitoring services “as a cloud offering” scaling from “support at the TMON CICS for Management of CICS Transaction Server customer’s site” (Secondment) via “Infrastructure as a Performance TMON DB2 for Complete Performance Service” (IaaS) to “Platform as a Service” (PaaS) and up to Management of DB2 fully exploiting the capabilities of mainframes: the offering TMON IMS for Complete IMS TM/DB Management TMON “Mainframe as a Service (MaaS)”. Ongoing innovation z/OS for Detailed Monitoring of IBM’s z/OS Operating activities include Analytics, Mobile, and Blockchain System etc on z and how to position mainframe in hybrid cloud environments. ASG Smart Suite for Application Development/Testing SmartTest for z/OS Interactive Code Testing and Product/service information Debugging Our infrastructure portfolio is centered around regional SmartScope for Fault Diagnosis and Dump Management Mainframe Hubs (NAM, EU, APAC) with state-of-the-art SmartFile for z/OS File and Data Management Tritune to fully resilient processing, disk and tape technology pinpoint z/OS Application performance bottlenecks and network connections, offering the building blocks for flexible and agile service offerings. Z-Series products for z/OS Systems Management Zeke for z/OS Enterprise Event Scheduling Our application portfolio spans the full application life Zebb for Automated Job Restart/Rerun Syst cycle management including application modernization, Zack for Automated Systems and Event Management transformation and new developments (e.g. based on Java Zara for Automated Tape Management / XML), to help our customers to prepare for the “Digital Life Cycle Manager (LCM) for Application Change Control Transformation.” PerfMan for z/OS based Capacity Planning and Modelling View Direct for Archiving and Storage of z/OS Business & Supporting that, Atos is running innovation projects. We Systems Information plan to offer services with blockchain technologies. For developers we support the use of application development Comprehensive z/OS JCL Management through JobScan, products (i.e. ADDI) enabling an easy migration path to JCLPrep, and ProJCL Java by keeping the most stable IT plattform.

Attachmate Phone: 781-213-5200. Email: [email protected]. Address: Web: www.attunity.com. 1500 Dexter Ave N., Seattle, WA 98109, USA. Phone: +1 800 872 2829 Activity: Software vendor Email: [email protected]. Specialist areas; Web integration and legacy Web: www.microfocus.com/attachmate/ reengineering tools Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, VMVSE, Linux, Sales contacts: Non-mainframe platforms supported: i5, AIX, other Unix, EMEA: [email protected] Linux, Windows, other. AsiaPac: [email protected] Pricing options: One-time charge

Activity: Software vendor Company profile Specialist areas: Data management; storage Attunity is a leading provider of enterprise data integration management; security; web integration and legacy software. Using Attunity’s products, companies can reengineering tools seamlessly connect to mainframe data sources, stream Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, VM/VSE, Linux, data changes across the enterprise, and federate other heterogeneous information to achieve a single view of Non-mainframe platforms supported: i5, AIX, other Unix, their business. Attunity Mainframe Integration Products Linux, Windows, other enable companies to accelerate the integration initiatives Pricing options: One-time charge. that require interaction with mainframe systems, while dramatically reducing the cost of building and maintaining Company profile such solutions. Attachmate, owned by an investment group led by Francisco Partners, Golden Gate Capital, and Thoma Product/service information Cressey Equity Partners, enables IT organizations to Attunity provides remote access, open interfaces, secure extend mission-critical services and assure they are and highly reliable integration to all the major mainframe managed, secure and compliant. Attachmate’s leading information systems including CICS, IMS/TM, IMS-DB, solutions include host connectivity, systems and security VSAM, DB2, Adabas and Natural: management, and PC lifecycle management. Our goal is • Attunity Connect allows seamless access to relational to empower IT organizations to deliver trusted applications, and non-relational legacy data for business intelligence manage service levels, and ensure compliance by and enterprise portals, and helps users to build .NET leveraging knowledge, automation and secured and J2EE applications that interoperate with legacy connectivity. systems and accelerate EAI initiatives with certified adapters. Product/service information • Attunity Stream, allows users to move mainframe Attachmate’s Reflection, EXTRA!, and INFOConnect and enterprise operational data in real-time to data terminal emulation solutions provide reliable connections warehouses and data marts, dramatically improving from any Windows desktop or web browser to applications the efficiency of ETL processes, synchronizing data on IBM Mainframe, IBM AS/400, UNIX, Linux, HP, sources, and enabling event-driven business activity OpenVMS, Unisys, and Tandem systems. Advanced monitoring and processing. features are designed to strengthen host security, improve • Attunity Federate allows heterogeneous data sources user productivity, and support existing and emerging to be joined, to make them available as a virtual technologies (including Windows Vista). data layer. The product employs distributed query optimization and processing engines that reside Attachmate also offers legacy integration for IBM natively on enterprise data servers. Federate provides mainframe platforms with Verastream. The Verastream superior performance, security, and transaction integration suite provides a complete range of mainframe, management, and leverages Attunity Connect adapters web, and desktop modernization tools that speed the reuse to access any data source in the enterprise. of legacy applications in service-oriented architectures.

Axios Products Inc Attunity Address: Address: 353 Veterans Highway, Suite 204, Commack, NY 11725, 40 Audubon Road, Wakefield, MA, 1880, USA. USA.

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Phone: 800-877-0990. ultimately expanding your user base by providing access Email: [email protected] for less technical end users who may not have CICS Web: www.axiosproducts.com knowledge.

Activity: Software vendor Specialist areas: System management; data management Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS Azamour Solutions Pricing options: Processor/capacity-based Address: Company profile E8 Ascot Business Park, Lyndhurst Road, Ascot, Berks, Axios Products develops, distributes, and supports SL5 9FE, UK. mainframe performance enhancement and management Phone: +44 (0) 1344 280 280. software for z/OS, and MVS environments. For over 30 Email: [email protected] years, we have dedicated ourselves to providing customers Web: www.azamoursolutions.com with useful, reliable, and cost-effective software along with responsive technical support. Our strong customer Activity: Supply, install, and maintain IBM mainframe commitment to providing quality software products and servers and storage service is the driving force behind the continuing growth of Specialist areas: Enterprise hardware and maintenance, our mainframe customer base. hosting, business continuity and disaster recovery, system storage and networking. Product/service information Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, z/Linux RefWiz is a powerful analysis and documentation tool Pricing options: Flexible pricing options. that provides, in one place, comprehensive data about application element interrelationships for mainframe Company profile batch and CICS applications, including whether or Azamour have been working with customers globally for not the element is being used. This information is over 15 years, assisting in all aspects of enterprise and available for immediate access in a variety of standard data centre computing. Today we operate from multiple or customized forms to suit your specific needs. RefWiz strategic locations in the UK, delivering high end data is used for conversions, upgrades, audits, migrations, centre products, solutions and maintenance services. daily maintenance, documentation, mergers, operations Azamour blends experience, knowledge, and technology to management (including failure analysis), disaster recovery, deliver cost reductions and investment protection, serving change scope analysis, and much more. as an effective alternative to vendor products and services for IBM z System Mainframes and Storage. ROPES (Remote Online Print Executive System) is a comprehensive CICS print spooling and transmission Product/service information software for IBM mainframe-based systems. ROPES Azamour have been working with customers globally for provides complete facilities for generating, retrieving, over 15 years, assisting in all aspects of enterprise and browsing, distributing and printing reports from online data centre computing. Today we operate from multiple transactions, batch jobs, or the operating system spool. strategic locations in the UK, delivering high end data Its versatile set of capabilities allows you to place report centre products, solutions and maintenance services. data on the ROPES queue concurrent with online printing Azamour blends experience, knowledge, and technology to operations. A comprehensive command structure allows deliver cost reductions and investment protection, serving any authorized terminal operator to effectively control as an effective alternative to vendor products and services ROPES, eliminating the need for dedicated control for IBM z System Mainframes and Storage. terminals. Product/Service Information

The SPI-TAB+ table management system provides one simple product that will manage your tables using the same Azamour is an infrastructure focused supply and standards for all applications, eliminating the need to write support organisation offering a comprehensive range programs for this process. SPI-TAB+ lets you quickly and of enterprise computer products and services, 24/7 easily update, customize and maintain your tables, and get hardware maintenance services, and from a state of the your new applications on line faster, with less effort. Plus, art datacentre, business continuity & disaster recovery the same tool can be used on line or in batch. In addition, solutions. the new SPI-TAB+ web interface component allows you to list and update SPI-TAB+ tables via a web browser, We supply and support a wide range of Enterprise eliminating the need for traditional mainframe access and Computer Hardware which includes, IBM z System

Mainframes – EC12 (2827), BC12, z114 (2818), z196 B & M ProSupport second and third tier technical support (2817), z10 EC (2097), z10 BC (2098), z9 EC (2094), z9 services can be delivered either on-site or remotely BC (2096), zSeries z890 (2086), z990 (2084), z800 (2066), MP3000 (7060). IBM Enterprise Disk Storage includes, B & M TechConsult offers consultancy for short-term, DS8800, DS8700, DS8300, DS8100, DS6800, 2015-800 bespoke projects ESS. Enterprise Tape Storage includes, TS7700 Virtual Tape Systems, TS3500 Tape Libraries, TS1140, TS1130, B & M ProLegacy is an enduring legacy support service TS1120 Tape Drives & Controllers, 3592, 3590 & 3490 that ensures that systems software supports vital but Tape Drives & Controllers. Tape Media for all IBM Tape stabilised application systems Products. B & M SkillSource delivers contract support services, notably for technical systems software on large enterprise If you are looking for a solutions provider that is well systems regarded within the IT industry, you have found one – we look forward to hearing from you and to hopefully working B & M Permanent offers a specialist search and placement with you and your team on your next project. service to fill permanent technical roles.

B & M Europe Ltd Baer Consulting Address: Address: Whitehouse Farm, Silchester Road, Tadley RG26 3PY, UK. 28154 Meadow Trail, Conifer, CO 80433, USA Phone: +1 303 838-3374 Phone: 0118 981 1880 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Web: www.baer-consulting.com Web: www.bmeurope.com/itservices.html Activity: Consultant Activity: Consultant Specialist areas: System management; data Specialist areas: System management; data management; storage management; security; management; storage management; asset and change programming/testing; web integration and legacy management; security; web integration and legacy reengineering tools; network performance/management reengineering tools; network performance/management Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, VM/VSE, Linux Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, VM/VSE, z/Linux Non-mainframe platforms supported: IBM i, AIX, Linux, Non-mainframe platforms supported: System i, AIX, Windows other Unix, Linux Pricing options: One-time charge, other Company profile Company profile B & M enables business-critical IT systems for large, Founded in 1982, Baer Consulting Inc. (BCI) provides complex enterprises by delivering a tailored blend of mainframe systems software administration and technical expertise, project management and efficient management. BCI’s primary business is to assist our administration. The company has delivered technical national client base with selection, implementation, and support and consultancy services since 1992, working administration of IBM compatible operating environments. exclusively on systems software and network connectivity Our clients range from small/medium businesses to for z/OS, UNIX and Linux enterprise platforms. B & M is Fortune 500 corporations. completely vendor-independent and provides services to Europe’s major organisations. BCI’s project-based solutions include z/OS rollout projects, data center implementations, migrations, upgrades, Product/service information business recovery, maintenance to third-party operating B & M offers a portfolio of technical services to meet systems and software, or server consolidations. BCI customers’ needs: project management, planning, and status reporting procedures ensure all services are completed on schedule B & M ProTech delivers technical projects, fully managed and within budget throughout the project lifecycle. by B & M or managed by the customer Our services range from short-term, peak-load project B & M Assure services provide contingency cover for support to complete facilities management. Baer planned or unplanned shortages in key resources

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Consulting offers individualized Mainframe Support programming/testing; web integration and legacy Services from T&M to 24x7 Support. reengineering tools Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, Linux on Z BCI consistently delivers high quality solutions to our Non-mainframe platforms supported: IBM i, AIX, other clients, while dramatically increasing the effectiveness Unix, Linux, Windows of their information systems management teams, project Pricing options: one-time charge, monthly/annual license, management for Enterprise strategies, and Enterprise workload/usage based. systems support. Company profile Product/service information Beta Systems Software AG - A Mid-sized, independent BCI draws on years of experience and training to provide software provider responsive and quality answers in core areas such as: Founded in 1983, listed on the stock exchange since 1997 Operating Systems For more than 30 years, Beta Systems has been IBM z/OS, IBM S/390, IBM VM/ESA, IBM VSE/ESA, z/VM, developing high-quality software products that bring Linux, etc. security and transparency to IT processes and help to automate bulk data and document processing. Based in Subsystems Germany, Beta Systems group is one of Europe’s leading IBM Transaction Server (CICS), IBM DB2/UDB, IBM mid-sized independent software solution providers. Security Server, IBM MQSeries, IBM Tivoli Storage Beta Systems’ German sites include the Berlin head Management, WebSphere, and ISV Installation/Upgrade/ office and development centers in Cologne, Neustadt Conversion, etc. and Munich. Internationally, there are 18 subsidiaries and numerous partner companies which form a network Network of excellence across the globe. Beta Systems generates TCP/IP, OSA Configuration, TN3270, NCP, SNA about half of its turnover abroad. Configuration, and Host-On-Demand, etc. Beta Systems DCI Software AG provides high-quality Storage Management infrastructure software products for the secure and efficient VTS/ATL, SAN, DASD, etc. processing of large volumes of data to ensure compliance with all regulatory and corporate requirements. The For longer-term solutions, BCI also provides a wide range multiplatform software solutions for z/OS, Unix, Linux and of expert services such as: Windows environments automate, document and analyze business-critical IT processes in the datacenters of large Storage Management Assessment through Implementation enterprises, IT service providers, public authorities and Facilities/Outsource Management midsized companies. Data Center Relocation/Consolidation Project Management Beta Systems datacenter intelligence portfolio focuses on Capacity/Performance Planning areas including output management and archiving, log/ Business Recovery security information management, workload automation Security. and job management. Beta Systems DCI Software AG is a 100% subsidiary of Beta Systems Software AG.

Product/service information Beta Systems Software AG Output Management and Document Archiving Address: These products enable bulk processing of documents and Alt-Moabit 90d, D-10559, Berlin, Germany print data, deliver various post-processing options and Phone: +49 (0)30 726 118 0. conversions, store and archive data quickly and reliably, Email: [email protected] and allow users to search data rapidly and flexibly across Web: www.betasystems-dci.com the entire data pool.

Sales contacts: Workload Automation America +1 (571) 348-4450 These products help control and monitor automated IT EMEA +33 (0) 1 43 90 17 40 processes across all leading system platforms.

Activity: Software vendor Log Management Specialist areas: System management; security; These products deliver functions for the rrecording, archiving and provisioning of log and job output data

© Arcati Ltd, 2018 63 Arcati Mainframe Yearbook 2018 Vendor Directory generated by your IT systems. User-friendly interfaces developing EasySMF. Java classes map SMF records and an intelligent indexing scheme allow you to quickly and sections. SMF fields are converted to standard Java identify critical events hidden in your log data, search and datatypes, so you don’t need to e.g. keep track of the select the data with ease, and further process the resulting many different time units in SMF. information. EasySMF:JE allows you to create your own custom SMF Quality Management reports. It can run on z/OS (zIIP eligible) or other Java Tools to secure and verify your automated IT processes. platforms.. The products connect with existing workload automation solutions (job schedulers) to identify and prevent errors, thus improving the quality of your IT production. Blenheim Software z/OS Access Rights Management Suite This suite for RACF combines administration, auditing, Address reporting, compliance management, analysis, monitoring 29 The Park, Yeovil, Somerset BA20 1DG, UK and self-service on the z/OS platform in a comprehensive Phone: 0870 240 6771 product family. When it comes to company-wide identity Email: [email protected] access management across the entire system landscape, Web: www.blenheim-sw.co.uk the IAM Garancy Suite offers all you need. Activity: Software Vendor Specialist areas: System management; data management; storage management; asset and change Black Hill Software management; security; programming/testing; web integration and legacy reengineering tools; network performance/management Address 211 Dana St, Ballarat VIC 3350, Australia Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, VM/VSE Non- mainframe platforms supported: IBM i, AIX, other Unix, Linux, Windows Phone: +61 3 5331 8201 One-time charge, monthly/annual Email: info@ blackhillsoftware.com Pricing options: license, processor/capacity-based, workload/usage based Web: www. blackhillsoftware.com

Activity: Software Vendor Company Profile Blenheim Software saves money for UK and Ireland data Specialist areas: System management centres by providing innovative solutions from around the Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS world. Non- mainframe platforms supported: Windows Pricing options: Monthly/annual license Product/service information For IBM mainframes, we improve operating system and Company Profile Black Hill Software was established in 2006 in Ballarat, database performance, security, application development Australia. and operation management.

We started with the objective of creating a simple to use SMF reporting tool for z/OS Systems Programmers to use for reporting and problem investigation. Blenheim Software International Ltd

EasySMF went on sale in 2010 and we now have Address customers around the world 11 Hollycombe, Englefield Green, Surrey TW20 0LQ, UK Phone: +44-1784-437404 Product/service information Email: [email protected] EasySMF is a Windows based tool for z/OS SMF reporting. Web: www.blenheimintl.co.uk It provides a suite of built in reports. You can zoom in on areas of interest, click through for more information and Activity: Software Vendor switch between reports to relate data from different record Specialist areas: Data management; storage types. management; security; programming/testing Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, VM/VSE, Linux, EasySMF:JE is a Java extension for EasySMF. It provides other a Java API for SMF records, based on the work done

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Non- mainframe platforms supported: IBM i, AIX, other Blue Sea Technology Unix, Windows Pricing options: One-time charge, monthly/annual Address license, processor/capacity-based, workload/usage based Beckumer Str. 152, Germany Phone: +49 (0) 2382 966225 Company Profile Email: [email protected] Blenheim, based near Heathrow in the Thames Valley, was Web: www.blue-sea-technology.de/ established over 15 years ago with a focus on the ADABAS market in the UK mainframe community. Today almost all Activity: Software vendor active UK ADABAS sites use our software services. Specialist areas: System management; data management; storage management; asset and change We are also World-Wide distributors for “PEEK” our management; security; programming/testing; network ADABAS File Browser/Editor from ByteZone, Australia for performance/management which we boast customers across Europe, The Americas Mainframe Platforms supported: z/OS, VM/VSE, Linux, and elsewhere. other Non- mainframe platforms supported: IBM i, other Unix, In addition, we are the UK Agent for Advanced Software Linux, Windows Products Group, Inc. who have provided the z/OS & Pricing options: One-time charge, monthly/annual OS/390 Mainframe community with cutting edge Enterprise license, processor/capacity-based Cryptography and Security Management software solutions, support and services since 1986. Company Profile Blue Sea Technology is privately held software Product/service information development, technical support, consulting and training ADABAS/Natural Database Utilities: company. Company supports over 30 multiplatform, MVS ADAMAGIC - ADABAS C Files to UNIX Conversion and VSE mainframe systems products, which are used by ADAREORG - ADABAS File Restructuring with minimum data centers of all sizes and configurations worldwide. With risk and computer resource usage our security solutions, large companies can manage their ADASTRIP - ADABAS File Data Extraction Utility security infrastructure. We are proudly distributing software DBAUDIT - ADABAS Database Logical Integrity solutions from our Partners. Software Sales, Licensing, Verification and Technical Support are our priority. Our loyalty and PEEK - ADABAS File Browser & Editor in use at over 60 100% dedication to our Customers and Partners are well sites world-wide known . NIM - Purpose built TP Monitor for the Natural and ADABAS environments as an alternative to CICS The philosophy of Blue Sea Technology is based on the following: the simple ideology that Information Technology Enterprise Cryptography and Security Management: must be developed and delivered for the end user. This MEGACRYPTION - Enterprise Cryptography for z/OS, must serve both the company concerned and its staff. WIN, UNIX & LINUX The goals of this specialist company are to bring to the CRYPTOMON - ISPF Cryptographic Key Manager users, software of the highest quality, coupled closely with ReACT - Enterprise Password Reset & Synchronization its professionally supported technical department and ERQ - Easy RACF Query, Automated RACF Administration documentation. and Reporting As would be expected this dependable consultancy unit is Generic Systems Management Software Offerings: well placed to assist its customer base, to attain maximum Providing a global view of your resource performance and ease of use of its preferred software packages. utilisation. Our company has gained invaluable close support contact SMFUTIL / SMFVIEW — SMF Data Management can with its customer base. It can assist in your technical and reduce the dump & clear time by up to 70% IT based needs. This will enable its customers to make clear and concise decisions based on the highly sort after The Info Suite: Info/CPU - Info/DASD – InfoTAPE software it supplies. As a suite or individually, the Info products provide a global view of your resource performance and utilization.

Product/service information Pricing options: Monthly/annual license, processor/ Our mainframe solutions for the areas of Performance capacity-based, workload/usage based, other. Monitoring Software, CICS Utilities, Report & Backup, Session & Print Management, File Transfer & Company profile Compression, Multiplatform Scheduling, and Remote Print For more than 30 years, BMC has helped thousands of Management are known for the highest quality software, companies around the world master tough IT challenges. documentation and technical support in the business. From mainframe to cloud to mobile, from the back room to the boardroom, BMC delivers the automation, integration, Our customers can rely on the quality software from and sophistication that enable the business and IT to our partner, like Software Diversified Services (SDS), a perform like never before. It’s amazing what IT was meant leading provider of enterprise software. We are proud to to be. present this high quality Software like VIP - VitalSigns for IP the complete monitoring, alerting, diagnosis, and repair Product/service information for IP Networks on z/OS, or VitalSigns for FTP, Snap-in BMC Software offers a broad set of mainframe solutions security and encryption for FTP file transfer jobs on z/ designed to help you optimize and control IT costs, while OS. With Vanguard Security Solutions large companies ensuring the business remains available 24x7. Regardless can manage their security infrastructure. The software of the environment, customers rely on our expertise products are designed to meet today’s unprecedented and solutions to manage their IT infrastructure. BMC security challenges. The products bring together formerly enables customers to align IT systems and services with separate functions of security administration, access their business objectives. We provide comprehensive and authentication, reporting and analysis, and policy mainframe solutions in these key areas: systems compliance. monitoring, management, and automation; enterprise data management; dynamic batch scheduling management; Our professionals assist our clients through consultancy, middleware management, application performance; development, project delivery and training. By out-tasking storage resource management; cost analysis; and to our company our clients not only saving time and performance and capacity planning. 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 Bsecure – The Mainframe & Security business development demands. Company Address: c/ Isaac Newton, 1, office 42, Parque Tecnológico de Madrid, 28760 Tres Cantos, Madrid, Spain. Phone: +34 902 104 934. Email: [email protected]. BMC Software Web: www.go2bsecure.com. Address: Activity: Consultant 2101 Citywest Blvd, Houston, TX 77042, USA. Specialist areas: System management; data +1 713 918 8800 or +1 800 793-4262 Phone: management; security; network performance/management Email: www.bmc.com/contacts-locations/worldwide. Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS. Web: www.bmc.com Non-mainframe platforms supported: Linux; Windows Pricing options: One-time charge, monthly/annual Sales contacts: license, processor/capacity-based, workload/usage based America: 1-877-945-6325 EMEA: 00800 44444 262 Company profile +61 3 96574443 AsiaPac: Bsecure - The Mainframe & Security Company is a Spanish company that works in Spain and South America. Activity: Software vendor. System management; data Specialist areas: We provide mainframe services and software distribution to management; storage management; asset and change the Spanish and Latin-America marketplace. management; security; web integration and legacy reengineering tools; network performance/management. We specialize in security services and mainframe products. z/OS, VM/VSE, z/Linux Mainframe platforms supported: In security we produce special services like hacking, Non-mainframe platforms supported: i5, AIX, other Unix, Linux, Windows, other 66 © Arcati Ltd, 2018 Arcati Mainframe Yearbook 20072018 Vendor Directory security assessment, RACF administration and Top Secret Product/service information to RACF conversions. The power of the new IBM® z14™ and the Modern Software Factory creates a digital trust that is essential Product/service information to enable enterprises to verify people, protect data and We support and work with particular expertise in the assure app integrity and performance. CIOs can deliver following areas: better economics and TCO. IT operations teams can • Vanguard Integrity Professionals, covering all aspects enable self-driving mainframe data centers to deliver 100% of mainframe security SLAs. CISOs and auditors can protect sensitive data • Host Systems products to address IBM Catalogs to avoid fines tied to GDPR and regulations. Enterprise integrity. The main product is CIM (Catalog Information Architects and Developers can use the same open, Manager). modern DevSecOps toolset, mobile-to-mainframe. • EPV Products. Performance and Capacity Planning products for all sizes of mainframe customers. Through A.I. and machine-learning powered intelligent • Time Machine Products. Batch Performance products automation, CA’s mainframe solutions enable increased to measure and improve all kinds of productions insights across broader sets of data. This will help executions doing more with less resources. businesses manage retiring skills through intelligent • Professional services and consulting for production automation, while increasing security, scalability and environments. flexibility on their current platforms, including IBM Z, in a secure and trusted environment.

CA continues to keep the mainframe platform vibrant and CA Technologies help ensure that new workloads, new developers and new mainframers continue to help drive the future: going Address: from being a supporting platform of transaction revenue to 520 Madison Avenue, 22nd Floor, New York, NY US becoming a source of revenue growth and innovation. 10022, USA. Phone: +1 800 225-5224 Email: [email protected] Web: www.ca.com/mainframe. Can Do Systems

Sales contacts: Address: America: +1 800 225 5224. 616 Corporate Way, STE 2 PMB 3172, Valley Cottage, NY EMEA: + 44 1753 577733. 10989, USA. AsiaPac: 65 6337 2822. Phone: +1 646 340 9144 Email: [email protected] Activity: Software vendor. Web: www.candosys.com Specialist areas: System management; data management; storage management; asset and change Activity: Software vendor. management; security; programming/testing; web Specialist areas: Programming/testing integration and legacy reengineering tools; network Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS performance/management; other Pricing options: Monthly/annual license Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, VM/VSE, Linux on Z Company profile Non-mainframe platforms supported: IBM i, AIX, Unix, Can Do Systems develops top-notch software products Linux, Windows for IBM’s z/OS operating system. The first Y2K software Pricing options: Monthly/annual license, processor/ testing solution in the world, TICTOC, our date and time capacity-based, workload/usage based, other simulation product, was developed by Can Do back in 1992. Company profile CA Technologies (NASDAQ:CA) creates software that fuels Can Do Systems’ staff consists of people who have been transformation for companies and enables them to seize in the z/OS, and MVS systems software development field the opportunities of the application economy. Software for a combined total of more than fifty years. We’ve kept is at the heart of every business in every industry. From up with the times, though, and are committed to using the planning, to development, to management and security, latest technologies to provide our customers with products CA is working with companies worldwide to change the that support the latest z/OS hardware and software. way we live, transact, and communicate – across mobile, private and public cloud, distributed and mainframe environments. © Arcati Ltd, 2018 67 Arcati Mainframe Yearbook 2018 Vendor Directory

Product/service information Phone: +1 905-887-0755. TICTOC for z/OS® and CICS® is date and time simulation Email: [email protected] software for System z™. It helps software development Web: www.cartagena.com teams ensure that their software performs as intended with virtual date and time testing. It may also be used to Activity: Software vendor. simulate multiple time zones and to trigger date and time Specialist areas: System management; storage sensitive applications. management; security Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS Non-mainframe platforms supported: Windows Pricing options: One-time charge, monthly/annual license

Company profile Canam Software Labs, Inc Founded in 1991, Cartagena Software develops and delivers customer-driven point solutions to reduce costs Address: and exploit new technologies, which are economical, 5770 Hurontario Street Suite 310, Mississauga, ON easy-to-use, flexible, and efficient. We continue the LR 3G5 Canada legacy of experience in storage (StorageTek), automation Phone: +1 905 712 3840 (Cybermation), and security (Rubin services). Email: [email protected] Web: www.canamsoftware.com Cartagena is a member of IBM PartnerWorld, SHARE, and participates in IBM’s z Systems Technical Disclosure Activity: Software vendor Meetings. We have agreements with EMC, Fujitsu, IBM, Specialist areas: Programming/testing; web integration and Oracle. and legacy reengineering tools Mainframe Platforms supported: z/OS, VM/VSE, z/Linux, Service partners include Kofill (Asia), 4Bears (Brazil), Other GlassHouse Systems (Canada), Bayshore (China), Rubin Non-mainframe platforms supported: AIX, other Unix, (Germany), SoftPlex (Japan), Trident Services (USA). Linux Our head office is in the Greater Toronto Area, Canada. Pricing options: One-time charge, monthly/annual license, processor/capacity-based, workload/usage based Product/service information Tape migration: TelTape z/OS migrated millions of Company profile volumes since 1998. TelTape’s high speed copy engines Canam Software Labs, Inc. is a Canadian global supplier non-disuptively move data between Dell/EMC, Fujitsu, of automated software development and integration IBM, Luminex, Oracle, supporting all tape management solutions in the areas of XML, SOAP, JSON proicessing systems, plus USERTMS, “No TMS”. “Clone” volumes to with COBOL or C. With customers in over 50 countries same volume serial, load balancing, automatic comparison, the company has a history of understanding and statistics spreadsheet. satisfying technology needs and gaps for the Global 2000 community. With extreme customer focus, aggressive Backup VTL: TelTape’s 30+ selection criteria to regularly execution and a dynamic work force Canam has enjoyed backup virtual tape data. long term successful relationships with its customers in Media Refresh: TelTape stacking consolidates 64K the areas of banking and finance, transportation, retail, datasets per volume, continues stacking to active volumes. defense, telecommunications and other fields. USS Security Administration: Superuser, a powerful tool Product/service information for zFS file systems of Unix System Services, enabling Canam Software Labs, Inc. (Canam) is the developer and system programmers to make small to large file permission manufacturer of XML Thunder, an automated XML, SOAP changes, in ISPF/RACF terms. Automatically generates and JSON software integration solution for COBOL and C UNIX change commands, run in ISPF/batch. Change language applications. objects in a directory plus all related subdirectories. Supports Access Control Lists.

Pre-defined and user-created reports. Automation: Co-Pilot z/OS replaces expensive console Cartagena Software automation, consolidates controls to table-driven tool. Responds to console messages, date, time, enforcing rules Address: to issue commands, submit jobs, execute REXX. Restart 101 Drawbridge Drive, Markham, Ontario L6C 2N5, applications. Customize console message attributes. Canada 68 © Arcati Ltd, 2018 Arcati Mainframe Yearbook 20072018 Vendor Directory

Report management: Speedview z/OS replaces expensive products. Automatically extract from SPOOL, filing based Circle Software on output group, dataset, or job into VSAM database. Reports indexed by folders, view and manage in ISPF. Address: E-Mail reports to distribution lists. Archive/delete expired 35 Waterview Blvd – 1st Floor, reports. Parsippany, NJ 07054, USA. Phone: +1 973-890-9331 Print Management: Speedview z/OS routes reports to TCP/ Web: circle-us.com IP printers, can control e.g. restart. Activity: Software vendor Specialist areas: System management; data management; asset and change management; security; programming/testing; web integration and legacy CASI Software reengineering tools; network performance/management, other Address: Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, Linux on Z 10231 Slater Avenue, Suite 117 Fountain Valley, CA 92708, Pricing options: One-time charge, monthly/annual USA. license, Phone: +1 800 378 1109. Email: [email protected] Company profile Web: www.casisoft.com Circle Software is a mainframe expert solutions provider specializing in CICS performance engineering and Activity: Software vendor. modernization technologies. Bring us your challenging Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS projects; our team of experts and specialist tools can help Pricing options: One-time charge, monthly/annual you focus on the problem and get back to business. license, processor/capacity-based, workload/usage based, Circle Software is part of the Fundi Group (www.fundi. other. com), makers of IBM CICS Performance Analyzer and IBM CICS Configuration Manager. Company profile CASI Software is a provider of software solutions to Product/service information transform and deliver z/OS print content. Products: - C\Prof: Transaction profiling for CICS. “You’ll never Product/service information need to use the CICS auxiliary trace again.” (www. CASI Software has three main product lines: cprof.com) - C\Flow: CICS web-enablement made easy - C\Parse: A generator for JSON and XML COBOL JES2Mail/JES2FTP transforms z/OS report content – parsers into PDF, HTML, RTF, .CSV, and XML, files and securely - C\Trek: An online performance problem determination delivers results to users via email, FTP, and RSS web tool for CICS feeds. JES2Mail/JES2FTP’s report content processing and PDF overlay capabilities enable creation of advanced, Services: final-form PDF output to replace printing and other - Mainframe consulting in the areas of CICS, DB2, MQ, information delivery methods. IMS, and more. - Making the move to Java in Liberty? Talk to us about CICS2PDF/zOS2PDF – transforms real-time CICS some of our recent projects. information into PDFs and delivers that information to users via email or directly to users via web-enabled CICS Training and education: application. - Hundreds of courses available now – check our website for details! 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.

Cobbs Mill Consulting latest beta version of z/XDC includes support for IBM System z10 processor machine instructions and “A La Address: Carte” configuration options. A major enhancement 129 Coachmans Trail, Asheville, NC 28803, USA. available with z/XDC z1.10 is the support for displaying Phone: +1 828 299 4649 and debugging IBM C/C++ programs with the new c/XDC Email: [email protected] Feature. This feature is seamlessly integrated into the Web: www.cobbsmill.com existing z/XDC technology.

Activity: Consultant Specialist areas: Data management; asset and change management; programming/testing Compu Management Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, VM/VSE Address: 3010 Grand Concourse, New York, NY 10458, USA Company profile Phone: +1 718-733-1861 Cobbs Mill Consulting specializes in support for Phoenix Email: [email protected]. Software’s Key/101 data entry software (formerly Key/ Master from Mercator and TSI). We provide training Activity: Consultant. courses, implementation and conversion services for Specialist areas: Programming/testing; web integration Key/101. We have extensive experience with the Aperture and legacy reengineering tools range of data center documentation tools. Our COBOL Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, VM/VSE. dump debugging courses are popular with programmers as they teach a lot of shortcuts in solving COBOL dumps. Company profile We also work closely with Fantom Systems, CSI and DPI We provide full life-cycle support to legacy IS systems. To Software to help develop their software in Assembler. accomplish this objective, we will upgrade, renovate, or re- engineer 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 Cole Software LLC renovate your current Architecture to new Enterprise Address: Architecture. 736 Fox Hollow Road, Afton, VA 22920, USA Phone: +1 540 456 8210 Email: [email protected]. Web: www.colesoft.com. Compute (Bridgend)

Sales Contacts Address: America: 1 800 XDC 5150 8, Merthyr Mawr Road, Bridgend CF31 3NH, UK EMEA +1-928-771-2003. Phone: +44 (0)1656 652222. AsiaPac +1-928-771-2003. E-mail: [email protected] Web: www.cbl.com Activity: Software vendor. Specialist areas: Programming/testing. Activity : Software vendor. Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS. Specialist areas: System management; data Pricing options: Workload/usage based. management; storage management; programming/testing; other Company profile Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, VM/VSE, z/LInux, Cole Software is dedicated to the continued development other of powerful software for sophisticated mainframe Non-mainframe platforms supported: System i, AIX, programmers. Many of the industry’s foremost Unix, Linux, Windows, other programmers use Cole Software’s core product, z/XDC, Pricing options: Monthly/annual license, processor/ the indispensable debugging tool for Assembler programs. capacity-based, other Cole Software is an Advanced Business Partner in the IBM PartnerWorld program. Company profile Since its inception in 1970, Compute (Bridgend) Ltd has Product/service information become respected internationally for its commitment to the Cole Software announced the availability of a beta test production of system software, mainly for IBM Mainframe program for z/XDC release z1.10 in August 2008. This Computers.

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CBL’s objective is to continue to produce software for the Since 1991, CPExpert has been installed in over 200 sites user which is easy to use yet provides fast and powerful worldwide. data handling. Product/service information Product/service information CMS offers CPExpert to help analyze performance The SELCOPY Product Suite includes the powerful problems with z/OS environments. CPExpert automates SELCOPY batch utility language in which new applications computer performance evaluation by detecting system can be developed more easily than using compiled performance problems, identifying the causes of the languages such as Cobol but executing at comparable problems, and suggesting ways to improve performance. speeds. Different components of CPExpert analyze performance problems with WebSphere MQ, DB2, PR/SM, Workload Complementing the SELCOPY batch utility programming Manager, CICS, and DASD. CPExpert is written in SAS tool is SELCOPYi which offers a modern windows style and is composed of hundreds of expert system rules, interface providing multiple edit sessions supporting both analysis modules, and queuing models. CPExpert ISPF and Xedit features. executes as a batch job, and analyzes standard SMF/ RMF data contained in either MXG, SAS/ITSV, or MICS SELCOPYi takes advantage of large 3270 screen performance database. CPExpert’s low fee is affordable for sizes and provides an integrated structured data editor all sites! 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 Computer Measurement Group (CMG) global changes that would occur before actioning them. Address: SELCOPYi allows for DB/2 table editing using multiple 151 Fries Mill Road, Suite 104, Turnersville, NJ 08012, views. SQL-style SELECT/WHERE commands are USA supported also. Phone: +1 800 436 7264 E-mail: [email protected] To aid debugging of the batch SELCOPY, it can be run Web (US): www.cmg.org interactively under SELCOPYi where breakpoints can be applied to the SELCOPY control statements and changes Activity: Education. in the values of defined fields can be seen. Specialist areas: System management; data management; storage management; programming/testing; Also available is the CBLVCAT tool which allows the network performance/management. user to generate reports of VTOC/Catalog contents and Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, VM/VSE, Linux, IDCAMS tuning recommendations for VSAM data sets. other Non-mainframe platforms supported: i5, AIX, other Unix, Linux, Windows, other

Computer Management Sciences, Inc Company profile (CMS) The Computer Measurement Group, commonly called CMG, is a not for profit, worldwide organization of data Address: processing professionals committed to the measurement 634 Lakeview Drive, Hartfield, VA 23071, USA. and management of computer systems. Phone: +1 703 922 7027. E-mail: [email protected] Product/service information Web: www.cpexpert.org CMG in the USA hosts an annual conference the first week of December every year. This conference provides Activity : Software vendor. approximately 120 educational sessions covering all Specialist areas: System management; data management aspects of computer measurement, performance and Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS capacity planning. All computing platforms are included. CMG also supports many regional groups which meet Pricing options: Monthly/annual license. throughout the year, providing an opportunity for the computer performance professional to gain knowledge Company profile and share experiences. Information on the international CMS was incorporated in 1986, and initially provided network of CMG groups can be found on the CMG website. consulting services in the IBM mainframe environment. In 1991, CMS delivered its CPExpert software product. © Arcati Ltd, 2018 71 Arcati Mainframe Yearbook 2018 Vendor Directory

Compuware Corporation static and runtime visualizations to improve the process of application analysis and debugging. Address: One Campus Martius, Detroit, MI 48226, USA Code Quality - Provide your developers with real-time Phone: +1 313 227 7300. feedback on how well code performs against quality Email: [email protected] standards. Leverage automated unit testing to ensure code Web: www.compuware.com is fully tested and prepared for fewer issues later in the lifecycle. Sales contacts EMEA: +44 (0)1628 564880 / [email protected] Cybersecurity - Lower the chance of internal data AsiaPac: +61 2 8249 8857 / [email protected] breaches. Capture start-to- finish user behavior on the mainframe. Integrate user behavior intelligence with Activity : Software vendor. popular SIEM engines to analyze the overall application Specialist areas: System management; data environment inlcuding mainframe apps. Leverage granular management; asset and change management; security; intelligence and reporting capabilities needed to comply programming/testing; web integration and legacy with regulations such as HIPAA and GDPR as well as reengineering tools; network performance/management security policies. Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS Non-mainframe platforms supported: IBM i Data Management & Privacy - Improve data management Pricing options: Monthly/annual license, processor/ and data privacy. Ensure your developers can easily capacity-based access and use reliable, realistic test data before launching new or updated programs into production. Company profile Your mainframe applications, data and processing power Mainframe Performance - Pinpoint online and batch- are more important to your business than ever. But your processing application performance inefficienies causing mainframe budget is tight and you are losing mainframe excessive CPU consumption. Improve mainframe talent. You also need to better leverage your mainframe in performance while reducing hardware and software costs. the broader context of your multiplatform environment. Source Code Management & Release Automation - Speed Compuware can help. Our innovative solutions empower up your application development and delivery. Provide developers, data analysts and ops staff - from experienced deeper visibility and end-to-end tracking of the building, COBOL veterans to new Millennial hires - to perform testing and deployment of mainframe code at any level mainframe related tasks confidently and efficiently. Our in the development lifecycle using Agile source code solutions also integrate with popular Agile/DevOps tools, management, release automation and deployment. so mainframe and non-mainframe teams can work together as one.

