The Arcati Mainframe Yearbook 2021

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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 2021 ...... 3 Test Automation: The Key to Increasing Velocity, Quality and Efficiency ...... 6 Relationship Advice For You and Your Mainframe ...... 15 Mainframe, Cloud, and the Post-Pandemic IT Landscape ...... 19

The 2021 Mainframe User Survey ...... 25 An analysis of the profile, plans, and priorities of mainframe users

Vendor Directory...... 43 Vendors, consultants, and service providers in the z/OS environment

A guide to sources of information for IBM mainframers ...... 129 Information resources, publications, social media, and user groups for the z/OS environment

Glossary of Terminology...... 135 Definitions of some mainframe-related terms

Mainframe evolution...... 167 Mainframe hardware timeline 1952-2020; mainframe operating system development

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Welcome to the Arcati Mainframe Yearbook 2021

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.

2020 must have been the year that no-one expected in the early hours of 1 January as they celebrated its arrival. According to the Collins Dictionary, the word ‘lockdown’ had a 6,000 percentage increase in usage since 2019 The other pandemic-related words on the dictionary’s list of the top 10 words for 2020 were: ‘coronavirus’, ‘social distancing’, ‘self-isolate’, ‘furlough’, and ‘key worker’, which saw a 60-fold increase in usage over the previous year. Other top-10 words were ‘BLM’ (Black Lives Matter), ‘Megxit’ (the Duke and Duchess of Sussex withdrawing from royal duties), ‘mukbang’ (where a video or webcast host eats lots of food for the entertainment of viewers), and ‘TikToker’ (someone who regularly shares or appears in videos on TikTok). They might perhaps have added phrases such as ‘working from home’, which many office staff have done for large parts of 2020, and ‘you’re still muted’, a phrase I’ve heard so many times on Zoom and Teams calls this year, or ‘the new normal’, which has probably become overused.

But in this year of lockdowns and working from home, it’s always good to have news of a new baby in the family. And that’s what we got in the spring when IBM shared the news about its two new mainframe products, the z15 Model T02 and LinuxONE III Model LT2. The highlight of the 2019 z15 Model T01 and Linux-ONE III LT1 was their outstanding feature allowing data to be ‘encrypted everywhere’, both in transit and at rest, without impacting system performance. This used the, so called, Data Privacy Passports. Other standout features were increased physical compute capacity, high availability options, and support for container-based development and applications (using the Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform). The Arcati Mainframe Yearbook 2021 This year’s z15 Model T02 and LinuxONE III LT2 Mark Lillycrop Publisher: products included those same features, but were Editorial Director: Trevor Eddolls Contributors: BMC, Deborah Carbo, Model9 different in their size and capacity. They came as 19” single-frame, air-cooled platforms. And © 2021, Arcati Limited. both can be configured with between four and 65 processor units (PUs) and from 64GB to 16TB of All company and product names mentioned in this publication remain the property of their respective memory. Both can fit in cloud data centre racks owners. and can have a second drawer – if more capacity is required. And the processors run at 4.5GHz. This Yearbook is the copyright of Arcati Limited, and That offers customers flexibility in what they buy may not be reproduced or distributed in whole or in part without the permission of the owner. A licence for internal to suit their particular business computing needs. e-mail or intranet distribution may be obtained from the publisher. Please contact Arcati for details. In addition, both systems support IBM’s pre- packaged Cloud Paks. These include a secured

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Kubernetes container and containerized IBM middleware designed to let customers quickly use enterprise-ready containers. IBM has standard Cloud Paks for data, application integration, automation, and multi-cloud management and security. This will help customers develop, deploy, and manage cloud-native applications for the z15 family.

Perhaps the biggest talking point with these models is IBM Secure Execution for Linux, a hardware- based security technology that creates isolated Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) that restrict access to busines-critical or sensitive data, but still allow administrators and developers to perform their jobs. Secure Execution is a way to mitigate insider threats to enterprise data. Basically, Secure Execution provides a KVM-based (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) virtual machine that is fully isolated and protected from the hypervisor with encryption keys that only the IBM Z hardware and firmware have access to.

You can, perhaps, think of the z15 Model T02 and LinuxONE III LT2 as the Business Class versions of the z15 Model T01 and LinuxONE III LT1.

Security has been a major issue this year with staff working from home seemingly more relaxed about clicking on email links or downloading attachments. This has given bad actors access to their computer and then their corporate network, and then, possibly, their mainframe, using login information taken from keylogging software installed on that home PC.

The Ponemon Institute conducted research for IBM Security to produce the annual “Cost of a Data Breach Report 2020”1. They interviewed 3,200 individuals from 17 countries or regions and found 524 breached organizations. From that they found that the average cost of a data breach is $3.86 million. However, the average cost in the USA was $8.64 million. 80 percent of breached organizations stated that customer personally-identifiable information (PII) was compromised during the breach – which could lead to fines from GDPR. Worryingly, the average time to identify and contain a breach was a whopping 280 days. Healthcare was the most expensive industry affected by a breach, costing companies, on average $7.13 million.

The report also suggested that security automation – where organizations used technologies such as AI, analytics, and automated orchestration – was the most effective technique to mitigate data breach costs. Their figures showed an average total cost reduction by using security automation of $3.58 million.

Most years, we’d be talking about IBM mergers and acquisitions. This year it has acquired Spanugo (a provider of cloud cybersecurity posture management solutions), and WDG Automation to add to its AI-based enterprise automation. Perhaps the biggest news is its plans to split up. It has said that in 2021, it will be spinning off some of its lower-margin lines of business into a new company and focusing on higher-margin cloud services. The new spin-off is currently being referred to as ‘NewCo’. The idea is that IBM “will focus on its open hybrid cloud platform, which represents a $1 trillion market opportunity”, and NewCo “will immediately be the world’s leading managed infrastructure services provider”. NewCo will include IBM Global Technology Services’ existing managed infrastructure clients.

BMC Software has managed to acquire Compuware (perhaps, best known for its DevOps products), and RSM Partners (best known for their security work). Syncsort changed its name to Precisely. And Rocket Software acquired both ConnectiQ (best known for mainframe Robotic Process Automation (RPA)) and WebConnect (known for mainframe terminal emulation software) from UK-based ActiveOps..

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Apart from all the words associated with the lockdown, there haven’t been many associated with IT. Added to our glossary this year are Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE), Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA), BaaS, Robotic process automation (RPA), and DataOps.

Fully Homomorphic Encryption allows users to perform addition and multiplication operations on encrypted data, which, when decrypted, gives the same output as would have been produced using unencrypted data. ZTNA is a way of working requiring the strict verification of every individual and device that attempts to access a network or other business resource. Blockchain as a Service (BaaS) – like Software as a Service (SaaS) – is where cloud-based solutions are consumed to build, host, and operate blockchains while the cloud-based service provider keeps the infrastructure agile and operational. RPA uses metaphorical software robots to automate repetitive or routine tasks that are usually performed by knowledge workers. Employees are then free to perform higher-value work. DataOps is an automated, process-oriented methodology, that’s used to improve the quality and reduce the cycle time of data analytics.

Despite the year it’s been, the mainframe industry is still an exciting place to work. And with that in mind, I can confidently predict that 2021 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.

1 https://www.ibm.com/uk-en/security/data-breach/ .

If you use a credit card, how do you know that your information – and money – are safe? That’s where the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) comes in. It provides an information security standard for organizations that handle branded credit cards from the major card schemes. The PCI SSC doesn’t penalize organizations for non-compliance, it’s the payment card brands that fine people. So, what has that got to do with mainframes? According to IBM, 87% of all credit card transactions are processed on a mainframe. And, probably, most of those are processed by IMS. Your Chief Financial Officer is probably signing off the report to say that your company is PCI compliant. Yet, in most cases, that isn’t true! Sections 10.5 and 11.5 of the PCI regulations require regular file integrity checking for executables, configuration parameters, and log files. Mainframe sites have to prove that they have been checking the required components regularly – and, without using file integrity monitoring software, that means the check has to be manual.

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Test Automation: The Key to Increasing Velocity, Quality and Efficiency

Compuware commissioned independent research company Vanson Bourne to conduct a global survey of 400 senior IT leaders responsible for application development at organizations with a mainframe. This was a global study of testing and automation practices on the mainframe and their impact on the speed of innovation

Executive summary Further, an increase in mainframe workloads and The world’s biggest and most successful a growing shortage of skilled professionals are enterprises continue to run their mission-critical increasing the need to ensure code has been workloads on the mainframe. They remain thoroughly tested, which can put it at odds with committed to the platform due to its unmatched the need to increase the pace of delivery. digital strengths in reliability, performance, security and transactional efficiency; as well as its decades In this report, we examine the processes that of proven intellectual property in the form of fine- organizations have in place to support testing on tuned business logic and data. the mainframe, while exploring the challenges they face in simultaneously increasing quality, velocity What’s often overlooked is that the majority of and efficiency. The report shows that traditional, customer-facing distributed, web and cloud-based manual testing swallows up skilled developers’ applications are highly reliant on the mainframe. time and in turn puts pressure on teams to take As a result, it’s critical that organizations are able shortcuts. Ultimately, it shows that the current to deliver change on the mainframe as quickly as manual approach to testing is often difficult, they can in their distributed systems, to support costly and time-consuming, and highlights the demands for a constant cycle of ‘new’ from the the need to increase the use of automation to business and to satisfy their always beautifully, alleviate these pressures. wonderfully dissatisfied customers.

Against this backdrop, speed and innovation have Survey results become the rallying call for IT departments across Key highlights from the study include: every industry. The shift to Agile and DevOps 77% of application development managers find it has improved the pace of software delivery and increasingly difficult to simultaneously increase has become essential to competing in the Age of quality, velocity and efficiency to meet business Software. innovation goals when developing and testing mainframe application code. However, testing remains a critical development function where manual methods, especially 53% of application development managers within mainframe development environments, are say the time required to conduct thorough delaying software delivery and the pressure for testing is the biggest barrier to integrating the shortened lead times are threatening quality. Test mainframe into Agile and DevOps. automation coupled with a “shift-left” approach— where developers write unit tests at the same time as they write source code—is not widely embraced 80% of application development leaders say it is for mainframe application development. inevitable that unless they can automate more 6 © Arcati Ltd, 2021 ArcatiArcati MainframeMainframe YearbookYearbookAMI 20072021 Mainframe Strategy

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test cases, bad code will make its way into 85% say that it is becoming harder to deliver production. innovation faster, without compromising on quality and increasing the risk of bugs in production. 90% of application development managers say The inordinate amount of time IT spends during that automating more test cases could be the the testing phase is a leading contributor to this single most important factor in their success challenge. as the pressure on IT to accelerate innovation increases. 92% said their organization’s mainframe teams are spending more time testing code than Only 7% of organizations automate the they needed to in the past, to account for the execution of test cases on mainframe code to growing complexity of cross platform application support their ability to accelerate innovation. environments.

In fact, development teams spend, on average, Manual Testing Drains Resources more than half their time (51%) on testing during IT teams are under constant pressure to deliver the release of a new mainframe application, innovation at an ever-faster pace, but many are feature or functionality. By comparison, teams struggling under the weight of the challenge. reported spending 39% of their time on testing when mainframe code is not involved, still a very large percentage (see Figure 1). 77% find it increasinglydifficult to simultaneously increase quality, velocity, and efficiency to meet These findings clearly indicate that traditional, business innovation goals when developing and manual methods of testing are amongst the testing mainframe application code.

Time spent on testing during Time spent on testing when the release of a new mainframe mainframe code is not involved. application, feature, or functionality.

Figure 1: Development time

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Mainframe Mainframe Mainframe It’s hard for testing processes testing processes testing processes developers to are manual and require specialist are costly and a visualize and time-consuming, skills, which drain on budget. understand the which is a drain aren’t always dependencies on resources and available. between delays innovation application code from reaching the to ensure their business. changes do not have unexpected impacts.

Figure 2: Challenges faced testing mainframe code

biggest challenges that organizations face when wider DevOps initiatives, thereby slowing the pace it comes to accelerating the speed of innovation. of innovation across the business. In particular, organizations face significant challenges when it comes to testing mainframe The main barriers preventing organizations from code. integrating mainframe code into Agile and DevOps initiatives are: The biggest challenges that organizations face when it comes to testing mainframe code is shown • 53% Time required to conduct thorough in Figure 2. testing, to ensure code changes do not introduce any bugs. Manually testing mainframe code also hinders businesses’ ability to integrate the mainframe into

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Introducing Impacting Disrupting Draining Wasting Revenue potential customer operations operations development impact security experience team teams’ flaws resources to time in war find bugs rooms to fix problems

Figure 3: Organizations’ biggest concerns over pressure to cut corners to deliver mainframe innovation faster

• 39% A shortage of skilled mainframe Automation the Key to More Speed, Less Haste professionals to make COBOL code changes. Organizations see automation of the testing process as the key to their ability to deliver • 34% Lack of understanding amongst innovation faster while maintaining quality. development teams of how mainframe code changes will impact distributed applications. While having obvious benefits in terms of speeding up the development process, test automation also The traditional manual style of testing mainframe helps to reduce human error, improve quality, and code also means IT teams are often forced to take increase output and productivity. It also enables shortcuts to deliver innovation at the speed the key workers to focus on more value-generating business requires. Yet application development activities, such as user experience design and leaders expressed concern that this pressure to adding more business functionality. cut corners to deliver innovation faster creates numerous business risks. To succeed in the fast-paced digital marketplace, organizations have to automate testing of Organizations’ biggest concerns over pressure to mainframe code, or risk allowing bugs into cut corners to deliver mainframe innovation faster production. are illustrated in Figure 3.

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Indeed, 80% of application development leaders integration testing (53%) as priority focus areas, say it is inevitable that bad code will make its way ahead of unit testing (37%). into production unless they can automate more test cases. This is in contrast to the ethos of the shift-left approach, where unit testing is performed in If they could remove the need for mainframe the earliest stages of development to enable code to be tested manually, organizations could developers to find bugs at the time they are simultaneously improve quality, velocity and introduced into their code, providing them with efficiency. This would enable them to deliver new fast feedback and at a lower cost. experiences to customers and end users with increasing regularity and in a more consistent way. The priority focus areas are: • 63% Automation of functional testing 82% said that unless they can automate more • 53% Automation of integration testing test cases, they will not be able to meet the need • 37% Automation of unit testing. for speed from the business, meaning innovation and customer experiences will suffer.. Barriers to Improving Velocity, Quality, and 90% believe that automating more test cases Efficiency could be the single most important factor in their Automated testing/software quality tools have success as the pressure on IT to accelerate been available for mobile, web and distributed innovation increases. application code for several years, but mainframe code has not been as well supported by test Additionally, 87% of respondents also stated that automation capabilities. It was no surprise, they believe automating mainframe test cases therefore, that of respondents said they find will be crucial to overcoming the growing skills 86% it difficult to automate the testing of mainframe shortage in that area of their business. code. The biggest benefits organizations expect to achieve by automating testing on the mainframe At present, only 7% of respondents said are: they automate the execution of test cases on mainframe code to support their ability to accelerate innovation. • 59% Greater efficiency within the IT team • 53% Improved consistency of testing Fractured and fragmented testing practices also • 47% Reduced chance of human error threaten the impact that organizations are set to • 47% Reduced pressure on IT resources achieve by automating more test cases on the mainframe. Many organizations are failing to test • Accelerated innovation cycles 46% code at every stage of the development process • 40% Lower likelihood of bugs reaching and don’t empower their developers to test their production. own code. This creates an increased risk of bugs finding their way into production and increasing However, looking at the specific areas where the frequency of software failures. automated testing on the mainframe stands to bring the most benefit to their organizations’ ability Figure 4 shows the responses to the question: to accelerate innovation, application development Does your organization automate the execution leaders rated unit testing quite low, calling out of test cases on the mainframe? the automation of functional testing (63%) and © Arcati Limited, 2021 11 Arcati Mainframe Yearbook 2021

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Yes

No, because we don’t have a tool to help us. No, but we are planning to.

Figure 4: Does your organization automate the execution of test cases on the mainframe?

Shortcomings of existing testing processes that redeploy resources to support higher-value tasks were found included: that drive the business forward. It’s no surprise then that this research shows a growing interest • 75% do not have automated processes that in automated testing, as organizations look for test code at every stage of the development a way to simultaneously accelerate the quality, process velocity and efficiency of their efforts to bring new innovation to market, without fearing that faster speed equals lower quality. • 26% admit that they only test code during a QA process at the end of development, before However, despite the proven benefits of test it goes into production, or just monitor the automation, the research shows that many application in production. organizations are still conducting testing manually when it comes to the mainframe. Given the central • 24% perform both unit and functional testing role that the mainframe continues to play in on mainframe code, to ensure its quality before powering modern digital services, these manual it is released into production. testing practices are creating a bottleneck that impacts quality, velocity and efficiency. Ultimately, this is hindering the delivery of innovation and Advice to Next Generation IT leaders preventing organizations from meeting their The last few years have seen automation become business goals a major focus, as organizations look to accelerate software innovation and sharpen their competitive The research also highlights that businesses expect edge. Automation offers significant advantages to achieve significant benefits by automating more through productivity, quality and efficiency testing on the mainframe at every stage of the improvements, and allows organizations to development process. Not only does this remove

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the need for mainframe specialists to be directly involved every time that code is being worked on, Methodology it helps to improve quality, velocity and efficiency Compuware commissioned independent by enabling developers to fine tune their code as research company Vanson Bourne to conduct they’re working on it. a global survey of 400 senior IT leaders responsible for application development at Ultimately, by “shifting left” with automated organizations with a mainframe and 1,000+ testing—and unit testing in particular— employees. The sample included 100 organizations can gain fast feedback on the respondents each from the UK and U.S., 75 mainframe, supercharging innovation without each from France and Germany and 25 each fearing the risk of introducing problems that from Italy and Spain. disrupt operations, introduce security risks, hinder customer experiences or impact business revenues. Better still, they can improve quality, velocity and efficiency on the mainframe in spite of the growing shortage of experienced developers; significant were the ability to simultaneously giving themselves a major advantage as they increase story point production from an average look to drive a competitive advantage through of 300 per release to over 1,000, while decreasing supercharged digital innovation. the volume of bugs reaching production by 83%. This has contributed to the organization’s ability to achieve faster time to market, bringing new How Compuware Can Help innovation to its customers more quickly and Compuware Topaz for Total Test enables efficiently, while retaining confidence in the quality developers to adopt a “shift-left” approach of the code being released. to testing to improve the quality, velocity and efficiency of mainframe software development and To find out how Topaz for Total Test could help delivery. It acts as a force multiplier to the efforts of your organization to overcome the challenges and developers, allowing them to automate the creation achieve the benefits highlighted in this study, visit: and execution of unit, functional, integration and compuware.com/topaz-for-total-test. regression testing on the mainframe, while empowering even novice developers to validate COBOL code changes with the same speed and Compuware, a BMC company, empowers the confidence as they can with other code. world’s largest companies in their ongoing transformation to an Autonomous Digital Enterprise Independent research by Forrester Consulting by delivering innovative software that enables IT has found that an organization using Topaz for professionals with mainstream skills to develop, Total Test saved $21.5 million in just over three deliver, and manage mainframe applications with years, achieving a 467% return on investment. ease and agility. This return on investment was driven by several key benefits that were realized through the ability Learn more at compuware.com to automate unit testing on the mainframe. Most

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Relationship Advice For You and Your Mainframe

Deborah Carbo, Director, Product Management & Strategy, Broadcom Mainframe Software ([email protected])

The modern world of enterprise IT is a hybrid one. new potential. Cloud? It’s well suited for horizontal Constantly evolving and increasingly complex. scaling, web and front-end app serving. Starting Long term success requires the ability to be fresh may sound appealing, but ultimately requires flexible, responsive and open. It also requires a rewriting enormous amounts of good, highly strong foundation. One that you trust. One that optimized code with new code that is more generic, helps you to grow. One that endures. It’s a lot unproven and potentially vulnerable. You’ll never like relationships. The more you put into them, recover that ROI. I’ve heard from customers time the more you get out of them. And in this and again that modernizing in place is the best way relationship, the mainframe is a perfect match! forward. It’s easier, less risky - and burns fewer of your precious resources. Continuing to invest in Investing in your mainframe delivers strong ROI enduring solutions like the mainframe and working and integrating it into your hybrid infrastructure with it enables you to get a substantial return on can advance your transformation goals, provide your relationship investment. competitive advantage and deliver on your SLAs. Investing in your mainframe is also an excellent Second – open up to new experiences. way to ensure you’re prepared for growth. Sure… Interaction with others is what makes life rich and I’ve heard the detractors. I’ve also seen risky exciting. Just as healthy relationships don’t exist in relationships where some fall head over heels a vacuum, thriving IT platforms don’t operate in a for a new tech trend only to find the honeymoon silo. There is no need to limit yourself to Cloud OR phase fizzle quickly. You know what they say, the mainframe. You should see your future as Cloud grass isn’t always greener... AND mainframe. When you get the mainframe out of the back office and connect it to your front-end As with any relationship, you need to (be willing world of apps and mobile devices you unleash to) give to get. You get an epic increase in value all-new strategic value. Now, all your developers from your mainframe by modernizing it in place, can build richer, more powerful digital applications opening it up, and bringing it closer to your front- that easily integrate with mainframe processes end digital apps by integrating it with your hybrid and data using the cloud-native tools they already cloud. To strengthen your relationship and gain know and love. You dramatically expand your even greater value from your mainframe, here’s talent pool. Suddenly you’re seeing each other in the idea: a whole new light.

First – celebrate what you have and amplify Today, new open tools and technologies make it the love. You have a tremendous amount of code easy for the mainframe to open up and interact with invested in the mainframe, and you can depend others while also increasing security. Leveraging on it. Your mainframe has been with you through open APIs makes it easy to connect, automate, and thick and thin. While Cloud is an attractive focus combine operational and other data to integrate that offers tons of new potential, it isn’t the answer and manage across the hybrid environment. Your to every question. Recognize that your mainframe infrastructure is more predictive, efficient, and offers extraordinary value. It delivers transactional protected and your DevSec and Ops teams can scale, data and user protection, and always-on work with the tools they know and love. availability - and, yes, it also offers tremendous

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With Zowe, the first open source project for to evolve together to achieve that next phase of z/OS, any developer, sys admin, or sys prog can growth. work with the platform just as they would with any other platform or cloud. By using the Zowe API The mainframe is well-known as a workhorse for Mediation Layer and a growing list of third-party large transactional and batch workloads. They’re tools like Service Now, you can speed mainframe all about high throughput and derive value from development and operations and automate tasks the stability, security, and processing speed of the like systems maintenance and software installs. platform. So, they belong close to the data. You This is true for basic mainframe operations jobs get a single source of truth. Better performance, and dataset access, but also extends to tools like trust and integrity. SYSVIEW, Vantage, IBM zNetview, CA 7, and z/OS Connect in addition to the heavy hitters like But it’s a hybrid world and nothing lives in isolation. CICS, DB2, etc. When these workloads work together with other cloud-native workloads like your mobile, web Imagine a young developer, Jeannie, hired straight and digital front ends you not only ensure you’re out of university to work on the mainframe. She’s delivering but making the most efficient use of excited to discover that an open mainframe with your resources. integrations between Endevor and VS Code front ends and integrated CI/CD pipelines can Exploiting containers on the mainframe now take advantage of modern tools such as Git and takes the friction out of the hybrid environment Jenkins. Or the same with David, a Systems and allows you to easily bring applications closer Programmer who, working with Sysview and to the data they need for optimal performance. Service Now can automate service tickets, freeing How? Containers let you better componentize him up to work on more strategic projects. In apps and expose them. This allows you to more both cases, these mainframers are now using a easily consume and deploy parts of those apps common toolset that allows them to interact more in the environment, bringing them closer to the with front-end teams, allowing them to work more data. From there they can more quickly iterate collaboratively with them and share in their culture. – including moving components that would traditionally run on the cloud to the mainframe. Broadcom calls this approach open-first. It makes These apps and processes can then run on the it easier to bring your mainframe closer to your mainframe, shortening the distance between the front-end world of digital apps. What you get is front ends and legacy code – communicating at a stronger cloud with mainframe-like qualities memory speed, more secure, more performant, and a more flexible mainframe with cloud-like so better ROI again. characteristics – and you’ll attract new talent who are inspired to work on some of the business’s When it comes to containers on the mainframe, most critical processes, using the tools they know their capability and exploitation is still maturing. But and love. there is significant excitement around them. They serve as another example of how it’s becoming Finally – look to the future and grow together. easier and easier to work with the mainframe Especially in a world of cloud and continuous and bring the mainframe’s qualities closer to your innovation, your mainframe has an important and front-end world. indispensable role to play. It’s not only the most reliable partner in your IT relationship but allows At Broadcom, when it comes to IT strategy you to deliver powerful new value to service we believe organizations should think of the customers in innovative ways as well. Realize that mainframe as an AND not an OR proposition. you make a great team and make the commitment To help you get the most of this relationship, we

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are committed to forging deep partnerships - Broadcom Mainframe Software Division continues our relationship with you - and investing in your to drive the next evolution of open, cross-platform, success. Our promise extends beyond leading enterprise innovation. We specialize in DevOps, products and solutions and includes a range of Security, AIOps, and Infrastructure software no or low-cost customizable programs focused on solutions that allow customers to embrace open everything from education and staffing to flexible tools and technologies, make Mainframe an licensing, rationalization, migration, knowledge integral part of their cloud, and enable innovation sharing, and more. that drives business forward. We are committed to forging deep relationships with our clients at all When it comes to your relationship with your levels. This goes beyond products and technology mainframe, you have a choice. You can keep it to partner in creative ways that support customer at arms-length and weaken your ROI, or invest success. in the relationship by opening up, modernizing in place, and integrating it as part of your future IT Visit us today: mainframe.broadcom.com and business growth strategy. For your complimentary mainframe assessment, To take your mainframe relationship to the visit: mainframe.broadcom.com/contact next-level, we invite you to take advantage of our no-cost mainframe value optimization assessments or design thinking workshops today. Let’s make it a date.

With nearly 9 out of 10 ATMs connected to a mainframe (and probably to IMS), the warning from the PCI Security Standards Council (PCI SSC) and the ATM Industry Association (ATMIA) about ATM cash-out attacks must have come as a wake-up call to many. The attack involves criminals breaching a bank or payment card processor and manipulating fraud detection controls as well as altering customer accounts. The result is that there are no limits in place preventing money withdrawals from numerous ATMs in a short period of time. The result is that criminals can withdraw cash until ATM machines are completely empty. Financial institutions and payment processors stand to potentially lose millions of dollars in a very short period of time and can have exposure in multiple regions around the world. Included amongst the best practices suggested to detect this kind of attack is 24/7 monitoring capabilities, including file integrity monitoring systems (FIMs).

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Mainframe, Cloud, and the Post-Pandemic IT Landscape

With so much value being locked up in data, which is often held on tape, Model9 looks at how to leverage and monetize that data using the cloud.

The year ahead, one more step into what promises business results. But this independence limits the to be a tumultuous decade for mainframes, is potential for cross-fertilization between the new full of opportunities to do groundwork and lay and the old, the central and the peripheral, and foundations. Our customers tell us two things, between what’s core and what’s potentially just loud and clear: They know they need to do more short-term. It is past time to relink those worlds to leverage their vast store of mainframe data and – enhancing data quality for both and making they also continue to feel squeezed by the costs mainframe even more relevant. and limitations of traditional storage options. Second, historic dependence on tape for long- Put another way, they know the mainframe is term and archive storage as well as backup and a solid, reliable core for their business but they recovery results in heavy, ongoing investments in recognize competing priorities and opportunities, hardware, software, and people to manage them. most of which involve leveraging the cloud for And, it ensures that those petabytes of data, not to agility, faster and better analytics, and potentially mention active data that is similarly walled-off by more cost-effective storage. its proprietary forms and formats, is also difficult to reach by new tools that are in the cloud. All of these trends were becoming visible in 2019 but the double hammer blows of disruptions A recent report from leading analyst firm, Gartner, resulting from Covid and Covid lockdowns and predicts, “by 2025, 35% of data center mainframe the secondary economic impacts are powering storage capacity for backup and archive will be them to prominence. deployed on the cloud to reduce costs and improve agility, which is an increase from less than 5% in 2020.”1 That’s momentous! Putting Mainframe Challenges in Context While some organizations have found ways to Cloud is no longer an experiment or a theory. It actually eliminate the mainframe, we believe there is a substantial part of the world’s information is still a strong case for most enterprises to have infrastructure. Even more than the changes wrought access to a dedicated processing powerhouse in the mainframe world by personal computers and to ensure mission-critical activities and align client-server computing a generation ago, cloud fully with corporate priorities. But when it comes promises tectonic change – but change that can to the data stewardship occurring within the benefit mainframe operations. Indeed, unlike mainframe environment there are two closely mid-range computers and PCs in the past, the related problems. cloud shouldn’t be perceived as a threat for the mainframe but rather as a platform for integration/ First and foremost, business units, divisions, and collaboration. even individual contributors are “voting with their feet” – putting more and more data and more Mainframe organizations should consider where and more analytics in the cloud. It’s easy, simple, they stand with regard to existing technology, what and can often produce immediate and valuable their business needs and business opportunities

1 *Gartner, Cloud Storage Management Is Transforming Mainframe Data, September 2020

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Figure 1: The mainframe modernization journey

are, and the available paths forward. The decision enables movement between the mainframe and making is a step on what must become a journey. the new storage platform. With this enabler, you can be master of your own data.

Infrastructure Modernization, a First Step Organizations face a continuing challenge in the Data Integration with Cloud Applications, a stranglehold of tape and proprietary data formats, Second Step which are built around sequential read-write cycles The next challenge is achieving real integration that date back to 9-track tape. With this technology, of mainframe data with other sources of data in both routine data management tasks as well as the cloud. more ambitious data movements put an enormous processing drain on the mainframe itself and lead The solution is to take advantage of Extract-Load- to increased MIPS costs. Transform (ELT) technology instead of complex, old, slow, compute-intensive ETL approaches. ELT The solution is to eliminate the direct costs of can leverage processing capabilities within the acquisition, maintenance, and management and mainframe outside of the CPU (e.g. zIIP engines) instead to deal directly with data. This involves and TCP/IP to rapidly extract mainframe data mastering movement. This can allow data to be and load into a target. There, transformation to used where it is needed and stored most cost any desired format can occur economically and effectively. This step can provide immediate flexibly. The net result is more cost effective and dividends, even if you plan to go no farther. generally faster than ETL.

By using modern storage technologies for Building on your movement and transformation mainframe that provide flexibility, you are no capability can help you better engage with cloud longer confined to a narrow list of choices. The applications when and where it makes sense. It technology can also provide the connectivity that is an ideal way to move secondary data storage,

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Figure 1: ETL versus ELT – modern mainframe data transformation in the cloud

archive, and even backup data to the cloud, and decentralized operational model, is that a central, then transform it to universal formats. on-premises mainframe may no longer deliver benefits and may, in fact, add to latency, cost, Liberated from the complexities of the mainframe, and inflexibility. this data can be the crucial difference between seeing the full business picture and getting the The solution for these organizations is to recognize full business insights, or missing out entirely. This that data is the only non-negotiable element. If data can also provide a powerful addition to a data the data is in the cloud already or if you can get lake or can be exposed to the latest agile analytical it there, you can grow more and more native tools – potentially delivering real competitive capability in the cloud, ranging from operational advantage to the enterprise, at modest cost. And, applications to analytics. Replicating or matching all this without adversely impacting traditional traditional mainframe functions with cloud-based mainframe operations, since ELT can move data functionality is challenging but achievable. As the in either direction as needed. Transformation can most substantial step, in a cloud journey, this step apply to any type of mainframe data, including is necessarily the most complex, especially when VSAM, sequential and partitioned data sets. That organizations determine to actually rewrite their data can be converted to standard formats such existing applications for the cloud. But ELT and the as JSON and CSV. liberation of data from mainframe silos can lay the groundwork and provide a solid basis for finding Once mainframe data is no longer locked in a silo it a workable path to move beyond mainframe. In can be leveraged and monetized for new business particular, moving historical data from voluminous purposes, right in the cloud and in ways not and expensive tape infrastructure to the cloud possible in a traditional tape or VTL environment. permits consideration of a post-mainframe future, if so desired.

Cloud Migration, the Third Step Complete migration to the cloud, is not for all The final challenge for some organizations, organizations. But for some organizations it offers for example those that evolved to a highly an opportunity to transform and grow in new ways.

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Conclusion: Reclaim Data Ownership from By enabling the mainframe to play more effectively Existing Technology and Rejuvenate the Role in the data business value game, cloud connectivity of the Mainframe and cloud capabilities can make the mainframe Data scientists have proposed that we need to an even more valuable and sustainable platform think of data as “the new oil” – a resource that can for the organization. Indeed, these options have be extracted, refined, and used in numerous ways the potential to make the mainframe even more to create value. Data is plentiful, but mainframe integral to an organization’s future. data, despite its substantial volume, is still uniquely valuable. Regardless of where you decide to end your mainframe journey, mainframe data should Business leaders, analytics teams, and others no longer be siloed. It belongs to the whole have been clamoring for access, but IT has rarely organization and it should be available to the been able to deliver. whole organization. Modern technology can put you back in control of all your data, even the data Especially in today’s economic climate, now is the currently locked in mainframe storage silos. time for mainframe organizations to think about the future. They sit on a stockpile of data that can power change and growth, but they must rethink Read more about the mainframe modernization how it is accessed and used. Get mainframe data journey at model9.io to the cloud and you can apply the best analytics and BI tools, and you can change your world, both delivering value and creating value.

Fully Homomorphic Encryption

Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) allows people to perform calculations on encrypted data without decrypting it first. The result of the computation is in an encrypted form, when decrypted the output is the same as if the operations had been performed on the unencrypted data. By using FHE, authorized people can manipulate data while the data remains encrypted. This minimizes the time that the data is vulnerable to exfiltration. So, people in the financial or healthcare sectors can share data that previously they couldn’t. It means the data can be used for analytics or cross-industry collaboration, but at no time are the people looking at the shared data given access to private data. So, insurance companies could run analysis on patient healthcare data without any personally-identifiable information being visible to the insurer.

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by2021 Trevor user Eddolls survey The 2021 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 survey on the iTech-Ed Ltd website. Responses snapshot of the IBM Z user community’s existing from large mainframe vendors and multiple hardware and software configuration, and also entries from different people at the same site their plans and concerns for 2021. were excluded from the survey, as were largely incomplete responses. This year we have continued to track the growth of mainframe integration with mobile and cloud The distribution of all respondents is shown in computing, and other areas of new development, Chart 1. Just under half (45 percent) were from as well as gauging the extent to which the API North America. 20 percent were from Europe, and economy, DevOps, and Ransomware are really another fifth were from the Asia/Pacific region. 10 impacting on the mainframe world. In addition, percent were from the Middle East/Africa. And five we have continued to explore relative costs in percent were from South America. some details, asking respondents how fast their distributed server costs are growing relative to As usual, a wide range of industry types are the mainframe. represented in our sample (Chart 2), with IT services and banking each making up a quarter of Profile of respondents respondents. Government comprised 15 percent The mainframe user survey was completed by 100 of sites responding. With Insurance, education, individuals between the 1 November 2020 and and health each being five percent of the sample. the 27 November 2020. Survey respondents were Industries that didn’t fit any of the categories either contacted directly by email or other online offered made up 10 percent of respondents. means and invited to complete the mainframe user

South America Middle East/Africa 5% 10%

North America 45%

Asia/Pacific 20%

Europe 20% Chart 1: Distribution of respondents

Other 10% Health IT Education 5% 25% 5% Insurance 5%

Retail 10%

Banking 25% Government 15% Chart 2: Industry sector of respondents

A third way to categorize respondents is to look 84 percent of our respondents were involved in at business size. As shown in Chart 3, the largest running in-house data centres, which is much group of respondents are from companies with higher than last year’s figure (63 percent). The Over 10,000 employees worldwide (40 percent). other 16 percent (the same figure as last year) Almost a third (30 percent) had 1001 to 5000 said that they were partially outsourced. No-one staff. And 15 percent comprised companies with this year (last year’s figure was 21 percent) said under 200 staff, and staff sizes of 201 to 1000. No they were working in an outsourced operation. respondents, this year, had 5001 to 10,000 staff.

Under 200 15%

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1001-5000 30% Chart 3: Number of employees woldwide in organizations surveyed

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Over 25,000 Under 500 25% 25%

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1000-10,000 38% Chart 4: Total mainframe MIPS installed

Installed MIPS and capacity growth percent). Six percent had 500 to 1000 MIPS (well As in previous surveys, we have used MIPS as the down from last year’s 24 percent). Six percent had principal measure of size. We asked respondents 10,000 to 25,000 MIPS (down from 12 percent last to indicate the total mainframe MIPS installed on year). And, as in previous years, we use installed their systems, and the result is shown in Chart MIPS later in the survey to identify differences 4. 38 percent had 1000 to 10,000 MIPS (well between small, mid-sized, and larger users. up from last year’s 28 percent). 25 percent had under 500 MIPS (much the same as last year’s 24 Chart 5 shows the annual MIPS growth of percent). Similarly, 25 percent of respondents had respondents. 89 percent of sites (well up from over 25,000 MIPS (double last year figure of 12 last year’s figure of 65 percent of mainframe

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10% 100% 90% 0% 100% Less than 1000 MIPS 1000 to 10,000 MIPS Over 10,00080% MIPS 90% 100% 70% No growth 0 to 10 11 to 25 80%Over 25 Chart 6: MIPS growth by installation size 90% 100% 60% 70% 80% 90% 50% installations) are experiencing100% some growth, with percent. Last60% year, no sites did. No-one reported a 70% 55 percent of sites (up from last year’s 47 percent)80% decline in mainframe40% capacity (last year the figure 90% 50% 60% reporting growth of up to 10 percent. 28 percent70% of was 12 percent). 1130% percent of sites (well down 80% 40% sites reported growth between 11 and 25 percent 50%from last year’s 23 percent) have not experienced 60% 20% 70% 30% (up from last year’s figure of 18 percent). And six 40%any kind of change in their MIPS this year. So, 50% 10% percent of sites reported growth60% larger than 25 clearly, nine20% out of 10 sites are seeing some kind 30% 40% 0% 50% 10% 20% 30% Mainframe Unix Linux Windows IBM i 40% 0% 10% 20% 30% Mainframe Unix Decline NoLinux growth 0 toWindows 10 11 to 25 IBMOver i 25 100% 0% 10% 20% 90% Mainframe Unix Decline LinuxNo growth 0Windows to 10 11 to 25 IBMOver i 25 0% 10% 80% Mainframe UnixDecline NoLinux growth 0 toWindows 10 11 to 25 IBMOver i 25 0% 70% Mainframe Unix Decline NoLinux growth 0 toWindows 10 11 to 25 IBMOver i 25 60% Decline No growth 0 to 10 11 to 25 Over 25 50% 40% 30% 20% 10% 0% Mainframe Unix Linux Windows IBM i Chart 7: Mainframe capacity growth compared with other platforms Decline No growth 0 to 10 11 to 25 Over 25 28 © Arcati Ltd, 2021 ArcatiArcati Mainframe Mainframe Yearbook Yearbook 2021 2007 2021 user survey

of MIPS growth – which must be good for the showing good growth with only a few sites (about industry. 5 percent) not showing any growth.

Looking at Chart 6, however, we can see that the Hardware and software currency picture varies considerably depending on the size The IBM mainframe hardware range continues to of the system. This year, we find that the smallest receive a regular makeover, with new high-end systems are anticipating the largest growth. The and low-end systems generally being announced picture is a little confused because a similar on alternative years. 2019 saw the arrival of the percentage of the smaller sites are expecting no z15 processor, which not only included pervasive growth at all, with the majority expecting some encryption (first seen with the z14 models), growth. Middle-size and larger sites are both but also enhanced security with Data Privacy expecting some kind of growth – which is good Passports. 2020 saw the announcement of the z15 to see. Model T02 and LinuxONE III LT2 products, which included the same features, but were different in We also compared the rate of growth of the their size and capacity. They came as 19” single- mainframe with that of other IT platforms within frame, air-cooled platforms. And both can be the enterprise. As shown in Chart 7, only Unix configured with between four and 65 processor platforms are showing signs of decline. Windows units (PUs) and from 64GB to 16TB of memory. is showing the best overall growth graph, which Delivery dates for each range of processor can may be due to the growing use of its Azure cloud be found in the Mainframe evolution section of computing environment and the growth of Teams the Yearbook. while people are working from home. Interestingly, nearly a third (30 percent) of the sites surveyed Our research suggests that, typically, users have don’t have IBM i, and just under a quarter (20 upgraded on a regular basis to the most recent percent) don’t have Unix. Linux is generally hardware to take advantage of capacity increases

0 Z15: ZR1: z14: z13s: z13: z12BC: z12EC: z114: z10BC: z10EC: z9BC:

Chart 8: Mainframe processors installed

VM z/OS 2.4 5% 21% z/OS 2.2 26%

z/OS 2.3 48% Chart 9: Primary mainframe operating system release in use and cost benefits. The new z15 models did not using Version 2.2. A further 21 percent were using become generally available until September 2020, Version 2.4. This illustrates how organizations and, with the Covid-19 pandemic, it’s perhaps not migrate their operating system over time because, surprising to see that no-one has one installed yet. last year, we found 12 percent of sites were using Chart 8 shows that the two previous models (z15 Version 2.1, but no-one reported using it this year. or z14 Model ZR1) are by far the most popular. And last year, only six percent of sites reported The next most popular were the z14 the z13s and using Version 2.4 as their primary operating (surprisingly) the z114. Older models (z13, z12BC, system. Again, one site reported using VM as z12 EC, z10BC, z10EC, and z9BC) are still out their primary operating system. No-one suggested there and still performing well. It must be noted, Linux was their primary operating system. when looking at these statistics, that many sites had more than one model of mainframe installed. Mainframe strategy We asked respondents what, in their opinion, We also took the opportunity to ask people are the main benefits to their organization of the whether they were interested in LinuxONE Linux mainframe over other platforms. This year’s top of mainframes and when they were likely to get one. the list was security, with every single respondent six percent said that they already had one (last highlighting it as a benefit (up from 85 percent year, the figure was zero), and 63 percent (down last year). Clearly, all the talk about breaches and very slightly from last year’s 65 percent) said ransomware is focusing the minds of mainframers. they wouldn’t get one in the foreseeable future. 90 percent of respondents highlighted the benefit But, on the brighter side, 25 percent (down from of availability (the figure was 100 percent last 29 percent last year) of sites are expecting to get year). 75 percent of respondents highlighted one at some time in the future, with six percent manageability (up from last year’s 70 percent) planning to get one in the next six months. with 75 percent identifying scalability (up from 60 percent last year). Software currency (Chart 9) presents a more mixed picture and usually lags a little behind hardware. Worryingly, 90 percent of sites thought that the This year’s survey found that 48 percent of sites biggest obstacles to mainframe acceptance were using z/OS Version 2.3, and 26 percent were within the enterprise was that it’s too expensive

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No Not yet 10% 16%

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

(or appears to be). 55 percent of respondents mainframe apps was an obstacle (down from thought the biggest obstacle was difficulty in 40 percent last year). 20 percent of respondents retaining the necessary skills (the same value thought that a barrier was the mainframe being as last year). And 40 percent thought the biggest too complex (or appearing to be too complex). obstacle was a cultural barrier between mainframe This was the same value as last year. Only five and other IT professionals. This figure has gone percent of respondents couldn’t see any obstacles down from 65 percent last year. And 35 percent to mainframes being accepted in the enterprise felt concerns about future availability/support of (down from 10 percent last year).

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

Within the industry as a whole, opinion is clearly 55 percent (slightly up from last year’s 53 divided over the role of the mainframe in new percent) went on to say that they run Java-based applications. For some companies the mainframe applications on the mainframe, with a further 5 remains a separate legacy environment while percent (down from last year’s 16 percent) planning others are leveraging the strengths of large to. 55 percent of respondents (up from last year’s systems by using them in cloud and mobile 47 percent) said that they run Linux on IBM Z. 45 working. You hear mainframers talking about JSON percent of respondents don’t run Linux. There and RESTful interfaces along with smartphone are considerable cost and management benefits app designers. We found that 35 percent of sites of consolidating distributed Linux workloads onto viewed their mainframe as a legacy system (down the mainframe. IBM made the IFL (Integrated from last year’s 58 percent). 40 percent (up from Facility for Linux) specialty processor available in 10 percent last year) viewed mainframes as 2001, and announced the LinuxONE in 2015, the strategic, and 20 percent (down from 32 percent) Rockhopper II in 2018, and the LinuxONE III Model viewed them as both strategic and legacy. LT2 in 2020. Running Linux on a mainframe could so easily be a mainstream technology. We asked respondents whether their z/OS 100% systems participate in Web services and SOA 80 percent of organizations said that they are 100%90% environments, and the results are shown in Web-enabling CICS (Chart 11), up from last 90%80% Chart 10. 74 percent of organizations said that year’s value of 75 percent. 50 percent of sites are 80%70% their mainframes participate partly or fully in Web Web-enabling Db2, which is down on last year’s 70%60% services (up from last year’s 69 percent). 11 80 percent. 20 percent of sites are Web-enabling 60%50% percent said no. 50%40% 40%30% 30%20% 20%10% 10%0% All of the above to Less100% than100%100% 1000 MIPS 1001-10,000 MIPS Over 10,000 MIPS 0% Allsome of thedegree above to Less than 1000 MIPS 1001-10,000 MIPS Over 10,000 MIPS 90%90%90% some degree 80%80%80% Mostly ported to 70%70%70% MostlyWindows ported to 60%60%60% Windows

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All ofAll the Allof theofabove the above aboveto some to someto degreesome degree degree Chart 12: LegacyMostlyMostlyMostly ported portedapplication ported to Windows to Windowsto Windows plans over the next three years MaintainedMaintainedMaintained and and actively and actively actively integrated/enhanced integrated/enhanced integrated/enhanced with with new with new apps new apps apps

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IMS, lower than last year’s 30 percent. 30 percent maturity of the installation. Interestingly, Chart 12 (the same value as last year) are Web-enabling clearly shows that the majority of smaller sites WebSphere Application Server. And 5 percent of expect their legacy applications to be maintained respondents are Web-enabling other software. and actively integrated/enhanced with new apps, but with a fifth of respondents in that category We asked whether respondents currently used expecting their applications will mostly ported to their mainframe for cloud computing. Five percent Windows. Middle-sized sites mainly (60 percent) of respondents said they did, which is more-or-less expect their applications to be maintained and the same as last year’s figure of six percent. We actively integrated/enhanced with new apps, also asked whether respondents were planning to and again 20 percent expect their applications adopt cloud computing as a strategy. A third (33 to be ported to Windows. And 20 percent expect percent, well down from last year’s 55 percent) a mixture of porting, maintaining, and stabilizing. said they weren’t at present. Another third (33 Larger sites show a similar mixed picture. 60 percent) thought perhaps some mainframe percent of sites expect their legacy applications to applications will be cloud-enabled in the future. be maintained and actively integrated/enhanced This figure is nearly double last year’s figure of with new apps. However, 20 percent expect their 17 percent. 22 percent (the same figure as last legacy applications will be maintained but not year) plan for some applications to run using the integrated with new apps. And a further 20 percent cloud model. And 11 percent (up from six percent have no clear picture, expecting something of last year) plan for most of their applications to run everything to happen to their legacy systems. using the cloud model. When we asked whether application modernization As for the future of legacy systems, once again was a priority, we found that 26 percent (well the answer depends to a degree on the size and up from last year’s six percent) thought they’d

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Chart 13: How fast is your System z-related expenditure growing annually, on the technology itself and on the people required to manage the technology?

