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Mainframe strategy
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Contents
Welcome to the Arcati Mainframe Yearbook 2014............................................................. 3
Research Report Software Diversified Services E- Business Server: Encryption,
Compression, Key Creation and Management?........................................................... 4
The Challenge: Actively Control MLC Costs for IBMs System z....................................11
Mainframe meets mobile................................................................................................... 14
Your Business is Dynamic Are You? Empowering the Dynamic Data Center .......... 22
The 2014 Mainframe User Survey..................................................................................... 31
An analysis of the profile, plans, and priorities of mainframe users
Vendor Directory................................................................................................................ 46
Vendors, consultants, and service providers in the z/OS environment
A media guide for IBM mainframers .............................................................................. 125
Information resources, publications, social media, and user groups for the z/OS
environment
Glossary of Terminology................................................................................................. 129
Definitions of some mainframe-related terms
Technical information...................................................................................................... 157
Hardware tables zEC12, z114, and z196; mainframe hardware timeline 1952-2013;
mainframe operating system development
SPONSORS
Action Software
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CA Technologies
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DataKinetics 70
Software AG
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Research Report
Software Diversified
Services E-Business
Server: Encryption,
Compression, Key Creation
and Management?
Clabby Analytics takes an in-depth look at SDS
and at the new SDS E-Business Server and
then poses some critical questions.
Introduction
Software Diversified Services (SDS), a wellestablished independent software vendor (ISV) and
technical services provider, recently announced
that it has acquired the rights to sell, support,
and maintain McAfees former E-Business Server
environment.
Our initial take on this acquisition is that this is
a good strategic move for SDS. It provides
the company with an advanced, multivendor
encryption and compression security environment
that complements the companys other security
and management offerings (including NetQ and
Net-Examine, its VitalSigns monitoring offerings,
and VFTP-SSH) and squarely positions SDS
as a leader in the PGP (pretty good privacy)
marketplace.
What we like most about the new SDS E-Business
Server is that it offers:
Rich Encryption the SDS E-Business Server
is a rich encryption environment that offers
support of the following security algorithms:
Triple-DES (3DES), CAST5, IDEA, Twofish,
AES (128-, 192-, and 256-bit encryption),
Blowfish, RSA v3 and v4 (up to 4096 bits),
DSA, ElGamal, SHA-1, SHA-2, MD5 and
RIPEMD-160;
Excellent Compression in some cases, up
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unbreakable encryption
even better?
tm
And E-Business Server is now backed by the award-winning team at SDS, including
support, maintenance, and new compliance enhancements.
Meet the next generation of enterprise encryption tools.
Phone: 763.571.9000 Web: www.sdsusa.com/ebusiness
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also automatically
Offers reports that can be used to check the
subcapity reports and IBMs monthly license
charge invoice
Enables you to predict when thresholds will be
reached, such as for OTC products
Helps you plan your new ESSO contract in an
optimal way
zIT advert
here
A 24*7 plug and play product with no hooks or interfaces other than the standard z/OS interfaces
Automatically balances MSU capacity via customer defined policies (LPAR groups or nested groups)
Automatically sets Defined Capacity as soon as the actual usage goes down, while the R4HA still goes up
Flexible enough to control either total costs or product costs
Delivers a complete overview and control of MSU usage
Function rich browser based reporting feature delivers a cockpit view of current usage information
Reports and historical information offer cross-checking of the SCRT reports and associated invoices
For more information please visit www.zit-consulting.com or call us +49 44 54 206 98 97.
zIT Consulting GmbH is an IBM Development Partner.
Look for us on IBMs Global Solutions Directory: www.ibm.com/partnerworld/gsd/
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Figure 1: When mainframe meets mobile, your users benefit from the native UI
design and navigation
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Figure 2: Unlock your core applications by creating services that can be re-used
in mobile apps
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Mainframe
meets Mobile
Mainframe strategy
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Get There Faster
Figure 3: Develop and deploy your mobile apps to many devices with webMethods
Mobile Suite
is a native app with a familiar user interface and
user experience, access to native functionality and
a consistent performance across all smartphones
and tablets as shown in Figure 4.
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Figure 4: The mobile suite delivers a native UI design and navigation for each
function, as shown here for Apple and Android devices, which provides
a consistent and familiar experience for each mobile user
Conclusion
Never feel locked in by your core applications.
With innovative service-enablement technologies
available today, there are many ways to unlock your
mainframe assets and bring them to the mobile
world. With Software AGs webMethods Mobile
Suite and mainframe integration technologies,
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With CA Chorus:
Everyday IT tasks become easier, more
efficient and less costly to perform, whether
completed by more experienced or novice IT
staff so everyone works more productively.
Your IT resources and budget go farther thanks
to these efficiencies, so you can move fullsteam ahead with strategic business initiatives.
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Why CA Technologies?
CA Technologies offers a comprehensive suite of
solutions designed to empower you to optimize
efficiency, reduce risks and transform your crossenterprise IT environment into a dynamic data
center.
By implementing our best-in-class solutions to
simplify and automate your IT infrastructure, you
can begin to reap real costs savings and improve
effectiveness increasing ITs ability to drive
business value and innovation (see Figure 6).
To learn more about our market-leading technology
solutions and how they can help accelerate
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33%
Asia/Pacific
51%
Europe
Middle East/Africa
10%
North America
Education
1% 2%
5%
25%
5%
Transport
Health
5%
6%
Manufacturing
Telecom
8%
Retail
20%
10%
Government
13%
Other
Insurance
IT
Banking
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500-1000
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10,000-25,000
28%
Over 25,000
Not specified
10%
8%
11%
Declined
None
28%
0 to 10
40%
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26 to 50
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70%
60%
50%
40%
None
30%
Decline
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1000 to
10,000 MIPS
Over 10,000
MIPS
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90%
80%
70%
60%
100%
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Over 50 percent
70%
Over 50 percent
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60%
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40%
30%
20%
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to 50 percent
26 to 50 percent
10 to 25 percent
10 to 25 percent
50%
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40%
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Declined
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No growth
Declined
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We also compared the rate of growth of the
mainframe with that of other IT platforms within
the enterprise. As shown in Chart 7, the System
z looks relatively strong in the slow-to-medium
growth range. For the first time, we are seeing
sites expecting Windows and Linux use to
decline. When the dont know results have been
excluded, we find 76 percent of mainframes are
experiencing a growth of 1-25 percent per year.
Just one Unix site reported growth greater than 50
percent per year. 13 percent of Windows sites are
expecting over 50 percent growth, with the majority
of sites in the 11-25 percent growth range. Apart
from a few mainframe sites expecting a decline,
we find around seven percent of IBM i sites are
expecting a decline, while six percent of other
mainframe sites are. In fact, only 42 percent of
respondent now have IBM i and just under a third
(32 percent) have other types of mainframe.
Hardware currency
The IBM mainframe hardware range continues to
receive a regular makeover, with new high-end
and low-end systems generally being announced
on alternate years 2010 saw the new zEnterprise
1%
z12BC
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z10BC
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Partly
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DB2
Siebel
SAP
Other
Don't know
Chart 10: Which middleware have you, or do you plan to enable, with Web services?
z (with another 15 percent, again similar to last
years 16 percent, at the planning stage). There
are considerable cost and management benefits
of consolidating distributed Linux workloads onto
the mainframe, and IBM made the IFL (Integrated
Facility for Linux) specialty processor available in
2001. Running Linux on a mainframe seems well
on its way to becoming a mainstream technology.
73 percent of organizations said that they are Webenabling their CICS subsystems (Chart 10), which
is the same as last year. 67 percent of sites are
Web-enabling DB2, which is just down from last
years 72 percent. 29 percent of sites are Webenabling IMS, slightly down from last years 32
percent, and WebSphere Application Server rated
32 percent (down from last years 38 percent. 7
percent of sites are Web-enabling SAP. This low
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100%
90%
A mixture of strategies
80%
Mostly outsourced
70%
60%
50%
Mostly ported to Unix/Linux
40%
30%
20%
10%
0%
Less than
1000 MIPS
1000 to
Over 10,000
10,000 MIPS
MIPS
Chart 11: Legacy application plans over the next three years
year) with 14 percent (last year it was 5 percent)
considering porting to Unix or Linux. 27 percent
of larger sites and 25 percent of medium-sized
ones see outsourcing as a way forward. Below
1000 MIPS, 61 percent of sites (well up from last
years 21 percent plan to integrate, with 16 percent
looking at porting to Unix or Linux.
Relative cost
There are many ways of comparing the costs of
mainframe systems with those of other platforms,
but none of them are straightforward and few are
meaningful. CIOs and finance directors all too
often have little experience of the factors that
contribute to mainframe total cost of ownership
and there is still little published data available
to help them make informed comparisons. It is
beyond the scope of this short survey to go into
detail on cost, but the following questions explore
some areas where financial comparisons can be
made between large centralized systems and
distributed servers.
We asked respondents how fast their System
z-related expenditure is increasing, in terms of
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90%
80%
70%
60%
Less than 10 percent per
year
50%
40%
No growth
30%
20%
Declining
10%
0%
Capacity
Technology
costs
People costs
Chart 12: How fast is your System z-related expenditure growing annually, on the
technology itself and on the people required to manage the technology?
of sites have more data on mainframes, and 55
percent have more on other platforms. Their
spend on the mainframe and distributed systems
100%
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50%
40%
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Chart 13: IT budget and corporate data: mainframe and distributed systems compared
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Much slower
60%
A little slower
50%
40%
A little faster
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Much faster
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0%
Unix
Linux
Windows
IBM i
Much slower
A little slower
About the same
A little faster
Much faster
100%
90%
80%
70%
Much slower
60%
A little slower
50%
40%
A little faster
30%
Much faster
20%
10%
0%
Unix
Linux
Windows
IBM i
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obvious shifts in the landscape. BMC Software
agreed to be taken private in a $6.9 billion deal by
Bain Capital LLC and Golden Gate Capital in May.
IBM regularly argues that some ISVs are too
inflexible and need to change their software pricing
strategies, while the third-party suppliers respond
that IBM is placing excessive pressure on them
by using its size and influence to win over their
customers. Mainframe management is now sold as
a way of allowing customers to maintain the quality
of the service they get from the mainframe without
the reliance on experienced mainframers. In other
words, the software will identify a problem and,
as well as informing a less-qualified human, will
take the necessary steps to negate the problem.
In addition, vendors are beginning to use GUItype screens, which younger IT people are more
familiar with, to display important information.
And much mainframe monitoring data can now
be accessed from a browser.
We asked respondents what makes them consider
a change of vendor for their mainframe tools and
utilities. Its clear from Chart 15 that cost is by far
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60% IBM
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Chart 16: How much software budget goes to IBM and how much to ISVs?
they had. 11 percent of sites had all three (similar
to last years value of 12 percent) and a further
26 percent of sites had two of the three specialty
processors (up from last years 22 percent). More
sites had zIIP processors (68 percent up from 52)
than any other. 28 percent (down from last years
36 percent) had IFL processors, and 22 percent
had zAAP specialty processors. 22 percent of sites
dont have a specialty processor installed. The full
results are shown in Chart 17.
In the USA, regulations such as Sarbanes-Oxley
Act (SOX), HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability
and Accountability Act), and BASEL II, plus whats
estimated to be over 150 state and federal laws
dictate the length of time that ElectronicallyStored Information (ESI) needs to be retained.
These regulations, and they do depend on the
industry, have greatly increased data retention
periods. Similarly, outside the USA there has
been a growth in regulation affecting the length of
time that data needs to be archived. 45 percent
of sites were compliant, with a further 17 percent
nearly compliant, with these new regulations. The
figure for sites not having an archiving strategy
is 25percent, slightly lower than last years 27
percent. Clearly, compliance is an important issue
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Chart 18: Data archiving strategies that comply with the latest regulations
CONCLUSIONS
I have a theory about how to tell how good
business has been in the past year. When you
go to trade shows, you look at what companies
are giving away on their stands. A few T-shirts,
and some memory sticks means its been a fairly
ordinary year without too many big wins, but at
least business has been done. If there are a whole
range of goodies that you quite like the look of,
Im thinking model racing cars and things like that,
then you know its been a bumper year with sales
targets clearly exceeded. My impression this past
year was that people were mainly giving away
pens not a good sign.
Having said that, many sites are clearly spending
money. We found that 13 percent of respondents
already owned the new z12BC processor. What
was disappointing was the view about whether
the mainframe was a strategic machine that
would move the business forward, or whether it
was a legacy box that simply ran the old software
until something better came along. Nearly half
(46 percent) of sites see the mainframe as a
legacy system, with only 21 percent viewing it as
strategic. 22 percent thought it was both and there
were a few dont knows.
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It seems that integrating mainframe applications
with Web services and service-oriented
architecture is a project that is in peoples minds
with the figure for mainframes participating partly
or fully in Web services up this year. In terms of
specialty processors, over three quarters of sites
had them installed and were making use of the
obvious benefits associated with them. 11 percent
of sites had all three in use.
For sites with smaller mainframes, particularly
below 500 MIPS, there is always the option, or
perhaps threat, of migrating off the mainframe
to some other platform. Again this year,
disappointingly, our survey showed this to be a
strong possibility.
The bottom line is that the mainframe continues
to offer a cost-effective, secure, and powerful
platform for organizations with the necessary
background and expertise in place to support it.
Performance.
Capacity.
Cost Reduction.
Why choose only one?
Some say you can only have one: mainframe performance or
mainframe capacity or mainframe cost control.
We say that you can have all three.
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Vendor Directory
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ABIS
Address:
P.O. Box 220, Diestsevest 32, 3000 Leuven, Belgium.
Phone: +32-16-245610
Email: training@abis.be
Web: http://www.abis.be
Address:
Alte Steinhauserstr. 1, CH-6330 Cham, Switzerland
Phone: +41 41 748 6266
Email: Marketing@ActionSoftware.ch
Web: http://www.actionsoftware.ch
Activity: Education.
Specialist areas: Data management; programming/
testing; Web integration and legacy reengineering tools.
Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, z/Linux
Non-mainframe platforms supported: Linux, Windows
Sales contacts:
America +1 905 470 7113, e-mail: Marketing@
actionsoftware.com
EMEA +41 41 748 6266, e-mail: Marketing@
actionsoftware.ch.
AsiaPac +1 905 470 7113, e-mail: Marketing@
actionsoftware.com.
Portugal, Spain, Mexico, South and Central America
+34 911845930, e-mail: Info@suasum.com
Italy and Italian speaking countries +39 039 999 2101,
e-mail: Sales@dpcssrl.com
Company profile
ABIS Training & Consulting provides high-level
technological ICT services for large and medium-sized
enterprises. The activities are based on specialized ICT
knowledge, which is offered as training and consulting.
ABIS was founded in 1984 in Belgium but it is also very
active in the Netherlands (with a separate subsidiary in
Woerden near Utrecht). Also active in other countries
around the world.
Product/service information
IABIS has invested heavily in mainframe related
expertise: z/OS, DB2, CICS, WebSphere and application
development.
Courses and consulting services can be grouped into three
main categories:
z/OS Host Based Technology, with particular
emphasis on z/OS Enterprise Server as an application
development platform. The main focus is on z/OS and
DB2, as well as the application development process
on this platform. More specific courses and services
are offered on z/OS, TSO, DB2, CICS, traditional
application development (COBOL and PL/I) and RDz.