With Compuware you can: Conexus Technologies Inc - Rapidly update your mainframe applications to meet market demands Address: - Discover and eliminate back-end mainframe 8081 Twin Creek Trace, West Chester, OH 45069, USA performance bottlenecks in cross-platform applications, Phone: +1 513 779 5448. including mobile apps Email: [email protected]. - Put any developer to work on any application - even Web: www.conexus-technologies.com. your oldest, most poorly documented code - Pinpoint inefficiencies that drive up MSU-based Activity: Consultant. software costs Specialist areas: Asset and change management; other Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS Prevent the loss of experienced mainframe staff from jeopardizing your business. Company profile Conexus provides structured cabling solutions for the Product/service information raised-floor, data center environment. The company’s Application Analysis and Debugging - Help both your core competency is in the design, provisioning, experienced and next-generation mainframe developers installation, testing and documentation of physical cabling quickly understand complex, unfamiliar and poorly infrastructure for the ESCON, FICON and Fibre Channel documented mainframe applications and data. Perform architectures. Our services are available to Fortune 1000 corporations throughout North America.

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Product/service information the problem occurred, IT managers and performance Conexus provides fiber-optic trunk cabling, jumper cables, administrators have all the information needed to find the patch panels, distribution cabinetry and conveyance/tray root cause of problems, enabling IT staff to solve the actual systems for the raised-floor environment. The company cause of the incident and not spend valuable time and provides turnkey cabling solutions to provide physical resources trying to battle the symptoms. By quickly getting connectivity for data center moves, consolidations, new to the root of the problem after its first occurrence, IT staff data center construction, push-pull project initiatives and can now provide first fault problem resolution. technology refresh projects.

Connectivity Systems Inc ConicIT Address: Address: 8120 State Route 138, Williamsport, OH 43164, USA 4 Derech Hashalom st, Israel Phone: +1 740 420 5400. Phone: +972 546263343. Email: [email protected]. Email: [email protected]. Web: www.csi-international.com. Web: www.conicit.biz. Sales contacts: Activity: Software vendor. America 740 420 5400. Specialist areas: Systems management; network EMEA 1 800 795 4914. performance/management. Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, Linux Activity: Software vendor. Non-mainframe platforms supported: AIX, other Unix, Specialist areas: Systems management; data Linux management; storage management; security; Pricing options: Monthly/annual license, processor/ web integration and legacy reengineering tools; network capacity-based performance/management. Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, VM/VSE Company profile Pricing options: One-time charge, monthly/annual ConicIT was founded by Yoram Kariv (the founder license, processor/capacity-based. of ConicIT is a software vendor specializing in the development of a unique self learning behavioral analysis Company profile technology for optimizing mainframe performance. By CSI International was founded in 1995 to provide TCP/ employing sophisticated mathematical tools and data from IP connectivity for the VSE environment. From a single existing monitors, ConicIT predicts performance problems, employee and a $20,000 capitalization, CSI has grown to helps solve them the first time they occur, as well as a $12 million per year company, employing more than 40 prevent their re occurrence. people, and serving more than 2000 VSE sites worldwide. CSI products are sold directly in North America and Our mission is to help IT Operations Managers control their through distributors and IBM to the rest of the world. In z/OS Mainframe environments by enhancing IT productivity early 2002, CSI acquired B I Moyle Associates in a cash and performance, and proactively optimize SLA costs, transaction. Contrary to modern acquisition processes, while reducing monthly license fees and operational costs all BIM offices remain open, and all BIM employees have (overhead?). been retained. Three additional senior product developers have been hired and a number of high-profile products are Product/service information under development. It is the CSI mission to ensure a long ConicIT is an out of band, Linux-based production solution and successful experience for those who select and use that constantly analyzes mainframe system and application the VSE operating environment. performance information provided by existing mainframe monitors. By utilizing proprietary mathematical models Product/service information and self-learning algorithms, ConicIT provides real time CSI International is the major provider of TCP/IP products tracking of critical resource behavioral patterns and for the VSE platform. Additionally CSI provides a wide predicts abnormal behavior of these resources before it range of VSE system and security products through our occurs. ConicIT also analyzes composite relations between subsidiary company, BI Moyle Associates. We are certain physical and logical resources. that if you have a VSE communications or systems Based on this information ConicIT provides meaningful requirement, we have a solution for you. TCP/IP for VSE alerts aimed at reducing re-occurrence of performance- provides a complete solution for connecting the mainframe related malfunctions. No matter where they were when to the Internet. © Arcati Ltd, 2018 73 Arcati Mainframe Yearbook 2018 Vendor Directory

CopperEye Ltd scalar disk-optimized index technology. It eliminates the traditional design compromises between real-time Address: application performance and prolific indexing for fast query Suite 47, Aztec Center, Almondsbury, Bristol BS32 4TD, performance. It is applicable across virtually all data types. UK Benefits include: Phone: +44 (0) 1454 203610 • greater performance: CopperEye’s indexing technology Email: [email protected] breaks the disk I/O bottleneck, improving performance Web: www.coppereye.com a hundred-fold on that basis alone. This means that large volumes of data can be loaded in a fraction of the Sales contacts: usual time. America: 001 203-245-0611 • data center optimization: business event data can be EMEA: +44 (0) 1225 745500 moved off an expensive relational database and into flat files, dramtically reducing hardware requirements Activity: Software vendor while simultaneously enhancing access to the data Specialist areas: Data management • lower cost: data can be handled and accessed more Mainframe platforms supported: Linux rapidly, optimizing hardware investment. Non-mainframe platforms supported: AIX, other Unix, Linux Pricing options: Processor/capacity-based, workload/ usage based. CorreLog

Company profile Address: CopperEye is a provider of enterprise search software 1004 Collier Center Way, Naples, FL 34108, USA for business transaction data that allows companies to Phone: +1 239-514-3331 quickly retrieve exactly the records they need from months Email: [email protected] or years of history and billions of business transactions Web: www.correlog.com stored on low-cost file systems. Unlike other enterprise search solutions that focus on unstructured data such as Activity: Software vendor web pages and word processing documents and return Specialist areas: Security ambiguous results, CopperEye specifically addresses the Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, VM/VSE, zLinux needs of business transaction data that would otherwise Non-mainframe platforms supported: IBM i, AIX, other require a costly and complex database solution to provide Unix, Linux, Windows, other rapid retrieval of specific records. Pricing options: One-time charge, monthly/annual license

CopperEye’s products are appropriate for use across all Company profile industries and are intended for customers that have large CorreLog, Inc. is the leading independent software vendor volumes of data – often held on a mainframe. Systems (ISV) for cross-platform IT security log management integrators and consultancies are a central element and event log correlation. Our solutions provide the of CopperEye’s sales and marketing strategy, as are best-in-class, real-time event log management across software vendors who embed CopperEye’s technology both distributed (Windows/UNIX/Linux) and mainframe within their solutions. CopperEye has relationships with platforms (IBM z/OS). Event Log management from industry-leading vendors including IBM and Logica. The CorreLog’s premier security solutions are ready-format for product is available through CopperEye’s flagship product any name brand enterprise SIEM (Security Information – Greenwich – an enterprise search solution; or through & Event Management) correlation servers, as well as the CopperEye Software Developer’s Kit (SDK), intended CorreLog’s own SIEM Correlation Server. for use by developers creating high-performance bespoke databases. CorreLog SIEM Agent for z/OS, Correlog’s flagship product, is the first real-time z/OS event monitoring Product/service information solution available to CISOs with mainframe security CopperEye’s underlying technology innovation is a and compliance needs. It resides in single or multiple patented type of data indexing that represents a quantum mainframe LPARs at a very light weight, converting leap in performance over all other industry-standard mainframe security events such as RACF, ACF2, Top indexes. Where traditional approaches to improving Secret, and DB2 accesses into syslog events compatible database performance have focused on data caching, with enterprise SIEM systems. In addition, CorreLog’s parallelism and specialist hardware, CopperEye attacks SIEM Agent has been designed to comply with standards the core of the problem by dramatically improving indexing set forth by PCI DSS, HIPAA, IRS Pub. 1075, SOX, GLBA, efficiency. The CopperEye technology is a general-purpose FISMA, NERC, and many other regulatory standards,

74 © Arcati Ltd, 2018 Arcati Mainframe Yearbook 20072018 Vendor Directory in addition to the best real-time enterprise mainframe CorreLog IND$Defender Agent for IND$FILE: security. CorreLog markets its solutions through both direct Common to the IBM z/OS mainframe environment is a and indirect partner channels. facility called IND$FILE that is a file-transfer program that allows a user with a non-mainframe personal computer to Product/service information access mainframe datasets. This file transfer program (that CorreLog SIEM Agent™ for IBM z/OS: leverages a process called 3270 Emulation) is virtually In real-time, delivers security event messages from z/OS invisible to RACF, the z/OS facility that monitors user to distributed SIEM systems and IT Security Operations activity for mainframe security. CorreLog’s IND$Defender Centers. SIEM Agent auto-formats event messages provides a viable log tracker for 3270 file access/transfers from RACF, CA-ACF2, CA-Top Secret, DB2, IMS, CICS, from mainframe datasets and sends the event message IND$FILE, FTP, TCP/IP and other facilities and in real time, data to any distributed SIEM system or CorreLog Visualizer exports the messages to a SIEM or IT SOC. in real time.

Additionally, SIEM Agent converts a myriad of additional CorreLog dbDefender™ DAM Agent for DB2 and IMS: mainframe events including TSO Logons, Production CorreLog provides Database Activity Monitoring (DAM) Job ABENDs, TCP/IP and FTP Connections. For ease of for both DB2 and IMS databases with an agent-based deployment, CorreLog’s SIEM Agent for z/OS has certified software program on IBM® DB2® for z/OS. dbDefender™ integrations with IBM QRadar, HP ArcSight, RSA Security DAM Agent for z/OS monitors database activity for any Analytics, and has field integrations with every other sign of unauthorized access or slightest attempt to view leading SIEM solution including Splunk, McAfee ESM and datasets, then logs the event messages for auditing cloud vendors such as Solutionary and Dell SecureWorks. and compliance and sends a real-time notification of The ability to view cross-platform security event log data the activity. Notifications can come in the form of email, in real-time is a ground-breaking feature of the CorreLog SMS text, or SNMP trap. The system can even trigger an SIEM Agent for z/OS. Our real-time z/OS agent provides event to a helpdesk system for immediate remediation. IT security personnel with a more inclusive view of system- The Agent can also send the message data to either a wide threat data for a higher level of monitoring user and mainframe-based SIEM console (CorreLog Visualizer) or system accesses related to network intrusion. SIEM Agent any Windows-/UNIX-based SIEM facilitates compliance requirements set forth by PCI DSS, HIPAA, IRS Pub. 1075, GLBA, SOX, FISMA, NERC and many other standards. CPT Global Ltd SIEM Agent installs quickly, uses minimal resources, and does not require extensive training, ongoing maintenance Address: or administration. CorreLog SIEM Agent for IBM z/OS Level 1, 4 Riverside Quay, Southbank VIC 3006, Australia. also monitors IBM DB2 with dbDefender™, which delivers Phone +61 3 9690 3911 . up-to-the-second database activity monitoring (DAM) for Email [email protected]. DB2. DAM capabilities in dbDefender™ include privileged- Web: www.cptglobal.com. user monitoring, recording invalid access attempts, auditing creation/deletion of system-level objects and other Sales contacts: attempts to alter the secure state of DB2. America +1-917-210-8668. EMEA +44 20 8334 8085, [email protected]. CorreLog Visualizer™ for IBM z/OS: The CorreLog Visualizer is an affordable Security Activity: Consultant. Information & Event Management (SIEM) system Specialist areas: System management; data management especially designed and pre-conﬁgured for use by Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS z/OS security administrators and system programmers. It Non-mainframe platforms supported: i5, AIX, Unix, provides point-and-click functionality into z/OS security and Linux operational events from a standard web browser. Visualizer provides dashboard views, event message correlation, Company profile and can send text messages as alerts of security events CPT Global was founded in Melbourne in 1993 by Gerry generated from z/OS. Tuddenham, who remains the CEO today. The company has been listed on the ASX since 2000. The name ‘CPT The Visualizer for z/OS dashboard collection is a major Global’ came from the abbreviation of Capacity Planning, advancement over the z/OS green screen most familiar to Performance Tuning and Testing. The focus of the mainframe users. This mainframe SIEM system delivers business remains specialist capacity and performance a clean, web-based GUI with high-speed search, and the management services although, in Australia, CPT offers a capability to drill down to z/OS security messages with wide range of additional services related to IT efficiencies. point-and-click functions. © Arcati Ltd, 2018 75 Arcati Mainframe Yearbook 2018 Vendor Directory

Operations were extended into Europe in 1998, with offices Company profile now in the UK, the Netherlands and Germany, as well as We are a mainframe cost reduction and performance further engagements in Ireland, Austria and Switzerland. enhancement comp. We are 30 years in the business CPT expanded into the USA in 2003, setting up an office and have a worldwide presence.We are an IBM Business in New York to service Tier One clients such as General partner and have tuned 75 data centers. We license Motors and American Express. our product and also tune as a service.We do a free assessment. CPT has over 120 clients worldwide, including many large and well-known businesses such as ABN AMRO, AIB, Product/service information Audi, Bank of Ireland, Credit Swiss, Deutsche Bahn, ING, Our suite of performance/tuning software has been Lloyds TSB, Lufthansa, Prudential, and UBS. CPT draws developed over the past 30 years. We delay upgrades, on a network of over 200 specialist consultants, many enhance legacy software, improve user productivity and of whom are worldleaders in their fields. The depth of offer the fastest ROI in the industry. We include all the experience offered and the range of clients allows CPT to latest IBM enhancements in our software so a client is quickly identify performance and capacity problems, and always state of the art. We get rid of MIPS used to process to design and implement practical cost-effective solutions inefficient software, save DASD big time and eliminate based on best practice. peak load spiking. We get paid a percentage of what we save. Product/service information 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 DataKinetics Ltd processor upgrades, reduced MIPS usage, reduced software costs and pre-outsourcing CPU reductions. Address: 50 Hines Rd, Ottawa, K2K-2M5, Canada. CPT understands that many clients are unsure whether Phone: 613-523-5500 such savings can be achieved on their sites, and so offers Email: [email protected] a number of models to suit different companies. These Web: www.dkl.com. models range from Risk/Reward, where fees are based upon savings achieved, to Fixed Price, which caps the total Sales contacts: cost to the client. America +1-800-267-0730 Latin America +1-305-396-4399 In Europe, CPT Global’s assignments are mostly focused on mainframe performance tuning, but CPT also provides Activity: Software vendor. expertise in IT management as well as Open Systems and Specialist areas: Data management; web integration and Windows technical services. legacy reengineering tools Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, VM/VSE, Linux Non-mainframe platforms supported: Linux, Windows, Pricing options: One-time charge; monthly/annual Critical Path Software license; processor/capacity-based

Address: Company profile POB 697 Port Washington, NY 11050, USA. As the global leader in Data Performance and Optimization Phone +1 212-686-4350. Solutions, DataKinetics is relied upon by the world’s largest Email [email protected]. banks, credit card, brokerage, insurance, healthcare, Web: www.cpsigroup.com retail and telecommunication organizations to dramatically www.turbotune.com. improve their mainframe data throughput and processing. Fortune 500 companies trust DataKinetics. Activity: Consultant. Specialist areas: System management; data With more than 35 years of experience in the field of management, other mainframe Data Performance and Optimization, we Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, VM/VSE continually help our clients leverage existing systems, Pricing options: One-time charge, monthly/annual optimizing the issues that hold them back, and enabling license, other plans to propel them forward. Leveraging the experience and success of working with our global clients, we deliver proven solutions with worldwide success.

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We continue to work with: DDV technologies • 3 of the top 5 global banks Address: • 3 of the top 5 global credit card companies 17B / 818 Pittwater Road (PO Box 1155), Dee Why, NSW • 3 of the top 5 American property and casualty 2099, Australia. insurance companies Phone: +61 (0)2 8213 9207 • 2 of the top 5 American health insurance companies.. Email: [email protected] Web: www.ddvtechnologies.com Product/service information dateandtimesimulationsoftware.com. DataKinetics products: Activity: Software vendor. ttableBASE: an in-memory accelerator that manages Specialist areas: Programming/testing; web integration mainframe-based high-performance in-memory tables and legacy reengineering tools; other for use in transaction-intense corporate environments. It Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS improves mainframe performance at the application level, Pricing options: One-time charge; monthly/annual makes mainframe data more accessible and available, license; processor/capacity-based, workload/usage based, reduces the need for upgrades, and greatly simplifies other mainframe business rules processing. Company profile VTS Edge: a high-performance, high-fidelity mainframe DDV is a privately owned company developing an data integration solution, and a complete web services Australian z/OS-based product SoftDate and marketing integration solution. Seamlessly integrates existing overseas solutions that directly resolve your often mainframe applications with transactions initiated on the troublesome and expensive overheads in IT, business distributed side. development and crisis management. Our solutions span the IBM mainframe through Internet platforms and are ITBI: an IT business intelligence solution that provides targeted primarily at speeding your business development unique insights into the entire IT infrastructure delivering cycle. information that is useful to all stakeholders and enables the business and IT departments to make informed Product/service information decisions quickly. Shows IT and business effectiveness for SoftDate is a z/OS-based product for Date & Time both onsite and outsourced assets. Simulation (DTS) Testing of applications, prior to Production and Global Time Zone Virtualization of ASC: a systems management solution for IBM z System Production applications (to reduce LPARs that are Mainframes that optimizes system performance while dedicated to single Time Zones). controlling Workload License Charges (WLC). Allows control of workload license charges by dynamically SoftDate is an SOA DTS product with many unique and modifying the LPARs defined capacity limits taking into exclusive features not found in other DTS products such account the behavior and needs of all system LPARs. as Parallel Sysplex, CICS MRO (multiregion operations), 64-bit support (for data above the 2-gig bar), WebSphere SQData: a versatile data replication toolset, ideal for Application Server & Java Language for z support for all organizations with a need to move and access enterprise execution environments (e.g. batch, CICS, IMS). data that is contained in multiple databases on multiple platforms in multiple data formats. Allows Big Data and Softdate contains every feature of every other DTS analytics projects to use mainframe data in near real time. product, is fully backward compliant, and can reside in the same LPAR to make exchange easy. 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.

Dell Services Company profile Address: Dignus, LLC is an innovative company, located in Raleigh, 10th Floor, 555 Legget Dr., Kanata, ON Dignus, LLC is an innovative company, located in Raleigh, Country: Canada. North Carolina, committed to providing the best compilers, Phone: +1 613-612-5358 Assemblers and development tools for the IBM mainframe, Web: www.dell.com including 370, ESA, 390, and the latest z/Architecture series. Activity: Consultant. Specialist areas: System management; data Dignus, LLC provides unique mainframe programming management; storage management; asset and change and development solutions that offer savings in time and management; security; programming/testing; web effort, while streamlining development costs. Our solutions integration and legacy reengineering tools; network are applicable to programming for a wide range of IBM performance/management; other mainframe operating systems, including z/OS, z/TPF, z/ Non-mainframe platforms supported: AIX, other Unix, VM, z/Linux, and others. Linux, Windows Product/service information Company profile Systems/C and Systems/C++ are compilers for the IBM Dell is a global, full-service IT solutions provider, mainframe, with unique features that make development delivering integration platform as a service (iPaaS), legacy of z/OS, z/TPF, z/Linux, CMS and z/VSE code easier and application modernization, big data and analytics services faster. to name a few. Systems/C and Systems/C++ are validated and supported Product/service information by the IBM TPF labs for use with z/TPF. We provide legacy application modernization, big data and analytics services. We can help modernize legacy Systems/ASM, the Dignus assembler, is used for applications and/or re-architect to Java on Linux or .NET assembling IBM mainframe assembler source. Systems/ on Windows, to retire MIPS, or to simply rejuvenate ASM is compatible with IBM’s HLASM, supporting the applications for those organizations interested in re- complete HLASM macro processing language. investing / maintaining investment in IBM mainframe, or to support some valuable mix of both distributed and All Dignus tools can operate in a cross-platform mainframe computing. We perform detailed analysis on environment, moving your development to your local current legacy applications using purpose-specific Dell desktop to dramatically reduce mainframe development software so organizations can inventory their legacy costs. applications’ behaviour and usage, permitting a more thorough understanding of application modernization and re-architecture for project rationalization. We can also help organizations integrate new applications - custom or COTS DINO-Software Corporation - to legacy application. Address: P.O. Box 7105, Alexandria, VA 22307, USA. Phone: +1 703 768 2610 E-mail: [email protected] Dignus LLC Web: www.dino-software.com Address: 8372 Six Forks Road, Suite 203, Raleigh, NC 27615, USA. Sales contacts: Phone: +1 919 676 0847. America [email protected] Email: [email protected]. EMEA [email protected] Web: www.dignus.com. AsiaPac [email protected]

Activity: Software vendor. Activity: Software vendor Specialist areas: Programming/testing Specialist areas: System management; storage Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, VM/VSE, z/Linux management Non-mainframe platforms supported: AIX, other Unix, Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS Linux, Windows, other Pricing options: Monthly/annual license, processor/ Pricing options: Monthly/annual license, other capacity-based, other

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Company profile Direct Computer Resources Inc Dino-Software Corporation (DINO) develops enterprise- wide solutions for the management, analysis, protection, (DataVantage) and repair of complex z/OS mainframe environments. Address; DINO has long been acknowledged for its superiority in 21 Valley Drive, Huntington Bay, NY 11743-1472, USA ICF catalog management and technical support, helping Phone: +1 877-704-0077; International: 1+888-245-5477 organizations ensure their business-critical assets remain Email: [email protected] online and recoverable in a disaster. DINO’s flagship Web: www.DataVantage.com product, T-REX, incorporates over two decades of experience gained from the original Softworks® developers Activity: Software vendor who devised the Mechanic® and later Catalog Solution®, Specialist areas: Data management, security, and it rapidly became the fastest selling ICF catalog programming/testing management and recovery tool ever released. This formula Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, Linux of producing superior products, at a reasonable cost, all Non-mainframe platforms supported: Unix, Linux, backed up by first class support from industry experts, Windows has allowed DINO to enjoy unprecedented growth and Pricing options: One-time charge, monthly/annual rapidly establish DINO technology as the gold standard license, processor/capacity-based, workload/usage based, in enterprise-wide z/OS management solutions. Learn other more about Dino-Software and its z/OS mainframe storage solutions at https://dino-software.com. Company profile The rise of regulatory and compliance requirements along Product/service information with evolving corporate policies has mandated data privacy T-REX is the fastest and most comprehensive ICF catalog and data protection, as does the increasing frequency of management product available to analyze, diagnose, and risks associated with data breaches. Data Masking report, backup, repair, recover, and assist with the enables the safe use of production data for any non- overall maintenance and ensure continuous operational production purposes such as development and testing. capabilities of the ICF catalog environment. T-REX Direct Computer Resources’ DataVantage software allows prevents downtime, improves throughput, automates you to mask and manage your data safely, efficiently and recovery & repair in record speed, REORGs catalogs while affordably, creating PII-protected datasets via automated, OPEN, and pays for itself with just one broken object. repeatable data masking processes in z/OS and distributed environments. As a consultant in the 1970’s, Direct DINO’s other innovative and intuitive storage management, Computer Resources’ Chief Technology Officer, George optimization, and performance tuning products include: Lang, invented an all-new product for the mainframe: the first-ever application development testing and data • Universal Data Manager (UDM) is a z/OS based management software tool, DataVantage® for IMS. solution providing a consolidated global view of the Decades later, DCR was the first software developer to Enterprise storage environment, extending Automation, incorporate data masking facilities in the z/OS environment Auditing, Monitoring, Reporting and Control Functions to protect sensitive data. DCR holds multiple domestic and of data and related storage objects with a mouse click. international patents relative to data masking and data • VELOCI-Raptor (VR) reduces application overhead obfuscation. by continuously optimizing the VSAM batch buffering strategy, eliminating redundant requests and increasing Product/service information throughput. DataVantage software provides data masking, data • HSM Adminisaurus (HSA) is a consolidated management and application development testing in z/ management tool providing extensive reporting, OS and distributed computing environments. Users can comprehensive auditing, in-depth processing analysis, view, edit, copy, mask and test data quickly, effectively and and simplified administrative functions to help establish affordably for training, application development, testing, and maintain a healthy HSM environment. on- or off-shoring, data sharing and data analyses, among • XTINCT provides permanent DASD and Tape data other functions. erasure and meets federal and international regulatory requirements. DataVantage Mainframe Software: • TERADON delivers fast REPRO Mergecat for closed or • Protects PII while mitigating the risks of non- open Datasets. compliance and data breaches. • REORGadon reorganizes HSM CDS while active and • Masks data on the fly: data is never exposed in the online without shutdown/restart of HSM. clear.

• Installs within hours as an application program. Our corporate headquarters are located in Raleigh, NC • z/OS release independent. and our products are sold in the US and Canada through • Works alongside current data management software our sales office in Conyers, GA. We distribute our products worldwide through a network of international distributors DataVantage software pricing is the most flexible and who cover all the major international markets. affordable in the industry with licensing options that include Limited Duration, Tier-level and Enterprise-level plans We are dedicated to providing reliable designs, technical innovations and a commitment to excellence. DataVantage Software Products include: (For Data Masking & Data Management): Product/service information DataVantagefor IMS DTS Software is recognized as a worldwide leader in DataVantage for DB2 enterprise storage management technology. Our family DataVantage Global (Mainframe & Distributed) of products provides an integrated suite of storage management programs that allow you to get the most (For Data Masking Only): out of your storage dollars. Our products improve disk DataVantage DME™ (bundled for IMS, DB2). space utilization, prevent storage-related errors, allow installations to monitor the storage subsystem in real time, Among Direct Computer Resources’ product set, and proactively control the use of storage space. DataVantage Global has been designated as Qualified Anti-Terrorism Technology (QATT) by the U.S. Department From the original industry-standard Space Recovery of Homeland Security which affords users certain liability System (SRS) that eliminates storage-related production protections under the Safety Act. 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/ DTS Software Debug, to the Predictive Recall of migrated data, to the advanced Virtual Tape interface of the DLm Control Center Address: (DCC), DTS products are noted for their sophistication, 4350 Lassiter at North Hills Ave, Suite 235, Raleigh, NC reliability, and ease-of-use. 27609, USA Phone: +1 919 833 8426 Our integrated suite of products help organizations to Email: [email protected] monitor, manage and control your storage subsystems. Web: www.dtssoftware.com For over 20 years, we continue to demonstrate reliable designs, a history of innovation and a commitment to Sales contacts: excellence. America +1 770 922 2444

Activity: Software vendor. Specialist areas: Storage management Eccox Technologies Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS Pricing options: Other Address: Avenida Sagitário, 138 - Torre II Company profile 2 andar, sala 203 - Alphaville - Barueri/SP, Brazil DTS Software is recognized as a worldwide leader in Phone: +55 551141331969 enterprise storage management technology. From the Email: [email protected] original industry-standard Space Recovery System (SRS) Web: www.eccox.com that eliminates storage-related production failures, to the advanced Virtual Tape interface of the DLm Control Center Activity: Software vendor. (DCC), DTS products are noted for their sophistication, Specialist areas: System management; data reliability, and ease-of-use. management; asset and change management; programming/testing; web integration and legacy Our integrated suite of products help organizations to reengineering tools monitor, manage and control your storage subsystems. Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, Linux For over 20 years, we have specialized in these storage Non-mainframe platforms supported: Unix, Linux, solutions and have developed them for the IBM z/OS, Windows, other Hitachi VOS3, and Fujitsu MSP operating systems.

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Pricing options: One-time charge, monthly/annual repository and storing tests for future use, Eccox APT license, processor/capacity-based, workload/usage based, eliminates the need to recreate tests over and over again.. other

Company profile Since 1992, Eccox has delivered integrated software and Edge Information Group, Inc services that automate and manage the processes used for the creation and maintenance of IT environments Address: – from development to testing, through production and 479 E Business Center Drive, Suite 115, Mt. Prospect, IL maintenance. 60056-6037, USA Phone: +1 847-297-2020. Eccox enables IT organizations to proactively support Email: [email protected]. business objectives rather than only react to system Web: www.edge-information.com problems. Eccox clients can identify and build IT best practices as well as strategically plan for the future using Sales contacts: accurate data and intelligent tools. With this advantage, America: [email protected]. IT organizations can operate with measurable and visible EMEA: [email protected]. excellence. AsiaPac: [email protected].

Whether the IT organization is all internal, outsourced, or a Activity: Software vendor. combination of both, Eccox products quantitatively improve Specialist areas: Asset and change management; the management, quality, productivity and ultimately the programming/testing. return on IT investments. Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS Pricing options: One-time charge, other. Product/service information Eccox QC proactively detects errors in new and existing Company profile application code as it is being developed. This helps the Edge Information Group, Inc. is the premier provider overall system application software get done more quickly of Language Environment (LE) management solutions and with higher quality. for upgrading to the latest levels of the IBM mainframe operating systems, z/OS and related compiler and run-time Eccox QC for COBOL technologies. Supports all IBM mainframe COBOL language versions including CICS. We offer a unique LE and portfolio management tool – the Edge Portfolio Analyzer – as well as consulting on LE, Eccox QC for DB2 compilers and other IT areas. Assess and control IBM DB2 databases access from analyzing SQL syntax and performance, independent of Let our experts help you get an Edge on LE management. programming language. Product/service information Eccox QC for Java The Edge Portfolio Analyzer (EPA) provides z/OS users Supporting a variety of Java language versions. with the means to understand and control the contents of their application portfolios. With the Edge Portfolio Eccox QC will send clean rules violations descriptions Analyzer, you can reduce problems – and speed and incident reasons. It then suggests corrections to implementation – when migrating to new compilers and the programmer and considers whether allow it as an new Language Environment (LE) run-time environments. exception. Eccox QC identifies legacy programs and news You can also use the EPA to improve the performance ones, controls violation justifications with expiration dates, of your production environment and to assist in problem manages follow-up and simulates improvements. source identification and problem determination.

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

Enterprise Systems Associates, Inc • BPA™ is a buffer pool advisor product has replaced the old, dated vendor solutions with a new level of (ESAi) expert analysis that easily identifies, recommends, and perform ongoing monitoring to ensure optimum Address: performance and more responsive DB2 systems. 3259 Progress Drive, UCF Research Park Orlando, Fl 32826, USA • SQLQC™ easily identifies and analyzes problem SQL Phone: +1-866-GO-4-ESAI (866-464-3724) from mainframe or distributed systems and offers Email: [email protected] improvment simulation and advise. Web: www.ESAIGroup.com • ULT™ is a log tracker/analyzer for DB2 answers Activity: Software vendor. the question “Why is a good, reasonably priced log Specialist areas: System management; data analyzer so hard to find?” Functions include Undo/ management; asset and change management Redo, identify, audit, and data propagate. A faster, Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS better, more economical alternative. Non-mainframe platforms supported: Unix, Linux, Windows • ICPU gives programmers the ability to easily identify Pricing options: One-time charge, monthly/annual code causing CICS® application performance license, processor/capacity-based, workload/usage based problems. Its very low overhead allows use in production or test environments. 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 Epoka Group A/S operational savings. Qualified database and IT staff resources are in short supply, workloads are increasing, Address: and there are still only 24 hours in a day. The economic Hjulmagervej 21, DK-9490 Pandrup, Denmark pressures of today are forcing IT to do more with less. Phone: +45 96 730 800. ESAi can help with innovative solutions that save time, Email: [email protected]. money, CPU and staff resources. Web: www.epoka.com.

The company is based in Orlando’s UCF Research Park Activity: Hardware vendor. and is affiliated with the Florida High Technology Corridor Specialist areas: Other Council. Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, VM/VSE, Linux, other Product/service information Non-mainframe platforms supported: IBM i, AIX • zDynaCap® is an automated mainframe capacity Pricing options: Other balancing and MLC cost optimization solution that helps customers meet their SLAs at the lowest possible Company profile MSU cost. Epoka Group A/S is an innovative supplier of pre-owned, high-performance enterprise computer solutions. Our • XDM™ is a premier Test Data Management tool for extensive range of blue-chip brands extends from fast automated data provisioning, data masking, and mainframes, NAS and SAN solutions to best-of-breed cloning. Supports DB2, DB2 LUW, Oracle, SQL Server, networking equipment. et.al. Epoka is a reliable, triple-A rated company that offers • BCV4™ is a DB2® and/or IMS® subsystem cloning customers around the world quick access to quality tool that reduces cloning from hours/days down to solutions at competitive prices. Based in Denmark since minutes. SAP and PeopleSoft users can have clones 1991, Epoka is committed to providing real value, world- and system copies in record time. class service and continued expansion. Please browse through our website to learn more about our products, • BCV5™ is a high speed copy/migrate/refresh tool that services and job opportunities. checks, automates and copies/refreshes DB2 target environments faster than Unload/Load or other ISV Product/service information solution. BCV5 delivers on average 90% savings in IBM: zSeries 800, 890, 900, 990 • CMOS(9672) G2 - G6 • CPU, job elapsed time, and manual efforts. Storage & Peripherals.

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EPV Technologies • JVL in France • Senmesoft in Canada Address: • SoftPlex Inc. in Japan Viale Luigi Mancinelli 106, Rome, Italy • TPS-DATA in Austria, Germany, and Switzerland. Phone: +39 0686399398. • ECCOX in Brazil and other SA countries.. Email: [email protected]. Web: www.epvtech.com. Product/service information EPV products have been designed to help system analysts Activity: Software vendor. in Performance and Capacity Planning activities. EPV for Specialist areas: System management z/OS, EPV zParser, EPV for Db2, EPV for MQ, EPV for Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, Linux on Z zLINUX, EPV for Unix (including Linux) and EPV for Non-mainframe platforms supported: AIX, other Unix, VMware are the main products. Same products developed Linux in two lines: SAS-based and PERL/SQL-based. Pricing options: One-time charge EPV zParser is written in PERL; it parses SMF, IMS, z/VM monitor records, etc loading them in a SQL DB. It provides Company profile input to EPV for z/OS, EPV for Db2, EPV for MQ and EPV Technologies partners: EPV for zLINUX. • Benny Tal Marketing Software Solutions in Israel and Benelux Free agents provide input data to EPV for Unix and EPV • CPT Global in Australia, China and USA for VMware. • Inspired Solutions in UK and Ireland

ERGO Soluciones SRL Activity: Education Specialist areas: System management; data Address: management; storage management; security; Crámer 1765, Piso 11, oficina A, C1426APC Ciudad de programming/testing; web integration and legacy Buenos Aires, Argentina reengineering tools; network performance/management. Phone: +54 (11) 4786-5585 Email: [email protected] Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, VM/VSE, Linux Web: www.ErgoSoluciones.com Non-mainframe platforms supported: IBM i, Linux Pricing options: other Activity: Consultant Specialist areas: Programming/testing; web integration Company profile and legacy reengineering tools Education of new mainframers. Advanced training for Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, VM/VSE existing mainframers. Support of academic institutions. Non-mainframe platforms supported: Windows Pricing options: Other Product/service information Basic blended learning course for system administrator (24 Company profile month) ERGO Soluciones SRL is providing the IT market with Basic blended learning course for operator (18 month) its services, products and solutions, offering the support Special blended learning modules concerning storage that each situation needs and better fits customer’s management, performance management, mainframe requirements. security & RACF, z/VM and Linux and many more. A team of professionals with broad experience in the field of Information Technology, both in modern techniques and mainframe custom systems, have shaped our organization. Our Company offers Professional Services, Systems Integration, Solutions Development and Products for Exspans Systems Inc environments on multiple architectures like mainframes, minicomputers, client/server and personal computers. Address: With offices in the City of Buenos Aires, Argentina, we also 107 Armstrong Line, Maberly, Canada represent products of international renowned companies in Phone: +1 613 268 2057. the region.. Email: [email protected] Web: www.exspans.ca. Product/service information Our highly skilled professionals in several proprietary and Activity: Software vendor open tools, such as Assembler, COBOL, CICS, Natural, Specialist areas: System management Power Builder, Visual Basic, Java, etc., and RDBMS like Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS Oracle, SQL Server, SyBase, DB2, Adabas, among others, Pricing options: monthly/annual license can develop from a simple requirement of a program to an entire complex “tailor made” solution or system, technology Company profile migrations, customizations and documentation, GUIs and In business since 1989 providing systems management, manuals translation, etc. automation and scheduling solutions. We are always evolving matching technology changes Product/service information with methods to protect and leverage our customer’s AutoMan is a high performance systems automation investment. and management tool. It is programmable to perform all services and logic required to produce self running and regulating systems. AutoMan is offered in components so the end user only needs to license the functionality they need. European Mainframe Academy

Address: Obergass 23, 8260 Stein am Rhein, Switzerland Phone: +41-52-5582040 Email: [email protected] Web: www.mainframe-academy.de.