© Arcati Limited, 2021 33 Arcati Mainframe Yearbook 2021 2021 user survey modernize a few applications here and there. technology itself and the people needed to support 37 percent (similar to last year’s 39 percent) it. In Chart 13, we compare these results with the suggested that at their site they had some plans growth in mainframe capacity. From the graph, you to modernize applications. And 21 percent (almost can see that 89 percent of sites have seen some double last year’s 11 percent) had great plans for kind of increase in capacity and 83 percent have application modernization. However, 16 percent seen an increase in technology costs, but only 59 (a big drop from last year’s 44 percent figure) still percent of sites believe their people costs have had no plans for any application modernization. increased! A further 29 percent of sites have seen no change in their people costs. No-one reported Relative cost seeing a decline in technology costs or capacity, There are many ways of comparing the costs of but 12 percent are seeing a drop in people costs. mainframe systems with those of other platforms, The figures on people costs continue a trend. At but none of them are straightforward and few are some stage, management will have to realize that meaningful. CIOs and finance directors all too you can’t always do more with less – no matter often have little experience of the factors that how good the technology is. contribute to mainframe total cost of ownership and there is still little published data available We went on to ask what proportion of the total IT 100% to help them make informed comparisons. It is budget is absorbed by mainframe-related costs (Chart 90%14). Over 81 percent of sites say that the beyond the scope of this short100% survey to go into detail on cost, but the following questions explore bulk of80% their IT budget is spent off mainframe, 90% some areas where financial comparisons can be leaving70% 19 percent of sites where the majority of 80% made between large centralized systems and the expenditure100%60% is on the mainframe side. And 70% yet, we found that the majority of sites had most distributed servers. 90%50% 60% of their corporate date stored on the mainframe 80%40% We asked respondents 50%how fast their IBM (78 percent of sites). 70%30% Z-related expenditure is increasing,40% in terms of the 60%20% 30% 50%10% 20% 40%0% 10% percent percent 30% 0% percent 20% 20%20% Mainframe Mainframepercent : 80% : 80% Non-mainframe Non- 40% Mainframe : 60% Non-mainframe 10% 80%mainframe Mainframe : 20% Non-mainframe 20% Mainframe : 80% Non-mainframe 40% Mainframe : 60% Non-mainframe 100% 100 0% 40% Mainframe : 60% Non- 90% 90 80% Mainframe : 20% Non-mainframe mainframepercent percent 80% 80 60% Mainframe : 40% Non- 20% mainframeMainframe : 80% Non-mainframe 40% Mainframe : 60% Non-mainframe 70% 70 80%80% Mainframe Mainframe : 20% : 20% Non-mainframe Non- 60% 60 mainframe 50% 50 40% 40 30% 30 20% 20 10% 10 0% 0 percent percent percent Chart 14: IT budget and corporate data: mainframe and distributed systems compared 20% Mainframe : 80% Non-mainframe 40% Mainframe : 60% Non-mainframe

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Again this year, we asked how fast respondents believed their acquisition/maintenance and support 100% costs for distributed platforms were growing 90% relative to the mainframe, for an equivalent amount 80% of capacity or size of user population respectively (Chart 15). In other words, did they think that 70% their mainframe costs were increasing faster or 60% more slowly than their Unix, Linux, Windows, 50% and IBM i costs. Of course, these numbers have 40% to be treated with great caution because we are asking respondents to make direct comparisons, 30% which, as we have just stated, are very complex. 20% Once again, this chart can be used only as 10% an indication of a general trend, but it’s a very 0% interesting trend nevertheless! Anything above Unix Linux Windows IBM i the grey block (ignoring the green) in each column Are your distributed acquisition/maintenance costs suggests higher costs for alternative platforms. For growing fasterNot or installed slower than mainframe? Windows, the acquisition/maintenance costs are Increasing much faster than mainframe definitely rising faster than mainframe, and with Linux it is to a degree as well. The same is true for Increasing a little faster than mainframe the user support costs. Perhaps, most interesting About the same is how few sites have IBM i installed and around Increasing a little slower than mainframe half don’t have Unix. Increasing much slower than mainframe IBM versus the ISVs The mainframe independent software vendor (ISV) business is continually evolving, and there have been a number of small companies acquired 100% by larger organizations, but, on the whole, not any 90%100% obvious shifts in the landscape. 90% 80% 80% IBM regularly argues that some ISVs are too 70% inflexible and need to change their software pricing 70% 60% strategies, while the third-party suppliers respond 60% that IBM is placing excessive pressure on them 50% 50% by using its size and influence to win over their 40% 40% customers. Mainframe management is now sold as 30%30% a way of allowing customers to maintain the quality

20%20% of the service they get from the mainframe without the reliance on experienced mainframers. In other 10%10% words, the software will identify a problem and, 0%0% as well as informing a less-qualified human, will Unix LinuxLinux WindowsWindows IBMIBM i i Are your distributed user support costs growing take the necessary steps to negate the problem. faster or Notslower installed than mainframe? In addition, vendors are beginning to use GUI- type screens, which younger IT people are more Chart 15:Increasing Relative much growthfaster than ofmainframe expenditure: familiar with, to display important information. mainframeIncreasing versus a little distributed faster than mainframe About the same © Arcati Limited, 2021 35 Increasing a little slower than mainframe Increasing much slower than mainframe Arcati Mainframe Yearbook 2021 2021 user survey

0 To reduce costs To reduce the To gain new To obtain better Rarely (if ever) number of vendors functionality service/support replace mainframe supported from vendor software 100% Chart 16: What are the most important reasons for 90% 100%replacing mainframe tools and applications? 80% 90% 100% 70% And much80% mainframe monitoring data can now products. Experienced programmers are still 90% 100% 60% be accessed70% from a browser. needed for that to take place. 80% 90% 50% 60% 100% 70% 80% 40% What this 50%doesn’t do, of course, is develop new 90% 60% 70% 30% 40% 80% 50% 60% 20% 30% 70% 40% 50% 10% 20% 60% 30% 40% 0% 10% 50% percent 20% percent 30% 40% 100%0% 10% 20% 100% IBM : 0% ISV 80% IBM : 20% ISV percent60% IBM : 40% ISV 40% IBM : 60% ISV 30%percent20% IBM : 80% ISV 90% 0% 10% 20% 80%100% IBM : 0% ISV 80% IBM : 20% ISV percent60% IBM : 40% ISV 40% IBM : 60% ISV percent20% IBM : 80% ISV 0% 10% 70% 100% IBM : 0% ISV 80% IBM : 20% ISV percent60% IBM : 40% ISV 40% IBM : 60% ISV percent20% IBM : 80% ISV 0% 60% 100% IBM : 0% ISV 80% IBM : 20% ISV percent60% IBM : 40% ISV 40% IBM : 60% ISV percent20% IBM : 80% ISV 50% 40% 100% IBM : 0% ISV 80% IBM : 20% ISV 60% IBM : 40% ISV 40% IBM : 60% ISV 20% IBM : 80% ISV 30% 20% 10% 0% percent percent Chart 17: How much software budget goes to IBM and how much to ISVs? 100% IBM : 0% ISV 80% IBM : 20% ISV 60% IBM : 40% ISV 40% IBM : 60% ISV 20% IBM : 80% ISV 36 © Arcati Ltd, 2021 ArcatiArcati Mainframe Mainframe Yearbook Yearbook 2021 2007 2021 user survey

100 90 80 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0 IFL zIIP zAAP

Chart 18: Specialty processors installed

We asked respondents what makes them consider they had. This year, every site had a specialty a change of vendor for their mainframe tools and processor installed. Last year, 10 percent of utilities. It’s clear from Chart 16 that cost is by far sites didn’t have one. In fact, everyone had a the biggest driver, even though cheaper tools often zIIP processor. Last year it was only 80 percent offer less functionality, it may be the case that of respondents. Again, no sites had all three. 75 some customers feel the higher-priced software is percent of sites had two specialty processors (the filled with bloatware that they have to pay for, but value was 45 percent last year). 40 percent (down will never use. ISVs may be pleased to know that from last year’s 50 percent) had IFL processors 15 percent of sites said they rarely if ever change installed. The full results are shown in Chart 18. their software. This figure is the same as last year. In the USA, regulations such as Sarbanes-Oxley We also asked how much of users’ mainframe Act (SOX), HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability software budget is spent on IBM software, and and Accountability Act), and BASEL II, plus what’s how much on products from other vendors. Again estimated to be over 150 state and federal laws this year (see Chart 17), we found that the majority dictate the length of time that Electronically-Stored (62.5 percent) of respondents pay more to IBM for Information (ESI) needs to be retained. These software than to other vendors. regulations, and they do depend on the industry, have greatly increased data retention periods. Other issues The EU GDPR regulations came into force in We asked about IBM’s ‘specialty’ processors May 2018. These affect any company in the world such as the Integrated Facility for Linux (IFL), the storing any data about EU citizens (airlines, car Application Assist Processor (zAAP) intended for hire, banks, etc). Similarly, there’s the California Java applications, and the Integrated Information Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), which came into Processor (zIIP) intended primarily for Db2. We force on 1 January 2020 asked respondents which specialty processors

No, not at present 22%

Yes, our data archiving strategy is fully Not yet, but we are compliant implementing a 50% compliance strategy 11%

We are almost fully compliant with the latest regulations 17% Chart 19: Data archiving strategies that comply with the latest regulations

In the light of this, we asked whether respondents browser on a tablet or smartphone, we thought it had a data archiving strategy in place that was would be interesting to see whether our survey compliant with the latest regulations. 50 percent respondents were using these devices to monitor of sites (up from 46 percent last year) said they or control their mainframe. Only 5 percent said were fully compliant, with a further 17 percent that they were (a big decrease on last year’s 20 (down from last year’s 31 percent) being nearly percent). So, not a disruptive technology, yet! compliant with these regulations. The figure for sites not having an archiving strategy is just 22 Much has been made in the media (for years) percent, an increase on last year’s 15 percent. about IPV4 addresses running out and the Clearly, compliance is an important issue and need for everyone to migrate to IPv6, which has organizations are taking the matter seriously. It’s many more addresses available. The change worth recognizing that GDPR administrative fines would require a lot of effort for mainframers, so for organizations that aren’t compliant can be as we wondered whether users had any plans to much as 20 million Euros or 4 percent of annual introduce IPv6 in 2021. 30 percent of sites (up global turnover, whichever is the highest. The full from last year’s seven percent) said they already results are shown in Chart 19. have IPv6, with 10 percent (down from last year’s 20 percent) saying that they were planning to Social media is used by everyone, and we implement it in 2021. wondered whether mainframers found social media (Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, etc) useful Another hot topic recently has been data analysis for their work on the mainframe. Only 40 percent and all the things associated with that (such as said that they did (an increase on last year’s 35 Splunk). In particular, Splunk can be used to percent), with a further 15 percent not sure, and monitor log activity (such as SIEM), look for trends, the rest not using it at all. IBM has Facebook and trigger alerts. We asked whether sites had any pages dedicated to IMS, CICS, and Db2, it seems plans to use Splunk or its equivalents. 35 percent a shame if they’re not being used. of sites said that they were already using Splunk. A further 20 percent said that they were planning With the growth in the number of software products to use Splunk. that allow users to monitor the mainframe from a

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DevOps (and DevSecOps) has also been talked percent are planning to use it (up from nine percent about a lot for the past few years, and so we were last year). interested to see whether sites were actually embracing the technology. The survey found that Docker is a way of containerizing applications 35 percent of sites were already using DevOps (up – like little virtual machines – that allows an from 20 percent last year), with a further fifteen application to perform in the same way on any percent were planning to use it (down from last platform. 10 percent of respondents said they were year’s value of 33 percent). already using Docker (down from 23 percent last year), with a further 15 percent (eight percent last Similarly, we asked whether sites had any plans year) saying that they had plans to use it. to publish and reuse APIs to speed up application development. Using APIs means that organizations Robotic process automation (RPA) is a way can re-use the best parts of their existing programs of using software bots to automate repetitive and new or updated applications can be created or routine tasks that are usually performed by much faster by combining existing APIs. 50 knowledge workers. Employees are then free to percent of sites said that they were already using perform higher-value work. We asked whether the technique (double the 24 percent last year). sites were making use of RPA. 15 percent said And a further 25 percent of sites are planning to that they were, with further 15 percent at the (down from 41 percent last year). planning stage.

One way that CICS, IMS, and Db2 sites can The days of security by obscurity are long gone easily allow their applications to link to mobile for mainframes and they have been the target of working is to use Liberty. Liberty is a JEE (Java attacks by bad actors. With research conducted Enterprise Edition) application server based on by the Ponemon Institute for IBM finding that the WebSphere Application Server technology that average cost of a data breach is $3.86 million, we can run stand-alone, on multi-platforms, or on z/ wondered how worried respondents were about OS. It dramatically simplifies the interaction with ransomware on their mainframe. Five percent of mainframe resources from Java applications. We respondents have a solution in place. 35 percent asked whether people were making use of Liberty. said that they were a little worried, and five percent 40 percent of sites already use Liberty (well up said that they were very worried. However, 40 from eight percent last year), with 10 percent (it percent of respondents said that they were not was eight percent last year) planning to install it. worried at all.

Zowe was announced in 2018 as a way for non- We also asked about BYOD (Bring Your Own mainframers to securely manage, control, script, Device). We wanted to know how important sites and develop on the mainframe like any other thought it was to make mainframe data available cloud platform. 10 percent of sites said that they to other platforms. 85 percent (up from last year’s are already using this open source technology (up 73 percent) of sites said that it was very important from none last year). But only 10 percent of sites to the way they work at the moment. No-one is at have plans to make use of it in the coming year the planning stage (it was 11 percent last year), (down from 18 percent). and a further five percent expect to do some work on this in the future (it was 11 percent last year. Blockchain is the cryptocurrency idea that can be used for securing and sharing ledgers and all Moving on from that, we wanted to know how sorts of information. 10 percent of sites reported important respondents thought the idea of people already using it (up from none last year), and 15

© Arcati Limited, 2021 39 Arcati Mainframe Yearbook 2021 2021 user survey using their own devices (BYOD) to access found that 10 percent of respondents were already mainframes was at their site. Again this year, no- using it with 15 percent at the planning stage. one said it was very important to the way they work now. 10 percent (up from last year’s six percent) Zowe, the open source way of accessing are in the planning stages, with 20 percent (down mainframes, was introduced in 2018. 10 percent from last year’s figure of 38 percent) expecting to of sites said that they are already using this open be in the future. And 50 percent (56 percent last source technology, but only 10 percent of sites year) said it wasn’t important. have plans to make use of it in the coming year. I wonder whether usage will grow over the next We also asked the respondents how viable they few years? saw mainframe computing at their site. Sixty percent of sites thought it will continue much as it When it comes to Web-enabling subsystems, is, with 15 percent suggesting they had positive we found that 80 percent of organizations were plans for the mainframe in the future, and 20 Web-enabling CICS. 50 percent of sites are percent having great plans for the mainframe in Web-enabling Db2. 20 percent of sites are Web- the future. Clearly, at most sites, mainframes are enabling IMS. 30 percent are Web-enabling going to be with us for the foreseeable future. WebSphere Application Server. We also found that 40 percent of sites already use Liberty, with CONCLUSIONS 10 percent planning to install it. As always, it was an interesting survey this year seeing how various sites are adopting the new Mainframes in an organization are just one of technologies that seem to come out every year the computing platforms people use (along with and how the world of the mainframe seems to be smartphones, tablets, laptops, Power systems, integrating with the other IT platforms used by most etc), and, for a long time, there has been an organizations. Clearly, working with mainframes is issue, at many sites, with mainframes being an interesting way to spend your day – particularly accepted in the enterprise. The reason suggested as they are able to reach out to mobile devices by 90 percent of sites was that mainframes are and Internet of Things (IoT) devices, and the way too expensive (or appear to be). 55 percent of DevOps practices can speed up what was a very respondents thought the biggest obstacle was slow process of application development. CICS difficulty in retaining the necessary skills. And this, and IMS continue to have quarterly updates that perhaps, highlights the need for a product like add value to the products. Zowe. 40 percent thought the biggest obstacle was a cultural barrier between mainframe and other In terms of what’s new (or, perhaps more correctly, IT professionals. And 35 percent felt concerns what appears on a lot of PowerPoint slides), the about future availability/support of mainframe survey found that 35 percent of sites are already apps was an obstacle. 20 percent of respondents using Splunk. And a further 20 percent said that thought that a barrier was the mainframe being they were planning to use it. The survey found that too complex (or appearing to be too complex). 35 percent of sites were already using DevOps Only five percent of respondents couldn’t see any (up from 20 percent last year), with a further obstacles to mainframes being accepted in the fifteen percent planning to use it. And half of all enterprise. Let’s hope that figure rises in the future. respondents said that they were already reusing APIs to speed up application development. And Reinforcing the value of the mainframe to a further 25 percent of sites are planning to reuse organizations, the survey found that 89 percent APIs. Blockchain has been in the news a lot, and of sites have seen some kind of increase in 10 percent of sites reported already using it, with capacity, and 83 percent have seen an increase in 15 percent planning to use it. With Docker, we technology costs, and yet only 59 percent of sites 40 © Arcati Ltd, 2021 ArcatiArcati Mainframe Mainframe Yearbook Yearbook 2021 2007 2021 user survey

believe their people costs have increased! Also, enabled in the future. 22 percent plan for some in terms of costs, 81 percent of sites surveyed applications to run using the cloud model. And 11 said that the bulk of their IT budget is spent off percent plan for most of their applications to run mainframe. using the cloud model.

But no organization is going to develop an asset Linux is often in the news, so it was interesting unless they view it as having a future, and we to see what our respondents had to say about it. all know the mindset that still exists about the Just over half of respondents said that they run mainframe, treating it as little more than your dad’s Linux on the IBM Z. There are considerable cost technology. Unfortunately, the survey found that and management benefits from consolidating just over a third of sites viewed their mainframe distributed Linux workloads onto the mainframe. as a legacy system. Whereas 40 percent (well up However, 63 percent of respondents weren’t from last year’s figure of 10 percent) still viewed interested in LinuxONE mainframes. Six percent mainframes as strategic. 20 percent viewed them of respondents said they already had one, with as strategic and legacy. 25 percent expecting to get one at some time in the future. But, no sites in the survey said their When asked what, in their opinion, are the main primary operating system was Linux. benefits to their organization of the mainframe over other platforms, every single respondent The reported increase in popularity of Java highlighted security. Clearly, all the talk about is reflected in the survey 55 percent of sites breaches and ransomware is focusing the minds (similar to last year’s 53 percent) said that they of mainframers. 90 percent of respondents run Java-based applications on the mainframe, highlighted the benefit of availability. 75 percent with a further 5 percent (down from last year’s 16 of respondents highlighted manageability, with 75 percent) planning to. percent identifying scalability. Security breaches and ransomware are becoming This year’s survey found that the last-but-one a major issue – with the average breach costing mainframe model was the most prevalent. So, $3.86 million. Perhaps worryingly, 40 percent of most sites had a z15 or z14 Model ZR1 installed. respondents weren’t worried about ransomware. The next most popular models were the z14, the Five percent said they had a solution in place, and z13s and (surprisingly) the z114. Older models 40 percent were worried or very worried about it. (z13, z12BC, z12 EC, z10BC, z10EC, and z9BC) are still out there and still performing well. It must When it comes to being compliant with regulations, be noted, when looking at these statistics, that eg PCI DSS, GDPR, and the new California many sites had more than one model of mainframe Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), the survey found installed. In terms of operating system, 48 percent that half of sites were fully compliant, with a further of sites were using z/OS Version 2.3, and 26 17 percent being nearly compliant with these percent were using Version 2.2. A further 21 regulations. However, the survey also found that percent were using the newer Version 2.4. the figure for sites not having an archiving strategy is 22 percent. It’s interesting to see what kind of an impact the much talked about cloud computing is making. As is so often the case, the bottom line is that Only five percent of respondent said that they the mainframe continues to offer a cost-effective, were currently using their mainframe for cloud secure (especially with pervasive encryption), computing. A third (33 percent) thought perhaps and powerful platform for organizations with the some mainframe applications will be cloud- necessary background and expertise in place to

© Arcati Limited, 2021 41 Arcati Mainframe Yearbook 2021 2021 user survey support it. It seems that non-mainframe IT staff as well as understanding the true total cost of and managers are not getting the opportunities ownership figures for the platform. Perhaps Zowe to find out about the multitude of advantages that will help the mainframe to appear like any other using a mainframe can bring to an organization – in server to a younger generation of programmers terms of security, reliability, availability, flexibility, and managers.

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4bears Technologies Compuware Corporation 8folios Conexus Technologies ABIS ConicIT Accelerated Outsourcing Connectivity Systems Action Software International CPT Global Ltd Advanced Software Products Group, Inc. Creative Data Movers Inc (ASPG) DataKinetics Alebra Technologies DDV technologies Applied Performance Technologies Dell EMC Applied Software Dignus Arcis Services DINO-Software Corporation ASG Technologies Direct Computer Resources Atos SE DTS Software Axios Products Eccox Technologies Azamour Solutions Edge Information Group Baer Consulting Enterprise Systems Associates, Inc. Beta Systems Software (“ESAi”) Black Hill Software Epoka Group Blenheim Software EPV Technologies Blenheim Software International Ltd ERGO Soluciones SRL Blue Sea Technology European Mainframe Academy BMC Software Fischer International Systems Corporation Broadcom Fitz Software & Co Bsecure Flynet Can Do Systems Forecross Corporation Canam Software Fujitsu Cartagena Software Gary Allardyce CASI Software Gary Bergman Associates CM First Group GT Software Cobbs Mill Consulting H&W Computer Systems Cole Software Heitech Managed Services Sdn Bhd Compu Management Help Systems Compute (Bridgend) Hexaware Technologies Computer Measurement Group HORIZONT

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HostBridge Technology PKS Software I/S Management Strategies PKWARE, Inc i3 Business Solutions Precisely Progress IBA Group ProTech Consulting & Training Illustro Systems International Qlik Informatica QMSI-Quintessential Mailing Inspired Solutions (Software) Ltd Software Incorporated INTERCHIP AG Relational Architects International IntelliMagic Rocket Software Interskill Learning RSM Partners ISAM RSM Technology ISI Pty Ltd SAS Institute iTech-Ed Selenity Jazz Software Simon Systems Key Resources Inc SMT Data L3C Ltd SoftBase Latuz Software AG Levi Ray & Shoup Software Diversified Services Logicalis UK Software Engineering GmbH Longpela Expertise Solimar Systems Luminex SSH MacKinney Systems SV Group Macro 4 Syspertec Communication Mainstorconcept GmbH Systemwerx Maintec Technologies Technical Storage SARL MainTegrity The Source Recovery Company Matter of Fact Software TONE Software Meerkat Computer Services Ltd Top Gun Technology Micro Focus Trident Services Model9 Triton Consulting Modern Systems UBS Hainer GmbH MOST Technologies Value-4IT Limited MPI Tech Vanguard Mullins Consulting Inc Verhoef Training NewEra Software VirtualZ Computing Oracle WDR PDFlib GmbH Web Age Solutions Pegasystems Zdevops Phase Change Software ZETALY Phoenix Software Int ZETO Katowice PIR Group zSoftware

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files, JCL jobs, and more. The heavy lifting is done by Legacy Software. Import the information into 8folios using 4bears Technologies our Data Connector to Legacy Software. Address: Alameda Mamorá, 503 - CJ 53, Barueri - São Paulo - SP, 06454-040, Brazil. Phone: 5511997602242 ABIS Email: [email protected] Web: www.4bears.com.br Address: Diestsevest 32 bus 4b, 3000 Leuven, Belgium. Activity: Software vendor Phone: +32-16-245610 Specialist areas: System management; storage Email: [email protected] management; security; web integration and legacy Web: www.abis.be reengineering tools. Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, Activity: Education. Non-mainframe platforms supported: Windows Specialist areas: Data management; programming/ Pricing options: One-time charge, monthly/annual testing; Web integration and legacy reengineering tools. license. Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, Linux on IBM Z Non-mainframe platforms supported: Unix, Linux Company profile 4bears is a company developing solutions and services for Company profile the IBM mainframe environment. Our products promote ABIS Training & Consulting provides technological IT better governance, management and monitoring of the services, mainly for large and medium-sized enterprises. IBM environment, doing it efficiently, automated and not consuming machine resources. These services are based on specialised ICT knowledge, which we wish to transfer to you, in the form of: We use an innovative and disruptive technology called • Training & Coaching NIMS (Non Intrusive Mainframe Software), a technology • Consulting & Projects. that does no I/O to get, in real-time, important information stored in mainframe logs.. The scope of these services is based on: • a high-level of technical knowledge and expertise; • a profound commercial and technological relationship 8folios with our customers - enabling us to provide you with a high level of qualitative support for your core business Address: processes. Snohomish, WA, USA Phone: +1 206 973 7169 Knowledge, knowledge development and knowledge Email: [email protected] transfer are our core business! Web: 8folios.com Product/service information Activity: Software vendor. Main course and knowledge domains are: Specialist areas: Data management; asset and change • z/OS-based technologies: z/OS, USS, Db2, IMS/DM, management; programming/testing; web integration and TSO, CICS/TS, IMS/TM, COBOL, PL/I, REXX, and also legacy reengineering tools IBM Developer for System z (IDz) Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS • Linux and UNIX Pricing options: Monthly/annual license. • Databases and Big Data Infrastructure: DB2, Oracle, MySQL & MariaDB • Websphere Application Server Company profile • IBM MQ 8folios helps you contain the complexity of IT. Know your • Networking and Internet Security: CISM, Ethical information. Know your landscape Hacking • ITIL Product/service information • Programming languages: COBOL, PL/I, Java, Python... Our partnership with Legacy Software (www. • Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) legacysoftware.co.uk) allows organizations with IBM z/OS to programmatically identify dependencies between programs, copybooks, Db2 tables and columns, VSAM

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 RFP process and give you the peace of mind that you have found the best vendor at the best cost.

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• Event tracking helps localise the cause of problems • Change tracking and controls prevent unauthorised and undocumented changes Advanced Software Products Group Inc • Change controls potentially reduce system centric (ASPG) problems • Enforce SAM (Software Asset Management) Address: • Reduce risks 3185 Horseshoe Drive, South Naples, FL 34104, USA. • Improve security Phone: 239 649 1548 or (800) 662-6090 • Provide an accurate audit trail Email: [email protected]. • Provide transparent compliance to SOX, CoBIT, ITIL, Web: aspg.com. EU-GDPR and worldwide equivalents • Potentially reduced costs for both internal and external Activity: Software vendor. z/OS audits Specialist areas: System management; storage • Free trial and free Webinars management; security; other

Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, VM/VSE Company profile Non-mainframe platforms supported: Other Unix. Linux, Alebra Technologies develops and markets proprietary Windows enterprise integration software to businesses worldwide. Pricing options: Monthly/annual license Alebra’s software portfolio includes data sharing and communications solutions that integrate mainframe Company profile and open system environments. Alebra’s solutions Headquartered in Naples, Florida, Advanced Software are marketed to mid-market and enterprise customers Products Group, Inc. has provided the IT community with worldwide through direct, partner, and OEM arrangements. cutting edge software solutions, support, and services Alebra has over 200 Global 2000 accounts for its products since 1986. With a worldwide network of support, including and services. Its products are installed worldwide. active roles as an IBM Partner in Development and Microsoft Certified Partner, ASPG remains a leader in the Product/service information optimization of data center performance. ASPG offers Alebra offers enterprise software that provides host innovative software solutions for Data Security, Storage connectivity and cross-platform data moving. Alebra’s Administration, Capacity Planning, System Productivity, products are classified into the following families: and CICS Productivity. Data centers worldwide have made • Parallel Data Mover (PDM) is a cross platform ASPG software solutions their products of choice. application that allows users to reliably transfer large volumes of data using parallel data movement. Product/service information. Connectivity options include a new world-first FICON- Product/Service Information: FCP Gateway appliance as well as GbE. • Mainframe Data Encryption [MegaCryption] • The Brixton PU2.1 SNA Server is the networking • IDMS Data Encryption [MegaCryption IDMS] software equivalent to the SunLink SNA 3270 Gateway, • IMS Data Encryption [MegaCryption IMS] enabling communications between your TCP/IP • Password Reset & Synchronization [ReACT] networked clients and IBM mainframe and mid-range • RACF Administration & Reporting [ERQ] systems using SNA and other protocols. • DB2 Encryption [MegaCryption DB2] • EXPRESS is the industry’s foremost host connectivity • ICSF Analysis [CryptoMon] software on an open platform. It brings together all • SMF Data Management [SMFUTIL] advanced SNA capabilities into one highly integrated • Performance & Utilization Reporting [InfoDASD, software package, unparalleled in the industry. InfoTAPE, InfoCPU] • HSM Reporting [HSCAN] • Macro to Command [Command CICS] • DASD & VSAM Modeling [SpaceCalc] Applied Performance Technologies • ICF Catalog Management [CIM] • On-line CICS Help [Help/Key] Address: • RACF Auditing & Reporting [ERA] 4071 Heather Court, Northampton, PA 18067, USA. • User Provisioning [ProACT] Phone: +1 855 737 3832 • Offline Access Recovery [OAR]. Email: [email protected] Web: www.PerfTechPro.com.

Sales contacts: Alebra Technologies Inc America: [email protected]. EMEA: Michael W Moss [email protected]. Address: AsiaPac: [email protected]. 550 Main Street, Suite 250, New Brighton, MN 55112 USA Phone: +1 651 366 6140 Activity: Software vendor. Email: [email protected] Specialist areas: System management. Web: alebra.com. Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS. Pricing options: Monthly/annual license. Activity: Software vendor. Specialist areas: System management; storage Company profile management; web integration and legacy reengineering Our aim is to make capacity and performance tools; other management tools for the 21st Century. Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS Then, make it easy for you to do business with us. Non-mainframe platforms supported: AIX, other Unix. Linux, Windows Pricing options: One-time charge

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Product/service information TSO. Provides TSO-like environment without TSO’s high PerfTechPro zAnalytics® is an IT capacity and overhead. performance management tool designed specifically for 21st Century data centers and cost-conscious IT FSE+ a high performance editor, data set manager, and management professionals. PerfTechPro is Windows- job output previewer. Supports sequential files, PDS, and based software providing automated data collection, PDS/E members with LRECLs up to 32760 all while using analysis, reporting and simulation modeling. up to 50% less overhead than ISPF/PDF. Operates under TSO and VTAM MUP.

TSO Superset Utilities: group of nine TSO commands Applied Software Inc providing functions unavailable in the standard TSO environment. Commands include COMPARE, COPY, Address: FORMAT, FSHELP, LIST, LISTJES, MERGE, PRINTDS 737 Sandy Point Lane, Palm Beach Gardens, FL 33410, and TSOSORT. Commands written in re-entrant Assembler USA. Language. Phone: +1 215-297-9441 Email: [email protected] Web: asisoft.com/ Arcis Services Activity: Software vendor. Specialist areas: Data management; security; Address: programming/testing; other Zwedenstraat 4 bus 9, 1060 Brussels, Belgium Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, VM/VSE Phone: +32 2 534 4977 Non-mainframe platforms supported: Windows Email: [email protected] Pricing options: One-time charge, monthly/annual Web: www.arcis-services.net license, processor/capacity-based. Activity: Education/research. Company profile Specialist areas: System management; data Providing solutions for data transfer and data security in management; storage management; programming/testing 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 network, during the file transfer process, or off-site. We Company profile provide solutions which include user-friendly tools for file Michel Castelein has more than 30 years experience in transfer and data encryption using AES 128 encryption, developing and teaching ICT courses. DES, Triple DES and DESX. He also conducts course sessions in behalf of IBM. Product/service information SSR Client/Server: superset replacement for IBM’s Product/service information IND$FILE. Unlike IND$FILE, SSR is fully supported, Product_info Currently available: improves file transfer performance up to 50% or more, and • 3-day course z/OS Introduction is available for TSO and VTAM, CICS MVS Services, and • 5-day course z/OS Job Control Language & TSO/ISPF CICS. • 2-day course z/OS MVS & JES2 Operations • 3-day course z/OS VSAM Fundamentals Data Encryption Facility: Applied Software’s mainframe • 2-day course z/OS ICF Fundamentals encryption application that supports AES 128 encryption, • 5-day course (multi-platform) REXX Programming DES, Triple DES (3DES) and DESX encryption and • 2-day course z/OS CLIST Programming provides for management of encryption keys. DEF • 5-day course z/OS ISPF Dialog Development supports IBM and plug-compatible CPUs with the z/OS • 5-day course COBOL Programming in z/OS operating systems. CICS currently supported. • 7-day course z/OS Assembler Programming • 5-day course C Programming in z/OS VTAM Multi-User Platform (VTAM MUP) supports SSR • 5-day course (multi-platform) Java Programming and FSE+. VTAM MUP provides program services for (J2SE) multiple users per address space and multiple address • 2-month mainframe academy to train people “from spaces in a native MVS VTAM environment. Automatic scratch”. SAF calls provide security processing at the same level as

ASG Technologies z/OS products and services and also by offering to replace competitive vendors and delivering a cost saving to help Address: lower the cost of z/OS based computing. 708 Goodlette Rd North, Naples, FL 34102, USA. Phone: +1 239.435.2200. Product/ service information ASG offerings for the z/OS Email: [email protected]. platform include: Web: www.asg.com. ASG TMON Suite for z/OS Systems Monitoring TMON CICS for Management of CICS Transaction Server Sales contacts: Performance TMON DB2 for Complete Performance EMEA +44 (0) 1.727.736.300, [email protected]. Management of DB2 AsiaPac +65.6332.2922, [email protected]. TMON IMS for Complete IMS TM/DB Management TMON z/OS for Detailed Monitoring of IBM’s z/OS Operating Activity: Software vendor. System etc Specialist areas: System management; data management; storage management; asset and change ASG Smart Suite for Application Development/Testing management; security, programming/testing; Web SmartTest for z/OS Interactive Code Testing and integration and legacy reengineering tools; network Debugging performance/management. SmartScope for Fault Diagnosis and Dump Management Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, VM/VSE, Linux SmartFile for z/OS File and Data Management Tritune to on Z pinpoint z/OS Application performance bottlenecks Non-mainframe platforms supported: i5, AIX, Distributed Unix, Linux, windows Z-Series products for z/OS Systems Management Pricing options: Monthly/annual license, other Zeke for z/OS Enterprise Event Scheduling Zebb for Automated Job Restart/Rerun Syst Company profile Zack for Automated Systems and Event Management ASG Technologies helps customers with complex Zara for Automated Tape Management IT environments solve problems across their entire Life Cycle Manager (LCM) for Application Change Control enterprise. Its solutions empower businesses to achieve PerfMan for z/OS based Capacity Planning and Modelling unprecedented productivity, gain an accurate and timely View Direct for Archiving and Storage of z/OS Business & understanding of the information that underpins business Systems Information decisions and address compliance needs with improved visibility of cross-platform data. ASG can proudly say that Comprehensive z/OS JCL Management through JobScan, more than 70 percent of global Fortune 500 companies JCLPrep, and ProJCL trust it to optimize their existing IT investments. ASG is a global provider of mission-critical technology solutions with more than 1,000 people supporting a global customer base across 4,000 midmarket and enterprise customers. Atos SE ASG’s products enables the worlds’ most demanding enterprises to run the applications that power their Address: business, manage content while extracting intelligence 80 Quai Voltaire, 95877 Bezons, France. from data and processes and delivering access to all Phone: + 33 1 73 26 00 00 applications of the enterprise to their users through a Web: atos.net/ single pane of glass. ASG’s solutions are uniquely focused on achieving these outcomes across any infrastructure Activity: Integrator whether on a public cloud, private cloud, mainframe or Specialist areas: System management; data personal device. We call this mix of infrastructure that is management; storage management; asset and change the norm in every large business, the hybrid enterprise. management; security; programming/testing; web Thousands of the world’s largest businesses trust ASG integration and legacy reengineering tools; network products to operate seamlessly, stay compliant and ensure performance/management; other ubiquitous access to applications from any device. Learn Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, VM/VSE, Linux more at www.asg.com. on Z, Non-mainframe platforms supported: IBM i, AIX, other Product/ service information Unix, Linux, Windows, other For the z/OS Mainframe environment ASG offers a Pricing options: One-time charge, monthly/annual comprehensive suite of well established and respected license, processor/capacity-based, workload/usage based, z/ OS products used in Mainframe sites across the globe. other. ASG offers to help z/OS customers by delivering excellent 50 © Arcati Ltd, 2021 Arcati Mainframe Yearbook 20072021 Vendor Directory

Company Profile Axios Products Inc Atos is a leading supplier of innovative and flexible IBM Atos is a global leader in digital transformation with Address: 110,000 employees in 73 countries and annual revenue of 353 Veterans Highway, Suite 204, Commack, NY 11725, € 12 billion. European number one in Cloud, Cybersecurity USA. and High-Performance Computing, the Group provides Phone: 800-877-0990. end-to-end Orchestrated Hybrid Cloud, Big Data, Business Email: [email protected] Applications and Digital Workplace solutions. The Group Web: www.axiosproducts.com is the Worldwide Information Technology Partner for the Olympic & Paralympic Games and operates under the Activity: Software vendor brands Atos, Atos|Syntel, and Unify. Atos is a SE (Societas Specialist areas: System management; data management Europaea), listed on the CAC40 Paris stock index. Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS Pricing options: Processor/capacity-based The purpose of Atos is to help design the future of the information space. Its expertise and services support the Company profile development of knowledge, education and research in a Axios Products develops, distributes, and supports multicultural approach and contribute to the development mainframe performance enhancement and management of scientific and technological excellence. Across the world, software for z/OS, and MVS environments. For over 30 the Group enables its customers and employees, and years, we have dedicated ourselves to providing customers members of societies at large to live, work and develop with useful, reliable, and cost-effective software along sustainably, in a safe and secure information space. with responsive technical support. Our strong customer commitment to providing quality software products and Product/service information service is the driving force behind the continuing growth of Atos Mainframe Services’ solutions enable enterprises our mainframe customer base. to realize the true potential of mainframe platforms by bringing efficiencies to their IT operations. Whether you are Product/service information committed to staying on the mainframe or ready to “pull the RefWiz is a powerful analysis and documentation tool plug,” we offer options that reduce risk, improve efficiency, that provides, in one place, comprehensive data about and enable you to modernize the enterprise at a pace that application element interrelationships for mainframe is right for you. batch and CICS applications, including whether or not the element is being used. This information is Our service portfolio is bundled in our MIII (Manage, available for immediate access in a variety of standard Migrate, Modernize) offering: or customized forms to suit your specific needs. RefWiz is used for conversions, upgrades, audits, migrations, Manage: daily maintenance, documentation, mergers, operations Streamline your IT operations with intelligent automation management (including failure analysis), disaster recovery, and proactive maintenance. The goal is to achieve change scope analysis, and much more. “always-on” infrastructure and lower maintenance costs. ROPES (Remote Online Print Executive System) is a Migrate: comprehensive CICS print spooling and transmission For companies committed to mainframes, our Mainframe software for IBM mainframe-based systems. ROPES as a Service (MaaS) migrates your infrastructure to an Atos provides complete facilities for generating, retrieving, Mainframe Hub (NAM, EU, APAC) to achieve elastic data browsing, distributing and printing reports from online center operations, tactical workload reduction, mainframe transactions, batch jobs, or the operating system spool. DevOps, performance optimization and cost savings based Its versatile set of capabilities allows you to place report on economies of scale data on the ROPES queue concurrent with online printing operations. A comprehensive command structure allows Modernize: any authorized terminal operator to effectively control Incrementally modernize mainframe applications to a ROPES, eliminating the need for dedicated control cloud-native, microservices-based architecture in order terminals. to achieve truly digital operations that will become the backbone for your transformation and growth initiatives. The SPI-TAB+ table management system provides one This can either be achieved on, off the mainframe platform simple product that will manage your tables using the same or truly place mainframe in the hybrid cloud as part of Atos standards for all applications, eliminating the need to write OneCloud – Building your cloud forward future. programs for this process. SPI-TAB+ lets you quickly and

© Arcati Ltd, 2021 51 Arcati Mainframe Yearbook 2021 Vendor Directory easily update, customize and maintain your tables, and get Mainframe Hardware Maintenance your new applications on line faster, with less effort. Plus, 24/7 365 Hardware Maintenance contracts with complete the same tool can be used on line or in batch. In addition, flexibility, cost competitive along with a guarantee of the new SPI-TAB+ web interface component allows you hardware spares and skilled trained engineers. to list and update SPI-TAB+ tables via a web browser, eliminating the need for traditional mainframe access and Mainframe Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery ultimately expanding your user base by providing access A comprehensive business offering from a state of the art for less technical end users who may not have CICS data centre located on the out skirts of London. Contracts knowledge. from 6 months to many years are available at very competitive pricing using latest generation technology to asset users operating mainframe services.

Azamour Solutions

Address: Baer Consulting E8 Ascot Business Park, Lyndhurst Road, Ascot, Berks, SL5 9FE, UK. Address: Phone: +44 (0) 1344 280 280. 28154 Meadow Trail, Conifer, CO 80433, USA Email: [email protected] Phone: +1 303 838-3374 Web: www.azamoursolutions.com Email: [email protected] Web: www.baer-consulting.com Activity: Hardware Specialist areas: System management; storage Activity: Consultant management; security; programming/testing Specialist areas: System management; data Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, VM/VSE, Linux management; storage management; security; on IBM Z programming/testing; web integration and legacy Non-mainframe platforms supported: System i, AIX, reengineering tools; network performance/management Linux Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, VM/VSE, Linux Pricing options: One-time charge, monthly/annual Non-mainframe platforms supported: IBM i, AIX, Linux, license, processor/capacity-based, workload/usage based, Windows other. Pricing options: One-time charge, other

Company profile Company profile Azamour Solutions were established in March 2001 to Founded in 1982, Baer Consulting Inc. (BCI) provides enable users to have a real alternative choice to IBM. mainframe systems software administration and Today Azamour operate from three strategic locations in management. BCI’s primary business is to assist our the UK national client base with selection, implementation, and • Ascot, Berkshire as its Head Office & Service Centre administration of IBM compatible operating environments. • Bracknell, Berkshire for its Data Centre Location Our clients range from small/medium businesses to • Basingstoke, Hampshire for Warehousing & Distribution Fortune 500 corporations.

Our vision is to continue to be one of the most respected BCI’s project-based solutions include z/OS rollout projects, IT solutions providers that can offer users A SMART data center implementations, migrations, upgrades, Alternative To IBM. business recovery, maintenance to third-party operating systems and software, or server consolidations. BCI Product/service information project management, planning, and status reporting Azamour Solutions have been providing hardware and procedures ensure all services are completed on schedule hardware maintenance services to customers throughout and within budget throughout the project lifecycle. the world since 2001. Our services range from short-term, peak-load project Azamour focus their business in three distinctive areas. support to complete facilities management. Baer Consulting offers individualized Mainframe Support Mainframe Hardware Services from T&M to 24x7 Support. The supply and installation of IBM Mainframes & Storage covering all generations of products. Offering advice and BCI consistently delivers high quality solutions to our assistance with configurations, cost of ownership and clients, while dramatically increasing the effectiveness finance options. of their information systems management teams, project

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management for Enterprise strategies, and Enterprise Company profile systems support. Beta Systems Software AG - A Mid-sized, independent software provider Product/service information BCI draws on years of experience and training to provide Founded in 1983, listed on the stock exchange since 1997 responsive and quality answers in core areas such as: For more than 30 years, Beta Systems has been developing high-quality software products that bring Operating Systems security and transparency to IT processes and help to IBM z/OS, IBM S/390, IBM VM/ESA, IBM VSE/ESA, z/VM, automate bulk data and document processing. Based in Linux, etc. Germany, Beta Systems group is one of Europe’s leading mid-sized independent software solution providers. Subsystems Beta Systems’ German sites include the Berlin head IBM Transaction Server (CICS), IBM DB2/UDB, IBM office and development centers in Cologne, Neustadt Security Server, IBM MQSeries, IBM Tivoli Storage and Munich. Internationally, there are 18 subsidiaries Management, WebSphere, and ISV Installation/Upgrade/ and numerous partner companies which form a network Conversion, etc. of excellence across the globe. Beta Systems generates about half of its turnover abroad. Network TCP/IP, OSA Configuration, TN3270, NCP, SNA Beta Systems DCI Software AG provides high-quality Configuration, and Host-On-Demand, etc. infrastructure software products for the secure and efficient processing of large volumes of data to ensure compliance Storage Management with all regulatory and corporate requirements. The VTS/ATL, SAN, DASD, etc. multiplatform software solutions for z/OS, Unix, Linux and Windows environments automate, document and analyze For longer-term solutions, BCI also provides a wide range business-critical IT processes in the datacenters of large of expert services such as: enterprises, IT service providers, public authorities and midsized companies. Storage Management Assessment through Implementation Facilities/Outsource Management Beta Systems datacenter intelligence portfolio focuses on Data Center Relocation/Consolidation areas including output management and archiving, log/ Project Management security information management, workload automation Capacity/Performance Planning and job management. Beta Systems DCI Software AG is a Business Recovery 100% subsidiary of Beta Systems Software AG. Security. Product/service information Output Management and Document Archiving These products enable bulk processing of documents and print data, deliver various post-processing options and Beta Systems Software AG conversions, store and archive data quickly and reliably, Address: and allow users to search data rapidly and flexibly across Alt-Moabit 90d, D-10559, Berlin, Germany the entire data pool. Phone: +49 (0)30 726 118 0. Email: [email protected] Workload Automation Web: www.betasystems-dci.com These products help control and monitor automated IT processes across all leading system platforms. Sales contacts: America +1 (571) 348-4450 Log Management EMEA +33 (0) 1 43 90 17 40 These products deliver functions for the rrecording, archiving and provisioning of log and job output data Activity: Software vendor generated by your IT systems. User-friendly interfaces Specialist areas: System management; security; and an intelligent indexing scheme allow you to quickly programming/testing; web integration and legacy identify critical events hidden in your log data, search and reengineering tools select the data with ease, and further process the resulting Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, Linux on Z information. Non-mainframe platforms supported: IBM i, AIX, other Unix, Linux, Windows Pricing options: one-time charge, monthly/annual license, workload/usage based.