Database consolidation: training in the use and
integration of different databases. ABIS provides
training and expertise on DB2 for z/OS, DB2 for LUW,
Oracle, MySQL, and Big Data.
Re-use and integration. The focus here is traditional
functional analysis and design on the one hand, and
Agile & Scrum on the other hand. Key to our approach
is the development of reusable components for
applications and web servers. Courses are offered on
WebSphere MQ, WebSphere Application Server, XML,
Scrum, DevOps, Java, Eclipse, Rational, TWS, ...
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Arcis Services
Address:
Zwedenstraat 4 bus 9, 1060 Brussels, Belgium
Phone: +32 2 534 4977
Email: arcis@advalvas.be
Web: www.arcis-services.net
Activity: Education/research.
Specialist areas: System management; data
management; storage management; programming/testing
Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, OS/390
Company profile
Michel Castelein has more than 30 years experience in
developing and teaching ICT courses.
He also conducts course sessions in behalf of IBM.
Product/service information
Product_info Currently available:
3-day course z/OS Introduction
5-day course z/OS Job Control Language & TSO/ISPF
2-day course z/OS MVS & JES2 Operations
3-day course z/OS VSAM Fundamentals
2-day course z/OS ICF Fundamentals
5-day course (multi-platform) REXX Programming
2-day course z/OS CLIST Programming
5-day course z/OS ISPF Dialog Development
5-day course COBOL Programming in z/OS
7-day course z/OS Assembler Programming
5-day course C Programming in z/OS
5-day course (multi-platform) Java Programming
(J2SE)
2-month mainframe academy to train people from
scratch.
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ATERAS
Address:
6600 LBJ Freeway Suite 210, Dallas, TX 75240, USA.
Phone: 972 664 9005.
Email: info@ateras.com.
Web: http://www.ateras.com.
Activity: Systems integrator/VAR.
Specialist areas: Data management and other areas
Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, OS/390, VM/
VSE, Linux, other
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Attachmate
Address:
1500 Dexter Ave N., Seattle, WA 98109, USA.
Phone: +1 800 872 2829
Email: salesrecept@attachmate.com.
Web: http://www.attachmate.com
Sales contacts:
EMEA: uksales@attachmate.com
AsiaPac: aus-info@attachmate.com
Attunity
Address:
40 Audubon Road, Wakefield, MA, 1880, USA.
Phone: 781-213-5200.
Email: attunity@attunity.com.
Web: http://www.attunity.com.
Activity: Software vendor
Specialist areas; Web integration and legacy
reengineering tools
Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, OS/390, VMVSE,
Linux,
Non-mainframe platforms supported: i5, AIX, other Unix,
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Company profile
Attunity is a leading provider of enterprise data integration
software. Using Attunitys products, companies can
seamlessly connect to mainframe data sources, stream
data changes across the enterprise, and federate
heterogeneous information to achieve a single view of
their business. Attunity Mainframe Integration Products
enable companies to accelerate the integration initiatives
that require interaction with mainframe systems, while
dramatically reducing the cost of building and maintaining
such solutions.
Company profile
Axios Products develops, distributes, and supports
mainframe performance enhancement and management
software for z/OS, OS/390, and MVS environments. For
over 30 years, we have dedicated ourselves to providing
customers with useful, reliable, and cost-effective software
along with responsive technical support. Our strong
customer commitment to providing quality software
products and service is the driving force behind the
continuing growth of our mainframe customer base.
Product/service information
Attunity provides remote access, open interfaces, secure
and highly reliable integration to all the major mainframe
information systems including CICS, IMS/TM, IMS-DB,
VSAM, DB2, Adabas and Natural:
Attunity Connect allows seamless access to relational
and non-relational legacy data for business intelligence
and enterprise portals, and helps users to build .NET
and J2EE applications that interoperate with legacy
systems and accelerate EAI initiatives with certified
adapters.
Attunity Stream, allows users to move mainframe
and enterprise operational data in real-time to data
warehouses and data marts, dramatically improving
the efficiency of ETL processes, synchronizing data
sources, and enabling event-driven business activity
monitoring and processing.
Attunity Federate allows heterogeneous data sources
to be joined, to make them available as a virtual
data layer. The product employs distributed query
optimization and processing engines that reside
natively on enterprise data servers. Federate provides
superior performance, security, and transaction
management, and leverages Attunity Connect adapters
to access any data source in the enterprise.
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Product/service information
RefWiz is a powerful analysis and documentation tool
that provides, in one place, comprehensive data about
application element interrelationships for mainframe
batch and CICS applications, including whether or
not the element is being used. This information is
available for immediate access in a variety of standard
or customized forms to suit your specific needs. RefWiz
is used for conversions, upgrades, audits, migrations,
daily maintenance, documentation, mergers, operations
management (including failure analysis), disaster recovery,
change scope analysis, and much more.
ROPES (Remote Online Print Executive System) is a
comprehensive CICS print spooling and transmission
software for IBM mainframe-based systems. ROPES
provides complete facilities for generating, retrieving,
browsing, distributing and printing reports from online
transactions, batch jobs, or the operating system spool.
Its versatile set of capabilities allows you to place report
data on the ROPES queue concurrent with online printing
operations. A comprehensive command structure allows
any authorized terminal operator to effectively control
ROPES, eliminating the need for dedicated control
terminals.
The SPI-TAB+ table management system provides one
simple product that will manage your tables using the same
standards for all applications, eliminating the need to write
programs for this process. SPI-TAB+ lets you quickly and
easily update, customize and maintain your tables, and get
your new applications on line faster, with less effort. Plus,
the same tool can be used on line or in batch. In addition,
the new SPI-TAB+ web interface component allows you
to list and update SPI-TAB+ tables via a web browser,
eliminating the need for traditional mainframe access and
ultimately expanding your user base by providing access
for less technical end users who may not have CICS
knowledge.
Baer Consulting
Address:
28154 Meadow Trail, Conifer, CO 80433, USA
Phone: +1 303 838-3374
Email: contactbci@baer-consulting.com
Web: http://www.baer-consulting.com
Activity: Consultant
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, OS/390, VM/
VSE, Linux
Non-mainframe platforms supported: IBM i, AIX, Linux,
Windows
Pricing options: One-time charge, other
Company profile
Founded in 1982, Baer Consulting Inc. (BCI) provides
mainframe systems software administration and
management. BCIs primary business is to assist our
national client base with selection, implementation, and
administration of IBM compatible operating environments.
Our clients range from small/medium businesses to
Fortune 500 corporations.
BCIs project-based solutions include z/OS rollout projects,
data center implementations, migrations, upgrades,
business recovery, maintenance to third-party operating
systems and software, or server consolidations. BCI
project management, planning, and status reporting
procedures ensure all services are completed on schedule
and within budget throughout the project lifecycle.
Our services range from short-term, peak-load project
support to complete facilities management. Baer
Consulting offers individualized Mainframe Support
Services from T&M to 24x7 Support.
BCI consistently delivers high quality solutions to our
clients, while dramatically increasing the effectiveness
of their information systems management teams, project
management for Enterprise strategies, and Enterprise
systems support.
Product/service information
BCI draws on years of experience and training to provide
responsive and quality answers in core areas such as:
Operating Systems
IBM z/OS, IBM S/390, IBM VM/ESA, IBM VSE/ESA, z/VM,
Linux, etc.
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Barra Systems
Address:
25480 Halsey Rd, Brooksville, Florida 34601, USA
Phone: +1 (352) 799 7126.
Email: nigel.barrable@barrasystems.com
Web: www.barrasystems.com
Activity: Consultant
Specialist areas: Programming/testing; web integration
and legacy reengineering tools
Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, OS/390, z/Linux.
Non-mainframe platforms supported: System i, AIX,
other Unix, Linux, Windows
Pricing options: one-time charge, monthly/annual license.
Company profile
Consulting services for all Enterprise Application
Integration projects.
Let us integrate all your applications across your enterprise
in an efficient, reliable, and simple manner, using your
existing tools and infrastructure.
Specializing in Websphere MQ, CICS, web services, Soap,
Java and Linux.
Product/service information
Specializing in the following areas :
Application integration
Cloud arhitecture
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Blenheim Software
Address
6 Forest Mews, Horsham, Sussex, RH12 4GG, UK
Phone: 0870 240 6771
Email: info@blenheim-sw.co.uk
Web: www.blenheim.sw.co.uk
Activity: Software Vendor
Specialist areas: System management; data
management; storage management; asset and change
management; security; programming/testing; web
integration and legacy reengineering tools;
Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, OS/390, VM/
VSE, Linux, other
Non- mainframe platforms supported: IBM i, AIX, other
Unix, Linux, Windows, other
Pricing options: One-time charge, monthly/annual
license, processor/capacity-based, workload/usage based,
other
Company Profile
We supply companies with the ideal solution to their
mainframe and non-mainframe technical software
requirements. As such we have extensive experience of
supplying and implementing software to all the major sites.
Contact us for more information on how we can help your
business grow. Also, if you are a software developer who
wants products distributing in the UK and Ireland, please
dont hesitate to call us.
We have more than 100 licences with customers including:
Banks: Barclays, Chase Manhattan & AIB Bank (Allied
Irish Bank)
Financial Institutions: Allied Dunbar, International
Factors, and CIS
Utilities: Thames Water
Building: Blue Circle
Telecoms: British Telecom & Telecom Eireann
Manufacturers: Nissan & Sony.
Product/service information
Out tools help users with improving the capacity and
performance of z/OS, UNIX, DB2, etc. And a wide range of
products to help operations departments (JCL checks, addons to TWS, dataset renaming and much more).
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BluePhoenix Solutions
Address
8000 Regency Parkway, Suite 300, Cary, NC 27518, USA
Phone: +1 919 380 5100
Email: usa@bphx.com
Web: www.bphx.com
Activity: Software Vendor
Specialist areas: System management; data
management; security; programming/testing; web
integration and legacy reengineering tools
Mainframe Platforms supported: z/OS, OS/390, VM/
VSE, Linux
Non- mainframe platforms supported: IBM i, other Unix,
Linux, Windows
Pricing options: One-time charge, monthly/annual license
Company Profile
BluePhoenix Solutions (NASDAQ: BPHX) is a leading
provider of value-driven legacy IT modernization solutions.
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BMC Software
Address:
2101 Citywest Blvd, Houston, TX 77042, USA.
Phone: +1 713 918 8800 or +1 800 793-4262
Email: www.bmc.com/contacts-locations/worldwide.
Web: http://www.bmc.com
Sales contacts:
America: 1-877-945-6325
EMEA: 00800 44444 262
AsiaPac: +61 3 96574443
Activity: Software vendor.
Specialist areas: System management; data
management; storage management; asset and change
management; security; web integration and legacy
reengineering tools; network performance/management.
Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, OS/390, VM/
VSE, z/Linux
Non-mainframe platforms supported: i5, AIX, other Unix,
Linux, Windows, other
Pricing options: Monthly/annual license, processor/
capacity-based, workload/usage based, other.
Company profile
For more than 30 years, BMC has helped thousands of
companies around the world master tough IT challenges.
From mainframe to cloud to mobile, from the back room to
the boardroom, BMC delivers the automation, integration,
and sophistication that enable the business and IT to
perform like never before. Its amazing what IT was meant
to be.
Product/service information
BMC Software offers a broad set of mainframe solutions
designed to help you optimize and control IT costs, while
ensuring the business remains available 24x7. Regardless
of the environment, customers rely on our expertise
and solutions to manage their IT infrastructure. BMC
enables customers to align IT systems and services with
their business objectives. We provide comprehensive
mainframe solutions in these key areas: systems
monitoring, management, and automation; enterprise data
management; dynamic batch scheduling management;
middleware management, application performance;
storage resource management; cost analysis; and
performance and capacity planning.
Address:
c/Isaac Newton, 1, office 42, Parque Tecnolgico
deMadrid, 28760 Tres Cantos,Madrid, Spain.
Phone: +34 902 104 934.
Email: angel.gomez@go2bsecure.com.
Web: http://www.go2bsecure.com.
Activity: Consultant
Specialist areas: System management; data
management; security; network performance/management
Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, OS/390.
Non-mainframe platforms supported: Linux; Windows
Pricing options: One-time charge, monthly/annual
license, processor/capacity-based, workload/usage based
Company profile
Bsecure - The Mainframe & Security Company is a
Spanish company that worksin SpainandSouth America.
We provide mainframe services andsoftware distributionto
the Spanish and Latin-America marketplace.
We specialize in security services and mainframe products.
In security we produce special services like hacking,
security assessment, RACF administration and Top Secret
to RACF conversions.
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CA Technologies
Address:
One CA Plaza, Islandia, NY 11749, USA.
Phone: +1 800 225-5224
Email: info@ca.com
Web: www.ca.com.
Sales contacts:
America: +1 800 225 5224.
EMEA: + 44 1753 577733.
AsiaPac: singaporesales@ca.com;
Singapore: 65 6337 2822.
Activity: Software vendor.
Specialist areas: System management; data
management; storage management; asset and change
management; security; programming/testing; network
performance/management.
Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, OS/390, VM/
VSE, z/Linux.
Non-mainframe platforms supported: IBM i, AIX, Unix,
Linux, Windows, other
Pricing options: Monthly/annual license, processor/
capacity-based, workload/usage based, other
Company profile
CA Technologies (NASDAQ: CA) provides IT management
solutions that help customers manage and secure complex
IT environments to support agile business services.
Organizations leverage CA Technologies software and
SaaS solutions to accelerate innovation, transform
infrastructure and secure data and identities, from the data
center to the cloud.
Solutions from CA Technologies are the critical
foundation for helping customers gain deep insight into
and exceptional control over their complex, mixed IT
environments. Our solutions enable customers to support
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CASI Software
Address:
10231 Slater Avenue, Suite 117 Fountain Valley, CA 92708,
USA.
Phone: +1 800 378 1109.
Email: info@casisoft.com
Web: www.casisoft.com
Activity: Software vendor.
Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, OS/390
Pricing options: One-time charge, monthly/annual
license, processor/capacity-based, workload/usage based,
other.
Company profile
CASI Software is a provider of software solutions to
transform and deliver z/OS print content.
Product/service information
CASI Software has three main product lines:
JES2Mail/JES2FTP transforms z/OS report content
into PDF, HTML, RTF, .CSV, and XML, files and securely
delivers results to users via email, FTP, and RSS web
feeds. JES2Mail/JES2FTPs report content processing
and PDF overlay capabilities enable creation of advanced,
final-form PDF output to replace printing and other
information delivery methods.
CICS2PDF/zOS2PDF transforms real-time CICS
information into PDFs and delivers that information to
users via email or directly to users via web-enabled CICS
application.
Mail2ZOS / FTPSweeper is mainframe software that
receives email contents and attachments or retrieves files
from designated servers or FTP sites; decodes, processes
and stores these emails, attachments and files into MVS
datasets; dynamically composes job streams for execution;
and sends e-mail or text message notifications regarding
mainframe processing status.
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Data propagation
Partition management
Compliance and auditing
Data conversion to DB2
Database statistics
Storage reporting.
Address:
736 Fox Hollow Road, Afton, VA 22920, USA
Phone: +1 540 456 8210
Email: bshimizu@colesoft.com.
Web: www.colesoft.com.
Sales Contacts
America: 1 800 XDC 5150
EMEA +1-928-771-2003.
AsiaPac +1-928-771-2003.