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Fischer International Systems a security visionary whose many accomplishments are recognized globally. Chosen by Fortune 500 corporations Corporation and government agencies worldwide, our products continue to offer multiplatform solutions for security, Address: operations, communication and identity management. At its 9045 Strada Stell Ct 201, Naples, FL 34109, USA heart, Fischer International is a technology company driven Phone: 239-643-1500 by visionaries who all have a single focus: to provide Email: [email protected]. unparalleled value to our customers. This commitment Web: www.FISC.com. has always been part of our corporate culture. It began when we introduced our first PC security product to the Activity: Software vendor. marketplace, and our commitment to providing innovative Specialist areas: System management; data products and solutions for the new global enterprise management; storage management; security; other remains our primary mission. Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, VM/VSE Non-mainframe platforms supported: Windows, other Product/service information Pricing options: One-time charge, monthly/annual Fischer IOF JES2 Management benefits your entire team license, other by providing greater diagnostic tools and detail for fast “bottom line” problem resolution. End users can browse Company profile their jobs, Operations Managers can manage all JES2 Fischer’s vision for software development for over the resources, Development managers can monitor operations last 30 years has been to provide innovative solutions Time to productivity is accelerated by an intuitive interface designed to leverage and enhance the mainframe’s place and job summary. The IOF development roadmap reflects in the enterprise at all levels. Fischer International Systems the requirements of our customers. Corporation was founded in 1982 by Addison Fischer,

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TapeStream® uses enhanced data compression with up Inserts, Modifications (Time, Anonymization)); Reduce to 80% reduction in data storage and a file location index CPU service costs and service delivery times: Fastest to reduce the time to allot individual files. Benefit from the cloning of pre-production and test DBMS (DB2 for flexibility of TapeStream® emulation of IBM 3480 amd LUW, DB2 for z/OS, ORACLE, MSSQL, IMS) sub- 3490E tape devices. Use it in daily applications like a real systems, databases and tables with also masking and tape, for system backups, DB2 logs, and application batch data reduction; Automated DB maintenance enhancing programs. It improves reliability by using by using a 64-bit existing utilities; Bufferpool optimization; Exception CRC technology on each block of data. TapeStream™ Master to determine problems before they hit the works with existing mainframe tape management systems. systems; … • Application Life-Cycle & z/OS enhancement Operating Fischer Identity Management simplifies the complex task System Software of managing access across on-premise and cloud systems - File encryption and archiving, test data generation, with breakthrough solutions. Fischer can be deployed in naming standards and audit; identifying the business- half the time and cost of conventional identity products, critical files; integrated recovery management solution and are available as on-premise software, managed designed to deliver a global view of your critical data-as cloud service, or hosted. Bloor Research Named Fischer well as that data’s backups at the application level. “Champion” in Identity & Access Management Services on Real recovery if your batch explodes; Monitor, Manage non-mainframe platform. & Control JESplex jobs, spools & resources; Space Management; • Software Asset Management & z Cost Reduction - Who’s using what and when in the z/OS software portfolio – IBM and ISV products and inhouse Fitz Software & Co applications including also 4GL, Interpreter languages, ISPF, JCL, ..; Automated Software Capping (aWLC & Address: CPM); Offloading audit functions; Capacity Planning. Kilcolta House, Crosshaven, Cork, Ireland Phone: +353-21-4832131 Product/service information Email: [email protected]. Some products: Web: www.fitzsoftware.com. P-Tracker collects usage information on all program and subprogram calls under z/OS including Batch, IMS/ Activity: Software vendor. DC, CICS, TSO and other sub-system environments. Specialist areas: System management; data Using P-Tracker, one can focus in on usage of modules, management; storage management; datasets, applications and products/licenses; and with asset and change management; security; programming/ inhouse applications determine the chained calls at sub- testing; network performance/management program level. Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, VM/VSE, Linux on Z Integrity Control Environment (ICE) manages and detects Non-mainframe platforms supported: Linux, Windows changes, points of failure, and risks to the integrity of the Pricing options: Monthly/annual license, processor/ z/OS systems. ICE helps systems staff to examine the capacity-based, workload/usage based system and document for management, security and audit teams, that their job is being done correctly, has been Company profile verified and does not have unintentional adverse impact. Fitz Software & Co., established in 1991, provides z/ TCP, SSL, DNS and IPV6 Problem Finders OS users with innovative and niche products that benefit their evolving systems at justifiable prices. Our primary XDM (CROSS DATABASE MOVER) quickly and efficiently expertise lies in: copies, refreshes and replicates databases, tables, views, • Change, Risk , Audit, Security & Compliance etc. within the same or to different DBMS systems. A XDM Management copy task integrates both, the physical data movement - Change management, audit and security improvement and the appropriate DDL treatment. It copies tables and with system integrity in z/OS, JES, VTAM, TCP/IP, databases and XDM creates the data objects at the target CICS, IODF, DB2 and SAF/ESM. Detect the risks if they are not yet present. XDM always chooses the to availability while also ensuring secure change fastest and most efficient method to move the data. Hence management and notifications across administration copy jobs executions are completed in record time. functions (Operator commands, Administrator edit/ batch changes, Security policies, ..). ASC (AutoSoftCapping) optimizes the performance of your • Test Data Management & Database Productivity system while controlling your Workload License Charges - Test data generation (Selection, Changes (rules), (aWLC & CMP). ASC safeguards the right MSUs are in the right place, at the right time and for the right cost. 86 © Arcati Ltd, 2018 Arcati Mainframe Yearbook 20072018 Vendor Directory

Dino Explorer Suite is a set of non-intrusive software for Since 1994 Flynet has been supporting a global and varied analysis and support decision of IBM mainframe SMF logs customer base supporting solutions with 10 to 10,000 which are collected in real time and stored in a relational users. database platform (Microsoft SQL Server). Can reduce overall CPU processing by 7%. Product/service information FlynetViewer integrates seamlessly with existing ZIP/390-MP is an enterprise zip and Multi-Platform conventional screen-based applications. Web services and Integration utility for simplifying the efficient and secure new graphical Interfaces can be easily sliced into existing trafficking of data across divergent platforms. 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 Flynet Limited Extra, Rumba or IBM etc…. FlynetViewer can be used in association with existing terminal emulation deployments Address: providing additional functionality or integration with web King William House, Burwell, Cambs CB25 0DU, UK based applications as and when required. Phone: +44 1638 611111 Email: [email protected]. FlynetViewer is a server-side, cross-browser, BYOD Web: www.flynetviewer.com. compliant, zero client install, pure html and JavaScript terminal emulation-based solution for 3270, 5250 and Activity: Software vendor. VTxxx applications. Specialist areas: Web integration and legacy reengineering tools FlynetViewer provides rapid definition and generation of Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, VM/VSE, zLinux, ASP.NET web services and web pages integrating screen- other based applications using minimal proprietary content. Non-mainframe platforms supported: IBM i, AIX, Unix, Developers can enhance and extend the generated Linux, Windows applications using ASP.NET and .NET frameworks. Server- Pricing options: One-time charge, monthly/annual side logic provides navigation throughout the application license, processor/capacity-based, workload/usage based, allowing the use of modern menu systems, i.e. hierarchical other drop-down, to replace clumsy single-screen menus.

Company profile FlynetViewer can generate web services to automate data Is your strategy in place when it comes to web, cloud, entry and other processes can share sessions with users BYOD …etc.? of the web terminal emulator to enable powerful synergies between server-side automation and human intervention/ Are you torn between creating new feature-rich web-based access whenever desired. applications and continuing with writing new, fast, low cost, green- screen applications? Most importantly FlynetViewer can increase the return associated with mainframe applications whilst reducing Are you faced with a diminishing pool of mainframe user costs such as maintenance, training and support. application expertise?

Is there a constant demand for new mainframe services? Forecross Corporation FlynetViewer is the leading solution for modernising and integrating mainframe applications with web and internet Address: based technologies. It allows you to do far more with less 505 Montgomery St Fl 11, San Francisco, CA 94111, USA mainframe expertise and IT budget. Phone: 415-543-1515 Email: [email protected]. As pioneers of integrating new technologies with Web: www.forecross.com. mainframe and legacy screen based applications, Flynet developers were responsible for creating the first dial-up Specialist areas: Web integration and legacy terminal emulator, the first mainframe to internet gateway, reengineering tools; other and most recently the world’s first ‘cloud-ready’ terminal Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, VM/VSE, Linux emulator. on Z

Non-mainframe platforms supported: IBM i, AIX, Unix, Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, Linux on Z Linux, Windows, other Pricing options: Other Pricing options: One-time charge, Company profile Company profile Fundi Software develops performance management, Forecross Corporation is the world’s leading authority problem analysis, and configuration management tools for on the development and use of automated legacy CICS and IMS. modernization software and services for Enterprise computing. Product/service information Fundi Software products marketed, sold, and supported by Our legacy-to-web solutions protect the value of existing IBM (www.ibm.com): applications, leverage the business intelligence those • IBM CICS Performance Analyzer for z/OS: applications contain, and promote their evolution to future Comprehensive off-line reporting on the performance of ready platforms and technologies. your CICS systems and applications • IBM CICS Configuration Manager for z/OS: Enterprise Serving the IT industry since 1982, our clients include management of CICS resource definitions Fortune 500 companies in industries such as banking, • IBM Transaction Analysis Workbench for z/OS: finance, publishing and higher education, as well as Problem determination and transaction analysis for z/ government agencies, in the United States and worldwide. OS transactions spanning CICS, IMS, DB2, IBM MQ, z/ OS Connect, and more Product/service information • IBM IMS Connect Extensions for z/OS: Workload Database Modernization - If you’re thinking about balancing, request routing rules, advanced security, modernizing your applications from pre-relational and event journaling for IMS Connect databases such as IDMS-DB or VSAM to a relational • IBM IMS Performance Analyzer for z/OS (IMS PA): database such as DB2, Oracle, or SQL Server please Performance analysis and tuning for IMS and related review our: subsystems • IBM IMS Problem Investigator for z/OS: IMS Convert/IDMS-DB™ and Convert/VSAM™ log browser and analysis tool for rapid problem Language Modernization - If you want to convert from determination a 3rd or 4th generation language such as ADS/O, CSP, COBOL or PL/I to C# .NET, VB .NET, IBM EGL (Java), or Fundi Software products marketed, sold, and supported by .NET COBOL, please review our: Circle Software (www.circle-us.com): • C\Prof: Transaction profiling for CICS. “You’ll never Convert/ADSO™, Convert/CSP™ and ReDirect/COBOL™ need to use the CICS auxiliary trace again.” (www. User Interface Modernization - If you plan to migrate from cprof.com) an older user interface such as IDMS-DC to CICS it means • C\Flow: CICS web-enablement made easy you get 100% pseudo-conversational programs - NO • C\Parse: A generator for JSON and XML COBOL exceptions. parsers

Please review our: Convert/IDMS-DC™.

Fundi Software Pty Ltd Fujitsu

Address: Address: Level 1, 1 Brodie-Hall Drive, Technology Park, Bentley WA Fujitsu Technology Solutions, Mies-van-der-Rohe Str. 4-10, 6102, Australia 80807 Munich, Germany Phone: +61 (8) 6212 0150 Phone: +49-1805-372100. Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected]. Web: www.fundi.com Web: www.fujitsu.com/fts/bs2000

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Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, VM/VSE, Linux designed more efficiently and becomes more sustainable on Z for the future as we design and implement intelligent Non-mainframe platforms supported: IBM i, Linux, solutions in partnership with you. Windows Pricing options: One-time charge, monthly/annual Mainframe platforms supported: BS2000, VME, license, processor/capacity-based Fujitsu Global Servers and third party services for IBM mainframes. Company profile Fujitsu is the leading Japanese information and communication technology (ICT) company offering a full range of technology products, solutions and services. Gary Bergman Associates Approximately 155,000 Fujitsu people support customers in more than 100 countries. We use our experience Address: and the power of ICT to shape the future of society with 14 Hickory Lane, North Brunswick, NJ 08902, USA our customers. Fujitsu Limited (TSE: 6702) reported Phone: +1 732 247 2727 consolidated revenues of 4.5 trillion yen (US$ 40 billion) for Email: [email protected] the fiscal year ended March 31, 2017. Web: www.debugcics.com

In Europe, the Middle East, India and Africa (EMEIA), Activity: Software vendor Fujitsu is a leading information and communication Specialist areas: Programming/testing technology company offering a full portfolio of business- Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS technology products, solutions and services, ranging from Pricing options: One-time charge, monthly/annual license workplace systems to data center solutions, managed services, and cloud-based software and solutions. Fujitsu’s Company profile Vision is to enable a Human Centric Intelligent Society that Developers of Advanced Debugging System (“ADS”) for creates value by connecting infrastructure, empowering the CICS mainframe. people and creatively defining new forms of intelligence. In EMEIA Fujitsu employs approximately 29,000 people. Founded in 1974 with sales worldwide, we continue to update and support our product through the the latest Product/service information reseases of CICS, including support for 64bit code. Fujitsu’s 3rd Party Services specialises in providing a Product_info: Advanced Debugging System (“ADS”) for Mainframe Managed Service offering positioned around CICS supports interactive and automatic monitoring to the support of IBM Enterprise z and i platforms to detect attempted storage violations and unintentional customers across EMEIA and North America. We are a access of storage beyond the scope of the monitored task. key provider in the provision of 3rd Party IBM Mainframe The programmer can dynamically insert Assembler and Managed Services and provide end-to-end PaaS, in COBOL instruction into existing programs for designated addition to tailored mainframe professional services terminal facilities to play safe what-if games without designed around client TCO improvements. affecting affecting other transactions that use the same program path. The BS2000 SE Infrastructure combines standard mainframe technology with the technology of the open Product/service information world. This makes the SE Series the optimal platform for Advanced Debugging System (“ADS”) for the CICS running business-critical applications both on /390 and mainframe. x86 technology. Customers can select the optimal platform for each application and will thus get the most out of their mainframe investments.

With its comprehensive set of functions, the BS2000 GT Software mainframe operating system provides the best possible support for existing and new IT infrastructures. With Address: its open interfaces it offers future-proof integration into 6255 Barfield Rd NE, Suite 200, Atlanta, GA 30328, USA modern application architectures. The extensive scalability Phone: +1 404-253-1300 of the BS2000 platform reaches into the very highest Email: [email protected] performance bands. Web: www.gtsoftware.com

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Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, VM/VSE, z/Linux • Requires no skillsets for writing code with “drag-and- Non-mainframe platforms supported: IBM i, AIX, other drop” tools Unix, Linux, Windows • Easy to install with minimal or no training Pricing options: Other • Integrates all mainframe assets, regardless of underlying platforms, languages and data formats Company profile • Requires no additional mainframe resource usage Founded in 1982, GT Software’s heritage of application • Low total cost of ownership (TCO) modernization began with the mainframe and now continues through today’s modern technologies. Our enterprise software solutions revolutionize data, process and transaction access to optimize business information across mainframe, distributed and cloud platforms. H&W Computer Systems GT Software has unsurpassed expertise in mainframe technology and helps companies easily overcome the Address: challenges associated with accessing mainframe data and 6154 N Meeker Place, Suite 100, Boise, ID 83713, USA applications with no additional coding required. Phone: 800-338-6692 Email: [email protected] Globally, more than 2,500 organizations trust GT Software Web: www.hwcs.com to help improve mainframe modernization initiatives, including business intelligence, workforce productivity, Activity: Software vendor customer experience and mobility. GT Software’s solutions Specialist areas: System management are found at some of the world’s largest banks and Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, VM/VSE financial institutions, insurance companies, state and Non-mainframe platforms supported: Windows local governments, as well as in retail, manufacturing and Pricing options: One-time charge, monthly/annual energy companies. license, processor/capacity-based, workload/usage based.

Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, GT Software is a Company profile privately held company that is currently represented in the Founded in 1979 in the northwestern United States, H&W U.S., Canada, Asia, Europe, Australia, Africa and South Computer Systems started with one product and a driving America. philosophy of customer satisfaction. Today, H&W provides business software solutions to customers worldwide, Product/service information including many Global 500 companies. These companies GT Software offers a variety of mainframe integration trust H&W to solve both business problems and meet IT and data access solutions that simplify access to legacy needs so they can meet objectives, grow, and better serve applications and mission-critical data via robust Web their own customers. services with no additional coding required. Product/service information GT Software’s integration solutions help businesses H&W’s industry-leading SYSB-II is a cost-effective empower customers and employees with easy access way to use existing VSAM-reliant CICS applications to to the information and applications they need to be accommodate business growth without downtime due to successful. Whether you want to improve business batch. performance with easy mobile access to key business • SYSB-II allows CICS and batch to have concurrent applications, feed business intelligence initiatives, create access to VSAM files, so users have full read/write robust Web and mobile experiences for customers or access to CICS 24/y, even during batch. explore the power of cognitive computing, GT Software can • Users have access to VSAM data being updated closer help you accomplish your objectives. to real time, so they don’t have to wait for overnight changes or rely on “point in time” data, and they can GT Software’s integration solutions include the Ivory® finish crucial tasks sooner. Suite, featuring solutions that allow users to quickly and seamlessly integrate the mainframe with other SYSB-II doesn’t require application source-code technologies such as mobile and Web applications, changes, data migration, or rearchitecting the existing IT packaged applications, business intelligence and cloud infrastructure. initiatives. H&W has also recently announced the BoxScore II GT Software Key Differentiators: capacity assessment software developed with mainframe • Over 30 years of mainframe expertise expert Cheryl Watson. It’s the only independent solution • Speed and ease of delivering massive amounts of data capacity and performance planners can use to: to external solutions 90 © Arcati Ltd, 2018 Arcati Mainframe Yearbook 20072018 Vendor Directory

• Verify the value of new hardware and software against Product/service information an actual workload mix, ensuring correct usage We have established a pool of experienced engineers to calculations and resulting in significant potential support the mainframe. We provide services is areas of: savings. • Review performance weekly to find issues configuration • Sizing and Designing a Mainframe setup changes caused before they result in a premature need • Operating System upgrades and maintenance (z/OS, z/ for capacity or excess charges on workload-licensing VM, zLinux) bills. • Storage Managament • Compare performance of actual workload mixes on • Disaster Recovery a new and old CPU to calculate fair normalization for • Database Management chargeback. • Operation and Workload Automation BoxScore II finds steadily growing performance • L1 & L2 Mainframe support. issues, which performance management and capacity management solutions can’t.

Hexaware Technologies

Heitech Managed Services Sdn Bhd Address: H5, Sipcot IT Park, Navallur Post, Kancheepuram District Address: Chennai, Tamil Nadu 603103, India HeiTech Village 2,No 1, Jalan Astaka U8/81, Section U8, Phone: 044 4745 1000 40150 Shah Alam, Selngor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia Web: www.hexaware.com Phone: 60193106462 Email: [email protected] Activity: Consultancy Web: www.heitech.com.my Specialist areas: System management; data management; programming/testing; other Activity: System integrator Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS Specialist areas: System management; data Non-mainframe platforms supported: AIX, other Unix, management; storage management; programming/testing; Linux web integration and legacy reengineering tools; network Pricing options: Other performance/management Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, VM/VSE, zLinux Company profile Non-mainframe platforms supported: IBM i, AIX, other Hexaware is a global provider of IT and Process Unix, Linux, Windows outsourcing services. We focus exclusively on maximizing Pricing options: One-time charge, processor/capacity- client returns from outsourcing and off-shoring. We have based, workload/usage based. extensive experience in managing large IT applications in real time as well as in providing high value services Company profile around packaged enterprise applications such as SAP and HeiTech Managed Services, a subsidiary of a HeiTech PeopleSoft. 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 HORIZONT on System Integration business, developing applications on COBOL, C/C++, Java, on mainframe and non- Address: mainframe platform. Garmischer Str. 8, 80339 Munich, Germany We have been the IBM Mainframe market leader since Phone: +49 89 540 162 0 the 80’s. Our major customers ranges from Financial and Email: [email protected] Government such as National Unit Trust Board, Inland Web: www.horizont-it.com Revenue Board, Immigration, Road Transport, National Registration. Sales contacts: America [email protected] 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.

Activity: Software vendor Hostbridge Technology Specialist areas: System management; storage management; asset and change management Address: Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS 100 E. 7th Avenue, Stillwater, OK 74074, USA Non-mainframe platforms supported: AIX, other Unix, Phone: +1 405.533.2900 Linux, Windows, other Email: info@ hostbridge.com Pricing options: Monthly/annual license, processor/ Web: www. hostbridge.com capacity-based, other Activity: Software vendor Company profile Specialist areas: Web integration and legacy HORIZONT is a software development company located reengineering tools; in Munich, Germany. The company was founded in 1993 Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS as R.O.S.E. by three OPC (TWS) consultants. Due to legal Pricing options: Monthly/annual license, processor/ conflicts, the name was changed to HORIZONT in 1997. capacity-based The company’s first product was OPC/Graph (now TWS/ Graph), net plan display software for TWS, which was Company profile developed together with IBM Germany. With more than HostBridge exploits the best tools and technologies IBM 150 customers worldwide, it has become the de facto System z has to offer, and adopts the most flexible, open standard for TWS compatible software. Additional products standards to develop the highest-performance, highest- include TWS/BatchAD, TWS/BatchCP and TWS/Audit, fidelity integration software for the mainframe customer. rounding off the TWS product line. An IBM Business Partner, HostBridge regularly consults and collaborates with the z/OSŽ team and the CICS group With the introduction of XINFO in 1997 (SmartIS in the at IBM Hursley. HostBridge is a CICS Beta Partner and US in 1999), HORIZONT took a big step into a much certified in the Ready for Rational program. wider market. XINFO (SmartIS in USA) integrates with schedulers other than TWS, for example CA-7, CA- Product/service information Scheduler, APM, Control-M or ZEKE. In 2002 HORIZONT Enterprises use HostBridge software solutions to create released DSN/Change and SmartJCL, which are web services from CICS applications and data, simplifying completing the product line. And since 2003 HORIZONT integration with middle-tier applications and technologies has a new ground-breaking product: TWS/WebAdmin Web services created with HostBridge are easy to develop, fast to deploy, durable, and high-performing because they Product/service information do not rely on screen scraping technology. 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, I/S Management Strategies Control-M, ZEKE, SMF, RMM, CA-1, COBOL, PL/I and much more. 100 satisfied customers worldwide! Address: 4942 N Hollywood Avenue, Whitefish Bay, WI 53217, USA SmartJCL - The Easy Way to Faultless JCL. Phone: +1 414 332-3062 SmartJCL is a new JCL checker. It offers an integrated Email: [email protected] scheduler interfaces, reformat functions, batch mode and Web: www.sherkow.com much more. Activity: Consultant DSN/Change - The Dataset Renaming System Specialist areas: System management If you want to carry out file name migration under z/OS Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS automatically, reliably and at low cost, DSN/Change is the Pricing options: One-time charge, monthly/annual right tool for your data center. license, other

TWS Products - especially designed for TWS (Tivoli Company profile Workload Scheduler). Al Sherkow is a capacity planning and performance These products are especially designed for TWS, you consultant at I/S Management Strategies and author of cannot not use them if you are running schedulers other the LPAR Capacity and Software Usage Analysis Tool than IBM’s TWS. (LCS). Al is a recognized industry expert regarding the TWS/WebAdmin, TWS/Graph, TWS/Audit, TWS/BatchAD, configuration and planning of processors and PR/SM and TWS/BatchCP. and IBM mainframe Workload License Charges, and has

92 © Arcati Ltd, 2018 Arcati Mainframe Yearbook 20072018 Vendor Directory worked with many companies around the globe to help day operating systems support, performance and tuning, them reduce mainframe costs through efficient capacity and on-site or remote 7x24 operating system support. 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. IBM Address: Product/service information Route 100 Somers NY 10589, USA The LPAR Capacity and Software Usage Analysis (LCS) Phone: +1-914-766-4589 Software is the only tool available to assist installations Web: www.ibm.com in planning for, implementing, monitoring and leveraging IBM’s Workload License Charges (WLC). LCS reads your Sales contacts (hardware): SMF data and prepares interactive reports that can help America Ernie Fernandez +1 914 642 3713 you decrease your IBM software charges month after EMEA Martina Koederitz +33 1 41885653 month. LCS is truly unique. No other tool is available AsiaPac Sheddrick Harrison +81 3 5572 2728 that combines information about your licensed software products, analysis of utilization data, and prices to provide Sales contacts (software): near real-time estimates of your software charges. LCS America Dot Alexander +1 914 642 4952 allows sites to “tune” their IBM monthly software invoices! EMEA David Wilson +44 1256 344682 AsiaPac Erik Elzerman +65 6418 2230 Large and small sites have licensed LCS throughout the USA and the world (Australia, Canada, the Netherlands, Activity: Hardware and Software vendor. Switzerland, Turkey, and the United Kingdom). Specialist areas: System management; data management; storage management; asset and change management; security; programming/testing; web integration and legacy reengineering tools; network i3 Business Solutions LLC performance/management. Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, VM/VSE, Linux Address: Non-mainframe platforms supported: IBM i, AIX, other 5005-B Cascade RD SE, Grand Rapids, MI 49546, USA Unix, Linux, Windows Phone: +1 616 956 6888. Pricing options: One-time charge; monthly/annual [email protected]. Email: license, processor/capacity-based, workload/usage based, Web: www.i3bus.com/ other. Activity: Consultant. Specialist areas: System management; data Company profile management; storage management; asset and change Originator of mainframe technology. management; security; programming/testing Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, VM/VSE Non-mainframe platforms supported: i5, AIX, other Unix, Linux, Windows Illustro Systems International Company profile i3 Business Solutions accelerates business results by Address: integrating information solutions. We are an IBM and 1950 Stemmons Freeway, Suite 5001, Dallas, Texas Microsoft Business Partner offering products and solutions 75207, USA. for iSeries, pSeries, xSeries, and zSeries. We also offer consulting services in the manufacturing and distribution Phone: +1 214 800 8900 sectors and planning, installation, and implementation Email: [email protected] support for PM, EMR, ERP and CRM software. Web: www.illustro.com

Product/service information Activity: Software vendor. i3 Business Solutions provides a full-range of z/OS, Specialist areas: Web integration and legacy OS/390, z/VM, and VSE/ESA system programming reengineering tools services including version and release upgrades, day-to- Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, VM/VSE

Pricing options: One-time charge, monthly/annual Sales contacts: license, workload/usage-based America: +1 (888) 635-0899 EMEA: +44 (0)1628 511311 Company profile illustro Systems focus on delivering software solutions that Activity: Software vendor. empower today’s mainframe customer to lead the way with Specialist areas: Data Integration; web integration and innovation. legacy reengineering tools; Data Privacy; other Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, z/Linux We believe that web-enabling mainframe applications Non-mainframe platforms supported: AIX, other Unix, should mean return on investment in hours, not months. Linux, Windows, IBM i And our z/Web-Host product provides just that. And with Pricing options: One-time charge, monthly/annual license the rapidly emerging standard of SOA and using Web Services and XML as the method of exchanging data Company profile between computers, our z/XML-Host product delivers a Informatica Corporation (NASDAQ: INFA) is the world’s powerful yet simple solution. Our customers have their number one independent provider of data integration Internet-enabling projects in production in the same time it software. With over 3,000 employees distributed in over takes just to evaluate competitive solutions. 28 countries around the globe, Organisations can rely on Informatica to realise their information potential and Product/service information drive top business imperatives. Worldwide over 5,000 illustro’s z/Ware family of products have earned the Enterprises already depend on Informatica to fully leverage reputation of being easy. The z/Web-Host product their information assets from devices to mobile to social transforms any 3270 application, whether CICS or non- to big data residing on-premise, in the Cloud and across CICS, directly into a fully functional, web-based interface social networks. that anyone can use – all without touching the original application. And with z/XML-Host, mainframe data can Product/service information be automatically converted into XML documents and Informatica’s PowerExchange products enable data accessed via Web Services using SOAP, meaning your connectivity to many of the commonly used mainframe data and business-critical logic can be shared with any (z/OS & i/Series) data sources e.g. DB2, IMS, Adabas platform or application. This includes languages like Java etc.. Data can be delivered according to the demands of and .Net, or Web-Services-enabled platforms including the consuming applications; offering data extractions in IBM’s WebSphere and Microsoft Office. either complete batch-type accesses or “delta” updates from previous extractions delivered in Real-Time. Couple What’s more, both z/Web-Host and z/XML-Host run directly the connectivity to Informatica’s world renowned data on either z/OS (OS/390) or z/VSE (VSE/ESA), so there’s integration products and Enterprises will quickly see no need to add cost and complexity to the process by reward from any Informatica deployments. using a different, less reliable platform just to Internet- enable your mainframe. With Informatica’s PowerCenter ability to run on the IBM mainframe z/Linux platform Enterprises can, if required, And now that your mainframe data can easily be made build fully centric, mainframe based data integration available on the ‘Net, security is an important issue. That’s environments, on possibly the world’s most resilient and where our iCYA network appliance comes in. The iCYA reliable data processing architecture. PowerCenter for z/ delivers full Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protection so your Linux leverages the business-critical aspects of mainframe data is encrypted until it reaches a trusted source. 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 Informatica Corporation by providing other industry recognised (Forrester, Gartner etc.) technology products used for Data Masking, Address: Application Life Cycle Data Management, Data Quality, 2100 Seaport Blvd, Redwood City, CA 94063, USA. Data Replication as well as a complete and comprehensive Phone: +1 650 385 5000 (800-970-1179 in the USA). Master Data Management capability. Using Informatica Email: [email protected] can help enterprises extend the value of their mainframe Web: www.informatica.com investments with near-universal mainframe access and a holistic view of enterprise information, while maximizing

94 © Arcati Ltd, 2018 Arcati Mainframe Yearbook 20072018 Vendor Directory the reliability and reducing the costs of data integration INNOVATION Data Processing processing. Address: Informatica not only enables a performing and cost 275 Paterson Ave, Little Falls, NJ 07424. USA. effective data integration platform but can also help Phone: +1 973 890 7300 architect and implement an Enterprises solution by Email: [email protected] providing skilled resources either via its own highly skilled Web: www.innovationdp.com and trained Professional Services network or via its ECO system of Systems Integrators and Partners. Whatever Activity: Software vendor the need for Data Integration, Informatica has both the Specialist areas: Data management; storage solution and the skill to help Enterprises succeed. For management more information around the Informatica products portfolio Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS ,VM/VSE, Linux please refer to the Informatica Website. Non-mainframe platforms supported: AIX, other Unix, Linux, Windows, other Pricing options: One-time charge, monthly/annual license, processor/capacity-based, other

InfoSec Inc Company profile INNOVATION Data Processing has over 33 years Address: experience of providing backup/restore, non-disruptive 14001-C St. Germain Drive, Suite 809, Centreville, VA protection and storage management solutions for 20121, USA. enterprise-scale z/OS and OS/390 mainframe and open Phone: +1 703 825 1202 systems (SAN/LAN/Unix, Windows, Novell, and Linux) Email: [email protected] installations. INNOVATION partners with BMC, Compaq, Web: www.infosecinc.com Computer Associates, EMC, Hewlett-Packard, Hitachi, IBM, Informix, Lotus, Microsoft, Novell, Oracle, Red Hat, Activity: Consultant StorageTek, Sun, SuSE Linux, Sybase, Turbo Linux and Specialist areas: System management; data others. management; storage management; security; programming/testing; network performance/management INNOVATION’s prime objective in partnering with Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS ,VM/VSE, Linux software companies is interoperability and co-existence Pricing options: Monthly/annual license with operating system platforms and databases; while partnering with storage vendors allows the creation of Company profile unique solutions that provide customers with the benefits InfoSec Inc provides high-quality software and services to of advanced storage management. mainframe customers resulting in increased operational efficiencies, improved compliance and decreased costs. Product/service information Our goal is to help you to leverage your mainframe Best recognized as the provider of the Fast Dump Restore investment. (FDR) suite, INNOVATION solutions offer enterprise storage management and non-disruptive business Product/service information protection. FDRINSTANT supports Timefinder, FlashCopy, InfoSec provides mainframe consulting resources to ShadowImage and SnapShot Copy for non-disruptive help our customers continue to leverage their mainframe backup of off-line volumes. investment. Our specialty is mainframe security and compliance, but we can perform any mainframe-related IAM allows users to achieve performance enhancements services including systems programming, database and system resource savings for most applications that management, workload management, output management utilize VSAM datasets. FDRPAS provides non-disruptive and more. With all of the regulation and legislation in place volume relocation of z/OS disk volumes from one device today for compliance related initiatives, organizations need to another, while FDRERASE provides safe, secure, fast support to help them achieve that compliance. erasure of z/OS data volumes. FDR/UPSTREAM allows

© Arcati Ltd, 2018 95 Arcati Mainframe Yearbook 2018 Vendor Directory users to position the OS/390 or z/OS mainframe as a DB2 tools - www.relarc.com backup server, with additional support for zLinux. ITGain for UDB DB2 products - www.itgain.de InSoft for DB2 tools - www.insoft-software.de. 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. IntelliMagic

Address: Lokhorstraat 16, 2311 TA Leiden, The Netherlands Phone:+ 31 65 1509477 Inspired Solutions (Software) Ltd Email: [email protected] Web: www.intellimagic.com Address: 208, Moor Lane, Salford M7 3PZ, UK. Activity: Software vendor Phone:+44 (0) 161 7926540 Specialist areas: System management Email: [email protected] Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS Web: www.inspired-solutions.co.uk Non-mainframe platforms supported: IBM i, AIX, other Unix, Linux, Windows, other Activity: Software vendor Pricing options: One-time charge, monthly/annual Specialist areas: System management; data license, processor/capacity-based, other management; asset and change management; other Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS ,VM/VSE, Linux Company profile Non-mainframe platforms supported: Other Unix, Linux, IntelliMagic solutions manage the performance and Windows availability of critical IT resources such as enterprise Pricing options: One-time charge, monthly/annual storage, z/OS, and SAN infrastructure. license, processor/capacity-based, workload/usage based, other Our products perform intelligent analysis of performance and configuration data, using built-in knowledge about Company profile hardware architecture and throughput capabilities, in Save Money on the Mainframe order to protect availability. This is what we call Availability Intelligence. Inspired Solutions and Blenheim Software work together to distribute software in the UK and Ireland. Our cost-effective IntelliMagic has existed since 2002. IntelliMagic employs software covers many of the most important areas in the technical staff with deep expertise in the world of data centre for both mainframe and distributed platforms. performance analysis and capacity modeling. IntelliMagic’s products and services are being used by the world’s Several of the tools and software we supply are either the largest IT datacenters, as well as by storage hardware de facto standard for their area, or soon will be. vendors. The interaction with our customers keep us at the forefront of knowledge regarding performance Product/service information management and availability assurance. As well as performance management and capacity planning tools, we also provide XINFO, the data centre Product/service information repository; tools for TWS for zOS (OPC) and Distributed ; he focus of IntelliMagic Vision is to find and flag JCL Checking; CICS, VSAM, VTAM, and developers’ tools, infrastructure risks so that you can resolve the root causes DB2 tools, utilities and tuning for zOS & distributed. before service disruptions occur. Avoiding availability issues is both easier and cheaper than dealing with actual More details at our partners websites: problems. Naturally, IntelliMagic Vision also offers deep Enterprise Performance Vision for Performance & Capacity performance analysis and an interactive user interface Planning - www.epvtech.com that greatly reduces the time required to investigate any Horizont GmbH for TWS Products - www.horizont-it.com performance problems that could not be predicted. MacKinney for CICS, VSAM, VTAM Products - www. mackinney.com IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS reads raw RMF/CMF and Responsive Systems for DB2 Buffer Pool Tuning - www. SMF measurement data and combines this with expert responsivesystems.com knowledge about workloads and internal hardware and Relational Architects International and Insoft Software for software architecture. This is very different from classic

96 © Arcati Ltd, 2018 Arcati Mainframe Yearbook 20072018 Vendor Directory reporting tools that just show the numbers in a graphical system utilities, no batch or weekend maintenance jobs are view without showing whether something is good or bad. needed. It is also very different from ‘Analytics’, in the sense that we do not use statistics without interpretation, but detect Disk storage waste caused by over-allocation is eliminated, real hidden risks based on our internal hardware and since files are continuously and automatically groomed. architecture knowledge. RTD can be customized to meet your defragmentation needs through a variety of parameters that take effect Only with intelligent interpretation can you trust software immediately. RTD includes full support for the latest level of to be the proactive monitor for the health of your z/OS the operating system (z/OS) and EAVs. Additional options resources, without being clouded by alert storms. are available to support FlashCopy Version 2 and Preserve Mirror (Remote Pair FlashCopy).

Interskill Learning INTERCHIP AG Address: Address: 11770 Haynes Bridge Road, Suite 205 PMB 526, Elektrastrasse 6, 81925, Germany. Alpharetta, GA 30009-1970, USA. Phone: +49 89 9914 990 Phone: +1 770-872-4278 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Web: www.interchip-software.com/. Web: www.interskill.com

Sales contacts: Sales contacts: America: +1 800 225 5224. EMEA: +44 1625 441120 EMEA: + 44 1753 577733. AsiaPac: +61 3 8796 8400, AsiaPac: [email protected]; Singapore: 65 6337 2822. Activity: Education Specialist areas: System management; data Activity: Software vendor. management; storage management; asset and change Specialist areas: Storage management. management; security; programming/testing; web Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS. integration and legacy reengineering tools; network Pricing options: One-time charge, monthly/annual performance/management; other license, processor/capacity-based, workload/usage based Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS ,VM/VSE, Linux on System z Company profile Non-mainframe platforms supported: IBM i, AIX, Unix, INTERCHIP AG with international headquarters based in Linux Munich, Germany, was founded in 1987. Pricing options: Monthly/annual license The company is privately held and provides enterprise- wide, multi-platform solutions for the optimization of Company profile complex IT environments. Interskill Learning develops and delivers the global Mainframe Computing Industry’s ONLY comprehensive In addition to representing selected software companies curriculum of self-paced elearning! Our learning designs in Germany, Switzerland and Austria, INTERCHIP AG are informed by contemporary learning theory and are develops its own market-leading products. INTERCHIP interactive, contextualized and responsive to diverse AG’ s flagship product, RealTime Defrag (RTD), is currently learning styles. We believe in immersing learners in in daily use at some of the largest banks, insurance relevant authentic activities designed to motivate, engage, companies and government agencies worldwide. and produce quantifiable change. Utilized by Thousands of Mainframe Computing Organizations. Over a Million Product/service information Mainframers Trained! RealTime Defrag (RTD) is a proven product in use since 1995 that eliminates DASD fragmentation and the need for Product/service information over-allocation of disk space thereby avoiding x37 abends Interskill’s broad spectrum, Mainframe Specific curriculum and out-of-space conditions. Running continuously and of self-paced elearning courses gives your Mainframe efficiently in the background, RTD quickly reorganizes disk Computing Workforce 12 months unlimited access to over files, recovering available storage space and eliminating 250 online IBM z Systems and Power Systems courses, file and DASD fragmentation. Unlike standard operating to mainframe job-role based Learning Road Maps, to

Mainframe Skills Assessments, to Training Analytics & Email: [email protected] Reporting, and to Tools for quick & easy development of Web: www.isi.com.au your own in-house mainframe Classes/Webinars. This 21st century mainframe training solution delivers superior Activity: Integrator quality training and dramatically cuts training costs for the Specialist areas: System management; storage world’s premier mainframe computing organizations! Over management a Million Mainframers Trained! Hundreds of Millions of Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, z/Linux Dollars Saved! Non-mainframe platforms supported: AIX, distributed Linux, Windows

Company profile ISI is one of the most successful and enduring IT players in the Australian business sector. With a focus on outcomes, ISAM (Information Systems our success stems from a company-wide commitment to Asset Management) fulfilling customer needs and leveraging new technologies.