Quality Management EasySMF:JE allows you to create your own custom SMF Tools to secure and verify your automated IT processes. reports. It can run on z/OS (zIIP eligible) or other Java The products connect with existing workload automation platforms.. solutions (job schedulers) to identify and prevent errors, thus improving the quality of your IT production. z/OS Access Rights Management Suite Blenheim Software This suite for RACF combines administration, auditing, reporting, compliance management, analysis, monitoring Address and self-service on the z/OS platform in a comprehensive 29 The Park, Yeovil, Somerset BA20 1DG, UK product family. When it comes to company-wide identity Phone: 0870 240 6771 access management across the entire system landscape, Email: [email protected] the IAM Garancy Suite offers all you need. Web: blenheim-sw.co.uk

Activity: Software Vendor Specialist areas: System management; data Black Hill Software management; storage management; asset and change management; security; programming/testing; web Address integration and legacy reengineering tools; network 211 Dana St, Ballarat VIC 3350, Australia performance/management Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, VM/VSE Phone: +61 3 5331 8201 Non- mainframe platforms supported: IBM i, AIX, other Email: info@ blackhillsoftware.com Unix, Linux, Windows Web: www.blackhillsoftware.com Pricing options: One-time charge, monthly/annual license, processor/capacity-based, workload/usage based Activity: Software Vendor Specialist areas: System management Company Profile Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS Blenheim Software saves money for UK and Ireland data Non- mainframe platforms supported: Windows centres by providing innovative solutions from around the Pricing options: Monthly/annual license world.

Company Profile Product/service information Black Hill Software was established in 2006 in Ballarat, For IBM mainframes, we improve operating system and Australia. database performance, security, application development 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 customers around the world Address 11 Hollycombe, Englefield Green, Surrey TW20 0LQ, UK Product/service information Phone: +44-1784-437404 EasySMF is a Windows based tool for z/OS SMF reporting. Email: [email protected] It provides a suite of built in reports. You can zoom in on Web: www.blenheimintl.co.uk areas of interest, click through for more information and switch between reports to relate data from different record Activity: Software Vendor types. Specialist areas: Data management; storage management; security; programming/testing EasySMF:JE is a Java extension for EasySMF. It provides Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, VM/VSE, Linux, a Java API for SMF records, based on the work done other developing EasySMF. Java classes map SMF records Non- mainframe platforms supported: IBM i, AIX, other and sections. SMF fields are converted to standard Java Unix, Windows datatypes, so you don’t need to e.g. keep track of the Pricing options: One-time charge, monthly/annual many different time units in SMF. license, processor/capacity-based, workload/usage based

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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 Our mainframe solutions for the areas of Performance Monitoring Software, CICS Utilities, Report & Backup, Session & Print Management, File Transfer & Blue Sea Technology Compression, Multiplatform Scheduling, and Remote Print Management are known for the highest quality software, documentation and technical support in the business. Address Beckumer Str. 152, Germany Phone: +49 (0) 2382 966225

Our customers can rely on the quality software from Company profile our partner, like Software Diversified Services (SDS), a For more than 40 years, BMC has helped thousands of leading provider of enterprise software. We are proud to companies around the world master tough IT challenges. present this high quality Software like VIP - VitalSigns for From mainframe to cloud to mobile, from the back IP the complete monitoring, alerting, diagnosis, and repair room to the boardroom, BMC delivers the automation, for IP Networks on z/OS, or VitalSigns for FTP, Snap-in integration, and sophistication that enable the business security and encryption for FTP file transfer jobs on z/ and IT to perform like never before. Our innovative OS. With Vanguard Security Solutions large companies solutions empower experienced as well as next-generation can manage their security infrastructure. The software developers, data analysts and ops to develop, deliver products are designed to meet today’s unprecedented and support mainframe applications with ease and agility. security challenges. The products bring together formerly Our modernized solutions uniquely automate mainframe separate functions of security administration, access work, integrate into a cross-platform DevOps toolchain and and authentication, reporting and analysis, and policy measure software delivery quality, velocity and efficiency compliance. On June 1st, 2020 BMC Software announced the close Our professionals assist our clients through consultancy, of its acquisition of Compuware, a leading provider development, project delivery and training. By out-tasking of mainframe application development, delivery, and to our company our clients not only saving time and performance solutions. money, but they get top technologies delivery and still continuing its overall control. By that way of working, we The strategic combination of the two companies builds on do not replace the customer’s teams and work places, the success of BMC Automated Mainframe Intelligence but helping them to be more competitive on the market, to (AMI) and Compuware’s Topaz suite, ISPW technology, be able to react faster for the real time technological and and classic product portfolios to modernize clients’ business development demands. mainframe environments. BMC with Compuware now enables automation and intelligent operations with agile development and delivery – empowering the next generation of mainframe developers and operations teams to excel when working with mainframe programming languages, applications, data, infrastructure, and security. BMC Software Product/service information Address: BMC Software offers a broad set of mainframe solutions 2101 Citywest Blvd, Houston, TX 77042, USA. designed to help you optimize and control IT costs, while +1 713 918 8800 or +1 800 793-4262 Phone: ensuring the business remains available 24x7. Regardless www.bmc.com/contacts-locations/worldwide. Email: of the environment, customers rely on our expertise www.bmc.com Web: and solutions to manage their IT infrastructure. BMC enables customers to align IT systems and services with Sales contacts: their business objectives. We provide comprehensive 1-877-945-6325 America: mainframe solutions in these key areas: systems 00800 44444 262 EMEA: monitoring, management, and automation; enterprise data +61 3 96574443 AsiaPac: management; dynamic batch scheduling management; middleware management, application and mainframe Software vendor. Activity: performance; code quality and testing; storage resource System management; data Specialist areas: management; cost analysis; performance and capacity management; storage management; asset and change planning; mainframe continuous integration/continuous management; security; web integration and legacy delivery; and cybersecurity. reengineering tools; network performance/management; programming/testing; web integration and legacy reengineering tools.

Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, VM/VSE, Linux Broadcom on IBM Z Non-mainframe platforms supported: i5, AIX, other Unix, Address: Linux, Windows, other 1320 Ridder Park Drive, San Jose, CA US 95131, USA. Pricing options: Monthly/annual license, processor/ Phone: +1 408-433-8000 capacity-based, workload/usage based, other. Web: www.broadcom.com/products/mainframe.

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Sales contacts: the future: going from being a supporting platform of America: +1 408-433-8000. transaction revenue to becoming a source of revenue EMEA: +49 6085 98713-21. growth and innovation. AsiaPac: + 86-10-8477 6300.

Activity: Semiconductor and infrastructure software solutions vendor. Specialist areas: Broadcom’s Mainframe Software Bsecure Division specializes in system management; data management; storage management; asset and change management; security; programming/testing; web Address: integration and legacy reengineering tools; network Paseo de la Castellana, 200, 28046 - Madrid - Spain. performance/management; other Phone: +34 91 005 3089. Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, VM/VSE, Linux Email: [email protected]. on Z Web: www.go2bsecure.com. Non-mainframe platforms supported: IBM i, AIX, Unix, Linux, Windows Activity: Consultant Pricing options: Monthly/annual license, processor/ Specialist areas: Security capacity-based, workload/usage based, other Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS. Non-mainframe platforms supported: Linux; Windows Company profile Pricing options: One-time charge, monthly/annual Broadcom Inc. (NASDAQ: AVGO), a Delaware corporation license, processor/capacity-based headquartered in San Jose, CA, is a global technology leader that designs, develops and supplies a broad Company profile range of semiconductor and infrastructure software We help you to cover the lack of experience and solutions. Broadcom’s category-leading product portfolio knowledge in security and audit environments in serves critical markets including data center, networking, infrastructure based on Mainframe, protect sensitive data enterprise software, broadband, wireless, storage and of your company and your work performance. industrial. Our solutions include data center networking and storage, enterprise and mainframe software focused We are the maximum reference in services around security on automation, monitoring and security, smartphone and auditing in mainframe environments in Spanish- components, telecoms and factory automation. For more speaking and one of the most significant worldwide information, go to www.broadcom.com exponents in English-speaking.

Product/service information VA060.-MAINFRAME HACKING & AUDITING MASTER The power of the IBM® z14™ creates a digital trust that 2020 is essential to enable enterprises to verify people, protect data and assure app integrity and performance. CIOs can Product/service information deliver better economics and TCO. IT operations teams We deliver our ONLINE SECURITY training worldwide: can enable self-driving mainframe data centers to deliver VA060.-MAINFRAME HACKING & AUDITING MASTER 100% SLAs. CISOs and auditors can protect sensitive data 2020. to avoid fines tied to GDPR and regulations. Enterprise • Forensic Incident Analysis. Architects and Developers can use the same open, • Hardening of Mainframe Environments. modern DevSecOps toolset, mobile-to-mainframe. • Deep Technical Security Audits. • Security Architectures Consulting. Through A.I. and machine-learning powered intelligent • Cleaning of RACF Environments. automation, Broadcom’s mainframe solutions enable • Consulting on Regulatory Compliance Controls. increased insights across broader sets of data. This will • Automation of Regulatory Compliance Audits. help businesses manage retiring skills through intelligent • Technical Support Services. automation, while increasing security, scalability and • Implementation of Anti-fraud Systems. flexibility on their current platforms, including IBM Z, in a • Red & Blue Teams. secure and trusted environment. • Teaching Online and Face-to-face Hacking, Auditing, and Security Administration Courses. Broadcom continues to keep the mainframe platform • We Distribute and Support our Own and International vibrant and help ensure that new workloads, new Software Solutions. developers and new mainframers continue to help drive

Can Do Systems Non-mainframe platforms supported: AIX, other Unix, Linux Address: Pricing options: One-time charge, monthly/annual 3 Germay Drive, Suite 4 # 1292 Wilmington DE 19804- license, processor/capacity-based, workload/usage based 1127, USA . Phone: +1 646 340 9144 Company profile Email: [email protected] Canam Software Labs, Inc. is a Canadian global supplier Web: www.candosys.com of automated software development and integration solutions in the areas of XML, SOAP, JSON proicessing Activity: Software vendor. with COBOL or C. With customers in over 50 countries Specialist areas: Programming/testing, other the company has a history of understanding and Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS satisfying technology needs and gaps for the Global 2000 Pricing options: Monthly/annual license, other community. With extreme customer focus, aggressive execution and a dynamic work force Canam has enjoyed Company profile long term successful relationships with its customers in Can Do Systems develops top-notch software products the areas of banking and finance, transportation, retail, for IBM’s z/OS operating system. The first Y2K software defense, telecommunications and other fields. testing solution in the world, TICTOC, our date and time simulation product, was developed by Can Do back in Product/service information 1992. Canam Software Labs, Inc. (Canam) is the developer and manufacturer of XML Thunder, an automated XML, SOAP Can Do Systems’ staff consists of people who have been and JSON software integration solution for COBOL and C in the z/OS, and MVS systems software development field language applications. for a combined total of more than fifty years. We’ve kept up with the times, though, and are committed to using the latest technologies to provide our customers with products that support the latest z/OS hardware and software.. Cartagena Software Product/service information TICTOC for z/OS® and CICS® is date and time simulation Address: software for IBM Z™. It helps software development 101 Drawbridge Drive, Markham, Ontario L6C 2N5, teams ensure that their software performs as intended Canada with virtual date and time testing. It may also be used to Phone: +1 905-887-0755. simulate multiple time zones and to trigger date and time Email: [email protected] sensitive applications in both test and production program Web: cartagena.com environments. TICTOC’s date and time simulation supports numerous IBM and vendor products, including DB2, LE, Activity: Software vendor. IMS, and many other software products. Specialist areas: System management; storage management; security Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS Pricing options: One-time charge, monthly/annual license

Company profile Canam Software Labs, Inc Founded in 1991, Cartagena Software develops and delivers targetted solutions to reduce risk and exploit Address: new technologies, which are easy-to-use, flexible, and 5770 Hurontario Street Suite 310, Mississauga, ON efficient. We continue the legacy of experience in storage LR 3G5 Canada (StorageTek), automation (Cybermation), and security Phone: +1 905 712 3840 (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 are partners with Dell/EMC, Fujitsu, IBM, Specialist areas: Programming/testing; web integration Log-On Software, and Oracle. and legacy reengineering tools Mainframe Platforms supported: z/OS, VM/VSE, Linux Service partners include Kofill (Asia), 4Bears and StorageD on IBM Z, Other (Brazil), GlassHouse Systems (Canada), Bayshore

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(China), Rubin (Germany), Log-On Software (Israel), Activity: Software vendor. SoftPlex (Japan), Trident Services (USA). Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS 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 other. Tape migration: TelTape z/OS migrated millions of volumes since 1998. TelTape’s high speed copy engines Company profile non-disuptively move data between Dell/EMC, Fujitsu, CASI Software is a provider of software solutions to IBM, Luminex, Optica, VTFM, and Oracle, supporting all transform and deliver z/OS print content. tape management systems, plus USERTMS, “No TMS”. “Clone” volumes to same volume serial, load balancing, Product/service information automatic comparison, statistics spreadsheet. CASI Software has three main product lines:

Backup VTL: TelTape’s 30+ selection criteria to regularly JES2Mail/JES2FTP – transforms z/OS report content backup virtual tape data. into PDF, HTML, RTF, .CSV, and XML, files and securely delivers results to users via email, FTP, and RSS web Media Refresh: TelTape stacking consolidates 64K feeds. JES2Mail/JES2FTP’s report content processing datasets per volume, continues stacking to active volumes. and PDF overlay capabilities enable creation of advanced, final-form PDF output to replace printing and other USS Security Administration: Superuser, a powerful tool information delivery methods. for zFS file systems of Unix System Services, enabling system programmers to make small to large file permission CICS2PDF/zOS2PDF – transforms real-time CICS changes, in ISPF/RACF terms. Automatically generates information into PDFs and delivers that information to UNIX change commands, run in ISPF/batch. Change users via email or directly to users via web-enabled CICS objects in a directory plus all related subdirectories. application. Supports Access Control Lists. Mail2ZOS / FTPSweeper – is mainframe software that Pre-defined and user-created reports. receives email contents and attachments or retrieves files from designated servers or FTP sites; decodes, processes Automation: Co-Pilot z/OS replaces expensive console and stores these emails, attachments and files into MVS automation, consolidates controls to table-driven tool. datasets; dynamically composes job streams for execution; Responds to console messages, date, time, enforcing rules and sends e-mail or text message notifications regarding to issue commands, submit jobs, execute REXX. Restart mainframe processing status. applications. Customize console message attributes.

Report management: Speedview z/OS replaces expensive products. Automatically extract from SPOOL, filing based on output group, dataset, or job into VSAM database. Reports indexed by folders, view and manage in ISPF. CM First Group E-Mail reports to distribution lists. Archive/delete expired reports. Address: 7000 North Mopac Expressway, Suite #200, Austin, TX Print Management: Speedview z/OS routes reports to TCP/ 78731, USA. IP printers, can control e.g. restart. Phone: +1 888-866-6179 Web: cmfirstgroup.com

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CASI Software Activity: Software vendor Specialist areas: Security; programming/testing; web Address: integration and legacy reengineering tools 10231 Slater Avenue, Suite 117 Fountain Valley, CA 92708, Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS USA. Non-mainframe platforms supported: IBM i Phone: +1 800 378 1109. Pricing options: Monthly/annual license, Email: [email protected] Web: www.casisoft.com

Company profile Cole Software LLC t CM First Group, we’ve walked in your shoes. We were Address: there when so-called legacy apps were developed and we 736 Fox Hollow Road, Afton, VA 22920, USA have helped more than 400 customers maintain, update Phone: +1 540 456 8210 and re-platform them over the last twenty years. In that Email: [email protected]. time, we have seen just about everything and learned a Web: www.colesoft.com. lot. We have applied this knowledge in creating advanced software analysis, documentation and translation tools that Sales Contacts accelerate and de-risk application modernization projects. America: 1 800 XDC 5150 With decades of hands-on experience, we become a EMEA +1-928-771-2003. trusted partner to high-performing and agile development AsiaPac +1-928-771-2003. organizations. Activity: Software vendor. Product/service information Specialist areas: Programming/testing. CM EvolveIT Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS. Maintenance analytics software uniquely created for Pricing options: Workload/usage based. enterprise application modernization, CM evolveIT reduces discovery time by 80% through compiler technology that Company profile automatically finds and documents business rules and Cole Software is dedicated to the continued development system interactions. of powerful software for sophisticated mainframe programmers. Many of the industry’s foremost CM evolveIT analyzes mainframe applications to identify programmers use Cole Software’s core product, z/XDC, where and how sensitive data is processed – in screens, the indispensable debugging tool for Assembler programs. reports, files and databases. Its fast and complete Cole Software is an Advanced Business Partner in the IBM analyses help application owners determine what code PartnerWorld program. changes must be made to ensure all instances of data use are known, appropriate and secure! Product/service information Cole Software announced the availability of a beta test program for z/XDC release z1.10 in August 2008. This latest beta version of z/XDC includes support for IBM System z10 processor machine instructions and “A La Cobbs Mill Consulting Carte” configuration options. A major enhancement available with z/XDC z1.10 is the support for displaying Address: and debugging IBM C/C++ programs with the new c/XDC 129 Coachmans Trail, Asheville, NC 28803, USA. Feature. This feature is seamlessly integrated into the Phone: +1 828 299 4649 existing z/XDC technology. Email: [email protected] Web: www.cobbsmill.com

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

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current Enteprise Architecture across multiple-platforms. SELCOPYi allows for DB/2 table editing using multiple We will can also provide you with a migration plan to views. SQL-style SELECT/WHERE commands are renovate your current Architecture to new Enterprise supported also. Architecture. To aid debugging of the batch SELCOPY, it can be run interactively under SELCOPYi where breakpoints can be applied to the SELCOPY control statements and changes Compute (Bridgend) in the values of defined fields can be seen.

Address: Also available is the CBLVCAT tool which allows the 8, Merthyr Mawr Road, Bridgend CF31 3NH, UK user to generate reports of VTOC/Catalog contents and Phone: +44 (0)1656 652222. IDCAMS tuning recommendations for VSAM data sets. E-mail: [email protected] Web: www.cbl.com

Activity : Software vendor. Computer Measurement Group (CMG) Specialist areas: System management; data management; storage management; programming/testing; Address: other 151 Fries Mill Road, Suite 104, Turnersville, NJ 08012, Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, VM/VSE, Linux USA on IBM Z, other Phone: +1 800 436 7264 Non-mainframe platforms supported: System i, AIX, E-mail: [email protected] Unix, Linux, Windows, other Web (US): www.cmg.org Pricing options: Monthly/annual license, processor/ capacity-based, other Activity: Education. Specialist areas: System management; data Company profile management; storage management; programming/testing; Since its inception in 1970, Compute (Bridgend) Ltd has network performance/management. become respected internationally for its commitment to the Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, VM/VSE, Linux, production of system software, mainly for IBM Mainframe other Computers. Non-mainframe platforms supported: i5, AIX, other Unix, Linux, Windows, other CBL’s objective is to continue to produce software for the user which is easy to use yet provides fast and powerful Company profile data handling. The Computer Measurement Group, commonly called CMG, is a not for profit, worldwide organization of data processing professionals committed to the measurement Product/service information and management of computer systems. The SELCOPY Product Suite includes the powerful SELCOPY batch utility language in which new applications can be developed more easily than using compiled Product/service information languages such as Cobol but executing at comparable CMG in the USA hosts an annual conference the first speeds. week of December every year. This conference provides approximately 120 educational sessions covering all Complementing the SELCOPY batch utility programming aspects of computer measurement, performance and tool is SELCOPYi which offers a modern windows style capacity planning. All computing platforms are included. interface providing multiple edit sessions supporting both CMG also supports many regional groups which meet ISPF and Xedit features. throughout the year, providing an opportunity for the computer performance professional to gain knowledge SELCOPYi takes advantage of large 3270 screen and share experiences. Information on the international sizes and provides an integrated structured data editor network of CMG groups can be found on the CMG website. supporting displays of multiple record types, COBOL and PL/1 copybook record mapping and sophisticated VSAM support. There is also an FSU (file, search and update) feature which makes it easy for a developer to identify global changes that would occur before actioning them.

Compuware Corporation complex, unfamiliar and poorly documented mainframe applications and data. Get an instant static visual summary Address: of a single program and gain graphical visibility into what One Campus Martius, Detroit, MI 48226, USA happens when an application executes. Phone: +1 313 227 7300. Email: [email protected] Debugging and Analysis – Gain total control of program Web: www.compuware.com execution and data variable contents to test every line of code in a program with ease. Initiate an automated unit test Sales contacts within a debugging session and capture code coverage EMEA: +44 (0)1628 564880 / [email protected] statistics to ensure code has been thoroughly tested. AsiaPac: +61 2 8249 8857 / [email protected] Code Quality and Testing – Provide your developers with Activity : Software vendor. real-time feedback on how well code performs against Specialist areas: System management; data quality standards. Leverage automated testing to ensure management; asset and change management; security; code is fully tested and prepared for fewer issues later in programming/testing; web integration and legacy the lifecycle. reengineering tools; network performance/management Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS Cybersecurity – Lower the chance of internal data Non-mainframe platforms supported: IBM i breaches. Capture start-to- finish user behavior on the Pricing options: Monthly/annual license, processor/ mainframe. Integrate user behavior intelligence with capacity-based popular SIEM engines to analyze the overall application environment including mainframe apps. Leverage granular Company profile intelligence and reporting capabilities needed to comply Your mainframe applications, data and processing power with regulations such as HIPAA and GDPR as well as are more important to your business than ever. But your security policies. mainframe budget is tight you are losing mainframe talent and you are increasingly competing against nimble market Data Management and Privacy – Improve data entrants. You need to better leverage your mainframe management and data privacy. Ensure your developers assets in the broader context of your multiplatform can easily access and use reliable, realistic test data environment. before launching new or updated programs into production.

Compuware can help. Our innovative solutions empower Mainframe Performance – Pinpoint online and batch- experienced as well as next-generation developers, processing application performance inefficiencies causing data analysts and ops to develop, deliver and support excessive CPU consumption. Improve mainframe mainframe applications with ease and agility. Our performance while reducing hardware and software costs. modernized solutions uniquely automate mainframe work, integrate into a cross-platform DevOps toolchain and Modern Mainframe Continuous Integration/Continuous measure software delivery quality, velocity and efficiency.. Delivery – Accelerate application development and delivery with Agile source code management, release automation With Compuware you can: and deployment. Gain visibility into programs throughout - Rapidly update your mainframe applications to meet the lifecycle; perform parallel development; and connect market demands with modern DevOps toolchains through integrations and - Discover and eliminate back-end mainframe REST APIs. performance bottlenecks in cross-platform applications, including mobile apps Continuous Improvement – Use a program of KPIs to - Put any developer to work on any application - even measure software development quality, velocity and your oldest, most poorly documented code efficiency over time to make evidence-based decisions that - Pinpoint inefficiencies that drive up MSU-based improve the development and business outcomes. software costs - Prevent the loss of experienced mainframe staff from jeopardizing your business. Conexus Technologies Inc Now a BMC company. Address: Product/service information 8081 Twin Creek Trace, West Chester, OH 45069, USA Application Visualization – Help both your experienced and Phone: +1 513 779 5448. next-generation mainframe developers quickly understand Email: [email protected]. Web: www.conexus-technologies.com. 62 © Arcati Ltd, 2021 Arcati Mainframe Yearbook 20072021 Vendor Directory

Activity: Consultant. Product/service information Specialist areas: Asset and change management; other ConicIT is an out of band, Linux-based production solution Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS that constantly analyzes mainframe system and application performance information provided by existing mainframe Company profile monitors. By utilizing proprietary mathematical models Conexus provides structured cabling solutions for the and self-learning algorithms, ConicIT provides real time raised-floor, data center environment. The company’s tracking of critical resource behavioral patterns and core competency is in the design, provisioning, predicts abnormal behavior of these resources before it installation, testing and documentation of physical cabling occurs. ConicIT also analyzes composite relations between infrastructure for the ESCON, FICON and Fibre Channel physical and logical resources. architectures. Our services are available to Fortune 1000 Based on this information ConicIT provides meaningful corporations throughout North America. alerts aimed at reducing re-occurrence of performance- related malfunctions. No matter where they were when 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

© Arcati Ltd, 2021 63 Arcati Mainframe Yearbook 2021 Vendor Directory have been hired and a number of high-profile products are experience offered and the range of clients allows CPT to under development. It is the CSI mission to ensure a long quickly identify performance and capacity problems, and and successful experience for those who select and use to design and implement practical cost-effective solutions the VSE operating environment. based on best practice.

Product/service information Product/service information CSI International is the major provider of TCP/IP products CPT aims to reduce mainframe processing power for the VSE platform. Additionally CSI provides a wide requirements by 10 to 30% at most clients. This allows range of VSE system and security products through our the clients to make substantial savings through deferred subsidiary company, BI Moyle Associates. We are certain processor upgrades, reduced MIPS usage, reduced that if you have a VSE communications or systems software costs and pre-outsourcing CPU reductions. requirement, we have a solution for you. TCP/IP for VSE provides a complete solution for connecting the mainframe CPT understands that many clients are unsure whether to the Internet. such savings can be achieved on their sites, and so offers a number of models to suit different companies. These models range from Risk/Reward, where fees are based upon savings achieved, to Fixed Price, which caps the total CPT Global Ltd cost to the client.

Address: In Europe, CPT Global’s assignments are mostly focused Level 1, 4 Riverside Quay, Southbank VIC 3006, Australia. on mainframe performance tuning, but CPT also provides Phone +61 3 9690 3911 . expertise in IT management as well as Open Systems and Email [email protected]. Windows technical services. Web: www.cptglobal.com.

Sales contacts: America +1-917-210-8668. Creative Data Movers Inc EMEA +44 20 8334 8085, [email protected]. Address: Activity: Consultant. 28 West 38th Street #4W, New York, NY 10018, USA Specialist areas: System management; data management Phone: 212-730-5245 Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS Email: [email protected] Non-mainframe platforms supported: i5, AIX, Unix, Web: www.creativedatamovers.com Linux Activity: Consultant Company profile Specialist areas: Data management; programming/ CPT Global was founded in Melbourne in 1993 by Gerry testing; web integration and legacy reengineering tools Tuddenham, who remains the CEO today. The company Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS has been listed on the ASX since 2000. The name ‘CPT Non-mainframe platforms supported: Unix, Linux, Global’ came from the abbreviation of Capacity Planning, Windows, Performance Tuning and Testing. The focus of the Pricing options: Other business remains specialist capacity and performance management services although, in Australia, CPT offers a Company profile wide range of additional services related to IT efficiencies. Creative Data Movers, Inc. was founded in 1984 to Operations were extended into Europe in 1998, with offices provide technical training for corporate and government now in the UK, the Netherlands and Germany, as well as employees. Our focus is to teach employees computer further engagements in Ireland, Austria and Switzerland. languages for developing large and small applications CPT expanded into the USA in 2003, setting up an office for their organizations. We provide training to financial in New York to service Tier One clients such as General corporations, government agencies, hospitals and other Motors and American Express. organizations. Our instructors know many languages and therefore build on the the knowledge that students already CPT has over 120 clients worldwide, including many large have.. and well-known businesses such as ABN AMRO, AIB, Audi, Bank of Ireland, Credit Swiss, Deutsche Bahn, ING, Product/service information Lloyds TSB, Lufthansa, Prudential, and UBS. CPT draws reative Data Movers’s state-of-the-art instructor-led on a network of over 200 specialist consultants, many classroom and virtual classroom courses teach employees of whom are worldleaders in their fields. The depth of technologies to develop and test business applications

64 © Arcati Ltd, 2021 Arcati Mainframe Yearbook 20072021 Vendor Directory that run on Mainframe, web, Unix/Linux, and Windows can solve mobile traffic, batch processing, throughput platforms. Languages include but are not limited to capacity, resource usage, rules processing and other COBOL, PL/I, mainframe Assembler, REXX, Dialog challenges IT organizations face in their mainframe Developer, Java, JUnit, JavaScript, html, css, xml, json, datacenters. tableBASE accelerates Db2 applications, shell, perl, C++, CICS, Db2, MQ, IMS, etc. improves mainframe application performance, makes DB2 data more accessible, reduces CPU and MSU usage, and helps to reduce operational expense. All this without the need to make changes to your Db2 database or your application logic. DataKinetics Ltd IT Business Intelligence A business intelligence solution that provides unique Address: 50 Hines Rd, Ottawa, K2K-2M5, Canada. insights into the entire IT infrastructure delivering information that is useful to all stakeholders and enabling Phone: 613-523-5500 the business and IT departments to make informed Email: [email protected] decisions quickly. It collects data and combines it Web: dkl.com. with business and cost information to measure value, Sales contacts: performance, capacity impact, and change impact. America +1-800-267-0730 VTS Edge Latin America +1-305-396-4399 A high-performance, high-fidelity mainframe web services integration solution for the mainframe. Enterprises use Activity: Software vendor. VTS Edge to extend data access to more employees and Specialist areas: Data management; web integration and legacy reengineering tools customers, transform and present legacy applications through web and mobile interfaces, and integrate anything Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, VM/VSE, Linux mainframe with anything distributed – from BPM, CRM, Non-mainframe platforms supported: Linux, Windows, ERP, and other enterprise systems or cloud. Pricing options: One-time charge; monthly/annual license; processor/capacity-based Soft Capping Optimization A systems management solution for the mainframe that Company profile As the global leader in Data Performance and Optimization optimizes system performance while controlling Workload Solutions, DataKinetics is relied upon by the world’s largest License Charges (WLC) without capping critical workloads. banks, credit card, brokerage, insurance, healthcare, It allows control of WLC through dynamic optimization, and retail and telecommunication organizations to dramatically the sharing of MSUs across LPARs, taking into account the improve their mainframe data throughput and processing. behavior and needs of all system LPARs. Fortune 500 companies trust DataKinetics.

With more than 35 years of experience in the field of mainframe Data Performance and Optimization, we continually help our clients leverage existing systems, DDV technologies optimizing the issues that hold them back, and enabling Address: plans to propel them forward. Leveraging the experience 17B / 818 Pittwater Road (PO Box 1155), Dee Why, NSW and success of working with our global clients, we deliver 2099, Australia. proven solutions with worldwide success. Phone: +61 (0)2 8213 9207 We continue to work with: Email: [email protected] • 3 of the top 5 global banks Web: www.ddvtechnologies.com • 3 of the top 5 global credit card companies dateandtimesimulationsoftware.com. • 3 of the top 5 American property and casualty insurance companies Activity: Software vendor. • 2 of the top 5 American health insurance companies.. Specialist areas: Programming/testing; web integration and legacy reengineering tools; other z/OS Product/service information Mainframe platforms supported: DataKinetics products: Pricing options: One-time charge; monthly/annual license; processor/capacity-based, workload/usage based, tableBASE mainframe in-memory technology other A mainframe high-performance in-memory solution that

Company profile Dignus LLC DDV is a privately owned company developing an Address: Australian z/OS-based product SoftDate and marketing 8378-203 Six Forks Road, Raleigh, NC 27615. overseas solutions that directly resolve your often Phone: +1 919 676 0847. troublesome and expensive overheads in IT, business Email: [email protected]. development and crisis management. Our solutions span Web: www.dignus.com. the IBM mainframe through Internet platforms and are targeted primarily at speeding your business development Activity: Software vendor. cycle. Specialist areas: Programming/testing Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, VM/VSE, linux on Product/service information z System SoftDate is a z/OS-based product for Date & Time Non-mainframe platforms supported: AIX, other Unix, Simulation (DTS) Testing of applications, prior to Linux, Windows, other Production and Global Time Zone Virtualization of Pricing options: Monthly/annual license, other Production applications (to reduce LPARs that are dedicated to single Time Zones). Company profile Dignus, LLC is an innovative company, located in Raleigh, SoftDate is an SOA DTS product with many unique and North Carolina, committed to providing the best compilers, exclusive features not found in other DTS products such assemblers and development tools for the IBM mainframe, as Parallel Sysplex, CICS MRO (multiregion operations), including 370, ESA, 390 and the latest z/Architecture 64-bit support (for data above the 2-gig bar), WebSphere series. Application Server & Java Language for z support for all execution environments (e.g. batch, CICS, IMS). Dignus, LLC provides unique mainframe programming and mainframe development solutions that offer savings in Softdate contains every feature of every other DTS time and effort, while streamlining development costs. Our product, is fully backward compliant, and can reside in the solutions are applicable to programming for a wide range same LPAR to make exchange easy. of IBM mainframe operating systems, including z/OS, z/ TPF, z/VM, z/Linux and others.

Product/service information Dell EMC Compiles and assemblers for the IBM mainframe; including Address: C, C++ and HLASM-compatible assemblers running Hopkinton, Massachusetts and Round Rock, Texas, USA natively or in a cross-platform environment Web: www.delltechnologies.com .

Activity: Hardware. Specialist areas: System management; data management; storage management; asset and change DINO-Software Corporation management; security; programming/testing; web integration and legacy reengineering tools; network Address: performance/management; other P.O. Box 7105, Alexandria, VA 22307, USA. Non-mainframe platforms supported: AIX, other Unix, Phone: +1 703 768 2610 Linux, Windows E-mail: [email protected] Web: dino-software.com Company profile EMC was acquired by Dell in 2016. Sales contacts: America [email protected] Product/service information EMEA [email protected] Dell EMC sells data storage, information security, AsiaPac [email protected] virtualization, analytics, cloud computing and other products and services that enable organizations to store, manage, protect, and analyze data.

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Activity: Software vendor and simplified administrative functions to help establish Specialist areas: System management; storage and maintain a healthy HSM environment. management, other • TERADON delivers fast REPRO Mergecat for closed or Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS open Datasets. Non-mainframe platforms supported: Windows • XTINCT provides permanent DASD and Tape data Pricing options: Monthly/annual license, other erasure and meets federal and international regulatory requirements. Company profile Dino-Software Corporation (DINO) develops enterprise- wide solutions for the management, analysis, protection, and repair of complex z/OS mainframe environments. DINO has long been acknowledged for its superiority in ICF catalog management and technical support, helping Direct Computer Resources Inc organizations ensure their business-critical assets remain online and recoverable in a disaster. Their flagship Address; 21 Valley Drive, Huntington, NY 11743, USA product, T-REX, incorporates over two decades of Phone: +1 877-704-0077; International: 1+888-245-5477 experience gained from the original Softworks® developers Email: [email protected] who devised the Mechanic® and later Catalog Solution®, Web: datavantage.com and it rapidly became the fastest selling ICF catalog management and recovery tool ever released. This formula Sales contacts: of producing superior products, at a reasonable cost, all America Dan Hay;1+ 972.422.0190; Dan.Hay@ backed up by first class support from industry experts, DataVantage.com has allowed DINO to enjoy unprecedented growth and EMEA William Vitiello; [email protected]; rapidly establish DINO technology as the gold standard 1.888.245.5477 in enterprise-wide z/OS management solutions. Learn more about Dino-Software and its z/OS mainframe storage Activity: Software vendor solutions at https://dino-software.com. Specialist areas: Data management, security, programming/testing Product/service information Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS T-REX is the fastest and most comprehensive ICF catalog Non-mainframe platforms supported: Linux, Windows, management product available to analyze, diagnose, other report, backup, repair, recover, and assist with the Pricing options: Monthly/annual license overall maintenance and ensure continuous operational capabilities of the ICF catalog environment. T-REX Company profile prevents downtime, improves throughput, automates During a period where more people than ever are working recovery & repair in record speed, REORGs catalogs while from home, Direct Computer Resources’ mainframe OPEN, and pays for itself with just one broken object. GUI software products allow you to mask, edit, and manage optionally available. your data safely, efficiently and affordably.

DINO’s other innovative and intuitive storage management, DataVantage software products create production-like optimization, and performance tuning products include: data for non-production uses such as DevOps, testing, analyses, and more. Data Masking functionality protects • Universal Data Manager (UDM) is a z/OS based sensitive information enabling compliance with corporate solution providing a consolidated global view via a policies and government regulations including GDPR, GUI of the Enterprise storage environment, extending HIPAA, and CCPA (among others) while reducing the risks Automation, Auditing, Monitoring, Reporting and of data breaches. Control Functions of data and related storage objects with a mouse click. No distributed servers required. Mainframe products include: • VELOCI-Raptor (VR) reduces application overhead • DataVantage® Data Masking Express™: Buy only Data by continuously optimizing the VSAM batch buffering Masking strategy, eliminating redundant requests and increasing • DataVantage® for IMS: Release 5.1 users are eligible throughput. for free upgrade to 7.1 plus support • HSM Adminisaurus (HSA) is a consolidated • DataVantage® Db2 for z/OS: Fast, affordable, reliable.. management tool providing extensive reporting, comprehensive auditing, in-depth processing analysis,

Product/service information DataVantage® for Db2 for z/OS & DataVantage® for IMS DataVantage® Data Masking Express™ DataVantage® software for z/OS provides data Data Masking-Only: DataVantage® Data Masking management capabilities including browsing, editing and Express™ is an affordable z/OS data masking-only copying. Data masking functionality creates production- software that creates production-like data for non- like data for non-production uses such as DevOps, production uses, enabling compliance with corporate training, testing, and more, while enabling compliance with policies and government regulations. It runs alongside corporate policies and government privacy regulations. current data management software, and installs as an application program in less than four hours. A single Features: installation can mask any one or all combinations of z/OS • Data Masking masking protects sensitive information data such as Db2 or IMS, or Db2 plus IMS, VSAM, and • Logical compare highlights differences between two Sequential files. Competitively-priced subscriptions are database tables CPU-based regardless of processing capacity. Contact us • Creates smaller test databases that reflect production for an instant price quote. conditions to explore multiple logic paths • Provides easy before-and-after testing reports for Features: internal audits • Buy only data masking • Multiple reloads enable customization of test databases • Affordable annual subscription with no upgrade fees • DataVantage for IMS 5.1 users get free upgrade to 7.1 • Multiple data masking methods with support

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DTS Software (DCC), DTS products are noted for their sophistication, reliability, and ease-of-use. Our integrated suite of products Address: help organizations to monitor, manage and control your 4350 Lassiter at North Hills Ave, Suite 235, Raleigh, NC storage subsystems. For over 30 years, we continue to 27609, USA demonstrate reliable designs, a history of innovation and a Phone: +1 919 833 8426 commitment to excellence. Email: [email protected] Web: www.dtssoftware.com

Sales contacts: Eccox Technologies America +1 770 922 2444 Address: Activity: Software vendor. Avenida Sagitário, 138 - Torre II Specialist areas: System management; storage 2 andar, sala 203 - Alphaville - Barueri/SP, Brazil management Phone: +55 551141331969 Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS Email: [email protected] Pricing options: Other Web: www.eccox.com

Company profile Activity: Software vendor. DTS Software is recognized as a worldwide leader in Specialist areas: System management; data enterprise storage management tech-nology. From the management; asset and change management; original industry-standard Space Recovery System (SRS) programming/testing; web integration and legacy that eliminates storage-related production failures, to the reengineering tools storage administrator’s SMSDEBUG tool, to the advanced Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, Linux Virtual Tape interface of the zVT Control Center (ZCC), Non-mainframe platforms supported: Unix, Linux, DTS products are noted for their sophistication, reliability, Windows, other and ease-of-use. Our integrated suite of products help Pricing options: One-time charge, monthly/annual organizations to monitor, manage and control your storage license, processor/capacity-based, workload/usage based, sub-systems. For over 30 years, we have specialized other in these storage solutions and have developed them for the IBM z/OS, Hitachi VOS3, and Fujitsu MSP Company profile operating systems. Our corporate Headquarters are Since 1992, Eccox has delivered integrated software and located in Raleigh, NC and our products are sold in the services that automate and manage the processes used US and Canada as well as worldwide through a network for the creation and maintenance of IT environments of international distributors who cover all the major – from development to testing, through production and international markets. We are dedicated to providing maintenance. reliable designs, technical innovations and a commitment to excellence. Eccox enables IT organizations to proactively support business objectives rather than only react to system Product/service information problems. Eccox clients can identify and build IT best DTS Software is recognized as a worldwide leader in practices as well as strategically plan for the future using enterprise storage management tech-nology. Our family accurate data and intelligent tools. With this advantage, of products provides an integrated suite of storage IT organizations can operate with measurable and visible management programs that allow you to get the most excellence. out of your storage dollars. Our products improve disk space utilization, prevent stor-age-related errors, allow Whether the IT organization is all internal, outsourced, or a installations to monitor the storage subsystem in real time, combination of both, Eccox products quantitatively improve and proactively control the use of storage space. From the management, quality, productivity and ultimately the the original industry-standard Space Recovery System return on IT investments. (SRS) that eliminates storage-related production failures, to the advanced standards-enforcement of ACC, to the Product/service information modernization of assembler exits via EASY/Exit, to the Eccox QC proactively detects errors in new and existing innovative storage monitoring using MONitor and Explorer application code as it is being developed. This helps the GUI, to the advanced debugging and tracing of SMS/ overall system application software get done more quickly Debug, to the Predictive Recall of migrated data, to the and with higher quality. advanced Virtual Tape interface of the DLm Control Center

Eccox QC for COBOL We offer a unique LE and portfolio management tool – the Supports all IBM mainframe COBOL language versions Edge Portfolio Analyzer – as well as consulting on LE, including CICS. compilers and other IT areas.

Eccox QC for DB2 Let our experts help you get an Edge on LE management. Assess and control IBM DB2 databases access from analyzing SQL syntax and performance, independent of Product/service information programming language. The Edge Portfolio Analyzer (EPA) provides z/OS users with the means to understand and control the contents Eccox QC for Java of their application portfolios. With the Edge Portfolio Supporting a variety of Java language versions. Analyzer, you can reduce problems – and speed implementation – when migrating to new compilers and Eccox QC will send clean rules violations descriptions new Language Environment (LE) run-time environments. and incident reasons. It then suggests corrections to You can also use the EPA to improve the performance the programmer and considers whether allow it as an of your production environment and to assist in problem exception. Eccox QC identifies legacy programs and news source identification and problem determination. ones, controls violation justifications with expiration dates, manages follow-up and simulates improvements.

Eccox/APT Enterprise Systems Associates, Inc Creating software to test software is time consuming and uses valuable development and/or quality assurance (QA) (ESAi) assets. Studies show that tests can account for up to 40% of the application development budget. Even a simple Address: application update may require a development team to 3259 Progress Drive, UCF Research Park reconstruct all of the previous tests. By creating an active Orlando, Fl 32826, USA repository and storing tests for future use, Eccox APT Phone: +1-866-GO-4-ESAI (866-464-3724) eliminates the need to recreate tests over and over again.. Email: [email protected] Web: www.ESAIGroup.com

Activity: Software vendor. Specialist areas: System management; data Edge Information Group, Inc management; asset and change management; programming/testing Address: Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, VM/VSE, Linux 479 E Business Center Drive, Suite 115, Mt. Prospect, IL on Z 60056-6037, USA Non-mainframe platforms supported: Unix, Linux, Phone: +1 847-297-2020. Windows Email: [email protected]. Pricing options: One-time charge, monthly/annual Web: www.edge-information.com license, processor/capacity-based, workload/usage based

Sales contacts: Company profile America: [email protected]. ESAi is a vendor that provides mainframe cost optimization EMEA: [email protected]. solutions, database productivity tools and professional AsiaPac: [email protected]. services for enterprise customers.Our mission is to help IT get the job done while realizing operational savings. Activity: Software vendor. Qualified database and IT staff resources are in short Specialist areas: Asset and change management; supply, workloads are increasing, and there are still only programming/testing. 24 hours in a day. The economic pressures of today Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS are forcing IT to do more with less. ESAi can help with Pricing options: One-time charge, other. innovative solutions that save time, money, CPU and staff resources. Company profile Edge Information Group, Inc. is the premier provider Product/service information of Language Environment (LE) management solutions BCV5™ is a high speed copy/migrate/refresh tool that for upgrading to the latest levels of the IBM mainframe checks, automates copies/refreshes of Db2® target operating systems, z/OS and related compiler and run-time environments with less effort and in a fraction of time/ technologies.

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CPU when compared to other ISV solutions. The BCV5 SQLQC™ easily identifies and analyzes problem SQL Masking Tool™ option adds powerful masking of sensitive from mainframe or distributed systems and offers data during the copy or in-place. improvements, simulation and advise.

