ArcatiArcati MainframeMainframe YearbookYearbook 20072021 Mainframe Strategy The Arcati Mainframe Yearbook 2021 The independent annual guide for users of IBM mainframe systems SPONSORED BY: PUBLISHED BY: Arcati Limited 19 Ashbourne Way Thatcham Berks RG19 3SJ UK Phone: +44 (0) 7717 858284 Fax: +44 (0) 1635 881717 Web: http://www.arcati.com/ E-mail: [email protected] © Arcati Limited, 2021 1 Arcati Mainframe Yearbook 2021 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 SPONSORS Action Software 46, 47 Fujitsu 77, 77 BMC Software 6, 56 Key Resources 88, 89 Broadcom 15, 56 Model9 19, 96 Data Kinetics 42, 65 Software Diversified Services 111, 112 Direct Computer Resources, Inc 67, 68 Tone Software 117, 118 ESAi 70, 71 Zetaly 125, 126 Fischer International Systems Corporation 72, 72 2 © Arcati Ltd, 2021 ArcatiArcati MainframeMainframe YearbookYearbook 20072021 Mainframe Strategy 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 © Arcati Limited, 2021 3 Arcati Mainframe Yearbook 2021 Mainframe Strategy 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.. 4 © Arcati Ltd, 2021 ArcatiArcati MainframeMainframe YearbookYearbook 20072021 Mainframe Strategy 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