Address: In 1995, ISI became the first IBM zSeries reseller in 4152 North River Run, Minneapolis, MN 55044, USA Australia and New Zealand. Today we remain the only IBM Phone: +1 952 322 4726 Premier Partner operating in the System z market and is Email: [email protected] at the forefront of the next wave of ‘Large Scale Server Web: www.isamgroup.com Deployments’ utilising Open Systems on System z – the most reliable, scalable and cost effective ‘Business Class’ Activity: Consultant. computing platform in the world. ISI also sells and supports Specialist areas: Other the complete range of IBM products including Power and Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, VM/VSE, z/Linux System x Servers, software, storage and support services. Non-mainframe platforms supported: System i, AIX, distributed Unix, Linux, Windows, other Pricing options: Other,

Company profile iTech-Ed Ltd Founded in 1996, ISAM specializes in helping procurement, vendor management, and data center Address: managers reduce overall software expenses and iTech-Ed House, 16 Brinkworth Close, Chippenham, Wilts compliance risk. GreenBook, the software industry’s SN14 0TL, UK largest and most comprehensive database by ISAM Phone: +44 1249 443256. contains more than 100 million software cost, product Email: [email protected]. usage and categorization data points from over 800 Web: www.itech-ed.com. software vendors across 1,000 data centers worldwide. Armed with the knowledge of the actual software costs Activity: Consultant. paid by data centers like yours, GreenBookSM provides Specialist areas: System management; data the backbone for numerous applications to guide data management; storage management; asset and change centers to best in class software pricing. management; security; web integration and legacy reengineering tools; network performance/management; Product/service information other IBM Audit support, Software Vendor Negotiation, Data Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS Center Optimization. Non-mainframe platforms supported: AIX, Windows

Company profile iTech-Ed Ltd provides a source of highly technical information and expertise for people using IBM ISI Pty Ltd mainframes, servers, the Internet, mid-range computers, PCs, and tablet devices. iTech-Ed provides consultancy Address: on a wide variety of mainframe-related areas, produces Level 1, 645 Harris Street, Ultimo, New South Wales 2007, technical articles and White Papers on current trends Australia in computing, performs software reviews, writes up Phone: +61 2 8905 8900 research in technical areas, and edits marketing copy

98 © Arcati Ltd, 2018 Arcati Mainframe Yearbook 20072018 Vendor Directory to avoid ambiguities and eliminate any technical errors. internals, enterprise architecture, and we have extensive The company can also provide in-house training (with experience with the mainframe ESMs (RACF, CA- documentation) in a variety of mainframe-related areas, as ACF2, and CA-Top Secret). The Key Resources Team well as Microsoft Office 365 training. iTech-Ed also designs understands how hackers think, we understand the and creates modern-looking Web sites using, for example, security risks that threaten z Systems, and we know how JQuery, that fit W3C standards. to mitigate those risks at in-depth levels of the operating system using our knowledge and our sophisticated More recently, iTech-Ed has been helping organizations software to find zero day vulnerabilities. with their social media policies and a very hands-on approach has seen companies produce Facebook pages, Product/service information produce well-supported Twitter feeds, and make the best z/Assure® Vulnerability Analysis Program (VAP) is the only use of YouTube. security software product that scans for and identifies zero day vulnerabilities in mainframe operating system (OS) CEO Trevor Eddolls’ work in the mainframe community has code. z/Assure® VAP is a crucial component to a complete been recognized and was awarded the prestigious title of mainframe risk mitigation program. IBM Champion every year between 2009 and 2016. z/Assure® Compliance Assessment Manager (CAM) Popular blogs can be found at it.toolbox.com/blogs/ automates the review of z/OS Security Server mainframe-world/ and the Destination z Web site. Articles configurations against global standards and an have appeared regularly in technical journals and on Web organizations internal policies. CAM enables an sites. organization to demonstrate compliance to their security policy through baselining. Since 2004 iTech-Ed Ltd has offered motivational training for staff as well as help with personal development and life KRI’s Integrity Assessment Services (IAS) focus on coaching. the vulnerability of the mainframe operating system. Automated scanning tools (e.g. z/Assure VAP) are the primary vehicle for this type of assessment. Our services help companies’ rapidly identify and remediate critical zero-day vulnerabilities and build disconnected security processes into ongoing, policy-based governance. Key Resources Inc KRI’s Compliance Assessment Services (CAS) provide Address: a proven and tested methodology for assessing ESM 36467 S. Nathan Hale Drive, Lake Villa, IL 60046, USA environments against current security standards and Phone: +1-800-574-1339 internal security policies. This service focuses on the Email: [email protected] security of the ESM and the security configuration Web: www.krisecurity.com parameters. This assessment will answer the following types of questions: Activity: Software vendor • Are security parameters in sync with the corporate Specialist areas: Security security policy? Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, • Do users have appropriate access? Pricing options: One-time charge; monthly/annual • Is audit logging correct for the level of access given to license; capacity-based, workload/usage based privileged authorities?

Company profile KRI is an experienced and versatile provider of mainframe information security services and software. We have the highest levels of expertise in consulting with clients on how to apply and implement security standards and best L3C Ltd practices for z/OS Security Server, as well as in evaluating operational security policies. Address: 25 Sackville Street, London W1S 3AX, UK The benefit to KRI clients is maximized by the profound Phone: +44 0203 542 0870. technical knowledge and long-standing IT security Email: [email protected] background of our consultants. Our team is comprised of Web: www.l3cllp.com individuals who know z/OS internals. We are technologists with years of experience in mainframe operating system

Activity: Outsourcer Latuz LLC Specialist areas: Web integration and legacy reengineering tools; other Address: Mainframe platforms supported: Linux 20533 Biscayne Blvd, Suite 311, Aventura, FL 33180, USA Non-mainframe platforms supported: IBM i, AIX, Phone: +1 (305) 851-2807. distributed Unix, Linux, Windows Email: [email protected] Web: www.latuz.com

Company profile Activity: Consultant L3C Limited specialise in cloud/hosting AIX, Unix (Solaris, Specialist areas: System management; data HPUX), Linux and Linux on Z environments from our UK management; storage management; asset and change data centres. We can provide short term solutions for PoCs management; security; network performance/management; as well as dev/test. DR and production environments all other supported by strong SLAs and 24x7 service desk. We Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, VM/VSE, Linux, connect to public clouds such as AWS and Azure giving other you a hybrid solution. Our blockchain and Linux experience Non-mainframe platforms supported: IBM i, Linux makes us an ideal choice to deploy your blockchain Pricing options: other network on LinuxOne systems in our data centres while our heritage in MQ and broker means we can support Company profile complex deployments with upgrades, redesign or ongoing We started this company in 2005 because we want to maintenance. We are an official IBM Power Cloud partner. make the world a better place by using our skills to help companies adopt, expand and optimize the use of IBM Product/service information mainframes, since we believe they are the most advanced, Linux on Z offers significant licence savings for SW with modern, powerful and efficient computers in the world. core based pricing methodology such as Oracle DB and This is why our team has been working with mainframes IBM Middleware. We can: for over 30 years, and why we believe that by helping • Plan & implement z/VM installations to host Linux on Z customers make the best use of this energy efficient, green • Plan & implement Linux on Z installations on bare IFLs platform, we can improve the world we are living in. • Monitor z/VM and Linux on Z 24x7 Product/service information IBM MQ and Integration Bus (Message Broker) We specialize in mainframe services, including system We can design, implement, deploy and maintain Enterprise programming, development, migrations and conversions, Service Bus systems based on IBM MQ and IBM and project management. Our skills cover every subsystem Integration Bus (Message Broker). available on the z Systems platform, and every operating • Planning and creating an architecture and design of system currently supported. an ESB, from single Queue Manager installation to large heterogeneous systems that include multiple IBM Integration Bus installations, protocols and systems distributed across different locations. • Implementation of new IBM Integration Bus and IBM Levi Ray & Shoup Inc MQ installations. Building Highly Available installations Address: using different cluster technologies including Microsoft 2401 West Monroe Street, Springfield, Illinois, USA Cluster Services, Power HA, Linux clustering solutions, Phone: 217 793 3800. and different solutions for Linux on Z. Email: [email protected] • Redesign and upgrade of existing IBM Integration Bus Web: www.lrs.com and IBM MQ installations including version upgrade of 24x7 productions systems and retrofitting DR and HA Sales contacts: capabilities. EMEA: +44 1242 537500, [email protected], Regent House, • Monitoring and maintenance of 24x7 production Rodney Road, Cheltenham, Glos, GL50 1HX, UK. installations AsiaPac: [email protected]. • Design and development of new Message Flows. Maintenance, redesign, and upgrade of existing Message Flows.

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Activity: Software vendor Logicalis UK Specialist areas: System management; security Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, VM/VSE, Linux, Address: other 110 Buckingham Avenue, Slough, Berks SL1 4PF, UK Non-mainframe platforms supported: OS/400, AIX, Phone: +44 (0) 01753 777200 other Unix, Linux, Windows Email: [email protected] Pricing options: One-time charge, monthly/annual Web: www.logicalis.com license, processor/capacity based, workload/usage based Activity: Integrator Company profile Specialist areas: System management; data Since 1981, Levi, Ray & Shoup, Inc. has been providing management; storage management; asset and change software solutions that help customers save money, management; security; web integration and legacy improve business productivity, and provide assured reengineering tools; network performance/management delivery of business-critical documents. Ninety-five percent of the Fortune 100 companies trust LRS solutions to Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, VM/VSE, z/Linux deliver their most critical documents. Non-mainframe platforms supported: System i, AIX, other Unix, Linux, Windows Product/service information Pricing options: One-time charge, monthly/annual VPS and VPS/TCPIP. The VPS software suite manages, licence, processor/capacity based, workload/usage based monitors and delivers documents to network destinations through the organization. Originally designed for VTAM- Company profile controlled SNA networks, LRS added TCP/IP functionality Logicalis is an international IT solutions and managed and pioneered the migration of enterprise printing to the services provider with a breadth of knowledge and TCP/IP network protocol. The VPS solution offers web- expertise in communications and collaboration; data centre based monitoring and control, enabling administrators, and cloud services; and managed services. operators and end users to control production printing. Logicalis employs nearly 3,700 people worldwide, including VPS/Secure. VPS/Secure offer encrypted distribution highly trained service specialists who design, specify, of confidential documents from host to printer or host to deploy and manage complex ICT infrastructures to meet host. It uses the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), the needs of almost 6,000 corporate and public sector supporting the exchange of encrypted data between customers. To achieve this, Logicalis maintains strong Windows, Unix and z/OS mainframes. partnerships with technology leaders such as Cisco, HP, IBM, CA Technologies, NetApp, Microsoft, VMware and VPS/E Mail. This expands the print distribution channel to ServiceNow. include direct e-mail delivery from the host. The Logicalis Group has annualised revenues of $1.6 VPS/PDF. VPS/PDF provides dynamic conversion of billion, from operations in Europe, North America, Latin AFP documents to Portable Document Format (PDF) for America and Asia Pacific, and is fast establishing itself delivery via e-mail, web or file. as one of the leading IT and Communications solution integrators, specialising in the areas of advanced DRS captures, manages and controls documents technologies and services. 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, DRS/Output Manager. With DRS/Output Manager, SAP with revenues of over $5 billion. R/3 users gain full control over document printing, along with feedback on print status, without leaving the SAP app. Product/service information Logicalis are skilled in infrastructure and new workload PageCenter. PageCenter archives documents received planning, Linux and Websphere implementations, software from VPS for secure viewing with web browsers on multiple migrations, performance and capacity assessments, platforms. systems programming, security audits and sub-capacity

Workload License Charge (WLC) management. Beginners’briefings, or provide other training and We also provide customised briefings for System z clients. assistance you require. 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. Looksoftware We assist you in procuring the best in class IBM mainframe hardware and software solutions, and then provide Address: the integration services to roll these into your existing 9/622 Ferntree Gullu Road, Wheeler’s Hill, Melbourne, environments and provide insight for future IT planning. Australia Phone: 61 3 9535 4444. Email: [email protected] Web: www.looksoftware.com Longpela Expertise Sales contacts: Address: America: 678-354-1094, [email protected] 1 Lilly Street, South Fremantle WA 6162, Australia EMEA: 61 3 9535 4444, [email protected] Phone: +61 404 757 821 AsiaPac: 61 3 9535 4444, [email protected]. Email: [email protected] Web: www.longpelaexpertise.com.au Activity: Software vendor Specialist areas: Web integration and legacy Activity: Consultant reengineering tools Specialist areas: System management; programming/ Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, VM/VSE testing Non-mainframe platforms supported: IBM i, AIX, Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS Windows Pricing options: Other Pricing options: One-time charge, monthly/annual license, processor/capacity based, workload/usage based Company profile We have provided mainframe technical and systems Company profile programming services since 1992. We help companies Dynamic application modernization and integration with mainframe problems, projects and plans throughout solutions for customers and application vendors. Our Australia and South Asia. We have over 20 years on-the-fly architecture automates the modernization experience in System z mainframes and related systems process, requiring no changes to your back-end System z software including z/OS, CICS, and IMS. applications.

We also contribute to the mainframe community with free Front-end modernization supporting: articles on our website, our book “What On Earth is a • Rich, thin and mobile multi-channel GUIs Mainframe”, and the mainframe software website www. • Integration with virtually any desktop, web and back- lookupmainframesoftware.com. end application • Delivery of core applications in popular UIs like Outlook Product/service information and Google Longpela Expertise offer three service ‘streams’: • Integration with most portals 1 Systems services. Our consultants can cover for • Offline support. systems programmers on leave, perform Assembler programming projects, assist with skills such as dump Back-end modernization supporting: reading and performance analysis, or simply add an • Creation of SOA compliant Web services from extra resource to get a project moving. unchanged back-end applications 2 Mainframe Consulting. General Mainframe technical • Two-way Web services support advice to groups such as auditors, managers, and • DDM, ADO, RPC, 5250, 3270 support. non-mainframe technical people. We can answer your Mainframe questions, provide advice on the mainframe Composite Solutions Environment: sector, and help you control your project. From a one • Supports on-the-fly delivery of new solutions hour phone call to longer term on-site projects, we can • Assemble composite application components with provide an expert to use when and where you need. external applications and services. 3 Training. We can provide a mentor for junior systems programmers, perform fast ‘Mainframes for

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Product/service information Company profile *Developer Product Suite* Founded in 1994, LUMINEX is a leading developer and newlook provider of disk-based mainframe virtual tape products Dynamic generation of smart, thin and mobile user and technologies. LUMINEX Channel Gateways allow interfaces (UIs). Use newlook to rapidly webface and mainframe enterprise users around the world to take full create new UI’s. Access 5250/3270 applications from advantage of the benefits of Modern Mainframe Virtual virtually any front-end including: Outlook, SharePoint, Tape to eliminate or reduce physical tape, improve RTO Notes, WebSphere, Google, Apple iPhone, PDAs, rich and RPO, lower capital and operating costs and improve clients, AJAX, .Net, and Java, etc. data security. With the LUMINEX Channel Gateways, enterprises can now have a single backup and recovery soarchitect program for their mainframe and open systems data. Creates web services from modules of code within existing applications. Provides a complete solution for re-using, Product/service information extending and integrating your existing applications. The Channel Gateway enables mainframe customers to Heterogeneous database access and web services channel attach industry leading and proven open systems consumption make multi-platform integration easy. enterprise storage solutions. The Channel Gateway supports both FICON, up to 8Gb/s, and ESCON channel *Deployment Product Suite* connectivity. Existing mainframe backup software simply lookserver sees the Channel Gateway as a recognized mainframe It enables customers to access iSeries applications tape device. No software changes are required. from any device that supports a browser, or from mobile devices including PDAs. Channel Gateway Enhancement Options: • LTMON brings mainframe console integration to thinclient Channel Gateway Modern Mainframe Virtual Tape Zero deployment UIs are best suited to external users solutions. like partners and customers. Support for most popular • RepMon provides real-time monitoring of virtual browsers running Linux, Mac or Windows makes thin tape data writes and replication to a remote disaster clients an easy option for instant global access. recovery site. • SyncCopy enforces tape data consistency across mobileclient Channel Gateway-attached replicated storage More and more employees are on the road using wireless systems and provides remote status monitoring of tape devices such as web pads, PDAs, and phones. availability and integrity. • HA-Grid provides fully redundant local storage of virtual smartclient tape data, with automated failover for high-availability Suits knowledge workers needing smart/rich client support operations, leveraging the capabilities of both including high performance, advanced UI support (such as SyncCopy and LTMON. datagrids, tree controls and many more), offline support, desktop integration, web services consumption and LUMINEX also offers non-disruptive tape and data database access. No touch deployment and automated migration service. Migration from your aging tape and updates make smartclient deployment a breeze. backup infrastructure to the modern LUMINEX solution is easy and automated.

Luminex Software Inc MacKinney Systems Inc Address: 871 Marlborough Avenue, Riverside, CA 92507, USA Address: Phone: +1 951 781 4100. 4411 East State Highway D, Suite F, Springfield, MO Email: [email protected] 65809, USA Web: www.luminex.com Phone: +1 417 882 8012 Email: [email protected]. Activity: Software vendor. Web: www.mackinney.com. Specialist areas: Storage management Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, VM/VSE, Activity: Software vendor Pricing options: One-time charge, monthly/annual Specialist areas: System management; storage license, workload/usage based management; asset and change management; security management; programming/testing

Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, VM/VSE Productivity-enhancing tools: Pricing options: One-time charge, monthly/annual • MacKinney Batch to CICS gets your batch processing license, processor/capacity-based, on the fast track! Close and open files, dynamically allocate and unallocate files, send CEMT commands. Company profile • SimpList is a powerful and highly productive mainframe Since 1980 MacKinney Systems, a member of IBM interface that makes ISPF much easier to learn and PartnerWorld and SHARE, has been the industry leader use. in top-quality, low-cost mainframe software. MacKinney • VTAM/Switch allows users to switch between VTAM products are compatible with all IBM-supported releases of applications without logging on and off, and provides z/OS, VSE and CICS. single sign-on to applications.

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 Macro 4 charges and maintenance fees. Our highly applauded Address: support is second to none, delivered by individuals The Orangery, Turners Hill Road, Worth, Crawley, West who know the code and have worked in the production Sussex, RH10 4SS, UK environment. 417 882 8012 is answered 24/7 by a live Phone: +44 1293 872000 person. Email: [email protected] Web: www.macro4.com We participate in IBM’s Early Test Programs and Technical Disclosure Meetings to ensure our products are compatible Sales contacts: with new versions of z/OS, VSE and CICS as they become America: +1 800 766 6224 [email protected] generally available from IBM. EMEA: +44 1293 872000 [email protected] AsiaPac: +44 1293 872000 [email protected] Product/service information CICS upgrade assistance: Activity: Software vendor • VS/Cobol Interpreter allows programs written and Specialist areas: System management; data compiled with OS/VS COBOL to execute in CICS management; asset and change management; Transaction Server 3.1 and above. programming/testing; web integration and legacy • Macro Level Interpreter allows running macro- reengineering tools; other level code in z/OS or VSE versions of CICS TS Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, VM/VSE, zLinux environments without any coding changes. Non-mainframe platforms supported: IBM i, AIX, Unix, Linux, Windows Cost-effective printing solutions: Pricing options: One-time charge, monthly/annual • JES Report Broker manages the access, distribution license, processor/capacity-based, workload/usage based, and archival of reports. Archive reports for viewing via other web browser. E-mail and FTP reports securely. • MacKinney Print Transform is a server product that Company profile provides document transformation services for client Macro 4, a division of UNICOM Global, develops software products. solutions that accelerate business transformation. Our • ES Queue for Printers prints any report from the solutions for application lifecycle management, session system spool to printers defined to VTAM or TCP/ management and performance optimization are used by IP. Supports LPD and Direct Socket. Interfaces with many of the world’s largest enterprises to modernize their Solimar Systems and Xerox. mainframe applications and development processes. • VTAM Virtual Printer captures existing VTAM Our cross-platform enterprise information management application (CICS, IMS, etc) print and creates a report solutions make it easy for companies to go digital, in the system spool without any programming changes. personalize customer communications and unlock the value of their corporate content. Simplified program testing and debugging: • Track is an online testing and debugging product for With over forty-five years’ experience in mainframe CICS application programs. Detects and corrects software development, Macro 4 helps IBM mainframe multiple errors in a single debugging session. users to: • XRAY provides the same capabilities for batch • Analyze and fix failures in mission-critical applications, applications. quickly and efficiently • Dump Detective solves program abends by automatically formatting and analyzing CICS dumps. 104 © Arcati Ltd, 2018 Arcati Mainframe Yearbook 20072018 Vendor Directory

• Develop software, troubleshoot problems and resolve Mainstorconcept GmbH program errors with unprecedented speed • Create a secure testing and debugging environment Address: using accurate test data Fiduciastr. 2, 76227 Karlsruhe, Germany • Measure and report on application performance, quickly Phone: +49 721790760 identifying opportunities for performance improvement Email: [email protected] • Deliver fast, secure web and mobile access to Web: www.mainstorconcept.de mainframe applications • Assure printing and digital delivery of business Activity: Hardware vendor documents to support key business processes Specialist areas: System management; data management; storage management; asset and change Product/service information management; programming/testing; other Macro 4 is developer of software solutions that increase Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, VM/VSE, Linux operational efficiency in IBM’s mainframe environments Non-mainframe platforms supported: Unix, Linux, and enable rapid modernization of mainframe applications Windows, other and development processes. Today, these solutions are Pricing options: One-time charge, monthly/annual delivering significant cost savings as well as assuring license, processor/capacity-based, workload/usage based, the reliability of core applications in thousands of IT other. departments globally. Eclipse, browser and 3270 interfaces meet the access needs of every user. Company profile mainstorconcept GmbH is an IT consultancy company Fault analysis: and one of the leading specialists for mainframes and • DumpMaster – high performance fault diagnosis of tape virtualisation. Mainstorconcept provides individual mainframe application failures solutions for mainframes, virtual tape and storage. Our • TraceMaster – source level interactive program testing core business are virtual tape libraries for mainframes. Our and debugging customers are large and medium-size companies from all • TraceMaster CodeTrack – CICS code path analysis business fields, insurance companies, banks and public and pre-emptive storage violation detection sector companies. Beside in Germany mainstorconcept has project experience in ten European countries and in Application performance management: the USA. • FreezeFrame – comprehensive, yet easy-to-use application performance measurement Product/service information • ExpeTune – performance tuning for z/OS applications mainstorconcept provides professional consulting services and subsystems in all IBM Mainframe Operating Systems, including • ExpeTune DB – DB2 performance management, with a installation, customization and maintenance tasks. From strong focus on dynamic DB2 workloads Mainframe Hardware perspective, mainstorconcept focuses on Mainframe Virtual Tape Library solutions Data Manipulation: from DELL EMC. Our expertise contains more than 60 • InSync – simplified data management and secure test successful installations throughout the world, at customer data creation of different branches, different operating systems and different size. Session management: • Tubes – secure access to multiple mainframe, IBM i Further mainstorconcept develops software solutions and UNIX VT220 applications from a single menu, with for IBM System z, including multiplatform access to the optional web enablement of any application Mainframe (e.g. Android, Linux). Further we offer custom software add-ons for MDL and DLm devices, like tape Enterprise information management management software, reporting and statistic modules, • Columbus suite – content management, multi-channel WORM features or all kind of write out functionalities (e.g. customer communications and document workflow. USB drives or tape out). We also provide customized

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As our employees are also experts in Mainframe Emulation IT Staffing Services: Maintec’s IT staffing services offer Solutions, we can support migrating old Mainframe the hassle free way of recruiting qualified and trained installations and performing Mainframe Disk and Tape offshore resources in IBM Mainframe platforms through Migrations onto new platforms. 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.

Maintec Technologies Corporate Training Services: Maintec offers training across the verticals with programs exclusively designed Address: for corporate clientele; their training program covers IBM 8311 Brier Creek Pkwy, Suite 105 – 513, Raleigh, NC mainframe, midrange, Microsoft and web technologies. 27617, USA Customized training solutions and tools enhance corporate Phone: +1 919 424 6323 associates’ core competencies and skill sets. The training Email: [email protected]. program boosts the overall productivity of the corporate Web: www.maintec.com. courtesy the ProEd-trained workforce that easily diagnoses any problem. Activity: Outsourcer Specialist areas: System management; data management On-site & Off-Shore Projects: With worldwide locations in Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, VM/VSE, z/Linux the U.S., UK, Philippines and an off-shore development Non-mainframe platforms supported: IBM i, AIX center in Bangalore, India, and offices in Noida, Pune, and Chennai, Maintec offers comprehensive on-site Company profile and off-shore project solutions. Maintec couples data Maintec Technologies provides a range of services such as center management services and IT staffing solutions to data center management, IT staffing, including the popular give clients an unparalleled advantage. With over 600+ Hire Train Deploy solution; corporate training services and consultants, Maintec has capabilities to provide project on-site/off-shore project management. Maintec is also support on various technologies: SAP, Oracle, Peoplesoft, uniquely positioned to service customer requirements by Java and .net technologies. 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, Marist College the need to train the next generation of mainframe developers and systems programmers is becoming critical. Address: Therefore, Maintec helps businesses with large mainframe 3399 North Rd, Poughkeepsie, NY 12601, USA installations reduce data center management total cost Phone: 845-575-3588 of operation and overcome resourcing challenges by Email: [email protected] providing well-trained talent. Web: idcp.marist.edu/learnzos

Maintec’s ability to train employees with “skills on demand” Activity: Education. is a key value Maintec offers its clients. Maintec coined Specialist areas: other the term “Hire Train Deploy”, a concept solution bridging Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS the gap between industry needs and skills available Non-mainframe platforms supported: AIX, other in the general market. Maintec’s four service offerings complement each other thus providing a comprehensive Company profile solution to its clients. The Institute for Data Center Professionals (IDCP) at Marist College offers convenient, affordable, 100% online, Product/service information asynchronous certificate programs covering topics that are Data Center Management: Maintec’s Mainframe relevant to professionals working in data center operations industry knowledge is a perfect blend of on-site and and/or enterprise computing environments. Courses are offshore resources, offering comprehensive datacenter 106 © Arcati Ltd, 2018 Arcati Mainframe Yearbook 20072018 Vendor Directory taught by academic professionals and industry experts, Activity: Software vendor some of whom have had a hand in developing the Specialist areas: System management; data technology. Full curriculum for z/OS system and application management; storage management; asset and change programmers. management; security; programming/testing; web integration and legacy reengineering tools; network Product/service information performance/management; other We offer three levels of education for the z/OS systems Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, VM/VSE, Linux programmer. Non-mainframe platforms supported: IBM i, AIX, other z/OS Associate, Professional and Expert Tracks - each Unix, Linux, Windows, other comprised of three courses delivered fully online Pricing options: One-time charge, monthly/annual For the application programmer, we offer COBOL, IMS, license, processor/capacity-based, workload/usage based, Assembler and DB2 tracks each comprised of three other courses delivered fully online. We also offer a 2-course Company profile certificate covering AIX on Power. 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 Matter of Fact Software deployment tools significantly improve the efficiency of business application delivery, IT leaders to transform their Address: z System environment. 60 Old Town, Peebles, Scottish Borders EH45 8JE, UK Email: [email protected] • Dramatically increase development, testing and service Web: www.plexspy.co.uk delivery throughput. • Improve IT and business agility. Activity: Software vendor. • Make significant efficiency gains and reduce operating Specialist areas: Systems management; web integration costs. and legacy reengineering tools Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS Pricing options: Monthly/annual license

Company profile Modern Systems We create and market innovative software solutions that address business challenges. We are specialists in IBM’s Address: CICS on z/OS and provide consulting services in addition 22-30 Old Bath Road, Newbury, Berkshire RG14 1QN, UK to our software. Phone: +44 1635 32646. Email: [email protected] Product/service information Web: www.modernsystems.com. ur PlexSpy software product builds upon IBM’s CICSPlex SM to provide enhanced service management capabilities. Activity: Software vendor Our CICS JS/Server product makes it easy to design, build Specialist areas: System management; data and operate novel CICS web applications. management; web integration and legacy reengineering tools Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS Non-mainframe platforms supported: Linux, Windows Pricing options: One-time charge, monthly/annual license Micro Focus Company profile Address: Modern Systems offers products and services to help The Lawn, 22-30 Old Bath Road, Newbury, Berks RG14 customers transition from legacy systems to modern 1QN, UK platforms. What makes us different is that we take a Phone: +44 (0) 1635 32646. “lifecycle” approach, enabling customers take a phased Web: www.microfocus.com. approach to modernization that meets their business needs. Sales contacts: America: [email protected] / +1 (301) 838-5000 Product/service information EMEA: [email protected] / +44 (0) 1635 565200 Our Legacy Forensics service enables deep inventory AsiaPac: [email protected] / +65 6510 4200 and assessment of Z/OS mainframe applications written

© Arcati Ltd, 2018 107 Arcati Mainframe Yearbook 2018 Vendor Directory in COBOL, Natural, CA GEN and more. Our Mainframe • Tighter control over budget through reducing scope of DataShare service enables integration of nonrelational change mainframe databases like IDMS, ADABAS, VSAM and more with relational databases like SQL Server, DB2 and MOST Technologies offering to mainframe customers with Oracle Database, empowering true data warehousing and investment in Legacy Applications include: holistic business intelligence. Our automated conversion • Solutions technology enables COBOL, Natural and CA GEN apps to • Expertise be converted to Java or C# for use in open systems or on • Services. the mainframe. Product/service information MF-Test is a leading testing solution from MOST Technologies that was developed specifically for testing mainframe applications, databases and their supporting MOST Technologies environments. It provides automatic execution of the application testing scenarios as well as advanced reporting Address: mechanism to allow multiple tests on parallel testing 4, Haharash str., Hod-Hasharon 45244, Israel environments. Phone: +972-3-9115511. Email: [email protected]. MF-Test is a mature technology that is helping various Web: www.mosttechnologies.com. mainframe customers around the world to test their mainframe applications in a low risk, low cost environment. Sales contacts: Using MF-Test can reduce the burden out of the testing America: MOST Technologies, Inc, 400 Northridge Road, phase, so resources can focus on keep developing the Suite 250, Atlanta, GA 30350, USA, Tel: (678) 420-7470. applications. AsiaPac: MOST Technologies Japan K.K.#301 1-14- 16 Nishiazabu, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan, 106-0031, Tel: MF-Test capabilities: (81) 3 5412-8662, Fax: (81) 3 5412-8664, Email: info@ • Multiple isolated test environments – Enable parallel mosttechnologies.co.jp. testing for a larger number of testing scenarios • Smart and flexible pre/post change comparisons – Activity: Software vendor Ensuring that the application outcome remains exactly Specialist areas: Programming/testing; web integration the same after the application modifications, unless a and legacy reengineering tools change is expected Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, VM/VSE, z/Linux, • Test results collection – All results are collected and other kept in a central location, for comparison and tracking Non-mainframe platforms supported: i5, AIX, other Unix, purposes Linux, Windows, other • Test auditing, control and security – For management Pricing options: One-time charge, monthly/annual of larger testing teams, located in different locations license, processor/capacity-based, workload/usage based, and testing different applications other • Central user interface – Windows based graphical user interface for tests’ creation, execution and track Company profile • Ease of use and scalability – Using standards MOST Technologies, a global leader in legacy languages for external funcationality additions. modernization, is in a unique position to address the needs of organizations with investment in mainframe application assets.

MOST’s legacy modernization offering provide the MPI Tech customer with following benefits: • Reduction in total cost of ownership related to the Address: operation of legacy applications Anchor House, 50 High Street, Bagshot, Surrey GU19 • Renew the value of legacy applications and data in new 5AW, UK services Phone: 0844 800 9801. • Improve accessibility to these application assets Email: [email protected]. real time so as to support business intelligence and Web: www.mpitech.com. customer service initiatives • Increased flexibility and interoperability with internal and external services

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Activity: Software vendor Activity: Software vendor. Specialist areas: Web integration and legacy Specialist areas: Asset and change management; reengineering tools security. Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, VM/VSE, z/Linux Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS Non-mainframe platforms supported: i5, AIX, other Unix, Pricing options: One-time charge, monthly/annual Linux, Windows, other license, processor/capacity-based Pricing options: One-time charge, monthly/annual license Company profile Company profile NewEra Software, Inc., an IBM Business Partner, was The MPI Tech Group is a leading provider of document founded in 1989 with the specific goal of developing, management and document output solutions that put the marketing and supporting innovative system management customer in charge for over 30 years. With our software software tools and services. Thanks to the continued and hardware solutions we enable customers to create, support of thousands of systems professionals worldwide print, secure, transform, distribute and archive their that have come to depend on NewEra, the company has information. become an industry leader and its products the industry standard for repair, recovery, data erasure, enhanced Our services run on multiple operating systems making system configuration control, and integrity of large it possible for our customers to manage all their paper systems. and electronic output through a coherent software and hardware platform. Product/service information The Integrity Controls Environment (ICE) is a collection Product/service information of integrated applications - Image FOCUS, The Control MPI Tech is a manufacturer and developer of mainframe Editor and IPLCheck - that are used to validate the data stream conversion software and hardware solutions ongoing integrity of the z/OS Image/Sysplex Configuration, with over thirty years of pedigree. MPI Tech’s products their major susbsystems and operational components, enable a complete end to end solution for mainframe document configuration access and changes and/ output offering a myriad of delivery options, in addition to or control/limit access to MVS and/or UNIX system printing. These include seamless interaction with existing configuration elements and provide a global access point emailing, faxing, archive, print costs accounting and from which insight can be gained into the operational secure print solutions, all without any changes to the host integrity of the Sysplex and its Images. application. MPI Tech’s products can be tailored to suit your organisations exact requirements delivering a robust, Image FOCUS provides inspection and baseline services feature rich and cost effective solution for company wide to users of z/OS. It performs a “Virtual IPL” of each Image, output. validating the IPL Unit Address, LOADPARM, PARMLIB and PROCLIB, checking members for syntactical For more information on our latest solutions including correctness and related datasets for referential integrity, MPI Tech’s print transform for z/Linux and integrating thereby alerting staff to future IPL failures. The Control host application printing into an enterprise secure printing Editor (TCE) compensates for the control and productivity structure please visit contact MPI Tech on 0044 844 800 gap that exists between a site’s External Security Manager 9803, email [email protected], or visit our website (ESM) and its Change Management System. TCE/RBAC www.mpitech.com. defines, assigns and enforces roles by enhancing role based access control already in place by the ESM. ICE/ OPER provides a secondary level of control over the use of Operator Commands and ESM Commands, thereby allowing for the establishment of higher level standards NewEra Software Inc over individual users.

Address: IPLCheck is designed to help users of z/OS to manage 18625 Sutter Boulevard, Suite 950, Morgan Hill CA 95037, and protect the integrity and security of their operating USA system environment and critical business applications. Phone: +1 408 201 7000 (or 800 421 5035 toll-free in IPLCheck works under the control of the IBM Health North America). Checker for z/ OS. It performs a detailed inspection of Email: [email protected]. an LPAR’s IPL status, reporting discovered weaknesses Web: www.newera.com. and/or structural risk in IPL components or pathing to the Health Checker. Sales contacts: Stand Alone Environment (SAE) is a self-contained, EMEA: +353 21 4832131 [email protected]. self-loading system software utility. It provides immediate

© Arcati Ltd, 2018 109 Arcati Mainframe Yearbook 2018 Vendor Directory access to system datasets through an ISPF-like editor Activity: Software vendor. without an active MVS syste. One of its tools is fast DASD Specialist areas: System management; data Erase, which allows users to erase mission-critical and/ management; programming/testing; web integration and or personal data at the end of a Disaster Recovery test or legacy reengineering tools when decommissioning DASD. Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, Linux, other Non-mainframe platforms supported: Unix, Linux, Windows, other Pricing options: Workload/usage based, other

OGS Consulting Company profile Address: Oracle has a worldwide team dedicated to modernization Suite 885, 279 Balestier Road, #01-01 Balestier Point, and migration projects – the Platform Migrations Group. Singapore 329727 This team is part of Oracle Server Technologies (Oracle Phone: +65 9626-7045 Development) and has over 300 resources worldwide. Email: [email protected] These resources are knowledgable in legacy systems Web: www.ogsconsult.com and modernization, Oracle Grid Database, Oracle Fusion Middleware, Oracle Development tools and Oracle Activity: Systems integrator Modernization Alliance partners’ tools and products. Each Specialist areas: System management; data modernization project is assigned an Oracle lead from management; storage management; asset and change the Oracle Modernization Solutions team. The team has management; security; programming/testing; web direct linkage into Oracle development, and has close integration and legacy reengineering tools; network relationships with Oracle Product Managers. performance/management Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, VM/VSE Oracle’s PTS Modernization Solutions team has been a Pricing options: Monthly/annual license, processor/ key member for hundreds of modernization project over capacity-based , workload/usage based, other the past four years. The team has engaged at a number of levels including: architecture design, modernization tools Company profile selection, modernization assessments, evaluation and OGS Consulting Pte Ltd covers Singapore, Malaysia, portfolio analysis, project scoping and estimating, proof of Thailand, and China supporting mainframe sites to provide concepts, project advisor, hands on technical enablement, training, consultancy, and legacy migration services and trusted technical advisor. The projects have been for related to the z/OS, z/VSE and iSeries platforms. OGS oth Oracle customers, Oracle System Integrator partners, also partners with principals for software distribution of Oracle Independent Software Vendor partners, and Oracle database, performance, utility tools, network and storage modernization partners. management. The projects have spanned many industries and utilized Product/service information a variety of modernization approaches. The projects have OGS provides training in the mainframe environment also encompassed many source technologies from DB2, including z/OS, JCL, VSAM, CICS, DB2, Security Audits IMS, COBOL, RPG, Adabas to PL/I, Sybase, Informix, and COBOL. Legacy migrations include migrations Powerbuilder and Assembler. between databases and/or platforms (one of which is the mainframe). Software tools include DB2 z/OS database Oracle has also been involved with 150 customer tools for performance, CICS, administration, backup/ mainframe modernization projects where Oracle BEA recovery, sorting, printing and reporting. Other tools include Tuxedo is the application serer and transaction processing storage management, tuning, and productivity add-ons and platform for legacy COBOL, CICS and JCL/batch systems. competitive replacements. Product/service information Oracle offers the only open systems active/active grid database platform. Oracle’s Database Real Application Clusters (RAC) running on clusters provides Oracle’s Oracle highest level of capability in terms of availability, scalability, Address: and low-cost computing. Oracle Database RAC supports 500 Oracle Parkway, Redwood Shores, CA, USA the transparent deployment of a single database across a Phone: +1 603-502-7635 cluster of servers, providing fault tolerance from hardware Web: www.oracle.com

110 © Arcati Ltd, 2018 Arcati Mainframe Yearbook 20072018 Vendor Directory failures or planned outages. RAC provides scalability using Import Library (PDI). With PDI you can open existing PDF any hardware, regardless if you prefer small systems or documents and incorporate some pages into the PDFlib large boxes. output.