XDM™ is a premier Test Data Management tool for fast ULT™ is a log tracker/analyzer for Db2 answers the automated data provisioning, data masking, and cloning. question “Why is a good, reasonably priced log analyzer so Supports DB2, Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, VSAM, hard to find?” Functions include Undo/Redo, identify, audit, IMS, et.al. and data propagate. A faster, better, more economical alternative. BCV4™ is a Db2® and/or IMS® subsystem cloning tool that reduces cloning from hours/days down to minutes. DBARS™ access recording services for Db2® records SAP and PeopleSoft users can have clones and system all accesses to the sensitive Db2 tables selected - read, copies in record time. write and data definition. DBARS unique capabilities do not depend on Db2 tracing or log records. Efficient, BPA4DB2™ is a buffer pool product has replaced the old, flexible recording and auditing is now possible with optional dated vendor solutions with a new level of expert analysis alerting and blocking to protect corporate data. that easily identifies, recommends, and performs ongoing monitoring to ensure optimum performance and more responsive Db2 systems. © Arcati Ltd, 2021 71 Arcati Mainframe Yearbook 2021 Vendor Directory

ICPU™ gives programmers the ability to easily identify Company profile code causing CICS® application performance problems. EPV Technologies partners: Its very low overhead allows use in production or test • Benny Tal Marketing Software Solutions in Israel and environments. Benelux • EPV Americas in Canada and USA • Inspired Solutions in UK and Ireland • JVL in France Epoka Group A/S • Senmesoft in Canada • SoftPlex Inc. in Japan Address: • TPS Data in DACH. Hjulmagervej 21, DK-9490 Pandrup, Denmark Phone: +45 96 730 800. Product/service information Email: [email protected]. EPV products have been designed to help system analysts Web: www.epoka.com. in Performance and Capacity Planning activities. EPV for z/OS, EPV zParser, EPV for Db2, EPV for CICS, EPV for Activity: Hardware vendor. MQ, EPV for Linux on Z, EPV for Unix (including Linux), Specialist areas: Other and EPV for VMware are the main products. Same Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, VM/VSE, Linux, products developed in two lines: SAS-based and PERL/ other SQL-based. Non-mainframe platforms supported: IBM i, AIX EPV zParser is written in PERL; it parses SMF, IMS, z/VM Pricing options: Other monitor records, etc loading them in a SQL DB. It provides input to EPV products. Company profile Epoka Group A/S is an innovative supplier of pre-owned, high-performance enterprise computer solutions. Our extensive range of blue-chip brands extends from mainframes, NAS and SAN solutions to best-of-breed ERGO Soluciones SRL networking equipment. Address: Epoka is a reliable, triple-A rated company that offers Ciudad de la Paz 1965, piso 4, oficina D, C1428CPE customers around the world quick access to quality Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Argentina solutions at competitive prices. Based in Denmark since Phone: +54 (11) 5031-0494 1991, Epoka is committed to providing real value, world- Email: [email protected] class service and continued expansion. Please browse Web: www.ErgoSoluciones.com through our website to learn more about our products, services and job opportunities. Activity: Consultant Specialist areas: Programming/testing; web integration Product/service information and legacy reengineering tools IBM: zSeries 800, 890, 900, 990 • CMOS(9672) G2 - G6 • Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS Storage & Peripherals. Non-mainframe platforms supported: Windows

Company profile RGO Soluciones SRL is providing the IT market with its EPV Technologies services, products and solutions, offering the support that each situation needs and better fits customer’s Address: requirements. Viale Luigi Mancinelli 106, 00199 Rome, Italy Phone: +39 0686399398. A team of professionals with broad experience in the field Email: [email protected]. of Information Technology, both in modern techniques and Web: epvtech.com. mainframe custom systems, have shaped our organization. Our Company offers Professional Services, Systems Activity: Software vendor. Integration, Solutions Development and Products for Specialist areas: System management environments on multiple architectures like mainframes, Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, Linux on Z minicomputers, client/server and personal computers. Non-mainframe platforms supported: AIX, other Unix, With offices in the City of Buenos Aires, Argentina, we also Linux represent products of international renowned companies in Pricing options: One-time charge, monthly/annual license the region. 72 © Arcati Ltd, 2021 Arcati Mainframe Yearbook 20072021 Vendor Directory

Product/service information Our highly skilled professionals in several proprietary and open tools, such as Assembler, COBOL, CICS, Natural, Power Builder, Visual Basic, Java, etc., and RDBMS like Oracle, SQL Server, SyBase, DB2, Adabas, among others, can develop from a simple requirement of a program to an entire complex “tailor made” solution or system, technology migrations, customizations and documentation, GUIs and manuals translation, etc.

We are always evolving matching technology changes with methods to protect and leverage our customer’s investment.

European Mainframe Academy

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

Activity: Education Specialist areas: System management; data management; storage management; security; programming/testing; web integration and legacy reengineering tools; network performance/management.

Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, VM/VSE, Linux Non-mainframe platforms supported: IBM i, Linux Pricing options: other

Company profile Education of new mainframers. Advanced training for existing mainframers. Support of academic institutions. Email: [email protected]. Product/service information Web: www.FISC.com. Basic blended learning course for system administrator (24 month) Activity: Software vendor. Basic blended learning course for operator (18 month) Specialist areas: System management; data Special blended learning modules concerning storage management; storage management; security; other management, performance management, mainframe Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, VM/VSE security & RACF, z/VM and Linux and many more. Non-mainframe platforms supported: Windows, other Pricing options: One-time charge, monthly/annual license, other

Company profile Fischer International Systems Accelerate time to productivity with Fischer multiplatform Corporation solutions for security, operations, communication and identity management. At its heart, Fischer International Address: Systems Corporation is a technology company, founded by 9045 Strada Stell Ct 201, Naples, FL 34109, USA security visionary Addison Fischer in 1982, which focuses Phone: 239-643-1500 on unparalleled value to our customers. The commitment

© Arcati Ltd, 2021 73 Arcati Mainframe Yearbook 2021 Vendor Directory to innovative solutions designed to enhance enterprise Fitz Software & Co productivity has always been part of our corporate culture. It began when we introduced our first PC security product Address: to the marketplace, and our commitment to continue to Kilcolta House, Crosshaven, Cork, Ireland provide innovative products and solutions for the new Phone: +353-21-4832131 global enterprise remains our primary mission. Email: [email protected]. Web: www.fitzsoftware.com. Fischer’s vision for software development for over the last 30 years has been to provide innovative solutions Activity: Software vendor. designed to leverage and enhance the mainframe’s place Specialist areas: System management; data in the enterprise at all levels. management; storage management; asset and change management; security; programming/testing; network Contact Fischer for more about IOF, VTFM-NewGen®, and performance/management Fischer Identity.. Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, VM/VSE, Linux on Z Product/service information Non-mainframe platforms supported: Linux, Windows Better IOF JES2 Management tools, better function. Pricing options: Monthly/annual license, processor/ Complete JES2 Management with a powerful toolset: IOF capacity-based, workload/usage based includes the ultimate job summary screen with online help on each display panel for easy access to better function. Company profile IOFSend, a popular tool, delivers batch job information in Fitz Software & Co., established in 1991, provides z/ HTML form directly to a designated and authorized email. OS users with innovative and niche products that benefit IOF training includes a functionality site (fisc.com/support/ their evolving systems at justifiable prices. Our primary ioffunctionality/) to access IOF tips and tricks with training expertise lies in: videos. IOF is the user’s choice for JES2 management in • Change, Risk , Audit, Security & Compliance many Fortune 500 data centers. Visit: https://www.fisc.com/ Management products/aboutiofvideo/ - Change management, audit and security improvement with system integrity in z/OS, JES, VTAM, TCP/IP, Software-only z/OS Virtual Tape operates on your CICS, IODF, DB2 and SAF/ESM. Detect the risks mainframe : Forget proprietary hardware, VTFM-NewGen to availability while also ensuring secure change writes tape volumes to standard mainframe DASD as well management and notifications across administration as private, hybrid, and cloud storage. VTFM-NewGen functions (Operator commands, Administrator edit/ Parallel Access Tape accelerates batch processing for batch changes, Security policies, ..). major vendor applications executing heavy simultaneous • Test Data Management & Database Productivity read from tape requests. VTFM- NewGen delivers - Test data generation (Selection, Changes (rules), unparalleled performance by leveraging the mainframe’s Inserts, Modifications (Time, Anonymization)); Reduce z/EDC hardware assist for compression. Complement CPU service costs and service delivery times: Fastest existing tape solutions for your most critical and active cloning of pre-production and test DBMS (DB2 for volume or use VTFM-NewGen as an alternative to a LUW, DB2 for z/OS, ORACLE, MSSQL, IMS) sub- proprietary hardware solution. Visit: systems, databases and tables with also masking and https://www.fisc.com/products/vtfm-ng/ data reduction; Automated DB maintenance enhancing existing utilities; Bufferpool optimization; Exception One vendor-every solution Fischer Identity simplifies the Master to determine problems before they hit the complex and expensive task of managing access across systems; … on-premises and cloud systems with their breakthrough • Application Life-Cycle & z/OS enhancement Operating identity and access management solution. Customers have System Software deployed in half the time and cost of conventional identity - File encryption and archiving, test data generation, products with Fischer IdM naming standards and audit; identifying the business- .

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critical files; integrated recovery management solution Flynet Limited designed to deliver a global view of your critical data-as well as that data’s backups at the application level. Address: Real recovery if your batch explodes; Monitor, Manage King William House, Burwell, Cambs CB25 0DU, UK & Control JESplex jobs, spools & resources; Space Phone: +44 1638 611111 Management; Email: [email protected]. • Software Asset Management & z Cost Reduction Web: www.flynetviewer.com. - Who’s using what and when in the z/OS software portfolio – IBM and ISV products and inhouse Activity: Software vendor. applications including also 4GL, Interpreter languages, Specialist areas: Web integration and legacy ISPF, JCL, ..; Automated Software Capping (aWLC & reengineering tools CPM); Offloading audit functions; Capacity Planning. Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, VM/VSE, Linux on IBM Z Product/service information Non-mainframe platforms supported: IBM i, AIX, Unix, Some products: Linux, Windows, other P-Tracker collects usage information on all program Pricing options: Monthly/annual license and subprogram calls under z/OS including Batch, IMS/ DC, CICS, TSO and other sub-system environments. Company profile Using P-Tracker, one can focus in on usage of modules, Since 1994 Flynet has been supporting a global and varied datasets, applications and products/licenses; and with customer base supporting solutions with 10 to 10,000+ inhouse applications determine the chained calls at sub- users. program level. Flynet is committed to empowering organisations to utilise Integrity Control Environment (ICE) manages and detects the mainframe in the modern digital agenda. changes, points of failure, and risks to the integrity of the Agility and security are the cornerstones of Flynet’s z/OS systems. ICE helps systems staff to examine the success. Using Flynet’s no-code tools, organisations system and document for management, security and audit can confidently unlock the power of their mainframe teams, that their job is being done correctly, has been applications, opening up to a wider user base, integrating verified and does not have unintentional adverse impact. them with other applications and making them as intuitive TCP, SSL, DNS and IPV6 Problem Finders and attractive as any other web application.

XDM (CROSS DATABASE MOVER) quickly and efficiently Improve security and agility- harness your mainframe’s copies, refreshes and replicates databases, tables, views, power today. etc. within the same or to different DBMS systems. A XDM copy task integrates both, the physical data movement Product/service information and the appropriate DDL treatment. It copies tables and Flynet provides pure web, zero client terminal emulation. databases and XDM creates the data objects at the target There is no software, applets or plugins required on the if they are not yet present. XDM always chooses the access devices; simple browse to the URL and start using fastest and most efficient method to move the data. Hence your mainframe applications. copy jobs executions are completed in record time. Flynet Viewer can then be used to enhance your access ASC (AutoSoftCapping) optimizes the performance of your experience, using the no-code toolset you can modernise system while controlling your Workload License Charges each screen to look indistinguishable from your modern (aWLC & CMP). ASC safeguards the right MSUs are in the web apps in under five minutes. You can also easily right place, at the right time and for the right cost. concatenate screens, while preserving logic.

Dino Explorer Suite is a set of non-intrusive software for Flynet Viewer can also be used to automate the flow analysis and support decision of IBM mainframe SMF logs through applications with the use of web services. Using which are collected in real time and stored in a relational Flynet Viewer web services can be built against mainframe database platform (Microsoft SQL Server). Can reduce applications in under twenty minutes per service, without overall CPU processing by 7%. hand writing any code.

ZIP/390-MP is an enterprise zip and Multi-Platform Try Flynet Viewer for days. Integration utility for simplifying the efficient and secure trafficking of data across divergent platforms. .

Forecross Corporation You get a guarantee that no data will be left behind during the ETL process Address: 505 Montgomery St Fl 11, San Francisco, CA 94111, USA To learn more, please go to our website: www.forecross. Phone: 530 200 0130 com Email: [email protected]. Web: www.forecross.com. Convert/IDMS-DB™

Sales contacts: Convert/VSAM™ America: 510-223-1215 . Additionally, Forecross has developed a set of Activity: Consultant Modernization Tools that work in conjunction with Convert/ Specialist areas: Data management; Web integration DB. and legacy reengineering tools Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, VM/VSE, Linux Language on Z Non-mainframe platforms supported: IBM i, AIX, Unix, Modernization Linux, Windows Pricing options: One-time charge, If you want to convert from a 3rd or 4th generation language such as ADS/O, CSP, COBOL or PL/I to C# Company profile .NET, VB .NET, IBM EGL (Java), or .NET COBOL, it Forecross Corporation was founded in 1982 in San means: Francisco, CA and specializes in IBM mainframe legacy application modernization. Through automation Forecross There are no ‘black box’ tools or run-time routines for you will transform those legacy applications into new modern to maintain or depend on after the migration is complete state of the art sequal language. Forecross Corporation is FUJITSU the world’s leading authority on the development and use The generated code uses easy-to-maintain, industry- of automated legacy modernization software and services standard application programming techniques for Enterprise computing. Mainframe To learn more please go to our website: www.forecross. Our legacy-to-web solutions protect the value of existing com Solutions applications, leverage the business intelligence those applications contain, and promote their evolution to future Convert/ADSO™ ready platforms and technologies. Convert/CSP™ Serving the IT industry since 1982, our clients include Fortune 500 companies in industries such as banking, User Interface finance, publishing and higher education, as well as government agencies, in the United States and worldwide. Modernization

Product/service information If you plan to migrate from an older user interface such as Database Modernization: IDMS-DC to CICS it means: If you’re thinking about modernizing your applications from pre-relational databases such as IDMS-DB or VSAM to a You get 100% pseudo-conversational programs - NO relational database such as DB2, Oracle, or SQL Server it exceptions means: To learn more, please go to our website: www.forecross. Driving digital transformation with future-proof mainframe operations You get a true relational SQL database design - with all of com the primary and foreign keys properly implemented Run business-critical applications efficiently with Fujitsu BS2000 SE Infrastructure, based on comprehensive software ReDirect/COBOL™ . and services supported by our EPS Co-Creation Projects Team. No “junction” tables are needed to implement SQL Fujitsu IBM Mainframe Services, Data Center Management and Automation Solutions, Application Services plus offerings relationships so your converted applications will have from the Fujitsu Academy for enhancing IT expertise, all make Fujitsu the ideal partner for your mainframe operations. excellent performance with no unnecessary I/O. Find more at: www.fujitsu.com/emeia/bs2000 and https://mediaportal.ts.fujitsu.com/pages/view.php?ref=49644

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Fujitsu Pricing options: One-time charge, monthly/annual license, processor/capacity-based, workload/usage based Address: Fujitsu Technology Solutions, Mies-van-der-Rohe Str. 4-10, Company profile 80807 Munich, Germany Fujitsu is the leading Japanese information and Phone: +49-(0)89 62060-0. communication technology (ICT) company offering a full Email: [email protected]. range of technology products, solutions and services. Web: www.fujitsu.com/emeia/BS2000 Approximately 130,000 Fujitsu people support customers in more than 100 countries. We use our experience Activity: Hardware vendor. and the power of ICT to shape the future of society with Specialist areas: System management; data our customers. Fujitsu Limited (TSE:6702) reported management; storage management; asset and change consolidated revenues of 3.9 trillion yen (US$35 billion) management; security; web integration and legacy for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2020. For more reengineering tools; network performance/management. information, please see www.fujitsu.com. Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, VM/VSE, Linux on Z Product/service information Non-mainframe platforms supported: IBM i, AIX, Unix, The BS2000 SE Infrastructure combines standard Linux, Windows, other mainframe technology with the technology of the open

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Driving digital transformation with future-proof mainframe operations Run business-critical applications efficiently with Fujitsu BS2000 SE Infrastructure, based on comprehensive software and services supported by our EPS Co-Creation Projects Team. Fujitsu IBM Mainframe Services, Data Center Management and Automation Solutions, Application Services plus offerings from the Fujitsu Academy for enhancing IT expertise, all make Fujitsu the ideal partner for your mainframe operations. Find more at: www.fujitsu.com/emeia/bs2000 and https://mediaportal.ts.fujitsu.com/pages/view.php?ref=49644

© Arcati Ltd, 2021 77 201027_AZ_ArcatiYearbook_4C.indd 1 27.10.20 09:19 Arcati Mainframe Yearbook 2021 Vendor Directory world. This makes the SE Series the optimal platform for Non-mainframe platforms supported: Windows running business-critical applications both on /390 and Pricing options: Other x86 technology. Customers can select the optimal platform for each application and will thus get the most out of their Company profile mainframe investments. Mainframe software development and re-engineering.

With its comprehensive set of functions, the BS2000 Product/service information mainframe operating system provides the best possible Mainframe software development and re-engineering. support for existing and new IT infrastructures, enabling Cobol, Assembler, JCL, CICS, DB2, VSAM. the integration of latest technologies, as e.g. Cloud Computing, AI, Edge Computing, Blockchain and DCMA. With its open interfaces it offers future-proof integration into modern application architectures. The extensive scalability Gary Bergman Associates of the BS2000 platform reaches into the very highest performance bands. Address: 14 Hickory Lane, North Brunswick, NJ 08902, USA BS2000 services offer uncompromising availability and Phone: +1 732 247 2727 operational security for BS2000 systems with utmost Email: [email protected] profitability and cost transparency. Your IT infrastructure is Web: www.debugcics.com designed more efficiently and becomes more sustainable for the future as we design and implement intelligent Activity: Software vendor solutions in partnership with you. Specialist areas: Programming/testing Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS Fujitsu’s Third Party Mainframe Services is specialized Pricing options: One-time charge, monthly/annual license in providing a Mainframe Managed Service offering positioned around the support of IBM Enterprise z and i Company profile platforms to customers across North West Europe and Developers of Advanced Debugging System (“ADS”) for North America. the CICS mainframe.

We are a key provider in the provision of Third Party Founded in 1974 with sales worldwide, we continue to IBM Mainframe Managed Services and provide end-to update and support our product through the the latest end PaaS, in addition to tailored mainframe professional reseases of CICS, including support for 64bit code. services designed around client TCO improvements. Product_info: Advanced Debugging System (“ADS”) for We support customer requests for digital transformation CICS supports interactive and automatic monitoring to – also supported by our departments “EPS Co-Creation detect attempted storage violations and unintentional projects”, “Application Services” and our “Fujitsu Academy, access of storage beyond the scope of the monitored task. Central Europe” in order to promote learning among IT The programmer can dynamically insert Assembler and specialists at all levels Mainframe platforms supported: COBOL instruction into existing programs for designated BS2000, VME, Fujitsu Global Servers and third party terminal facilities to play safe what-if games without services for IBM mainframes. affecting affecting other transactions that use the same . program path.

Product/service information Advanced Debugging System (“ADS”) for the CICS Gary Allardyce mainframe.

Address: PO Box 7066, Greenway, ACT 2900, Australia Phone: +61418579653 GT Software Email: [email protected] Address: Activity: Consultant 6255 Barfield Rd NE, Suite 200, Atlanta, GA 30328, USA Specialist areas: Programming/testing; web integration Phone: +1 404-253-1300 and legacy reengineering tools; Email: [email protected] Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, VM/VSE, Linux Web: www.gtsoftware.com on Z

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Activity: Software vendor GT Software Key Differentiators: Specialist areas: Web integration and legacy • Over 30 years of mainframe expertise reengineering tools; other • Speed and ease of delivering massive amounts of data Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, VM/VSE, Linux to external solutions on IBM Z • 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 We are also a Strategic and Authorized Service Partner to capacity assessment software developed with mainframe most mainframe vendors such as EMC, Hitachi, Oracle, expert Cheryl Watson. It’s the only independent solution IBM, Novell, CA Technologies and Red Hat. capacity and performance planners can use to: • 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.

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Heitech Managed Services Sdn Bhd Address: One TeamQuest Way, Clear Lake, Iowa 50428, USA Address: Phone: +1 641-357-2700 HeiTech Village 2,No 1, Jalan Astaka U8/81, Section U8, E-mail: [email protected] 40150 Shah Alam, Selngor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia Web: https://www.helpsystems.com/product-lines/ Phone: 60193106462 teamquest Email: [email protected] Web: www.heitech.com.my Sales contacts America: [email protected] Activity: System integrator EMEA: [email protected] Specialist areas: System management; data AsiaPac: [email protected] management; storage management; programming/testing; web integration and legacy reengineering tools; network Activity: Software vendor performance/management Specialist areas: System management Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, VM/VSE, zLinux Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS., Linux, other Non-mainframe platforms supported: IBM i, AIX, other Non-mainframe platforms supported: i5, AIX, other Unix, Unix, Linux, Windows Linux, Windows Pricing options: One-time charge, processor/capacity- Pricing Options: One-time charge, monthly/annual based, workload/usage based. license, processor/capacity-based, other

Company profile Company profile HeiTech Managed Services, a subsidiary of a HeiTech TeamQuest Corporation is the global leader in IT Service Padu Berhad (public listed), is providing services in area Optimization (ITSO). Specializing in software that helps of Data Centre, Network, Disaster Recovery and Cloud IT organizations consistently meet service levels while Computing. We have a Call Centre that complement our minimizing costs, TeamQuest provides quick and accurate offering. HeiTech Padu itself (parent company) is focusing capacity modelling and performance solutions. on System Integration business, developing applications on COBOL, C/C++, Java, on mainframe and non- Companies around the world trust TeamQuest to help them mainframe platform. improve IT service delivery while mitigating risks, allowing We have been the IBM Mainframe market leader since them to proactively optimize IT resources while minimizing the 80’s. Our major customers ranges from Financial and infrastructure costs. TeamQuest software is especially well- Government such as National Unit Trust Board, Inland suited for use in heterogeneous and virtualized computing Revenue Board, Immigration, Road Transport, National environments. Complementing and supporting ITIL best Registration. practices, SOA and BSM goals, TeamQuest software can

80 © Arcati Ltd, 2021 Arcati Mainframe Yearbook 20072021 Vendor Directory help organizations manage IT from both the business and Hostbridge Technology IT perspectives. Address: Product/service Information 100 E. 7th Avenue, Stillwater, OK 74074, USA TeamQuest Performance Software is made up of a suite of Phone: +1 405.533.2900 four integrated products that help organizations optimize Email: info@ hostbridge.com IT services, from performance management and reporting Web: www. hostbridge.com to event monitoring and capacity modelling. Products can be used individually or in combination to address various Activity: Software vendor needs, and they scale to thousands of servers in complex, Specialist areas: Web integration and legacy heterogeneous and virtualized environments. reengineering tools; Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS TeamQuest Performance Software uses a client/server Pricing options: Monthly/annual license, processor/ architecture. Connections are made between the client and capacity-based the server via TCP or HTTP for TeamQuest On the Web. The client portion – TeamQuest Model, TeamQuest View, Company profile TeamQuest Alert, and TeamQuest On the Web – runs on HostBridge exploits the best tools and technologies IBM your workstation or wherever you want to analyze the data. System z has to offer, and adopts the most flexible, open The server portion – TeamQuest Manager, which includes standards to develop the highest-performance, highest- data collection agents and a performance database – fidelity integration software for the mainframe customer. is installed on each server you want to manage. (One An IBM Business Partner, HostBridge regularly consults exception is that, for IBM System z and i, TeamQuest and collaborates with the z/OSŽ team and the CICS group Manager is installed on a separate system and retrieves at IBM Hursley. HostBridge is a CICS Beta Partner and performance data from the server being managed.) certified in the Ready for Rational program.

Product/service information Enterprises use HostBridge software solutions to create Hexaware Technologies web services from CICS applications and data, simplifying integration with middle-tier applications and technologies Address: Web services created with HostBridge are easy to develop, H5, Sipcot IT Park, Navallur Post, Kancheepuram District fast to deploy, durable, and high-performing because they Chennai, Tamil Nadu 603103, India do not rely on screen scraping technology. Phone: 044 4745 1000 Web: hexaware.com

Activity: Consultancy Specialist areas: System management; data I/S Management Strategies management; programming/testing; other Address: Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS 4942 N Hollywood Avenue, Whitefish Bay, WI 53217, USA Non-mainframe platforms supported: AIX, other Unix, Phone: +1 414 332-3062 Linux Email: [email protected] Pricing options: Other Web: www.sherkow.com Company profile Activity: Consultant Hexaware is a global provider of IT and Process Specialist areas: System management outsourcing services. We focus exclusively on maximizing Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS client returns from outsourcing and off-shoring. We have Pricing options: One-time charge, monthly/annual extensive experience in managing large IT applications license, other in real time as well as in providing high value services around packaged enterprise applications such as SAP and PeopleSoft.

Company profile Product/service information Al Sherkow is a capacity planning and performance i3 Business Solutions provides a full-range of z/OS, consultant at I/S Management Strategies and author of OS/390, z/VM, and VSE/ESA system programming the LPAR Capacity and Software Usage Analysis Tool services including version and release upgrades, day-to- (LCS). Al is a recognized industry expert regarding the day operating systems support, performance and tuning, configuration and planning of processors and PR/SM and on-site or remote 7x24 operating system support. and IBM mainframe Workload License Charges, and has worked with many companies around the globe to help them reduce mainframe costs through efficient capacity and licensing strategies. As principal of I/S Management Strategies, Al has been helping clients since 1988 and is a IBA Group regular presenter at industry conferences. I/S Management Strategies is a System z Development Partner of IBM and Address: we are also affiliated with IBM’s IT Analyst Relations. 2583/13 Petrzilkova St., Prague 5, Czech Republic.

Product/service information Phone: +420251116206 The LPAR Capacity and Software Usage Analysis (LCS) Email: [email protected] Software is the only tool available to assist installations Web: www.ibagroupit.com in planning for, implementing, monitoring and leveraging IBM’s Workload License Charges (WLC). LCS reads your Sales contacts: SMF data and prepares interactive reports that can help America: [email protected] you decrease your IBM software charges month after EMEA: [email protected] month. LCS is truly unique. No other tool is available that combines information about your licensed software Activity: Software vendor. products, analysis of utilization data, and prices to provide Specialist areas: Data management; storage near real-time estimates of your software charges. LCS management; asset and change management; allows sites to “tune” their IBM monthly software invoices! programming/testing; web integration and legacy reengineering tools. Large and small sites have licensed LCS throughout the USA and the world (Australia, Canada, the Netherlands, Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, VM/VSE, Linux Switzerland, Turkey, and the United Kingdom). Non-mainframe platforms supported: i5, AIX, other Unix, Linux, Windows Pricing options: Other

Company profile i3 Business Solutions LLC IBA Group is one of the largest IT service providers in Eastern Europe, performing software development, Address: migration, maintenance, support, and IT consulting 5005-B Cascade RD SE, Grand Rapids, MI 49546, USA services with 3,000 IT and business professionals. Phone: +1 616 956 6888. Email: [email protected]. Headquartered in Prague, Czech Republic, IBA Group Web: www.i3bus.com/ has offices and development centers in the United States, Germany, Czech Republic, Belarus, South Africa, Cyprus, Activity: Consultant. Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Slovakia, and Bulgaria. IBA Specialist areas: System management; data Group focuses on mainframe systems, enterprise and web management; storage management; asset and change applications, SAP solutions, and intelligent automation, as management; security; programming/testing well as IoT and RPA / ML / AI technologies. Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, VM/VSE Non-mainframe platforms supported: i5, AIX, other Unix, IAOP recognizes IBA Group as one of The Global Linux, Windows Outsourcing 100 in the Leaders category.

Company profile IBA Group is a winner of IT Europa’s European IT & i3 Business Solutions accelerates business results by Software Excellence Awards and of GSA Awards by the integrating information solutions. We are an IBM and Global Sourcing Association. Microsoft Business Partner offering products and solutions for iSeries, pSeries, xSeries, and zSeries. We also offer For more information, visit http://ibagroupit.com. consulting services in the manufacturing and distribution sectors and planning, installation, and implementation support for PM, EMR, ERP and CRM software. 82 © Arcati Ltd, 2021 Arcati Mainframe Yearbook 20072021 Vendor Directory

Product/service information the rapidly emerging standard of SOA and using Web SERVICES Services and XML as the method of exchanging data • Full-cycle system installation, configuration, and between computers, our z/XML-Host product delivers a administration powerful yet simple solution. Our customers have their • Remote production support, 24/7, and disaster Internet-enabling projects in production in the same time it recovery takes just to evaluate competitive solutions. • System, database, and application performance optimization Product/service information • Development of multiplatform enterprise solutions illustro’s z/Ware family of products have earned the • Data integration, warehousing, and ETL reputation of being easy. The z/Web-Host product • Migration of business applications and databases transforms any 3270 application, whether CICS or non- • Transformation of Green screen applications to web CICS, directly into a fully functional, web-based interface GUI that anyone can use – all without touching the original • SOA, BPM, and Cloud enablement application. And with z/XML-Host, mainframe data can SOFTWARE EXPERTISE be automatically converted into XML documents and • z/OS, z/Linux, BS2OOO/OSD accessed via Web Services using SOAP, meaning your • SMP/E, TWS, SCLM, IMS, CICS, IBM GDPS data and business-critical logic can be shared with any • Assembler, PL/X, PL/I, Cobol platform or application. This includes languages like Java • DB2, OMEGAMON XE and .Net, or Web-Services-enabled platforms including • IBM InfoSphere DataStage IBM’s WebSphere and Microsoft Office. • IBM WebSphere AS, MQ • IDz, CA Gen, EGL What’s more, both z/Web-Host and z/XML-Host run directly • HATS, JavaScript, HTML on either z/OS (OS/390) or z/VSE (VSE/ESA), so there’s • Java, C/C++, IBM BPM no need to add cost and complexity to the process by TEAM using a different, less reliable platform just to Internet- • 400+ mainframe specialists enable your mainframe. • 50+ mainframe-related certificates. And now that your mainframe data can easily be made available on the ‘Net, security is an important issue. That’s where our iCYA network appliance comes in. The iCYA delivers full Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protection so your Illustro Systems International data is encrypted until it reaches a trusted source.

Address: 1950 Stemmons Freeway, Suite 5001, Dallas, Texas 75207, USA. Informatica Corporation Phone: +1 214 800 8900 Email: [email protected] Address: Web: www.illustro.com 2100 Seaport Blvd, Redwood City, CA 94063, USA. Phone: +1 650 385 5000 (800-970-1179 in the USA). Activity: Software vendor. Email: [email protected] Specialist areas: Web integration and legacy Web: www.informatica.com reengineering tools Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, VM/VSE Sales contacts: Pricing options: One-time charge, monthly/annual America: +1 (888) 635-0899 license, workload/usage-based EMEA: +44 (0)1628 511311

Company profile Activity: Software vendor. illustro Systems focus on delivering software solutions that Specialist areas: Data Integration; web integration and empower today’s mainframe customer to lead the way with legacy reengineering tools; Data Privacy; other innovation. Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, Linux on IBM Z Non-mainframe platforms supported: AIX, other Unix, We believe that web-enabling mainframe applications Linux, Windows, IBM i should mean return on investment in hours, not months. Pricing options: One-time charge, monthly/annual license And our z/Web-Host product provides just that. And with

Company profile Inspired Solutions (Software) Ltd Informatica Corporation (NASDAQ: INFA) is the world’s number one independent provider of data integration Address: software. With over 3,000 employees distributed in over 208, Moor Lane, Salford M7 3PZ, UK. 28 countries around the globe, Organisations can rely Phone:+44 (0) 161 7926540 on Informatica to realise their information potential and Email: [email protected] drive top business imperatives. Worldwide over 5,000 Web: inspired-solutions.co.uk Enterprises already depend on Informatica to fully leverage their information assets from devices to mobile to social Activity: Software vendor to big data residing on-premise, in the Cloud and across Specialist areas: System management; data social networks. management; asset and change management; other Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS ,VM/VSE, Linux Product/service information Non-mainframe platforms supported: Other Unix, Linux, Informatica’s PowerExchange products enable data Windows connectivity to many of the commonly used mainframe Pricing options: One-time charge, monthly/annual (z/OS & i/Series) data sources e.g. DB2, IMS, Adabas license, processor/capacity-based, workload/usage based, etc. Data can be delivered according to the demands of other the consuming applications; offering data extractions in either complete batch-type accesses or “delta” updates Company profile from previous extractions delivered in Real-Time. Couple Save Money on the Mainframe the connectivity to Informatica’s world renowned data integration products and Enterprises will quickly see Inspired Solutions and Blenheim Software work together to reward from any Informatica deployments. distribute software in the UK and Ireland. Our cost-effective software covers many of the most important areas in the With Informatica’s PowerCenter ability to run on the data centre for both mainframe and distributed platforms. IBM mainframe Linux on IBM Z platform Enterprises can, if required, build fully centric, mainframe based Several of the tools and software we supply are either the data integration environments, on possibly the world’s de facto standard for their area, or soon will be. most resilient and reliable data processing architecture. PowerCenter for z/Linux leverages the business-critical Product/service information aspects of mainframe computing while providing the same As well as performance management and capacity time-to-value and cost-of-ownership advantages that planning tools, we also provide XINFO, the data centre PowerCenter brings to non-mainframe environments via repository; tools for TWS for zOS (OPC) and Distributed ; its inherent “Map-Once deploy anywhere” Vibe powered JCL Checking; CICS, VSAM, VTAM, and developers’ tools, architecture. Informatica also integrally supports the needs DB2 tools, utilities and tuning for zOS & distributed. of the modern Enterprise by providing other industry recognised (Forrester, Gartner etc.) technology products More details at our partners websites: used for Data Masking, Application Life Cycle Data Enterprise Performance Vision for Performance & Capacity Management, Data Quality, Data Replication as well as a Planning - www.epvtech.com complete and comprehensive Master Data Management Horizont GmbH for TWS Products - www.horizont-it.com capability. Using Informatica can help enterprises MacKinney for CICS, VSAM, VTAM Products - www. extend the value of their mainframe investments with mackinney.com near-universal mainframe access and a holistic view of Responsive Systems for DB2 Buffer Pool Tuning - www. enterprise information, while maximizing the reliability and responsivesystems.com reducing the costs of data integration processing. Relational Architects International and Insoft Software for DB2 tools - www.relarc.com Informatica not only enables a performing and cost ITGain for UDB DB2 products - www.itgain.de effective data integration platform but can also help InSoft for DB2 tools - www.insoft-software.de. architect and implement an Enterprises solution by providing skilled resources either via its own highly skilled and trained Professional Services network or via its ECO system of Systems Integrators and Partners. Whatever the need for Data Integration, Informatica has both the solution and the skill to help Enterprises succeed. For more information around the Informatica products portfolio please refer to the Informatica Website.

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IntelliMagic Only with intelligent interpretation can you trust software to be the proactive monitor for the health of your z/OS Address: resources, without being clouded by alert storms. Lokhorstraat 16, 2311 TA Leiden, The Netherlands Phone:+ 31 65 1509477 Email: [email protected] Web: www.intellimagic.com

Activity: Software vendor INTERCHIP AG Specialist areas: System management Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS Address: Non-mainframe platforms supported: IBM i, AIX, other Elektrastrasse 6, 81925, Germany. Unix, Linux, Windows, other Phone: +49 89 991 4990 Pricing options: One-time charge, monthly/annual Email: [email protected] license, processor/capacity-based, other Web: www.interchip-software.com/.

Company profile Sales contacts: IntelliMagic solutions manage the performance and Worldwide: +49 89 991 4990 availability of critical IT resources such as enterprise storage, z/OS, and SAN infrastructure. Activity: Software vendor. Specialist areas: System management; storage Our products perform intelligent analysis of performance management. and configuration data, using built-in knowledge about Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS hardware architecture and throughput capabilities, in Pricing options: One-time charge, monthly/annual order to protect availability. This is what we call Availability license, processor/capacity-based, workload/usage based Intelligence. Company profile IntelliMagic has existed since 2002. IntelliMagic employs NTERCHIP AG, with international headquarters based in technical staff with deep expertise in the world of Munich, Germany, was founded in 1987. performance analysis and capacity modeling. IntelliMagic’s products and services are being used by the world’s The company is privately held and provides enterprise- largest IT datacenters, as well as by storage hardware wide, multi-platform solutions for the optimization of vendors. The interaction with our customers keep us complex IT environments. at the forefront of knowledge regarding performance management and availability assurance. In addition to representing selected software companies in Germany, Switzerland and Austria, INTERCHIP AG Product/service information develops its own market-leading products. INTERCHIP he focus of IntelliMagic Vision is to find and flag AG’ s flagship product suite, RealTime Defrag (RTD), infrastructure risks so that you can resolve the root causes is currently in daily use at many of the largest banks, before service disruptions occur. Avoiding availability insurance companies, industries and government agencies issues is both easier and cheaper than dealing with actual worldwide. problems. Naturally, IntelliMagic Vision also offers deep performance analysis and an interactive user interface INTERCHIP AG products are marketed by an international that greatly reduces the time required to investigate any network of qualified business partners. performance problems that could not be predicted. Product/service information IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS reads raw RMF/CMF and RealTime Defrag (RTD) is a proven product suite in use SMF measurement data and combines this with expert since 1995 that eliminates DASD fragmentation and the knowledge about workloads and internal hardware and need for over-allocation of disk space thereby avoiding x37 software architecture. This is very different from classic abends and out-of-space conditions. Running continuously reporting tools that just show the numbers in a graphical and efficiently 24x7 in the background, RTD quickly view without showing whether something is good or bad. reorganizes disk volumes, recovering available storage It is also very different from ‘Analytics’, in the sense that space and eliminating file and DASD fragmentation. Unlike we do not use statistics without interpretation, but detect standard operating system utilities, no batch or weekend real hidden risks based on our internal hardware and maintenance jobs are needed. architecture knowledge.

Disk storage waste caused by over-allocation is eliminated Mainframe Skills Assessments, to Training Analytics & since volumes are continuously and automatically Reporting, and to Tools for quick & easy development of groomed. RTD can be customized to meet your your own in-house mainframe Classes/Webinars. This defragmentation needs through a variety of parameters 21st century mainframe training solution delivers superior that take effect immediately. RTD includes full support for quality training and dramatically cuts training costs for the the latest level of the operating system (z/OS) and DASD world’s premier mainframe computing organizations! Over hardware environments. Additional options are available a Million Mainframers Trained! Hundreds of Millions of to support FlashCopy Version 2, Preserve Mirror (Remote Dollars Saved! Pair FlashCopy) as well as Remote Pair FlashCopy for zGlobal Mirror (zGM or XRC).

ISAM (Information Systems Interskill Learning Asset Management)

Address: Address: 11770 Haynes Bridge Road, Suite 205 PMB 526, 4152 North River Run, Minneapolis, MN 55044, USA Alpharetta, GA 30009-1970, USA. Phone: +1 952 322 4726 Phone: +1 770-872-4278 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Web: www.isamgroup.com Web: www.interskill.com Activity: Consultant. Sales contacts: Specialist areas: Other EMEA: +44 1625 441120 Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS AsiaPac: +61 3 8796 8400, Non-mainframe platforms supported: Windows Pricing options: Other, Activity: Education Specialist areas: System management; data Company profile management; storage management; asset and change Founded in 1996, ISAM specializes in helping management; security; programming/testing; web procurement, vendor management, and data center integration and legacy reengineering tools; network managers manage software expenses and license performance/management; other compliance risk. GreenBook, the software industry’s Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS ,VM/VSE, Linux largest and most comprehensive database by ISAM on System z contains more than 100 million software cost, product Non-mainframe platforms supported: IBM i, AIX, Unix, usage and categorization data points from over 900 Linux software vendors across 1,000 data centers worldwide. Pricing options: Monthly/annual license Armed with the knowledge of industry software benchmarks, GreenBookSM provides the backbone for Company profile numerous applications to guide data centers to best in Interskill Learning develops and delivers the global class software licensing and costs. Mainframe Computing Industry’s ONLY comprehensive curriculum of self-paced elearning! Our learning designs Product/service information are informed by contemporary learning theory and are IBM Audit support, Software Cost Benchmarks, Vendor interactive, contextualized and responsive to diverse Negotiation support, Data Center Optimization. learning styles. We believe in immersing learners in relevant authentic activities designed to motivate, engage, and produce quantifiable change. Utilized by Thousands of Mainframe Computing Organizations. Over a Million Mainframers Trained! ISI Pty Ltd

Product/service information Address: Interskill’s broad spectrum, Mainframe Specific curriculum Level 1, 645 Harris Street, Ultimo, New South Wales 2007, of self-paced elearning courses gives your Mainframe Australia Computing Workforce 12 months unlimited access to over Phone: +61 2 8905 8900 250 online IBM z Systems and Power Systems courses, Email: [email protected] to mainframe job-role based Learning Road Maps, to Web: www.isi.com.au

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Activity: Integrator Specialist areas: System management; storage management Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, Linux on IBM Z 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, our success stems from a company-wide commitment to fulfilling customer needs and leveraging new technologies.

In 1995, ISI became the first IBM zSeries reseller in Australia and New Zealand. Today we remain the only IBM Premier Partner operating in the System z market and is at the forefront of the next wave of ‘Large Scale Server Deployments’ utilising Open Systems on System z – the most reliable, scalable and cost effective ‘Business Class’ computing platform in the world. ISI also sells and supports the complete range of IBM products including Power and System x Servers, software, storage and support services.

iTech-Ed Ltd

Address: iTech-Ed House, 16 Brinkworth Close, Chippenham, Wilts SN14 0TL, UK Phone: +44 1249 443256. Email: [email protected]. Web: itech-ed.com.

Activity: Consultant. and creates modern-looking Web sites using, for example, Specialist areas: System management; data JQuery, that fit W3C standards. management; storage management; asset and change management; security; web integration and legacy More recently, iTech-Ed has been helping organizations reengineering tools; network performance/management; with their social media policies and a very hands-on other approach has seen companies produce Facebook pages, Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS produce well-supported Twitter feeds, and make the best Non-mainframe platforms supported: Windows use of YouTube. Company profile CEO Trevor Eddolls’ work in the mainframe community has iTech-Ed Ltd provides a source of highly technical been recognized and was awarded the prestigious title of information and expertise for people using IBM IBM Champion every year between 2009 and 2018. mainframes, servers, the Internet, mid-range computers, PCs, and tablet devices. iTech-Ed provides consultancy Popular blogs can be found at it.toolbox.com/users/ on a wide variety of mainframe-related areas, produces content/TrevorEddolls, the Destination z Web site, and technical articles and White Papers on current trends Planet Mainframe. Articles have appeared regularly in in computing, performs software reviews, writes up technical journals and on Web sites. research in technical areas, and edits marketing copy to avoid ambiguities and eliminate any technical errors. Since 2008 iTech-Ed Ltd has offered motivational training The company can also provide in-house training (with for staff as well as help with personal development and life documentation) in a variety of mainframe-related areas, as coaching. well as Microsoft Office 365 training. iTech-Ed also designs

Jazz Software KRI is an experienced and versatile provider of mainframe security services and software with the intent to modernize Address: mainframe security practices. We have the software that 13A Havenwood Place, Birkenhead, Auckland 0626, New will provide both detection and response to critical z/OS Zealand vulnerabilities, monitor critical security parameters for Phone: +64-27-459 2792 deviations, as well as in evaluating operational security Email: [email protected] policies. Web: www.jazzsoftware.co.nz We are here to help you pinpoint your mission critical Activity: Software vendor assests, as well as find and implement the technologies Specialist areas: Programming/testing and processes necessary to protect them. Our mission is Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS to guarantee a return on our clients’ security investments Pricing options: One-time charge, monthly/annual license by minimizing their exposure to data and integrity security risks. Company profile Jazz Software Ltd is a small specialised company set up The benefit to KRI clients is maximized by the profound to develop and support MANASYS Jazz, the 3rd complete technical knowledge and long-standing IT security re-visioning of a product originally introduced for IBM background of our consultants. Some of our partners Mainframes in 1980. include BMC, Guidepoint Security, RSM Partners, and Vanguard Integrity Professionals. Product/service information MANASYS Jazz is software slashing the time, cost, and Product/service information risk of COBOL development.To learn about our software KRI was founded in 1988 to provide security consulting please start at our web page http://www.jazzsoftware. services to Fortune 500 and government institutions. co.nz and see at least one of the videos. Note that In 2007 KRI began providing comprehensive z/OS MANASYS Jazz does all this by generating pure COBOL, environment vulnerability assessments to our clients. In without proprietary run-time code or licences – see http:// 2009 we launched the z/Assure VAP software product and www.jazzsoftware.co.nz/Docs/Features/MANASYS%20 in 2014 the z/Assure CAM product was launched. Creates%20Great%20COBOL.htm KRI currently provides 3 specific sets of services to its client base: For complete information see http://www.jazzsoftware. co.nz/Help.aspx Interactive Code Scanning using z/Assure VAP: • Operating System Integrity Testing (OSIT) of the operating. system, third-party software, and homegrown software and exits. • Classifying the source and types of z/OS code vulnerabilities found (including CVSS scoring). Key Resources Inc • Detailed reporting which pinpoints the exact location of the identified code vulnerability. Address: • Ensures that all code residing within the OS layer 36467 S. Nathan Hale Drive, Lake Villa, IL 60046, USA meets IBM standards for System Integrity. Phone: 800-574-1339 Email: [email protected] Compliance Audits using z/Assure® Compliance Web: www.krisecurity.com Assessment Manager (CAM): • KRI provides traditional information security audits, Activity: Software vendor PCI compliance and DISA STIG audits, and a range Specialist areas: Security of special purpose vulnerability assessment audits for Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS defined projects and engagements. Pricing options: Monthly/annual license, processor/ capacity-based External Security Product Migration Services for RACF, CA ACF2, and CA Top Secret: Company profile • Using a combination of two tools, the z/Assure KRI was founded in 1988 to provide mainframe security Security Conversion Utility (SCU) and the Password consulting services to Fortune 500 and government Propagation Tool, KRI has converted over 30 institutions. organization to RACF during the past 25 years.