Activity: Software vendor.
Specialist areas: Programming/testing.
Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS.
Pricing options: Workload/usage based.
Company profile
Cole Software is dedicated to the continued development
of powerful software for sophisticated mainframe
programmers. Many of the industrys foremost
Compu Management
Address:
3010 Grand Concourse, New York, NY 10458, USA
Phone: +1 718-733-1861
Email: jcmcgil@attglobal.net.
Activity: Consultant.
Specialist areas: Programming/testing; web integration
and legacy reengineering tools
Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, OS/390, VM/
VSE.
Company profile
We provide full life-cycle support to legacy IS systems. To
accomplish this objective, we will upgrade, renovate, or reengineer your current IS system to better integrate to your
current Enteprise Architecture across multiple-platforms.
We will can also provide you with a migration plan to
renovate your current Architecture to new Enterprise
Architecture.
Compute (Bridgend)
Address:
8, Merthyr Mawr Road, Bridgend CF31 3NH, UK
Phone: +44 (0)1656 652222.
E-mail: admin@cbl.com
Web: www.cbl.com
Activity : Software vendor.
Specialist areas: System management; data
management; storage management; programming/testing;
other
Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, OS/390, VM/
VSE, z/LInux, other
Non-mainframe platforms supported: System i, AIX,
Unix, Linux, Windows, other
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Compuware Corporation
Product/service information
The enterprise product line includes Xpediter, QACenter,
Abend-AID, Strobe and File-AID.
Address:
Compuware Corporation, One Campus Martius, Detroit, MI
48226, USA
Phone: +1 313 227 7300.
Web: www.compuware.com
Sales contacts
America: 1-800-COMPUWARE
EMEA: +44 1753 444000 / info@uk.compuware.com.
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ConicIT
Address:
20 Ben Gurion St, Givat shmuel, Israel
Phone: +972 3 7341327.
Email: info@conicit.biz.
Web: www.conicit.biz.
Activity: Software vendor.
Specialist areas: Systems management
Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, OS/390
Pricing options: Processor/capacity-based
Company profile
ConicIT was founded by Yoram Kariv (the founder of
Precise software). The company has a seasoned executive
team with years of experience in Enterprise and Systems
software. The Chairman of the company is Sam Somech
President, CTO and co-founder of Level 8
Inventor of MQSeries technology
Product/service information
ConicIT is an out of band, Linux-based production solution
that constantly analyzes mainframe system and application
performance information provided by existing mainframe
monitors. By utilizing proprietary mathematical models
and self-learning algorithms, ConicIT provides real-time
tracking of critical resource behavioural patterns and
predicts abnormal behavior of these resources before
it occurs. Based on this information, ConicIT provides
meaningful pre-event alerts aimed at reducing reoccurrence of performance-related malfunctions.
Now IT managers and performance administrators have
all the information needed to enable detection of the root
cause of problems, enabling IT staff to solve the actual
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CopperEye Ltd
Address:
Suite 47, Aztec Center, Almondsbury, Bristol BS32 4TD,
UK
Phone: +44 (0) 1454 203610
Email: contact@coppereye.com
Web: www.coppereye.com
Sales contacts:
America: 001 203-245-0611
EMEA: +44 (0) 1225 745500
Activity: Software vendor
Specialist areas: Data management
Mainframe platforms supported: Linux
Non-mainframe platforms supported: AIX, other Unix,
Linux
Pricing options: Processor/capacity-based, workload/
usage based.
Company profile
CopperEye is a provider of enterprise search software
for business transaction data that allows companies to
quickly retrieve exactly the records they need from months
or years of history and billions of business transactions
stored on low-cost file systems. Unlike other enterprise
search solutions that focus on unstructured data such as
web pages and word processing documents and return
ambiguous results, CopperEye specifically addresses the
needs of business transaction data that would otherwise
require a costly and complex database solution to provide
rapid retrieval of specific records.
CopperEyes products are appropriate for use across all
industries and are intended for customers that have large
volumes of data often held on a mainframe. Systems
integrators and consultancies are a central element
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Company profile
CPT Global was founded in Melbourne in 1993 by Gerry
Tuddenham, who remains the CEO today. The company
has been listed on the ASX since 2000. The name CPT
Global came from the abbreviation of Capacity Planning,
Performance Tuning and Testing. The focus of the
business remains specialist capacity and performance
management services although, in Australia, CPT offers a
wide range of additional services related to IT efficiencies.
Operations were extended into Europe in 1998, with offices
now in the UK, the Netherlands and Germany, as well as
further engagements in Ireland, Austria and Switzerland.
CPT expanded into the USA in 2003, setting up an office
in New York to service Tier One clients such as General
Motors and American Express.
CPT has over 120 clients worldwide, including many large
and well-known businesses such as ABN AMRO, AIB,
Audi, Bank of Ireland, Credit Swiss, Deutsche Bahn, ING,
Lloyds TSB, Lufthansa, Prudential, and UBS. CPT draws
on a network of over 200 specialist consultants, many
of whom are worldleaders in their fields. The depth of
experience offered and the range of clients allows CPT to
quickly identify performance and capacity problems, and
to design and implement practical cost-effective solutions
based on best practice.
Product/service information
CPT aims to reduce mainframe processing power
requirements by 10 to 30% at most clients. This allows
the clients to make substantial savings through deferred
processor upgrades, reduced MIPS usage, reduced
software costs and pre-outsourcing CPU reductions.
CPT understands that many clients are unsure whether
such savings can be achieved on their sites, and so offers
a number of models to suit different companies. These
models range from Risk/Reward, where fees are based
upon savings achieved, to Fixed Price, which caps the total
cost to the client.
In Europe, CPT Globals assignments are mostly focused
on mainframe performance tuning, but CPT also provides
expertise in IT management as well as Open Systems and
Windows technical services.
CSC
Address:
Royal Pavillion, Wellesley Road, Aldershot, Hants GU11
1PZ, UK.
Phone: +44 (0) 1257 236017.
Email: dmcmahon@csc.com.
Web: www.csc.com.
CSL International
Address:
22 Maskit St, POB 12897, Hertzelia 46733, Israel.
Phone: +972 9 9540470
Email: sales@csl-int.com.
Web: www.csl-int.com.
Activity: Software vendor.
Specialist areas: System management
Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, VM/VSE, Linux
Non-mainframe platforms supported: Linux
Pricing options: Monthly/annual license, processor/
capacity-based, other
Company profile
CSL International provides software services to the
enterprise market for the last 5 years. Our engineers
combine zSeries (z/VM and z/OS) internals skills as well
as very strong Linux abilities. These combined skill set
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Company profile
DataKinetics is a leader in data access optimization,
has been in business for 35 years, and their trademarked
tableBASE in-memory accelerator is widely deployed
at the heart of mission-critical business applications for
several Fortune 500 global companies who are sector
leaders. tableBASE in-memory accelerator enables
mainframe transaction processing faster than any other
software option while simultaneously delivering attractive
financial benefits. With recent partnerships with SQData
Corporation and InnovizeIT, DataKinetics offers products
to optimize other aspects of data access, including data
replication, data integration, and DB2 optimization.
For 30 years, DataKinetics products have been enhancing
hundreds of thousands of mission-critical transactions
per second every day for banking, insurance, credit card,
brokerage house, and retail industrieswithout fail. Visit
www.dkl.com for more information.
Product/service information
tableBASE
tableBASE provides the shortest possible path to the data.
Data is copied into in-memory tables (from DB2, VSAM,
etc.).\, and I/Os are replaced with in-memory fetches.
tableBASE was designed for performance where data
buffering simply eliminates I/Os, tableBASE keeps the
code path as short as possible. This makes data access
using tableBASE 10-100x faster than is possible using
buffered database access. This is applied only to certain
types of regularly accessed reference data most of your
data is access from DASD in the normal manner but the
resulting performance improvements are dramatic.
SQLKinetics
To obtain the benefits of tableBASE, organizations must
make small changes to their application code to change
some database access statements to tableBASE API
calls. SQLKinetics provides the benefits of tableBASE to
organizations that are unable or unwilling to make any
changes to their legacy application code. Data access
using tableBASE with SQLKinetics is still 7x faster than is
possible using buffered database access.
Address:
50 Hines Rd, Ottawa, K2K-2M5, Canada.
Phone: 613-523-5500
Email: kallingham@dkl.com
Web: www.dkl.com.
VTS
If you need to share in-memory table data between
multiple applications, our VTS product provides the ability
to share data, and to preserve it after the application has
completed. This ensures that all applications have identical
data, and enables tables to be used as a message queue
or to overcome bottlenecks between applications.
VTS Manager
VTS Manager allows for the sharing of tables across
LPARs (logical partitions on a mainframe CPU) and across
a Sysplex. It also enables the ability to switch the data that
all the applications access in a synchronized manner.
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DDV technologies
Address:
17B / 818 Pittwater Road (PO Box 1155), Dee Why, NSW
2099, Australia.
Phone: +61 (0)2 8213 9207
Email: sales@ddvtechnologies.com
Web: www.ddvtechnologies.com
dateandtimesimulationsoftware.com.
Activity: Software vendor.
Specialist areas: Programming/testing; web integration
and legacy reengineering tools; other
Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, OS/390
Pricing options: One-time charge; monthly/annual
license; processor/capacity-based, workload/usage based,
other
Company profile
DDV is a privately owned company developing an
Australian z/OS-based product SoftDate and marketing
overseas solutions that directly resolve your often
troublesome and expensive overheads in IT, business
development and crisis management. Our solutions span
the IBM mainframe through Internet platforms and are
targeted primarily at speeding your business development
cycle.
Product/service information
SoftDate is a z/OS-based product for Date & Time
Simulation (DTS) Testing of applications, prior to
Production and Global Time Zone Virtualization of
Production applications (to reduce LPARs that are
dedicated to single Time Zones).
SoftDate is an SOA DTS product with many unique and
exclusive features not found in other DTS products such
as Parallel Sysplex, CICS MRO (multiregion operations),
64-bit support (for data above the 2-gig bar), WebSphere
Application Server & Java Language for z support for all
execution environments (e.g. batch, CICS, IMS).
Dignus LLC
Address:
8372-203 Six Forks Road, Raleigh, NC 27615, USA.
Phone: +1 919 676 0847.
Email: sales@dignus.com.
Web: www.dignus.com.
Activity: Software vendor.
Specialist areas: Programming/testing
Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, OS/390, VM/
VSE, z/Linux
Non-mainframe platforms supported: AIX, other Unix,
Linux, Windows, other
Pricing options: other
Company profile
Dignus, LLC is an innovative company, located in Raleigh,
North Carolina, committed to providing the best compilers,
Assemblers and development tools for the IBM mainframe,
including 370, ESA, 390, and the latest z/Architecture
series.
Dignus, LLC provides unique mainframe programming
and development solutions that offer savings in time and
effort, while streamlining development costs. Our solutions
are applicable to programming for a wide range of IBM
mainframe operating systems, including z/OS, z/TPF, z/
VM, z/Linux, and others.
Product/service information
Systems/C and Systems/C++ are compilers for the IBM
mainframe, with unique features that make development
of OS/390, z/OS, z/TPF, Linux/390, CMS and VSE system
code easier and faster.
Systems/C and Systems/C++ are validated and supported
by the IBM TPF labs for use with z/TPF.
Systems/ASM is the Dignus assembler, used for
assembling IBM mainframe assembler source. Systems/
ASM is compatible with IBMs HLASM, supporting the
complete HLASM macro processing language.
All Dignus tools can operate in a cross-platform
environment, moving your development to your local
desktop to dramatically reduce mainframe development
costs.
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SMF management
backup and recovery.
In addition to VSAM cluster support, TMC synchronization
and HSM validation, T-REX can repair any VSAM object
(BCS, KSDS, and Variable RRDS) with a broken index
within minutes. It can also REORG a catalog (or move a
catalog to a new volume) while it is OPEN and allocated
to CAS on any number of connected systems. T-REX
multi-tasks all major functions (not just back-up) and is
approximately nine times faster than Catalog Solution.
Released in 2006 were RAPTOR, an extended tape toolset
to simplify and facilitate tape drive and robotic/virtual
library capacity planning, and TERADON, a dynamic HSM
product.
DINO has a full range of training and professional
services packages related to catalog maintenance and
management.
DPI Software
Address:
P.O Box 14613, Lenexa, KS 66215, USA.
Phone: +1 919 426 6518
Email: ronp@filemarvel.com
Web: www.filemarvel.com
Sales contacts:
America +1 913-599-7987; dpisoft@kc.rr.com
Activity: Software vendor.
Specialist areas: Data management; programming/testing
Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, OS/390
Non-mainframe platforms supported: n/a
Pricing options: One-time charge; monthly/annual
license; processor/capacity-based
Company profile
DPI Software is a software development company
dedicated to making z/OS and the IBM mainframe a usable
platform for many years to come. We focus solely on
developing system software for z/OS. Our tools have been
available for many years, especially FileMarvel which has
over a hundred Fortune 500 users around the world. We
believe that mainframe software should be affordable and
that maintenance fees should include automatic upgrades
to new versions of the software.
Product/service information
FileMarvel
Use FileMarvel to look at and maintain any kind of dataset
DTS Software
Address:
4350 Lassiter at North Hills Ave, Suite 235, Raleigh, NC
27609, USA
Phone: +1 919 833 8426
Email: info@DTSsoftware.com
Web: www.DTSsoftware.com
Sales contacts:
America +1 770 922 2444
Activity: Software vendor.
Specialist areas: Storage management
Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, OS/390
Pricing options: Other
Company profile
DTS Software is recognized as a worldwide leader in
enterprise storage management technology. From the
original industry-standard Space Recovery System (SRS)
that eliminates storage-related production failures, to the
advanced Virtual Tape interface of the DLm Control Center
(DCC), DTS products are noted for their sophistication,
reliability, and ease-of-use.
Our integrated suite of products help organizations to
monitor, manage and control your storage subsystems.
For over 20 years, we have specialized in these storage
solutions and have developed them for the IBM z/OS,
Hitachi VOS3, and Fujitsu MSP operating systems.
Our corporate headquarters are located in Raleigh, NC
and our products are sold in the US and Canada through
our sales office in Conyers, GA. We distribute our products
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Company profile
Epoka Group A/S is an innovative supplier of pre-owned,
high-performance enterprise computer solutions. Our
extensive range of blue-chip brands extends from
mainframes, NAS and SAN solutions to best-of-breed
networking equipment.
EPV Technologies
Address:
Viale Luigi Mancinelli 106, Rome, Italy
Phone: +39 0686399398.
Email: epv.info@epvtech.com.
Web: www.epvtech.com.
Activity: Software vendor.
Specialist areas: System management
Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, z/Linux
Non-mainframe platforms supported: AIX, other Unix,
Linux, Windows
Pricing options: One-time charge
Company profile
It was founded in June 2003 with the goal of developing
and selling the EPV line of products.
EPV Technologies mission is to develop products that
provide high-quality and ready-to-use information to
customers allowing them to give a better service and
save money by improving their Capacity Management
processes.
EPV Technologies founders have more than 25 years
experience mostly in Capacity Management projects.
They built a very strong technical background working for
Product/service information
EPV products have been designed to help system analysts
in Performance and Capacity Planning activities. EPV for
z/OS, EPV zParser, EPV for DB2, EPV for WMQ, EPV for
zLINUX, EPV for Unix (including Linux), EPV for VMware
and EPV for Windows are the main products. Same
products in two lines: SAS-based and PERL/SQL-based.