For application relability, scalability and availability, Oracle PDFlib Personalization Server (PPS) includes PDFlib+PDI offers the Oracle WebLogic Application Grid. Oracle plus additional functions for variable data processing using WebLogic Application Grid works with any application PDFlib blocks. server – including Oracle WebLogic Server, IBM WebSphere Application Server, and JBoss Application PDFlib PLOP Server – or in a pure grid environment without an PDFlib PLOP (PDF Linearization, Optimization, Protection) application server 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. PDFlib GmbH Additionally it offers the ability to apply digital signatures to PDF documents. It supports the latest trends and Address: standards in digital signature technology including PDF Franziska-Bilek-Weg 9, 80339 Munich, Germany 2.0 according to the forthcoming standard ISO 32000-2 Phone: +49 89 452 33 84-0 and PAdES (ETSI TS 102 778), which in turn is based on Email: [email protected] CAdES (ETSI TS 101 733). Web: www.pdflib.com PDFlib TET Activity: Software vendor The PDFlib Text and Image Extraction Toolkit (TET) is a Specialist areas: Security; web integration and legacy developer product for reliably extracting text, images and reengineering tools; other metadata from PDF documents. TET optionally converts Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, Linux PDF documents to an XML-based format called TETML Non-mainframe platforms supported: IBM i, AIX, other which contains text and metadata as well as resource Unix, Linux, Windows, others information. Pricing options: One-time charge, processor/capacity- based

Company profile PDFlib GmbH is completely focused on PDF technology. Pegasystems Customers worldwide use PDFlib products since 1997. The company closely follows development and market trends, Address: such as ISO standards for PDF. PDFlib GmbH products One Rogers Street, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA. are distributed in 100 countries all over the world with Phone: +1 617-374-9600 major markets in North America, Europe, and Japan. Web: www.pega.com. Customers of PDFlib GmbH are using the software for automated and high volume generation and processing of Sales contacts: PDF documents in business and prepress workflows or for America: +1 617-374-9600. online billing systems. The development tools of PDFlib EMEA: +44 (0) 118 9591150. GmbH are readily available for all common environments AsiaPac: +61 2 9581 7000. of operating systems and programming languages. Activity: Software vendor. Product/service information Specialist areas: Programming/testing The PDFlib Product Family Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, z/Linux. PDFlib is the leading developer toolbox for generating and Non-mainframe platforms supported: IBM i, AIX, Unix, manipulating files in the Portable Document Format (PDF). Linux, Windows, other PDFlib’s main targets are dynamic PDF creation on a Web Pricing options: Monthly/annual license, workload/usage server or any other server system, and to implement “Save based, other. 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). PDFlib+PDI includes all PDFlib functions plus the PDF

Company profile Email: [email protected] Pegasystems is the only BPM company consistently Web: www.phoenixsoftware.com ranked by analysts as the industry leader for the past five years, including both Forrester and Gartner. Activity: Software vendor Specialist areas: System management; programming/ Pegasystems is furthermore a recognized leader in CRM testing, other by both Forrester and Gartner. Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, VM/VSE Non-mainframe platforms supported: Linux, Windows Product/service information Pricing options: One-time charge, monthly/annual Pega BPM, Pega CRM, Pega Healthcare Solutions, license, processor/capacity-based, other Pega Decision Management, Pega Financial Services Solutions, Pega Life Sciences Solutions, Pega Insurance Company profile Solutions, Pega Energy & Utilities Solutions, Pega Phoenix Software International, Inc. is a major systems Manufacturing Solutions, Pega Government Solutions, software development company, providing advanced Pega Communications Solutions. 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. PerfTechPro Phoenix customers range from small entrepreneurial Address: companies to major federal and state agencies to Fortune 4071 Heather Court, Northampton, PA 18067, USA. 500 leaders in the automotive, telecommunications, and Phone: +1 855 737 3832 insurance industries. Email: [email protected] Web: www.PerfTechPro.com. Phoenix has been providing software since 1979. A privately held corporation not required to provide Sales contacts: shareholders with quarterly profits, it can focus on long- America: [email protected]. range, customer-oriented projects and goals. Phoenix is EMEA: Michael W Moss [email protected]. nimble, quickly capitalizing on new hardware and software AsiaPac: [email protected]. technology with product enhancements.

Activity: Software vendor. Phoenix does business in all 50 states and around the Specialist areas: System management. world through our network of distributors. Corporate Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS. headquarters are located in the Los Angeles area of Pricing options: Monthly/annual license. California.

Company profile Product/service information Our aim is to make capacity and performance CONDOR®: A library management and program management tools for the 21st Century. development system designed for use in all z/VSE and z/ Then, make it easy for you to do business with us. OS environments.

Product/service information (E)JES®: A universal JES management interface that lets PerfTechPro zAnalytics® is an IT capacity and authorized users collect, view, and manipulate JES spool performance management tool designed specifically data, parameters, and resources. In addition to the 3270 for 21st Century data centers and cost-conscious IT interface, (E)JES is accessible from a web browser. management professionals. PerfTechPro is Windows- based software providing automated data collection, FALCON®: An efficient, easy-to-use, on-line data entry analysis, reporting and simulation modeling. 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 Phoenix Software International computers, data capture devices and networks.

Address: PHX-Adders®: Allows you to handle decentralized or 831 Parkview Drive North, El Segundo, CA 90245, USA. migrated data entry functions. Adders migrates and Phone: +1 310 338 0400 expands with your enterprise.

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PHX-KeyPlus®: An online data entry system that runs on COBOL code and subroutines. The resulting documented IBM mainframe platforms. source code changes assist the supporting resources in maintaining the converted application. PHX-ODE®: An online tool designed for reliable heads- down data entry, data entry application development and COBOL KeePIR duplicates the databases under DB2/400. sophisticated system control facilities. zHISR®: A z/OS application execution profiler that performs near zero analysis to aid in application performance tuning. PKS Software

Address: Georgstraße 15, 88214 Ravensburg, Germany. Phone: 0049 751/56140 229 Email: [email protected] PIR Group, Inc Web: www.pks.com

Address: Activity: Software vendor. 345 North Canal, Ste C202, Chicago, IL 60606, USA. Specialist areas: Web integration and legacy Phone: +1 312 756 1000 reengineering tools Email: [email protected] Web: www.pirgroupinc.com Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS Non-mainframe platforms supported: System i Activity: Software Pricing options: One-time charge, monthly/annual Specialist areas: Programming/testing; web integration license, processor/capacity-based, workload/usage based and legacy reengineering tools; other Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, VM/VSE Company profile Non-mainframe platforms supported: IBM i We are passionately committed to the maintenance and Pricing options: One-time charge, processor/capacity- improvement of valuable legacy applications. We preserve based, other investments in applications and staff. In doing so, we make an important contribution to the corporate success and Company profile continuity of our customers.PKS stands for: PIR Group provides migration tools for legacy COBOL and RPG applications. We move legacy custom systems • Intelligent Tools “Made in Germany”: We achieve a that reside on the IBM mainframe and zOS systems to the high degree of automation with custom-tailored tools more cost effective and Power i. The average migration of the highest quality. This guarantees optimal cost- project takes less than six months and the customer first effectiveness at minimal risk for customers around the year ROI is often in the millions of dollars. PIR Group has world. been and IBM business partner migrating IBM mainframe • Implementation Expertise: We have a high degree of customers since 1998. specialized knowledge, traction, and are true go- getters. We not only look for solutions, but we also Product/service information implement them. COBOL KeePIR for the AS/400 automates the conversion • Mutual collaboration: From our experience, we know of legacy applications. Mainframe CICS online / batch that 1 + 1 = 3: The combination of application and programs are converted into native ILE COBOL, DDS and technological know-how is what makes our projects so CLP. MVS/VSE JCL is converted into CL. The mainframe successful. database is duplicated under DB2/400. • Accountability: Our customers trust us when it comes to the future of their most important applications. Both the COBOL KeePIR guarantees identical functioning of the owners and staff of PKS are aware of this responsibility interactive screen and online processes. Automated and are personally dedicated to the success of conversion options can enhance the look of screens. projects. Batch program processing time is reduced. The batch programs/reports function and look the same. Product/service information The JCL is converted one for one into CL. Optimizing Application Development Eclipse based IDEs (RDz); application understanding; COBOL KeePIR is designed to comment out the improving code quality mainframe source replacing with the appropriate ILE

Adabas / Natural migration storage space while securely protecting data, in transit Adabas to RDBMS migration; Natural and Java and at rest. The combination of application, system, coexistence; Web 2.0 for Natural MAPs and ICSF integration make SecureZIP® for z/OS® an optimal solution for reducing processing times, Application transformation increasing operational efficiencies, and leveraging existing consolidation from 4GL to Cobol; zIIP Enablement - Cobol investments within the mainframe environment. SecureZIP to Java; custom-made transformation solution. for z/OS includes OpenPGP support enabling enterprises to encrypt and decrypt using OpenPGP keys in both ZIP and OpenPGP formats.

PKWARE

Address: Progress 201 E. Pittsburgh Ave, Suite 400, Milwaukee, WI 53204, USA. Address: Phone: +1 414 289 9788 3005 Carrington Mill Boulevard, Suite 400, Morrisville, NC E-mail: [email protected] 27560, USA Web: www.pkware.com Phone: +1 800 876 3101 E-mail: [email protected] Sales contacts: Web: www.progress.com America: +1 414 289 9788 EMEA: +44 (0) 208 899 6060 Sales contacts: AsiaPac: +81 3 5456 5599 America: 800 876 3101 EMEA: 0800 169 1907 Activity: Software vendor. AsiaPac: 0120 209 613 Specialist areas: Security Activity: Software vendor Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, Linux Specialist areas: Web integration and legacy Non-mainframe platforms supported: System i, AIX, reengineering tools other Unix, Linux, Windows, others Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, Linux Pricing options: Processor/capacity-based, other Non-mainframe platforms supported: Linux, Windows Pricing options: Monthly/annual license Company profile The PKWARE Solution is the only complete solution for Company profile reducing, securing, moving and storing data across the Progress DataDirect is a leader in data connectivity and extended enterprise, both internally and externally, from mainframe integration software for corporate enterprises mainframes to servers to desktops and into the cloud. and independent software vendors, including IBM. PKWARE offers software solutions to critical IT problems, Progress DataDirect Shadow is the industry’s only unified namely the explosive growth of data, the need to secure integration platform for mainframe data access and SOA data, and the emergence of data in the cloud. PKWARE enablement. Shadow delivers secure, high performance offers the only total solution for reducing and securing data and scalable access to a broad range of mainframe data in motion or at rest, so data can be securely moved or and application environments – with unique capabilities to stored anywhere. The PKWARE Solution is used billions extend System z specialty engine exploitation beyond DB2 of times each day to manage risks associated with data for dramatically lower mainframe TCO. security breaches while avoiding increased storage costs with data reduction of up to 95% and improving service Progress Software Corporation (Nasdaq: PRGS) is a delivery. PKWARE is a privately-held company based in global software company that enables enterprises to Milwaukee, WI with additional offices in New York, Ohio be operationally responsive to changing conditions and and the United Kingdom. customer interactions as they occur – to capitalize on new opportunities, drive greater efficiencies and reduce risk. Product/service information The company offers a comprehensive portfolio of best- Files that contain sensitive data, whether stored or in-class infrastructure software spanning event-driven being transmitted, need to be protected. SecureZIP® visibility and real-time response, open integration, data makes securing these files an effortless task. SecureZIP access and integration, and application development and is the industry leading security and compression utility deployment – all supporting on-premises and SaaS/Cloud that greatly reduces transmission times and required deployments.

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Product/service information Company profile Shadow is the industry’s only single, unified platform for ProTech is an expert professional services firm specializing mainframe SOA enablement and data connectivity. From in Enterprise Systems Management, IT Service this single integration architecture, Shadow supports a full Management (ITSM/ITIL), and Data Center Automation. range of standards-based mainframe integration products: Utilizing both Direct-to-Client and partnered with firms such • Shadow z/Services comprehensive, bi-directional as IBM, CA & BMC, our company specializes in providing mainframe Web services to support SOA and consulting, training and software products for IBM Orchestration, including transformation ofbusiness Mainframe and Enterprise UNIX/Linux systems. logic and/or 3270 screens into reusable Web services, or data via SOAP interface, as well as support for Our training division, ProTechTraining.com trains over mainframe consumption of external, distributed Web 10,000 IT professionals each year from a curriculum of services. over 500 instructor-led courses in traditional and virtual • Shadow z/Events - a comprehensive facility for real- classroom, as well as a library of self-paced elearning time mainframe data change capture, transformation, offerings. ProTech provides open-enrollment and onsite and publishing in support of event driven integration, training courses worldwide. BI and data warehousing. • Shadow z/Direct - high performance data connectivity Product/service information APIs (ODBC, JDBC, ADO.NET) to enable direct, SQL RMF Redux - Analyzes WLM data for better policy access and transactional support to a broad range of management implementation by creating real-time reports mainframe datasources. of actual SMF 70/72 records of system behavior. • Shadow z/Presentation - supports automatic presentation layer generation for extending screen- EZChange for OPS/MVS - aids in change control for OPS/ based applications to the Web. MVS data center rules and REXX applications.

Shadow’s unique exploitation of IBM’s new mainframe REXXexpress - a set of productivity tools and functions specialty engines allows customers who have purchased developed by literally thousands of hours working in the the System z Integration Information Processor (zIIP) ESM & DCA field. Let our experience help you! and System z Application Assist Processor (zAAP), the added benefit of diverting workloads to these unmeasured EZReport for OPS/MVS - Creates detailed management environments, which has the proven ability to dramatically reports for better analysis and “big picture” oversight of lower Total Cost of Ownership by up to 99% and improve customer’s data center automation efforts. performance. Please call for more information or product sheets on any of these software solutions.

ProTech Professional Technical Services

Address: QMSI-Quintessential Mailing Software 355 Fifth Avenue, Suite 300 Pittsburgh, PA 15222, USA. Incorporated

Phone: 800-373-9188 (international +1 412 810 8855). Address: Email: [email protected] 5800 Ager Beswick Road, Montague, CA 96064-9423, USA Web: www.protechpts.com Phone: +1.866.284.1001 Email: [email protected] Activity: Education, consulting, and software Web: www.qmsi.software Specialist areas: System management; data management; storage management; asset and change Activity: Software vendor. management; security; programming/testing; web Specialist areas: Other. integration and legacy reengineering tools; network Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS performance/management. Pricing options: Monthly/annual license Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, VM/VSE, Linux, other Company profile Non-mainframe platforms supported: IBM i, AIX, other QMSI’s charter is to significantly reduce the cost of postal Unix, Linux, Windows, other processing for mainframe mailers. QMSI software is Pricing options: one-time charge

© Arcati Ltd, 2018 115 Arcati Mainframe Yearbook 2018 Vendor Directory exclusively IBM Mainframe. QMSI’s principals, developers Company profile - and customers - are accessible to anyone who sees RAI is a trusted supplier of best of breed point products for the value in - and wants to learn about - lowering CPU z/OS and DB2 for z/OS with a reputation for superb and overhead, I/O resource utilization and overall processing responsive support in mission critical situations. time ... with the guarantee of saving money! Product/service information Our customers will tell you “QMSI prices are not based Our Smart Jobstream Series provides comprehensive and on MIPS or MSUs and QMSI never increases costs for reliable checkpoint / restart services for mission critical licensed CPUs; so there is no renegotiating - ever!” Adding z/OS batch workloads. a CPU is easy and inexpensive. .

Product information QCODE is the only modern USPS CASS-Certified software that takes full advantage of IBM’s zSystem hardware and Rocket Software software. QCODE can run on a zIIP (eliminating IBM’s MSU charges!) and QCODE’s unique DataSpaceDataBase Address: (DSDB) is a significant reason for QCODE’s great 77 Fourth Avenue, Waltham, MA 02451, USA performance. Placing your page data sets on SSD (Solid Phone: +1 781 577 4321 State DASD) devices, makes QCODE’s performance Web: www.rocketsoftware.com “amazing!” All while utilizing less CPU and I/O resources, and running faster than all other CASS products. Activity: Software vendor Specialist areas: System management; data QSORT is the only single-purpose presort for First Class management; storage management; asset and change Mail (cards, letters and flats) that does not contain all the management; security; web integration and legacy extra code and overhead found in other multi-purpose reengineering tools; network performance/management; products. It’s the perfect complement to QCODE and ready other for the USPS Full Service requirements. Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, VM/VSE, z/Linux Non-mainframe platforms supported: IBM i, AIX, Unix, QVIEW is a sub-second response time, online query tool Linux, Windows, other for USPS Zip4 database look-ups. It is a complementary Pricing options: One-time charge, monthly/annual component of QCODE, and runs under CICS, IMS or CA’s license, processor/capacity-based, workload/usage based, IDMS. other

Together or individually, these products provide the Company profile most cost-effective, resource-efficient Postal Processing Rocket Software is a leading global developer of software software available on IBM Mainframes. How is this products that help corporations, government agencies and possible? Because this entire software application suite other organizations reach their technology and business was designed by system-level software architects. goals. 1,100 Rocketeers on five continents are focused on building and delivering solutions for more than 10,000 QMOVE is coming soon! 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 Relational Architects International Systems, Avaya, Motorola, Epicor, and many others. Visit us at www.rocketsoftware.com. Address: 33 Newark St, Hoboken, NJ 07030 , USA Product/service information Phone: +1 201 420-0400 Rocket Mainframe Solutions provide software and Email : [email protected] professional service solutions that ensure effective Web: www.relarc.com utilization of System z environments. Our mainframe solutions: Activity: Software vendor Specialist areas: System management; data • Provide swift ROI - lower “per computing unit” cost than management; programming/testing x86 servers and reduce management overhead Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS • Optimize transaction processing, delivering millions of Pricing options: One-time charge, monthly/annual reliable, secure transactions per day license, processor/capacity-based

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• Meet demanding SLAs for performance/response Product/service information times, uptime/availability and back-up/disaster recovery RSD’s foundation is in mainframe output management and later document archiving and retrieval. We help you maximize the value of your existing mainframe investments through our ongoing technology Over the years, RSD has released three primary solutions. evolution and expertise. You can count on Rocket Our first solution, Writer Scanning Facility (WSF2), was Mainframe Solutions to enable you to: introduced in 1983 and is still widely used in banking and • Achieve high availability and data protection from insurance circles for mass distribution of both internal and storage-aware data management external reports. Renamed RSD EOS, this solution is an • Access and modernize System z applications enterprise-grade distributed output and report management • Make your private cloud work for you solution designed specifically to meet the challenges of capturing, synthesizing, and delivering actionable And we can help you get even more out of your mainframe information where it’s needed, when it’s needed, and in the with newer technologies like zBX, IDAA, and zIIP. A full required format. listing of all of our products that can help make the most of your mainframe investment can be found here: bit. In 1992 RSD developed RSD Folders, an enterprise-grade ly/16jvoO4. document archiving and records management solution to complement RSD EOS. . RSD SA

Address: RSM Partners 25 rue Eugene Marziano, Case Postale 1750, 1211 Genève 26, Switzerland Address: Phone: +41 22 307 81 00 The Courtyard, Buntsford Drive,Stoke Pound, Bromsgrove, Email : [email protected] Worcs B60 3DJ, UK Web: www.rsd.com Phone: +44 (0)1527 837767 Email : [email protected] Sales contacts: Web: www.rsmpartners.com America: +1 201 996 1000 EMEA: +41 22 307 81 00 Sales contacts: AsiaPac: +61 2 8824 4059 America: +1 (612) 547-0089 EMEA: +44 1527 837767 Activity: Software vendor AsiaPac: +44 (0)1527 837767 Specialist areas: System management Activity: Consultant Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, Linux on Z Specialist areas: System management; data Non-mainframe platforms supported: AIX, Unix, Linux, management; storage management; security; Windows programming/testing; network performance/management; Pricing options: One-time charge, monthly/annual other license, Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, VM/VSE, Linux Company profile on Z Headquartered in Geneva, with offices in the USA and in Pricing options: Monthly/annual license Asia, RSD develops and sells enterprise-grade software solutions to help Fortune 2000 companies increase their Company profile IT efficiency. Built upon 40 years of expertise, innovation RSM Partners is a global provider of IBM mainframe and highest standards, RSD’s offerings enable customers infrastructure services and niche security software. to optimize IT assets in an ever more challenging and Working with many of the world’s largest organisations, hybrid world. RSD uses a flexible licensing model to further no other partner can offer the same mix of Z knowledge, reduce operating costs. RSD has built a strong and loyal expertise and real hands-on experience. RSM aims customer base with millions of users worldwide. RSD to address the headaches and challenges mainframe offerings are available around the globe – both directly and managers are facing by delivering assured mainframe through business partners. skills; assured service delivery; and assured security.

RSD solutions are certified with the Label ”swiss made Operating its own mainframes from high tech offices in software”. the UK, RSM is a trusted ally to many in the mainframe © Arcati Ltd, 2018 117 Arcati Mainframe Yearbook 2018 Vendor Directory industry – not just clients directly, but also amongst peers Company profile in the industry, including systems integrators, consulting Founded in 1980, RSM is the UK’s leading independent companies, ISVs and IBM themselves. Our clients tell us provider of technical education & training for users of IBM that what differentiates us are our core values: reliability; mainframe systems. Working in partnership with the British agility; flexibility; and value. Computer Society (BCS), RSM has been instrumental in developing and launching the Mainframe Technology Already an IBM Business Partner, in 2016 RSM Partners Professional series of examinations and qualifications. also received Ready for IBM Security Intelligence Validation as a leader in z Systems Security. Product/service information Publicly presented and customised, one-company training Product/service information and education courses covering such areas as: z/OS, RSM Partners offers: CICS Transaction Server, DB2 for z/OS, WebSphere MQ, IMS TM & DB, WebSphere Application Server, TCP/IP for Skills: reliable, skilled resources and consultancy – either z/OS. individually, or as a team – assisting; back filling; taking full responsibility for project delivery; or providing independent strategic advice. SAS Institute Services: Resources; Project Delivery; Security; Migrations; Managed Services and Support; Performance Address: & Cost Reduction. Security includes specialist software SAS Institute Inc, 100 SAS Campus Drive, Cary, NC tools, penetration testing, best practices audit, remediating 27513-2414, USA risk and compliance. Migrations include software swap Phone: +1 919 677 8000 outs, storage and hardware migrations. Managed International Headquarters: services can be provided to match customer requirements SAS Institute GmbH, PO.Box 105340, Neuenheimer alongside 24*7 Incident Support. Cost Reduction delivers Landstr. 28-30, 69043 Heidelberg, GERMANY best-in-class optimisation, license cost reduction and Phone : +49 6221 4160 workload consolidation. Web: www.sas.com

Software: Leveraging over 400 years of mainframe security Activity: Software vendor expertise, consulting and real world experience, RSM’s Specialist areas: Data management security tool set comprises: racfGUI; exceptionReporter; zDetect; Breakglass; Self Service Password Reset; and Company profile enterpriseConnector. A range of tools that help manage • Business intelligence. With SAS business intelligence, and secure a mainframe environment, significantly easing you can integrate data from across your enterprise, basic RACF administration, password resets, control and deliver fast access to self-service reporting and of temporary emergency access, plus exception based analysis to all levels of user. Easy-to-use interfaces security reporting complemented by our SIEM compatible make it simple for decision makers to get the answers dashboard, alerting you in real-time to security events of they need – saving you time while driving better significance. decisions. . • Analytics. With SAS, you can deliver analytic results to all users to share insights and drive fact-based decisions. RSM Technology • Data integration & ETL. With SAS, you gain an Address: integrated approach for managing your increasing Dralda House, 24-28 Crendon Street, High Wycombe, volumes of enterprise data. You can simplify the Bucks HP13 6LS, UK process of data extraction, transformation and loading Phone: +44 (0)1494 45 13 13 while improving data quality and achieving true data Email : [email protected] integration. Web: www.rsm.co.uk

Activity: Training Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, Linux Pricing options: Monthly/annual license

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Selenity • Batch Magic: a powerful application for tape and batch Address: window tuning and capacity planning. Nibley House, Low Moor Road, Doddington Road, Lincoln, • Disk Magic: provides users with a thorough Lincolnshire LN6 3JY, UK understanding of current disk subsystem performance Phone: +44 (0)1522 881300 and enables them to make better purchase and Email: [email protected] configuration decisions. Web: www.selenity.com

Activity: Software vendor Specialist areas: System management; data management; storage management; asset and change SMT Data management; security, programming/testing, web integration and legacy reengineering tools; network Address: performance/management. Kongevejen 400B, 2840 Holte, Denmark Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS Phone: +45 3962 8887. Non-mainframe platforms supported: i5, AIX, other Unix, Email: [email protected]. Linux Web: www.smtdata.com. Pricing options: One-time charge, monthly/annual license, processor/capacity-based, other. Activity: Software vendor Specialist areas: System management Company profile Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, VM/VSE, z/Linux Selenity was formed in April 1989 to market and support Non-mainframe platforms supported: Linux, Windows mainframe systems software. We have exclusive contracts Pricing options: One-time charge, monthly/annual to distribute supplier products in the UK and Eire and licence, workload/usage based. market a variety of business solutions developed at our Lincoln Office. Our client list includes many of the best- Company profile known UK blue-chip and FTSE 100 companies. We SMT Data’s IT Business Intelligence (ITBI™) solution provide frequent training courses and run product user delivers transparency into the relationship between IT groups and regular seminars for all clients, ensuring an and business. This transparency allows the customers unrivalled service 24/7. to optimize their IT infrastructure, operations, finances, and application development, resulting in significant cost Product/service information savings and better alignment with business needs. Products marketed and supported by Selenity include: • Consul zSecure Suite: consists of modular components Product/service information that enable customers to easily administer their ITBI Products: Software solutions that create complete mainframe, monitor for threats, audit usage and transparency of the interaction between IT and business configuration, and enforce policy compliance. operations. The SMT Data ITBI™ and TRANSPARNCY • ETF/A: a set of very powerful utilities to assist ACF2 software and services can be applied for the common security administrators. platforms both on mainframe and open systems, eg • Catalog Information Manager (CIM): covers all aspects z/OS, Windows and Solaris. The solution provides you of catalog management from maintenance and backup with standard, dynamic report presented in a portal with to diagnosis and complete recovery. vizualization for either PC, tablet, or smart phone. • 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 SoftBase product inefficiencies. • Smart TS XL: an intuitive browser-based search engine Address: for the mainframe/mini environment. 20 Fall Pippin Ln Ste 202, Asheville, NC 28803, USA • E-SRF: a comprehensive security reporting facility Phone: (800) 669-7076. designed specifically for information security and audit Email: [email protected]. professionals. Web: www.softbase.com. • Capacity Magic: calculate the effective storage capacity of your current and future disk subsystems through an easy-to-use graphical dialog.

Activity: Software vendor Software AG Specialist areas: Data management; programming/testing Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS Address: Pricing options: Processor/capacity-based, workload/ Uhlandstrasse 12, 64297 Darmstadt, Germany usage Phone: +49 6151 92 0 (Germany) Email: [email protected] Company profile Web: www.softwareag.com SoftBase is a leading provider of application testing and tuning solutions for IBM’s DB2® database utilizing Sales contacts: the OS/390® and z/OS® operating systems. SoftBase America: 1 703-860-5050 (USA) or www.softwareag.com/ solutions enable our customers to build and maintain Corporate/contact_us. high-quality DB2 applications that run as reliably and EMEA: www.softwareag.com/Corporate/contact_us cost-effectively as possible. SoftBase was founded in 1987 AsiaPac: www.softwareag.com/Corporate/contact_us. and is recognized globally for our long term service and commitment to our DB2 mainframe customers. Activity: Software vendor Specialist areas: System management; data Product/service information management; storage management; asset and change TestBase™ management; programming/testing; web integration and TestBase™, our test data management solution, allows legacy reengineering tools you to quickly retrieve manageable subsets of referentially Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, VM/VSE, Linux intact data from DB2® databases around the enterprise, on Z thoroughly test and validate proper functioning of all DB2 Non-mainframe platforms supported: Other Unix, Linux, application enhancements, and ensure that all sensitive Windows production data remains completely private during testing. Pricing options: Monthly/annual license, processor/ Using TestBase Slice™, Application Developers can now capacity-based manage their own test data and run unlimited tests to properly verify that ALL application SQL code and changes Company profile are working properly. As a result, DBAs no longer need to Creators of the world’s first Digital Business Platform, maintain a multitude of test beds. Software AG delivers measurable customer value beyond all expectations. Our mission is to help accelerate and Batch Healthcare - Attach Facility simplify our customer’s digital transformation journey by Attach Facility™ reduces CPU costs by using patent- connecting the world’s applications, data and devices pending technology to allow older applications to utilize without compromising existing investments. We provide multi-row FETCH, without code changes. Attach Facility independent and open software that empowers an also enhances the batch DB2 environment by eliminating enterprise to become more innovative, more agile and the use of TSO and allows the proper handling of step more efficient—independence that gives customers the abends and return codes. freedom and power to make real-time business decisions and rapidly implement them. We deliver technology that works openly with the industry’s best solution providers— Batch Healthcare - Checkpoint Facility software that works everywhere and with everything. We’ll In the event that critical DB2 batch jobs do fail due to partner with you to get maximum value from big data, unforeseen health problems, the Checkpoint Facility™ make better decisions with streaming analytics, achieve allows you to safely restart and complete these jobs more with the Internet of Things, and respond faster to as quickly as possible to ensure that all critical online shifting regulations and threats with intelligent governance, applications are available when needed. risk & compliance management.

Batch Healthcare - DeadLock Advisor Digital Business Platform—helping you create your DeadLock Advisor™ makes the job of pinpointing these digital world issues and which job caused them effortless by placing The world’s first independent Digital Business Platform is messages in the joblog of both jobs involved in the the adaptable technology layer that fits into (not replaces) deadlock, timeout or resource unavailable condition. In this existing IT landscapes. It offers rapid adoption of future way, application developers can troubleshoot their jobs technologies and will simplify and accelerate your digital without the assistance of a DBA. transformation journey. By integrating dynamic apps, data-rich IoT, predictive analytics and cloud, on-premises or hybrid deployment options, we’ve built the optimal foundation for building a digital business.

Cumulocity IoT—enabling you to create IoT solutions built from the ground up as low-overhead, easy-to-use quickly suite that employs web browsers to provide a modern Cumulocity IoT is a comprehensive platform that enables graphic interface to z/OS. enterprises and service providers to rapidly build and deploy innovative, secure and scalable IoT solutions The VitalSigns suite provides a complete solution with the maximum flexibility and minimum vendor lock- to address the challenges of your z/OS NETWORK in. It contains industry-leading device management, management. It easily pinpoints the source of network streaming analytics, machine learning, business process delays, and monitors the performance and availability of management and enterprise integration. Cumulocity IoT your z/OS network in real-time. is deployable in cloud, on-premises, edge and hybrid architectures SDS E-Business Server is a comprehensive product that uses industry-standard PGP encryption to automatically The Adabas & Natural 2050+ Agenda for mission- protect corporate data within applications, email, file critical applications transfers, and transaction processing. Software AG is committed to helping your organization become future ready—now. Our goal is to ensure that your Product/service information mission-critical Adabas & Natural applications integrate The SDS E-Business Server enables you to securely and seamlessly with the Digital Business Platform so your cost-effectively exchange confidential information internally, organization can make the transformation into a digital and with partners and remote offices via the Internet. software driven business. Adabas & Natural 2050+ will help you optimize your IT environment and modernize your Enabling compliance with key regulations, and backed mission-critical applications and development environment by the award-winning SDS support team, E-Business to save costs, attract new developer talent and connect Server features the industry’s most advanced algorithms with new technologies. 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. Software Diversified Services (SDS) VitalSigns for FTP (VFTP) secures, monitors, automates, Address: and audits FTP traffic through z/OS servers and clients. 1322 - 81st Ave NE, Spring Lake Park, MN 55432-2116, USA VitalSigns for Network Automation and Control (VNAC) is Phone: 763 571 9000 an ideal, and lower-cost, replacement for NetView(TM) or Email: [email protected] NetMaster(TM). Web: www.sdsusa.com VNAC provides network and system automation, and Activity: Software vendor immediate, customizable response to performance alerts Specialist areas: System management; security; network and system messages. VNAC makes it easy to issue performance/management console commands to any system in a sysplex. Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, VM/VSE, z/Linux Non-mainframe platforms supported: Other Unix, Linux, VitalSigns for IP (VIP) provides real-time, browser-based Windows management of TCP/IP networks. VIP is noted for breadth Pricing options: One-time charge, monthly/annual of monitoring scope, for ease of use, and for minimal license, processor/capacity-based, workload/usage based demands on CPU resources.

Company profile VIP fully monitors IPv6, OSAs, DVIPAs, and data link Hundreds of the world’s largest enterprises and control. It fully monitors z/OS HPR connections.. 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. Software Engineering GmbH SDS installed in your enterprise enables you to manage and protect your data and your brand, and drive more Address: value from your IT investment. Robert-Stolz-Strasse 5, 40470 Dusseldorf, Germany. Phone: +49 (0)211 96149 0 Our VitalSigns family of NETWORK products for z/OS is Fax: +49 (0)211 96149-32 © Arcati Ltd, 2018 121 Arcati Mainframe Yearbook 2018 Vendor Directory

Email: [email protected] and identifies tuning changes that improve application Web: www.seg.de performance, pinpointing problem areas and saving time www.seg.de/language=en/808/start and money associated with inefficient applications. It also automates package management and catalog change Sales contacts: management, as well as the optimization of performance America: SEGUS Inc indexes. 14151 Park Meadow Drive, Chantilly, VA 20151 Email: [email protected] PiT Recovery for DB2 z/OS automates, controls, and Phone: +1-800-327-9650 speeds up all the necessary actions needed for a point Web: www.segus.com in time (PIT) recovery of ERP and CRM systems like EMEA: [email protected] Peoplesoft, SAP, and Siebel. Pit Recovery not only AsiaPac: [email protected] generates, executes, and controls the necessary jobs, it even weighs different scenarios like using DB2 image Activity: Software vendor and consulting copies, flashcopies, or even the new DB2 V8 RESTORE Specialist areas: Database performance, maintenance, SYSTEM feature. Additionally, it provides all the required recovery information necessary to forecast how long a specific Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS outage will last. Pricing options: Processor/capacity based, other Recovery HealthCheck for DB2 z/OS verifies all Recovery/ Company profile Restart relevant prerequisites of a production database. Software Engineering GMBH has been developing It also provides recovery time objectives for each object, standardized DB2 software and providing DB2 consulting pinpointing the period of time that is required for a services for more than 25 years. By combining intensive recovery. Recovery HealthCheck for DB2 z/OS makes the research with target-oriented development of new DB2 prerequisites for a critical recovery scenario transparent software products, we have established powerful skills and enables proactive adjustments and optimization before in DB2 solutions. Driven by customers, consultants, and an outage occurs. other highly skilled DB2 users at our Design Councils, we develop practical innovations to keep DB2 in the best shape. Solimar Systems Product/service information Address: RealTime DBAExpert insures high data availability, as 1515 Second Avenue, San Diego, CA 92101, USA well as fast and secure recoverability, 24x7. RealTime Phone: +1 619 849 2800. DBAExpert automates the management of DB2 for z/OS Email: [email protected]. databases. Using real-time statistics and user-defined Web: www.solimarsystems.com thresholds, combined with continuous monitoring of DB2 objects, RealTime DBAExpert detects and responds to Activity: Software vendor. database problems immediately. Seamless integration Specialist areas: System management with all job schedulers and existing IT procedures Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, VM/VSE, Linux, secures existing investments and the exploitation of latest Other technologies saves valuable resources. Non-mainframe platforms supported: Windows, i5, AIX, other Unix, Linux Bind ImpactExpert completely automates the evaluation Pricing options: One-time charge, Monthly/annual license of access paths for static and dynamic SQL. Integration into all existing rebind and bind procedures automatically Company profile determines the rebinds and binds necessary to insure Founded in 1991, Solimar Systems Inc is a leading consistent or improved performing access paths, as well as developer of enterprise output management solutions to avoid those that are unnecessary. Used as a migration for digital document creation, production and distribution aid, Bind ImpactExpert predicts the access paths that environments. Installed in thousands of sites around the will result under a new DB2 version and categorizes the world, including nearly 40% of the Fortune 100, Solimar changes into version-specific results. solutions satisfy a wide range of customer requirements by combining integrated connectivity, data stream transforms, SQL PerformanceExpert for DB2 z/OS insures well-tuned print optimization, document re-engineering/repurposing SQL statements, which translates to efficient CPU usage, and sophisticated print queue management with secure improved reponse time, reduced I/O activity and reduced web-based document presentation, distribution and resource locking. SQL PerformanceExpert automates the tracking. analysis of SQL performance (both static and dynamic)

Experts in legacy and modern data streams, Solimar databases. SQData’s software allows customers to solutions provide essential infrastructure to organizations address a variety of business needs ranging from data in a variety of industries including insurance, financial conversions/migrations to active/active data replication to services, banking, pharmaceuticals, telecommunications, near-real-time population of data warehouses. healthcare, government, education, retail, manufacturing, utilities, distribution and print service bureaux. Product/service information A leading enterprise-class data integration offering that Product/service information provides a cost-effective solution to multiple business Products include: needs out-of-the-box. • Solimar Print/Director Enterprise – Client/server based enterprise output management solution that Companies use SQData for: provides multi-level security, remote administrator and • Continuous Availability of Critical Applications operator access, email alerts, powerful job routing/ Keeping multiple databases synchronized in an active/ tracking capabilities, and industry leading data stream active or active/stand-by mode to ensure that critical transforms. applications remain operational in the event of an • iCONVERT – Stand-alone powerful transform engine outage. for AFP environments that automatically routes mainframe and AS/400 print reports directly to • Eliminating / Reducing Costly ETL Processes networked desktop and production PostScript printers, Leveraging changed data capture (CDC) to collect viewing stations and archive systems. Files are parsed only the data that has changed. Existing ETL can be and renamed with job events module. enhanced to process the data changes or eliminated • SOLscript – PostScript preamble that emulates altogether. and optimizes Xerox VIPP software by generating DSC compliant PostScript, extending the reach of • Real-Time Business Event Detection VIPP applications to virtually all types and brands of Detecting key business events as soon as they occur workgroup and production printers, as well as ERM/ enables quick reaction while maintaining a competitive COLD and archive systems. edge. • SOLsearcher – Highly scalable and secure electronic document delivery and web presentation solution • Real-Time Business Intelligence that enables organizations to effectively index, store, Ensuring key business decisions are being made search and retrieve large collections of transactional based on current data vs. data that is days, weeks or and/or scannned documents. Ideal for B2B and B2C months old. environments. • Data Conversions / Migrations Utilizing SQData’s ETL & CDC to perform data migrations for legacy modernization, data warehouse population, etc. SQData Corporation

Address: SSH Communications Security 4620 Sunbelt Drive Suite 202, Addison, TX 75001, USA Phone: 214.695.6484 Address: Email: [email protected]. SSH Communications Security Corp, Valimotie 17, Web: www.sqdata.com. FI-00380 Helsinki, Finland. Phone: +358 205007000. Activity: Software vendor Email: [email protected]. Specialist areas: Data management Web: www.ssh.com. Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS Non-mainframe platforms supported: AIX, Other Unix, Sales contacts: Linux, Windows America: +1 781 247 2100 / [email protected]. Pricing options: One-time charge, monthly/annual EMEA: +358 20 500 7000 /[email protected]. license, processor/capacity based AsiaPac: +81 3 3459 6830 / [email protected].