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L3C Ltd data centres. We can provide short term solutions for PoCs as well as dev/test. DR and production environments all Address: supported by strong SLAs and 24x7 service desk. We 25 Sackville Street, London W1S 3AX, UK connect to public clouds such as AWS and Azure giving Phone: +44 0203 542 0870. you a hybrid solution. Our blockchain and Linux experience Email: [email protected] makes us an ideal choice to deploy your blockchain Web: l3c.cloud network on LinuxOne systems in our data centres while our heritage in MQ and broker means we can support Activity: Outsourcer complex deployments with upgrades, redesign or ongoing Specialist areas: Web integration and legacy maintenance. We are an official IBM Power Cloud partner. reengineering tools; other Mainframe platforms supported: Linux Product/service information Non-mainframe platforms supported: IBM i, AIX, Linux on Z offers significant licence savings for SW with distributed Unix, Linux, Windows core based pricing methodology such as Oracle DB and IBM Middleware. We can: • Plan & implement z/VM installations to host Linux on Z Company profile • Plan & implement Linux on Z installations on bare IFLs L3C Limited specialise in cloud/hosting AIX, Unix (Solaris, • Monitor z/VM and Linux on Z 24x7 HPUX), Linux and Linux on Z environments from our UK © Arcati Ltd, 2021 89 Arcati Mainframe Yearbook 2021 Vendor Directory

IBM MQ and Integration Bus (Message Broker) Product/service information We can design, implement, deploy and maintain Enterprise We provide mainframe consulting and services in the Service Bus systems based on IBM MQ and IBM areas of IT architecture, infrastructure management, Integration Bus (Message Broker). software deployment and tuning, performance, migrations, • Planning and creating an architecture and design of application development, DevOps, modernization and an ESB, from single Queue Manager installation to digital transformation. 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 using different cluster technologies including Microsoft Address: Cluster Services, Power HA, Linux clustering solutions, 2401 West Monroe Street, Springfield, Illinois, USA and different solutions for Linux on Z. Phone: 217 793 3800. • Redesign and upgrade of existing IBM Integration Bus Email: [email protected] and IBM MQ installations including version upgrade of Web: www.lrs.com 24x7 productions systems and retrofitting DR and HA capabilities. Sales contacts: • Monitoring and maintenance of 24x7 production EMEA: +44 1242 537500, [email protected], Regent House, installations Rodney Road, Cheltenham, Glos, GL50 1HX, UK. • Design and development of new Message Flows. AsiaPac: [email protected]. Maintenance, redesign, and upgrade of existing Message Flows. Activity: Software vendor Specialist areas: System management; security Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, VM/VSE, Linux, other Latuz Non-mainframe platforms supported: OS/400, AIX, other Unix, Linux, Windows Address: Pricing options: One-time charge, monthly/annual 20533 Biscayne Blvd, Suite 311, Aventura, FL 33180, USA license, processor/capacity based, workload/usage based Phone: +1 (305) 851-2807. Email: [email protected] Company profile Web: www.latuz.com Since 1981, Levi, Ray & Shoup, Inc. has been providing software solutions that help customers save money, Activity: Consultant improve business productivity, and provide assured Specialist areas: System management; data delivery of business-critical documents. Ninety-five percent management; storage management; asset and change of the Fortune 100 companies trust LRS solutions to management; security; programming/testing; web deliver their most critical documents. integration and legacy reengineering tools; network performance/management. Product/service information Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, VM/VSE, Linux, VPS and VPS/TCPIP. The VPS software suite manages, other monitors and delivers documents to network destinations Non-mainframe platforms supported: IBM i, Linux through the organization. Originally designed for VTAM- Pricing options: One-time charge, monthly/annual license controlled SNA networks, LRS added TCP/IP functionality and pioneered the migration of enterprise printing to the Company profile TCP/IP network protocol. The VPS solution offers web- We are a mainframe consulting company with based monitoring and control, enabling administrators, headquarters in Miami, FL to provide mainframe services operators and end users to control production printing. to customers in Latinamerica. We leverage mainframe specialists and skills throughout the region to perform VPS/Secure. VPS/Secure offer encrypted distribution mainframe consulting services as well as hands on of confidential documents from host to printer or host to software services in our customer’s local lenguaje. Our host. It uses the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), offering portfolio covers every and any IBM mainframe supporting the exchange of encrypted data between operating system, subsystem and application, as our team Windows, Unix and z/OS mainframes. has over 30 years of experience in this beloved platform.

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VPS/E Mail. This expands the print distribution channel to The Logicalis Group has annualised revenues of $1.6 include direct e-mail delivery from the host. billion, from operations in Europe, North America, Latin America and Asia Pacific, and is fast establishing itself VPS/PDF. VPS/PDF provides dynamic conversion of as one of the leading IT and Communications solution AFP documents to Portable Document Format (PDF) for integrators, specialising in the areas of advanced delivery via e-mail, web or file. technologies and services.

DRS captures, manages and controls documents The Logicalis Group is a division of Datatec Limited, listed originating from any platform via the LRS Enterprise Output on the Johannesburg and London AIM Stock Exchanges, Server. with revenues of over $5 billion.

DRS/Output Manager. With DRS/Output Manager, SAP Product/service information R/3 users gain full control over document printing, along Logicalis are skilled in infrastructure and new workload with feedback on print status, without leaving the SAP app. planning, Linux and Websphere implementations, software migrations, performance and capacity assessments, PageCenter. PageCenter archives documents received systems programming, security audits and sub-capacity from VPS for secure viewing with web browsers on multiple Workload License Charge (WLC) management. platforms. We also provide customised briefings for System z clients. Our pro-active approach to managing risk improves the efficiency of any deployment. Post-implementation, we continue our involvement with customised lifecycle and Logicalis UK managed services support. We assist you in procuring the best in class IBM mainframe Address: hardware and software solutions, and then provide 110 Buckingham Avenue, Slough, Berks SL1 4PF, UK the integration services to roll these into your existing Phone: +44 (0) 01753 777200 environments and provide insight for future IT planning. Email: [email protected] Web: www.logicalis.com

Activity: Integrator Longpela Expertise Specialist areas: System management; data management; storage management; asset and change Address: management; security; web integration and legacy 1 Lilly Street, South Fremantle WA 6162, Australia reengineering tools; network performance/management Phone: +61 404 757 821 Email: [email protected] Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, VM/VSE, Linux Web: www.longpelaexpertise.com.au on IBM Z Non-mainframe platforms supported: System i, AIX, Activity: Consultant other Unix, Linux, Windows Specialist areas: System management; programming/ Pricing options: One-time charge, monthly/annual testing licence, processor/capacity based, workload/usage based Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS Pricing options: Other Company profile Logicalis is an international IT solutions and managed Company profile services provider with a breadth of knowledge and We have provided mainframe technical and systems expertise in communications and collaboration; data centre programming services since 1992. We help companies and cloud services; and managed services. with mainframe problems, projects and plans throughout Australia and South Asia. We have over 20 years Logicalis employs nearly 3,700 people worldwide, including experience in System z mainframes and related systems highly trained service specialists who design, specify, software including z/OS, CICS, and IMS. deploy and manage complex ICT infrastructures to meet the needs of almost 6,000 corporate and public sector We also contribute to the mainframe community with free customers. To achieve this, Logicalis maintains strong articles on our website, our book “What On Earth is a partnerships with technology leaders such as Cisco, HP, Mainframe”, and the mainframe software website www. IBM, CA Technologies, NetApp, Microsoft, VMware and lookupmainframesoftware.com. ServiceNow.

Product/service information the same mainframe I/O channel technology as DASD and Longpela Expertise offer three service ‘streams’: tape systems to transfer data more securely, efficiently and 1 Systems services. Our consultants can cover for faster than TCP/IP-based approaches, while consuming systems programmers on leave, perform Assembler significantly fewer CPU resources and reducing costs. programming projects, assist with skills such as dump MDI also enables bidirectional workflows to strategically reading and performance analysis, or simply add an reduce the impacts of “heavy hitter” applications, including extra resource to get a project moving. the cost of MSUs, licensing and DASD storage, all while 2 Mainframe Consulting. General Mainframe technical maintaining mainframe-centric security and job control. advice to groups such as auditors, managers, and non-mainframe technical people. We can answer your Mainframe questions, provide advice on the mainframe sector, and help you control your project. From a one hour phone call to longer term on-site projects, we can MacKinney Systems Inc provide an expert to use when and where you need. Address: 3 Training. We can provide a mentor for junior 4411 East State Highway D, Suite F, Springfield, MO systems programmers, perform fast ‘Mainframes for 65809, USA Beginners’briefings, or provide other training and Phone: +1 417 882 8012 assistance you require. Email: [email protected]. Web: www.mackinney.com.

Activity: Software vendor Luminex Software Inc Specialist areas: System management; storage management; asset and change management; security Address: management; programming/testing 871 Marlborough Avenue, Suite 100, Riverside, CA 92507, Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, VM/VSE USA Pricing options: Monthly/annual license, processor/ Phone: +1 951 781 4100. capacity-based, Email: [email protected] Web: www.luminex.com Company profile Since 1980 MacKinney Systems, a member of IBM Activity: Software vendor. PartnerWorld and SHARE, has been the industry leader Specialist areas: System management; storage in top-quality, low-cost mainframe software. MacKinney management; security; programming/testing; network products are compatible with all IBM-supported releases of performance/management z/OS, VSE and CICS. Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, VM/VSE, Pricing options: One-time charge, monthly/annual MacKinney Systems offers customers value-priced license, software with freedom from over-priced machine upgrade fees. We have competitively priced software to replace Company profile many competitors’ software to eliminate excessive upgrade Luminex serves as a trusted advocate helping enterprise charges and maintenance fees. Our highly applauded customers protect, manage, and leverage corporate data support is second to none, delivered by individuals assets by developing and delivering high quality, innovative who know the code and have worked in the production technology solutions. environment. 417 882 8012 is answered 24/7 by a live person. Product/service information Luminex’s focus on the mainframe has led to We participate in IBM’s Early Test Programs and Technical groundbreaking virtual tape innovations such as VOLSER- Disclosure Meetings to ensure our products are compatible level replication monitoring (RepMon™), Push Button DR, with new versions of z/OS, VSE and CICS as they become CloudTAPE™ and Synchronous Tape Matrix™ (STM) for generally available from IBM. continuous availability for tape, as well as a comprehensive family of Mainframe Data Integration (MDI) solutions. Product/service information Luminex MDI is an extensible, profile-based platform CICS upgrade assistance: that uses trusted, highly available FICON I/O channels • VS/Cobol Interpreter allows programs written and to communicate and move data between mainframes compiled with OS/VS COBOL to execute in CICS and distributed systems including Big Data (data lakes, Transaction Server 3.1 and above. analytics), NFS storage, SFTP targets, and coprocessors for SAS, MXG, ETL and more. Mainframes can now use

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• Macro Level Interpreter allows running macro- programming/testing; web integration and legacy level code in z/OS or VSE versions of CICS TS reengineering tools; other.. environments without any coding changes. Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, VM/VSE, Non-mainframe platforms supported: IBM i, AIX, Unix, Cost-effective printing solutions: Linux, Windows • JES Report Broker manages the access, distribution Pricing options: One-time charge, monthly/annual and archival of reports. Archive reports for viewing via license, processor/capacity-based, workload/usage based, web browser. E-mail and FTP reports securely. other • MacKinney Print Transform is a server product that provides document transformation services for client Company profile products. Macro 4, a division of UNICOM Global, develops software • ES Queue for Printers prints any report from the solutions that accelerate business transformation. Our system spool to printers defined to VTAM or TCP/ solutions for application lifecycle management, session IP. Supports LPD and Direct Socket. Interfaces with management, performance optimization and mobile Solimar Systems and Xerox. enablement are used by many of the world’s largest • VTAM Virtual Printer captures existing VTAM enterprises to modernize their mainframe applications and application (CICS, IMS, etc) print and creates a report development processes. in the system spool without any programming changes. Our cross-platform enterprise information management Simplified program testing and debugging: solutions make it easy for companies to go digital, • Track is an online testing and debugging product for personalize customer communications and unlock the CICS application programs. Detects and corrects value of their corporate content. multiple errors in a single debugging session. • XRAY provides the same capabilities for batch With over fifty years’ experience in mainframe software applications. development, Macro 4 helps IBM mainframe users to: • Dump Detective solves program abends by • Deliver fast, seamless and secure web and mobile automatically formatting and analyzing CICS dumps. access to mainframe and non-mainframe applications • Analyze and fix failures in mission-critical applications, Productivity-enhancing tools: quickly and efficiently • MacKinney Batch to CICS gets your batch processing • Develop software, troubleshoot problems and resolve on the fast track! Close and open files, dynamically program errors with unprecedented speed allocate and unallocate files, send CEMT commands. • Create a secure testing and debugging environment • SimpList is a powerful and highly productive mainframe using accurate test data interface that makes ISPF much easier to learn and • Measure and report on application performance, quickly use. identifying opportunities for performance improvement • VTAM/Switch allows users to switch between VTAM • Assure printing and digital delivery of business applications without logging on and off, and provides documents to support key business processes single sign-on to applications. Product/service information Macro 4 is a developer of software solutions that increase operational efficiency in IBM’s mainframe environments and enable rapid modernization of mainframe applications Macro 4 and development processes. Today, these solutions are delivering significant cost savings as well as assuring Address: the reliability of core applications in thousands of IT The Orangery, Turners Hill Road, Worth, Crawley, West departments globally. Eclipse, browser and 3270 interfaces Sussex, RH10 4SS, UK meet the access needs of every user. Phone: +44 1293 872000 Email: [email protected] Modernization, analytics, AI, integrated user authentication: Web: www.macro4.com • UNICOM Universal Gateway (UniGW®) – cross- platform systems access, mobile enablement and Sales contacts: digital transformation America: +1-973-526-3900 [email protected] Fault analysis: Activity: Software vendor • DumpMaster – high performance fault diagnosis of Specialist areas: System management; data mainframe application failures management; asset and change management; security;

• TraceMaster – source level interactive program testing sector companies. Beside in Germany mainstorconcept and debugging has project experience in ten European countries and in • TraceMaster CodeTrack – CICS code path analysis the USA. and pre-emptive storage violation detection Product/service information Application performance management: mainstorconcept provides professional consulting services • FreezeFrame – comprehensive, yet easy-to-use in all IBM Mainframe Operating Systems, including application performance measurement installation, customization and maintenance tasks. From • ExpeTune – performance tuning for z/OS applications Mainframe Hardware perspective, mainstorconcept and subsystems focuses on Mainframe Virtual Tape Library solutions • ExpeTune DB – DB2 performance management, with a from DELL EMC. Our expertise contains more than 60 strong focus on dynamic DB2 workloads successful installations throughout the world, at customer of different branches, different operating systems and Data Manipulation: different size. • InSync – simplified data management and secure test data creation Further mainstorconcept develops software solutions for IBM System z, including multiplatform access to the Session management: Mainframe (e.g. Android, Linux). Further we offer custom • Tubes – secure access to multiple mainframe, IBM i software add-ons for MDL and DLm devices, like tape and UNIX VT220 applications from a single menu, with management software, reporting and statistic modules, optional web enablement of any application WORM features or all kind of write out functionalities (e.g. USB drives or tape out). We also provide customized Enterprise information management: hardware/ software solutions. Therewith, we help the • Columbus suite – content management, multi-channel customer getting intelligent backup and disaster recovery customer communications and document workflow.. solutions, beyond the standard offerings from hardware providers, which fit the customer’s requirements and needs.

As our employees are also experts in Mainframe Emulation Solutions, we can support migrating old Mainframe Mainstorconcept GmbH installations and performing Mainframe Disk and Tape Migrations onto new platforms. Address: Fiduciastr. 2, 76227 Karlsruhe, Germany Phone: +49 721790760 Email: [email protected] Web: www.mainstorconcept.de Maintec Technologies

Activity: Hardware vendor Address: Specialist areas: System management; data 8311 Brier Creek Pkwy, Suite 105 – 513, Raleigh, NC management; storage management; asset and change 27617, USA management; programming/testing; other Phone: +919916707599 Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, VM/VSE, Linux Email: [email protected]. Non-mainframe platforms supported: Unix, Linux, Web: www.maintec.com. Windows, other Pricing options: One-time charge, monthly/annual Activity: Outsourcer license, processor/capacity-based, workload/usage based, Specialist areas: System management; data other. management; storage management; asset and change management; security; programming/testing; web Company profile integration and legacy reengineering tools; network mainstorconcept GmbH is an IT consultancy company performance/management. and one of the leading specialists for mainframes and Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, VM/VSE, Linux tape virtualisation. Mainstorconcept provides individual on IBM Z solutions for mainframes, virtual tape and storage. Our Non-mainframe platforms supported: IBM i, AIX, Linux core business are virtual tape libraries for mainframes. Our Pricing options: One-time charge, monthly/annual customers are large and medium-size companies from all license, processor/capacity-based, workload/usage based. business fields, insurance companies, banks and public

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Company profile improved compliance with NIST, PCI, GDPR, and bank Maintec Technologies offers globally compliant IT solutions resiliency requirements. FIM+ also provides deploy audit that empower businesses to become more competitive by and integration with the DevOps toolchain. leveraging both onsite and offshore capabilities. Based in Raleigh, NC, Maintec Technologies operates Offshore Product/service information Development Center from Bangalore, India to provide MainTegrity FIM+ is the only product that provides full- comprehensive Mainframe outsourcing advantages to its function File Integrity Monitoring (FIM) for IBM mainframes. clients. FIM+ integrates with your existing enterprise security tools Maintec Technologies works with their clients across the to remove gaps that hackers can exploit. FIM+ creates a globe to provide cost effective services of the highest comprehensive solution to: quality in the following areas. * Combat Ransomware attacks • Mainframe Data Center Management * Detect malicious Internal Threats that bypass other - Mainframe System Software Support tools - Mainframe Operations Support * Enable fast incident response - Mainframe and Mid-Range Services (AIX and iSeries * Comply with PCI/DSS, NIST, GDPR and banking (AS/400) environments) resiliency • Mainframe Application Testing * Audit deployments and align with Agile / DevOps • Application Maintenance and Development Support processes • For sun setting Mainframe * Modernize your mainframe, enabling Generational - Hosting services for running application Change. - Mainframe environment can be leveraged for the data repository. In the IBM mainframe world, these leading-edge • Mainframe on Demand (Access on Pay-per-use model) capabilities have simply never existed before. Now you can • Mainframe Hosting Services make revolutionary improvements in just a few hours, yet • Strategic IT Staffing in an evolutionary manner.

Maintec’s key focus is to help their clients optimize their operational budget, reduce risks associated with the hardware environment and better utilize the latest Matter of Fact Software technologies available. Address: 60 Old Town, Peebles, EH45 8JE, UK Phone: +447770381623 MainTegrity Email: [email protected] Web: www.plexspy.co.uk Address: 2716 Signal Ridge View SW Calgary, Alberta Canada T3H Activity: Software vendor. 2J6 Specialist areas: Systems management; web integration Phone: +1 (403) 818-8625 and legacy reengineering tools Email: [email protected]. Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS Web: wwww.maintegrity.com. Pricing options: Monthly/annual license

Activity: Software vendor Company profile Specialist areas: System management; data We create and market innovative software solutions that management; storage management; asset and change address business challenges. We are specialists in IBM’s management; security; forensics; compliance. CICS on z/OS and provide consulting services in addition Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS to our software.

Company profile We seek partnerships and collaborators to use, market and MainTegrity is an innovator, delivering file integrity support our software solutions. monitoring software (FIM+) to improve IBM mainframe cybersecurity. FIM+ strengthens customer defenses Product/service information in ways never before possible, while interoperating CICS Content Delivery Server makes intergating CICS with existing security tools. It provides whitelists, applications with the web easy and quick. It will simplify backup verification, and automated forensics to combat and reduce the costs of innovation on the platform. ransomware and other malicious attacks. FIM+ delivers

PlexSpy will reduce the time it takes to understand your Sales contacts: technical infrastruture and what is happening with it during America: [email protected] / +1 (301) 838-5000 service impacting incidents - Speeding up time to problem EMEA: [email protected] / +44 (0) 1635 565200 resolution. AsiaPac: [email protected] / +65 6510 4200

Activity: Software vendor Specialist areas: System management; data Meerkat Computer Services Ltd management; storage management; asset and change management; security; programming/testing; web Address: integration and legacy reengineering tools; network Serengeti House,, 47 Escomb Road, Bishop Auckland, performance/management; other County Durham, DL14 6TY, UK Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, VM/VSE, Linux Phone: +44 1388 609124 Non-mainframe platforms supported: IBM i, AIX, other Email: [email protected] Unix, Linux, Windows, other Web: www.meerkatcomputerservices.com Pricing options: One-time charge, monthly/annual license, processor/capacity-based, workload/usage based, Activity: Consultant other Specialist areas: System management; storage management; security; programming/testing; network Company profile performance/management, other. The Micro Focus Enterprise product set tackles the application modernization needs of IBM mainframe Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, Linux development and delivery teams. Our enterprise Non-mainframe platforms supported: Unix, Linux, application knowledge, development, test and workload Windows, other deployment tools significantly improve the efficiency of Pricing options: One-time charge, monthly/annual business application delivery, IT leaders to transform their license, workload/usage based, other z System environment.

Company profile • Dramatically increase development, testing and service Meerkat Computer Services Limited are providers of delivery throughput. Mainframe services in the UK and Europe. We provide • Improve IT and business agility. general Mainframe support and services including • Make significant efficiency gains and reduce operating hardware management, software management, support costs. contracts and specialist migration.

We also provide a number of bespoke special services related to Mainframe software. Model9 Product/service information Main areas of interest are: Address: * Storage Management 529 Broadway, Suite 700, New York, NY 10012, USA * File Transfer Email: [email protected] * Software migration Web: model9.io. * Assembler programming * Installation and upgrades of Operating System and ISV Sales contacts: products. America: [email protected] EMEA: [email protected] AsiaPac: [email protected]

Activity: Software vendor Micro Focus Specialist areas: System management; data management; storage management Address: Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS The Lawn, 22-30 Old Bath Road, Newbury, Berks RG14 Pricing options: Monthly/annual license, processor/ 1QN, UK capacity-based Phone: +44 (0) 1635 32646. Web: www.microfocus.com.

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Company profile Activity: Software vendor Model9 is the born-in-the-cloud data management Specialist areas: System management; data solution for Mainframe. While running on zIIP engines management; web integration and legacy reengineering and providing efficient compression and encryption, tools Model9 provides the full functionality of mainframe data Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS management tools leveraging cloud technologies and Non-mainframe platforms supported: Linux, Windows economics instead of proprietary, locked-in, on-premises Pricing options: One-time charge, monthly/annual license virtual tape libraries (VTL) and enabling easy and secure integration with popular cloud analytics tools, data lakes, Company profile data warehouses, databases and ETL solutions. Model9 Modern Systems offers products and services to help was founded by Mainframe people for mainframe people. customers transition from legacy systems to modern With its startup mindset we are set to offer new innovative platforms. What makes us different is that we take a solutions that offer customers access to the best in “lifecycle” approach, enabling customers take a phased storage and data analytics solutions - via an open cloud approach to modernization that meets their business native architecture. Model9 partners with storage and needs. data solutions from Amazon, Hitachi, Microsoft and many others. Model9 has a significant growing global customer Product/service information client base in Finance, Government, Logistics and other Our Legacy Forensics service enables deep inventory sectors. It is venture backed by leading VCs. and assessment of Z/OS mainframe applications written in COBOL, Natural, CA GEN and more. Our Mainframe Product/service information DataShare service enables integration of nonrelational Model9 provides unique benefits in the areas of data mainframe databases like IDMS, ADABAS, VSAM and analytics and data management. more with relational databases like SQL Server, DB2 and Oracle Database, empowering true data warehousing and Data analytics: holistic business intelligence. Our automated conversion * Enrich business intelligence processes with valuable technology enables COBOL, Natural and CA GEN apps to mainframe data be converted to Java or C# for use in open systems or on * Reduce ETL costs by offloading mainframe data the mainframe. transformations to the cloud * Leverage non-mainframe skills and personnel to support growing data analytics requirements

Data managementL MOST Technologies * Full replacement of your Virtual Tape Library (VTL) with any object storage on-premises or in the cloud Address: * Backup, archive and DR directly to cloud storage 4, Haharash str., Hod-Hasharon 45244, Israel (object storage, NAS and SAN) Phone: +972-3-9115511. * Offload backup and space management processing to Email: [email protected]. zIIP engines and reduce costs by more than 50% Web: www.mosttechnologies.com. * One simple solution for Backup, restore, archive and recall of all z/OS data sets and volume types, including Sales contacts: UNIX files, space management, encryption, reporting America: MOST Technologies, Inc, 400 Northridge Road, and bare-metal recovery Suite 250, Atlanta, GA 30350, USA, Tel: (678) 420-7470. * Support the new generation of mainframe system AsiaPac: MOST Technologies Japan K.K.#301 1-14- managers with a modern easy to use product. 16 Nishiazabu, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan, 106-0031, Tel: (81) 3 5412-8662, Fax: (81) 3 5412-8664, Email: info@ mosttechnologies.co.jp.

Activity: Software vendor Specialist areas: Programming/testing; web integration Modern Systems and legacy reengineering tools Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, VM/VSE, Linux Address: on IBM Z, other 22-30 Old Bath Road, Newbury, Berkshire RG14 1QN, UK Non-mainframe platforms supported: i5, AIX, other Unix, Phone: +44 1635 32646. Linux, Windows, other Email: [email protected] Web: modernsystems.com/.

Pricing options: One-time charge, monthly/annual • Test auditing, control and security – For management license, processor/capacity-based, workload/usage based, of larger testing teams, located in different locations other and testing different applications • Central user interface – Windows based graphical user Company profile interface for tests’ creation, execution and track MOST Technologies, a global leader in legacy • Ease of use and scalability – Using standards modernization, is in a unique position to address the needs languages for external funcationality additions. of organizations with investment in mainframe application assets.

MOST’s legacy modernization offering provide the customer with following benefits: MPI Tech • Reduction in total cost of ownership related to the operation of legacy applications Address: • Renew the value of legacy applications and data in new Anchor House, 50 High Street, Bagshot, Surrey GU19 services 5AW, UK • Improve accessibility to these application assets Phone: 0844 800 9801. real time so as to support business intelligence and Email: [email protected]. customer service initiatives Web: www.mpitech.com. • Increased flexibility and interoperability with internal and external services Activity: Software vendor • Tighter control over budget through reducing scope of Specialist areas: Web integration and legacy change reengineering tools Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, VM/VSE, Linux MOST Technologies offering to mainframe customers with on IBM Z investment in Legacy Applications include: Non-mainframe platforms supported: i5, AIX, other Unix, • Solutions Linux, Windows, other • Expertise Pricing options: One-time charge, monthly/annual license • Services. Company profile Product/service information The MPI Tech Group is a leading provider of document MF-Test is a leading testing solution from MOST management and document output solutions that put the Technologies that was developed specifically for testing customer in charge for over 30 years. With our software mainframe applications, databases and their supporting and hardware solutions we enable customers to create, environments. It provides automatic execution of the print, secure, transform, distribute and archive their application testing scenarios as well as advanced reporting information. mechanism to allow multiple tests on parallel testing environments. Our services run on multiple operating systems making it possible for our customers to manage all their paper MF-Test is a mature technology that is helping various and electronic output through a coherent software and mainframe customers around the world to test their hardware platform. mainframe applications in a low risk, low cost environment. Using MF-Test can reduce the burden out of the testing Product/service information phase, so resources can focus on keep developing the MPI Tech is a manufacturer and developer of mainframe applications. data stream conversion software and hardware solutions with over thirty years of pedigree. MPI Tech’s products MF-Test capabilities: enable a complete end to end solution for mainframe • Multiple isolated test environments – Enable parallel output offering a myriad of delivery options, in addition to testing for a larger number of testing scenarios printing. These include seamless interaction with existing • Smart and flexible pre/post change comparisons – emailing, faxing, archive, print costs accounting and Ensuring that the application outcome remains exactly secure print solutions, all without any changes to the host the same after the application modifications, unless a application. MPI Tech’s products can be tailored to suit change is expected your organisations exact requirements delivering a robust, • Test results collection – All results are collected and feature rich and cost effective solution for company wide kept in a central location, for comparison and tracking output. purposes

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For more information on our latest solutions including Email: [email protected]. MPI Tech’s print transform for z/Linux and integrating Web: www.newera.com. host application printing into an enterprise secure printing structure please visit contact MPI Tech on 0044 844 800 Sales contacts: 9803, email [email protected], or visit our website EMEA: +353 21 4832131 [email protected]. www.mpitech.com. Activity: Software vendor. Specialist areas: Asset and change management; security. Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS Mullins Consulting Inc Pricing options: One-time charge, monthly/annual license, processor/capacity-based Address: 15 Coventry Court, Sugar Land, TX 77479, USA Company profile Phone: +1-281-494-6153. NewEra Software, Inc., an IBM Business Partner, was Email: [email protected]. founded in 1989 with the specific goal of developing, Web: mullinsconsulting.com. marketing and supporting innovative system management software tools and services. Thanks to the continued Activity: Consultant support of thousands of systems professionals worldwide Specialist areas: Data management; that have come to depend on NewEra, the company has Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS become an industry leader and its products the industry Pricing options: Other standard for repair, recovery, data erasure, enhanced system configuration control, and integrity of large Company profile systems. Mullins Consulting, Inc. offers data management services and solutions that meet the demanding requirements of Product/service information all size organizations. Let us help you with database and The Integrity Controls Environment (ICE) is a collection data warehouse design, performance audits and reviews, of integrated applications - Image FOCUS, The Control application performance tuning, SQL optimization, security Editor and IPLCheck - that are used to validate the and governance audits, and Db2 version migrations. ongoing integrity of the z/OS Image/Sysplex Configuration, their major susbsystems and operational components, We provide a wide variety of IT services and help our document configuration access and changes and/ clients reduce IT costs through performance tuning or control/limit access to MVS and/or UNIX system engagements. Let Mullins Consutling, Inc. analyze configuration elements and provide a global access point your system to improve overall throughput and CPU from which insight can be gained into the operational consumption of the system. integrity of the Sysplex and its Images.

Product/service information Image FOCUS provides inspection and baseline services Services offered include SQL performance reviews, to users of z/OS. It performs a “Virtual IPL” of each Image, database health checks, database design reviews, data validating the IPL Unit Address, LOADPARM, PARMLIB modeling and database design, compliance/security/ and PROCLIB, checking members for syntactical governance assistance, Db2 database administration correctness and related datasets for referential integrity, services. thereby alerting staff to future IPL failures. The Control Editor (TCE) compensates for the control and productivity Additionally, we can offer specialty industry analysis from a gap that exists between a site’s External Security Manager former Gartner research director (Craig S. Mullins). (ESM) and its Change Management System. TCE/RBAC defines, assigns and enforces roles by enhancing role based access control already in place by the ESM. ICE/ OPER provides a secondary level of control over the use of Operator Commands and ESM Commands, thereby NewEra Software Inc allowing for the establishment of higher level standards over individual users. Address: 18625 Sutter Boulevard, Suite 950, Morgan Hill CA 95037, IPLCheck is designed to help users of z/OS to manage USA and protect the integrity and security of their operating Phone: +1 408 201 7000 (or 800 421 5035 toll-free in system environment and critical business applications. North America). IPLCheck works under the control of the IBM Health

Checker for z/ OS. It performs a detailed inspection of The projects have spanned many industries and utilized an LPAR’s IPL status, reporting discovered weaknesses a variety of modernization approaches. The projects have and/or structural risk in IPL components or pathing to the also encompassed many source technologies from DB2, Health Checker. IMS, COBOL, RPG, Adabas to PL/I, Sybase, Informix, Powerbuilder and Assembler. Stand Alone Environment (SAE) is a self-contained, self-loading system software utility. It provides immediate Oracle has also been involved with 150 customer access to system datasets through an ISPF-like editor mainframe modernization projects where Oracle BEA without an active MVS syste. One of its tools is fast DASD Tuxedo is the application serer and transaction processing Erase, which allows users to erase mission-critical and/ platform for legacy COBOL, CICS and JCL/batch systems. or personal data at the end of a Disaster Recovery test or when decommissioning DASD. 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 highest level of capability in terms of availability, scalability, Oracle and low-cost computing. Oracle Database RAC supports Address: the transparent deployment of a single database across a 500 Oracle Parkway, Redwood Shores, CA, USA cluster of servers, providing fault tolerance from hardware Phone: +1 603-502-7635 failures or planned outages. RAC provides scalability using Web: www.oracle.com any hardware, regardless if you prefer small systems or large boxes. Activity: Software vendor. Specialist areas: System management; data For application relability, scalability and availability, Oracle management; programming/testing; web integration and offers the Oracle WebLogic Application Grid. Oracle legacy reengineering tools WebLogic Application Grid works with any application Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, Linux, other server – including Oracle WebLogic Server, IBM Non-mainframe platforms supported: Unix, Linux, WebSphere Application Server, and JBoss Application Windows, other Server – or in a pure grid environment without an Pricing options: Workload/usage based, other application server

Company profile Oracle has a worldwide team dedicated to modernization and migration projects – the Platform Migrations Group. This team is part of Oracle Server Technologies (Oracle PDFlib GmbH Development) and has over 300 resources worldwide. These resources are knowledgable in legacy systems Address: and modernization, Oracle Grid Database, Oracle Fusion Franziska-Bilek-Weg 9, 80339 Munich, Germany Middleware, Oracle Development tools and Oracle Phone: +49 89 452 33 84-0 Modernization Alliance partners’ tools and products. Each Email: [email protected] modernization project is assigned an Oracle lead from Web: www.pdflib.com the Oracle Modernization Solutions team. The team has direct linkage into Oracle development, and has close Activity: Software vendor relationships with Oracle Product Managers. Specialist areas: Security; web integration and legacy reengineering tools; other Oracle’s PTS Modernization Solutions team has been a Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, Linux key member for hundreds of modernization project over Non-mainframe platforms supported: IBM i, AIX, other the past four years. The team has engaged at a number of Unix, Linux, Windows, others levels including: architecture design, modernization tools Pricing options: One-time charge, processor/capacity- selection, modernization assessments, evaluation and based portfolio analysis, project scoping and estimating, proof of concepts, project advisor, hands on technical enablement, Company profile and trusted technical advisor. The projects have been for PDFlib GmbH is completely focused on PDF technology. oth Oracle customers, Oracle System Integrator partners, Customers worldwide use PDFlib products since 1997. The Oracle Independent Software Vendor partners, and Oracle company closely follows development and market trends, modernization partners. such as ISO standards for PDF. PDFlib GmbH products

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are distributed in 100 countries all over the world with Sales contacts: major markets in North America, Europe, and Japan. America: +1 617-374-9600. Customers of PDFlib GmbH are using the software for EMEA: +44 (0) 118 9591150. automated and high volume generation and processing of AsiaPac: +61 2 9581 7000. PDF documents in business and prepress workflows or for online billing systems. The development tools of PDFlib Activity: Software vendor. GmbH are readily available for all common environments Specialist areas: Programming/testing of operating systems and programming languages. Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, Linux on IBM Z. Non-mainframe platforms supported: IBM i, AIX, Unix, Product/service information Linux, Windows, other The PDFlib Product Family Pricing options: Monthly/annual license, workload/usage PDFlib is the leading developer toolbox for generating and based, other. manipulating files in the Portable Document Format (PDF). PDFlib’s main targets are dynamic PDF creation on a Web Company profile server or any other server system, and to implement “Save Pegasystems is the only BPM company consistently as PDF” in existing applications. The PDFlib product family ranked by analysts as the industry leader for the past five is available in three different flavors: PDFlib, PDFlib+PDI years, including both Forrester and Gartner. (PDF Import), and PDFlib Personalization Server (PPS). PDFlib+PDI includes all PDFlib functions plus the PDF Pegasystems is furthermore a recognized leader in CRM Import Library (PDI). With PDI you can open existing PDF by both Forrester and Gartner. documents and incorporate some pages into the PDFlib output. Product/service information Pega BPM, Pega CRM, Pega Healthcare Solutions, PDFlib Personalization Server (PPS) includes PDFlib+PDI Pega Decision Management, Pega Financial Services plus additional functions for variable data processing using Solutions, Pega Life Sciences Solutions, Pega Insurance PDFlib blocks. Solutions, Pega Energy & Utilities Solutions, Pega Manufacturing Solutions, Pega Government Solutions, PDFlib PLOP Pega Communications Solutions. PDFlib PLOP (PDF Linearization, Optimization, Protection) is a versatile tool for linearizing, optimizing, repairing, analyzing, encrypting and decrypting PDF documents. Phase Change Software PDFlib PLOP DS PLOP DS (Digital Signature) is based on PDFlib PLOP. Address: Additionally it offers the ability to apply digital signatures 651 Corporate Circle #209 Golden, CO 80401, USA. to PDF documents. It supports the latest trends and Phone: +1 303 882 5571 standards in digital signature technology including PDF Email: [email protected] 2.0 according to the forthcoming standard ISO 32000-2 Web: phasechange.ai and PAdES (ETSI TS 102 778), which in turn is based on CAdES (ETSI TS 101 733). Activity: Software vendor Specialist areas: Programming/testing; web integration PDFlib TET and legacy reengineering tools The PDFlib Text and Image Extraction Toolkit (TET) is a Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, VM/VSE, Linux developer product for reliably extracting text, images and Non-mainframe platforms supported: Unix, Linux, metadata from PDF documents. TET optionally converts Windows PDF documents to an XML-based format called TETML Pricing options: Monthly/annual license, workload/usage which contains text and metadata as well as resource based, other information. Company profile Phase Change is a startup company in Golden, Colorado, with a product to revolutionize how developers interact with large-scale applications; to understand them and to Pegasystems change them. The company’s objective is to mitigate risk for large-scale businesses that are losing their mainframe Address: developer talent, struggling to shore-up and to transform One Rogers Street, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA. their legacy applications. Phone: +1 617-374-9600 Web: www.pega.com. © Arcati Ltd, 2021 101 Arcati Mainframe Yearbook 2021 Vendor Directory

Phase Change is an IBM partner, also engaged with the including law enforcement and defense, to Fortune top mainframe maintenance and modernization companies 500 leaders in the automotive, financial, healthcare, worldwide, proving Colleague’s capabilities and deepening telecommunications, and insurance industries. . its viability. Product/service information Product/service information CONDOR®: A command-driven on-line library COBOL Colleague is an AI engine that can understand management and a program development system in one mainframe applications at scale, and translate them for convenient package. people at machine-speed. Colleague can work with a developer of any level of expertise to enact change with CYGNET®: A self-contained fourth-generation language/ confidence – in millions of lines of code. compiler designed for application development.

Colleague’s Agent knows the boundaries and constraints in (E)JES®: A modern tool for managing your z/OS® millions of lines of code, across modules and languages. It JESplex. (E)JES includes cutting-edge components such does not require a runtime environment nor input data; to as a browser based interface, Zowe conformant API and know way more than any static or dynamic code analyzer. CLI, and guided z/OSMF installation. Its analysis, its code comprehension is different, its knowledge of code more like that of a developer than of an FALCON®: An on-line, menu-driven data entry system for amalgam of code-slices found with pattern-matching. entering data, managing batches, and managing jobs in a secure, user-friendly environment. What can be done with Colleague? Developers will be a minimum of 700% more productive. JES3plus®: A fully supported derivative work leveraging . IBM’s JES3 licensed source code. Created with customers in mind, JES3plus is a solution to a costly JES2 conversion which provides for a trivial migration to a fully supported product with a road map for enhancements and no end of life.

Phoenix Software International zHISR®: A z/OS application profiler that generates reports to help tune applications by locating specific sections of Address: your code that are the biggest CPU consumers. 831 Parkview Drive North, El Segundo, CA 90245, USA. Phone: +1 310 338 0400 Email: [email protected] Web: phoenixsoftware.com

Activity: Software vendor PIR Group, Inc Specialist areas: System management; programming/ testing, other Address: Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, VM/VSE 345 North Canal, Ste C202, Chicago, IL 60606, USA. Non-mainframe platforms supported: Linux, Windows Phone: +1 312 756 1000 Pricing options: Monthly/annual license, processor/ Email: [email protected] capacity-based Web: www.pirgroupinc.com

Company profile Activity: Software Phoenix has been providing enterprise software Specialist areas: Programming/testing; web integration solutions around the globe since 1979. As a privately and legacy reengineering tools; other held corporation not required to provide shareholders Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, VM/VSE with quarterly profits, Phoenix can focus on long-range, Non-mainframe platforms supported: IBM i customer-oriented projects and goals. Phoenix prides Pricing options: One-time charge, processor/capacity- itself in being nimble, able to quickly capitalize on new based, other hardware and software technology with a focus on software modernization, and providing the best possible Company profile user experience. PIR Group provides migration tools for legacy COBOL and RPG applications. We move legacy custom systems Phoenix Software’s customers range from small that reside on the IBM mainframe and zOS systems to the entrepreneurial companies to federal and state agencies more cost effective and Power i. The average migration

102 © Arcati Ltd, 2021 Arcati Mainframe Yearbook 20072021 Vendor Directory 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 COBOL code and subroutines. The resulting documented Adabas / Natural migration source code changes assist the supporting resources in Adabas to RDBMS migration; Natural and Java maintaining the converted application. coexistence; Web 2.0 for Natural MAPs

COBOL KeePIR duplicates the databases under DB2/400. Application transformation consolidation from 4GL to Cobol; zIIP Enablement - Cobol to Java; custom-made transformation solution.

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Address: PKWARE Georgstraße 15, 88214 Ravensburg, Germany. Phone: 0049 751/56140 229 Address: Email: [email protected] 201 E. Pittsburgh Ave, Suite 400, Milwaukee, WI 53204, Web: www.pks.com USA. Phone: +1 414 289 9788 Activity: Software vendor. E-mail: [email protected] Specialist areas: Web integration and legacy Web: www.pkware.com reengineering tools Sales contacts: Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS America: +1 414 289 9788 Non-mainframe platforms supported: System i EMEA: +44 (0) 208 899 6060 Pricing options: One-time charge, monthly/annual AsiaPac: +81 3 5456 5599 license, processor/capacity-based, workload/usage based Activity: Software vendor. Company profile Specialist areas: Security We are passionately committed to the maintenance and improvement of valuable legacy applications. We preserve Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, Linux investments in applications and staff. In doing so, we make Non-mainframe platforms supported: System i, AIX, an important contribution to the corporate success and other Unix, Linux, Windows, others continuity of our customers.PKS stands for: Pricing options: Processor/capacity-based, other

• Intelligent Tools “Made in Germany”: We achieve a Company profile high degree of automation with custom-tailored tools The PKWARE Solution is the only complete solution for of the highest quality. This guarantees optimal cost- reducing, securing, moving and storing data across the

© Arcati Ltd, 2021 103 Arcati Mainframe Yearbook 2021 Vendor Directory extended enterprise, both internally and externally, from Precisely is a global software company specializing in Big mainframes to servers to desktops and into the cloud. Data, high speed sorting products, and data integration PKWARE offers software solutions to critical IT problems, software and services, for Hadoop, Microsoft Windows, namely the explosive growth of data, the need to secure UNIX, Linux, and mainframe systems. data, and the emergence of data in the cloud. PKWARE offers the only total solution for reducing and securing data Product/service information in motion or at rest, so data can be securely moved or Syncsort MFX, DMX/DMExpress, DMX-h, Ironcluster, stored anywhere. The PKWARE Solution is used billions DL/2, VS/2, Ironstream, ZPSaver Suite, ZEN Suite, and of times each day to manage risks associated with data CilaSoft. In 2019 it acquired SQData. security breaches while avoiding increased storage costs with data reduction of up to 95% and improving service delivery. PKWARE is a privately-held company based in Milwaukee, WI with additional offices in New York, Ohio and the United Kingdom. Progress

Product/service information Address: Files that contain sensitive data, whether stored or 3005 Carrington Mill Boulevard, Suite 400, Morrisville, NC being transmitted, need to be protected. SecureZIP® 27560, USA makes securing these files an effortless task. SecureZIP Phone: +1 800 876 3101 is the industry leading security and compression utility E-mail: [email protected] that greatly reduces transmission times and required Web: www.progress.com storage space while securely protecting data, in transit and at rest. The combination of application, system, Sales contacts: and ICSF integration make SecureZIP® for z/OS® America: 800 876 3101 an optimal solution for reducing processing times, EMEA: 0800 169 1907 increasing operational efficiencies, and leveraging existing AsiaPac: 0120 209 613 investments within the mainframe environment. SecureZIP for z/OS includes OpenPGP support enabling enterprises Activity: Software vendor to encrypt and decrypt using OpenPGP keys in both ZIP Specialist areas: Web integration and legacy and OpenPGP formats. reengineering tools Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, Linux Non-mainframe platforms supported: Linux, Windows Pricing options: Monthly/annual license

Precisely Company profile Progress DataDirect is a leader in data connectivity and mainframe integration software for corporate enterprises Address: and independent software vendors, including IBM. 2 Blue Hill Plaza, #1563, Pearl River, NY 10965, USA Progress DataDirect Shadow is the industry’s only unified +1 (877) 700-0970 Phone: integration platform for mainframe data access and SOA [email protected] Email: enablement. Shadow delivers secure, high performance www.precisely.com Web: and scalable access to a broad range of mainframe data and application environments – with unique capabilities to Software vendor. Activity: extend System z specialty engine exploitation beyond DB2 System management; data Specialist areas: for dramatically lower mainframe TCO. management; storage management; asset and change management; security; programming/testing; web Progress Software Corporation (Nasdaq: PRGS) is a integration and legacy reengineering tools; network global software company that enables enterprises to performance/management. be operationally responsive to changing conditions and z/OS, VM/VSE, Linux Mainframe platforms supported: customer interactions as they occur – to capitalize on new on Z opportunities, drive greater efficiencies and reduce risk. One-time charge, monthly/annual Pricing options: The company offers a comprehensive portfolio of best- license, processor/capacity-based, workload/usage based, in-class infrastructure software spanning event-driven other visibility and real-time response, open integration, data access and integration, and application development and Company profile deployment – all supporting on-premises and SaaS/Cloud Syncsort re-branded as Precisely following its acquisition deployments. of the Pitney Bowes software and data business in 2019.