EPV zParser is written in PERL; it parses SMF, IMS, z/VM
monitor records, etc loading them in a SQL DB. It provides
input to EPV for z/OS, EPV for DB2, EPV for WMQ and
EPV for zLINUX.
Free agents provide input data to EPV for Unix and EPV
for VMware.
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EZ Legacy Limited
Address:
Missenden Abbey Management Centre, London Road,
Great Missenden, Bucks HP16 0BO, UK
Phone: +44 1494 867981
Email: info@ezlegacy.com.
Web: www.ezlegacy.com.
Sales contacts:
America usinfo@ezlegacy.com
EMEA emeainfo@ezlegacy.com
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Flynet Limited
Address:
King William House, Burwell, Cambs CB25 0DU, UK
Phone: +44 1638 611111
Email: Sales@FlynetViewer.com.
Web: www.FlynetViewer.com.
Activity: Software vendor.
Specialist areas: Web integration and legacy
reengineering tools
Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, OS/390, VM/
VSE, zLinux, other
Non-mainframe platforms supported: IBM i, AIX, Unix,
Linux, Windows
Pricing options: One-time charge, monthly/annual
license, processor/capacity-based, workload/usage based,
other
Company profile
Is your strategy in place when it comes to web, cloud,
BYOD etc.?
Are you torn between creating new feature-rich web-based
applications and continuing with writing new, fast, low cost,
green- screen applications?
Are you faced with a diminishing pool of mainframe
application expertise?
Is there a constant demand for new mainframe services?
FlynetViewer is the leading solution for modernising and
integrating mainframe applications with web and internet
based technologies. It allows you to do far more with less
mainframe expertise and IT budget.
As pioneers of integrating new technologies with
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Fujitsu
Address:
Mies-van-der-Rohe Str. 4-10, 80807 Munich, Germany
Phone: +49 89 62060 1970.
Email: hans-joachim.dewor@ts.fujitsu.com.
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Web: www.fujitsu.com/fts/products/computing/servers/
bs2000/.
Activity: Hardware vendor.
Specialist areas: System management; data
management; storage management; security
Mainframe platforms supported: Other
Non-mainframe platforms supported: other
Company profile
Company profile:
Fujitsu is the leading Japanese information and
communication technology (ICT) company offering a full
range of technology products, solutions and services.
Approximately 170,000 Fujitsu people support customers
in more than 100 countries. We use our experience
and the power of ICT to shape the future of society with
our customers. Fujitsu Limited (TSE:6702) reported
consolidated revenues of 4.4 trillion yen (US$47 billion) for
the fiscal year ended March 31, 2013.
Fujitsu CEMEA&I:
In Continental Europe, the Middle East, Africa and India,
Fujitsu is the leading IT infrastructure provider with a
presence in all key markets serving large, medium-sized
and small businesses. The company offers a full portfolio
of IT products, business solutions and services, ranging
from workplace systems to datacenter solutions, managed
services, and cloud-based software and solutions. In
CEMEA&I Fujitsu employs approximately 13,000 people
and is part of the global Fujitsu Group..
Product/service information
BS2000/OSD is the mainframe OS offered by Fujitsu
CEMEA&I.
The BS2000/OSD mainframes (S- and SQ-Series)
are more than just servers: they represent a complete,
autonomous and dynamic IT infrastructure for different
kinds of applications. With his fully mainframe offering
Fujitsu Technology Solutions is committed and responsible
for the seamless and efficient interaction of all the BS2000/
OSD infrastructure components. BS2000/OSD guarantees
efficient, risk-free data center operation 24 hours a
day, 365 days a year, today, tomorrow, whenever you
want. On-going innovations in hardware and software,
based on proven technologies, will continue to make it
the most reliable and costeffectivplatform for many
largescale applications ensuring security of investment and
data today as well as in future. BS2000/OSD has been
the subject of continuous innovation for forty years
and has been adapted to take account of constantly
changing market requirements. For instance, BS2000/
OSD is a mainframe OS that can run on servers based on
classic mainframe architecture and on industry standard
processors. And with its open interfaces it offers futureproof integration into modern application architectures.
GT Software
Address:
6255 Barfield Rd, Suite 200, Atlanta, GA 30328, USA
Phone: +1 404-253-1300
Email: sales@gtsoftware.com
Web: www.gtsoftware.com
Activity: Software vendor
Specialist areas: Web integration and legacy
reengineering tools; other
Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, OS/390, VM/
VSE, z/Linux
Non-mainframe platforms supported: IBM i, other Unix,
Linux, Windows
Pricing options: Other
Company profile
GT Software serves the largest mainframe organizations
over half of Fortune 1000 companies are customers
delivering the most productive and comprehensive toolset
on the market. GT Softwares longstanding positive
customer relationships demonstrate the quality of our
products and people, and our ongoing ability to deliver
real, usable solutions to meet customer needs.
GT Softwares product strategy is to continue to provide
unparalleled capability to leverage the mainframes proven
functionality, power, stability, and performance to its fullest
potential.
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Hexaware Technologies
Address:
H5, Sipcot IT Park, Navallur Post, Kancheepuram District
Chennai, Tamil Nadu 603103, India
Phone: 044 4745 1000
Web: www.hexaware.com
Activity: Consultancy
Specialist areas: System management; data
management; programming/testing; other
Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, OS/390
Non-mainframe platforms supported: AIX, other Unix,
Linux
Pricing options: Other
Company profile
Hexaware is a global provider of IT and Process
outsourcing services. We focus exclusively on maximizing
client returns from outsourcing and off-shoring. We have
extensive experience in managing large IT applications
in real time as well as in providing high value services
around packaged enterprise applications such as SAP and
PeopleSoft.
Higobi Systems
Address:
17 Smoke Lane, Reigate, Surrey, RH2 7HJ, UK
Phone: +44 (0)788 757 1953
Email: info@higobi.com
Web: http://www.higobi.com
Activity: Software vendor
Specialist areas: Data management; programming/
testing; web integration and legacy reengineering tools
HORIZONT
Address:
Garmischer Str. 8, 80339 Munich, Germany
Phone: +49 89 540 162 0
Email: info@horizont.it.com
Web: www.horizont-it.com
Sales contacts:
America info@segus.com
Activity: Software vendor
Specialist areas: System management; storage
management; asset and change management
Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, OS/390
Non-mainframe platforms supported: AIX, other Unix,
Linux, Windows, other
Pricing options: Monthly/annual license, processor/
capacity-based, other
Company profile
HORIZONT is a software development company located
in Munich, Germany. The company was founded in 1993
as R.O.S.E. by three OPC (TWS) consultants. Due to legal
conflicts, the name was changed to HORIZONT in 1997.
The companys first product was OPC/Graph (now TWS/
Graph), net plan display software for TWS, which was
developed together with IBM Germany. With more than
150 customers worldwide, it has become the de facto
standard for TWS compatible software. Additional products
include TWS/BatchAD, TWS/BatchCP and TWS/Audit,
rounding off the TWS product line.
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Product/service information
The LPAR Capacity and Software Usage Analysis (LCS)
Software is the only tool available to assist installations
in planning for, implementing, monitoring and leveraging
IBMs Workload License Charges (WLC). LCS reads your
SMF data and prepares interactive reports that can help
you decrease your IBM software charges month after
month. LCS is truly unique. No other tool is available
that combines information about your licensed software
products, analysis of utilization data, and prices to provide
near real-time estimates of your software charges. LCS
allows sites to tune their IBM monthly software invoices!
Address:
Route 100 Somers NY 10589, USA
Phone: +1-914-766-4589
Web: www.ibm.com
IBM
Identity Forge
Address:
5885 Cumming Hwy, Suite 108-350, Atlanta GA30518,
USA.
Phone: +1 678 266 3399 x201.
Email: info@identityforge.com
Web: www.identityforge.com
Product/service information
i3 Business Solutions provides a full-range of z/OS,
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Informatica Corporation
Address:
2100 Seaport Blvd, Redwood City, CA 94063, USA.
Phone: +1 650 385 5000 (800-970-1179 in the USA).
Email: ukinfo@informatica.com
Web: www.informatica.com
Sales contacts:
America: +1 (888) 635-0899
EMEA: +44 (0)1628 511311
Activity: Software vendor.
Specialist areas: Data Integration; web integration and
legacy reengineering tools; Data Privacy; other
Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, z/Linux
Non-mainframe platforms supported: AIX, other Unix,
Linux, Windows, IBM i
Pricing options: One-time charge, monthly/annual license
Company profile
Informatica Corporation (NASDAQ: INFA) is the worlds
number one independent provider of data integration
software. With over 3,000 employees distributed in over
28 countries around the globe, Organisations can rely
on Informatica to realise their information potential and
drive top business imperatives. Worldwide over 5,000
Enterprises already depend on Informatica to fully leverage
their information assets from devices to mobile to social
to big data residing on-premise, in the Cloud and across
social networks.
Product/service information
Informaticas PowerExchange products enable data
connectivity to many of the commonly used mainframe
(z/OS & i/Series) data sources e.g. DB2, IMS, Adabas
etc.. Data can be delivered according to the demands of
the consuming applications; offering data extractions in
either complete batch-type accesses or delta updates
from previous extractions delivered in Real-Time. Couple
the connectivity to Informaticas world renowned data
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InfoSec Inc
Address:
14001-C St. Germain Drive, Suite 809, Centreville, VA
20121, USA.
Phone: +1 703 825 1202
Email: sales@infosecinc.com
Web: www.infosecinc.com
Activity: Consultant
Specialist areas: System management; data
management; storage management; security;
programming/testing; network performance/management
Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, OS/390 ,VM/
VSE, Linux
Pricing options: Monthly/annual license
Product/service information
Best recognized as the provider of the Fast Dump Restore
(FDR) suite, INNOVATION solutions offer enterprise
storage management and non-disruptive business
protection. FDRINSTANT supports Timefinder, FlashCopy,
ShadowImage and SnapShot Copy for non-disruptive
backup of off-line volumes.
IAM allows users to achieve performance enhancements
and system resource savings for most applications that
utilize VSAM datasets. FDRPAS provides non-disruptive
volume relocation of z/OS disk volumes from one device
to another, while FDRERASE provides safe, secure, fast
erasure of z/OS data volumes. FDR/UPSTREAM allows
users to position the OS/390 or z/OS mainframe as a
backup server, with additional support for zLinux.
Sites with EMC Symmetrix arrays rely on FDRSOS for
high-speed network-free volume-level backup/restore
across ESCON/FICON channels. FDR/UPSTREAM/SOS
extends this protection with logical file granularity, central
administration and policy-based management.
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INTERCHIP AG
Address:
Elektrastrasse 6, 81925, Germany.
Phone: +49 89 9914 990
Email: info@interchip.de
Web: www.interchip-software.com/.
Sales contacts:
America: +1 800 225 5224.
EMEA: + 44 1753 577733.
AsiaPac: singaporesales@ca.com;
Singapore: 65 6337 2822.
Activity: Software vendor.
Specialist areas: Storage management.
Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, OS/390.
Pricing options: One-time charge, monthly/annual
license, processor/capacity-based, workload/usage based
Company profile
INTERCHIP AG with international headquarters based in
Munich, Germany, was founded in 1987.
The company is privately held and provides enterprisewide, multi-platform solutions for the optimization of
complex IT environments.
In addition to representing selected software companies
in Germany, Switzerland and Austria, INTERCHIP AG
develops its own market-leading products. INTERCHIP
AG s flagship product, RealTime Defrag (RTD), is currently
in daily use at some of the largest banks, insurance
companies and government agencies worldwide.
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Product/service information
RealTime Defrag (RTD) is a proven product in use since
1995 that eliminates DASD fragmentation and the need for
over-allocation of disk space thereby avoiding x37 abends
and out-of-space conditions. Running continuously and
efficiently in the background, RTD quickly reorganizes disk
files, recovering available storage space and eliminating
file and DASD fragmentation. Unlike standard operating
system utilities, no batch or weekend maintenance jobs are
needed.
Disk storage waste caused by over-allocation is eliminated,
since files are continuously and automatically groomed.
RTD can be customized to meet your defragmentation
needs through a variety of parameters that take effect
immediately. RTD includes full support for the latest level of
the operating system (z/OS) and EAVs. Additional options
are available to support FlashCopy Version 2 and Preserve
Mirror (Remote Pair FlashCopy).
Interskill Learning
Address:
11770 Haynes Bridge Road, Suite 205 PMB 526,
Alpharetta, GA 30009-1970, USA.
Phone: +1 770-872-4278
Email: info@interskill.com
Web: www.interskill.com
Sales contacts:
America: 770 872 4278.
EMEA: +44 1625 441120.
AsiaPac: +61 3 8796 8400.
Activity: Education
Specialist areas: System management; data
management; storage management; asset and change
management; security; programming/testing; web
integration and legacy reengineering tools; network
performance/management; other
Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, OS/390 ,VM/
VSE, Linux
Non-mainframe platforms supported: IBM i, AIX, Other
Unix, Linux
Pricing options: Monthly/annual license
Company profile
Interskill Learning is the global leader in the provision of
technology-based training solutions for the IBM Mainframe
Computing industry. Interskills mainframe e-learning is
currently the ONLY up-to-date, comprehensive e-learning
curriculum available to the mainframe computing industry!
Activity: Integrator
Specialist areas: System management; storage
management
Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, OS/390, z/Linux
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: trevor@itech-ed.com.
Web: www.itech-ed.com.
Activity: Consultant.
Specialist areas: System management; data
management; storage management; asset and change
management; security; web integration and legacy
reengineering tools; network performance/management;
other
Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, OS/390
Non-mainframe platforms supported: AIX, Windows
Company profile
iTech-Ed Ltd provides a source of highly technical
information and expertise for people using IBM
mainframes, servers, the Internet, mid-range computers,
PCs, and tablet devices. iTech-Ed provides consultancy
on a wide variety of mainframe-related areas, produces
technical articles and White Papers on current trends
in computing, performs software reviews, writes up
research in technical areas, and edits marketing copy
to avoid ambiguities and eliminate any technical errors.
The company can also provide in-house training (with
documentation) in a variety of mainframe-related areas,
as well as Microsoft Office training. iTech-Ed also designs
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through the organization. Originally designed for VTAMcontrolled SNA networks, LRS added TCP/IP functionality
and pioneered the migration of enterprise printing to the
TCP/IP network protocol. The VPS solution offers webbased monitoring and control, enabling administrators,
operators and end users to control production printing.
VPS/Secure. VPS/Secure offer encrypted distribution
of confidential documents from host to printer or host to
host. It uses the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES),
supporting the exchange of encrypted data between
Windows, Unix, OS/390 and z/OS mainframes.
VPS/E Mail. This expands the print distribution channel to
include direct e-mail delivery from the host.
VPS/PDF. VPS/PDF provides dynamic conversion of
AFP documents to Portable Document Format (PDF) for
delivery via e-mail, web or file.
DRS captures, manages and controls documents
originating from any platform via the LRS Enterprise Output
Server.
DRS/Output Manager. With DRS/Output Manager, SAP
R/3 users gain full control over document printing, along
with feedback on print status, without leaving the SAP app.
PageCenter. PageCenter archives documents received
from VPS for secure viewing with web browsers on multiple
platforms.