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Non-mainframe platforms supported: AIX, Other Unix, SV Group Linux, Windows Pricing options: One-time charge, processor/capacity Address: based, workload/usage based Albrechtova 32, HR-10000 Zagreb, Croatia. Phone: +385 1 2958740. Company profile Email: [email protected]. SSH Communications Security is a world-leading Web: www.svgroup.hr/ provider of enterprise security solutions and end-to-end communications security, and the original developer of the Activity: Software vendor. Secure Shell protocol. The company’s SSH Tectia solution Specialist areas: System management; data addresses the most critical needs of large enterprises, management; storage management; asset and change financial institutions, and government agencies. With management; security; programming/testing; network SSH Tectia, organizations can cost-effectively secure performance/management; their system administration, file transfers and application Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, VM/VSE, z/Linux connectivity against both internal and external security Non-mainframe platforms supported: AIX, Unix, Linux, risks. As the original developer of the Secure Shell protocol Windows and other key network security technologies, SSH has Pricing options: One-time charge, processor/capacity- for ten years developed end-to-end communications based, workload/usage based security solutions specifically for the enterprise. Currently more than 100 of Fortune 500 companies are using SSH Company profile security solutions. SSH shares are quoted on the Helsinki SV Group d.o.o. is a project-oriented IT company founded Exchanges Main List. in 1995.

Product/service information Customers of SV Group solutions and services are SSH Tectia is the leading end-to-end communications companies whose activities have for years been dependent security solution for the enterprise. SSH Tectia is based on on IT technologies and solutions that directly support their the SSH Secure Shell and SSH’s other industry leading business. This is why our customers seek a reliable and technologies, used by millions worldwide. SSH Tectia proven partner to realize their IT projects enables secure system administration, secure file transfer and secure application connectivity with centralized Product/service information management throughout the internal and external network. SV Group d.o.o. provides you with: SSH Tectia provides transparent strong encryption and • Application development, authentication and easily integrates into heterogeneous, • Innovative, reliable IT solutions based on proven multi-platform environments. technologies and concepts adjusted to your specific business needs, Secure System Administration offers system administrators • Supervision of information projects and solutions the ability to remotely manage servers in a heterogeneous design and implementation (‘Software Quality operating system environment. SSH Tectia replaces Assurance – SQA’), legacy login (eg Telnet and Rlogin) and remote command • Sale of hardware, software and services: execution methods with enterprise-class administator tools • Hardware (IBM System z, IBM Power Systems, IBM based on the SSH2 standard. System Storage), • IBM Software (B2B Integration, Information Secure File Transfer enables secure automated and Management software, Lotus software, Rational interactive file transfers throughout the network, both for software, Tivoli software, WebSphere software, System internal and external file sharing. SSH Tectia provides z software, SPSS software), secure drop-in replacements for FTP and additional APIs • VMware software that facilitate effortless transition from legacy file transfers • Microsoft software to strong file transfer security. • RedHat software • Services provided by our certified experts, IBM services Secure Application Connectivity offers end-to-end and services provided by our partners, confidentiality, integrity, and authentication for application • Enterprise content management (ECM), connections between workstations and servers. SSH • IT asset management, Tectia protects transparently both in-house developed • IT infrastructure virtualisation, and commercial business applications without the need to • Secure data back up, modify the applications or the supporting IT infrastructure. • Proactive IT system and application monitoring, security right up to the mainframe.

• Proactive and reactive support and maintenance Product/service information of SV Group applications (Life Insurance, Office Virtel Web Suite extends legacy systems through web- Management, Call Centre, New Croatian Personal enablement. Identity Card, Personal Identity Card for Foreigners, Croatian Passport, National Border Management Developed on a unique and original architecture, Virtel Information System – NBMIS), Statistical Monitoring is a comprehensive web-enablement middleware that of Visits to Web Sites – S3a, and other application and serves legacy host applications such as CICS, IMS, system solutions . 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. Syspertec Communication • Virtel Web Access extends 3270 applications securely to thin-client web browsers with “classic green screen” Address: presentation and ergonomics. 196 Bureaux de la Colline, 92213 Saint-Cloud Cedex, • Virtel Web Modernization creates rich web pages France (GUIs) combining legacy 3270 data streams with Phone: +33 (0)1 46 02 60 42 JavaScript widgets and AJAX-based application Email: [email protected] features. Web: www.virtelweb.com • Virtel Web Integration creates interactive connections between mainframe and web applications. Sales contacts: • Virtel IMS Extender simplifies calls to web services America: (925) 937-5816 / [email protected]. from IMS applications and keep web technology outside legacy IMS application code Activity: Software vendor. Specialist areas: Web integration and legacy Virtel Kix Suite improves web-initiated CICS transaction reengineering tools processing to rapidly reduce CPU consumption and Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, VM/VSE, associated costs. Pricing options: Monthly/annual license, workload/usage • Virtel Transaction Gateway is a high-performance based. connector between CICS transactions and the web • Virtel Transaction Accelerator allows to process CICS Company profile Transactions faster and to reduce mainframe resources SysperTec is an international software publisher with over consumption. 20 years’ experience of on-the-fly protocol conversion between mainframe and heterogeneous servers and terminals.

The company’s objective is to sustain legacy applications Systemwerx by integrating new technologies (TCP/IP, HTML, XML...) that raise productivity and modernize ergonomics. Address: SysperTec relies upon experienced System z mainframe PO Box 1195, Bedford, MK42 8WY, UK experts who develop software solutions that simplify the Phone: +44 207 0606601. integration of applications and networks and facilitate Email: [email protected]. communication from/to mainframe System z applications Web: www.systemwerx.co.uk. and data. Activity: Software vendor and consultancy. SysperTec‘s objective is to provide customized solutions Specialist areas: System management, security, web that allow the seamless evolution of Information Systems integration and legacy reengineering tools. including cost reduction, user comfort, high performance Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS and simplicity of implementation. SysperTec also provides Non-mainframe platforms supported: IBM i, AIX, Unix, trainings and services to educate new and experienced Linux, Windows. users to sustain critical applications. Pricing options: One-time charge, monthly/annual SysperTec has licensed over 300 products worldwide in license, processor/capacity-based, workload/usage based banking, service, insurance, government, manufacturing, and distribution.

Company profile Company profile Systemwerx has, for over 10 years, provided our Since our inception in 1992, T3 has been dedicated customers with solutions to their business needs. to providing the mainframe community with more cost effective solutions than traditional systems. Our tServer is Our system specialists provide our customers with pratical now the world’s best selling mainframe under 80 MIPS and experience in the development of business applications has helped over 600 clients maintain and modernize their and exploiting operating system, networking, database, data centers. and cryptography across multiple platforms. Product/service infromation Product/service Information Now T3 will be offering even greater choice as we We provide a number of products to help z/OS users: introduce a new generation of plug-compatible mainframes (PCMs), capable of handling larger and more complex PassGen: a solution to generate one-time RACF environments, and based on technology originally passwords ( Passtickets ) – this allows applications off developed by Amdahl Corporation. With models ranging host to securely communicate with z/OS applications and to 300 MIPS and supporting 64-bit architecture, “Liberty” databases. Passgen is available in a native Windows brings back freedom of choice to mainframe data centers. version and a Java version that executes on any system with a JRE.

Mimic: a solution to assist users migrating from TeamQuest Corporation Connect:Direct and CA-XCOM to another managed file transfer system. Mimic allows removal of existing products Address: by providing an emulation of existing products and One TeamQuest Way, Clear Lake, Iowa 50428, USA converts existing systems to the users chosen replacement Phone: +1 641-357-2700 product. E-mail: [email protected] Web: www.teamquest.com DR/VFI: a product that identifies critical files for Disaster recovery and compliance. Sales contacts America: [email protected] Megacryption: a z/OS encryption and PGP suite for EMEA: [email protected] complaince and easy to use encryption. AsiaPac: [email protected]

DataExhange: a publishing system to make z/OS data Activity: Software vendor available to any user with a browser independent of its Specialist areas: System management source. Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS., Linux, other Non-mainframe platforms supported: i5, AIX, other Unix, Linux, Windows Pricing Options: One-time charge, monthly/annual license, processor/capacity-based, other T3 Technologies Inc Company profile Address: TeamQuest Corporation is the global leader in IT Service 1408 Westshore Blvd, Tampa, Florida 33607, USA Optimization (ITSO). Specializing in software that helps Phone: +1 813 288 9800. IT organizations consistently meet service levels while Email: [email protected]. minimizing costs, TeamQuest provides quick and accurate Web: www.t3t.com capacity modelling and performance solutions.

Sales contacts: Companies around the world trust TeamQuest to help them EMEA: Concorde House, Trinity Park, Solihull, Birmingham improve IT service delivery while mitigating risks, allowing B37 7UQ UK. Phone +44 (0) 121 635 5571 them to proactively optimize IT resources while minimizing infrastructure costs. TeamQuest software is especially well- Activity: Integrator suited for use in heterogeneous and virtualized computing Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS,OS/390, VM/VSE, environments. Complementing and supporting ITIL best Linux Pricing options: One-time charge, monthly/annual license

126 © Arcati Ltd, 2018 Arcati Mainframe Yearbook 20072018 Vendor Directory practices, SOA and BSM goals, TeamQuest software can accuracy of our recoveries. Our recoveries are guaranteed help organizations manage IT from both the business and to produce 100% functionally equivalent source code. IT perspectives. Additional services include the recovery of copybooks and Product/service Information reconciling existing source to production executables. 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, TONE Software Corporation heterogeneous and virtualized environments. Address: TeamQuest Performance Software uses a client/server 1735 S. Brookhurst Street, Anaheim, CA 92804, USA architecture. Connections are made between the client and Phone: +1 714 991 9460 the server via TCP or HTTP for TeamQuest On the Web. Email: [email protected]. The client portion – TeamQuest Model, TeamQuest View, Web: www.tonesoft.com. TeamQuest Alert, and TeamQuest On the Web – runs on your workstation or wherever you want to analyze the data. Activity: Software vendor. The server portion – TeamQuest Manager, which includes Specialist areas: System management; programming/ data collection agents and a performance database – testing; is installed on each server you want to manage. (One Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS exception is that, for IBM System z and i, TeamQuest Non-mainframe platforms supported: Linux, Linux Manager is installed on a separate system and retrieves Pricing options: One-time charge; monthly license performance data from the server being managed.) charge; processor/capacity-based

Company profile Tone Software Corporation develops, markets and The Source Recovery Company supports software solutions that increase mainframe system efficiency, reduce z/OS support costs, and increase Address: the productivity of users and IT teams. 1070 Applecross Drive, Roswell, GA 30075, USA Phone: +1 770 667 5043. Based in Anaheim, California, TONE is a privately owned Email: [email protected]. technology company that answers to customers, not Web: www.source-recovery.com. shareholders. Leveraging over 40 years of mainframe expertise, TONE is committed to delivering quality software Activity: Service provider and exceptional customer service 24 hours a day, 365 Specialist areas: COBOL or Assembler Source Recovery days a year.

Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS TONE products are marketed and supported throughout Pricing options: per program or engagement timeframe. North America, Europe, and Australia directly from the Anaheim headquarters and through a hand-selected Company profile group of expert agents throughout the world. Tone’s z/OS Source Recovery is the sole provider of the recovery of mainframe solutions enable IT teams to: COBOL or Assembler source code from IBM MVS or VSE • Dynamically manage STEPLIBs and ISPF libraries with executable programs. Our company is an IBM Developer DYNA-STEP and TRX Business Partner. We have recovered over 10 million • Transparently replace CA TSOPLUS with STEPLIB-Rx lines of source code utilizing our patented ReSource™ • Manage JES2 and JES3 Spool operations with OMC- technology. FLASH • Control host output across the network with OMC- Product/service information PRINT and OMC-TCP/IP The Source Recovery’s primary service is to recover • Automate mainframe console and system operations Cobol or Assembler source code. We support any version with ACC and SyBridge. 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

Product/service information of zEC12 & z196/z114 processors and older generation TONE’s mainframe products include powerful solutions technology; whole systems, features and parts. Processors to manage the z/OS IT infrastructure and increase host and complete systems are certified and banded by IBM system and user productivity. TONE’s solutions include: before they leave our technical center. • DYNA-STEP Dynamic STEPLIB allocation and ISPF library management to save time, reduce maintenance, Top Gun Technology’s management, product engineers and save system resources by reducing overhead, and sales staff have an average of 25+ years experience speeding user logons, reducing LOGON PROC providing guidance to data center clients. We have built maintenance, and expediting application upgrades from an infrastructure and team to support your hardware needs test to production. with helpful and forward-thinking planning and consultation. • STEPLIB-Rx transparently replaces the unsupported Our intent is to have you think of Top Gun Technology CA TSOPLUS software, and intelligently translates as a “resource” - a company that you can rely upon for the existing STEPLIBX allocations and ODA on- thoughtful information, guidance and a unique approach demand application facility. STEPLIB-Rx migration aids to planning for and acquiring large-platform hardware and eliminate manual conversions or re-implementations. associated services at competitive prices that maximize • OMC-FLASH JES2 and JES3 management solution your budget dollar. controls the z/OS JES2 and JES3 Spool environments, with comprehensive capabilities to manage JES2 and Product/service information JES3 resources, processing, jobs, datasets, output, Top Gun Technology is committed to being the industry’s devices, operations, and the console. most logical alternative to the manufacturer. We provide • OMC-PRINT and OMC-TCP/IP host output an independent view of the market with expert, in-house management routes and prints output anywhere, solutions. Our goal is to offer options that cost far less anytime, directly from the JES spool to VTAM and TCP/ than the manufacturer’s or any business partner’s solutions IP attached print devices, with full control of enterprise- in these areas: IBM System z :zEC12/2828, z196/2817, wide print activity. z114/2818 & z10 Processors and Feature upgrades; IBM • ACC and SyBridge automate and manage z/ Power Systems-Power7, Power7+, Power6 as well as OS console traffic, host system and application previous generation pSeries and iSeries, IBM Storage processes, NetView, time sharing systems and/or batch for mainframe and open systems platforms: Disk, tape, applications including start up, damage assessment, libraries & VTS; Brocade & IBM FICON directors, switches, restart, and shutdown. blades & SFPs. HP(new/refurbished), Cisco, STK & • TRX TSO performance management enhances TSO EMC hardware is also available. Call if you have surplus operations, reduces TSO resource consumption, hardware, need data center consolidation or leasing improves response times, reduces system services. overhead, and improves TSO user productivity Top Gun Technology – “Your Ultimate Data Resource”.

Top Gun Technology Trident Services

Address: Address: 5500 Cottonwood Lane SE, #106, Prior Lake, MN 55372, 1260 41st Ave Suite K, Capitola CA 95010, USA. USA. Phone: +1 831 465 7661 Phone: +1 952 226 9700 Email: [email protected]. Email: [email protected]. Web: www.triserv.com. Web: www.topgun-tech.com. Sales contacts: Activity: Hardware vendor. America: 800-887-4336 Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, Linux EMEA: 800-887-4336. Non-mainframe platforms supported: IBM i, AIX, Linux AsiaPac: 800-887-4336

Company profile Activity: Software vendor. Top Gun Technology, a Veteran Owned Small Business, Specialist areas: System management is your best source and logical resource to answer your Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS questions regarding zSeries processors and related Pricing options: One-time charge, monthly/annual peripherals. We have the largest independent inventory license.

Company profile Performance Tuning – The majority of mainframe users Our flagship product, zOSEM (zOperating System have significant potential for further reducing resource Environment Manager) is a powerful software tool of consumption (and therefore costs) through performance strategic importance in the enterprise server environment. tuning of key workloads. This is especially true for Driven by a simple ISPF interface, zOSEM encompasses those with older applications that haven’t been actively a multitude of features for improved control, throughput, maintained for a while or who have lost some of their deep and processing efficiency in a z/OS environment. zOSEM middleware skills through retirement or redundancy. is enabling customers to reduce & control ISV costs, eliminate exit migration issues, and provides an easy to By tuning these workloads, ongoing software costs can use DFSMShsm Optimizer which can dramatically improve be reduced and mainframe upgrades potentially deferred. HSM performance. In addition, application performance will be enhanced and overall Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) reduced. Working smarter is a necessity in today’s economic climate; Trident customers can relax knowing they have Our unique zTune service will identify potential mainframe a smart solution that Saves Time, Money and Maximizes workload management improvements and could Resources! immediately reduce your IT spend.

Triton Consulting UBS Hainer GmbH

Address: Address: The Royal, 25 Bank Plain, Norwich, Norfolk, NR2 4SF, UK. Am Zickmantel 16, 36341 Lauterbach, Germany Phone: +44 870 2411 550 Phone: +49-6641-6551-0 Email: [email protected]. Email: [email protected] Web: www.triton.co.uk. Web: www.ubs-hainer.com

Activity: Consultant Activity: Software vendor. Specialist areas: System management; data Specialist areas: Data management; programming/ management; storage management; security testing; Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, z/Linux Non-mainframe platforms supported: Unix, Linux, Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS Windows, other Non-mainframe platforms supported: Linux, Linux, Pricing options: One-time charge, monthly/annual Windows license, processor/capacity-based, other Pricing options: One-time charge, monthly/annual license, processor/capacity-based, workload/usage based, Company profile Triton Consulting is a highly focused, independent data Company profile management services provider. Renowned in the industry UBS Hainer is dedicated to delivering quality software for our levels of DB2 expertise, we are proud to be the and services to IBM’s z/OS mainframe customers home of an IBM Gold Consultant, two IBM Champions and running mission critical Db2 based applications. Cost some of the most highly qualified DB2 experts in the world. and performance are not the only concern for Db2 shops. Staffing and processing time constraints are Product/service information quickly becoming major issues. The value proposition zTune for UBS’s products and services include: Cost reduction, Triton can help you to regain control of your software performance enhancement, job wall clock time reduction charges by running an audit of your current environment and expert system automation to free up experienced and identifying when and where the workload peaks occur. technical staff.

Initial Analysis – Typically customers can reduce their peak UBS Hainer GmbH, headquartered in Germany, was CPU charges by a minimum of 3% with no performance founded in 1997. It fields an active international network impacts whatsoever and many customers can reduce their of distributors that have developed a noteworthy customer peak by 5% from this initial analysis. portfolio worldwide including well known insurance

companies, banks, government institutions, health care Is z/OS not your thing? – Ask for XDM Database Cloning providers, industry and service sector companies. (DC) and XDM Table Copying (TC), your tool of choice for Db2 Linux, Unix, Windows, Oracle, MS SQL.. Product/service information UBS Hainer is a leading innovator of Db2 refresh strategies for test data management. We’ve created a set of tools to simplify and automate all areas of cloning and copying so companies can easily manage multiple test Value-4IT Limited and QA environments – from small unit tests to massive acceptance tests – without impacting their production Address: systems. 7 Wright Road, Long Buckby, Northampton NN6 7GG, UK. Phone: +44 (0) 845 0579386 BCV5: Email: [email protected]. Set up lightening fast copies on file system level to Web: www.value-4it.com automate a regular refresh of your test beds and save 90% CPU, run time and manual effort compared to Unload/Load Activity: Software vendor Specialist areas: System management; data BCV4: management; storage management; asset and change Clone Db2 subsystems and isolate production from all management; security; programming/testing; web other environments in mere minutes without impacting integration and legacy reengineering tools; network performance. performance/management; other Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, VM/VSE, z/Linux XDM Row Level Processing (RLP): Non-mainframe platforms supported: IBM i, AIX, Select and mask consistent subsets with respect to RI distributed Unix, Linux, Windows constraints to supply developers and testers with specific Pricing options: One-time charge, monthly/annual data for unit testing license, processor/capacity-based, workload/usage based

90% + Faster Db2 for z/OS Table Copies 90% Less CPU Consumption

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Company profile Vanguard Integrity Professionals, Inc. Value-4IT are an independent software & professional services company offering diverse and in-depth business Address: facing experience for IBM System z Mainframe, UNIX, 6625 S. Eastern Avenue, Suite 100 Linux and Windows platforms. Las Vegas, NV 89119, USA. Phone: 702-794-0014 Our experienced personnel provide our valued customers Email: [email protected]. with a wide range of business, process & technical skills Web: www.go2vanguard.com for maximizing the business value for IT resources within your organization. Activity: Software vendor Specialist areas: Security Therefore our philosophy is a combination of pragmatic Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS. and structured delivery via TCA, TCO, & ROI Pricing options: One-time charge, monthly/annual methodologies, safeguarding the timely implementation license, workload/usage based, other of cost efficient IT solutions for business improvement initiatives. Company profile Vanguard Integrity Professionals provides enterprise Therefore our philosophy is a combination of pragmatic security software and services that solve complex and structured delivery via TCA, TCO, & ROI security and regulatory compliance challenges for large methodologies, safeguarding the timely implementation enterprises and government agencies around the world. of cost efficient IT solutions for business improvement With solutions for Identity and Access Management, Audit initiatives. and Compliance, Security Administration and Intrusion Detection, Vanguard automates processes necessary to Product/service information identify and mitigate the risks customers face. Vanguard’s Value-4IT are focused on delivering cost efficient and customers receive a rapid return on investment and are strategic IT solutions that meet or exceed business able to focus on other critical business needs thereby requirements. Our customer-facing personnel all have becoming more productive and more secure. For more many years experience working with leading IHVs, ISVs information, visit www.go2vanguard.com. and Professional Services organisations, designing and integrating value-added solutions for many global Blue Product/service information Chip customers. Security Management Solutions Vanguard Administrator - Automated security administration Through a combination of innovative and evolving Vanguard Advisor - Event detection, analysis, and reporting processes, the raison d’être of Value-4IT is to collaborate in Vanguard SecurityCenter - Windows-based security long-term and rewarding partnerships with our customers, administration of RACF becoming their trusted advisor, by consistently delivering Vanguard Enforcer - Intrusion detection and management timely and cost-efficient solutions. system for z/OS and OS/390 mainframe systems Vanguard Policy Manager- A “Best Practices” enforcer for Value-4IT also maintains an independent viewpoint of the z/OS Security Server RACF Commands IT market place and are ideally placed to provide pragmatic

third-party input into technology selection and IT portfolio Compliance and Audit Solutions review for our customer base. We are honoured to have Vanguard Analyzer - System integrity and analysis been chosen to be the UK territory distribution channel for Vanguard inCompliance - Continuous system compliance a modicum of best-of breed software solutions, while we do verification so with a Software Asset Management (SAM) focus, using Vanguard Enforcer - Intrusion detection and management straight-forward, competitive and no-small-print caveat system for z/OS and S/390 mainframe systems pricing regimes. 90% + Faster Db2 for z/OS Table Copies Vanguard Policy Manager - A “Best Practices” enforcer for z/OS Security Server - RACF Commands Value-4IT are UK partners for Dino-Software, PerfTechPro,

Technical Storage and zIT Consulting, supplying high- 90% Less CPU Consumption Access Management Solutions function System z Mainframe Systems Management Vanguard Authenticator - Scalable, modular, and integrated solutions, with short-term ROI and optimized TCO, when authentication solution for entire enterprise compared with similar products.

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Vanguard ez/SignOn - Enterprise identity management and Product/service information intrusion detection JCL Vanguard ez/Token - A two-factor authentication solution JES2 Operator Training integrated with RACF for users logging on to the System Programmer Fundamentals mainframe SMP/E Vanguard Tokenless Authentication - Delivers strong Parallel Sysplex authentication capabilities by generating and sending a WLM one-time use, time-sensitive passcode to a communication HMC device the user already possesses: the user’s cell phone, HCD PDA, Blackberry and more Security Server Vanguard ez/Integrator - Security programming tools that USS allow your applications to inherit the enhanced security of z/VM RACF Storage Area Networking Vanguard ez/AccessControl - Extending RACF access and VSAM identity management to desktops and servers DFSMShsm Vanguard PasswordReset - User reset of forgotten TCP/IP for z/OS passwords DB2 SQL for z/OS or LUW DB2 Administration Intrusion Detection Solutions DB2 Data Recovery Vanguard Enforcer - Intrusion detection and management DB2 Performance and Tuning system for z/OS and S/390 mainframe systems IMS Fundamentals Vanguard Advisor - Event detection, analysis and reporting IMS Programming Vanguard ez/SignOn - Enterprise identity management and IMS Transaction Manager Programming intrusion detection. Informix 11.7 Database or System Administration Informix 4GL WAS Administration WAS Problem Determination WAS Scripting and Automation Verhoef Training Ltd WAS Performance WAS Intelligent Management Address: BPM Performance and Tuning 11 Kingsmead Square, Bath BA1 2AB, UK BPM Problem Determination Phone: +44 (0) 1225 339705. WebSphere Portal Email: [email protected]. WebSphere Portal Applications Web: www.verhoef-training.co.uk WebSphere Transformation Extender MQ Introduction Activity: Education MQ Administration for z/OS or Windows & Linux Specialist areas: System management; data MQ Clusters management; storage management; asset and change MQ Programming management; security; programming/testing; web Integration Bus Administration integration and legacy reengineering tools; network Integration Bus Applications performance/management, other CICS Command Level Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, VM/VSE, Linux CICS Application Development for SOA and Web Services on Z CICS Tailoring Non-mainframe platforms supported: IBM i, AIX, other CICSPlex System Manager Unix, distributed Linux, Windows, other TXSeries Pricing options: Workload/usage based, Java SE6 Jazz Team Server Administration DOORS Foundation and Practitioner Company profile Customizing DOORS Using DXL Verhoef Training is a global training provider with offices in IBM Rational DOORS Next Generation, the UK, USA and South Africa. We have been supporting Tivoli System Automation the Mainframe community since 1980. We deliver zSeries Tivoli Monitoring education using traditional classroom methods and web Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager based instructor led training. We have our own z/OS and Tivoli Business Services Manager z/VM platform that is fully licenced by IBM for training Tivoli Workload Scheduler for z/OS purposes. This is much sought after by customers and Tivoli NetView trade partners.

Tivoli Storage Manager WDR have an attractive office and training centre at Assembler Horsham, an old market town in West Sussex in the South COBOL of England, and maintain facilities to give seamless support PL/1 to our many prestigious clients. REXX Connections Process Modelling with BPM Developing Applications in BPM BPM Administration Web Age Solutions BPM Problem Determination Address: Developing websites using Web Content Manager Suite 1, 436 York Road, Jenkintown, Montgomery County, InfoSphere PA 19046, USA Guardium Phone: +1 215 517 6540. DataStage Email: [email protected]. QualityStage. Web: www.webagesolutions.com

Activity: Education Specialist areas: System management; data management; storage management; programming/testing; WDR Ltd web integration and legacy reengineering tools Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS Address: Non-mainframe platforms supported: Unix, Linux, Park Lodge, 60 London Road, Horsham, West Sussex, Windows RH12 1AY, UK Pricing options: Other Phone: +44 (0)1403 268251. Email: [email protected]. Company profile Web: www.wdr.co.uk Web Age Solutions supports the following technology and methodology areas through training, mentoring and Activity: Consultant consulting. Specialist areas: System management; data management; storage management; asset and change Mainframe – DB2 – WebSphere – WebLogic – Linux – management; security; programming/testing; web UNIX – Python – Java EE – OOAD – Spring – Hibernate – integration and legacy reengineering tools; network Oracle – Big Data – Service Oriented Architecture – Cloud performance/management, other – Enterprise Architecture – Mobile Computing (Android Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, VM/VSE, Linux and i/OS) – JBoss – HTML5 – Open Source–- Microsoft – Non-mainframe platforms supported: IBM i, AIX, Unix, Web services – AJAX – Data Warehousing – XML/XSLT – Linux, Windows Virtualization – ITIL – Web 2.0. Pricing options: One-time charge, monthly/annual license, processor/capacity-based, workload/usage based Product/service information Specific to our mainframe curriculum, we provide training in Product/service information subjects as diverse as MVS Concepts and Utilities,CICS, Established nearly 40 years ago by two senior ex-IBM COBOL, DB2, TSO/ISPF, IMS, z/OS Systems Executives, WDR is one of the UK’s leading IT specialists. management and others. Our courses are developed by The early years, through hands-on consultancy, training industry experts and run using IBM mainframe computers. 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. Xbridge Systems

WDR has since broadened its focus from mainframes to Address: mid-range systems to networks and distributed systems to 1941 Landings Drive, Mountain View, CA. 940430, USA the desk-top and server-based systems of today. Phone: +1 866 356 1515 Throughout, we have remained current in all these Email: [email protected] activities. Web: www.xbridgesystems.com.

Activity: Software vendor a template for a pinpointed implementation of encryption, Specialist areas: Security tokenization, or deletion services. Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS Non-mainframe platforms supported: IBM i, Windows, DataSniff allows you to automate the mainframe data Pricing options: One-time charge, monthly/annual discovery process, immediately define and manage license, processor/capacity-based, risk exposure, and finally bring your mainframes into compliance, once and for all. Company profile Xbridge Systems is committed to providing business- critical mainframe data access, query, delivery, discovery, and loss-protection solutions to companies that aspire to know their data. ZETO Katowice Product/service information Xbridge’s DataSniff software product is the first step in Address: PCI compliance - and is the world’s FIRST and ONLY Zakład Elektronicznej Techniki Obliczeniowej w Katowicach automated data discovery solution for the mainframe. Sp. z o.o., ul. Owocowa 1, 40-158 Katowice, Silesia, DataSniff helps you understand the extent of your PCI Poland exposure and automatically defines the scope of your PCI Phone: +48 32 3589 268 initiative. Email: [email protected] Web: www.zetokatowice.pl DataSniff’s unique capabilities allow clients to quickly and easily comply with data security regulations (PCI, HIPAA, Activity: Software vendor SOX, HiTech Act, etc.) by searching for, discovering, and Specialist areas: System management; data mapping the location of potentially sensitive data at rest management; storage management; asset and change throughout the enterprise, then providing that data map as management; security; programming/testing; web

The Mainframe Market Your finger on Information Service brings subscribers the very latest the pulse of market intelligence on System z hardware and software pricing the mainframe and the underlying financial Mainframe Market considerations that affect pricing Consultant strategy. Barry Graham marketplace Find out more here: www.arcati.com/mmis

134 © Arcati Ltd, 2018 Arcati Mainframe Yearbook 20072018 Vendor Directory integration and legacy reengineering tools; network Product/service information performance/management; other ZETO Katowice meets the requirements of existing Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, VM/VSE, Linux legislation, especially in the field of protection of personal on Z data, the confidentiality of the data entrusted and any Non-mainframe platforms supported: Linux, Windows, license agreements. other Pricing options: One-time charge, monthly/annual In our Data Center, we have three IBM machines: license, processor/capacity-based, workload/usage based, production z13s, test zBC12 and backup z114. The other power of these machines is adapted to the needs of our customers. Our Data Center has redundant server Company profile infrastructure, including IBM Mainframe servers, disk ZETO Katowice Sp. z o.o. is a company operating in the IT arrays, SAN, LAN and WAN infrastructure. Server room market since the 60’s of the twentieth century, providing IT meets the applicable standards and requirements of major solutions for public and private sector. customers.

Our main areas of activity are creation of dedicated IT Our most important customer is The Polish Social systems, processing and data security, advisory services, Insurance Institution (ZUS). ZUS is one of the largest mobile applications, solutions based on business analytics financial institutions in Poland. The main product is the and Big Data. ZETO Katowice has extensive expertise computer system known as Rentier-Manager/ADABAS, in the management, administration and operation of which supports the activities of the Social Insurance Mainframe infrastructure. Over 50 professionals work in Institution in the area of services provided to Polish the mainframe environment. pensioners. Rentier-Manager/ADABAS is developed in Mainframe technologies. We have expertise in project management (PRINCE2, Scrum). We design and deliver IT services using the best We have high competence in: z/OS, z/VM, z/Linux, practices of ITIL. Natural/ADABAS, CICS/TS, Complete, RACF/zSecure, DFSMS/DFSMSHSM, REXX, JCL, TSM. We are constantly improving implemented The Integrated Management System of Quality and Information Security We are interested in building sustainable cooperation with (international standards ISO 9001 and ISO/IEC 27001). customers and business partners. We have a lot of space The main objective of that management system is to for offices and IT equipment. We can make any remote adapt the business processes and standards to market work in customer’s or partner’s Mainframe environment. requirements as well as efficient identification and We work 24 hours a day.. reduction of critical information security risks.

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Informationby Trevor Eddolls Guide 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 [email protected]).

Enterprise Tech Journal IBM Systems Magazine, Mainframe Edition Whereas its predecessor, zJournal, IBM Systems Magazine also comes in AIX, IBM i, was purely mainframe focused, Linux on Power, and Power versions. The content this journal describes itself as is online with regular e-mail newsletters. being for IT technicians in the www.ibmsystemsmag.com/mainframe/ world’s largest multi-platform enterprises. The associated Web IBM Data Magazine & Analytics Hub site at enterprisesystemsmedia. In the spring of 2015, IBM Data magazine was com contains articles, news, jobs, consolidated into the IBM Big Data & Analytics events, and a store. Hub. There are headings for Use Cases, Industries, enterprisesystemsmedia.com/magazines/ Analytics, Technology, Events, For Developers, enterprise-tech-journal/ and Big data and analytics heroes. www.ibmbigdatahub.com/technology/all Enterprise Executive Formerly Mainframe Executive, Mainframe Market Information Service (MMIS) this is the sister publication to Through Arcati’s MMIS Enterprise Tech Journal, and is subscription service, Barry aimed at IT managers in the world’s Graham keeps users up largest multi-platform enterprises. to date with mainframe It is a less technical, but no less hardware and software informative, than ETJ, and both are pricing trends and helps available as flipbooks.. them to negotiate the best deals. The full MMIS enterprisesystemsmedia.com/magazines/ service includes the detailed quarterly Mainframe enterprise-executive/ Market Monitor as well as phone/e-mail support. The monthly e-mail Mainframe Market Bulletin is Enterprise Systems also available separately. Based on the once-celebrated Enterprise Systems www.arcati.com/mmis Journal, the Enterprise Systems Web site provides some interesting articles and discussions on SearchDataCenter mainly non-mainframe platforms. It claims to TechTarget publishes a range of Web-based provide high-end datacenter and server solutions. newsletters, and under the ‘Topic’ drop-down It does advertise webcasts. menu, you can find a number of datacenter topics, www.esj.com but nothing specifically for mainframes any more. searchdatacenter.techtarget.com/

SHARE’s Five Minute Briefing: Data Center diverse products and services, architectures, and Database Trends and Applications publishes business solutions. Titles help users: prepare for a number of Five Minute Briefing newsletters, IBM certifications; master implementation; and but the Data Center title should appeal directly support IBM products and solutions; and educate to mainframers. Published in conjunction with and inform. user group SHARE, http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/ibmpress/ the newsletter provides an excellent weekly IBM Redbooks round-up of relevant IBM Redbooks publications provide a wealth of announcements. real-world installation, configuration, and usage www.dbta.com insights into myriad technologies with a multitude of titles. IBM Publishing http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/ IBM’s publishing arm covers the company’s

IBM mainframe technologies. That’s at www. Mainframe social media millennialmainframer.com. However, the most In addition to the ever-growing number of blogs recent posts seem to be July 2017. focusing on mainframe-related topics, it’s now possible to interact with mainframe-minded people Also worth a look is Marc Wambeke’s Mainframe on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and other social Watch Belgium at mainframe-watch-belgium. media. blogspot.com.

IBM has its IBM Mainframe Insights blog at: And don’t miss the Mainframe World blog at mainframeinsights.com. There are CICS blogs it.toolbox.com/blogs/mainframe-world/, written by at: developer.ibm.com/cics/blogs/. And there are Arcati associate Trevor Eddolls. IMS blogs at developer.ibm.com/zsystems/2017/. There’s always something interesting in the CA IBM Destination z hosts a variety of bloggers, Technologies blog at http://blogs.ca.com/. They who write on different topics each week. It also seem to cover quite a wide range of topics. hosts a variety of articles. You can find the blog at destinationz.org/Community/Evangelizing- There’s DB2utor by Troy Coleman at Mainframe.aspx. ibmsystemsmag.com/Blogs/DB2utor/. And, not to be missed, Craig Mullins’ DB2 Portal blog at Planet Mainframe publishes blogs each week.It db2portal.blogspot.co.uk/. describes itself as, “The world’s premiere resource for leading-edge mainframe technology”. You can Alan Radding describes himself as a 20-year IT find the blogs at: planetmainframe.com/blog/. industry analyst and journalist covering mainframe, midrange, PC, web, and cloud computing. His There’s the Millennial Mainframer blog, which they DancingDinosaur blog – Mainframe computing in describe as a fresh look at all things mainframe. the 21st century – can be found at dancingdinosaur. It’s primarily aimed at college students and wordpress.com. early mainframe professionals interested in

Other interesting blogs are: Drunken Data, a blog com/groups/2318931; and Mainframe Products about storage and data management at www. and Services: Announcements, Conferences, drunkendata.com/; and Irving Wladawsky-Berger Training, Webinars, Promotions, etc at www. by Irving Wladawsky-Berger at blog.irvingwb. linkedin.com/groups/2915689 com/blog/. Another interesting blog is James Governor’s Monkchips site (www.redmonk.com/ If you’re interested in DB2 there’s DB2 Professionals jgovernor). at www.linkedin.com/groups/45375; IDUG: International DB2 Users Group at www.linkedin. For the latest data center news and trends, com/groups/46747; DB2 for z/OS at www.linkedin. there’s the IT Knowledge Exchange at com/groups/1171547; and DB2 for z/OS DBAs itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/data- at www.linkedin.com/groups/2008475; amongst center/. many others.

IBM pages can be found on Facebook at www. There’s the CICS Special Interest Group at facebook.com/IBMZ for just IBM mainframes: at www.linkedin.com/groups/1534227; IBM CICS www.facebook.com/Db2community for DB2; at at www.linkedin.com/groups/4304249; and the www.facebook.com/IMSFans for IMS; and www. Virtual CICS user group at www.linkedin.com/ facebook.com/IBMCICS for CICS. groups/3847862.