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Product/service information worldwide. Having worked with over 60% of the Fortune Shadow is the industry’s only single, unified platform for 1000, ProTech is an elite Tier1 Managed Microsoft Partner mainframe SOA enablement and data connectivity. From for Learning Services and also partnered with such leading this single integration architecture, Shadow supports a full firms as IBM, HP, Red Hat, Apple, Cisco, Citrix and more. range of standards-based mainframe integration products: ProTech Consulting is a specialized consulting firm focused • Shadow z/Services comprehensive, bi-directional on Enterprise Systems Management & Data Center mainframe Web services to support SOA and Automation for very large data centers. Orchestration, including transformation ofbusiness logic and/or 3270 screens into reusable Web services, Product/service information or data via SOAP interface, as well as support for Training for all mainframe platforms, subsystems, and mainframe consumption of external, distributed Web ISV products for Systems Programmers, Operations staff, services. Programmer/Analysts, etc. • Shadow z/Events - a comprehensive facility for real- time mainframe data change capture, transformation, Consulting in Enterprise Systems Management & and publishing in support of event driven integration, Workload Automation for IBM z/OS and ISV products. BI and data warehousing. • Shadow z/Direct - high performance data connectivity APIs (ODBC, JDBC, ADO.NET) to enable direct, SQL access and transactional support to a broad range of Qlik mainframe datasources. • Shadow z/Presentation - supports automatic Address: presentation layer generation for extending screen- 40 Audubon Road, Wakefield, MA, 1880, USA. based applications to the Web. Phone: 781-213-5200. Email: [email protected]. Shadow’s unique exploitation of IBM’s new mainframe Web: www.qlik.com/us/products/data-integration-products. specialty engines allows customers who have purchased the System z Integration Information Processor (zIIP) Activity: Software vendor and System z Application Assist Processor (zAAP), the Specialist areas; Web integration and legacy added benefit of diverting workloads to these unmeasured reengineering tools environments, which has the proven ability to dramatically Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, VMVSE, Linux, lower Total Cost of Ownership by up to 99% and improve Non-mainframe platforms supported: i5, AIX, other Unix, performance. Linux, Windows, other. Pricing options: One-time charge

Company profile ProTech Professional Technical Services Attunity is a division of Qlik. Using Attunity’s products, companies can seamlessly connect to mainframe data Address: sources, stream data changes across the enterprise, and 975 Airbrake Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15145, USA. federate heterogeneous information to achieve a single Phone: +1 412 810 8855). view of their business. Attunity Mainframe Integration Email: [email protected] Products enable companies to accelerate the integration Web: www.protechpts.com initiatives that require interaction with mainframe systems, while dramatically reducing the cost of building and Activity: Education, consulting, and software maintaining such solutions. Specialist areas: System management; data management; security; programming/testing; web Product/service information integration and legacy reengineering tools; network Attunity provides remote access, open interfaces, secure performance/management. and highly reliable integration to all the major mainframe Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, VM/VSE, Linux information systems including CICS, IMS/TM, IMS-DB, on Z, other VSAM, DB2, Adabas and Natural: Non-mainframe platforms supported: IBM i, AIX, other • Attunity Connect allows seamless access to relational Unix, Linux, Windows, and non-relational legacy data for business intelligence Pricing options: one-time charge and enterprise portals, and helps users to build .NET and J2EE applications that interoperate with legacy Company profile systems and accelerate EAI initiatives with certified ProTech is a global Enterprise IT training & consulting firm adapters. that has has trained hundreds of thousands of students

• Attunity Stream, allows users to move mainframe QSORT is the only single-purpose presort for First Class and enterprise operational data in real-time to data Mail (cards, letters and flats) that does not contain all the warehouses and data marts, dramatically improving extra code and overhead found in other multi-purpose the efficiency of ETL processes, synchronizing data products. It’s the perfect complement to QCODE and ready sources, and enabling event-driven business activity for the USPS Full Service requirements. monitoring and processing. • Attunity Federate allows heterogeneous data sources QVIEW is a sub-second response time, online query tool to be joined, to make them available as a virtual for USPS Zip4 database look-ups. It is a complementary data layer. The product employs distributed query component of QCODE, and runs under CICS, IMS or CA’s optimization and processing engines that reside IDMS. natively on enterprise data servers. Federate provides superior performance, security, and transaction Together or individually, these products provide the management, and leverages Attunity Connect adapters most cost-effective, resource-efficient Postal Processing to access any data source in the enterprise. software available on IBM Mainframes. How is this possible? Because this entire software application suite was designed by system-level software architects.

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Address: 5800 Ager Beswick Road, Montague, CA 96064-9423, USA Relational Architects International Phone: +1.866.284.1001 Email: [email protected] Address: Web: www.qmsi.software 33 Newark St, Hoboken, NJ 07030 , USA Phone: +1 201 420-0400 Activity: Software vendor. Email : [email protected] Specialist areas: Other. Web: www.relarc.com Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS Pricing options: Monthly/annual license Activity: Software vendor Specialist areas: System management; data Company profile management; programming/testing QMSI’s charter is to significantly reduce the cost of postal Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS processing for mainframe mailers. QMSI software is Pricing options: One-time charge, monthly/annual exclusively IBM Mainframe. QMSI’s principals, developers license, processor/capacity-based - and customers - are accessible to anyone who sees the value in - and wants to learn about - lowering CPU Company profile overhead, I/O resource utilization and overall processing RAI is a trusted supplier of best of breed point products for time ... with the guarantee of saving money! z/OS and DB2 for z/OS with a reputation for superb and responsive support in mission critical situations. Our customers will tell you “QMSI prices are not based on MIPS or MSUs and QMSI never increases costs for Product/service information licensed CPUs; so there is no renegotiating - ever!” Adding Our Smart Jobstream Series provides comprehensive and a CPU is easy and inexpensive. reliable checkpoint / restart services for mission critical z/OS batch workloads. Product information . QCODE is the only modern USPS CASS-Certified software that takes full advantage of IBM’s zSystem hardware and software. QCODE can run on a zIIP (eliminating IBM’s MSU charges!) and QCODE’s unique DataSpaceDataBase Rocket Software (DSDB) is a significant reason for QCODE’s great performance. Placing your page data sets on SSD (Solid Address: State DASD) devices, makes QCODE’s performance 77 Fourth Avenue, Waltham, MA 02451, USA “amazing!” All while utilizing less CPU and I/O resources, Phone: +1 781 577 4321 and running faster than all other CASS products. Web: www.rocketsoftware.com

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Activity: Software vendor RSM Partners Specialist areas: System management; data management; storage management; asset and change Address: management; security; web integration and legacy RSM House, Isidore Rd, Bromsgrove Enterprise Park, reengineering tools; network performance/management; Bromsgrove, B60 3FQ UK other Phone: +44 (0)1527 837767 Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, VM/VSE, Linux Email : [email protected] on IBM Z Web: www.rsmpartners.com Non-mainframe platforms supported: IBM i, AIX, Unix, Linux, Windows, other Sales contacts: Pricing options: One-time charge, monthly/annual America: +1 (612) 547-0089 license, processor/capacity-based, workload/usage based, EMEA: +44 1527 837767 other AsiaPac: +61 (0) 396 740 414

Company profile Activity: Consultant Rocket Software is a leading global developer of software Specialist areas: System management; data products that help corporations, government agencies and management; storage management; security; other organizations reach their technology and business programming/testing; network performance/management; goals. 1,100 Rocketeers on five continents are focused other on building and delivering solutions for more than 10,000 customers and partners – and five million end users – in Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, Linux on IBM Z five key areas. These solutions are focused on Intelligent Pricing options: Monthly/annual license Infrastructure, Mobile, Cloud, and Big Data. Rocket is engaged in business and technology partnerships with Company profile IBM, EMC, Fujitsu, HP Enterprise Services, Hitachi Data RSM Partners, now part of BMC, specializes in IBM Systems, Avaya, Motorola, Epicor, and many others. Visit mainframe infrastructures, providing services, consulting, us at www.rocketsoftware.com. project delivery, managed services & support. Particularly well known for its expertise in ensuring mainframe security, Product/service information also supplying niche security software. Working with many Rocket Mainframe Solutions provide software and of the world’s largest organizations, no other partner can professional service solutions that ensure effective offer the same mix of mainframe knowledge, expertise and utilization of System z environments. Our mainframe real hands-on experience. RSM Partners aims to address solutions: the headaches and challenges mainframe managers are facing by delivering assured mainframe skills; assured • Provide swift ROI - lower “per computing unit” cost than service delivery; and assured security. x86 servers and reduce management overhead • Optimize transaction processing, delivering millions of RSM Partners is a trusted ally to many in the mainframe reliable, secure transactions per day industry – not just clients directly, but also working • Meet demanding SLAs for performance/response in partnership with systems integrators, consulting times, uptime/availability and back-up/disaster recovery companies, ISVs and IBM themselves. Our clients tell us that what differentiates us are our core values: reliability; We help you maximize the value of your existing agility; flexibility; and value. mainframe investments through our ongoing technology evolution and expertise. You can count on Rocket RSM Partners is an IBM Business Partner and is a global Mainframe Solutions to enable you to: leader in Mainframe Systems Security. • Achieve high availability and data protection from storage-aware data management Product/service information • Access and modernize System z applications RSM Partners offers: • Make your private cloud work for you Skills: reliable, skilled resources and consultancy – either And we can help you get even more out of your mainframe individually, or as a team – assisting; backfilling; taking full with newer technologies like zBX, IDAA, and zIIP. A full responsibility for project delivery; or providing independent listing of all of our products that can help make the most strategic advice. of your mainframe investment can be found here: bit. ly/16jvoO4.

Services: Resources; Project Delivery; Security; SAS Institute Migrations; Managed Services & Support; Performance & Cost Reduction; plus ‘Mainframer in Training’. Security Address: includes specialist software tools, penetration testing, SAS Institute Inc, 100 SAS Campus Drive, Cary, NC best practices audit, remediating risk and compliance. 27513-2414, USA Migrations include software swap outs, storage and Phone: +1 919 677 8000 hardware migrations. Managed Services can be provided International Headquarters: to match customer requirements alongside 24*7 Incident SAS Institute GmbH, PO.Box 105340, Neuenheimer Support, Staff Augmentation and Standby Interim Services. Landstr. 28-30, 69043 Heidelberg, GERMANY Cost Reduction delivers best-in-class optimization, licence Phone : +49 6221 4160 cost reduction and workload consolidation. Web: www.sas.com

Software: Leveraging over 400 years of mainframe Activity: Software vendor security expertise, consulting and real world Specialist areas: Data management experience, RSM’s security tool set comprises: racfGUI; exceptionReporter; zDetect; Breakglass; Self Service Company profile Password Reset; and enterpriseConnector. A range of tools • Business intelligence. With SAS business intelligence, that help manage and secure your mainframe environment, you can integrate data from across your enterprise, significantly easing basic RACF administration, password and deliver fast access to self-service reporting and resets, control of temporary emergency access, plus analysis to all levels of user. Easy-to-use interfaces exception based security reporting complemented by our make it simple for decision makers to get the answers SIEM compatible dashboard, alerting you in real-time to they need – saving you time while driving better security events of significance. decisions. . • Analytics. With SAS, you can deliver analytic results to all users to share insights and drive fact-based RSM Technology decisions. • 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 Selenity Pricing options: Monthly/annual license Address: Nibley House, Low Moor Road, Doddington Road, Lincoln, Company profile Lincolnshire LN6 3JY, UK Founded in 1980, RSM is the UK’s leading independent Phone: +44 (0)1522 881300 provider of technical education & training for users of IBM Email: [email protected] mainframe systems. Working in partnership with the British Web: www.selenity.com Computer Society (BCS), RSM has been instrumental in developing and launching the Mainframe Technology Activity: Software vendor Professional series of examinations and qualifications. Specialist areas: System management; data management; storage management; asset and change Product/service information management; security, programming/testing, web Publicly presented and customised, one-company training integration and legacy reengineering tools; network and education courses covering such areas as: z/OS, performance/management. CICS Transaction Server, DB2 for z/OS, WebSphere MQ, Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS IMS TM & DB, WebSphere Application Server, TCP/IP for Non-mainframe platforms supported: i5, AIX, other Unix, z/OS. Linux

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Pricing options: One-time charge, monthly/annual Activity: Hardware vendor license, processor/capacity-based, other. Specialist areas: Storage management; web integration and legacy reengineering tools Company profile Selenity was formed in April 1989 to market and support Company profile mainframe systems software. We have exclusive contracts Buy, Sell, Lease, Consign and maintain IBM Z. to distribute supplier products in the UK and Eire and Now offering IBM Z maintenance programs that reduce market a variety of business solutions developed at our costs by up to 50% over OEM servicing. Lincoln Office. Our client list includes many of the best- known UK blue-chip and FTSE 100 companies. We Product/service information provide frequent training courses and run product user Our highly trained staff is equipped with the knowledge and groups and regular seminars for all clients, ensuring an resources required to provide equipment and support to unrivalled service 24/7. the IBM Mainframe community at large.

Product/service information Simon Systems has built its reputation on a strong belief Products marketed and supported by Selenity include: and commitment to the original CDLA Code of Ethics as • Consul zSecure Suite: consists of modular components well as the current ASCDI Code of Ethics. that enable customers to easily administer their mainframe, monitor for threats, audit usage and configuration, and enforce policy compliance. • ETF/A: a set of very powerful utilities to assist ACF2 security administrators. • Catalog Information Manager (CIM): covers all aspects SMT Data of catalog management from maintenance and backup to diagnosis and complete recovery. Address: • Cross Sysplex Manager: synchronous and remote data Kongevejen 400B, 2840 Holte, Denmark access. Phone: +45 3962 8887. • RMF Magic: zSeries disk subsystem analysis & Email: [email protected]. reporting, consolidates information from all hosts Web: smtdata.com. • SmartProduction: reduces the CPU resources required to run your batch workload, by identifying all your Activity: Software vendor product inefficiencies. Specialist areas: System management, other • Smart TS XL: an intuitive browser-based search engine Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, Linux on IBM Z for the mainframe/mini environment. Non-mainframe platforms supported: Unix, Linux, • E-SRF: a comprehensive security reporting facility Windows designed specifically for information security and audit Pricing options: One-time charge, monthly/annual professionals. licence, workload/usage based. • Capacity Magic: calculate the effective storage capacity of your current and future disk subsystems through an Company profile easy-to-use graphical dialog. SMT Data has developed a unique software solution that • Batch Magic: a powerful application for tape and batch collects, aggregates and processes enormous amounts window tuning and capacity planning. of technical data from the company’s IT-infrastructure. • Disk Magic: provides users with a thorough Conceptually it is Business Intelligence for IT – we call it understanding of current disk subsystem performance ITBI™. and enables them to make better purchase and configuration decisions. For almost 30 years SMT Data has supplied fact-based optimization: • Reducing IT infrastructure costs while enhancing utilization and performance • Linking IT resource consumption and IT costs to Simon Systems business activity • Controlling outsourcing providers and optimizing Address: outsourcing costs 313 Lake Hazeltine Drive, Chaska, MN 55318, USA • DevOps transparency: Explain Application Phone: +1 952-448-9922. Developments impact on IT operational costs Email: [email protected]. Web: simonsys.com.

• Consolidating assets and balancing load before / after and is recognized globally for our long term service and M&A, Cloud etc. commitment to our DB2 mainframe customers. • Reducing the time spent analyzing and reporting. Product/service information Product/service information TestBase™ ITBI™ Software allows you to reduce IT capacity related TestBase™, our test data management solution, allows costs by creating transparency into the cost drivers in your you to quickly retrieve manageable subsets of referentially IT installation and insight into how business activities affect intact data from DB2® databases around the enterprise, those cost drivers. thoroughly test and validate proper functioning of all DB2 application enhancements, and ensure that all sensitive ITBI collects capacity and performance data from your IT production data remains completely private during testing. Infrastructure. It then combines the data with business Using TestBase Slice™, Application Developers can now information such as costs, which organization is using the manage their own test data and run unlimited tests to resources and for which activities. This data is gathered properly verify that ALL application SQL code and changes into a data warehouse and made available to the user are working properly. As a result, DBAs no longer need to through an advanced Business Intelligence reporting tool. maintain a multitude of test beds.

SMT Data offers the ITBI solution and consultancy in the Batch Healthcare - Attach Facility form of project-based services or ongoing service. Attach Facility™ reduces CPU costs by using patent- pending technology to allow older applications to utilize The focus of a Project Based Service is to produce a set of multi-row FETCH, without code changes. Attach Facility agreed deliverables for the customer. SMT Data uses the also enhances the batch DB2 environment by eliminating ITBI Solution in producing those deliverables, but ITBI is the use of TSO and allows the proper handling of step an enabler for the project rather than the primary focus. abends and return codes.

Ongoing services Get the full value out of ITBI and SMT Batch Healthcare - Checkpoint Facility Data’s offerings. SMT Data consultants support the In the event that critical DB2 batch jobs do fail due to customer in operating and using ITBI on an ongoing basis. unforeseen health problems, the Checkpoint Facility™ This support helps ensure that the customer gets the most allows you to safely restart and complete these jobs out of ITBI. Ongoing services reduces the customer’s own as quickly as possible to ensure that all critical online in-house resource- and skill requirements. applications are available when needed.

Batch Healthcare - DeadLock Advisor DeadLock Advisor™ makes the job of pinpointing these issues and which job caused them effortless by placing SoftBase messages in the joblog of both jobs involved in the deadlock, timeout or resource unavailable condition. In this Address: way, application developers can troubleshoot their jobs 20 Fall Pippin Ln Ste 202, Asheville, NC 28803, USA without the assistance of a DBA. Phone: (800) 669-7076. Email: [email protected]. Web: www.softbase.com.

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) Web: www.softwareag.com Company profile SoftBase is a leading provider of application testing Activity: Software vendor and tuning solutions for IBM’s DB2® database utilizing Specialist areas: System management; data the OS/390® and z/OS® operating systems. SoftBase management; storage management; asset and change solutions enable our customers to build and maintain management; programming/testing; web integration and high-quality DB2 applications that run as reliably and legacy reengineering tools cost-effectively as possible. SoftBase was founded in 1987

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Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, VM/VSE, Linux to save costs, attract new developer talent and connect on Z with new technologies. Non-mainframe platforms supported: Other Unix, Linux, Windows, Power Systems, IBM i, i5/OS, and OS/400, Power Systems, AIX, Other Pricing options: Monthly/annual license, processor/ capacity-based Software Diversified Services (SDS) Company profile Software AG is the industry’s leading independent Address: integration, Internet of Things, analytics, process software 1322 - 81st Ave NE, Spring Lake Park, MN 55432-2116, and services company. We are trusted by over 70% of the USA world’s top 1,000 enterprises. Software AG transforms your Phone: 800-443-6183 business and drives enterprise innovation by helping you Email: [email protected] connect and integrate everything—from applications and Web: www.sdsusa.com devices to data and clouds. We help you free data—even data in motion—from silos to “democratize” it and make it Sales contacts: shareable across your organization—any time it is needed, America: [email protected]. anywhere and by anyone. EMEA: [email protected] AsiaPac: [email protected]. As a pioneer in software innovation, Software AG has 50 years of experience keeping mainframe applications Activity: Software vendor relevant and integrated with the latest technologies. Specialist areas: System management; security; web Our proven application modernization capabilities can integration and legacy reengineering tools; network connect mainframe applications, data and people to new performance/management technologies, channels and services so you can build on Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, VM/VSE your strengths and become part of a truly connected world. Non-mainframe platforms supported: Other Unix, Linux, Windows Product/service information Pricing options: One-time charge, monthly/annual Mainframe API Enablement license, processor/capacity-based, workload/usage based Connect COBOL and Natural applications to external apps, devices and services with APIs so you can leverage your Company profile existing business logic in new ways. With seamless, built-in Founded in 1982, Software Diversified Services delivers integration between EntireX and webMethods Integration comprehensive, affordable mainframe and distributed Server, it is easy to generate REST APIs to connect core software with a focus on cybersecurity, compliance, CICS mainframe applications to an API ecosystem. management, and network monitoring/management.

Mainframe Data Integration Hundreds of organizations worldwide, including many Connect, replicate and migrate mainframe data from Fortune 500 companies, rely on SDS software, for Adabas, Db2®, flat files, IMS™, QSAM and VSAM™ business-critical operations. Our expert development to cloud and on-premises environments. CONNX can and award-winning technical support teams are based in unlock native database architectures and transform data Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. into a format that allows it to be used in data warehouse, business intelligence, cloud and IoT projects. SDS has a 38-year history of delivering customer-centric IT infrastructure solutions, backed up by technical support User Experience Modernization staff with valuable expertise and experience. SDS software Connect your users with a better experience—transform enables you to manage and protect your data and your green screens into modern web interfaces, redesign user brand while driving more value from your IT investment. workflows and use APIs to extend capabilities to new channels and applications with ApplinX. While the focus on cybersecurity and compliance has grown exponentially in recent years, SDS continues to Adabas & Natural 2050+ provide world-class security solutions at affordable rates. Software AG is committed to ensuring mission-critical DO MORE WITH LESS is a motto SDS adopted decades Adabas & Natural applications are future ready—now. We ago and it remains true, especially when considering their can optimize your IT environment, modernize your core suite of mainframe security software offered today. applications and transform your development environment

Product/service information VitalSigns SIEM Agent for z/OS (VSA) filters and delivers The SDS VitalSigns family of NETWORK products for z/ real-time z/OS security events to any SIEM. OS is a low-overhead, easy-to-use suite that employs web browsers to provide a modern GUI for z/OS network SDS E-Business Server uses industry-standard PGP management. Pinpoint the source of z/OS network delays, encryption, enabling you to securely and cost-effectively monitor security in real time, and more. exchange confidential information. Common uses include securing archival backups and data within applications, VitalSigns for FTP (VFTP) secures, monitors, automates, email, file transfers, and transaction processing. and audits FTP traffic through z/OS servers and clients. Enabling compliance with key regulations, E-Business VitalSigns for IP (VIP) provides real-time, browser-based Server features the industry’s most trusted algorithms to management of TCP/IP networks, noted for breadth encrypt and decrypt data. of monitoring scope, ease of use, and minimal CPU demands. SDS E-Business Server uses industry-standard PGP encryption, enabling you to exchange confidential VitalSigns for Network Automation and Control (VNAC) is information securely and cost-effectively. Common an ideal, lower-cost replacement for NetMaster and other uses include securing archival backups and data within network monitors. applications, email, file transfers, and transaction

112 © Arcati Ltd, 2021 Arcati Mainframe Yearbook 20072021 Vendor Directory processing. Enabling compliance with key regulations, thresholds, combined with continuous monitoring of DB2 E-Business Server features the industry’s most trusted objects, RealTime DBAExpert detects and responds to algorithms to encrypt and decrypt data. database problems immediately. Seamless integration with all job schedulers and existing IT procedures The Virtel Web Suite includes several browser-based secures existing investments and the exploitation of latest products that offer the most secure 3270 terminal technologies saves valuable resources. emulation, legacy app modernization, and interactive web connections. Bind ImpactExpert completely automates the evaluation of access paths for static and dynamic SQL. Integration CICS management software also available: IPCP and into all existing rebind and bind procedures automatically CAFC. determines the rebinds and binds necessary to insure consistent or improved performing access paths, as well as to avoid those that are unnecessary. Used as a migration aid, Bind ImpactExpert predicts the access paths that will result under a new DB2 version and categorizes the changes into version-specific results. Software Engineering GmbH SQL PerformanceExpert for DB2 z/OS insures well-tuned SQL statements, which translates to efficient CPU usage, Address: improved reponse time, reduced I/O activity and reduced Robert-Stolz-Strasse 5, 40470 Dusseldorf, Germany. resource locking. SQL PerformanceExpert automates the Phone: +49 (0)211 96149 0 analysis of SQL performance (both static and dynamic) Fax: +49 (0)211 96149-32 and identifies tuning changes that improve application Email: [email protected] performance, pinpointing problem areas and saving time Web: www.seg.de and money associated with inefficient applications. It also www.seg.de/language=en/808/start automates package management and catalog change management, as well as the optimization of performance Sales contacts: indexes. America: SEGUS Inc 14151 Park Meadow Drive, Chantilly, VA 20151 PiT Recovery for DB2 z/OS automates, controls, and Email: [email protected] speeds up all the necessary actions needed for a point Phone: +1-800-327-9650 in time (PIT) recovery of ERP and CRM systems like Web: www.segus.com Peoplesoft, SAP, and Siebel. Pit Recovery not only EMEA: [email protected] generates, executes, and controls the necessary jobs, AsiaPac: [email protected] it even weighs different scenarios like using DB2 image copies, flashcopies, or even the new DB2 V8 RESTORE Activity: Software vendor and consulting SYSTEM feature. Additionally, it provides all the required Specialist areas: Database performance, maintenance, information necessary to forecast how long a specific recovery outage will last. Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS Pricing options: Processor/capacity based, other Recovery HealthCheck for DB2 z/OS verifies all Recovery/ Restart relevant prerequisites of a production database. Company profile It also provides recovery time objectives for each object, Software Engineering GMBH has been developing pinpointing the period of time that is required for a standardized DB2 software and providing DB2 consulting recovery. Recovery HealthCheck for DB2 z/OS makes the services for more than 25 years. By combining intensive prerequisites for a critical recovery scenario transparent research with target-oriented development of new DB2 and enables proactive adjustments and optimization before software products, we have established powerful skills an outage occurs. in DB2 solutions. Driven by customers, consultants, and other highly skilled DB2 users at our Design Councils, we develop practical innovations to keep DB2 in the best shape. 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 © Arcati Ltd, 2021 113 Arcati Mainframe Yearbook 2021 Vendor Directory

Activity: Software vendor. SSH Communications Security Specialist areas: System management Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, VM/VSE, Linux, Address: Other SSH Communications Security Corp, Valimotie 17, Non-mainframe platforms supported: Windows, i5, AIX, FI-00380 Helsinki, Finland. other Unix, Linux Phone: +358 205007000. Pricing options: One-time charge, Monthly/annual license Email: [email protected]. Web: www.ssh.com. Company profile Founded in 1991, Solimar Systems Inc is a leading Sales contacts: developer of enterprise output management solutions America: +1 781 247 2100 / [email protected]. for digital document creation, production and distribution EMEA: +358 20 500 7000 /[email protected]. environments. Installed in thousands of sites around the AsiaPac: +81 3 3459 6830 / [email protected]. world, including nearly 40% of the Fortune 100, Solimar solutions satisfy a wide range of customer requirements by Activity: Software vendor combining integrated connectivity, data stream transforms, Specialist areas: Security print optimization, document re-engineering/repurposing Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, Linux on Z and sophisticated print queue management with secure Non-mainframe platforms supported: AIX, Other Unix, web-based document presentation, distribution and Linux, Windows tracking. Pricing options: One-time charge, processor/capacity based, workload/usage based Experts in legacy and modern data streams, Solimar solutions provide essential infrastructure to organizations Company profile in a variety of industries including insurance, financial SSH Communications Security is a world-leading services, banking, pharmaceuticals, telecommunications, provider of enterprise security solutions and end-to-end healthcare, government, education, retail, manufacturing, communications security, and the original developer of the utilities, distribution and print service bureaux. Secure Shell protocol. The company’s SSH Tectia solution addresses the most critical needs of large enterprises, Product/service information financial institutions, and government agencies. With Products include: SSH Tectia, organizations can cost-effectively secure • Solimar Print/Director Enterprise – Client/server their system administration, file transfers and application based enterprise output management solution that connectivity against both internal and external security provides multi-level security, remote administrator and risks. As the original developer of the Secure Shell protocol operator access, email alerts, powerful job routing/ and other key network security technologies, SSH has tracking capabilities, and industry leading data stream for ten years developed end-to-end communications transforms. security solutions specifically for the enterprise. Currently • iCONVERT – Stand-alone powerful transform engine more than 100 of Fortune 500 companies are using SSH for AFP environments that automatically routes security solutions. SSH shares are quoted on the Helsinki mainframe and AS/400 print reports directly to Exchanges Main List. networked desktop and production PostScript printers, viewing stations and archive systems. Files are parsed Product/service information and renamed with job events module. SSH Tectia is the leading end-to-end communications • SOLscript – PostScript preamble that emulates security solution for the enterprise. SSH Tectia is based on and optimizes Xerox VIPP software by generating the SSH Secure Shell and SSH’s other industry leading DSC compliant PostScript, extending the reach of technologies, used by millions worldwide. SSH Tectia VIPP applications to virtually all types and brands of enables secure system administration, secure file transfer workgroup and production printers, as well as ERM/ and secure application connectivity with centralized COLD and archive systems. management throughout the internal and external network. • SOLsearcher – Highly scalable and secure electronic SSH Tectia provides transparent strong encryption and document delivery and web presentation solution authentication and easily integrates into heterogeneous, that enables organizations to effectively index, store, multi-platform environments. search and retrieve large collections of transactional and/or scannned documents. Ideal for B2B and B2C environments.

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Secure System Administration offers system administrators • Application development, the ability to remotely manage servers in a heterogeneous • Innovative, reliable IT solutions based on proven operating system environment. SSH Tectia replaces technologies and concepts adjusted to your specific legacy login (eg Telnet and Rlogin) and remote command business needs, execution methods with enterprise-class administator tools • Supervision of information projects and solutions based on the SSH2 standard. design and implementation (‘Software Quality Assurance – SQA’), Secure File Transfer enables secure automated and • Sale of hardware, software and services: interactive file transfers throughout the network, both for • Hardware (IBM System z, IBM Power Systems, IBM internal and external file sharing. SSH Tectia provides System Storage), secure drop-in replacements for FTP and additional APIs • IBM Software (B2B Integration, Information that facilitate effortless transition from legacy file transfers Management software, Lotus software, Rational to strong file transfer security. software, Tivoli software, WebSphere software, System z software, SPSS software), Secure Application Connectivity offers end-to-end • VMware software confidentiality, integrity, and authentication for application • Microsoft software connections between workstations and servers. SSH • RedHat software Tectia protects transparently both in-house developed • Services provided by our certified experts, IBM services and commercial business applications without the need to and services provided by our partners, modify the applications or the supporting IT infrastructure. • Enterprise content management (ECM), security right up to the mainframe. • IT asset management, • IT infrastructure virtualisation, • Secure data back up, • Proactive IT system and application monitoring, SV Group • Proactive and reactive support and maintenance of SV Group applications (Life Insurance, Office Management, Call Centre, New Croatian Personal Address: Albrechtova 32, HR-10000 Zagreb, Croatia. Identity Card, Personal Identity Card for Foreigners, Croatian Passport, National Border Management Phone: +385 1 2958740. Information System – NBMIS), Statistical Monitoring Email: [email protected]. of Visits to Web Sites – S3a, and other application and Web: www.svgroup.hr/ system solutions . Activity: Software vendor. Specialist areas: System management; data management; storage management; asset and change management; security; programming/testing; network performance/management; Syspertec Communication Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, VM/VSE, Linux on IBM Z Address: Non-mainframe platforms supported: AIX, Unix, Linux, 196 Bureaux de la Colline, 92213 Saint-Cloud Cedex, Windows France Pricing options: One-time charge, processor/capacity- Phone: +33 (0)1 46 02 60 42 based, workload/usage based Email: [email protected] Web: www.virtelweb.com Company profile SV Group d.o.o. is a project-oriented IT company founded Sales contacts: in 1995. America: (925) 937-5816 / [email protected].

Customers of SV Group solutions and services are Activity: Software vendor. companies whose activities have for years been dependent Specialist areas: Web integration and legacy on IT technologies and solutions that directly support their reengineering tools business. This is why our customers seek a reliable and Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, VM/VSE, proven partner to realize their IT projects Non-mainframe platforms supported: IBM i. Pricing options: One-time charge, monthly/annual Product/service information license. SV Group d.o.o. provides you with:

Company profile applications, e.g. web services (REST, JSON, or MQ) that SysperTec is an French independent software publisher consume 3270 transactions. which has more than 20 years of experience in technologies of connectivity between heterogeneous computer systems (primarily Mainframe). Betting that IBM mainframes would remain an essential element of corporate IT parks, SysperTec develops software solutions Systemwerx to modernize legacy applications since 1993. Address: Each of the group’s solutions has the same goal: PO Box 1195, Bedford, MK42 8WY, UK modernizing corporate information systems in order Phone: +44 207 0606601. to enable them to better meet the challenges of their Email: [email protected]. respective markets, all the while minimizing impact on their Web: www.systemwerx.co.uk. existing architectures... In a nutshell, do better for less! 500 customers spread over the 5 continents in banking, Activity: Software vendor and consultancy. insurance, administration, services, industry and Specialist areas: System management, security, web distribution sectors trust our solutions’ ease of use, integration and legacy reengineering tools. flexibility and reliability, coupled to reduced costs and Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS perpetual technological innovation. Non-mainframe platforms supported: IBM i, AIX, Unix, Linux, Windows. The group’s software suites are distributed through a Pricing options: One-time charge, monthly/annual network of international partners. In the US, SysperTec has license, processor/capacity-based, workload/usage based its own west-coast subsidiary which works closely with its North American mainframe distributor Software Diversified Company profile Services. Systemwerx has, for over 10 years, provided our customers with solutions to their business needs. Product/service information Virtel is a simple, fast, powerful, and cost-effective solution Our system specialists provide our customers with pratical to convert the proven business logic of legacy applications experience in the development of business applications (CICS, IMS, Natural, Ideal, TSO…) into new and dynamic and exploiting operating system, networking, database, web applications. With Virtel, mainframe applications look and cryptography across multiple platforms. and behave like true web applications at a fraction of the cost, risk and duration of redevelopment, replacement, or Product/service Information rehosting strategies. We provide a number of products to help z/OS users:

The Virtel software Suite is developed on a unique PassGen: a solution to generate one-time RACF and original architecture, which makes it an attractive passwords ( Passtickets ) – this allows applications off alternative when it comes to mainframe systems’ evolution host to securely communicate with z/OS applications and . It also allows a gradual implementation, following the databases. Passgen is available in a native Windows rhythm of multiple needs thanks to various application version and a Java version that executes on any system modules. with a JRE.

Virtel Web Access Mimic: a solution to assist users migrating from Upgrade from 3270 emulation to pure TCP/IP web access: Connect:Direct and CA-XCOM to another managed file this Virtel module securely extends 3270 applications to transfer system. Mimic allows removal of existing products web browsers with the classic green screen presentation by providing an emulation of existing products and and ergonomics. converts existing systems to the users chosen replacement Virtel Web Modernization product. Turn 3270 green screens into modern GUIs: this Virtel module creates rich web pages that combine 3270 DR/VFI: a product that identifies critical files for Disaster data streams with JavaScript widgets and AJAX-based recovery and compliance. application features. Virtel Web Integration Megacryption: a z/OS encryption and PGP suite for Integrate mainframe and server applications for SOA or complaince and easy to use encryption. WOA architectures: this Virtel module creates interactive bidirectional connections between mainframe and web

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DataExhange: a publishing system to make z/OS data Assembler development project by insuring the availability available to any user with a browser independent of its of their source code. source. Product/service information The Source Recovery Company recovers missing COBOL or Assembler source code by reverse engineering the source from the z/OS executable. We also offer services Technical Storage SARL of source code validation and reconciliation to insure your development staff has the right version of source code. Address: 24 rue Joannes Masset, 69009 Lyon, France Phone: 323-774-8677. Email: [email protected]. Web: www.technical-storage.com. TONE Software Corporation Activity: Software vendor Specialist areas: System management; data Address: management; storage management 1735 South Brookhurst Street, Anaheim, CA 92804, USA Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS Phone: +1 714 991 9460 Non-mainframe platforms supported: Windows Email: [email protected]. Pricing options: One-time charge, monthly/annual Web: www.tonesoft.com/mainframe license. Sales contacts Company profile America: [email protected] IBM ISV since 2007 suporting mainframe shops with EMEA: [email protected] performance management solutions for DASD (EADM) AsiaPac: [email protected] and Tape (EATM). Activity: Software vendor. Product/service information Specialist areas: System management; programming/ EADM and EATM operate in IBM z/OS Mainframe Storage testing Performance. EADM is a fully automated Predictive Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS Analytics solution that mines your data-rich RMF and CMF Pricing options: One-time charge, monthly/annual 24x7. Alerts are sent when jobs, hardware or SLAs are license, processor/capacity-based, workload/usage based underperforming. I/O performance is constantly monitored detailed by LPARs, LCU, STOGroup, Volume down to file Company profile levels. Tone Software develops and markets software to increase mainframe efficiency, reduce z/OS support costs, and increase the productivity of Z System IT teams.

Based in Anaheim, California, TONE is a privately owned company that answers to customers, not shareholders. The Source Recovery Company Leveraging 40+ years of mainframe expertise, TONE is committed to delivering quality software and exceptional Address: service to every client. 1070 Applecross Drive, Roswell, GA 30075, USA Phone: +1 770 712-9887. TONE products are marketed and supported throughout Email: [email protected]. North America, Europe, and Australia through the Anaheim Web: www.source-recovery.com. headquarters and international agents. Tone’s solutions include:: Activity: Software • DYNA-STEP to dynamically allocate STEPLIBs, Specialist areas: COBOL or Assembler Source Recovery manage ISPF libraries, and save system resources Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, VM/VSE • STEPLIB-Rx to replace legacy STEPLIB tools and Pricing options: One-time charge. shareware with no re-coding. • OMC-FLASH JES2 to view and manage JES2 Spool Company profile operations, resources, and the JES2 MAS The Source Recovery Company helps mainframe • OMC-FLASH JES3 to view and manage JES3 and organizations who are in the midst of any COBOL or JES3plus spool operations, resources, and the JESPLEX © Arcati Ltd, 2021 117 Arcati Mainframe Yearbook 2021 Vendor Directory

• OMC-PRINT and OMC-TCP/IP to route, print, and eliminating manual conversions or re-implementations. control host output across VTAM and TCP/IP • OMC-FLASH JES2, JES3 and JES3plus spool • TRX to manage TSO resources and improve management to view and control jobs, datasets, output, performance . devices, operations, resources, and workflow across the JES2 MAS and the JESPLEX. Product/service information • OMC-PRINT and OMC-TCP/IP host output TONE’s powerful mainframe solutions manage and management to route and print output anywhere, control the z/OS, TSO, JES2, JES3, JES3plus and VTAM anytime, directly from the JES spool to VTAM and TCP/ infrastructure to save system resources and increase user IP attached print devices, with full control of enterprise- productivity, including: wide print activity. • DYNA-STEP Dynamic STEPLIB allocation and • ACC to automate and manage z/ OS console traffic, ISPF library management to save time and system host system and application processes, including start resources by reducing overhead, speeding user logons, up, damage assessment, restart, and shutdown. reducing LOGON PROC maintenance, and expediting • TRX TSO performance management to enhance application upgrades and migrations from test to TSO operations, reduce TSO resource consumption, production. improve response times, reduce system overhead, and • STEPLIB-Rx, a fully supported solution to transparently improve TSO user productivity.. replace unsupported STEPLIB tools and shareware and expertly interpret legacy STEPLIB allocations, thus 118 © Arcati Ltd, 2021 Arcati Mainframe Yearbook 20072021 Vendor Directory

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; data is your best source and logical resource to answer your management; storage management. questions regarding zSeries processors and related Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS peripherals. We have the largest independent inventory Pricing options: One-time charge, monthly/annual of zEC12 & z196/z114 processors and older generation license. technology; whole systems, features and parts. Processors and complete systems are certified and banded by IBM Company profile before they leave our technical center. Trident Services has provided z/OS solutions and systems consulting services since 1978. Trident has established a Top Gun Technology’s management, product engineers solid reputation for the excellence of its software and the and sales staff have an average of 25+ years experience expertise of its consulting staff while continuing to keep providing guidance to data center clients. We have built pace with industry changes, emerging technologies and an infrastructure and team to support your hardware needs client needs. with helpful and forward-thinking planning and consultation. Our intent is to have you think of Top Gun Technology Product/service information as a “resource” - a company that you can rely upon for Our flagship software, zOSEM (zOperating System thoughtful information, guidance and a unique approach Environment Manager), is one solution for total system to planning for and acquiring large-platform hardware and management of z/OS. Trident’s zOSEM simplifies and associated services at competitive prices that maximize modernizes z/OS management by implementing dynamic your budget dollar. controls of functions, delivers improved system throughput, better control of JCL standards, optimizes HSM, and Product/service information includes resource routing functions to significantly reduce Top Gun Technology is committed to being the industry’s ISV footprint, helping you reduce ISV and MLC charges. most logical alternative to the manufacturer. We provide The latest release of zOSEM introduces step-level routing, an independent view of the market with expert, in-house which allows for further reduction of software license solutions. Our goal is to offer options that cost far less footprints by routing only the job step to a penalty box or than the manufacturer’s or any business partner’s solutions LPAR. in these areas: IBM System z :zEC12/2828, z196/2817, z114/2818 & z10 Processors and Feature upgrades; IBM Power Systems-Power7, Power7+, Power6 as well as previous generation pSeries and iSeries, IBM Storage for mainframe and open systems platforms: Disk, tape, libraries & VTS; Brocade & IBM FICON directors, switches, blades & SFPs. HP(new/refurbished), Cisco, STK & EMC hardware is also available. Call if you have surplus hardware, need data center consolidation or leasing services. Top Gun Technology – “Your Ultimate Data Resource”.

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, Linux on IBM Z 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 Performance Tuning – The majority of mainframe users providers, industry and service sector companies. have significant potential for further reducing resource consumption (and therefore costs) through performance Product/service information tuning of key workloads. This is especially true for UBS Hainer is a leading innovator of Db2 refresh those with older applications that haven’t been actively strategies for test data management. We’ve created a set maintained for a while or who have lost some of their deep of tools to simplify and automate all areas of cloning and middleware skills through retirement or redundancy. copying so companies can easily manage multiple test and QA environments – from small unit tests to massive By tuning these workloads, ongoing software costs can acceptance tests – without impacting their production be reduced and mainframe upgrades potentially deferred. systems. In addition, application performance will be enhanced and overall Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) reduced. BCV5: Set up lightening fast copies on file system level to Our unique zTune service will identify potential mainframe automate a regular refresh of your test beds and save 90% workload management improvements and could CPU, run time and manual effort compared to Unload/Load immediately reduce your IT spend.

BCV4: Product/service information Clone Db2 subsystems and isolate production from all Value-4IT are focused on delivering cost efficient and other environments in mere minutes without impacting strategic IT solutions that meet or exceed business performance. requirements. Our customer-facing personnel all have many years experience working with leading IHVs, ISVs XDM Row Level Processing (RLP): and Professional Services organisations, designing and Select and mask consistent subsets with respect to RI integrating value-added solutions for many global Blue constraints to supply developers and testers with specific Chip customers. data for unit testing Through a combination of innovative and evolving Is z/OS not your thing? – Ask for XDM Database Cloning processes, the raison d’être of Value-4IT is to collaborate in (DC) and XDM Table Copying (TC), your tool of choice for long-term and rewarding partnerships with our customers, Db2 Linux, Unix, Windows, Oracle, MS SQL.. becoming their trusted advisor, by consistently delivering timely and cost-efficient solutions.

Value-4IT also maintains an independent viewpoint of the IT market place and are ideally placed to provide pragmatic Value-4IT Limited third-party input into technology selection and IT portfolio review for our customer base. We are honoured to have Address: been chosen to be the UK territory distribution channel for 7 Wright Road, Long Buckby, Northampton NN6 7GG, UK. a modicum of best-of breed software solutions, while we do Phone: +44 (0) 845 0579386 so with a Software Asset Management (SAM) focus, using Email: [email protected]. straight-forward, competitive and no-small-print caveat Web: www.value-4it.com/ pricing regimes.

Activity: Integrator Value-4IT are UK partners for Dino-Software, Optica, Specialist areas: System management; data PerfTechPro and Technical Storage, supplying high management; storage management; asset and change function IBM Z Mainframe Systems Management solutions, management; security; programming/testing; web with short-term ROI and optimized TCO, when compared integration and legacy reengineering tools; network with similar products. performance/management Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, VM/VSE, Linux on IBM Z Non-mainframe platforms supported: AIX, Unix, Linux, Windows Vanguard Integrity Professionals, Inc. Pricing options: One-time charge, monthly/annual license, processor/capacity-based, workload/usage based, Address: other 6625 S. Eastern Avenue, Suite 100 Las Vegas, NV 89119, USA. Company profile Phone: 702-794-0014 Value-4IT are an independent software & professional Email: [email protected]. services company offering diverse and in-depth business Web: www.go2vanguard.com facing experience for IBM Z Mainframe, UNIX, Linux and Windows platforms Activity: Software vendor . Specialist areas: Security Our experienced personnel provide our valued customers Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS. with a wide range of business, process & technical skills Pricing options: One-time charge, monthly/annual for maximizing the business value for IT resources within license, workload/usage based, other your organization. Company profile Therefore our philosophy is a combination of pragmatic Vanguard Integrity Professionals provides enterprise and structured delivery via TCA, TCO, & ROI security software and services that solve complex methodologies, safeguarding the timely implementation security and regulatory compliance challenges for large of cost efficient IT solutions for business improvement enterprises and government agencies around the world. initiatives..