Logicalis UK
Address:
110 Buckingham Avenue, Slough, Berks SL1 4PF, UK
Phone: +44 (0) 01753 777200
Email: info@logicalis.com
Web: www.logicalis.com
Activity: Hardware vendor
Specialist areas: System management; data
management; storage management; asset and change
management; security; web integration and legacy
reengineering tools; network performance/management
Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, OS/390, VM/
VSE, z/Linux
Non-mainframe platforms supported: System i, AIX,
other Unix, Linux, Windows
Pricing options: One-time charge, monthly/annual
licence, processor/capacity based, workload/usage based
Company profile
Logicalis is an international IT solutions and managed
Longpela Expertise
Address:
1 Lilly Street, South Fremantle WA 6162, Australia
Phone: +61 404 757 821
Email: info@longpelaexpertise.com.au
Web: www.longpelaexpertise.com.au
Activity: Consultant
Specialist areas: System management; programming/
testing
Looksoftware
Address:
9/622 Ferntree Gullu Road, Wheelers Hill, Melbourne,
Australia
Phone: 61 3 9535 4444.
Email: info@looksoftware.com
Web: www.looksoftware.com
Sales contacts:
America: 678-354-1094, toddf@looksoftware.com
EMEA: 61 3 9535 4444, kimf@looksoftware.com
AsiaPac: 61 3 9535 4444, kimf@looksoftware.com.
Activity: Software vendor
Specialist areas: Web integration and legacy
reengineering tools
Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, OS/390, VM/VSE
Non-mainframe platforms supported: IBM i, AIX,
Windows
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mobileclient
More and more employees are on the road using wireless
devices such as web pads, PDAs, and phones.
smartclient
Suitsknowledge workersneeding smart/rich client support
including high performance, advanced UI support (such as
datagrids, tree controls and many more), offline support,
desktop integration, web services consumption and
database access. No touch deployment and automated
updates make smartclient deployment a breeze.
Macro 4
Address:
The Orangery, Turners Hill Road, Worth, Crawley, West
Sussex, RH10 4SS, UK
Phone: +44 1293 872000
Email: market@macro4.com
Web: www.macro4.com
Sales contacts:
America: +1 800 766 6224 market.usa@macro4.com
EMEA: as UK
AsiaPac: as UK
Activity: Software vendor
Specialist areas: System management; data
management; programming/testing
Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, OS/390, VM/
VSE, Linux
Non-mainframe platforms supported: IBM i, AIX, Unix,
Linux
Pricing options: One-time charge, monthly/annual
license, processor/capacity-based, workload/usage based
Company profile
For your critical business applications, Macro 4 is
the software specilaist that enablesperformance
improvementby making the complex simple.
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Mainframe Co Ltd
Address:
ul. Zielona 18, 05-090 Raszyn, Poland
Phone: +48 22 7156950
Email: info@mainframe.pl
Web: http://www.mainframe.pl
Activity: Integrator
Specialist areas: System management; data
management; storage management; asset and change
management; security; programming/testing; web
integration and legacy reengineering tools; network
performance/management
Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, OS/390, Linux
Pricing options: One-time charge, monthly/annual license
Company profile
Independent software vendor, professional services,
outsourcing of mainframe enviroment
generally everything about your mainframe environment.
Product/service information
Replacement of RACF (security server)
Database engine
z/OS documentation (auditing z/os enviroment).
Maintec Technologies
Address:
8311 Brier Creek Pkwy, Suite 105 513, Raleigh, NC
27617, USA
Phone: +1 919 424 6323
Email: sgupta@maintec.com.
Web: www.maintec.com.
Activity: Outsourcer
Specialist areas: System management; data management
Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, OS/390, VM/
VSE, z/Linux
Non-mainframe platforms supported: IBM i, AIX
Company profile
Maintec Technologies provides a range of services such as
data center management, IT staffing, including the popular
Hire Train Deploy solution; corporate training services and
on-site/off-shore project management. Maintec is also
uniquely positioned to service customer requirements by
leveraging services in future technologies such as big
Marist College
Address:
3399 North Rd, Poughkeepsie, NY 12601, USA
Phone: 845-575-3588
Email: susan.scanlon@marist.edu
Web: http://idcp.marist.edu/learnzos
Activity: Education.
Specialist areas: other
Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS
Non-mainframe platforms supported: AIX, other
Company profile
The Institute for Data Center Professionals (IDCP) at
Marist College offers convenient, affordable, 100% online,
asynchronous certificate programs covering topics that are
relevant to professionals working in data center operations
and/or enterprise computing environments. Courses are
taught by academic professionals and industry experts,
some of whom have had a hand in developing the
technology. Full curriculum for z/OS system and application
programmers.
Product/service information
We offer three levels of education for the z/OS systems
programmer.
z/OS Associate, Professional and Expert Tracks - each
comprised of three courses delivered fully online
For the application programmer, we offer COBOL, IMS,
Assembler and DB2 tracks each comprised of three
courses delivered fully online. We also offer a 2-course
certificate covering AIX on Power.
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Micro Focus
Address:
22-30 Old Bath Road, Newbury, Berkshire RG14 1QN, UK
Phone: +44 1635 32646.
Web: www.microfocus.com.
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Sales contacts:
America: Sales.US@microfocus.com.
EMEA: UKSales@microfocus.com.
AsiaPac: UKSales@microfocus.com.
Activity: Software vendor
Specialist areas: Data management; asset and change
management; programming/testing; web integration and
legacy reengineering tools
Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, OS/390, Linux
Non-mainframe platforms supported: i5, AIX, other Unix,
Linux, Windows
Pricing options: Monthly/annual license, processor/
capacity-based
Company profile
Micro Focus International plc provides innovative software
that allows companies to dramatically improve the
business value of their enterprise applications. Micro Focus
Enterprise Application Modernization and Management
software enables customers business applications to
respond rapidly to market changes and embrace modern
architectures with reduced cost and risk.
Micro Focus has more than 30 years of expertise and
more than 15,000 customers and one million licensed
users, including more than 70 of the Fortune Global 100
companies.
By exploiting the latest technologies and leveraging the
strength of our business partners worldwide, Micro Focus
enables customers to make sense of their application
portfolios, improve the productivity of application
developers, take advantage of Web services to modernize
core applications and exploit low-cost contemporary
platforms, such as Windows, Unix or Linux.
Micro Focus has over 500 employees worldwide, with
principal offices in the United Kingdom, United States,
Germany and Japan.
Product/service information
Micro Focus Mainframe Express Enterprise Edition
A mainframe development and testing environment hosted
on your PC:
Reduces mainframe overheads
Analysis, compilation, debugging and testing of
applications on your PC
Support for all major mainframe languages and
subsystems (including COBOL, Assembler, JCL, CICS,
IMS, DB2)
Flexibility to extend business transactions to new
platforms.
MOST Technologies
Address:
4, Haharash str., Hod-Hasharon 45244, Israel
Phone: +972-3-9115511.
Email: info@mosttechnologies.com.
Web: www.mosttechnologies.com.
Sales contacts:
America: MOST Technologies, Inc, 400 Northridge Road,
Suite 250, Atlanta, GA 30350, USA, Tel: (678) 420-7470.
AsiaPac: MOST Technologies Japan K.K.#301 1-1416 Nishiazabu, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan, 106-0031, Tel:
(81) 3 5412-8662, Fax: (81) 3 5412-8664, Email: info@
mosttechnologies.co.jp.
Activity: Software vendor
Specialist areas: Programming/testing; web integration
and legacy reengineering tools
Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, OS/390, VM/
VSE, z/Linux, other
Non-mainframe platforms supported: i5, AIX, other Unix,
Linux, Windows, other
Pricing options: One-time charge, monthly/annual
license, processor/capacity-based, workload/usage based,
other
Company profile
MOST Technologies, a global leader in legacy
modernization, is in a unique position to address the needs
of organizations with investment in mainframe application
assets.
MOSTs legacy modernization offering provide the
customer with following benefits:
Reduction in total cost of ownership related to the
operation of legacy applications
Renew the value of legacy applications and data in new
services
Improve accessibility to these application assets
real time so as to support business intelligence and
customer service initiatives
Increased flexibility and interoperability with internal
and external services
Tighter control over budget through reducing scope of
change
MOST Technologies offering to mainframe customers with
investment in Legacy Applications include:
Solutions
Expertise
Services.
Product/service information
MF-Test is a leading testing solution from MOST
Technologies that was developed specifically for testing
mainframe applications, databases and their supporting
environments. It provides automatic execution of the
application testing scenarios as well as advanced reporting
mechanism to allow multiple tests on parallel testing
environments.
MF-Test is a mature technology that is helping various
mainframe customers around the world to test their
mainframe applications in a low risk, low cost environment.
Using MF-Test can reduce the burden out of the testing
phase, so resources can focus on keep developing the
applications.
MF-Test capabilities:
Multiple isolated test environments Enable parallel
testing for a larger number of testing scenarios
Smart and flexible pre/post change comparisons
Ensuring that the application outcome remains exactly
the same after the application modifications, unless a
change is expected
Test results collection All results are collected and
kept in a central location, for comparison and tracking
purposes
Test auditing, control and security For management
of larger testing teams, located in different locations
and testing different applications
Central user interface Windows based graphical user
interface for tests creation, execution and track
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OGS Consulting
Address:
Suite 885, 279 Balestier Road, #01-01 Balestier Point,
Singapore 329727
Phone: +65 9626-7045
Email: peter@ogsconsult.com
Web: www.ogsconsult.com
Activity: Systems integrator
Specialist areas: System management; data
management; storage management; asset and change
management; security; programming/testing; web
integration and legacy reengineering tools; network
performance/management
Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, OS/390, VM/VSE
Pricing options: Monthly/annual license, processor/
capacity-based , workload/usage based, other
Company profile
OGS Consulting Pte Ltd covers Singapore, Malaysia,
Thailand, and China supporting mainframe sites to provide
training, consultancy, and legacy migration services
related to the z/OS, z/VSE and iSeries platforms. OGS
also partners with principals for software distribution of
database, performance, utility tools, network and storage
management.
Product/service information
OGS provides training in the mainframe environment
including z/OS, JCL, VSAM, CICS, DB2, Security Audits
and COBOL. Legacy migrations include migrations
between databases and/or platforms (one of which is the
mainframe). Software tools include DB2 z/OS database
tools for performance, CICS, administration, backup/
recovery, sorting, printing and reporting. Other tools include
storage management, tuning, and productivity add-ons and
competitive replacements.
Oracle
Address:
500 Oracle Parkway, Redwood Shores, CA, USA
Phone: +1 603-502-7635
Web: http://www.oracle.com
Activity: Software vendor.
Specialist areas: System management; data
PDFlib GmbH
Address:
Franziska-Bilek-Weg 9, 80339 Munich, Germany
Phone: +49 89 452 33 84-0
Email: info@pdflib.com
Web: www.pdflib.com
Activity: Software vendor
Specialist areas: Data management; storage
management; security; programming/testing; web
integration and legacy reengineering tools; other
Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, OS/390, Linux
Non-mainframe platforms supported: i5, AIX, other Unix,
Linux, Windows, others
Pricing options: One-time charge, processor/capacitybased
Company profile
PDFlib GmbH is completely focused on PDF technology.
Customers worldwide use PDFlib products since 1997. The
company closely follows development and market trends,
such as ISO standards for PDF. PDFlib GmbH products
are distributed in 100 countries all over the world with
major markets in North America, Europe, and Japan.
Customers of PDFlib GmbH are using the software for
automated and high volume generation and processing of
PDF documents in business and prepress workflows or for
online billing systems. The development tools of PDFlib
GmbH are readily available for all common environments
of operating systems and programming languages.
Product/service information
The PDFlib Product Family
PDFlib is the leading developer toolbox for generating and
manipulating files in the Portable Document Format (PDF).
PDFlibs main targets are dynamic PDF creation on a Web
server or any other server system, and to implement Save
as PDF in existing applications. The PDFlib product family
is available in three different flavors: PDFlib, PDFlib+PDI
(PDF Import), and PDFlib Personalization Server (PPS).
PDFlib+PDI includes all PDFlib functions plus the PDF
Import Library (PDI). With PDI you can open existing PDF
documents and incorporate some pages into the PDFlib
output.
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Pegasystems
Address:
One Rogers Street, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA.
Phone: +1 617-374-9600
Web: www.pega.com.
Sales contacts:
America: +1 617-374-9600.
EMEA: +44 (0) 118 9591150.
AsiaPac: +61 2 9581 7000.
Activity: Software vendor.
Specialist areas: Programming/testing
Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, z/Linux.
Non-mainframe platforms supported: IBM i, AIX, Unix,
Linux, Windows, other
Pricing options: Monthly/annual license, workload/usage
based, other.
Company profile
Pegasystems is the only BPM company consistently
ranked by analysts as the industry leader for the past five
years, including both Forrester and Gartner.
Pegasystems is furthermore a recognized leader in CRM
by both Forrester and Gartner.
Product/service information
Pega BPM, Pega CRM, Pega Healthcare Solutions,
Pega Decision Management, Pega Financial Services
Solutions, Pega Life Sciences Solutions, Pega Insurance
Solutions, Pega Energy & Utilities Solutions, Pega
Manufacturing Solutions, Pega Government Solutions,
Pega Communications Solutions.
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PerfTechPro
Address:
4071 Heather Court, Northampton, PA 18067, USA.
Phone: +1 855 737 3832
Email: info@PerfTechPro.com
Web: www.PerfTechPro.com.
Sales contacts:
America: info@PerfTechPro.com.
EMEA: info@value-4it.com.
AsiaPac: info@PerfTechPro.com.
Activity: Software vendor.
Specialist areas: System management.
Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS.
Pricing options: Monthly/annual license.
Company profile
PerfTechPro is a 21st-century IT Capacity and
Performance Management company offering solutions
designed for busy, cost-conscious IT professionals who
want maximum value and performance.
PerfTechPro was borne out of decades of experience
designing and selling IT capacity management solutions
for organizations of all sizes. Our company was specifically
formed to provide solutions to meet the affordability and
flexibility needs of todays IT management professionals.
PerfTechPro provides business value by ensuring
enterprise server resources are sized correctly for
maximum performance and cost-savings. We also take
great pride in making sure that we are easy to do business
with, and simplify rather than complicate, our customers
lives.
PerfTechPro delivers all the insight you need to maximize
the value and performance of your enterprise servers,
and does it for a fraction of the cost of other Capacity and
Performance Management tools.
As a company focused only on IT capacity management
tools, we can offer personal service and extremely
competitive pricing.
Product/service information
PerfTechPro for z/OS is a software solution to provide
automated data collection, analysis, reporting and
modeling. It is a Capacity Planning and Performance
Measurement tool specifically designed for the cost
conscious and savvy 21st Century data center.
PerfTechPro for z/OS is the next evolution in Mainframe
Capacity Planning tools, having been architected from
ground zero using the latest techniques. PerfTechPro for
z/OS provides sophisticated capacity and performance
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Product/service information
Optimizing Application Development
Eclipse based IDEs (RDz); application understanding;
improving code quality
Adabas / Natural migration
Adabas to RDBMS migration; Natural and Java
coexistence; Web 2.0 for Natural MAPs
Application transformation
consolidation from 4GL to Cobol; zIIP Enablement - Cobol
to Java; custom-made transformation solution.
PKS Software
Address:
Georgstrae 15, 88214 Ravensburg, Germany.