The Virtual CICS user group is on Facebook For IMS there’s IBM IMS at www.linkedin.com/ at www.facebook.com/VirtualCICS. And the groups/1949922; and the Virtual IMS user group Virtual IMS user group is at www.facebook.com/ at www.linkedin.com/groups/379256. VirtualIMS. In future, LinkedIn might consider using vanity There are mainframe-related discussions names like Facebook does. on LinkedIn. For example, there’s the IBM MAINFRAME - Unofficial Group atwww.linkedin. On Tumblr there’s Mainframe Tumblr at http:// com/groups/670987; Mainframe (COBOL, mainframe50.tumblr.com/. They say that the JCL,DB2,CICS,VSAM,MVS,Adabas/Natural) Mainframe Tumblr is your hub for exploring IBM Experts at www.linkedin.com/groups/910927; mainframe-enabled innovation. Follow us for Mainframe Experts Network at www.linkedin. stories, insights, videos, and datagrams that com/groups/55779; System z Advocates at celebrate a different System z theme each week www.linkedin.com/groups/155723; Mainframe and show how the mainframe is empowering big Professionals - GlocalCircles.com at /www. opportunities in both new and familiar areas. linkedin.com/groups/2182864; IBM Z and Events at www.linkedin.com/groups/3053018; Enterprise If you go to YouTube (www.youtube.com) there Systems at www.linkedin.com/groups/2196066; are numerous short videos about mainframes and z/OS at www.linkedin.com/groups/2085015; mainframe-related topics. IBM has a number of System z Advocates at www.linkedin.com/ YouTube channels, including www.youtube.com/ groups/155723; Mainframe Operators and user/IBM Programmers at www.linkedin.com/ groups/3688300; SHARE at www.linkedin. On Twitter, here’s a fairly random assortment of com/groups/1803278; z/OS Operating System good tweeters to follow: Education at www.linkedin.com/groups/2109186; @IBMzSystems, @IBM_CICS, @IBM_DB2, Mainframe Users at www.linkedin.com/ @IBM_Informix, @IBM_InfoSphere, groups/3699921; Mainframe Performance & @IBMdatamag, @IBMDB2, @IBMSTG, Optimization: News and Opinion at www.linkedin. @_PeUR, @ARCserve_Europe, @MariaWinans,

@WarrenWhitlock, @ajzander, @Attachmate, @mwambeke, @myzcommunity, @pablocabra, @BarrySchrager1, @Bcrusso, @bethflood, @PlexSpy, @rochanet2, @russellbonner, @BigData_paulz, @BMCMainframe, @Sheena_Seguin, @simonbu, @susvis, @BMCSoftware, @BobThomas_ESM, @Syncsort, @sysprog101, @t_eddolls, @bosnews, @BrillTechnology, @Tanglewould, @TeamARIN, @termalabs, @BTRG_MikeMartin, @ThFalissard, @ToolboxforIT, @tweet2thousif, @CAmainframe, @CAUKI, @CenSoft, @vidierre, @VirtualCICS, @VirtualIMS, @wcfink, @craigmullins, @cristianmolaro, @crshnburn, @wfavero, and @zOShelpForums. @DaniSchererBMC, @dianegjohnson, @DTurnerBlogs, @GlobalKnowledge, It may not be a definitive list, but it’s a good place @GreerJP, @herbpayne, @IDUGDB2, to start! @iixpeering, @ironarchitect, @Isaac_Yassin, @jodiraquel, @jondbray, @KCandLoveData, In addition, there are lots of mainframers on @kennethfogarty, @Macro_4, @Maintec_Inc, Google plus, and there are now mainframers @martinpacker, @MattBullamore, @MichaelDag, using Instagram (eg @ibm, @ibmsports, @microfocus, @mitzihunter, @MSFTBusinessUK, @ibminterconnect, @t_eddolls).

Alabama, and continues to be well supported. Other online information Unlike the high-level blogs, this is the place for very specific technical discussions. Subscribers can Wikipedia sign up to receive useful summaries of message Although not a newsletter or journal, Wikipedia is threads. a great online encyclopaedia that is written and listserv.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html maintained by its readers. The editors work hard to You can also find information on Google Groups at: make sure that valuable content is not vandalized, groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/bit. and the site contains a surprisingly up-to-date listserv.ibm-main range of mainframe-related definitions. http://en.wikipedia.org/ RACF-L A discussion group that focuses on RACF. IBM Knowledge Center for z/OS listserv.uga.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A0=RACF-L IBM Knowledge Center is IBM’s strategic platform for delivering technical content. z/OS V2R2 Assembler-List includes IBM Knowledge Center for z/OS, which A discussion group that focuses on Assembler. is an SMP/E packaging of the customer installable www.lsoft.com/scripts/wl.exe? version of IBM Knowledge Center for use on the SL1=ASSEMBLER-LIST&H=LISTSERV.UGA.EDU z/OS platform. The customer installable version uses an enhanced version of search technology IMS that is available in IBM information centers. A discussion group that focuses on IMS. ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/ http://imslistserv.bmc.com/scripts/wa- SSLTBW_2.2.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r2.e0za100/ BMC.exe?A0=IMS-L ch1kc4z.htm CICS IBM-MAIN listserv A discussion group that focuses on CICS. The IBM Mainframe discussion list has been https://listserv.uga.edu/cgi-bin/ maintained for many years by the University of wa?A0=CICS-L

• International zSeries Oracle SIG for companies Mainframe user groups licensed for Oracle on z/Linux and/or z/OS. The IBM mainframe world has attracted numerous http://www.zseriesoraclesig.org user organizations and special interest groups (SIGs). Most hold regular meetings and There are also two large user organizations conferences, often with satellite groups and for data center managers with a focus on chapters throughout the world. Here are a few infrastructure (including mainframe): of them: • AFCOM (http://www.afcom.com) • SHARE. The oldest (1955) and probably most influential IBM user organization with SIGs • 7x24 Exchange focusing on various aspects of IBM software, (http://www.7x24exchange.org) hardware and security. Known as GUIDE/ SHARE in Europe and Interaction in Australia. Apart from the Virtual IMS user group (www.fundi. http://www.share.org com/virtualims), regional IMS user groups include http://www.gse.org the long-established Dallas/Fort Worth group and http://www.interaction.com.au a number of newer ones.

• zNextGen is part of SHARE, and invites people Canada has CIPS, Canada’s Association of IT who are new to enterprise computing, in a new Professionals, which has been in existence since role with z Systems servers, or working as new 1958 and can be found at http://www.cips.ca/. 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

• 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/

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Glossary of Terminology Definitions of some mainframe-related terms

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3270 Access method IBM’s family of dumb, block-mode synchronous screen IBM-specific jargon for software that moves data and printer terminals, which became the standard for between main storage and I/O devices. terminal/mainframe connectivity. ACF/VTAM 3270 data stream Advanced Communications Function / Virtual Format used by 3270 devices for communication, and Telecommunications Access Method is IBM’s proprietary much used for emulation to make PCs look like dumb telecommunications software. terminals. ACID 5250 This acronym describes the properties of a transaction. Terminal standard for the iSeries/400, System/3x etc. Atomicity refers to a transaction’s changes to the state – either it all happens or nothing happens. Consistency ABARS refers to the state of a transaction. It must not violate Aggregate Backup And Recovery Support. A disaster any of the integrity constraints associated with the state. recovery feature within DFSMShsm for automatically Isolation refers to the transaction not being affected by creating files containing back-ups of critical data. The others. Durability refers to the survival of changes to main use of ABARS is to group all the datasets relating state after a transaction completes. to a particular application together. ACL (1) Abend Access Control Lists control which users or groups of ABnormal ENDing. IBMspeak for an unexpected users can access which files and programs. They are termination to a program run, eg a crash. part of the security system and are checked by RACF.

Above the line ACL (2) In z/OS, z/VM, and VSE/ESA, above the line refers to Automated Cartridge Library. Synonymous with ATL virtual/real memory locations with an address greater (Automated Tape Library). than 16MB. The 16MB limit resulted from earlier operating systems supporting 24-bit addressing. ACO Automated Console Operations. Automated procedures ACB that replace or reduce the number of actions an Access Control Block. The control block used to tie an operator takes from a console in response to system application program to a VSAM dataset. or network activities.

Access control ADA Enforcing rules governing use of computer resources Programming language much loved by the military by restricting both the use and type of use to authorized (ADA is a US government standard), which uses it for individuals and the computer resources they are writing systems for controlling guided missiles and the responsible for. like. Withdrawn August 1994.

Address Resolution Protocol and deleting and copying most dataset types. In short, The Internet Protocol (IP) used to dynamically map IP a multi-purpose utility. Also known as IDCAMS because addresses to physical hardware Media Access Control that is the program name. (MAC) addresses. Analytics Address space Extracting hidden value from the massive volumes of The virtual storage allocated to an executing task in a data. mainframe. Generally used within z/OS to mean the space used by one of batch job, system task, or TSO APAR user. Authorized Program Analysis Report. An official report of a software error to IBM. Also used to refer to the patch Agile supplied by IBM to fix the error (PTF is the correct term). A modern alternative to waterfall models of project development in which requirements and solutions API emerge through collaborative working between Application Program(ming) Interface. Documented developers and users. It results in rapid changes and programming procedures to access a given piece of innovative solutions to problems. software; typically an entry point name and parameter list. The re-use of APIs can speed up application AIX development. Advanced Interactive eXecutive. IBM’s version of Unix for mid-range systems (System p). It is one of APL four commercial operating systems that are certified A Programming Language, conceived within IBM by K E to The Open Group’s UNIX 03 standard. It is cur- Iverson, and popular on the mainframe in the late ’70s rently supported on IBM Power Systems alongside and early ’80s to support end-user activities. IBM i and Linux. APM AJAX Application Performance Management monitors and Asynchronous Javascript And XML is a way of manages the performance and availability of software creating interactive Web applications using a group applications in order to meet business needs. of technologies together. These technologies include XHTML (or HTML) and CSS; the Document Object App Model; and the XMLHttpRequest object. This usually refers to a mobile application found on Android and Apple smartphones and tablets. AMASPZAP z/OS batch utility to apply a fix directly to object codein Applet situ. Often protected against unauthorized use because A small application program written in the Java that of its additional ability to make direct changes to disk. can be retrieved from a Web server and executed in a browser. AMODE Addressing MODE. Attribute of z/OS programs APPN indicating the length (in bits) of the addresses used Advanced Peer-to-Peer Networking architecture is in the program. Introduced in MVS/XA to differentiate an enhancement to SNA architecture. It can handle between the then new 31-bit addressing that expanded dynamic multipath routing. the addressable space from 16MB (24 bit) to 2GB. z/ OS introduced 64-bit addressing. ARM Automatic Restart Management is a sysplex-wide AMS integrated restart mechanism that can restart MVS Access Method Services. z/OS and VSE subsystem subsystems after an abend, restart workloads on for performing various data-related actions on VSAM another MVS image after an MVS failure, and restart and ICF catalogs, including defining VSAM datasets, a failed MVS image.

AS/400 BAL Application System/400. IBM’s mid-range processor, Basic Assembler Language. The machine language on announced in June 1988. It was replaced by the IBM the original S/360 from which the modern Assembler Power Systems in April 2008. languages are derived.

ASCII Bandwidth American Standard Code for Information Interchange. A measure of how fast a network can transfer A modification of the international code which has information, originally measured in Hertz (Hz), but now become a de facto standard (except for IBM which also used for any measure of network throughput. The more uses the EBCDIC code) for transmitting data. Uses precise definition: frequency range within a radiation seven bits plus a parity bit, and includes alphanumeric band required to transmit a particular signal. Measures and control characters. ASCII must be converted to the difference between the highest and lowest signal EBCDIC for uploading to IBM mainframes. frequencies in millions of cycles per second.

ASM BASIC Auxiliary Storage Manager. The part of z/OS that looks Beginners All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code. after the I/O operations relating to paging – specifically Universal interactive programming language. the pages and page slots on external storage (typically DASD). Batch An accumulation of data brought together for processing Assembler or transmission, usually unattended. Less formally, Programming language that allows the user to get the processing of such data, as opposed to online close to the hardware on IBM mainframes. Assembler processing where a user is present to respond statements correspond one-to-one with mainframe, interactively. machine-level instructions. BCD ATL Binary-Coded Decimal. A binary-coded notation in Automated Tape Library (also known as Automated which each of the decimal digits is represented by Cartridge System – ACS, tape silo, or silo). Type of a binary numeral. This differs from the pure binary mass storage system (MSS) in which industry standard notation, where the entire number is represented as a tapes are loaded by a robotic arm. single binary numeral.

Augmented reality BCS Using a device, such as a smartphone or tablet, to The Basic Catalog Structure and the VVDS are the two view an object, such as server, and see on that device parts of the ICF catalog. The BCS contains dataset and additional information about the object – such as alias names and volume serial numbers. performance information. BCU Auxiliary storage A Balanced Configuration Unit comprises processor All storage needing a channel I/O to access it (basically memory, I/O, storage, and DB2 resources. It is the cache, SSD, disk, tape, mass storage). smallest combination of these that work together efficiently. As more work is added to the system, AWLC so more BCUs can be added. This avoids any one Advanced Workload License Charges is a new monthly component being too big in terms of the others. licence pricing metric from IBM and applies to z196s. BDAM Backout Basic Direct Access Method allows programmers to A process that removes all database updates performed access specific blocks of data on DASD. by an application that has abended (qv).

Benchmark Blockchain An agreed workload used as a standard against which A blockchain is a distributed database that maintains to compare the performance of different hardware/ a continuously growing list of ordered records. software. For a benchmark to be useful it needs to be Blockchains are secure by design and an example of a public standard. a distributed computing system. Once recorded, the data in a block cannot be altered retroactively. Big Data The SNA/APPN command used to activate an LU-LU Bluemix session following the successful completion of the SNA/ Bluemix is an open-standards, cloud-based platform for APPN session initiation processing. building, managing, and running all types of apps, for Web, mobile, big data, and smart devices. It includes Big SQL Java, mobile back-end development, and application This allows users to access Hadoop-based data monitoring, all provided as-a-service in the cloud. using familiar SQL statements. It utilizes InfoSphere BigInsights. BMS Basic Mapping Support. An interface between CICS Bimodal IT and an application to control the movement and Gartner’s management of IT model where one strand presentation of datastreams to and from a dumb is very conservative and unwilling to change and the terminal. BMS allows data to be displayed without other strand embraces rapid application development allowing for display-dependent formatting characters. and is tightly linked to business needs. Boolean BIND An operation that follows the rules of Boolean algebra. The SNA/APPN command used to activate an LU-LU session following the successful completion of the SNA/ Boot APPN session initiation processing. To prepare a computer system for operation by loading an operating system. BIOS Basic Input/Output System. The I/O component of a BPAM simple operating system defining the interface between Basic Partitioned Access Method is a low-level access the operating system and the outside world. method used to access Partitioned DataSets (PDSs).

Bitcoins BSAM Bitcoins originated in a 2008 concept paper by Satoshi Basic Sequential Access Method, along with QSAM, is Nakamoto. Bitcoins are a virtual currency that are an access method used to access sequential datasets. ‘mined’ by solving complex algorithms and are usually stored in a digital wallet. Bitcoin exchanges are Bus completely private, which makes them popular with Generic term in data communications to describe a criminals! Many legitimate companies offer products wiring topology (such as that used in Ethernet) in which for sale using bitcoins. devices are connected along a single linear medium.

BLOB BYOD Binary Large OBject. A generic term for a file containing Bring your own device is the policy many companies some kind of binary data (text, image, document, are adopting to allow employees to bring their own sound, etc). Typically BLOBs can be transferred and mobile devices (laptops, tablets, and smartphones) to manipulated across a wide range of platforms. their workplace, and to use those devices to access privileged company information and applications. Block A string of data elements, such as characters, words, BYOI or physical records, that are recorded or transmitted Bring Your Own Identity is the growing practice of taking as a unit. a validated identity with you and so not needing to

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Byte Change management A string of 8 bits that represents one EBCDIC character. The methodology for planning and controlling software The IBM mainframe architecture is organized around changes. the concept of the byte. Channel C A specialized computer used in the IBM mainframe A programming language developed at Bell Labs in architecture to control transfers between devices and 1972, so named because its predecessor was named the processor unit. The channel offloads some of the B. Unix was written in C. processing associated with I/O from the main CPU.

C/C++ Channel adapter An optional, separately priced feature of z/OS, available Hardware unit to attach a channel to a processor. with or without Debug Tool. The C/C++ IBM Open Class Library is included with z/OS, but is only enabled when Channel attached C/C++ is licensed. Devices that are directly attached to the processor by cable rather than over a communications link. Cache High-speed buffer between a fast device and a slow Channels device. In large IBM systems cacheing may take CICS TS 3.1 introduced a replacement for size- place in the CPU (in main or expanded storage), the restricted COMMAREAs – they are channels and controller, device head-of-string, or the device itself containers. Any number of containers can be passed (eg in a track buffer). It is used to reduce access time. between programs and they are grouped together in channels. Capacity on Demand Processors can be purchased with extra capacity CHPID already on-board but not functioning. When extra CHannel Path IDentifier. A single byte binary value used capacity is required at a site, it is turned on. This is to uniquely identify each channel path on an eServer non-disruptive and customers don’t pay for the extra zSeries and previous mainframe systems. capacity until they start using it. CICS Catalog Customer Information Control System. General A dataset that contains information about other purpose TP monitor for terminal-oriented and inter- datasets, eg type, location, size, format. The z/OS system transaction processing in z/OS and VSE/ESA master catalog usually also contains entries for user environments. Now with added SOA. catalogs. CICS Explorer CCL This is a system management tool for CICS systems Communication Controller for Linux (CCL) on zSeries that’s based on the Eclipse platform. runs the Network Control Program (NCP) software product in Linux, enabling users to get rid of their legacy CICSplex 3745 communication controllers running NCP-based A CICS complex (CICSplex) is a group of inter- SNA workloads to zSeries servers. communicating CICS systems.

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CKD Compiler Count Key Data is a way to format disk drive using A program that translates high-level programming cylinder number, track number, and physical record. languages into machine language programs.

Client/server Composite applications Generic term for systems (also known as server/ A composite application is an application built by requester) in which one machine provides a range of combining multiple services. This tends to mean services to one or more other machines. taking part of a really useful mainframe application and combining it with some other code so that the CLIST mainframe application becomes available over the Web Control language used to manage interactive applications in the z/OS TSO environment. Largely Compression superseded by REXX. Generic term for a method of reducing the amount of space needed to store data, by encoding the data. This Cloud computing is achieved through the elimination of empty fields, A new name for something similar to client/server gaps, redundancies, and unnecessary data to shorten computing. A user launches a browser and clicks a link. the length of records or blocks. Somewhere else an application launches and work is done. The mainframe seems to have always worked Connector in this way. Organizations like Microsoft, Amazon, and One way of integrating CICS applications as Web Google are trying to become big players in this ‘new’ services is to use connectors on the mainframe and paradigm. use native interfaces to permit tight integration with the target application. CMOS Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor. A chip Containers technology used widely by IBM in its processors, CICS TS 3.1 introduced a replacement for size- superseding the water-cooled ECL chips on the restricted COMMAREAs – they are channels and mainframe. containers. Any number of containers can be passed between programs and they are grouped together in CMS channels. Channels are deleted when no programs Conversational (originally Cambridge – the lab where are using them. it was built) Monitor System. Operating system running under VM, and providing timesharing and program Control Point development facilities. SNA/APPN/HPR functionality that performs authorization, directory services and configuration COBOL management. Programming language, very widely used for commercial applications on the mainframe. Some CORBA sources suggest that CICS and COBOL account for Common Object Request Broker Architecture. Set of 85% of all transactions processed. standards for distributed object management from the Object Management Group (OMG). Communication Server IBM’s all inclusive, multi-platform, software bundle that Coupling provides a plethora of terminal emulation, Web-to-host, Generic term used to mean connecting of processors and networking capabilities. together into a more or less tightly-knit computing complex. Used specifically by IBM to mean the Compile connection of multiple eServer zSeries processors in The translation of a high-level programming language a Sysplex. (source program) into a machine language program (an executable program).

Coupling Facility Data mining Hardware from IBM, where common tables can be The practice of using a data warehouse for highly shared in a Sysplex, for high-speed cacheing, update complex, ad hoc queries. locking of shared data, list processing and workload balancing between multiple processors. Data sewer What happens to a data lake as more and more records CPC are added. Central Processor Complex. Data warehouse CPU General term for a collection of database, middleware, Central Processing Unit. Processor. The part of a and query tools that allow fast, flexible access to near- computer that executes instructions. operational corporate data.

CRM DataPower Customer Relationship Management refers to the IBM WebSphere DataPower SOA Appliances is a family way organizations manage their relationships with of pre-built, pre-configured rack mountable network customers - including finding, marketing to, selling to, devices that accelerate Web services deployments and servicing these customers. while extending SOA infrastructure.

CTG Dataset CICS Transaction Gateway provides J2EE standards- A unit of data storage and retrieval consisting of one based access to CICS applications, which means it’s or more data records. Outside of the IBM mainframe an easy way to make existing CICS applications part environment, people call them files. of a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA). DB2 CTC Database/2. Relational database management system Channel-To-Channel connections would link two first announced for mainframe environments in 1983. mainframes and provide high-speed communication. Originally promoted as an end-user tool, but is now IBM’s preferred DBMS for just about everything and Cylinder runs on all platforms. The tracks, in an assembly of magnetic disks, that can be accessed without repositioning the access Debug mechanism. The human problem determination process for software. Literally, to remove bugs. DASD Direct Access Storage Device. IBMspeak for disk. DEDB Data Entry DataBases are one of two types of IMS fast DAT path database. These databases do not have indexes Dynamic Address Translation. The process by which and are stored in VSAM files. virtual addresses are converted into real addresses during instruction execution. Defragmentation The use of a software utility to improve access Data dictionary and retrieval time by rewriting fragmented data to A data dictionary (DD) is a database containing contiguous sectors of a computer storage medium. information about the way items of data are used. Typically a DD contains details of data names, data Denial of Service usage, data structures, data models, and so on. An insidious, carefully-orchestrated attack on computer systems or networks to overload their resources with a Data lake barrage of requests in the hope of discovering overload- A data lake is a repository of data stored in its natural induced vulnerabilities within the targets or to just format. This could be in a Hadoop-based repository. disrupt the mission-critical activities of an enterprise.

DeOS DFSMSrmm No longer is DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) DFSMS Removable Media Manager. Its goal was to our only worry, we need to think about Destruction Of integrate the system managed storage principles of Service attacks. DFSMS into all removable media, most notably tape and optical. Device Any computer peripheral, such as tape or DASD, or Digital Transformation (DX) any object that appears to be a peripheral. Another way of describing the inevitable change in technology that occurs in businesses that plan to stay DevOps in business. Part DEVelopment and part OPerations, DevOps is a philosophy emphasizing the collaboration and Disruptive technology communication between software developers and Henry Ford said: “If I had asked people what they other IT people, so that building, testing, and releasing wanted, they would have said faster horses”. That’s an software, can happen rapidly, frequently, and more example of a disruptive technology – something that reliably. changes the way people do things.

DFSMS DL/I Data Facility Storage Management Subsystem. An Data Language/I. The I is the Roman numeral One. The element of z/OS and also available for z/VM, as data manipulation language within IMS DB. DL/I is also DFSMS/VM. The idea is that you simply tell the system the product name for IBM’s VSE/ESA implementation about your storage, back-up, performance, and other of IMS DB. requirements of the data, and the system does the rest for you. Of course, it’s not really that simple. DLSw Widely-used SNA/APPN(/NetBIOS)-over-TCP/IP DFSMSdfp transport mechanism which, however, unlike EE, does DFSMS Data Facility Product. A component of DFSMS not support SNA COS or routing. that provides functions for storage, data, program, and device management, in conjunction with distributed DMZ data access. Enables the definition of the services A De-Militarized Zone is used in the on-going war to be assigned to new datasets. Handles catalog against viruses and malware etc. Typically, one management and access methods. computer accepts incoming data and send outgoing data. Behind it is a firewall, and behind that is the DFSMSdss protected LAN. DFSMS DataSet Services. An optional, separately priced feature of DFSMS that handles device migration, Docker copy, space management, and dump/restore. It Docker is a software container platform. Everything you also converts existing data between non-SMS and need to make the software work is packaged into this SMS volumes, and provides an interface for storage container. It includes libraries and settings to run on any administrators (ISMF). platform. This way, you get an efficient, lightweight, self- contained system, plus the assurance that the software DFSMShsm will always run the same, no matter where it’s deployed. DFSMS Hierarchical Storage Manager. An optional, separately priced feature of DFSMS. It is a sophisticated Domino automated system for both back-up and hierarchical Web server technology from Lotus (June 1996), which storage management. It includes an ISPF interface allows browsers to interact with Notes and access Notes for end users who wish to migrate, recall, back-up, or databases. Now closely integrated with WebSphere. recover individual datasets, or to override the default migration and/or back-up parameters.

DRaaS Enterprise Content Management (ECM) Disaster Recovery as a Service is the replication and This refers to a way of organizing and storing an hosting of physical or virtual servers by a third-party to organization’s documents, and other content, that provide failover in the event of a catastrophe. relate to the organization’s processes. Nowadays, ECM can be used when talking about strategies, EBCDIC methods, and tools used throughout the life-cycle of Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code. the content. ECM also covers the capture, search, Coded 8-bit character set (giving 256 characters) used and networking of documents with digital archiving, by IBM mainframes. document management, and workflow. e-business Enterprise Extender Used to refer to business transactions that use the Enterprise Extender (EE) is a combination of SNA Internet. encapsulated in IP packets, so it can be thought of as a kind of protocol. ECI The External Call Interface is used by CICS to allow EPI non-CICS programs to invoke programs under CICS. A CICS External Presentation Interface service is an implementation of a service that can be created from a Eclipse 3270 terminal. EPI provides communication with 3270 Eclipse is an Open Source IDE. IBM’s version is sold terminal-based CICS applications. as WebSphere Studio Workbench. The Eclipse platform comprises the platform run-time, the workspace, the ERP workbench, the Standard Widget Toolkit (SWT), the Enterprise Resource Planning systems try to integrate Version and Configuration Management (VCM), and all the data and processes that exist within an the help system. Eclipse comes with a large number organization into a single unified system. of plug-ins. The user interface for Eclipse is known as the workbench. Error log A dataset or file that contains a record of machine Edge computing checks on device errors, which are stored for later Putting some computing power at the furthest reaches analysis. of the network to control IoT devices, for example ESB EE An Enterprise Service Bus is a software architecture HPR-over-UDP/IP, created by committee and codified construct that is standards-based and flexible. It is an in RFC 2353 in 1998, which permits SNA/APPN attempt to separate the service being called and the networking, replete with native COS and routing, across required transport medium. IP networks. ESCON EJB Enterprise System Connectivity. The high-speed Enterprise JavaBeans. A server-side, transaction- fibre-optic channel architecture (using a serial, packet- oriented extension to the JavaBeans component model switched protocol) first available on ES/9000 and specification published by Sun. EJB are JavaBeans, but 3090Js and many peripherals. Replaced by FICON in have no user interface and are designed to run within a May 1998, though still available. special EJB container. In principle, any properly coded EJB should run within any fully compliant EJB container. ESDS Entry Sequenced DataSet is a VSAM sequential Enqueue dataset. The z/OS expression (often abbreviated to ENQ) for requesting resource serialization. ENQ can be used to ESM put a user-named entry in the system resource queue An External Security Manager is software that controls in order to prevent another program using a serially access to applications and data externally. RACF is an usable resource. External Security Manager. 150 © Arcati Ltd, 2018 Arcati Mainframe Yearbook 2018 Glossary

ESS FORTRAN The Total Storage Enterprise Storage Server, code- FORmula TRANslation. A programming language best named shark, is a high-speed data storage product. suited for engineering, scientific, and mathematical applications. EWLC Entry Workload Licence Charges allow customers only Fragmentation pay for peak z/OS usage, not for full machine capacity. When an operating system writes data to disk or other storage media, and there is insufficient contiguous FBA space, the data is then written to discontiguous Fixed Block Architecture is a way of formatting disk sectors. The result is fragmented data. Fragmentation drives where space is allocated in fixed-length blocks can cause increased data access times because the rather than cylinders. operating system must search different tracks for information. FDBR Fast DataBase Recovery creates a separate IMS FTP control region (the Fast Database Recovery region) File Transfer Protocol is an application layer protocol to monitor an IMS subsystem. If it detects a failure, it that uses TCP and Telnet services to transfer bulk data will recover any database resources that are locked files between machines or hosts. by the failed IMS, so they’re available for other IMS subsystems. FWLC Flat Workload License Charge. A flat monthly charge Fibre optic channel for a software product, no matter what size of zSeries Channel technology which replaced copper bus-and- server it is being run on. tag channel cables with fibre-optic links. Gamification FICON A way of making using the software more fun – like FIbre CONnection. Mainframe channel that implements in a game – and so people are more likely to do it. It the ANSI FCS transport. Each FICON channel has applications in mundane tasks such as updating can handle over 4,000 I/O operations per second, a knowledgebase. equivalent to eight ESCON(qv) channels. The FICON channel link speed is 100MB/sec full duplex, compared Gateway with 17MB/sec simplex with ESCON links. One way of integrating CICS applications as Web services is to use gateways, which run off the Firewall mainframe on middle tier servers and may well use Specialized software designed to prevent unauthorized traditional methods, such as screen scraping. access to a computer system while permitting validated, non-harmful interactions to get through. GDG Generation Data Group. Collection of (z/OS non-VSAM) Flat file datasets all with the same logical name (GDG Base Any file (dataset, mainframe parlance) stored in a file Entry); the individual datasets are uniquely identified access method without an index which, of course, by the generation number which is stored as part of eliminates all relational DBMSs. the dataset name.

Floating point GDPR One of several methods of storing numbers on an General Data Protection Regulation applies to any IBM mainframe and most other computers. Similar to organization storing data about EU citizens. scientific notation, such as 3.75 times 10 to the 25th power, only it is 2 or 16 that is taken to some power. GDPS Geographically Dispersed Parallel Sysplex is an FLPA application to manage z/OS remote copy configuration The Fixed Link Pack Area is an area of storage and storage subsystems, to automate various tasks, containing modules loaded at IPL time.

GTF HFS Generalized Trace Facility. An optional z/OS utility that Hierarchical File System comes with Linux and refers records system events, which can be used for problem to the way files are stored. diagnosis. HiperBatch GitHub A way of running batch jobs in hyperspace, so there A Web-based Git version-control repository hosting was far less I/O and things ran faster. service, which is available on mainframes. HMC GUIDE Hardware Management Console used to manage Guidance for Users of Integrated Data processing hardware. Equipment. For many years, an international user group for users of large IBM equipment. Main GUIDE Host interests were in applications and the commercial world. A computer system that is a server and/or serves Depending on the area of the world you live in, it either attached terminals. Often used to refer to mainframe. stepped aside for SHARE or merged with SHARE (now GUIDE/SHARE in Europe, for example). HPR High-Performance Routing is an extension to APPN Hackathon networking providing improved routing performance A caffeine-rich events where teams use APIs to create and reliability. customer-friendly applications quickly. HSA Hadoop High-Speed Adapter is the name for subchannels on An open-source software framework for storage and some servers. large scale processing of data-sets, ie Big Data. On a mainframe, it runs in a Linux partition (Linux on HTML System z). HyperText Mark-up Language is a “mark-up language” for defining the structure of a document – eg Web Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) pages. A filesystem used to store Big Data. HTTP HALDB HyperText Transfer Protocol is the protocol used to High-Availability Large Databases are the newest request, transfer, and display hypertext documents. (since V7) IMS databases. They are like souped-up very big full-function databases. Hub A generic term for a device that has a single connection HBase to the host and many connections for other devices to This is a non-relational, distributed database, written connect to it. in Java that is used to store Big Data. I/O HCD Input/output. Refers to the transmission of data into Hardware Configuration Definition is an interactive tool or out of a processor’s memory. This would include used to define the hardware configuration. communication lines and peripherals such as disk drives. HDA Head/Disk Assembly. The read/write head and ICETOOL associated bits and pieces that read data from disks. An enhanced DFSORT utility that includes the OUTFIL The implication is also of a sealed unit, at least from feature.

IBM i IEBPTPCH An operating system running on IBM Power Systems. z/OS Print-Punch utility for producing a hard copy of It was originally named OS/400 and ran on AS/400s. datasets and library members. Replaced by ISPF/ PDF’s hardcopy capabilities. ICF Integrated Catalog Facility contains catalog information IEBUPDTE about datasets. It is made up BCS and VVDS. z/OS Update Dataset utility. Can only be used for PDS members and sequential datasets with fixed-length ICF records no greater than 80 bytes in length. Integrated Coupling Facility is a component of a Parallel Sysplex. It allows multiple processors to share, cache, IEHLIST update, and balance data access. z/OS List System Data utility for listing a VTOC or the directory of a PDS. ICSF Integrated Cryptographic Service Facility is part of MVS IEHMOVE security, protecting data on the mainframe. z/OS Move System Data utility for moving or copying logical collections of operating system data. Replaced IDAA (IBM DB2 Analytics Accelerator) by DFSMSdss. This high-performance appliance integrates IBM Netezza and zEnterprise technologies, providing fast IETF results for complex and data-intensive DB2 queries on Internet Engineering Task Force. An open community data warehousing, business intelligence, and analytic of network designers, operators, vendors, and workloads. researchers concerned with the evolution of the Internet architecture and the smooth operation of the Internet. IDCAMS Access Method Services. Multi-purpose batch VSAM IFL utility program. Integrated Facility for Linux. Dedicated Linux processor on the zSeries. IDE Integrated Development Environment. Salesmen say it IIOP stands for “It Does Everything”, and unlucky customers Internet Inter-ORB Protocol is an object-oriented as “I Do Everything”! An IDE could be a glorified text protocol that makes it possible for distributed programs editor right up to all-singing all-dancing software like written in different programming languages to Eclipse and Visual Studio. communicate over the Internet.

IEBCOMPR IML z/OS Compare Datasets utility does a logical compare Initial Microcode (sometimes Machine) Load. The of datasets. Replaced by SuperC in ISPF/PDF. first step in starting up a mainframe, during which the firmware is automatically copied into the machine. IEBCOPY z/OS Library Copy utility for copying members of IMS a partitioned dataset (PDS), unloading a PDS into Information Management System. Vintage but a sequential dataset and back again. Unloading is extremely powerful system for transactional workloads, especially useful for copying a PDS to tape. still underpinning many of the world’s business-critical applications. Composed of two systems: Database IEBGENER Manager (IMS DB) and a Transaction Manager (IMS z/OS Sequential Copy/Generate Dataset utility. TM). Replaced by ICEGENER in DFSORT and several non-IBM products.

IMS catalog IPL The IMS catalog contains information about IMS Initial Program Load. The first part of the process of program resources, database resources, and relevant loading an operating system into a machine. application metadata that IMS controls. IRC IMS Connect Inter-Region Communication is a CICS facility providing This is an integrated TCP/IP gateway for IMS, allowing communication between CICS regions using functions user-written applications to access IMS data and such as Multiregion Operation (MRO) and Distributed transaction services from any TCP/IP client. It also Program Link (DPL). supports callout from IMS applications to outside services. IRD Intelligent Resource Director. z/OS feature for IND$FILE redistributing workloads on the fly. Mainframe file transfer program. ISHELL Info/Man ISHELL (ISPF Shell) is the name of the panel displayed IBM Information/Management. Software problem, after issuing the ISH command. It can be used to view change and configuration management software. Now files and directories. called Tivoli Information Management for z/OS. ISPF Internet of Things (IoT) Interactive System Productivity Facility. Menu and This refers to devices such a remote sensors, CCTV, screen management system. weather satellites, etc that will be monitoring thrughout the day, and producing data that can be captured and ISPF/PDF analysed. ISPF/Program Development Facility. ISPF facility providing access to application development services IOCDS for end users and programmers. Incorporates C and Input/Output Configuration DataSet. The dataset REXX programming support, and some support for specifying the I/O devices that can be connected to a programmable workstations. mainframe. ISV IOCP Independent Software Vendor. A software vendor Input/Output Configuration Program. The program which isn’t part of and/or doesn’t belong to a hardware describing the I/O configuration to the channel manufacturer. subsystem. IT4IT IP This Reference Architecture prescribes holistic Internet Protocol. An Internet protocol that routes data management of the business of IT with continuous through networks. IP acts as an intermediary between insight and control, enabling ‘Boundaryless Information the higher protocol layers and the physical network. It Flow’ across the entire IT Value Chain. It provides does not provide error recovery or flow control. prescriptive guidance on how to design, procure, and implement the functionality needed to run IT. The end- IP address to-end, ‘how to’ emphasis of the IT Value Chain and The numerical Internet Protocol (IP) address of an IT4IT Reference Architecture also enables the state of Internet computer. Every computer has a unique services that IT delivers to be systematically tracked numerical IP address. IPv6, which offers 64-bit across the service life-cycle. 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!

ITIL JDBC Information Technology Infrastructure Library. ITIL Java DataBase Connectivity. An API that is designed provides a framework of best practice guidance for IT for use by Java database applications, and has the service managers. The actual ITIL publications cover same characteristics as Open Database Connectivity areas such as service strategy, service design, service (ODBC). transition, service operation, and continual service improvement. JDK Java Development Kit. Software development kit from J2EE Sun consisting of a Java compiler, a debugger, standard Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition. The Java Software Java classes, and a Java run-time (ie JVM) for Unix. Development Kit (SDK) tools, APIs, and run-time (ie execution) environment targeted at Java developers Jenkins building enterprise-class, server-side applications. A continuous integration tool used most often for software development Java An object-oriented programming environment JES2 and JES3 developed by Sun towards the end of 1995. Java Job Entry Subsystem 2. One of two batch processing creates applets which can be downloaded across the subsystems available for z/OS, both developed in the Internet, and which will allow clients to interact with 1960s and with a different heritage and different control objects on the Web and intranet servers. statements. Each reads batch jobs in, schedules their execution and spools their output. JES2 is by far the Java Virtual Machine more popular. The facility allowing Java applets/source code to run on a computer. JMS The Java Message Service is a Java API to message- JavaBeans oriented middleware (MOM). A platform-independent, software component technology for building reusable Java components JNDI called Beans. The JavaBeans component model Java Naming and Directory Interface is really two APIs specifies how to build reusable software components, used to keep track of, and access, dispersed data. how the resulting Beans describe their properties to visual rapid application development tools, and how JNI they communicate with each other. Beans can be The Java Native Interface is a programming interface combined to create applications or applets. for writing Java native methods and embedding the Java virtual machine into native applications. JavaScript An interpreted scripting language. JSON JavaScript Object Notation is an open standard format JCA using human-readable text to send data objects as an Java EE Connector Architecture can connect existing alternative to XML. CICS applications to external Java applications using the CICS Transaction Gateway. JSP JavaServer Pages. Uses XML-like tags and scriptlets JCICS to encapsulate logic that fills out the dynamic content The CICS Java class library (JCICS) can be used by of HTML pages. Java applications to access CICS services. JVM JCL see Java Virtual Machine. 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).

Kantara Initiative Latency This is an organization dedicated to advancing A measure of response time. On a disk drive, how long technical and legal innovation related to digital identity it takes for the first bit of requested data to rotate under management. It isn’t a standards body, buts make the head. In a network, the minimum elapsed time for a recommendations to standards bodies about digital message to be transmitted, consisting of the aggregate identity management. delay contributed by the communications links and devices along the way. Kerberos Security system for Unix environments derived from LDAP MIT’s Project Athena. Uses a trusted server to ensure Lightweight Directory Access Protocol. An Internet that there are no unwanted systems in the network. directory management standard that provides a consistent way to manage user access to network Kernel resources, such as information, applications and The core of an operating system that performs basic systems. functions such as allocating hardware resources. LDS Kilobit Linear DataSet is a type of VSAM dataset that can 1024 bits, or 2 to the 10th power, when referring to be kept permanently in memory thus improving processor storage, real and virtual storage, and channel performance. volume. However, when referring to disk storage capacity it is 1000 bits. Abbreviated as Kb. Legacy system The description given to any system that’s been around Kilobyte longer than the programmer who wants to change it. 1024 bytes, or 2 to the 10th power, when referring to Some ‘legacy systems’ can be comparatively recent processor storage, real and virtual storage, and channel and, despite popular perceptions, they are certainly volume. However, when referring to disk storage not exclusive to the mainframe. capacity it is 1000 bytes. Abbreviated as KB. Liberty profile KSDS This is a cut down version of the WebSphere Liberty Key Sequenced DataSet is a type of VSAM dataset in product. It provides a way for CICS, IMS, and DB2 which the physical location of records is controlled by users to easily allow their applications to link to apps the key used. running in mobile devices and the Internet of Things.