With solutions for Identity and Access Management, Audit Verhoef Training Ltd and Compliance, Security Administration and Intrusion Detection, Vanguard automates processes necessary to Address: identify and mitigate the risks customers face. Vanguard’s 11 Kingsmead Square, Bath BA1 2AB, UK customers receive a rapid return on investment and are Phone: +44 (0) 1225 339705. able to focus on other critical business needs thereby Email: [email protected]. becoming more productive and more secure. For more Web: www.verhoef-training.co.uk information, visit www.go2vanguard.com. Activity: Education Product/service information Specialist areas: System management; data Security Management Solutions management; storage management; asset and change Vanguard Administrator - Automated security administration management; security; programming/testing; web Vanguard Advisor - Event detection, analysis, and reporting integration and legacy reengineering tools; network Vanguard SecurityCenter - Windows-based security performance/management, other administration of RACF Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, VM/VSE, Linux Vanguard Enforcer - Intrusion detection and management on Z system for z/OS and OS/390 mainframe systems Non-mainframe platforms supported: IBM i, AIX, other Vanguard Policy Manager- A “Best Practices” enforcer for Unix, distributed Linux, Windows, other z/OS Security Server RACF Commands Pricing options: Workload/usage based,

Compliance and Audit Solutions Company profile Vanguard Analyzer - System integrity and analysis Verhoef Training is a global training provider with offices in Vanguard inCompliance - Continuous system compliance the UK, USA and South Africa. We have been supporting verification the Mainframe community since 1980. We deliver zSeries Vanguard Enforcer - Intrusion detection and management education using traditional classroom methods and web system for z/OS and S/390 mainframe systems based instructor led training. We have our own z/OS and Vanguard Policy Manager - A “Best Practices” enforcer for z/VM platform that is fully licenced by IBM for training z/OS Security Server - RACF Commands purposes. This is much sought after by customers and trade partners. Access Management Solutions Vanguard Authenticator - Scalable, modular, and integrated Product/service information authentication solution for entire enterprise JCL Vanguard ez/SignOn - Enterprise identity management and JES2 Operator Training intrusion detection System Programmer Fundamentals Vanguard ez/Token - A two-factor authentication solution SMP/E integrated with RACF for users logging on to the Parallel Sysplex mainframe WLM Vanguard Tokenless Authentication - Delivers strong HMC authentication capabilities by generating and sending a HCD one-time use, time-sensitive passcode to a communication Security Server device the user already possesses: the user’s cell phone, USS PDA, Blackberry and more z/VM Vanguard ez/Integrator - Security programming tools that Storage Area Networking allow your applications to inherit the enhanced security of VSAM RACF DFSMShsm Vanguard ez/AccessControl - Extending RACF access and TCP/IP for z/OS identity management to desktops and servers DB2 SQL for z/OS or LUW Vanguard PasswordReset - User reset of forgotten DB2 Administration passwords DB2 Data Recovery DB2 Performance and Tuning Intrusion Detection Solutions IMS Fundamentals Vanguard Enforcer - Intrusion detection and management IMS Programming system for z/OS and S/390 mainframe systems IMS Transaction Manager Programming Vanguard Advisor - Event detection, analysis and reporting Informix 11.7 Database or System Administration Vanguard ez/SignOn - Enterprise identity management and Informix 4GL intrusion detection.

WAS Administration VirtualZ Computing WAS Problem Determination WAS Scripting and Automation Address: WAS Performance Park Lodge, 5775 Wayzata Blvd., Suite 700 WAS Intelligent Management Minneapolis, MN 55416, USA BPM Performance and Tuning Phone: 800-930-0416. BPM Problem Determination Email: [email protected] . WebSphere Portal Web: virtualzcomputing.com/ WebSphere Portal Applications WebSphere Transformation Extender Activity: Software vendor MQ Introduction Specialist areas: System management; asset and change MQ Administration for z/OS or Windows & Linux management MQ Clusters Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS MQ Programming Pricing options: One-time charge, monthly/annual Integration Bus Administration license, processor/capacity-based, workload/usage based, Integration Bus Applications other. CICS Command Level CICS Application Development for SOA and Web Services Company profile CICS Tailoring VirtualZ Computing develops innovative software to CICSPlex System Manager elegantly and powerfully automate mainframe optimization TXSeries while reducing mainframe software license fees up to 50%. Java SE6 Our license consolidation, virtualization and redirection Jazz Team Server Administration technologies can be implemented on-premises, and/or in DOORS Foundation and Practitioner private, public or hybrid mainframe clouds. VirtualZ is also Customizing DOORS Using DXL the first and only nationally certified women-owned ISV in IBM Rational DOORS Next Generation, the mainframe industry. Tivoli System Automation Tivoli Monitoring Product/service information Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager In addition to VirtualZ On-Premises, VirtualZ zWaaS* in Tivoli Business Services Manager your mainframe cloud or outsourcer’s data center enables Tivoli Workload Scheduler for z/OS VirtualZ Cloud Redirection, reducing your software license Tivoli NetView fees by 50% or more. For batch applications, you control Tivoli Storage Manager movement at granular levels to public or private mainframe Assembler clouds. This differs greatly from today’s mainframe clouds COBOL that are merely variations of outsourcing, where an entire PL/1 LPAR, CPU, or data center is moved to the cloud. REXX Connections VirtualZ zWaaS technology also makes it possible to Process Modelling with BPM license batch and less data-intensive mainframe Software Developing Applications in BPM as a Service directly through VirtualZ’s global outsourcing BPM Administration partner or your cloud outsourcer.. BPM Problem Determination Developing websites using Web Content Manager InfoSphere Guardium DataStage QualityStage.

WDR Ltd Product/service information Established nearly 40 years ago by two senior ex-IBM Address: Executives, WDR is one of the UK’s leading IT specialists. Park Lodge, 60 London Road, Horsham, West Sussex, The early years, through hands-on consultancy, training RH12 1AY, UK courses, seminars and systems development, were Phone: +44 (0)1403 268251. dedicated to improving performance and management Email: [email protected]. predominately in the IBM mainframe market. Always the Web: www.wdr.co.uk niche company, WDR remains attracted to the difficult challenges that others may miss. Activity: Consultant Specialist areas: System management; data WDR has since broadened its focus from mainframes to management; storage management; asset and change mid-range systems to networks and distributed systems to management; security; programming/testing; web the desk-top and server-based systems of today. integration and legacy reengineering tools; network Throughout, we have remained current in all these performance/management, other activities. Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, VM/VSE, Linux Non-mainframe platforms supported: IBM i, AIX, Unix, WDR have an attractive office and training centre at Linux, Windows Horsham, an old market town in West Sussex in the South Pricing options: One-time charge, monthly/annual of England, and maintain facilities to give seamless support license, processor/capacity-based, workload/usage based to our many prestigious clients.

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Web Age Solutions Company profile Address: zdevops was founded around a simple core belief: Suite 1, 436 York Road, Jenkintown, Montgomery County, “It’s all about having a passion for your job and being proud PA 19046, USA of all the awesome things you do” Phone: +1 215 517 6540. Email: [email protected]. We assist organisations and individuals in getting the most Web: www.webagesolutions.com out of their z Systems environment. This is done via hands on support, training and coaching. Activity: Education Specialist areas: System management; data Product/service information management; storage management; programming/testing; We don’t sell any Mainframe products yet, the minute we web integration and legacy reengineering tools do we can assure you they will be aswesome! Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS Non-mainframe platforms supported: Unix, Linux, Windows Pricing options: Other

Company profile ZETALY Web Age Solutions supports the following technology and methodology areas through training, mentoring and Address: consulting. 29 Rue la Noue Bras de Fer, 44200 Nantes, France Phone: +33 222 068 860 Mainframe – DB2 – WebSphere – WebLogic – Linux – Email: [email protected] UNIX – Python – Java EE – OOAD – Spring – Hibernate – Web: zetaly.io Oracle – Big Data – Service Oriented Architecture – Cloud – Enterprise Architecture – Mobile Computing (Android Sales contacts and i/OS) – JBoss – HTML5 – Open Source–- Microsoft – America: [email protected] Web services – AJAX – Data Warehousing – XML/XSLT – EMEA: [email protected] Virtualization – ITIL – Web 2.0. AsiaPac: [email protected]

Product/service information Activity: Software vendor Specific to our mainframe curriculum, we provide training in Specialist areas: System management subjects as diverse as MVS Concepts and Utilities,CICS, Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS COBOL, DB2, TSO/ISPF, IMS, z/OS Systems Pricing options: One-time charge, monthly/annual management and others. Our courses are developed by license, processor/capacity-based industry experts and run using IBM mainframe computers. Company profile Since 2006, ZETALY, an independent software vendor specialized on z/OS environment, delivers innovative Mainframe solutions to large organizations around the Zdevops world, to help them get the most of their Mainframe platform. Pioneer in software cost control, the company Address: ambitions to bring the Mainframe into the 21st Century with Ter Wadding 12, 7608 LH, Almelo, The Netherlands an all-in-one solution backed by analytics and Z embedded Phone: 639219574 expertise. ZETALY delivers quick time to value, to simplify Email: [email protected] and optimize Mainframe performance, resources and costs Web: zdevops.com management.

Activity: Consultant Product/service information Specialist areas: System management; storage ZETALY is an all-encompassing data analytics solution that management; asset and change management; security; makes mainframe logs accessible and understandable to programming/testing; web integration and legacy all business stakeholders. Whether you’re using ZETALY to reengineering tools; network performance/management discover new performance enhancements or uncover cost- Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, Linux on IBM Z saving measures, mainframe logs are value-added assets Non-mainframe platforms supported: Linux

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that help you track, understand, and optimize mainframe ZETALY Automated Capacity (ZAC) is a production performance and costs. software that optimizes mainframe capacity utilization. The solution distributes resources in pursuit of improved ZETALY Service Intelligence (ZSI) is a self-service performance and reduced Monthly License Charge costs. Mainframe Operations Analytics solution designed for simplicity. Backed by embedded expertise, it offers the ZETALY Resource Planning (ZRP) is an advanced capacity opportunity to leverage mainframe operational data for and cost planning solution powered by machine learning. business insights and system performance optimization. Based on your historical data, the software delivers predictions on future capacity and budget needs. ZETALY Cost Control (ZCC) is an analytics solution designed to control the financial impact of your mainframe. Through a modern, easy-to-use interface, the solution gives you instant and near real time visibility into your costs to help you make informed decisions.

ZETO Katowice In our Data Center, we have three IBM machines: production z14 ZR1, backup z13s, development and test Address: zBC12. The power of these machines is adapted to the Zakład Elektronicznej Techniki Obliczeniowej w Katowicach needs of our customers. Our Data Center has redundant Sp. z o.o., ul. Owocowa 1, 40-158 Katowice, Poland IT infrastructure, including IBM Mainframe servers, Phone: +48 32 3589 268 disk arrays, SAN, LAN and WAN infrastructure. Server Email: [email protected] room meets all applicable standards and customers Web: www.zetokatowice.pl requirements.

Activity: Software vendor Our most important customer is The Polish Social Specialist areas: System management; data Insurance Institution (ZUS). ZUS is one of the largest management; storage management; asset and change financial institutions in Poland. The main product is the management; security; programming/testing; web computer system known as Rentier-Manager/ADABAS, integration and legacy reengineering tools; network which supports the activities of the Social Insurance performance/management; other Institution in the area of services provided to Polish Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, Linux on IBM Z pensioners. Rentier-Manager/ADABAS is developed in Non-mainframe platforms supported: Linux, Windows, Mainframe technologies. other Pricing options: One-time charge, monthly/annual We have high competence in: z/OS, z/VM, Linux on IBM license, processor/capacity-based, workload/usage based, Z, Natural/ADABAS, CICS/TS, Complete, RACF/zSecure, other DFSMS/DFSMSHSM, REXX, JCL, TSM.

Company profile We are interested in building sustainable cooperation with ZETO Katowice Sp. z o.o. is a company operating in the IT customers and business partners. We have a lot of space market since the 60’s of the twentieth century, providing IT for offices and IT equipment. We can make any remote solutions for public and private sector. work in customer’s or partner’s Mainframe environment.

Our main areas of activity are creation of dedicated IT systems, processing and data security, advisory services, mobile applications, solutions based on business analytics and Big Data. ZETO Katowice has extensive expertise in the management, administration and operation of zSoftware Mainframe infrastructure. Over 50 professionals work in the mainframe environment. Address: Kloosterwei 320, 2361 XR Warmond, The Netherlands We have expertise in project management (PRINCE2, Phone: +31 610162676. Scrum, Agile). We design and deliver IT services using the Email: [email protected]. best practices of ITIL. Web: www.zsoftware.nl.

We are constantly improving implemented The Integrated Activity: Consultant Management System of Quality and Information Security Specialist areas: Asset and change management. (international standards ISO 9001 and ISO/IEC 27001). Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, VM/VSE, Linux The main objective of that management system is to on IBM Z adapt the business processes and standards to market Non-mainframe platforms supported: IBM i, AIX, Unix, requirements as well as efficient identification and Linux, Windows, other reduction of critical information security risks.. Company profile Product/service information zSoftware can help any Enterprise lowering their Software ZETO Katowice meets the requirements of existing Costs on any environment (Mainframe, Distributed) with legislation, especially in the field of protection of personal smart Software Asset Management. data, the confidentiality of the data entrusted and any license agreements.

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The Virtual IMS user group can be found at at itech-ed.com/ virtualims. The Virtual CICS user group can be found at at virtualcics.hostbridge.com. They are independently-operated vendor-neutral sites run by and for their user communities. Look out for their regular webinars and newsletters.

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 Database Trends and Applications Magazine Enterprise Tech Journal describes This bimonthly magazine describes itself as the itself as being for IT technicians in Journal of Information Integration the world’s largest multiplatform and Management. enterprises. The associated Web dbta.com/ site at enterprisesystemsmedia. com contains articles, news, Five Minute Briefing: Data events, and a store. Center enterprisesystemsmedia.com Database Trends and Applications publishes a number of Five Minute Enterprise Executive Briefing newsletters, but the Data Center title Enterprise Executive, this is the sometimes has announcements that are relevant sister publication to Enterprise to mainframers. The newsletter provides an Tech Journal, and is aimed at IT excellent weekly round-up of announcements. managers in the world’s largest dbta.com multiplatform enterprises. It is a less technical, but no less IBM Big Data & Analytics Hub informative, than ETJ, and both This website has headings for Industries, Analytics, are available as flipbooks. and Technology. enterprisesystemsmedia.com ibmbigdatahub.com/

Enterprise Systems Mainframe Market Information Service (MMIS) Based on the once-celebrated Enterprise Systems Through Arcati’s MMIS Journal, the Enterprise Systems Web site provides subscription service, Barry some interesting articles and discussions on Graham keeps users up mainly non-mainframe platforms. It claims to date with mainframe to provide high-end datacenter and server hardware and software solutions, and has sections for information pricing trends and helps about datacenter/enterprise, cloud, security, them to negotiate the best deals. The full MMIS storage, and virtualization. It offers newsletters, service includes the detailed quarterly Mainframe whitepapers, and webcasts. Market Monitor as well as phone/e-mail support. www.esj.com The monthly e-mail Mainframe Market Bulletin is also available separately. www.arcati.com/mmis © Arcati Limited, 2021 129 Arcati Mainframe Yearbook 2021 Information Guide

SearchDataCenter IBM Redbooks TechTarget publishes a range of Web-based IBM Redbooks publications provide a wealth of newsletters, and under the ‘Topic’ drop-down real-world installation, configuration, and usage menu, you can find a number of datacenter topics, insights into myriad technologies with a multitude but nothing specifically for mainframes any more. of titles. It is categorized by IT Infrastructure, searchdatacenter.techtarget.com/ Software, Storage, and Training. http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/ TechChannel IBM Systems Magazine website has morphed into a platform- and company-agnostic tech trends hub. It includes articles and blogs and webinars. techchannel.com/

Planet Mainframe publishes blogs each week. It Mainframe social media describes itself as, “The world’s premiere resource In addition to the ever-growing number of blogs for leading-edge mainframe technology”. You can community.ibm.com/community/user/ibmz- focusing on mainframe-related topics, it’s now find the blogs at:planetmainframe.com/blog /. and-linuxone/groups/destinationzhome possible to interact with mainframe-minded people on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and other social There’s always something interesting in the media. Broadcom blog at broadcom.com/sw-tech- blogs. They seem to cover quite a wide range IBM has its Servers & Storage blog at: ibm. of topics. com/blogs/systems/topics/mainframes/. There are CICS blogs in the CICS part of the And, not to be missed, Craig Mullins’ DB2 Portal IBM Z and LinuxONE Community website: blog at db2portal.blogspot.com/. https://community.ibm.com/community/ user/ibmz-and-linuxone/groups/topic- Alan Radding describes himself as a 20-year home?CommunityKey=8bc7f42b-b4ba-4419- IT industry analyst and journalist covering 80d8-2fbf894a6649. And there are IMS blogs mainframe, midrange, PC, Web, and cloud in the IMS part of the IBM Z and LinuxONE computing. His DancingDinosaur blog – Mainframe Community website: https://community.ibm. computing in the 21st century – can be found at com/community/user/ibmz-and-linuxone/ dancingdinosaur.wordpress.com. groups/topic-home?CommunityKey=eba3ada3- db89-4dca-9154-328195f5e560. Other interesting blogs include: Irving Wladawsky- Berger by Irving Wladawsky-Berger at blog. There’s the IMS GitHub site at https://imsdev. irvingwb.com/blog/, and James Governor’s github.io/, which has lots of useful information. Monkchips site at www.redmonk.com/jgovernor. It says of itself, an industry analyst blog looking at IBM Destination z has now become part of the software ecosystems and convergence. IBM Z and LinuxONE Community Web site. It still has a variety of blogs. You can find the blog IBM pages can be found on Facebook at www. at community.ibm.com/community/user/ibmz- facebook.com/IBMZ for just IBM mainframes, and-linuxone/groups/destinationzhome. although it doesn’t seem to have been updated for a

while; at www.facebook.com/IBM.Information. There’s the CICS Special Interest Group at Management.System/ for IMS; and www. linkedin.com/groups/1534227; IBM CICS facebook.com/IBMCICS for CICS. at linkedin.com/groups/4304249; and the Virtual CICS user group at linkedin.com/ Subhasish Sarkar, an IBM Z Champion, is a groups/3847862. Senior SQA Engineer, working at BMC Software. His blog is at techcapsuleblogs.blogspot. For IMS there’s IMS Global atlinkedin.com/ com/. He also has a page at facebook.com/ groups/1949922; and the Virtual IMS user group IBMMainframeNittyGritties/. at linkedin.com/groups/3792561.

The Virtual CICS user group is on Facebook In future, LinkedIn might consider using vanity at www.facebook.com/VirtualCICS. And the names like Facebook does. Virtual IMS user group is at www.facebook.com/ VirtualIMS. If you go to YouTube (www.youtube.com) there are numerous short videos about mainframes There are mainframe-related discussions on and mainframe-related topics. IBM has a number LinkedIn. For example, there’s: Mainframe of YouTube channels, including youtube.com/ Products & Services: Announcements, user/IBM. Events, Training, Promotions, Blogs, etc at linkedin.com/groups/2915689/; Mainframe There is also IBM Expert TV at techtv.bemyapp. Operators and Programmers at linkedin.com/ com. “Experts always on. AI, Automation and groups/3688300/; Mainframe Users at linkedin. Cloud” is how it describes itself. com/groups/3699921/; Mainframe Performance & Optimization: News and Opinion at linkedin. On Twitter, Craig Mullins (@craigmullins) com/groups/2318931/; System z Advocates at recommends the following each week: linkedin.com/groups/155723/; MainframeZone @IBMZ, @PlanetMainframe, @mastermainframe , at linkedin.com/groups/2196066/; Mainframe @BarrySchrager1, @ajzander, @t_eddolls, Audit at linkedin.com/groups/2352119/; @mainframemag, @RegHarbeck, @JeffBisti, Mainframe Experts Network at linkedin.com/ @mainframed767, @SHAREhq, @GregLotko, groups/55779/; Mainframe Security Gurus at @Interskill, @zster, @MainframeGuyBS, linkedin.com/groups/36083/; IBM Z and @Allthingsmainf1, @tinatarq, @rossmauri, Events at linkedin.com/groups/3053018/; @DataKinetics, @BMCSoftware, @compuware. SHARE at linkedin.com/groups/1803278/; z/OS at linkedin.com/groups/2085015/; z/ Other good tweeters to follow include: OS Operating System Education at linkedin. @IBM, @IBM_CICS, @IBMDB2, @IBM_DB2, com/groups/2109186/; and Mainframe @IBM_IMS, @IBM_Informix, @IBM_InfoSphere, Professional Network Group at linkedin.com/ @IBMdatamag, @IBMSTG, @ARCserve_Europe, groups/1912637/. @BarrySchrager1, @Bcrusso, @BigData_ paulz, @BMCMainframe, @BMCSoftware, If you’re interested in Db2 there’s Db2 Professionals @BobThomas_ESM, @CAmainframe, atlinkedin.com/groups/45375; IDUG: @CAUKI, @cristianmolaro, @crshnburn, International Db2 Users Group at linkedin. @DTurnerBlogs, @GlobalKnowledge, com/groups/46747; Db2 for z/OS at linkedin. @IDUGDB2, @Isaac_Yassin, @jodiraquel, com/groups/1171547; and Db2 for z/OS DBAs @JoshARhoads, @LyndaKershaw, @Macro_4, at linkedin.com/groups/2008475; amongst @MainframeBaby, @MainframeDebate, many others. @martinpacker, @microfocus, @mitzihunte,

@PlexSpy, @RegHarbeck @russellbonner, In addition, there are now mainframers @Sheena_Seguin, @seasoftsocial @susvis, using Instagram (eg @ibm, @Syncsort, @TeamARIN, @termalabs, @ @lifeatibm, @ibmdata, @ibmsports, ToolboxforIT, @VirtualCICS, @VirtualIMS, and @ibminterconnect, @t_eddolls). @WarrenWhitlock.

It may not be a definitive list, but it’s a good place to start!

maintained for many years by the University of Other online information Alabama, and continues to be well supported. Wikipedia Unlike the high-level blogs, this is the place for very specific technical discussions. Subscribers can Although not a newsletter or journal, Wikipedia is sign up to receive useful summaries of message a great online encyclopaedia that is written and threads. maintained by its readers. The editors work hard to listserv.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html make sure that valuable content is not vandalized, and the site contains a surprisingly up-to-date You can also find information on Google Groups at: range of mainframe-related definitions. groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/bit. en.wikipedia.org/ listserv.ibm-main

IBM Z Favorites RACF-L zFavorites for z Systems is a collection of links to A discussion group that focuses on RACF. helpful z Systems Web sites. It has links to various listserv.uga.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A0=RACF-L interest categories, such as products, product documentation, software and solutions, support Assembler-List and more. Use the navigation bar to the left to A discussion group that focuses on Assembler. select your area of interest. www.lsoft.com/scripts/wl.exe? www-01.ibm.com/servers/resourcelink/ SL1=ASSEMBLER-LIST&H=LISTSERV.UGA.EDU svc00100.nsf/pages/ibm-z-favorites? OpenDocument IMS list IBM Knowledge Center for z/OS A discussion group that focuses on IMS. http://imslistserv.bmc.com/scripts/wa- IBM Knowledge Center is IBM’s strategic platform BMC.exe?A0=IMS-L for delivering technical content. The V2R3 main page has links to where you can find information CICS list about how to install, maintain, and use IBM z/OS. www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/ A discussion group that focuses on CICS. en/SSLTBW_2.3.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r3/en/ https://listserv.uga.edu/cgi-bin/ homepage.html wa?A0=CICS-L

IBM-MAIN listserv The IBM Mainframe discussion list has been

• Mainframe Tips from Bhooshan Sureshrao Mainframe-related apps Mane, which provides mainframe tips for There are now mainframe-related apps available COBOL, JCL, Db2, VSAM, and CICS. that you can download from Google Play fon • Mainframe Quiz also from Bhooshan Sureshrao Android devices and the App Store on Apple Mane, which has quiz questions for COBOL, devices. So, what comes as an app? JCL, VSAM, Db2, and CICS. • Mainframe tutorials covers CICS, COBOL programming, IMS DB, Db2, JCL, and VSAM. IBM HMC Mobile for Z and LinuxONE allows users to securely monitor or manage systems from anywhere, even if they are spread across multiple And there are lots more like that. I’ve no idea how Hardware Management Consoles. user can useful they are, but there must be a need for them view system details, including status, hardware or people wouldn’t keep releasing them. messages, memory, processors, and more. It’s good to know that your mobile device can be a useful resource for working on a mainframe. And IBM Digital Assistant allows users to interact and it’s handy to know that while you’re waiting for a engage with IBM experts anytime, anywhere. You plane or friends to show up, you can sharpen and need an IBM ID to use the app. hone your mainframe skills on an app on your phone or tablet. Mainframe tutorial and refresher apps available include: • Mainframe IBM Interview QA from Programmerworld, which gives 600+ interview questions.

SHARE in Europe and Interaction in Australia. share.org Mainframe user groups gse.org interaction.com.au The IBM mainframe world has attracted numerous user organizations and special interest groups • zNextGen is part of SHARE, and invites people (SIGs). Most hold regular meetings and who are new to enterprise computing, in a new conferences, often with satellite groups and role with z Systems servers, or working as new chapters throughout the world. Here are a few z Systems professionals, to participate. of them: share.org/page/meet-the-znextgen

• SHARE. The oldest (1955) and probably most • CMG. The Computer Measurement Group is influential IBM user organization with SIGs widely supported and specializes in capacity focusing on various aspects of IBM software, planning and performance issues (mainframe hardware and security. Known as GUIDE/

and increasingly distributed). There is a large network of CMG organizations worldwide. There are also two large user organizations cmg.org for data center managers with a focus on infrastructure (including mainframe): • IDUG – International DB2 User Group. idug.org • AFCOM (afcom.com)

• TPFUG – TPF User Group (yes, it’s still out • 7x24 Exchange there, handling 5000 transactions per second). (7x24exchange.org) tpfug.org Apart from the Virtual IMS user group (itech- • Global WebSphere Community. ed.com/virtualims), regional IMS user groups websphereusergroup.co.uk/wug/ include the long-established Dallas/Fort Worth group and a number of newer ones. • International zSeries Oracle SIG for companies licensed for Oracle on z/Linux and/or z/OS. Canada has CIPS, Canada’s Association of IT zseriesoraclesig.org Professionals, which has been in existence since 1958 and can be found at cips.ca/.

Compiled by Trevor Eddolls of GlossaryiTech-Ed

Glossary of Terminology Definitions of some mainframe-related terms

This glossary is intended as an aide memoire for experienced mainframers and a useful reference for those new to the z/OS world. If you would like to suggest any new entries for the next edition, please send them to [email protected] (we will even list you as a contributor!).

3270 Access method IBM’s family of dumb, block-mode synchronous screen IBM-specific jargon for and printer terminals, which became the standard for software that moves data between main storage and terminal/mainframe connectivity. I/O devices.

3270 data stream ACF/VTAM Format used by 3270 devices for communication, and Advanced Communications Function / Virtual much used for emulation to make PCs look like dumb Telecommunications Access Method is IBM’s proprietary terminals. telecommunications software.

5250 ACID Terminal standard for the iSeries/400, System/3x etc. This acronym describes the properties of a transaction. Atomicity refers to a transaction’s changes to the state ABARS – either it all happens or nothing happens. Consistency Aggregate Backup And Recovery Support. A disaster refers to the state of a transaction. It must not violate recovery feature within DFSMShsm for automatically any of the integrity constraints associated with the state. creating files containing back-ups of critical data. The Isolation refers to the transaction not being affected by main use of ABARS is to group all the datasets relating others. Durability refers to the survival of changes to to a particular application together. state after a transaction completes.

Abend ACL (1) ABnormal ENDing. IBMspeak for an unexpected Access Control Lists control which users or groups of termination to a program run, eg a crash. users can access which files and programs. They are part of the security system and are checked by RACF. Above the line In z/OS, z/VM, and VSE/ESA, above the line refers to ACL (2) virtual/real memory locations with an address greater Automated Cartridge Library. Synonymous with ATL than 16MB. The 16MB limit resulted from earlier (Automated Tape Library). operating systems supporting 24-bit addressing. ACO ACB Automated Console Operations. Automated procedures Access Control Block. The control block used to tie an that replace or reduce the number of actions an application program to a VSAM dataset. operator takes from a console in response to system or network activities. Access control Enforcing rules governing use of computer resources ADA by restricting both the use and type of use to authorized Programming language much loved by the military individuals and the computer resources they are (ADA is a US government standard), which uses it for responsible for. writing systems for controlling guided missiles and the like. Withdrawn August 1994.

Address Resolution Protocol between the then new 31-bit addressing that expanded The Internet Protocol (IP) used to dynamically map IP the addressable space from 16MB (24 bit) to 2GB. z/ addresses to physical hardware Media Access Control OS introduced 64-bit addressing. (MAC) addresses. AMS Address space Access Method Services. z/OS and VSE subsystem The virtual storage allocated to an executing task in a for performing various data-related actions on VSAM mainframe. Generally used within z/OS to mean the and ICF catalogs, including defining VSAM datasets, space used by one of batch job, system task, or TSO and deleting and copying most dataset types. In short, user. a multi-purpose utility. Also known as IDCAMS because that is the program name. Agile A modern alternative to waterfall models of project Analytics development in which requirements and solutions Extracting hidden value from the massive volumes of emerge through collaborative working between data. developers and users. It results in rapid changes and innovative solutions to problems. APAR Authorized Program Analysis Report. An official report AI of a software error to IBM. Also used to refer to the patch Artificial Intelligence is the simulation of human supplied by IBM to fix the error (PTF is the correct term). intelligence processes by machines, especially computer systems. These processes include learning API (the acquisition of information and rules for using Application Program(ming) Interface. Documented the information), reasoning (using rules to reach programming procedures to access a given piece of approximate or definite conclusions), and self- software; typically an entry point name and parameter correction. list. The re-use of APIs can speed up application development. AIX Advanced Interactive eXecutive. IBM’s version of APL Unix for mid-range systems (System p). It is one of A Programming Language, conceived within IBM by K E four commercial operating systems that are certified Iverson, and popular on the mainframe in the late ’70s to The Open Group’s UNIX 03 standard. It is currently and early ’80s to support end-user activities. supported on IBM Power Systems alongside IBM i and Linux. APM Application Performance Management monitors and AJAX manages the performance and availability of software Asynchronous Javascript And XML is a way of applications in order to meet business needs. creating interactive Web applications using a group of technologies together. These technologies include App XHTML (or HTML) and CSS; the Document Object This usually refers to a mobile application found Model; and the XMLHttpRequest object. on Android and Apple smartphones and tablets.

AMASPZAP Applet z/OS batch utility to apply a fix directly to object codein A small application program written in the Java that situ. Often protected against unauthorized use because can be retrieved from a Web server and executed in of its additional ability to make direct changes to disk. a browser.

AMODE APPN Addressing MODE. Attribute of z/OS programs Advanced Peer-to-Peer Networking architecture is indicating the length (in bits) of the addresses used an enhancement to SNA architecture. It can handle in the program. Introduced in MVS/XA to differentiate dynamic multipath routing.

ARM BaaS Automatic Restart Management is a sysplex-wide Blockchain as a Service – like Software as a Service integrated restart mechanism that can restart MVS (SaaS) – is where cloud-based solutions are consumed subsystems after an abend, restart workloads on to build, host, and operate blockchains while the cloud- another MVS image after an MVS failure, and restart based service provider keeps the infrastructure agile a failed MVS image. and operational.

AS/400 Backout Application System/400. IBM’s mid-range processor, A process that removes all database updates performed announced in June 1988. It was replaced by the IBM by an application that has abended (qv). Power Systems in April 2008. Now called IBM i. BAL ASCII Basic Assembler Language. The machine language on American Standard Code for Information Interchange. the original S/360 from which the modern Assembler A modification of the international code which has languages are derived. become a de facto standard (except for IBM which also uses the EBCDIC code) for transmitting data. Uses Bandwidth seven bits plus a parity bit, and includes alphanumeric A measure of how fast a network can transfer and control characters. ASCII must be converted to information, originally measured in Hertz (Hz), but now EBCDIC for uploading to IBM mainframes. used for any measure of network throughput. The more precise definition: frequency range within a radiation ASM band required to transmit a particular signal. Measures Auxiliary Storage Manager. The part of z/OS that looks the difference between the highest and lowest signal after the I/O operations relating to paging – specifically frequencies in millions of cycles per second. the pages and page slots on external storage (typically DASD). BASIC Beginners All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code. Assembler Universal interactive programming language. Programming language that allows the user to get close to the hardware on IBM mainframes. Assembler Batch statements correspond one-to-one with mainframe, An accumulation of data brought together for processing machine-level instructions. or transmission, usually unattended. Less formally, the processing of such data, as opposed to online ATL processing where a user is present to respond Automated Tape Library (also known as Automated interactively. Cartridge System – ACS, tape silo, or silo). Type of mass storage system (MSS) in which industry standard BCD tapes are loaded by a robotic arm. Binary-Coded Decimal. A binary-coded notation in which each of the decimal digits is represented by Augmented reality a binary numeral. This differs from the pure binary Using a device, such as a smartphone or tablet, to notation, where the entire number is represented as a view an object, such as server, and see on that device single binary numeral. additional information about the object – such as performance information. BCS The Basic Catalog Structure and the VVDS are the two Auxiliary storage parts of the ICF catalog. The BCS contains dataset and All storage needing a channel I/O to access it (basically alias names and volume serial numbers. cache, SSD, disk, tape, mass storage).

AWLC Advanced Workload License Charges is a new monthly licence pricing metric from IBM and applies to z196s.

BCU BLOB A Balanced Configuration Unit comprises processor Binary Large OBject. A generic term for a file containing memory, I/O, storage, and DB2 resources. It is the some kind of binary data (text, image, document, smallest combination of these that work together sound, etc). Typically, BLOBs can be transferred and efficiently. As more work is added to the system, manipulated across a wide range of platforms. so more BCUs can be added. This avoids any one component being too big in terms of the others. Block A string of data elements, such as characters, words, BDAM or physical records, that are recorded or transmitted Basic Direct Access Method allows programmers to as a unit. access specific blocks of data on DASD. Blockchain Benchmark A blockchain is a distributed database that maintains An agreed workload used as a standard against which a continuously growing list of ordered records. to compare the performance of different hardware/ Blockchains are secure by design and an example of software. For a benchmark to be useful it needs to be a distributed computing system. Once recorded, the a public standard. data in a block cannot be altered retroactively.

Big Data Bluemix The SNA/APPN command used to activate an LU-LU Bluemix is an open-standards, cloud-based platform for session following the successful completion of the SNA/ building, managing, and running all types of apps, for APPN session initiation processing. Web, mobile, big data, and smart devices. It includes Java, mobile back-end development, and application Big SQL monitoring, all provided as-a-service in the cloud. This allows users to access Hadoop-based data using familiar SQL statements. It utilizes InfoSphere BMS BigInsights. Basic Mapping Support. An interface between CICS and an application to control the movement and Bimodal IT presentation of datastreams to and from a dumb Gartner’s management of IT model where one strand terminal. BMS allows data to be displayed without is very conservative and unwilling to change and the allowing for display-dependent formatting characters. other strand embraces rapid application development and is tightly linked to business needs. Boolean An operation that follows the rules of Boolean algebra. BIND The SNA/APPN command used to activate an LU-LU Boot session following the successful completion of the SNA/ To prepare a computer system for operation by loading APPN session initiation processing. an operating system.

BIOS BPAM Basic Input/Output System. The I/O component of a Basic Partitioned Access Method is a low-level access simple operating system defining the interface between method used to access Partitioned DataSets (PDSs). the operating system and the outside world. BSAM Bitcoins Basic Sequential Access Method, along with QSAM, is Bitcoins originated in a 2008 concept paper by Satoshi an access method used to access sequential datasets. Nakamoto. Bitcoins are a virtual currency that are ‘mined’ by solving complex algorithms and are usually Bus stored in a digital wallet. Bitcoin exchanges are Generic term in data communications to describe a completely private, which makes them popular with wiring topology (such as that used in Ethernet) in which criminals! Many legitimate companies offer products devices are connected along a single linear medium. for sale using bitcoins. 138 © Arcati Ltd, 2021 Arcati Mainframe Yearbook 2021 Glossary

BYOD CCL Bring your own device is the policy many companies Communication Controller for Linux (CCL) on zSeries are adopting to allow employees to bring their own runs the Network Control Program (NCP) software mobile devices (laptops, tablets, and smartphones) to product in Linux, enabling users to get rid of their legacy their workplace, and to use those devices to access 3745 communication controllers running NCP-based privileged company information and applications. SNA workloads to zSeries servers.

BYOI CDS Bring Your Own Identity is the growing practice of taking Configuration DataSet. a validated identity with you and so not needing to remember different user-ids and passwords for different CGI environments. There are security issues. Common Gateway Interface. A mechanism used by HTTP servers to invoke arbitrary programs for Byte additional processing of certain requests; typically, A string of 8 bits that represents one EBCDIC character. those involving database access. The IBM mainframe architecture is organized around the concept of the byte. Change management The methodology for planning and controlling software C changes. A programming language developed at Bell Labs in 1972, so named because its predecessor was named Channel B. Unix was written in C. A specialized computer used in the IBM mainframe architecture to control transfers between devices and C/C++ the processor unit. The channel offloads some of the An optional, separately priced feature of z/OS, available processing associated with I/O from the main CPU. with or without Debug Tool. The C/C++ IBM Open Class Library is included with z/OS, but is only enabled when Channel adapter C/C++ is licensed. Hardware unit to attach a channel to a processor.

Cache Channel attached High-speed buffer between a fast device and a slow Devices that are directly attached to the processor by device. In large IBM systems cacheing may take cable rather than over a communications link. place in the CPU (in main or expanded storage), the controller, device head-of-string, or the device itself Channels (eg in a track buffer). It is used to reduce access time. CICS TS 3.1 introduced a replacement for size- restricted COMMAREAs – they are channels and Capacity on Demand containers. Any number of containers can be passed Processors can be purchased with extra capacity between programs and they are grouped together in already on-board but not functioning. When extra channels. capacity is required at a site, it is turned on. This is non-disruptive and customers don’t pay for the extra CHPID capacity until they start using it. CHannel Path IDentifier. A single byte binary value used to uniquely identify each channel path on an eServer Catalog zSeries and previous mainframe systems. A dataset that contains information about other datasets, eg type, location, size, format. The z/OS CICS master catalog usually also contains entries for user Customer Information Control System. General catalogs. purpose TP monitor for terminal-oriented and inter- system transaction processing in z/OS and VSE/ESA environments. Now with added SOA.

CICS Explorer Communication Server This is a system management tool for CICS systems IBM’s all inclusive, multi-platform, software bundle that that’s based on the Eclipse platform. provides a plethora of terminal emulation, Web-to-host, and networking capabilities. CICSplex A CICS complex (CICSplex) is a group of inter- Compile communicating CICS systems. The translation of a high-level programming language (source program) into a machine language program CICSPlex System Manager (CPSM) (an executable program). This provides system management as well as automation and workload management. Compiler A program that translates high-level programming CKD languages into machine language programs. Count Key Data is a way to format disk drive using cylinder number, track number, and physical record. Composite applications A composite application is an application built by Client/server combining multiple services. This tends to mean Generic term for systems (also known as server/ taking part of a really useful mainframe application requester) in which one machine provides a range of and combining it with some other code so that the services to one or more other machines. mainframe application becomes available over the Web

CLIST Compression Control language used to manage interactive Generic term for a method of reducing the amount of applications in the z/OS TSO environment. Largely space needed to store data, by encoding the data. This superseded by REXX. is achieved through the elimination of empty fields, gaps, redundancies, and unnecessary data to shorten Cloud computing the length of records or blocks. A new name for something similar to client/server computing. A user launches a browser and clicks a link. Connector Somewhere else an application launches and work is One way of integrating CICS applications as Web done. The mainframe seems to have always worked services is to use connectors on the mainframe and in this way. Organizations like Microsoft, Amazon, and use native interfaces to permit tight integration with the Google are trying to become big players in this ‘new’ target application. paradigm. Containers CMOS CICS TS 3.1 introduced a replacement for size- Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor. A chip restricted COMMAREAs – they are channels and technology used widely by IBM in its processors, containers. Any number of containers can be passed superseding the water-cooled ECL chips on the between programs and they are grouped together in mainframe. channels. Channels are deleted when no programs are using them. CMS Conversational (originally Cambridge – the lab where Control Point it was built) Monitor System. Operating system running SNA/APPN/HPR functionality that performs under VM, and providing timesharing and program authorization, directory services and configuration development facilities. management.

COBOL CORBA Programming language, very widely used for Common Object Request Broker Architecture. Set of commercial applications on the mainframe. Some standards for distributed object management from the sources suggest that CICS and COBOL account for Object Management Group (OMG). 85% of all transactions processed. 140 © Arcati Ltd, 2021 Arcati Mainframe Yearbook 2021 Glossary

Coupling Data dictionary Generic term used to mean connecting of processors A data dictionary (DD) is a database containing together into a more or less tightly-knit computing information about the way items of data are used. complex. Used specifically by IBM to mean the Typically a DD contains details of data names, data connection of multiple eServer zSeries processors in usage, data structures, data models, and so on. a Sysplex. Data lake Coupling Facility A data lake is a repository of data stored in its natural Hardware from IBM, where common tables can be format. This could be in a Hadoop-based repository. shared in a Sysplex, for high-speed cacheing, update locking of shared data, list processing and workload Data mining balancing between multiple processors. The practice of using a data warehouse for highly complex, ad hoc queries. CPC Central Processor Complex. Data Privacy Passports These were introduced with the z15 mainframe. They CPU enable users to protect and provision data, and revoke Central Processing Unit. Processor. The part of a access to that data at any time. They not only work in computer that executes instructions. the z15 environment, but also across an enterprise’s hybrid multi-cloud environment. CRM Customer Relationship Management refers to the Data sewer way organizations manage their relationships with What happens to a data lake as more and more records customers – including finding, marketing to, selling to, are added. and servicing these customers. Data warehouse CTG General term for a collection of database, middleware, CICS Transaction Gateway provides J2EE standards- and query tools that allow fast, flexible access to near- based access to CICS applications, which means it’s operational corporate data. an easy way to make existing CICS applications part of a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA). DataOps This is an automated, process-oriented methodology, CTC that’s used to improve the quality and reduce the cycle Channel-To-Channel connections would link two time of data analytics. mainframes and provide high-speed communication. DataPower Cylinder IBM WebSphere DataPower SOA Appliances is a family The tracks, in an assembly of magnetic disks, that of pre-built, pre-configured rack mountable network can be accessed without repositioning the access devices that accelerate Web services deployments mechanism. while extending SOA infrastructure.

DASD Dataset Direct Access Storage Device. IBMspeak for disk. A unit of data storage and retrieval consisting of one or more data records. Outside of the IBM mainframe DAT environment, people call them files. Dynamic Address Translation. The process by which virtual addresses are converted into real addresses during instruction execution.

DB2 DevSecOps Database/2. Relational database management system DevSecOps is DevOps with security consideration first announced for mainframe environments in 1983. introduced earlier in the life cycle of application Originally promoted as an end-user tool, but is now development in an attempt to minimize vulnerabilities. IBM’s preferred DBMS for just about everything and runs on all platforms. DFSMS Data Facility Storage Management Subsystem. An Db2ZAI element of z/OS and also available for z/VM, as IBM Db2 AI for z/OS empowers the optimizer in the DFSMS/VM. The idea is that you simply tell the system Db2 for z/OS engine to determine the best-performing about your storage, back-up, performance, and other query access paths, based on a site’s workload requirements of the data, and the system does the rest characteristics. for you. Of course, it’s not really that simple.

Debug DFSMSdfp The human problem determination process for DFSMS Data Facility Product. A component of DFSMS software. Literally, to remove bugs. that provides functions for storage, data, program, and device management, in conjunction with distributed DEDB data access. Enables the definition of the services Data Entry DataBases are one of two types of IMS fast to be assigned to new datasets. Handles catalog path database. These databases do not have indexes management and access methods. and are stored in VSAM files. DFSMSdss Defragmentation DFSMS DataSet Services. An optional, separately The use of a software utility to improve access priced feature of DFSMS that handles device migration, and retrieval time by rewriting fragmented data to copy, space management, and dump/restore. It contiguous sectors of a computer storage medium. also converts existing data between non-SMS and SMS volumes, and provides an interface for storage Denial of Service administrators (ISMF). An insidious, carefully-orchestrated attack on computer systems or networks to overload their resources with a DFSMShsm barrage of requests in the hope of discovering overload- DFSMS Hierarchical Storage Manager. An optional, induced vulnerabilities within the targets or to just separately priced feature of DFSMS. It is a sophisticated disrupt the mission-critical activities of an enterprise. automated system for both back-up and hierarchical storage management. It includes an ISPF interface DeOS for end users who wish to migrate, recall, back-up, or No longer is DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) recover individual datasets, or to override the default our only worry, we need to think about Destruction Of migration and/or back-up parameters. Service attacks. DFSMSrmm Device DFSMS Removable Media Manager. Its goal was to Any computer peripheral, such as tape or DASD, or integrate the system managed storage principles of any object that appears to be a peripheral. DFSMS into all removable media, most notably tape and optical. DevOps Part DEVelopment and part OPerations, DevOps Digital reinvention is a philosophy emphasizing the collaboration and Successful digital reinvention follows a fundamental communication between software developers and rethink or reimagining of how an organization operates other IT people, so that building, testing, and releasing and how it engages with its environment and customers. software, can happen rapidly, frequently, and more reliably.

Digital Transformation (DX) e-business Another way of describing the inevitable change in Used to refer to business transactions that use the technology that occurs in businesses that plan to stay Internet. in business. ECI Disruptive technology The External Call Interface is used by CICS to allow Henry Ford said: “If I had asked people what they non-CICS programs to invoke programs under CICS. wanted, they would have said faster horses”. That’s an example of a disruptive technology – something that Eclipse changes the way people do things. Eclipse is an Open Source IDE. IBM’s version is sold as WebSphere Studio Workbench. The Eclipse platform DL/I comprises the platform run-time, the workspace, the Data Language/I. The I is the Roman numeral One. The workbench, the Standard Widget Toolkit (SWT), the data manipulation language within IMS DB. DL/I is also Version and Configuration Management (VCM), and the product name for IBM’s VSE/ESA implementation the help system. Eclipse comes with a large number of IMS DB. of plug-ins. The user interface for Eclipse is known as the workbench. DLSw Widely-used SNA/APPN(/NetBIOS)-over-TCP/IP Edge computing transport mechanism which, however, unlike EE, does Putting some computing power at the furthest reaches not support SNA COS or routing. of the network to control IoT devices, for example

DMZ EE A De-Militarized Zone is used in the on-going war HPR-over-UDP/IP, created by committee and codified against viruses and malware etc. Typically, one in RFC 2353 in 1998, which permits SNA/APPN computer accepts incoming data and send outgoing networking, replete with native COS and routing, across data. Behind it is a firewall, and behind that is the IP networks. protected LAN. EJB Docker Enterprise JavaBeans. A server-side, transaction- Docker is a software container platform. Everything you oriented extension to the JavaBeans component model need to make the software work is packaged into this specification published by Sun. EJB are JavaBeans, but container. It includes libraries and settings to run on any have no user interface and are designed to run within a platform. This way, you get an efficient, lightweight, self- special EJB container. In principle, any properly coded contained system, plus the assurance that the software EJB should run within any fully compliant EJB container. will always run the same, no matter where it’s deployed. IBM has Docker Enterprise Edition for IBM Cloud. Enqueue The z/OS expression (often abbreviated to ENQ) for Domino requesting resource serialization. ENQ can be used to Web server technology from Lotus (June 1996), which put a user-named entry in the system resource queue allows browsers to interact with Notes and access Notes in order to prevent another program using a serially databases. Now closely integrated with WebSphere. usable resource.