Phone: 0049 751/56140 229
Email: sales@pks.de
Web: www.pks.com
Activity: Software vendor.
Specialist areas: Web integration and legacy
reengineering tools
Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, OS/390
Non-mainframe platforms supported: System i
Pricing options: One-time charge, monthly/annual
license, processor/capacity-based, workload/usage based
Company profile
We are passionately committed to the maintenance and
improvement of valuable legacy applications. We preserve
investments in applications and staff. In doing so, we make
an important contribution to the corporate success and
continuity of our customers.PKS stands for:
Intelligent Tools Made in Germany: We achieve a
high degree of automation with custom-tailored tools
of the highest quality. This guarantees optimal costeffectiveness at minimal risk for customers around the
world.
Implementation Expertise: We have a high degree of
specialized knowledge, traction, and are true gogetters. We not only look for solutions, but we also
implement them.
Mutual collaboration: From our experience, we know
that 1 + 1 = 3: The combination of application and
technological know-how is what makes our projects so
successful.
Accountability: Our customers trust us when it comes to
the future of their most important applications. Both the
owners and staff of PKS are aware of this responsibility
and are personally dedicated to the success of
projects.
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PKWARE
Address:
648 N. Plankinton Ave, Suite 220, Milwaukee, WI 53203,
USA.
Phone: +1 414 289 9788
Web: http://www.pkware.com
Sales contacts:
America: 1 888 4 PKWARE.
EMEA: +44 (0) 207 470 2420
AsiaPac: +81 3 5456 5599
Activity: Software vendor.
Specialist areas: Security
Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS
Non-mainframe platforms supported: System i, AIX,
other Unix, Linux, Windows, others
Pricing options: Other
Company profile
PKWARE, Inc. is the leading provider of enterprise
solutions for secure and efficient data transfer and
storage. As the inventor and continuing innovator of the
ZIP standard, PKWARE leverages the cross-platform
compatibility of ZIP. Using advanced encryption and
compression, PKWARE products provide secure and
efficient file exchange both internally and with external
partners, across all major platforms including windows,
server, midrange, and mainframe systems.
Over 30,000 companies world-wide use PKWARE
Solutions, including many Fortune 100 and 23 of the top 25
financial institutions, health care, retail, and manufacturing
companies. Additionally, over 200 federal agencies and
state governments utilize PKWARE.
Progress | DataDirect
Address:
3005 Carrington Mill Boulevard, Suite 400, Morrisville, NC
27560, USA
Phone: +1 800 876 3101
E-mail: insidesales@datadirect.com
Web: www.datadirect.com
Sales contacts:
America: 800 876 3101
EMEA: 0800 169 1907
AsiaPac: 0120 209 613
Activity: Software vendor
Specialist areas: Web integration and legacy
reengineering tools
Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, OS/390, Linux
Non-mainframe platforms supported: Linux, Windows
Pricing options: Monthly/annual license
Company profile
Progress DataDirect is a leader in data connectivity and
mainframe integration software for corporate enterprises
and independent software vendors, including IBM.
Progress DataDirect Shadow is the industrys only unified
integration platform for mainframe data access and SOA
enablement. Shadow delivers secure, high performance
and scalable access to a broad range of mainframe data
and application environments with unique capabilities to
extend System z specialty engine exploitation beyond DB2
for dramatically lower mainframe TCO.
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Product/service information
Rocket Mainframe Solutions provide software and
professional service solutions that ensure effective
utilization of System z environments. Our mainframe
solutions:
Product/service information
Smart/RESTART enables z/OS batch applications to run
restartably - often without changes to source code. Smart/
RESTART is a robust, reliable, and proven solution that
Global 2000 organizations worldwide use to run their
mission-critical z/OS batch applications.
Rocket Software
Address:
77 Fourth Avenue, Waltham, MA 02451, USA
Phone: +1 781 577 4321
Web: www.rocketsoftware.com
Activity: Software vendor
Specialist areas: System management; data
management; storage management; asset and change
management; security; web integration and legacy
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RSM Technology
Address:
Dralda House, 24-28 Crendon Street, High Wycombe,
Bucks HP13 6LS, UK
Phone: +44 (0)1494 45 13 13
Email : courses@rsm.co.uk
Web: http://www.rsm.co.uk
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Activity: Training
Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, Linux
Pricing options: Monthly/annual license
Company profile
Founded in 1980, RSM is the UKs leading independent
provider of technical education & training for users of IBM
mainframe systems. Working in partnership with the British
Computer Society (BCS), RSM has been instrumental
in developing and launching the Mainframe Technology
Professional series of examinations and qualifications.
Product/service information
Publicly presented and customised, one-company training
and education courses covering such areas as: z/OS,
CICS Transaction Server, DB2 for z/OS, WebSphere MQ,
IMS TM & DB, WebSphere Application Server, TCP/IP for
z/OS.
SAS Institute
Address:
SAS Institute Inc, 100 SAS Campus Drive, Cary, NC
27513-2414, USA
Phone: +1 919 677 8000
International Headquarters:
SAS Institute GmbH, PO.Box 105340, Neuenheimer
Landstr. 28-30, 69043 Heidelberg, GERMANY
Phone : +49 6221 4160
Web: www.sas.com
Activity: Software vendor
Specialist areas: Data management
Company profile
Business intelligence. With SAS business intelligence,
you can integrate data from across your enterprise,
and deliver fast access to self-service reporting and
analysis to all levels of user. Easy-to-use interfaces
make it simple for decision makers to get the answers
they need saving you time while driving better
decisions.
Analytics. With SAS, you can deliver analytic results
to all users to share insights and drive fact-based
decisions.
Data integration & ETL. With SAS, you gain an
integrated approach for managing your increasing
volumes of enterprise data. You can simplify the
process of data extraction, transformation and loading
while improving data quality and achieving true data
integration.
Softlib Software
Address:
65th Yigal Alon St. Tel Aviv, Israel
Phone: +972 3 5615190.
Email: info@softlibsw.com.
Web: www.softlibsw.com.
Sales contacts:
America: +1 551 226 6069 .
EMEA: +32 477 202 911 .
Activity: Software vendor
Specialist areas: Other
Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, OS/390, VM/
VSE, z/Linux, other
Non-mainframe platforms supported: System i, AIX,
Other Unix, Linux, Windows, other
Pricing options: One-time charge, monthly/annual
licence, other
Company profile
Softlib is a pioneer and leading provider of Knowledge
Delivery and Management software, helping our customers
accelerate time to resolution in their IT, support and
helpdesk organizations. Our customers include financial
organizations, insurance companies, government
agencies, manufacturing companies, High Tech, Medical
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Software AG
Address:
Uhlandstrasse 12, 64297 Darmstadt, Germany
Phone: +49 6151 92 0 (Germany)
Email: webinfo@softwareag.com
Web: www.softwareag.com
Sales contacts:
America: 1 703-860-5050 (USA) or www.softwareag.com/
Corporate/contact_us.
EMEA: www.softwareag.com/Corporate/contact_us
AsiaPac: www.softwareag.com/Corporate/contact_us.
Activity: Software vendor
Specialist areas: System management; data
management; storage management; asset and change
management; security; programming/testing; web
integration and legacy reengineering tools; other.
Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, VM/VSE, z/Linux
Non-mainframe platforms supported: IBM i, AIX, other
Unix, Linux, Windows, other
Pricing options: Monthly/annual license, processor/
capacity-based, other
Company profile
The Software AG Group consists of four business
divisions: Business Processes, Integration, Big Data and
Adabas-Natural. Software AGs Adabas-Natural business
division provides software solutions for mainframes and
modernizes mainframe-based IT systems. In this way, we
ensure the long-term protection of customers investments.
Adabas offers our customers an enterprise class database
that is known for its ultra-high performance, scalability and
iron-clad reliability. For decades, the Natural development
environment has been the foundation of hundreds of
thousands of software applications that make up the
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Sales contacts:
America: SEGUS Inc
14151 Park Meadow Drive, Chantilly, VA 20151
Email: info@segus.com
Phone: +1-800-327-9650
Web: www.segus.com
EMEA: se.info@seg.de
AsiaPac: se.info@seg.de
Product/service information
VitalSigns for Network Automation and Control (VNAC) is
an ideal replacement for NetView(TM) or NetMaster(TM)-applications bloated with features you seldom use, but
always pay for.
Company profile
Software Engineering GMBH has been developing
standardized DB2 software and providing DB2 consulting
services for more than 25 years. By combining intensive
research with target-oriented development of new DB2
software products, we have established powerful skills
in DB2 solutions. Driven by customers, consultants, and
other highly skilled DB2 users at our Design Councils,
we develop practical innovations to keep DB2 in the best
shape.
Product/service information
RealTime DBAExpert insures high data availability, as
well as fast and secure recoverability, 24x7. RealTime
DBAExpert automates the management of DB2 for z/OS
databases. Using real-time statistics and user-defined
thresholds, combined with continuous monitoring of DB2
objects, RealTime DBAExpert detects and responds to
database problems immediately. Seamless integration
with all job schedulers and existing IT procedures
secures existing investments and the exploitation of latest
technologies saves valuable resources.
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Address:
Nibley House, Low Moor Road, Doddington Road, Lincoln,
Lincolnshire LN6 3JY, UK
Phone: +44 (0)1522 881300
Email: marketing-info@software-europe.co.uk
Web: www.software-europe.co.uk
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Address:
15714 SE 25th Street, Bellevue, WA 98008-5410, USA
Phone: +1-425-351-2316.
Email: Brian.Hoare@softwareonz.com.
Web: www.softwareonz.com
Activity: Software vendor.
Specialist areas: System management; data
management; storage management; asset and change
management; network performance/management
Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS
Pricing options: One-time charge, monthly/annual
license, processor/capacity-based, other
Company profile
SoftwareOnZ specializes in optimizing your usage of
System z. Our software solutions will help your reduce
the amount of time, effort, and human error involved in
implementing and maintaining a cost-effective mainframe
computing environment. Whether you are a DBA, a
capacity manager, a systems programmer, an application
developer, or a development manager, SoftwareOnZ has
a solution for improving your workload and reducing your
computing costs.
Our solutions can help you to reduce the cost of mainframe
computing while more effectively managing vWLC,
improving the administration and performance of your DB2
databases and applications, enhancing the visibility of
the impact of application and system changes, as well as
improving your overall system operations.
At SoftwareOnZ we really do offer a better way on z.
Product/service information
SoftwareOnZ offers mainframe software solutions for
capacity planning and management, change management
and compliance, DB2 administration, and systems and
application management.
For capacity management, SoftwareOnZ offers
AutoSoftCapping (ASC). This solution maximizes
software cost efficiencies for IBM zSeries platforms. ASC
automatically adjusts defined capacity by LPAR based
upon you actual workload, while maintaining a consistent
overall defined capacity for your CPC. In this way, ASC can
reduce the monthly software bill for customers using vWLC
pricing.
For DB2 environment, SoftwareOnZ offers solutions for
improving performance by automating access path control
(zAPX), more effectively managing storage (zSPM),
automating DB2 utilities (DB-Genie), and improving
application development (RDBA).
Solimar Systems
Address:
1515 Second Avenue, San Diego, CA 92101, USA
Phone: +1 619 849 2800.
Email: sales@solimarsystems.com.
Web: www.solimarsystems.com
Activity: Software vendor.
Specialist areas: System management
Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, OS/390, VM/
VSE, Linux, Other
Non-mainframe platforms supported: Windows, i5, AIX,
other Unix, Linux
Pricing options: One-time charge, Monthly/annual license
Company profile
Founded in 1991, Solimar Systems Inc is a leading
developer of enterprise output management solutions
for digital document creation, production and distribution
environments. Installed in thousands of sites around the
world, including nearly 40% of the Fortune 100, Solimar
solutions satisfy a wide range of customer requirements by
combining integrated connectivity, data stream transforms,
print optimization, document re-engineering/repurposing
and sophisticated print queue management with secure
web-based document presentation, distribution and
tracking.
Experts in legacy and modern data streams, Solimar
solutions provide essential infrastructure to organizations
in a variety of industries including insurance, financial
services, banking, pharmaceuticals, telecommunications,
healthcare, government, education, retail, manufacturing,
utilities, distribution and print service bureaux.
Product/service information
Products include:
Solimar Print/Director Enterprise Client/server
based enterprise output management solution that
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Sosa Cousins
Address:
USA
Phone: +1 770-671-9392.
Email: support@sosacousins.com
Web: www.sosacousins.com
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SQData Corporation
Address:
4620 Sunbelt Drive Suite 202, Addison, TX 75001, USA
Phone: 214.695.6484
Email: sales@sqdata.com.
Web: www.sqdata.com.
Activity: Software vendor
Specialist areas: Data management
Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS
Non-mainframe platforms supported: AIX, Other Unix,
Linux, Windows
Pricing options: One-time charge, monthly/annual
license, processor/capacity based
Company profile
SQData is a leading provider of high-performance,
near-real-time changed data capture, replication and
data integration software for mainframe and distributed
databases. SQDatas software allows customers to
address a variety of business needs ranging from data
conversions/migrations to active/active data replication to
near-real-time population of data warehouses.
Product/service information
A leading enterprise-class data integration offering that
provides a cost-effective solution to multiple business
needs out-of-the-box.
Address:
SSH Communications Security Corp, Valimotie 17,
FI-00380 Helsinki, Finland.
Phone: +358 205007000.
Email: info@ssh.com.
Web: www.ssh.com.
Sales contacts:
America: +1 781 247 2100 / sales.americas@ssh.com.
EMEA: +358 20 500 7000 /ssh.sales@ssh.com.
AsiaPac: +81 3 3459 6830 / sales.jp@ssh.com.
Stonesoft Inc
Address:
1050 Crown Pointe Parkway Suite 900, Atlanta, GA 30338,
USA
Phone: +1 770 668 1125.
Email: sales@stonesoft.com.
Web: www.stonesoft.com
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SV Group
Address:
Albrechtova 32, HR-10000 Zagreb, Croatia.
Phone: +385 1 2958740.
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Email: info@svgroup.hr.
Web: www.svgroup.hr/
Activity: Software vendor.
Specialist areas: System management; data
management; storage management; asset and change
management; security; programming/testing; network
performance/management;
Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, OS/390, VM/
VSE, z/Linux
Non-mainframe platforms supported: AIX, Unix, Linux,
Windows
Pricing options: One-time charge, processor/capacitybased, workload/usage based
Company profile
SV Group d.o.o. is a project-oriented IT company founded
in 1995.
Customers of SV Group solutions and services are
companies whose activities have for years been dependent
on IT technologies and solutions that directly support their
business. This is why our customers seek a reliable and
proven partner to realize their IT projects
Product/service information
SV Group d.o.o. provides you with:
Application development,
Innovative, reliable IT solutions based on proven
technologies and concepts adjusted to your specific
business needs,
Supervision of information projects and solutions
design and implementation (Software Quality
Assurance SQA),
Sale of hardware, software and services:
Hardware (IBM System z, IBM Power Systems, IBM
System Storage),
IBM Software (B2B Integration, Information
Management software, Lotus software, Rational
software, Tivoli software, WebSphere software, System
z software, SPSS software),
VMware software
Microsoft software
RedHat software
Services provided by our certified experts, IBM services
and services provided by our partners,
Enterprise content management (ECM),
IT asset management,
IT infrastructure virtualisation,
Secure data back up,
Proactive IT system and application monitoring,
Proactive and reactive support and maintenance
of SV Group applications (Life Insurance, Office
Management, Call Centre, New Croatian Personal
Identity Card, Personal Identity Card for Foreigners,
Syspertec Communication
Address:
196 Bureaux de la Colline, 92213 Saint-Cloud Cedex,
France
Phone: +33 (0)1 46 02 60 42
Email: cominfo@syspertec.com
Web: www.virtelweb.com
Sales contacts:
America: (925) 937-5816 / info@syspertec.us.