LAN LIFO Local Area Network. A generic term for the transport Last In, First Out. A queuing technique where the most mechanism for a local (eg site or building) network. The recent addition to the queue is processed first. Also thing that makes current LANs special is their intimacy known as a push-down stack. with the connected machines; effectively the LAN acts as an extension to the internal bus of the attached Linear Dataset system, and allows a single system to be built from A VSAM dataset type, similar to an ESDS, but which physically dispersed components. always has 4096 byte blocks, and which can be kept permanently in memory for enhanced performance. Language Environment LE provides a common run-time environment for major Linux programming languages. The common library of run- An Open Source Unix variant that seems to run on time services includes message handling, condition everything from workstations (where Microsoft haters handling, storage management routines and time/date insist it will replace Windows) to mainframes (where functions. IBM has spent bags of money making it run well).

Listener M2M An application that ‘listens’ for input on a line and then Machine-to-machine is used when talking about acts on it. machines, devices, and equipment that can communicate with each other. And that communication Load module can be wired or wireless. A program in a form that can be loaded into memory for immediate execution. MAC Media Access Control. Generic term for the way in Logical Partitioning which workstations gain access to transmission media. A way of dividing up a processor’s capacity under PR/ SM into physically separate areas (LPARs or Logical Macro PARtitions) for resilience, performance or security A preprocessor (precompiler), and the statements reasons. it processes, for Assembler. Generates Assembler instructions and machine instruction mnemonics as well LPA as allowing assembly time conditional logic. Link Pack Area. The z/OS area used for resident programs, eg those programs which are most frequently Mainframe used and (usually for performance reasons) should not A high-performance computer serving many people be loaded by each application program from libraries at once and running many different applications stored on disk. concurrently.

LPAR Man-in-the-Middle Logical PARtitioning is a way of dividing up a Data siphoning scheme where fraudulent software processor’s capacity. manages to insert itself, undetected, between two network partners by actively emulating the two partners LSR being deceived. Local Shared Resources. A technique for improving CICS performance by the sharing of a common buffer MapReduce pool for VSAM datasets. A process used on Big Data at runtime that maps the data and reduces it. LU SNA’s software interface (or ‘port’) through which end Master catalog users gain access to the SNA network. The z/OS catalog where the search begins for a dataset. LU 6.2 SNA’s protocol suite for program-to-program MCM communications. The MultiChip Module (MCM) contains the Central Electronic Complex (CEC) of a S/390 system. LUW Logical Unit of Work is the amount of work that will be Measured usage backed out in the event of a failure. For example, a The method of charging for software based on the CICS transaction is processing away happily and then monthly usage. Same as Usage-based pricing. something goes wrong. The LUW defines how much of what has been processed will be backed out and Megabit how much that occurred previously can be left. Large 1,048,576 bits. Abbreviated as Mb. LUWs are efficient providing that failures are rare. Small LUW use processing power, but are more efficient for recovery after a failure.

Megabyte MLPA Roughly one million bytes – actually 1,048,576 bytes. The Modified Link Pack Area is an area of storage used Abbreviated as MB. to contain re-enterable routines from APF-authorized libraries. MFLOPS MegaFLOPS. One MFLOPS is one million floating MobileFirst point operations per second – a common measure of MobileFirst is a set of mobile software, services, and numerically intensive compute power. solutions for businesses offered by IBM.

MIB MOM Management Information Base. Generic term (often Message Oriented Middleware. For example, used specifically in relation to the SNMP management WebSphere MQ. protocol) for the database of the objects managed in a network – usually a LAN. MongoSQL This is an Open Source NoSQL database that uses Microcode JSON-like documents with dynamic schemas for speed. Although it can have very specific alternative meanings, its most common usage is as a synonym for firmware. MPF Message Processing Facility. A utility in z/OS that Microsecond controls message display and message processing, 1/1,000,000 of a second. typically to suppress unnecessary system messages. A first step towards automated operations. Microsoft The company that made the shrewd move of persuading MQSeries IBM to use its DOS operating system for the IBM PC. Messaging and Queueing Series – see WebSphere The rest is history. MQ.

Middleware MRO Though it defies definition, its primary role is to provide Multi-Region Operation is a function of the CICS Inter- connectivity and other shared services between Region Communication facility enabling communication platforms. There are numerous types. between CICS regions.

MIME MSDBs Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions. An encoding Main Storage DataBases are one of two types of IMS format allowing e-mail messages containing a variety fast path database. These databases do not have of media forms (audio, video, image, and text) to be indexes and are stored in VSAM files. sent across the Internet. MSS MIPS Mass Storage System is hardware for storing large Million Instructions Per Second (or Meaningless amounts of archive data, typically involving the use of a Indicator of Processor Speed). A crude and not very jukebox mechanism to retrieve discrete data cartridges. meaningful way of expressing raw computer power, widely used for comparing the power of different MSU mainframe models and for demonstrating the futility of Millions of Service Units. Measure of mainframe comparing the mainframe with other platforms. compute power, used selectively by IBM as an alternative to MIPS. Opinions vary as to how the two Mirroring metrics compare. 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.

MTBF NetView Mean Time Between Failures. The average value of SNA network management product. Announced the length of time between consecutive failures under mid-1986. Although it started off life as a rather half- stated conditions of a system. hearted bundling of various mainframe-centric network management products (including NCCF, NLDM, MTO NPDA, VNCA, and NMPF), by mid-1995 it had turned Master Terminal Operator. Software enabling a terminal into a fully-fledged distributed network management to control a subsystem, eg CICS. system, with a strong focus on distributed Unix boxes as network management workstations. Replaced by MTTR Tivoli NetView and other products. Mean Time To Recovery or Repair. The average time required for corrective maintenance. See also MTBF. NFS Network File System. Set of Unix protocols (originally Multiplexer developed by Sun Microsystems) for file sharing across A generic device (also known as a mux) that combines a LAN. Built on top of Ethernet and TCP/IP. data from two or more devices, transmits the data as a single datastream over a high-speed communications NJE medium, and disentangles (de-multiplexes) the data Network Job Entry. JES facility enabling multiple hosts at the other end. to share job queues and system spools.

Multi-point Node Communications configuration in which a single primary In SNA, a total unit of network-attachable functionality, node communicates with two or more secondary nodes realized in software, that gets implemented within a (which cannot communicate with one another, except device or runs on a computer. through the primary). Also known as multi-drop. NoSQL MVP NoSQL databases don’t have to use SQL, but may. Minimum Viable Product is often created at hackathons. They are different from traditional relational databases..

MVS Notes Multiple Virtual Storage. In z/OS’s long history, MVS Lotus groupware product that IBM took on in June ’91. has the honour of being its name for the longest period (about 20 years), and the operating system is OAuth still referred to as MVS by many mainframe technical This is an open standard for authorization. It allows specialists. Popularly believed to stand for Man Versus people to access third-party Web sites using their System. validated Facebook or Twitter IDs.

Nanosecond OCR 1/1,000,000,000 of a second. Optical Character Recognition. OCR software is used to convert scanned documents into machine-readable NAS text files. Network Attached Storage. ODBC .NET Open DataBase Connectivity. An API created by .NET is a Microsoft strategy for creating Web services. Microsoft that allows Windows applications to access In essence, a Windows user should be able to run relational databases, such as DB2 and Oracle, and applications locally or over the Web without noticing other data sources using SQL statements. the difference. Visual Studio .NET is a development environment that is currently available.

OEM OpenEdition Original Equipment Manufacturer. An OEM is a ‘Open’ version of MVS that was replaced by Unix manufacturer who makes a product and sells it to System Services in z/OS and OpenEdition Shell and another company, which puts its own badge on it and Utilities in z/VM. sells it to the end user. OpenID OLAP This provides a way for users to consolidate their digital On-Line Analytical Processing. A term coined by identities by having a single OpenID when connecting database guru Ted Codd and used to refer to multi- to different Web sites. dimensional analysis and reporting applications of the EIS and Information Warehouse type. ORB Object Request Broker. A specialized object that allows OLE other objects to communicate with each other to make Object Linking and Embedding. Microsoft-sponsored and receive requests and responses. standard for moving and linking data and other objects between applications and systems in Windows. OS/390 Replacement for MVS, announced in 1995. Now OLTEP superseded by z/OS, but still used in some mainframe On-Line Test and Execution Program. IBM engineer’s sites. tool for analysis of hardware problems. OSA OLTP Open Systems Adapter is an integrated hardware On-Line Transaction Processing. Generic term for high- feature allowing zSeries 900 platforms to provide throughput, very resilient transaction systems. OLTP connectivity directly to clients on LANs. tends to be used to refer to systems with some degree of fault tolerance. OSA Express Open Systems Adapter-Express are an IBM adapter OMG family consisting of integrated hardware features that Object Management Group. A group of vendors are designed to provide direct connection for zSeries responsible for standards for object management and and S/390 Parallel Enterprise Servers G5 and G6 to interoperability including CORBA, UML, MOF and high speed routers and switches, to other high speed CWM. IBM joined in 1991. servers, and to clients on LANs.

OMVS OSAM (Overflow Sequential Access Method) The OMVS command is used to invoke the z/OS Unix This is an IMS-specific access method that optimizes shell.From here you can use shell commands or utilities the I/O channel program for IMS access patterns. requesting services from the system. You could also write shell scripts and run shell scripts or programs OTC written in C. One Time Charge. An initial license charge. Caused a furore when the concept was introduced, but people Online Reorganization (OLR) seem to have got used to it now. At the beginning Using OLR with IMS HALDBs, the databases of 1999, OTC was dropped from any mainframe remain available to applications throughout the OLR software product for which a monthly charge option reorganization process. was available.

Open Systems OTE Computer systems that provide either interoperability, Open Transaction Environment was introduced with portability, of freedom from proprietary standards, CICS TS 1.3. Its aim is to open up the CICS application depending on your perspective. execution environment, allowing applications to be

160 © Arcati Ltd, 2018 Arcati Mainframe Yearbook 2018 Glossary defined to execute under their own TCBs within CICS processing of source code by a compiler, when it and allowing CICS to better exploit multiple processors. divides up each program statement into its component parts, also known as tokens. OTMA (Open Transaction Manager Access) This IMS facility is a transaction-based connectionless PASCAL client/server protocol that functions as an interface for Programming language, mainly used in academia, host-based communications servers accessing IMS though even there it is rarely seen these days. TM applications using the Cross Systems Coupling Facility (XCF). Patch A code modification to correct a reported problem that Outsourcing is sent to software product users after the release of The notion of contracting out part or all of your IS a product. function to an outside organization. Used to be often used synonymously with facilities management, PAV although strictly speaking facilities management Parallel Access Volumes are used to eliminate I/O involves delegating responsibility for the whole service supervisor queueing against DASD. Thus improving the rather than just part of it. performance of anything accessing the disk devices.

PaaS PCI Platform as a service provides a platform, allowing Peripheral Component Interconnect. Extremely popular customers to develop, run, and manage Web PC bus standard originally promoted by Intel and soon applications without the complexity of building and supported by IBM, even though it meant dropping its maintaining the infrastructure typically associated with beloved MCA. developing and launching an app. PCMCIA Page Personal Computer Memory Card International An essential process within virtual storage technology. Association. Industry-standard interface (not just for Fixed sized blocks (typically 4096 bytes) of memory are memory, but for modems, network interfaces, etc) for freed up by writing their contents to a paging device laptop and notebook computers. until any virtual address within that block is referenced. PDF Parallel Sysplex Portable Document Format. File definition format used See Sysplex. by Adobe Acrobat.

Parity bit PDS A binary digit check bit appended to a group of binary Partitioned DataSet. A z/OS feature that is really made digits to make the sum of all the digits, including the up of datasets within a dataset. Each PDS is made appended binary digit, even or odd, depending on up of zero or more members. Each member has all whether Even or Odd Parity is being used. the characteristics of a standard sequential dataset, though all members share the same attributes: those Parmlib that were defined for the PDS when it was allocated. Parameter Library. A dataset in z/OS containing Each member has a one to eight character name that parameter settings. The most important is SYS1. follows the same rules as a level of a standard z/OS PARMLIB which contains parameter settings for z/OS dataset name (DSN). Each PDS has a directory of its and many key subsystems. members, which can also (optionally) contain other information, known as Statistics, which are maintained Parse by software such as the ISPF/PDF editor. 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

PDSE PING Partitioned DataSet Extended. Software which enables Packet INternet Groper. A test of reachability in TCP/IP the space freed by expired or deleted PDSs to be networks. A PING is a program used to test the ability reused. Introduced in 1989 in an attempt to address to reach destinations by sending an echo request and the limitations of the PDS. waiting for a reply.

Peer-to-peer Pipeline A form of distributed system in which all participating In Linux and other Unix-like operating systems, a nodes can function as both client and server. pipeline is a set of processes chained together. Output from one process is then input for the next process until PERL all the processes have executed. Practical Extraction and Reporting Language. A general-purpose Unix scripting language, which PL/I is popular for writing CGI programs. Its speed and Programming Language/One. Language developed by flexibility make it well suited for form processing and IBM. A sort of love-child of COBOL and FORTRAN, it on-the-fly page creation. was widely used on the mainframe for many years but never quite achieved the ‘universal standard’ status Pervasive encryption that IBM had hoped. Available with Z14s, it generally means the ability to encrypt everything everywhere without interfering with Plain text the user experience. The Z14 can “pervasively encrypt Data that is not encrypted. Typically refers to data while data associated with any application, cloud service, or it is being transmitted across a network. database all the time”. PLPA Petabyte Pageable Link Pack Area is part of memory containing 1024 terabytes (TB) – 2 to the fiftieth power, or system-level programs that may be run by multiple 1,125,899,906,842,624 bytes. Abbreviated as PB. address spaces.

PF key Polling Program Function key. A single keystroke can be used Generic name for a method for controlling devices to perform a specific command. (eg networked workstations or terminals), in which a computer calls (polls) each device in turn to see PGP whether it wants to communicate. Pretty Good Privacy. Encryption technology which uses the public key approach. Messages are encrypted using POP a public key, but can only be decoded using a private Principles of Operation. The name of the manual key kept by the intended recipient of the message. that defined the S/360 and subsequently the S/370 architecture. Phishing A malicious scheme to obtain the credentials necessary Port to access a secure system by masquerading as that Generic noun and/or verb. As a noun, it means a point system and fooling people into entering the sought at which data can enter or leave a data network or after credentials. individual device; as a verb it means to convert a piece of software written for one environment so that it runs Picosecond in another. 1/1,000,000,000,000 of a second. A time span during which even would not be able to put up prices.

POSIX PROP Portable Operating System Interface Standard. PRogrammable OPerator. A facility in z/VM that allows Operating system interface standard from the IEEE, remote control of a virtual machine, enabling limited designed as a procurement reference standard for automation of routine operator activities. ensuring source-level application code portability. Proprietary PostScript Proprietary is used to refer to architectures and Language/protocol cum page description language standards owned by a hardware or software vendor. developed by Adobe Systems for driving high-resolution The term is usually used in opposition to ‘open’. page printers. Proxy server Power Systems A server that receives and fulfils requests intended for Originally, IBM had the System i running IBM i (OS/400) another server. and the System p series running AIX or Linux. In 2008, IBM merged the two lines of servers and workstations PRPQ under the same name, Power Systems, with identical Programming Request for Price Quotation. IBM hardware and a choice of operating systems, software, terminology for a customer request for a price quotation and service contracts. on alterations or additions to the functional capabilities of system control programming or licensed programs. PPP Purchasing Power Parity is Gustav Cassel’s theory PSLC (1920) that, in an efficient market, identical goods must Parallel Sysplex License Charge, a monthly license have only one price. charge designed to support the design of a Parallel Sysplex cluster. In a fully qualified Sysplex environment, PR/SM PSLC software charges are based on the total MSU Processor Resource/Systems Manager. Logical value for only those machines where the products partitioning hardware technology that makes a single execute. system, even if it has only one processor, look like multiple systems each of which is a Logical PARtition PSW (LPAR). Program Status Word. A hardware register (double word) in the mainframe. The PSW contains the address Private area of the next instruction to be executed and, when an Area within z/OS which contains the user’s own data/ application or system software error occurs, why it programs. happened and other status information.

Private key PTF A key known only to the sender or receiver of an Program Temporary Fix. An official IBM temporary encrypted message. patch to a program – often less temporary than IBM and its users would wish. PTFs are distributed on PUTs. Problem State Sometimes the term APAR is used instead of PTF. A term used in performance measurement to indicate when the machine is performing end-user work. The Public key opposite is Supervisor State, when the machine is A published key value used as one of the two keys in spending time generally managing itself. public key encryption.

PROLOG PROgramming in LOGic. Language mainly used for developing artificial intelligence and expert systems.

PWFI RAS The pseudo wait-for-input option means an IMS MPP Reliability, Availability, and Serviceability – the three region can stay scheduled until another input message most desirable properties for IBM computers. appears, avoiding additional application program termination and rescheduling. RDBMS Relational DataBase Management System. Database QMF system based on relational principles. DB2 is IBM’s Query Management Facility. Query and report-writing preferred RDBMS for just about every platform. system for DB2 with some analysis and graphics features. Read-only mode A mode that does not allow updates to the data being QSAM read. Queued Sequential Access Method is an access method for communicating with sequential datasets. Real storage The combination of central and expanded storage. Also RACF known as processor storage. Resource Access Control Facility. Security and access control system under z/OS and z/VM. The z/ Red teaming OS version is a component of SecureWay Security This refers to the practice of viewing a problem from Server, but is also available as a stand-alone product. an adversary or competitor’s perspective – and that RACF authorizes access to resources (datasets, usually means looking at issues with security. mini-disks, TSO/CMS/CICS/IMS TM log-on, etc) and logs unauthorized access attempts and accesses to Redbook protected datasets. A more readable version of an IBM manual

RAG Relational database Red/Amber/Green status lights used to indicate in an A type of database that allows information in one set easily interpretable way the status of a system, with of database tables to be connected to information in red indicating poor system health. another set of tables without requiring duplication of information. RAID Set of redundancy standards for disk subsystems RESTful (RAID 0-6), developed by the University of Berkeley REST (Representational State Transfer) is an and adopted by the RAID Advisory Board. architectural style used to build Web services that are lightweight, maintainable, and scalable. A service based RAM on REST is called a RESTful service. It links mainframe Random Access Memory, also known as system applications with mobile and cloud apps. memory, is the amount of physical memory that is addressable by and directly accessible to the processor REXX chips on the motherboard. Restructured EXtended eXecutor language. A widely used job control language, REXX has become a Ransomware replacement for existing procedural languages such as This is downloaded software that stops you using CLIST. REXX is an effective programming language in your PC. The software will usually ask for money its own right with powerful string processing facilities. before control of your computer is given back to you. Just running anti-virus and anti-malware software is RJE not enough these days. Examples of ransomware Remote Job Entry. Dedicated RJE terminals include include: Brolo, Crowti, FakeBsod, Krypterade, Reveton, 2780/3780 or 3770. and Tescrypt. The number of ransomware attacks is increasing all the time.

RMF Screen scraping Resource Measurement Facility. On-line performance A programming technique for interacting with online and resource monitor for z/OS. Also includes a host applications that generate text-only display output. formatter for printing performance reports. An optional, The display output is read (scraped) right off a virtual separately priced feature of z/OS. screen by the workstation-based software and input generated on a virtual keyboard. What the user sees RPG is quite different, and usually includes a GUI. Report Program Generator. Programming language widely used on the eServer iSeries 400 and its SDEPS (Sequential Dependents) predecessors, AS/400 and System/3x. As its name Sequential dependent segments (SDEPs) may be implies, originally used mostly for report generation included in an IMS Data Entry Database (DEDB). and very strong sort/merge facilities, where it can be used completely non-procedurally. SDSF System Display and Search Facility. Online tool for RRDS programmers and operators monitoring jobs awaiting Relative Record DataSet is a type of VSAM file. Each execution in the JES2 input spool queues and, most record is accessed directly by its record number. commonly, viewing the printed output of batch jobs in the Held output spool queues, to save printing it on RSM paper. Real Storage Manager. The part of z/OS that controls real memory. Serial number Term used to denote the machine which you own SAF today, which may be very different from the one you Security Authorization Facility can be used for example originally bought. with CICS to divert requests to an ESM (External Security Manager – such as RACF). In this way, security Server can be added to an operating system of subsystem. A device providing database information, or Web pages, any other information. It usually has a number of clients SAML or users of this data. Security Assertion Mark-up Language addresses the issue of Single Sign-On (SSO). The SAML specification Service Level Agreement defines three roles: the principal (typically a user), the Generic term for an agreement between a user and the identity provider (IdP), and the service provider (SP). people providing a computer service. The SLA specifies such things as response time, availability, etc. SAN Storage Area Network. Service Unit The basic charging unit in usage-based pricing. SAP (System Assist Processor) A System Assist Processor is a specialized processor Servlet that assists a central processor on a mainframe. A Java applet, without a user interface, that is executed on a Web server. Often used to replace CGI routines, SCEM because they support dynamic HTTP requests. Supply Chain Event Management examines all possible events and factors that might disrupt a supply chain. SFM Sysplex Failure Manager is used when one of the SCM systems in a parallel sysplex fails. It is responsible for Supply Chain Management applies to all movement recovery of the system and subsystem. and storage of raw materials, work-in-process inventory, and finished goods from point-of-origin to SGML point-of-consumption. It is the process of planning, Standard Generalized Mark-up Language. The implementing, and controlling the operations of the canonical mark-up language from which HTML and supply chain as efficiently as possible. XML are derived. © Arcati Limited, 2018 165 Arcati Mainframe Yearbook 2018 Glossary

Shift left SMTP This is an approach to software testing and system Simple Mail Transfer Protocol. The protocol allowing the testing in which testing is performed earlier in the life- transmission of e-mail messages across the Internet. cycle. That means it’s moved to the left on the project timeline. Similarly, quality and security can be moved SNA earlier in the software life-cycle. Although, I’m sure Systems Network Architecture. IBM’s extremely you’ve spotted the flaw in the thinking – if too much powerful but complex data communications architecture is shifted to the left, then everything is back where it defining levels of protocols for communications between started! terminals and applications, and between programs. While SNA-only networks have all but disappeared, SIEM SNA applications are still very much in evidence in the Security Information and Event Management software large enterprise. products and services combine security information management and security event management. They SNMP provide real-time analysis of security alerts generated Simple Network Management Protocol. Unix protocol by applications and network hardware. originally developed for management of TCP/IP networks. SIGP SIGnal Processor. SOA A Service-Oriented Architecture is a collection of Skeuomorphism services that communicate with each other. The is making one thing look like something else, eg making services are self-contained and do not depend on the digital interface look like a paper one - you often see the context or state of the other service. Mainframe it with calendar applications that look like desktop paper applications become available to Web browsers calendars. The GUI emulates real physical objects that and now mainframe applications can call other Web the user will be familiar with. Including skeuomorphism services. in a UI design is a good idea because it makes an unfamiliar interface look like something familiar - and, SOAP therefore, its use becomes more intuitive. Simple Object Access Protocol. A lightweight form of middleware for accessing services, objects, and servers SLA in a platform-independent manner. A Service Level Agreement is a formally negotiated agreement between two parties (the IT department Sockets usually being one of them) where the level of service Software interfaces that allow two Unix application is formally defined. programs to talk to one another using TCP/IP protocols.

SMF Spark System Management Facilities. Function within z/OS A popular fast engine for large-scale data processing. which collects data on all system activities for use in accounting, performance monitoring, capacity planning, Spool etc. SMF creates log entries (SMF records) of this data. Simultaneous/Shared Peripheral Operation On-Line. DASD storage used as a temporary storage area SMP/E between devices – eg printer and processor. System Modification Program / Extended is used to install most software products. SQA System Queue Area. Storage area in z/OS. SMS System Managed Storage. The philosophy of letting the SQL computer system manage the storage of data rather Structured Query Language. IBM and ANSI standard than having it done by a human data administrator. (they diverge and converge regularly with the passage of time) for access to relational databases.

SRB Swagger Service Request Blocks are requests to execute a A simple yet powerful representation of your RESTful service routine and they are usually initiated by system API. With the largest ecosystem of API tooling on the code executing from one address space to perform an planet, thousands of developers are supporting Swagger action affecting another address space. in almost every modern programming language and deployment environment. With a Swagger-enabled SRM API, you get interactive documentation, client SDK System Resources Manager. Software which is meant generation, and discoverability. to improve throughput by optimizing the use of system resources. Swapping The process of transferring a complete program SSCP between main memory and auxiliary storage (usually SNA’s System Services Control Point, in an hierarchical disk). network, typically implemented on a mainframe within VTAM, that is responsible for directory services and Syncpoint configuration management. Now superseded by the A point in a transaction’s life when updates are peer-to-peer oriented functionality of APPN/HPR committed. In a distributed environment, where the control points. transactions may be across several databases, the syncpoint enables the commit to be delayed until all SSL the participants can commit simultaneously. The Secure Sockets Layer is a much-used protocol for managing the security of messages sent over the SYSGEN Internet. System Generation. The process of creating a customized version of an operating system. In the IBM Stand-alone dump environment this was a complex, error-prone and time- A display of all used memory locations, typically stored consuming process. on DASD or tape, created with a program that does not required the operating system to be functioning System i normally. Formerly iSeries and now called just i – a later incarnation of the AS/400 family of hardware that runs Superuser on Power hardware. A user ID with minimal security restrictions. System p Supervisor State Formerly pSeries – this is the latest incarnation of the A term used in performance measurement to indicate RS/6000 family of hardware. when the machine is spending time generally managing itself. The opposite is Problem State, when the machine System z is performing end-user work. Formerly zSeries – this is the name for mainframes running z/OS and/or z/VM and/or other operating SupportPac systems. A SupportPac is supplied by IBM and contains complementary software, which may be new utilities, SYSOUT or class libraries, or things that IBM thinks will make z/OS output intended for a printer. The name the product more usable or work better. comes from the JCL DD parameter SYSOUT, where SYSOUT=A means send the output to the JESx Class SVC A spool queue. SuperVisor Call. An interface to operating system functions that is used to protect the operating system Sysplex from inappropriate user entry. It can also refer to the SYStem comPLEX. A processor complex which is SVC Assembler mnemonic or machine language formed by loosely coupling System/390 processors instruction it represents. together into a single unit (using channel-to-channel

© Arcati Limited, 2018 167 Arcati Mainframe Yearbook 2018 Glossary adapters or ESCON/FICON fibre-optic links); the tn processors are synchronized using the Sysplex Timer, Refers to tn3270, tn3270e and tn5250 collectively or and can be managed as a single system image. interchangeably.

Tablet tn3270 For many executives, the must-have device is an iPad Specialized TCP/IP telnet protocol which provides from Apple or an Android device from Samsung and compatibility with a 3270 datastream by emulation of other suppliers. As a consequence, these now need to the screen buffer. Used for mainframe host access be connected to corporate data, with all the concomitant across the Internet and internally within organizations security issues. to replace SNA terminal-to-host access with TCP/IP.

TCB tn3270e Task Control Blocks represent tasks executing within Improved version of tn3270 that supports colour, the an address space. There are usually several TCBs 3270 System Request key and other capabilities not associated with each address space, so more than one present in tn3270. task could be running in any one address space at any one time. TCBs are created when a program issues the TPF ATTACH macro to initiate a new task. Transaction Processing Facility. Low-function but high performance mainframe TP monitor for very large TCP/IP communications systems. Derived from ACP (Airline Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol. Set Control Program), which was derived from PARS of protocols for the network and transport layers of (Programmed Airline Reservation System). a packet-switched data network, most notably the Internet. Developed in the US for the Department of TPIPE Defense ARPAnet system and has become the de IMS Connect communicates with IMS through logical facto standard for most forms of data communication. connections called transaction pipes (TPIPEs). telnet Transport layer The remote, or virtual, terminal protocol for the Internet. The network layer responsible for quality of service Allows users to log-in to their home machine from any and accurate delivery of information, ie error detection/ other machine, or vice versa. correction occurs here.

Terabyte TSO 1024 gigabytes or 1,099,511,627,776 bytes. Abbreviated Time Sharing Option. These days, everyone just says as TB. TSO when they mean TSO/E.

TeraFLOPS TSO/E 1000 GigaFLOPS, a measure of supercomputer Time Sharing Option/Extensions. An element of z/OS performance. that provides an on-line interactive environment for programmers and users. Best known for the ISPF/PDF Third platform environment that runs on TSO/E. Can also be used to This is meant to represent the next phase of the IT test batch programs. revolution. The first platform is the mainframe; the second is the PC; and the third comprises cloud TXSeries services, mobile computing, social networking, and A merging of CICS, Encina and IBM Transaction Server. big data analytics. UCB Threadsafe Unit Control Block is used to control access to devices. Originally introduced with CICS 3.2, threadsafe refers to the ability of an application to process multi-threaded programs at the same time safely.

UDDI Virtual storage Universal Description Discovery and Integration A technique for giving programs the illusion that they is a directory model for Web services. UDDI is a have massive quantities of main storage to themselves. specification for maintaining standardized directories The technique works by allowing programs to address of information about Web services, recording their lots of virtual memory, but making the operating system capabilities, location, and requirements. page the required data in and out of real main store and to and from a paging device at the appropriate Unified Resource Manager time. The technique enables cheap DASD to be used The Unified Resource Manager is an integrated instead of expensive main storage. System z management facility responsible for platform management on z196s. This tool set enables clients Virtualization to install, monitor, manage, optimize, diagnose, and A way of dividing up a computer’s components and service resources and workloads from a single point. sharing them in order to maximize their usefulness.

Unit of work VM The statements executed between one commit point Virtual Machine. Mainframe operating system which and the next – usually a group of SQL statements which can act as a hypervisor, enabling users to run multiple would need to be rolled back as a group if any single OSs on a single machine. There are two components statement in the group could not be executed. It’s the to VM – the hypervisor itself, which provides resources basic recovery unit. to the virtual machines; and CMS, which provides conversational and timesharing facilities. VM was Unix on the way out when IBM discovered a new role for A misspelling of UNICS (UNiplexed Information the software: z/VM can host hundreds (technically and Computing Service). A hardware-independent thousands) of Linux images on the mainframe at a operating system originally for minicomputers. fraction of the cost of distributed hardware.

Unix System Services VOLSER A full function Unix implementation under z/OS Volume Serial Number. The key identifying a tape or that complies with the POSIX standard. Originally other storage volume. Maximum six characters. Most introduced as OpenEdition. installations use a six-digit VOLSER for in-house tapes to easily differentiate them from DASD volumes. Usage pricing The principle of charging for software on the basis of Volume the amount of work done, eg the number of transactions The unit of physical storage. Originally the volume or the amount of batch data processed. equated to a single disk or tape, but logical volumes are more the norm today, especially with most current User catalog DASD devices emulating previous products and VTS In z/OS, an ICF catalog created to reduce the number doing volume stacking on tape. of entries in the Master Catalog, thereby improving performance. VPA A Virtual Personal Assistant is piece of AI (artificial VIO intelligence) just for you. It can schedule meetings and Virtual I/O. Hyper-efficient z/OS paging technique. tell you what the weather’s like. Simulates DASD using real storage and so avoids the overhead of channel activity. VSAM Virtual Storage Access Method (aka Very Slow And VIPA (Virtual IP Addressing) Mysterious). IBM mainframe proprietary software for This frees hosts from depending on a particular physical direct (by key or by record number) or sequential network interface for communication with a TCP/IP processing of fixed and variable length records on stack. DASD.

VSE technologies that are available over the Internet and Virtual Storage Extended. For many years, VSE was identifying the companies that are using them, like IBM’s principal operating system for small to medium- Google Earth, Flickr, etc. size mainframes. A few years back it looked as if VSE support would slowly be withdrawn, but customer WebSphere support is strong and the re-dubbed z/VSE now looks An IBM Internet-focused software platform that supports set to continue for some time. e-business applications and sits at the heart of IBM’s middleware strategy. The foundational products are VTAM WebSphere Application Server and WebSphere MQ. Virtual Telecommunication Access Method. The main SNA subsystem resident in the mainframe, which WebSphere Application Server (WAS) Liberty manages session establishment and data flow between profile terminals and application programs, or between This is a cut-down version of WAS containing only application programs. the features required by the applications used on the server. VTOC Volume Table Of Contents. The area of a disk used to WebSphere MQ (WMQ) store the directory of components, including datasets, Originally MQSeries. IBM software/middleware that held on that volume. Anything that takes DASD space provides a message queuing infrastructure; it sits on is listed in the VTOC. For example, the index and data various systems in a heterogeneous environment, components of a VSAM KSDS file are listed in the providing integration between disparate systems and VTOC, but not the cluster name, which is only listed applications. in the catalog. WebSphere Optimized Local Adapters (WOLA) VVDS A part of WAS for z/OS that provides a low-overhead The VSAM Volume DataSet along with the BCS make communication mechanisms for exchanging high up the ICF catalog structure. The VVDS is a special volumes of messages. type of ESDS. It is created automatically whenever a VSAM component (including a BCS) is allocated on a Web service volume which does not yet have a VVDS. The VVDS Web services are essentially “mini” applications that is always called SYS1.VVDS.Vvolser. include a description of what another application does, how to accesses it, and what data it requires. They are VWLC often utilized in integration projects where disparate Variable Workload License Charge. IBM software systems may have difficulty interacting with each other pricing scheme that allows users to license a product without the use of the common standards. for a capacity less than the total capacity of the system. Replaced by AWLC on zEnterprise mainframes. WLM Workload Manager. Feature within SRM for simplifying WAS the management of system resources such as CPU WebSphere Application Server. IBM’s Java application and storage. eWLM reportedly adds the ability to define server. WAS for z/OS version 6.0.1 supports J2EE 1.4 business performance objectives across disparate and many mainframe-specific functions. systems.

Watson Explorer Workload License Charges Watson Explorer combines content and data from An IBM software licensing scheme which charges different systems and presents it in a single view. according to required software capacity, not hardware capacity. Web 2.0 A practically meaningless term in itself (the Web is WSAT not software with version and release numbers) that Web Services Atomic Transaction is now supported can be used as a way of highlighting some of the new in CICS TS 3.1. Web services can be configured to

170 © Arcati Ltd, 2018 Arcati Mainframe Yearbook 2018 Glossary take part in an extended or global unit of work. This is Z/TPF known as an atomic transaction. Recoverable updates The latest version of the Transaction Processing are not committed or backed out until instructed to do Facility, a low-function but high-performance TP monitor so by the Web service. for very large data communications systems.

WSDL z/VM Web Services Description Language is the standard The latest version of the much-loved Virtual Machine, a format for describing a Web service. A WSDL definition hypervisor that enabled users to run multiple operating describes how to access a Web service and what systems on a single machine. operations it will perform. WSDL (along with SOAP and UDDI) is one of the three foundation standards of zAAP Web services. A Java co-processor for the z890 and z990, which allows customers to offload Java application processing WSRR without paying software costs for the additional capacity. WebSphere Service Registry and Repository is used with WebSphere in SOA environments. Zap Affectionate name for various utilities (AMASPZAP, WTO aka SUPERZAP in z/OS), which can be used to apply Write To Operator. A message sent to the mainframe a fix directly to object code in situ. Zapping is a bad 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 XML totally unmaintainable. eXtensible Mark-up Language is a W3C recommendation and provides a standard approach for describing, zBX capturing, processing, and publishing information. The zEnterprise BladeCenter Extension (zBX) on operates as a tightly-coupled extension to the z196 X-Terminal and z114 mainframes through a high-performance A type of terminal developed in the Unix world that private network. Users then add POWER7 or System provides a GUI type environment (usually X-Windows) x blades to four racks. without the need for a programmable workstation. Zero day vulnerability z/Architecture This is a hole in a piece of software that is unknown IBM’s latest architecture for mainframes and peripherals. to the vendor. z/OS zFS The latest incarnation of MVS, the principal operating zSeries File System is a Unix file system that can be system for the IBM mainframe. Announced in October used in addition to HFS. zIIP 2000, it brought with it support for 64-bit addressing z9 Integrated Information Processor. A co-processor and a broad range of technical innovations. As well similar to zAAP (the idea is that you pronounce them as running on zSeries machines, it also runs on ZIP and ZAP), but designed to off-load DB2 work and System/390 G5 and G6 processors and Multiprise integrate data across the enterprise. Like zAAP, you pay 3000 systems. for the hardware but do not incur IBM software charges for the additional capacity. Minimum requirement: z9- z/OS Connect 109 with z/OS 1.6 or later and DB2 V8. z/OS Connect is built on IBM WAS Liberty profile running on z/OS, and is a gateway providing a way to consume data and services hosted on IBM Z from mobile, cloud, and Web applications.

© Arcati Limited, 2018 171 Arcati Mainframe Yearbook 2018 Glossary zIIP Zombie data z9 Integrated Information Processor. A co-processor This is old forgotten data that you thought you’d deleted, similar to zAAP (the idea is that you pronounce them but hadn’t. ZIP and ZAP), but designed to off-load DB2 work and integrate data across the enterprise. Like zAAP, you pay Zombie programs for the hardware but do not incur IBM software charges These are the programs that hackers use to gain for the additional capacity. Minimum requirement: z9- access to your computer. They are often called ‘bots’. 109 with z/OS 1.6 or later and DB2 V8. This glossary is based on the former Xephon Zombie computers These are used to spread e-mail spam and launch publication, the Handbook of IBM Terminology. distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks. Trevor Eddolls of iTech-Ed Ltd is an independent mainframe consultant and popular blogger.

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Mainframe evolution

Mainframe hardware timeline 1952-2017 Mainframe operating system development

Mainframe hardware timeline 1952-79 Source: Mark Wilson and Staffan Tylen

1979 IBM 1977 431/4341 IBM 3031/3032/3033 1976 IBM 1973 S/370-138/148 IBM S/370-115 1972 IBM S/370-125/158/168 1971 1971 IBM IBM S/360-135 S/360-22 1970 IBM 1969 S/360-25 IBM S/360-195 1968 IBM 1966 S/360-25 IBM S/360-91 1965 IBM 1964 S/360-44/75 IBM 1962 S/360-30/40/50 IBM 1440/7094 1960 1959 IBM IBM 1410/1730 1401/1620 1958 1957 IBM 7090 IBM 709 1954 1953 IBM 704/705 IBM 701/702 1952 174 © Arcati Ltd, 2018 Arcati Mainframe Yearbook 2018 Mainframe evolution

Mainframe hardware timeline 1980-2017 Source: Mark Wilson and Staffan Tylen

2017 IBM Z14 2016 2015 IBM z13s IBM z13 2013 2012 IBM zEnterprise BC12 IBM zEnterprise EC12

2011 2010 IBM zEnterprise 114 IBM zEnterprise 196 2008 2008 IBM z10 IBM z9EC/BC 2005 IBM z9 2004 2003 IBM IBM zSeries 890 zSeries 990 2002 2001 IBM IBM zSeries 800/900 Multiprise 3000- 2000 H30/H50/H70 IBM 1997 S/390-PES G5/G6 IBM S/390-PES G4 1994 1990 IBM S/390-PES IBM ES/9000

1985 1983 IBM 3090 IBM 4361/4381 1982 1980 IBM 3083/3084 IBM 3081

Mainframe operating system development Source: Mark Wilson and Staffan Tylen