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. © Arcati Limited, 2021 143 Arcati Mainframe Yearbook 2021 Glossary

Enterprise Extender FBA Enterprise Extender (EE) is a combination of SNA Fixed Block Architecture is a way of formatting disk encapsulated in IP packets, so it can be thought of as drives where space is allocated in fixed-length blocks a kind of protocol. rather than cylinders.

EPI FDBR A CICS External Presentation Interface service is an Fast DataBase Recovery creates a separate IMS implementation of a service that can be created from a control region (the Fast Database Recovery region) 3270 terminal. EPI provides communication with 3270 to monitor an IMS subsystem. If it detects a failure, it terminal-based CICS applications. will recover any database resources that are locked by the failed IMS, so they’re available for other IMS ERP subsystems. Enterprise Resource Planning systems try to integrate all the data and processes that exist within an FHE organization into a single unified system. Fully Homomorphic Encryption allows users to perform addition and multiplication operations on encrypted Error log data, which, when decrypted, gives the same output A dataset or file that contains a record of machine as would have been produced using unencrypted data. checks on device errors, which are stored for later analysis. Fibre optic channel Channel technology which replaced copper bus-and- ESB tag channel cables with fibre-optic links. An Enterprise Service Bus is a software architecture construct that is standards-based and flexible. It is an FICON attempt to separate the service being called and the FIbre CONnection. Mainframe channel that implements required transport medium. the ANSI FCS transport. Each FICON channel can handle over 4,000 I/O operations per second, ESCON equivalent to eight ESCON(qv) channels. The FICON Enterprise System Connectivity. The high-speed channel link speed is 100MB/sec full duplex, compared fibre-optic channel architecture (using a serial, packet- with 17MB/sec simplex with ESCON links. switched protocol) first available on ES/9000 and 3090Js and many peripherals. Replaced by FICON in Firewall May 1998, though still available. Specialized software designed to prevent unauthorized access to a computer system while permitting validated, ESDS non-harmful interactions to get through. Entry Sequenced DataSet is a VSAM sequential dataset. Flat file Any file (dataset, mainframe parlance) stored in a file ESM access method without an index which, of course, An External Security Manager is software that controls eliminates all relational DBMSs. access to applications and data externally. RACF is an External Security Manager. Floating point One of several methods of storing numbers on an ESS IBM mainframe and most other computers. Similar to The Total Storage Enterprise Storage Server, code- scientific notation, such as 3.75 times 10 to the 25th named shark, is a high-speed data storage product. power, only it is 2 or 16 that is taken to some power.

EWLC FLPA Entry Workload Licence Charges allow customers only The Fixed Link Pack Area is an area of storage pay for peak z/OS usage, not for full machine capacity. containing modules loaded at IPL time.

FORTRAN GDPR FORmula TRANslation. A programming language best General Data Protection Regulation applies to any suited for engineering, scientific, and mathematical organization storing data about EU citizens. applications. GDPS Fragmentation Geographically Dispersed Parallel Sysplex is an When an operating system writes data to disk or other application to manage z/OS remote copy configuration storage media, and there is insufficient contiguous and storage subsystems, to automate various tasks, space, the data is then written to discontiguous and perform failure recovery for a sysplex located at sectors. The result is fragmented data. Fragmentation two sites. can cause increased data access times because the operating system must search different tracks for GTF information. Generalized Trace Facility. An optional z/OS utility that records system events, which can be used for problem FTP diagnosis. File Transfer Protocol is an application layer protocol that uses TCP and Telnet services to transfer bulk data GitHub files between machines or hosts. A Web-based Git version-control repository hosting service, which is available on mainframes. Fog computing or fog networking or fogging This is an architecture that uses edge devices to carry GUIDE out a substantial amount of computation, storage, and Guidance for Users of Integrated Data processing communication locally and routed over the Internet Equipment. For many years, an international user backbone. group for users of large IBM equipment. Main GUIDE interests were in applications and the commercial world. FWLC Depending on the area of the world you live in, it either Flat Workload License Charge. A flat monthly charge stepped aside for SHARE or merged with SHARE (now for a software product, no matter what size of zSeries GUIDE/SHARE in Europe, for example). server it is being run on. Hackathon Gamification A caffeine-rich events where teams use APIs to create A way of making using the software more fun – like customer-friendly applications quickly. in a game – and so people are more likely to do it. It has applications in mundane tasks such as updating Hadoop a knowledgebase. An open-source software framework for storage and large-scale processing of data-sets, ie Big Data. On Gateway a mainframe, it runs in a Linux partition (Linux on One way of integrating CICS applications as Web System z). services is to use gateways, which run off the mainframe on middle tier servers and may well use Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) traditional methods, such as screen scraping. A filesystem used to store Big Data.

GDG HALDB Generation Data Group. Collection of (z/OS non-VSAM) High-Availability Large Databases are the newest datasets all with the same logical name (GDG Base (since V7) IMS databases. They are like souped-up Entry); the individual datasets are uniquely identified very big full-function databases. by the generation number which is stored as part of the dataset name.

HBase Hub This is a non-relational, distributed database, written A generic term for a device that has a single connection in Java that is used to store Big Data. to the host and many connections for other devices to connect to it. HCD Hardware Configuration Definition is an interactive tool I/O used to define the hardware configuration. Input/output. Refers to the transmission of data into or out of a processor’s memory. This would include HDA communication lines and peripherals such as disk Head/Disk Assembly. The read/write head and drives. associated bits and pieces that read data from disks. The implication is also of a sealed unit, at least from ICETOOL the customer perspective, as opposed to a removable An enhanced DFSORT utility that includes the OUTFIL disk pack. feature.

HFS IBM i Hierarchical File System comes with Linux and refers An operating system running on IBM Power Systems. to the way files are stored. It was originally named OS/400 and ran on AS/400s.

HiperBatch IBM Z A way of running batch jobs in hyperspace, so there IBM’s mainframe family of processors, eg z15, z14, etc. was far less I/O and things ran faster. ICF HMC Integrated Catalog Facility contains catalog information Hardware Management Console used to manage about datasets. It is made up BCS and VVDS. hardware. ICF Host Integrated Coupling Facility is a component of a Parallel A computer system that is a server and/or serves Sysplex. It allows multiple processors to share, cache, attached terminals. Often used to refer to mainframe. update, and balance data access.

HPR ICSF High-Performance Routing is an extension to APPN Integrated Cryptographic Service Facility is part of MVS networking providing improved routing performance security, protecting data on the mainframe. and reliability. IDAA (IBM DB2 Analytics Accelerator) HSA This high-performance appliance integrates IBM High-Speed Adapter is the name for subchannels on Netezza and zEnterprise technologies, providing fast some servers. results for complex and data-intensive DB2 queries on data warehousing, business intelligence, and analytic HTML workloads. HyperText Mark-up Language is a “mark-up language” for defining the structure of a document – eg Web IDCAMS pages. Access Method Services. Multi-purpose batch VSAM utility program. HTTP HyperText Transfer Protocol is the protocol used to request, transfer, and display hypertext documents.

IDE IIOP Integrated Development Environment. Salesmen say it Internet Inter-ORB Protocol is an object-oriented stands for “It Does Everything”, and unlucky customers protocol that makes it possible for distributed programs as “I Do Everything”! An IDE could be a glorified text written in different programming languages to editor right up to all-singing all-dancing software like communicate over the Internet. Eclipse and Visual Studio. IML IEBCOMPR Initial Microcode (sometimes Machine) Load. The z/OS Compare Datasets utility does a logical compare first step in starting up a mainframe, during which the of datasets. Replaced by SuperC in ISPF/PDF. firmware is automatically copied into the machine.

IEBCOPY IMS z/OS Library Copy utility for copying members of Information Management System. Vintage but a partitioned dataset (PDS), unloading a PDS into extremely powerful system for transactional workloads, a sequential dataset and back again. Unloading is still underpinning many of the world’s business-critical especially useful for copying a PDS to tape. applications. Composed of two systems: Database Manager (IMS DB) and a Transaction Manager (IMS IEBGENER TM). z/OS Sequential Copy/Generate Dataset utility. Replaced by ICEGENER in DFSORT and several IMS catalog non-IBM products. The IMS catalog contains information about IMS program resources, database resources, and relevant IEBPTPCH application metadata that IMS controls. z/OS Print-Punch utility for producing a hard copy of datasets and library members. Replaced by ISPF/ IMS Connect PDF’s hardcopy capabilities. This is an integrated TCP/IP gateway for IMS, allowing user-written applications to access IMS data and IEBUPDTE transaction services from any TCP/IP client. It also z/OS Update Dataset utility. Can only be used for PDS supports callout from IMS applications to outside members and sequential datasets with fixed-length services. records no greater than 80 bytes in length. IND$FILE IEHLIST Mainframe file transfer program. z/OS List System Data utility for listing a VTOC or the directory of a PDS. Info/Man IBM Information/Management. Software problem, IEHMOVE change and configuration management software. Now z/OS Move System Data utility for moving or copying called Tivoli Information Management for z/OS. logical collections of operating system data. Replaced by DFSMSdss. Internet of Things (IoT) This refers to devices such a remote sensors, CCTV, IETF weather satellites, etc that will be monitoring thrughout Internet Engineering Task Force. An open community the day, and producing data that can be captured and of network designers, operators, vendors, and analysed. researchers concerned with the evolution of the Internet architecture and the smooth operation of the Internet. IOCDS Input/Output Configuration DataSet. The dataset IFL specifying the I/O devices that can be connected to a Integrated Facility for Linux. Dedicated Linux processor mainframe. on the zSeries.

IOCP ISPF/PDF Input/Output Configuration Program. The program ISPF/Program Development Facility. ISPF facility describing the I/O configuration to the channel providing access to application development services subsystem. for end users and programmers. Incorporates C and REXX programming support, and some support for Internet of Everything (IoE) programmable workstations. The concept originated at Cisco, who defines IoE as “the intelligent connection of people, process, ISV data, and things”. With IoT, all communications are Independent Software Vendor. A software vendor between machines, IoE adds machine-to-people which isn’t part of and/or doesn’t belong to a hardware (M2P), and technology-assisted people-to-people manufacturer. (P2P) interactions to machine-to-machine (M2M) communications. IT4IT This Reference Architecture prescribes holistic IP management of the business of IT with continuous Internet Protocol. An Internet protocol that routes data insight and control, enabling ‘Boundaryless Information through networks. IP acts as an intermediary between Flow’ across the entire IT Value Chain. It provides the higher protocol layers and the physical network. It prescriptive guidance on how to design, procure, and does not provide error recovery or flow control. implement the functionality needed to run IT. The end- to-end, ‘how to’ emphasis of the IT Value Chain and IP address IT4IT Reference Architecture also enables the state of The numerical Internet Protocol (IP) address of an services that IT delivers to be systematically tracked Internet computer. Every computer has a unique across the service life-cycle. numerical IP address. IPv6, which offers 64-bit addressing, is meant to replace IPv4, which only offers ITIL 32-bit addressing. One day, all the addresses available Information Technology Infrastructure Library. ITIL with 32-bit addressing are meant to be used up! provides a framework of best practice guidance for IT service managers. The actual ITIL publications cover IPL areas such as service strategy, service design, service Initial Program Load. The first part of the process of transition, service operation, and continual service loading an operating system into a machine. improvement.

IRC J2EE Inter-Region Communication is a CICS facility providing Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition. The Java Software communication between CICS regions using functions Development Kit (SDK) tools, APIs, and run-time (ie such as Multiregion Operation (MRO) and Distributed execution) environment targeted at Java developers Program Link (DPL). building enterprise-class, server-side applications.

IRD Java Intelligent Resource Director. z/OS feature for An object-oriented programming environment redistributing workloads on the fly. developed by Sun towards the end of 1995. Java creates applets which can be downloaded across the ISHELL Internet, and which will allow clients to interact with ISHELL (ISPF Shell) is the name of the panel displayed objects on the Web and intranet servers. after issuing the ISH command. It can be used to view files and directories. Java Virtual Machine The facility allowing Java applets/source code to run ISPF on a computer. Interactive System Productivity Facility. Menu and screen management system.

JavaBeans JMS A platform-independent, software component The Java Message Service is a Java API to message- technology for building reusable Java components oriented middleware (MOM). called Beans. The JavaBeans component model specifies how to build reusable software components, JNDI how the resulting Beans describe their properties to Java Naming and Directory Interface is really two APIs visual rapid application development tools, and how used to keep track of, and access, dispersed data. they communicate with each other. Beans can be combined to create applications or applets. JNI The Java Native Interface is a programming interface JavaScript for writing Java native methods and embedding the An interpreted scripting language. Java virtual machine into native applications.

JCA JSON Java EE Connector Architecture can connect existing JavaScript Object Notation is an open standard format CICS applications to external Java applications using using human-readable text to send data objects as an the CICS Transaction Gateway. alternative to XML.

JCICS JSP The CICS Java class library (JCICS) can be used by JavaServer Pages. Uses XML-like tags and scriptlets Java applications to access CICS services. to encapsulate logic that fills out the dynamic content of HTML pages. JCL Job Control Language. The language used on the JVM mainframe to describe the steps of a batch job (files see Java Virtual Machine. to be used, programs to be run, etc). Kantara Initiative JDBC This is an organization dedicated to advancing Java DataBase Connectivity. An API that is designed technical and legal innovation related to digital identity for use by Java database applications, and has the management. It isn’t a standards body, buts make same characteristics as Open Database Connectivity recommendations to standards bodies about digital (ODBC). identity management.

JDK Kerberos Java Development Kit. Software development kit from Security system for Unix environments derived from Sun consisting of a Java compiler, a debugger, standard MIT’s Project Athena. Uses a trusted server to ensure Java classes, and a Java run-time (ie JVM) for Unix. that there are no unwanted systems in the network.

Jenkins Kernel A continuous integration tool used most often for The core of an operating system that performs basic software development functions such as allocating hardware resources.

JES2 and JES3 Kilobit Job Entry Subsystem 2. One of two batch processing 1024 bits, or 2 to the 10th power, when referring to subsystems available for z/OS, both developed in the processor storage, real and virtual storage, and channel 1960s and with a different heritage and different control volume. However, when referring to disk storage statements. Each reads batch jobs in, schedules their capacity it is 1000 bits. Abbreviated as Kb. execution and spools their output. JES2 is by far the more popular.

Kilobyte LDS 1024 bytes, or 2 to the 10th power, when referring to Linear DataSet is a type of VSAM dataset that can processor storage, real and virtual storage, and channel be kept permanently in memory thus improving volume. However, when referring to disk storage performance. capacity it is 1000 bytes. Abbreviated as KB. Legacy system KSDS The description given to any system that’s been around Key Sequenced DataSet is a type of VSAM dataset in longer than the programmer who wants to change it. which the physical location of records is controlled by Some ‘legacy systems’ can be comparatively recent the key used. and, despite popular perceptions, they are certainly not exclusive to the mainframe. Kubernetes This is an open-source container-orchestration system Liberty profile for automating application deployment, scaling, and This is a cut down version of the WebSphere Liberty management. It was originally designed by Google. product. It provides a way for CICS, IMS, and DB2 users to easily allow their applications to link to apps KVM running in mobile devices and the Internet of Things. Kernel-based Virtual Machine is a virtualization module in the Linux kernel that allows the kernel to function as LIFO a hypervisor. Last In, First Out. A queuing technique where the most recent addition to the queue is processed first. Also LAN known as a push-down stack. Local Area Network. A generic term for the transport mechanism for a local (eg site or building) network. The Linear Dataset thing that makes current LANs special is their intimacy A VSAM dataset type, similar to an ESDS, but which with the connected machines; effectively the LAN acts always has 4096 byte blocks, and which can be kept as an extension to the internal bus of the attached permanently in memory for enhanced performance. system, and allows a single system to be built from physically dispersed components. Linux An Open Source Unix variant that seems to run on Language Environment everything from workstations (where Microsoft haters LE provides a common run-time environment for major insist it will replace Windows) to mainframes (where programming languages. The common library of run- IBM has spent bags of money making it run well). time services includes message handling, condition handling, storage management routines and time/date Listener functions. An application that ‘listens’ for input on a line and then acts on it. Latency A measure of response time. On a disk drive, how long Load module it takes for the first bit of requested data to rotate under A program in a form that can be loaded into memory the head. In a network, the minimum elapsed time for a for immediate execution. message to be transmitted, consisting of the aggregate delay contributed by the communications links and Logical Partitioning devices along the way. A way of dividing up a processor’s capacity under PR/ SM into physically separate areas (LPARs or Logical LDAP PARtitions) for resilience, performance or security Lightweight Directory Access Protocol. An Internet reasons. directory management standard that provides a consistent way to manage user access to network resources, such as information, applications and systems.

LPA Mainframe Link Pack Area. The z/OS area used for resident A high-performance computer serving many people programs, eg those programs which are most frequently at once and running many different applications used and (usually for performance reasons) should not concurrently. be loaded by each application program from libraries stored on disk. Man-in-the-Middle Data siphoning scheme where fraudulent software LPAR manages to insert itself, undetected, between two Logical PARtitioning is a way of dividing up a network partners by actively emulating the two partners processor’s capacity. being deceived.

LSR MapReduce Local Shared Resources. A technique for improving A process used on Big Data at runtime that maps the CICS performance by the sharing of a common buffer data and reduces it. pool for VSAM datasets. Master catalog LU The z/OS catalog where the search begins for a SNA’s software interface (or ‘port’) through which end dataset. users gain access to the SNA network. MCM LU 6.2 The MultiChip Module (MCM) contains the Central SNA’s protocol suite for program-to-program Electronic Complex (CEC) of a S/390 system. communications. Measured usage LUW The method of charging for software based on the Logical Unit of Work is the amount of work that will be monthly usage. Same as Usage-based pricing. backed out in the event of a failure. For example, a CICS transaction is processing away happily and then Megabit something goes wrong. The LUW defines how much 1,048,576 bits. Abbreviated as Mb. of what has been processed will be backed out and how much that occurred previously can be left. Large Megabyte LUWs are efficient providing that failures are rare. Small Roughly one million bytes – actually 1,048,576 bytes. LUW use processing power, but are more efficient for Abbreviated as MB. recovery after a failure. MFLOPS M2M MegaFLOPS. One MFLOPS is one million floating Machine-to-machine is used when talking about point operations per second – a common measure of machines, devices, and equipment that can numerically intensive compute power. communicate with each other. And that communication can be wired or wireless. MIB Management Information Base. Generic term (often MAC used specifically in relation to the SNMP management Media Access Control. Generic term for the way in protocol) for the database of the objects managed in a which workstations gain access to transmission media. network – usually a LAN.

Macro Microcode A preprocessor (precompiler), and the statements Although it can have very specific alternative meanings, it processes, for Assembler. Generates Assembler its most common usage is as a synonym for firmware. instructions and machine instruction mnemonics as well as allowing assembly time conditional logic.

Microsecond MPF 1/1,000,000 of a second. Message Processing Facility. A utility in z/OS that controls message display and message processing, Microsoft typically to suppress unnecessary system messages. The company that made the shrewd move of persuading A first step towards automated operations. IBM to use its DOS operating system for the IBM PC. The rest is history. MQSeries Messaging and Queueing Series – see WebSphere Middleware MQ. Though it defies definition, its primary role is to provide connectivity and other shared services between MRO platforms. There are numerous types. Multi-Region Operation is a function of the CICS Inter- Region Communication facility enabling communication MIME between CICS regions. Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions. An encoding format allowing e-mail messages containing a variety MSDBs of media forms (audio, video, image, and text) to be Main Storage DataBases are one of two types of IMS sent across the Internet. fast path database. These databases do not have indexes and are stored in VSAM files. MIPS Million Instructions Per Second (or Meaningless MSS Indicator of Processor Speed). A crude and not very Mass Storage System is hardware for storing large meaningful way of expressing raw computer power, amounts of archive data, typically involving the use of a widely used for comparing the power of different jukebox mechanism to retrieve discrete data cartridges. mainframe models and for demonstrating the futility of comparing the mainframe with other platforms. MSU Millions of Service Units. Measure of mainframe Mirroring compute power, used selectively by IBM as an The technique of constantly maintaining a parallel copy alternative to MIPS. Opinions vary as to how the two of critical datasets, so that the duplicate data can be metrics compare. used if there is a problem with the main data. MTBF MLPA Mean Time Between Failures. The average value of The Modified Link Pack Area is an area of storage used the length of time between consecutive failures under to contain re-enterable routines from APF-authorized stated conditions of a system. libraries. MTO MobileFirst Master Terminal Operator. Software enabling a terminal MobileFirst is a set of mobile software, services, and to control a subsystem, eg CICS. solutions for businesses offered by IBM. MTTR MOM Mean Time To Recovery or Repair. The average time Message Oriented Middleware. For example, required for corrective maintenance. See also MTBF. WebSphere MQ. Multiplexer MongoSQL A generic device (also known as a mux) that combines This is an Open Source NoSQL database that uses data from two or more devices, transmits the data as a JSON-like documents with dynamic schemas for speed. single datastream over a high-speed communications medium, and disentangles (de-multiplexes) the data at the other end.

Multi-point NJE Communications configuration in which a single primary Network Job Entry. JES facility enabling multiple hosts node communicates with two or more secondary nodes to share job queues and system spools. (which cannot communicate with one another, except through the primary). Also known as multi-drop. Node In SNA, a total unit of network-attachable functionality, MVP realized in software, that gets implemented within a Minimum Viable Product is often created at hackathons. device or runs on a computer.

MVS NoSQL Multiple Virtual Storage. In z/OS’s long history, MVS NoSQL databases don’t have to use SQL, but may. has the honour of being its name for the longest They are different from traditional relational databases. period (about 20 years), and the operating system is still referred to as MVS by many mainframe technical Notes specialists. Popularly believed to stand for Man Versus Lotus groupware product that IBM took on in June ’91. System. OAuth Nabla containers This is an open standard for authorization. It allows These are a new type of container designed for strong people to access third-party Web sites using their isolation on a host. Nabla replaces the typical VM validated Facebook or Twitter IDs. hypervisor interface of hypercalls and vmexits with simple system calls (syscalls), and so reduces the OCR attack surface. Optical Character Recognition. OCR software is used to convert scanned documents into machine-readable Nanosecond text files. 1/1,000,000,000 of a second. ODBC NAS Open DataBase Connectivity. An API created by Network Attached Storage. Microsoft that allows Windows applications to access relational databases, such as DB2 and Oracle, and .NET other data sources using SQL statements. .NET is a Microsoft strategy for creating Web services. In essence, a Windows user should be able to run OEM applications locally or over the Web without noticing Original Equipment Manufacturer. An OEM is a the difference. Visual Studio .NET is a development manufacturer who makes a product and sells it to environment that is currently available. another company, which puts its own badge on it and sells it to the end user. NetView SNA network management product. Announced Office 365 mid-1986. Although it started off life as a rather half- A Cloud-based version of Microsoft’s Office suite of hearted bundling of various mainframe-centric network enterprise-grade productivity applications. As well as management products (including NCCF, NLDM, Word and Excel, users get Outlook, SharePoint, Forms, NPDA, VNCA, and NMPF), by mid-1995 it had turned and Team sites. into a fully-fledged distributed network management system, with a strong focus on distributed Unix boxes OLAP as network management workstations. Replaced by On-Line Analytical Processing. A term coined by Tivoli NetView and other products. database guru Ted Codd and used to refer to multi- dimensional analysis and reporting applications of the NFS EIS and Information Warehouse type. Network File System. Set of Unix protocols (originally developed by Sun Microsystems) for file sharing across a LAN. Built on top of Ethernet and TCP/IP.

OLE ORB Object Linking and Embedding. Microsoft-sponsored Object Request Broker. A specialized object that allows standard for moving and linking data and other objects other objects to communicate with each other to make between applications and systems in Windows. and receive requests and responses.

OLTEP OS/390 On-Line Test and Execution Program. IBM engineer’s Replacement for MVS, announced in 1995. Now tool for analysis of hardware problems. superseded by z/OS, but still used in some mainframe sites. OLTP On-Line Transaction Processing. Generic term for high- OSA throughput, very resilient transaction systems. OLTP Open Systems Adapter is an integrated hardware tends to be used to refer to systems with some degree feature allowing zSeries 900 platforms to provide of fault tolerance. connectivity directly to clients on LANs.

OMG OSA Express Object Management Group. A group of vendors Open Systems Adapter-Express are an IBM adapter responsible for standards for object management and family consisting of integrated hardware features that interoperability including CORBA, UML, MOF and are designed to provide direct connection for zSeries CWM. IBM joined in 1991. and S/390 Parallel Enterprise Servers G5 and G6 to high speed routers and switches, to other high-speed OMVS servers, and to clients on LANs. The OMVS command is used to invoke the z/OS Unix shell.From here you can use shell commands or utilities OSAM (Overflow Sequential Access Method) requesting services from the system. You could also This is an IMS-specific access method that optimizes write shell scripts and run shell scripts or programs the I/O channel program for IMS access patterns. written in C. OTC Online Reorganization (OLR) One Time Charge. An initial license charge. Caused a Using OLR with IMS HALDBs, the databases furore when the concept was introduced, but people remain available to applications throughout the OLR seem to have got used to it now. At the beginning reorganization process. of 1999, OTC was dropped from any mainframe software product for which a monthly charge option Open Systems was available. Computer systems that provide either interoperability, portability, of freedom from proprietary standards, OTE depending on your perspective. Open Transaction Environment was introduced with CICS TS 1.3. Its aim is to open up the CICS application OpenEdition execution environment, allowing applications to be ‘Open’ version of MVS that was replaced by Unix defined to execute under their own TCBs within CICS System Services in z/OS and OpenEdition Shell and and allowing CICS to better exploit multiple processors. Utilities in z/VM. OTMA (Open Transaction Manager Access) OpenID This IMS facility is a transaction-based connectionless This provides a way for users to consolidate their digital client/server protocol that functions as an interface for identities by having a single OpenID when connecting host-based communications servers accessing IMS to different Web sites. TM applications using the Cross Systems Coupling Facility (XCF).

Outsourcing PAV The notion of contracting out part or all of your IS Parallel Access Volumes are used to eliminate I/O function to an outside organization. Used to be often supervisor queueing against DASD. Thus improving the used synonymously with facilities management, performance of anything accessing the disk devices. although strictly speaking facilities management involves delegating responsibility for the whole service PCI rather than just part of it. Peripheral Component Interconnect. Extremely popular PC bus standard originally promoted by Intel and soon PaaS supported by IBM, even though it meant dropping its Platform as a service provides a platform, allowing beloved MCA. customers to develop, run, and manage Web applications without the complexity of building and PCMCIA maintaining the infrastructure typically associated with Personal Computer Memory Card International developing and launching an app. Association. Industry-standard interface (not just for memory, but for modems, network interfaces, etc) for Page laptop and notebook computers. An essential process within virtual storage technology. Fixed sized blocks (typically 4096 bytes) of memory are PDF freed up by writing their contents to a paging device Portable Document Format. File definition format used until any virtual address within that block is referenced. by Adobe Acrobat.

Parallel Sysplex PDS See Sysplex. Partitioned DataSet. A z/OS feature that is really made up of datasets within a dataset. Each PDS is made Parity bit up of zero or more members. Each member has all A binary digit check bit appended to a group of binary the characteristics of a standard sequential dataset, digits to make the sum of all the digits, including the though all members share the same attributes: those appended binary digit, even or odd, depending on that were defined for the PDS when it was allocated. whether Even or Odd Parity is being used. Each member has a one- to eight-character name that follows the same rules as a level of a standard z/OS Parmlib dataset name (DSN). Each PDS has a directory of its Parameter Library. A dataset in z/OS containing members, which can also (optionally) contain other parameter settings. The most important is SYS1. information, known as Statistics, which are maintained PARMLIB which contains parameter settings for z/OS by software such as the ISPF/PDF editor. and many key subsystems. PDSE Parse Partitioned DataSet Extended. Software which enables The analysis of the operands entered with a command the space freed by expired or deleted PDSs to be in addition to the creation of a parameter list for the reused. Introduced in 1989 in an attempt to address command processor. It can also refer to the initial the limitations of the PDS. processing of source code by a compiler, when it divides up each program statement into its component Peer-to-peer parts, also known as tokens. A form of distributed system in which all participating nodes can function as both client and server. PASCAL Programming language, mainly used in academia, PERL though even there it is rarely seen these days. Practical Extraction and Reporting Language. A general-purpose Unix scripting language, which Patch is popular for writing CGI programs. Its speed and A code modification to correct a reported problem that flexibility make it well suited for form processing and is sent to software product users after the release of on-the-fly page creation. a product.

Pervasive encryption Plain text Available with Z14s, it generally means the ability to Data that is not encrypted. Typically refers to data while encrypt everything everywhere without interfering with it is being transmitted across a network. the user experience. The Z14 can “pervasively encrypt data associated with any application, cloud service, or PLPA database all the time”. Pageable Link Pack Area is part of memory containing system-level programs that may be run by multiple Petabyte address spaces. 1024 terabytes (TB) – 2 to the fiftieth power, or 1,125,899,906,842,624 bytes. Abbreviated as PB. Polling Generic name for a method for controlling devices PF key (eg networked workstations or terminals), in which Program Function key. A single keystroke can be used a computer calls (polls) each device in turn to see to perform a specific command. whether it wants to communicate.

PGP POP Pretty Good Privacy. Encryption technology which uses Principles of Operation. The name of the manual the public key approach. Messages are encrypted using that defined the S/360 and subsequently the S/370 a public key, but can only be decoded using a private architecture. key kept by the intended recipient of the message. Port Phishing Generic noun and/or verb. As a noun, it means a point A malicious scheme to obtain the credentials necessary at which data can enter or leave a data network or to access a secure system by masquerading as that individual device; as a verb it means to convert a piece system and fooling people into entering the sought- of software written for one environment so that it runs after credentials. in another.

Picosecond POSIX 1/1,000,000,000,000 of a second. A time span during Portable Operating System Interface Standard. which even would not be able to put up prices. designed as a procurement reference standard for ensuring source-level application code portability. PING Packet INternet Groper. A test of reachability in TCP/IP PostScript networks. A PING is a program used to test the ability Language/protocol cum page description language to reach destinations by sending an echo request and developed by Adobe Systems for driving high-resolution waiting for a reply. page printers.

Pipeline Power Systems In Linux and other Unix-like operating systems, a Originally, IBM had the System i running IBM i (OS/400) pipeline is a set of processes chained together. Output and the System p series running AIX or Linux. In 2008, from one process is then input for the next process until IBM merged the two lines of servers and workstations all the processes have executed. under the same name, Power Systems, with identical hardware and a choice of operating systems, software, PL/I and service contracts. Programming Language/One. Language developed by IBM. A sort of love-child of COBOL and FORTRAN, it PPP was widely used on the mainframe for many years but Purchasing Power Parity is Gustav Cassel’s theory never quite achieved the ‘universal standard’ status (1920) that, in an efficient market, identical goods must that IBM had hoped. have only one price.

PR/SM PSW Processor Resource/Systems Manager. Logical Program Status Word. A hardware register (double partitioning hardware technology that makes a single word) in the mainframe. The PSW contains the address system, even if it has only one processor, look like of the next instruction to be executed and, when an multiple systems each of which is a Logical PARtition application or system software error occurs, why it (LPAR). happened and other status information.

Private area PTF Area within z/OS which contains the user’s own data/ Program Temporary Fix. An official IBM temporary programs. patch to a program – often less temporary than IBM and its users would wish. PTFs are distributed on PUTs. Private key Sometimes the term APAR is used instead of PTF. A key known only to the sender or receiver of an encrypted message. Public key A published key value used as one of the two keys in Problem State public key encryption. A term used in performance measurement to indicate when the machine is performing end-user work. The PWFI opposite is Supervisor State, when the machine is The pseudo wait-for-input option means an IMS MPP spending time generally managing itself. region can stay scheduled until another input message appears, avoiding additional application program PROLOG termination and rescheduling. PROgramming in LOGic. Language mainly used for developing artificial intelligence and expert systems. QMF Query Management Facility. Query and report-writing PROP system for DB2 with some analysis and graphics PRogrammable OPerator. A facility in z/VM that allows features. remote control of a virtual machine, enabling limited automation of routine operator activities. QSAM Queued Sequential Access Method is an access Proprietary method for communicating with sequential datasets. Proprietary is used to refer to architectures and standards owned by a hardware or software vendor. RACF The term is usually used in opposition to ‘open’. Resource Access Control Facility. Security and access control system under z/OS and z/VM. The z/ Proxy server OS version is a component of SecureWay Security A server that receives and fulfils requests intended for Server, but is also available as a stand-alone product. another server. RACF authorizes access to resources (datasets, mini-disks, TSO/CMS/CICS/IMS TM log-on, etc) and PRPQ logs unauthorized access attempts and accesses to Programming Request for Price Quotation. IBM protected datasets. terminology for a customer request for a price quotation on alterations or additions to the functional capabilities RAG of system control programming or licensed programs. Red/Amber/Green status lights used to indicate in an easily interpretable way the status of a system, with PSLC red indicating poor system health. Parallel Sysplex License Charge, a monthly license charge designed to support the design of a Parallel RAID Sysplex cluster. In a fully qualified Sysplex environment, Set of redundancy standards for disk subsystems PSLC software charges are based on the total MSU (RAID 0-6), developed by the University of Berkeley value for only those machines where the products and adopted by the RAID Advisory Board. execute.

RAM lightweight, maintainable, and scalable. A service based Random Access Memory, also known as system on REST is called a RESTful service. It links mainframe memory, is the amount of physical memory that is applications with mobile and cloud apps. addressable by and directly accessible to the processor chips on the motherboard. REXX Restructured EXtended eXecutor language. A widely Ransomware used job control language, REXX has become a This is downloaded software that stops you using replacement for existing procedural languages such as your PC. The software will usually ask for money CLIST. REXX is an effective programming language in before control of your computer is given back to you. its own right with powerful string processing facilities. Just running anti-virus and anti-malware software is not enough these days. Examples of ransomware RJE include: Brolo, Crowti, FakeBsod, Krypterade, Reveton, Remote Job Entry. Dedicated RJE terminals include and Tescrypt. The number of ransomware attacks is 2780/3780 or 3770. increasing all the time. RMF RAS Resource Measurement Facility. On-line performance Reliability, Availability, and Serviceability – the three and resource monitor for z/OS. Also includes a most desirable properties for IBM computers. formatter for printing performance reports. An optional, separately priced feature of z/OS. RDBMS Relational DataBase Management System. Database RPA system based on relational principles. DB2 is IBM’s Robotic process automation is a way to automate preferred RDBMS for just about every platform. repetitive or routine tasks that are usually performed by knowledge workers. It uses metaphorical software Read-only mode robots. Employees are then free to perform higher- A mode that does not allow updates to the data being value work. read. RPG Real storage Report Program Generator. Programming language The combination of central and expanded storage. Also widely used on the eServer iSeries 400 and its known as processor storage. predecessors, AS/400 and System/3x. As its name implies, originally used mostly for report generation Red teaming and very strong sort/merge facilities, where it can be This refers to the practice of viewing a problem from used completely non-procedurally. an adversary or competitor’s perspective – and that usually means looking at issues with security. RRDS Relative Record DataSet is a type of VSAM file. Each Redbook record is accessed directly by its record number. A more readable version of an IBM manual RSM Relational database Real Storage Manager. The part of z/OS that controls A type of database that allows information in one set real memory. of database tables to be connected to information in another set of tables without requiring duplication of SAF information. Security Authorization Facility can be used for example with CICS to divert requests to an ESM (External RESTful Security Manager – such as RACF). In this way, security REST (Representational State Transfer) is an can be added to an operating system of subsystem. architectural style used to build Web services that are

SAML Server Security Assertion Mark-up Language addresses the A device providing database information, or Web pages, issue of Single Sign-On (SSO). The SAML specification any other information. It usually has a number of clients defines three roles: the principal (typically a user), the or users of this data. identity provider (IdP), and the service provider (SP). Service Level Agreement SAN Generic term for an agreement between a user and the Storage Area Network. people providing a computer service. The SLA specifies such things as response time, availability, etc. SAP (System Assist Processor) A System Assist Processor is a specialized processor Service Unit that assists a central processor on a mainframe. The basic charging unit in usage-based pricing.

SCEM Servlet Supply Chain Event Management examines all possible A Java applet, without a user interface, that is executed events and factors that might disrupt a supply chain. on a Web server. Often used to replace CGI routines, because they support dynamic HTTP requests. SCM Supply Chain Management applies to all movement SFM and storage of raw materials, work-in-process Sysplex Failure Manager is used when one of the inventory, and finished goods from point-of-origin to systems in a parallel sysplex fails. It is responsible for point-of-consumption. It is the process of planning, recovery of the system and subsystem. implementing, and controlling the operations of the supply chain as efficiently as possible. SGML Standard Generalized Mark-up Language. The Screen scraping canonical mark-up language from which HTML and A programming technique for interacting with online XML are derived. host applications that generate text-only display output. The display output is read (scraped) right off a virtual Shift left screen by the workstation-based software and input This is an approach to software testing and system generated on a virtual keyboard. What the user sees testing in which testing is performed earlier in the life- is quite different, and usually includes a GUI. cycle. That means it’s moved to the left on the project timeline. Similarly, quality and security can be moved SDEPS (Sequential Dependents) earlier in the software life-cycle. Although, I’m sure Sequential dependent segments (SDEPs) may be you’ve spotted the flaw in the thinking – if too much included in an IMS Data Entry Database (DEDB). is shifted to the left, then everything is back where it started! SDSF System Display and Search Facility. Online tool for SIEM programmers and operators monitoring jobs awaiting Security Information and Event Management software execution in the JES2 input spool queues and, most products and services combine security information commonly, viewing the printed output of batch jobs in management and security event management. They the Held output spool queues, to save printing it on provide real-time analysis of security alerts generated paper. by applications and network hardware.

Serial number SIGP Term used to denote the machine which you own SIGnal Processor. today, which may be very different from the one you originally bought.

Skeuomorphism services are self-contained and do not depend on is making one thing look like something else, eg making the context or state of the other service. Mainframe the digital interface look like a paper one – you often see applications become available to Web browsers it with calendar applications that look like desktop paper and now mainframe applications can call other Web calendars. The GUI emulates real physical objects that services. the user will be familiar with. Including skeuomorphism in a UI design is a good idea because it makes an SOAP unfamiliar interface look like something familiar – and, Simple Object Access Protocol. A lightweight form of therefore, its use becomes more intuitive. middleware for accessing services, objects, and servers in a platform-independent manner. SLA A Service Level Agreement is a formally negotiated Sockets agreement between two parties (the IT department Software interfaces that allow two Unix application usually being one of them) where the level of service programs to talk to one another using TCP/IP protocols. is formally defined. Solution Consumption License Charges SMF SCLC applies to a number of Monthly License Charge System Management Facilities. Function within z/OS (MLC) software programs. It offers pay-as-you-go which collects data on all system activities for use in pricing for the actual consumption of CPU, or a 20% accounting, performance monitoring, capacity planning, saving for a minimum monthly commitment. etc. SMF creates log entries (SMF records) of this data. Spark SMP/E A popular fast engine for large-scale data processing. System Modification Program / Extended is used to install most software products. Spool Simultaneous/Shared Peripheral Operation On-Line. SMS DASD storage used as a temporary storage area System Managed Storage. The philosophy of letting the between devices – eg printer and processor. computer system manage the storage of data rather than having it done by a human data administrator. SQA System Queue Area. Storage area in z/OS. SMTP Simple Mail Transfer Protocol. The protocol allowing the SQL transmission of e-mail messages across the Internet. Structured Query Language. IBM and ANSI standard (they diverge and converge regularly with the passage SNA of time) for access to relational databases. Systems Network Architecture. IBM’s extremely powerful but complex data communications architecture SRB defining levels of protocols for communications between Service Request Blocks are requests to execute a terminals and applications, and between programs. service routine and they are usually initiated by system While SNA-only networks have all but disappeared, code executing from one address space to perform an SNA applications are still very much in evidence in the action affecting another address space. large enterprise. SRM SNMP System Resources Manager. Software which is meant Simple Network Management Protocol. Unix protocol to improve throughput by optimizing the use of system originally developed for management of TCP/IP resources. networks.

SOA A Service-Oriented Architecture is a collection of services that communicate with each other. The

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

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 UDDI programs at the same time safely. Universal Description Discovery and Integration is a directory model for Web services. UDDI is a tn specification for maintaining standardized directories Refers to tn3270, tn3270e and tn5250 collectively or of information about Web services, recording their interchangeably. capabilities, location, and requirements.

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.

Virtual storage VSE A technique for giving programs the illusion that they Virtual Storage Extended. For many years, VSE was have massive quantities of main storage to themselves. IBM’s principal operating system for small to medium- The technique works by allowing programs to address size mainframes. A few years back it looked as if VSE lots of virtual memory, but making the operating system support would slowly be withdrawn, but customer page the required data in and out of real main store support is strong and the re-dubbed z/VSE now looks and to and from a paging device at the appropriate set to continue for some time.

VTAM WebSphere Application Server (WAS) Liberty Virtual Telecommunication Access Method. The main profile SNA subsystem resident in the mainframe, which This is a cut-down version of WAS containing only manages session establishment and data flow between the features required by the applications used on the terminals and application programs, or between server. application programs. WebSphere MQ (WMQ) VTOC Originally MQSeries. IBM software/middleware that Volume Table Of Contents. The area of a disk used to provides a message queuing infrastructure; it sits on store the directory of components, including datasets, various systems in a heterogeneous environment, held on that volume. Anything that takes DASD space providing integration between disparate systems and is listed in the VTOC. For example, the index and data applications. components of a VSAM KSDS file are listed in the VTOC, but not the cluster name, which is only listed WebSphere Optimized Local Adapters (WOLA) in the catalog. A part of WAS for z/OS that provides a low-overhead communication mechanisms for exchanging high VVDS volumes of messages. The VSAM Volume DataSet along with the BCS make up the ICF catalog structure. The VVDS is a special Web service type of ESDS. It is created automatically whenever a Web services are essentially “mini” applications that VSAM component (including a BCS) is allocated on a include a description of what another application does, volume which does not yet have a VVDS. The VVDS how to accesses it, and what data it requires. They are is always called SYS1.VVDS.Vvolser. often utilized in integration projects where disparate systems may have difficulty interacting with each other VWLC without the use of the common standards. Variable Workload License Charge. IBM software pricing scheme that allows users to license a product WLM for a capacity less than the total capacity of the system. Workload Manager. Feature within SRM for simplifying Replaced by AWLC on zEnterprise mainframes. the management of system resources such as CPU and storage. eWLM reportedly adds the ability to define WAS business performance objectives across disparate WebSphere Application Server. IBM’s Java application systems. server. WAS for z/OS version 6.0.1 supports J2EE 1.4 and many mainframe-specific functions. WMLz IBM Watson Machine Learning for z/OS lets users build Watson Explorer machine learning models using their IDE and platform Watson Explorer combines content and data from of choice and then deploy scoring services within different systems and presents it in a single view. transactional applications and monitor them on IBM Z.

Web 2.0 Workload License Charges A practically meaningless term in itself (the Web is An IBM software licensing scheme which charges not software with version and release numbers) that according to required software capacity, not hardware can be used as a way of highlighting some of the new capacity. technologies that are available over the Internet and identifying the companies that are using them, like WSAT Google Earth, Flickr, etc. Web Services Atomic Transaction is now supported in CICS TS 3.1. Web services can be configured to WebSphere take part in an extended or global unit of work. This is An IBM Internet-focused software platform that supports known as an atomic transaction. Recoverable updates e-business applications and sits at the heart of IBM’s are not committed or backed out until instructed to do middleware strategy. The foundational products are so by the Web service. WebSphere Application Server and WebSphere MQ.

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

© Arcati Limited, 2021 165 Arcati Mainframe Yearbook 2021 Glossary zIIP Zowe z9 Integrated Information Processor. A co-processor Zowe is the first Open Source framework for IBM Z. It similar to zAAP (the idea is that you pronounce them allows development and operations teams to securely ZIP and ZAP), but designed to off-load DB2 work and manage, control, script, and develop on the mainframe integrate data across the enterprise. Like zAAP, you pay like any other cloud platform. These new developers for the hardware but do not incur IBM software charges do not need to have previous mainframe experience! for the additional capacity. Minimum requirement: z9- 109 with z/OS 1.6 or later and DB2 V8. ZTNA Zero Trust Network Access is a way of working requiring Zombie computers the strict verification of every individual and device These are used to spread e-mail spam and launch that attempts to access a network or other business distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks. resource.

Zombie data This is old forgotten data that you thought you’d deleted, but hadn’t. This glossary was originally based on the Zombie programs former Xephon publication, the Handbook of These are the programs that hackers use to gain IBM Terminology. access to your computer. They are often called ‘bots’. Trevor Eddolls of iTech-Ed Ltd is an independent mainframe consultant and popular blogger.

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Mainframe evolution

Mainframe hardware timeline 1952-2020 Mainframe operating system development

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

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Mainframe hardware timeline 1980-2019 Source: Mark Wilson and Staffan Tylen

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Mainframe operating system Linux on development z/OS IBM Z Source: Mark Wilson and Staffan Tylen