Activity: Software vendor.
Specialist areas: Web integration and legacy
reengineering tools
Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, OS/390, VM/
VSE,
Pricing options: Monthly/annual license, workload/usage
based.
Company profile
SysperTec is an international software publisher with over
20 years experience of on-the-fly protocol conversion
between mainframe and heterogeneous servers and
terminals.
The company helps perpetuate the life and value
of legacy enterprise applications by integrating new
technologies (TCP/IP, HTML, XML...) that raise productivity
and modernize ergonomics. SysperTec relies upon
experts with 20 years experience in the development of
software products to simplify the integration of enterprise
applications and networks. These solutions facilitate
interactive communication from/to mainframe applications
and data. SysperTecs objective is to provide customized
solutions that allow the seamless evolution of enterprise
information systems including cost reduction, user comfort,
high performance and simplicity of implementation.
SysperTec has licensed over 300 products world-wide in
banking, service, insurance, government, manufacturing,
and distribution.
Product/service information
Extend legacy systems through web-enablement:
Virtel is a comprehensive web-enablement middleware
that serves legacy host applications such as CICS, IMS,
Natural or TSO as web pages or web services over TCP/
IP connections. Web-enabling extends the relevance and
investment of critical legacy systems. It is simpler, faster,
Systemwerx
Address:
PO Box 1195, Bedford, MK42 8WY, UK
Phone: +44 207 0606601.
Email: sales@systemwerx.co.uk.
Web: www.systemwerx.co.uk.
Activity: Software vendor and consultancy.
Specialist areas: System management, security, web
integration and legacy reengineering tools.
Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS
Non-mainframe platforms supported: IBM i, AIX, Unix,
Linux, Windows.
Pricing options: One-time charge, monthly/annual
license, processor/capacity-based, workload/usage based
Company profile
Systemwerx has, for over 10 years, provided our
customers with solutions to their business needs.
Our system specialists provide our customers with pratical
experience in the development of business applications
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T3 Technologies Inc
Address:
1408 Westshore Blvd, Tampa, Florida 33607, USA
Phone: +1 813 288 9800.
Email: info@t3t.com.
Web: www.t3t.com
Sales contacts:
EMEA: Concorde House, Trinity Park, Solihull, Birmingham
B37 7UQ UK. Phone +44 (0) 121 635 5571
Activity: Integrator
Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS,OS/390, VM/VSE,
Linux
Pricing options: One-time charge, monthly/annual license
Company profile
Since our inception in 1992, T3 has been dedicated
to providing the mainframe community with more cost
effective solutions than traditional systems. Our tServer is
now the worlds best selling mainframe under 80 MIPS and
has helped over 600 clients maintain and modernize their
data centers.
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Product/service infromation
Now T3 will be offering even greater choice as we
introduce a new generation of plug-compatible mainframes
(PCMs), capable of handling larger and more complex
environments, and based on technology originally
developed by Amdahl Corporation. With models ranging
to 300 MIPS and supporting 64-bit architecture, Liberty
brings back freedom of choice to mainframe data centers.
TeamQuest Corporation
Address:
One TeamQuest Way, Clear Lake, Iowa 50428, USA
Phone: +1 641-357-2700
E-mail: info@teamquest.com
Web: www.teamquest.com
Sales contacts
America: sales@teamquest.com
EMEA: emea@teamquest.com
AsiaPac: asiapacific@teamquest.com
Activity: Software vendor
Specialist areas: System management
Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS., OS/390, Linux,
other
Non-mainframe platforms supported: i5, AIX, other Unix,
Linux, Windows
Pricing Options: One-time charge, monthly/annual
license, processor/capacity-based, other
Company profile
TeamQuest Corporation is the global leader in IT Service
Optimization (ITSO). Specializing in software that helps
IT organizations consistently meet service levels while
minimizing costs, TeamQuest provides quick and accurate
capacity modelling and performance solutions.
Companies around the world trust TeamQuest to help them
improve IT service delivery while mitigating risks, allowing
them to proactively optimize IT resources while minimizing
infrastructure costs. TeamQuest software is especially wellsuited for use in heterogeneous and virtualized computing
environments. Complementing and supporting ITIL best
practices, SOA and BSM goals, TeamQuest software can
help organizations manage IT from both the business and
IT perspectives.
Product/service Information
TeamQuest Performance Software is made up of a suite of
four integrated products that help organizations optimize
IT services, from performance management and reporting
to event monitoring and capacity modelling. Products can
be used individually or in combination to address various
TechMaint, LLC
Address:
4360 Hanover Road, Winston-Salem, NC 27127, USA
Phone: +1 336-724-1638
E-mail: techmaint@techmaint.com
Web: www.techmaint.com
Activity: Consultant
Specialist areas: System management; data
management; storage management; security; network
performance/management
Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, OS/390, VM/
VSE, Linux
Non-mainframe platforms supported: IBM i, AIX, other
Unix, Linux, Windows
Company profile
TechMaint has a team of consultants that work in the z/
OS operating system space. Most consultants have
over 30 years experience as system programmers.
TechMaint is partners with major IT vendors that provide
staff augmentation and also work on system type
projects. MVS, OS/390, and z/OS maintenance and
migrations including disaster recovery, security, and
network. TechMaint has a group of Unix, AIX, Solaris, and
application developers on the mainframe.
Product/service Information
TechMaint services consists of many years experience in
the mainframe space including most third-party products.
Security, disaster recovery, hardware installations, and
most z/OS services.
Address:
PO Box 1070, Coppell, TX 75019, USA
Phone: +1 972-725-9315.
Email: sales@techsyssoftware.com.
Web: www.techsyssoftware.com.
Activity: Consultant.
Specialist areas: System management; data
management; storage management; asset and change
management; security; programming/testing; web
integration and legacy reengineering tools; network
performance/management
Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, OS/390, VM/
VSE, Linux
Company profile
Techsys Software Services LLC helps mainframe
technology providers who have a part-time, short-term, or
on-demand need for mainframe expertise. Our mission
is to provide our customers with an affordable alternative
to hiring or outsourcing their systems management and
technical support staff, while saving them up to 80% on
staffing costs. If you cant afford, or dont want, a full-time
mainframe systems programing or technical applications
development staff, let us customize a support package
to meet your needs. Give us a call at 877-390-4878 to
discuss
Product/service information
We provide the following types of services for our
customers:
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Triton Consulting
Address:
1260 41st Ave Suite K, Capitola Ca 95010, USA.
Phone: +1 831 465 7661
Email: sales@triserv.com.
Web: www. triserv.com.
Address:
The Royal, 25 Bank Plain, Norwich, Norfolk, NR2 4SF, UK.
Phone: +44 870 2411 550
Email: marketing@triton.co.uk.
Web: www.triton.co.uk.
Sales contacts:
America: 800-887-4336
EMEA: 800-887-4336.
AsiaPac: 800-887-4336
Activity: Consultant
Specialist areas: System management; data
management; storage management; security
Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, z/Linux
Non-mainframe platforms supported: Unix, Linux,
Windows, other
Pricing options: One-time charge, monthly/annual
license, processor/capacity-based, other
Company profile
Triton Consulting is a highly focused, independent data
management services provider. Renowned in the industry
for our levels of DB2 expertise, we are proud to be the
home of an IBM Gold Consultant, two IBM Champions and
some of the most highly qualified DB2 experts in the world.
Product/service information
zTune
Triton can help you to regain control of your software
charges by running an audit of your current environment
and identifying when and where the workload peaks occur.
Initial Analysis Typically customers can reduce their peak
CPU charges by a minimum of 3% with no performance
impacts whatsoever and many customers can reduce their
peak by 5% from this initial analysis.
Performance Tuning The majority of mainframe users
have significant potential for further reducing resource
consumption (and therefore costs) through performance
tuning of key workloads. This is especially true for
those with older applications that havent been actively
maintained for a while or who have lost some of their deep
middleware skills through retirement or redundancy.
By tuning these workloads, ongoing software costs can
be reduced and mainframe upgrades potentially deferred.
In addition, application performance will be enhanced and
overall Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) reduced.
Our unique zTune service will identify potential mainframe
workload management improvements and could
immediately reduce your IT spend.
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Value-4IT Limited
Address:
7 Wright Road, Long Buckby, Northampton NN6 7GG, UK.
Phone: +44 (0) 845 0579386
Email: info@value-4it.com.
Web: www.value-4it.com
Company profile
Type80 is a privately owned IBM Software in Development
Partner. Type80 Security Software was founded by
experts in the areas of Systems Programming and
information security. Our founders draw from a diverse
background, from providing security training to NATO
counter intelligence, conducting enterprise-wide security
assessments for companies maintaining the nations
critical infrastructure, and developing high-level mainframe
applications for major financial institutions. Type-80s
flagship product, SMA_RT, is a revolutionary host-based
security monitoring and compliance reporting product for
the z/OS mainframe system. Using a combination of both
signature-based and anomaly-based attack detection,
SMA_RT notifies administrators of malicious activity in
real-time. SMA_RT can easily integrate with a variety of
security management products including many leading
SIM/SEM products.
Product/service information
Type80 Security Softwares SMA_RT product makes
mainframe security to be state-of-the-art. By analyzing
data from both Operator (WTO) messages and the
Systems Management Facility (SMF), Type80 gathers
detailed information about potential security events on
the mainframe. This data is then interpreted, normalized
in standard syslog format and delivered in real-time to
those responsible for enterprise security. This gives an
organization an enterprise-wide view of all the events they
need to capture to stay abreast of attacks against their
infrastructure.
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Company profile
Value-4IT are an independent software & professional
services company offering diverse and in-depth business
facing experience for IBM Mainframe (MVS), UNIX, Linux
and Windows platforms.
Product/service information
Security Management Solutions
Vanguard Administrator - Automated security administration
Vanguard Advisor - Event detection, analysis, and reporting
Vanguard SecurityCenter - Windows-based security
administration of RACF
Vanguard Enforcer - Intrusion detection and management
system for z/OS and OS/390 mainframe systems
Vanguard Policy Manager- A Best Practices enforcer for
z/OS Security Server RACF Commands
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WDR Ltd
Address:
Park Lodge, 60 London Road, Horsham, West Sussex,
RH12 1AY, UK
Phone: +44 (0)1403 268251.
Email: info@wdr.co.uk.
Web: www.wdr.co.uk
Activity: Consultant
Specialist areas: System management; data
management; storage management; asset and change
management; security; programming/testing; web
integration and legacy reengineering tools; network
performance/management, other
Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, OS/390, VM/
VSE, Linux
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Address:
Suite 1, 436 York Road, Jenkintown, Montgomery County,
PA 19046, USA
Phone: +1 215 517 6540.
Email: gwagner@webagesolutions.com.
Web: www.webagesolutions.com
Activity: Education
Specialist areas: System management; data
management; storage management; programming/testing;
web integration and legacy reengineering tools
Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, OS/390
Non-mainframe platforms supported: Unix, Linux,
Windows
Pricing options: Other
Company profile
Web Age Solutions supports the following technology
and methodology areas through training, mentoring and
consulting.
Mainframe DB2 WebSphere WebLogic Linux
UNIX Python Java EE OOAD Spring Hibernate
Oracle Big Data Service Oriented Architecture Cloud
Enterprise Architecture Mobile Computing (Android
and i/OS) JBoss HTML5 Open Source- Microsoft
Web services AJAX Data Warehousing XML/XSLT
Virtualization ITIL Web 2.0.
Xbridge Systems
Address:
1941 Landings Drive, Mountain View, CA. 940430, USA
Phone: +1 866 356 1515
Email: sales@xbridgesystems.com
Web: www.xbridgesystems.com.
Activity: Software vendor
Specialist areas: Security
Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, OS/390
Non-mainframe platforms supported: IBM i, Windows,
Pricing options: One-time charge, monthly/annual
license, processor/capacity-based,
Company profile
Xbridge Systems is committed to providing businesscritical mainframe data access, query, delivery, discovery,
and loss-protection solutions to companies that aspire to
know their data.
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zIT Consulting
Address:
Moorstrich 38, 26349 Jade, Germany
Phone: +49 4454 206 9897
Email: info@zit-consulting.com
Web: www.zit-consulting.com
Sales contacts:
America: +1-866-464-3724
EMEA: +49 4454 206 9897
AsiaPac: +61 2 62348014.
Activity: Software vendor
Specialist areas: System management.
Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS.
Pricing options: One-time charge, monthly/annual
license, processor/capacity-based
Company profile
zIT Consulting GmbH specializes in MLC optimization:
zSoftware
Product/service information
Reduce your MLC charges, fast and easy: In many data
centers the largest single monthly invoice is the IBMs z/
OS Monthly License Charge. With our products zDynaCap
and zPrice Manager and our consulting services we are
specialized in automated capacity optimization. The new,
very clear and very straightforward approach focusses on
balancing capacity over LPARs and on optimized defined
capacity settings.
MSU savings range from 5% to 25%, which often implies
Address:
Kloosterwei 320, 2361 XR Warmond, The Netherlands
Phone: +31 71 3011178.
Email: info@zsoftware.nl.
Web: www.zsoftware.nl.
Activity: Software vendor
Specialist areas: asset and change management, other
Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS, VM/VSE
Non-mainframe platforms supported: AIX, other Unix,
Linux, Windows
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Zosterops Ltd
Address:
9 Borelli Yard, Farnham, Surrey GU9 7NU, UK
Phone: +44 (0) 845 121 8335.
Email: info@zosterops.co.uk
Web: www.zosterops.co.uk.
Activity: Software vendor
Specialist areas: System management
Your finger on
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Arcati
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Mainframe Yearbook
Yearbook 2007
2014
Media
Guide
by Mark
Lillycrop
enterprisesystemsmedia.com/magazines/
enterprise-tech-journal/
Enterprise Executive
Formerly Mainframe Executive,
this is the sister publication to
Enterprise Tech Journal, and is
aimed at IT managers in the worlds
largest multi-platform enterprises.
It is a less technical, but no less
informative, than ETJ.
enterprisesystemsmedia.com/
magazines/enterprise-executive/
Enterprise Systems
Based on the once-celebrated Enterprise Systems
Journal, the Enterprise Systems website and
newsletter did provide some very interesting
articles and discussions on mainframes and other
platforms. Sadly, nothing seems to have been
published during 2013.
www.esj.com
IBM-MAIN listserv
The IBM Mainframe discussion list has been
maintained for many years by the University of
Alabama, and continues to be well supported.
Unlike the high-level blogs, this is the place for very
specific technical discussions. Subscribers can
sign up to receive useful summaries of message
threads.
bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
SearchDataCenter
TechTarget publishes a
range of Web-based
newsletters, and its data
center title provides plenty
of interesting and relevant
mainframe coverage.
searchdatacenter.techtarget.com/
Wikipedia
Wikipedia is a great online encyclopaedia that is
written and maintained by its readers. The editors
work hard to make sure that valuable content is
not vandalized, and the site contains a surprisingly
up-to-date range of mainframe-related definitions.
http://en.wikipedia.org/
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Arcati
Arcati Mainframe
Mainframe Yearbook
Yearbook 2007
2014
Media Guide
Jon Toigo at www.drunkendata.com/; Jeff Jonas
by Jeff Jonas at jeffjonas.typepad.com/; Irving
Wladawsky-Berger by Irving Wladawsky-Berger
at blog.irvingwb.com/blog/; and Mainframe
World by Trevor Eddolls at it.toolbox.com/blogs/
mainframe-world/. Another interesting blog is
James Governors Monkchips site (www.redmonk.
com/jgovernor). And theres Dinesh Dattanis blog
at mainframesecuritymatters.wordpress.com/.
For the latest data center news and trends,
t h e r e s t h e I T K n o w l e d g e E x c h a n g e a t
itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/datacenter/.
IBM pages can be found on Facebook at www.
facebook.com/pages/IBM/16859753656387 for
just IBM: at www.facebook.com/DB2community
for DB2; at www.facebook.com/IMSFans for IMS;
and www.facebook.com/IBMCICS for CICS.
The Virtual CICS user group is on Facebook
at www.facebook.com/VirtualCICS. And the
Virtual IMS user group is at www.facebook.com/
VirtualIMS.
There are mainframe-related discussions
on LinkedIn. For example, theres the IBM
MAINFRAME - Unofficial Group at www.linkedin.
com/groups?gid=670987; Mainframe (COBOL,
JCL,DB2,CICS,VSAM,MVS,Adabas/Natural)
Experts at www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=910927;
Mainframe Experts Network at www.linkedin.com/
groups?gid=55779; and System z Advocates
a t w w w. l i n k e d i n . c o m / g r o u p s / S y s t e m - z Advocates-155723; for mainframers.
If youre interested in DB2 theres DB2 Professionals
at www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=45375;
IDUG: International DB2 Users Group at www.
linkedin.com/groups?gid=46747; DB2 for z/
OS at www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=1171547;
and DB2 for z/OS DBAs at www.linkedin.com/
groups?gid=2008475; amongst many others.
Theres the CICS Special Interest Group at www.
linkedin.com/groups?gid=1534227; IBM CICS at
Arcati Limited, 2014
http://www.share.org
http://www.gse.org
http://www.interaction.com.au
http://www.cmg.org
http://www.idug.org
http://www.wavv.org
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http://www.tpfug.org
http://www.websphereusergroup.org/
http://www.zseriesoraclesig.org
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 mainframe@arcati.com (we will even list you as a
contributor!).
3270
IBMs family of dumb, block-mode synchronous screen
and printer terminals, which became the standard for
terminal/mainframe connectivity.
3270 data stream
Format used by 3270 devices for communication, and
much used for emulation to make PCs look like dumb
terminals.
5250
Terminal standard for the iSeries/400, System/3x etc.
ABARS
Aggregate Backup And Recovery Support. A disaster
recovery feature within DFSMShsm for automatically
creating files containing back-ups of critical data. The
main use of ABARS is to group all the datasets relating
to a particular application together.
Abend
ABnormal ENDing. IBMspeak for an unexpected
termination to a program run, eg a crash.
Above the line
In z/OS, z/VM, and VSE/ESA, above the line refers to
virtual/real memory locations with an address greater
than 16MB. The 16MB limit resulted from earlier
operating systems supporting 24-bit addressing.
Access method
IBM-specific jargon for software that moves data
between main storage and I/O devices.
ACF/VTAM
Advanced Communications Function / Virtual
Telecommunications Access Method is IBMs proprietary
telecommunications software.
ACID
This acronym describes the properties of a transaction.
Atomicity refers to a transactions changes to the state
either it all happens or nothing happens. Consistency
refers to the state of a transaction. It must not violate
any of the integrity constraints associated with the state.
Isolation refers to the transaction not being affected by
others. Durability refers to the survival of changes to
state after a transaction completes.
ACL (1)
Access Control Lists control which users or groups of
users can access which files and programs. They are
part of the security system and are checked by RACF.
ACL (2)
Automated Cartridge Library. Synonymous with ATL
(Automated Tape Library).
ACB
Access Control Block. The control block used to tie an
application program to a VSAM dataset.
ACO
Automated Console Operations. Automated procedures
that replace or reduce the number of actions an
operator takes from a console in response to system
or network activities.
Access control
Enforcing rules governing use of computer resources
by restricting both the use and type of use to authorized
individuals and the computer resources they are
responsible for.
ADA
Programming language much loved by the military
(ADA is a US government standard), which uses it for
writing systems for controlling guided missiles and the
like. Withdrawn August 1994.
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API
Application Program(ming) Interface. Documented
programming procedures to access a given piece of
software; typically an entry point name and parameter
list.
APL
A Programming Language, conceived within IBM by K E
Iverson, and popular on the mainframe in the late 70s
and early 80s to support end-user activities.
APM
Application Performance Management monitors and
manages the performance and availability of software
applications in order to meet business needs.
App
This usually refers to a mobile application found
on Android and Apple smartphones and tablets.
Applet
A small application program written in the Java that
can be retrieved from a Web server and executed in
a browser.
APPN
Advanced Peer-to-Peer Networking architecture is
an enhancement to SNA architecture. It can handle
dynamic multipath routing.
ARM
Automatic Restart Management is a sysplex-wide
integrated restart mechanism that can restart MVS
subsystems after an abend, restart workloads on
another MVS image after an MVS failure, and restart
a failed MVS image.
AS/400
Application System/400. IBMs mid-range processor,
announced in June 1988. It was replaced by the IBM
Power Systems in April 2008.
ASCII
American Standard Code for Information Interchange.
A modification of the international code which has
become a de facto standard (except for IBM which also
uses the EBCDIC code) for transmitting data. Uses
seven bits plus a parity bit, and includes alphanumeric
and control characters. ASCII must be converted to
EBCDIC for uploading to IBM mainframes.
BASIC
Beginners All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code.
Universal interactive programming language.
Batch
An accumulation of data brought together for processing
or transmission, usually unattended. Less formally,
the processing of such data, as opposed to online
processing where a user is present to respond
interactively.
ATL
Automated Tape Library (also known as Automated
Cartridge System ACS, tape silo, or silo). Type of
mass storage system (MSS) in which industry standard
tapes are loaded by a robotic arm.
BCD
Binary-Coded Decimal. A binary-coded notation in
which each of the decimal digits is represented by
a binary numeral. This differs from the pure binary
notation, where the entire number is represented as a
single binary numeral.
Augmented reality
Using a device, such as a smartphone or tablet, to
view an object, such as server, and see on that device
additional information about the object such as
performance information.
BCS
The Basic Catalog Structure and the VVDS are the two
parts of the ICF catalog. The BCS contains dataset and
alias names and volume serial numbers.
Auxiliary storage
All storage needing a channel I/O to access it (basically
cache, SSD, disk, tape, mass storage).
AWLC
Advanced Workload License Charges is a new monthly
licence pricing metric from IBM and applies to z196s.
Backout
A process that removes all database updates performed
by an application that has abended (qv).
BAL
Basic Assembler Language. The machine language on
the original S/360 from which the modern Assembler
languages are derived.
Bandwidth
A measure of how fast a network can transfer
information, originally measured in Hertz (Hz), but now
used for any measure of network throughput. The more
precise definition: frequency range within a radiation
band required to transmit a particular signal. Measures
the difference between the highest and lowest signal
frequencies in millions of cycles per second.
BCU
A Balanced Configuration Unit comprises processor
memory, I/O, storage, and DB2 resources. It is the
smallest combination of these that work together
efficiently. As more work is added to the system,
so more BCUs can be added. This avoids any one
component being too big in terms of the others.
BDAM
Basic Direct Access Method allows programmers to
access specific blocks of data on DASD.
Benchmark
An agreed workload used as a standard against which
to compare the performance of different hardware/
software. For a benchmark to be useful it needs to be
a public standard.
Big Data
The SNA/APPN command used to activate an LU-LU
session following the successful completion of the SNA/
APPN session initiation processing.
Big SQL
This allows users to access Hadoop-based data
using familiar SQL statements. It utilizes InfoSphere
BigInsights.
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Bus
Generic term in data communications to describe a
wiring topology (such as that used in Ethernet) in which
devices are connected along a single linear medium.
BIOS
Basic Input/Output System. The I/O component of a
simple operating system defining the interface between
the operating system and the outside world.
BYOD
Bring your own device is the policy many companies
are adopting to allow employees to bring their own
mobile devices (laptops, tablets, and smartphones) to
their workplace, and to use those devices to access
privileged company information and applications.
Bitcoins
Bitcoins originated in a 2008 concept paper by Satoshi
Nakamoto. Bitcoins are a virtual currency that are
mined by solving complex algorithms and are usually
stored in a digital wallet. Bitcoin exchanges are
completely private, which makes them popular with
criminals! Many legitimate companies offer products
for sale using bitcoins.
BLOB
Binary Large OBject. A generic term for a file containing
some kind of binary data (text, image, document,
sound, etc). Typically BLOBs can be transferred and
manipulated across a wide range of platforms.
Block
A string of data elements, such as characters, words,
or physical records, that are recorded or transmitted
as a unit.
BMS
Basic Mapping Support. An interface between CICS
and an application to control the movement and
presentation of datastreams to and from a dumb
terminal. BMS allows data to be displayed without
allowing for display-dependent formatting characters.
Boolean
An operation that follows the rules of Boolean algebra.
Boot
To prepare a computer system for operation by loading
an operating system.
BPAM
Basic Partitioned Access Method is a low-level access
method used to access Partitioned DataSets (PDSs).
BYOI
Bring Your Own Identity is the growing practice of taking
a validated identity with you and so not needing to
remember different user-ids and passwords for different
environments. There are security issues.
Byte
A string of 8 bits that represents one EBCDIC character.
The IBM mainframe architecture is organized around
the concept of the byte.
C
A programming language developed at Bell Labs in
1972, so named because its predecessor was named
B. Unix was written in C.
C/C++
An optional, separately priced feature of z/OS, available
with or without Debug Tool. The C/C++ IBM Open Class
Library is included with z/OS, but is only enabled when
C/C++ is licensed.
Cache
High-speed buffer between a fast device and a slow
device. In large IBM systems cacheing may take
place in the CPU (in main or expanded storage), the
controller, device head-of-string, or the device itself
(eg in a track buffer). It is used to reduce access time.
Capacity on Demand
Processors can be purchased with extra capacity
already on-board but not functioning. When extra
capacity is required at a site, it is turned on. This is
non-disruptive and customers dont pay for the extra
capacity until they start using it.
BSAM
Basic Sequential Access Method, along with QSAM, is
an access method used to access sequential datasets.
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CICS
Customer Information Control System. General
purpose TP monitor for terminal-oriented and intersystem transaction processing in z/OS and VSE/ESA
environments. Now with added SOA.
CCL
Communication Controller for Linux (CCL) on zSeries
runs the Network Control Program (NCP) software
product in Linux, enabling users to get rid of their legacy
3745 communication controllers running NCP-based
SNA workloads to zSeries servers.
CICSplex
A CICS complex (CICSplex) is a group of intercommunicating CICS systems.
CDS
Configuration DataSet.
CGI
Common Gateway Interface. A mechanism used
by HTTP servers to invoke arbitrary programs for
additional processing of certain requests; typically,
those involving database access.
Change management
The methodology for planning and controlling software
changes.
Channel
A specialized computer used in the IBM mainframe
architecture to control transfers between devices and
the processor unit. The channel offloads some of the
processing associated with I/O from the main CPU.
Channel adapter
Hardware unit to attach a channel to a processor.
Channel attached
Devices that are directly attached to the processor by
cable rather than over a communications link.
Channels
CICS TS 3.1 introduced a replacement for sizerestricted COMMAREAs they are channels and
containers. Any number of containers can be passed
between programs and they are grouped together in
channels.
CHPID
CHannel Path IDentifier. A single byte binary value used
to uniquely identify each channel path on an eServer
zSeries and previous mainframe systems.
CKD
Count Key Data is a way to format disk drive using
cylinder number, track number, and physical record.
Client/server
Generic term for systems (also known as server/
requester) in which one machine provides a range of
services to one or more other machines.
CLIST
Control language used to manage interactive
applications in the z/OS TSO environment. Largely
superseded by REXX.
Cloud computing
A new name for something similar to client/server
computing. A user launches a browser and clicks a link.
Somewhere else an application launches and work is
done. The mainframe seems to have always worked
in this way. Organizations like Microsoft, Amazon, and
Google are trying to become big players in this new
paradigm.
CMOS
Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor. A chip
technology used widely by IBM in its processors,
superseding the water-cooled ECL chips on the
mainframe.
CMS
Conversational (originally Cambridge the lab where
it was built) Monitor System. Operating system running
under VM, and providing timesharing and program
development facilities.
COBOL
Programming language, very widely used for
commercial applications on the mainframe. Some
sources suggest that CICS and COBOL account for
85% of all transactions processed.
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Coupling
Generic term used to mean connecting of processors
together into a more or less tightly-knit computing
complex. Used specifically by IBM to mean the
connection of multiple eServer zSeries processors in
a Sysplex.
Coupling Facility
Hardware from IBM, where common tables can be
shared in a Sysplex, for high-speed cacheing, update
locking of shared data, list processing and workload
balancing between multiple processors.
CPC
Central Processor Complex.
CPU
Central Processing Unit. Processor. The part of a
computer that executes instructions.
CRM
Customer Relationship Management refers to the
way organizations manage their relationships with
customers - including finding, marketing to, selling to,
and servicing these customers.
CTG
CICS Transaction Gateway provides J2EE standardsbased access to CICS applications, which means its
an easy way to make existing CICS applications part
of a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA).
CTC
Channel-To-Channel connections would link two
mainframes and provide high-speed communication.
Cylinder
The tracks, in an assembly of magnetic disks, that
can be accessed without repositioning the access
mechanism.
DASD
Direct Access Storage Device. IBMspeak for disk.
DAT
Dynamic Address Translation. The process by which
virtual addresses are converted into real addresses
during instruction execution.
DFSMS
Data Facility Storage Management Subsystem. An
element of z/OS and also available for z/VM, as
DFSMS/VM. The idea is that you simply tell the system
about your storage, back-up, performance, and other
requirements of the data, and the system does the rest
for you. Of course, its not really that simple.
DFSMSdfp
DFSMS Data Facility Product. A component of DFSMS
that provides functions for storage, data, program, and
device management, in conjunction with distributed
data access. Enables the definition of the services
to be assigned to new datasets. Handles catalog
management and access methods.
DFSMSdss
DFSMS DataSet Services. An optional, separately
priced feature of DFSMS that handles device migration,
copy, space management, and dump/restore. It
also converts existing data between non-SMS and
SMS volumes, and provides an interface for storage
administrators (ISMF).
DFSMShsm
DFSMS Hierarchical Storage Manager. An optional,
separately priced feature of DFSMS. It is a sophisticated
automated system for both back-up and hierarchical
storage management. It includes an ISPF interface
for end users who wish to migrate, recall, back-up, or
recover individual datasets, or to override the default
migration and/or back-up parameters.
DFSMSrmm
DFSMS Removable Media Manager. Its goal was to
integrate the system managed storage principles of
DFSMS into all removable media, most notably tape
and optical.
DL/I
Data Language/I. The I is the Roman numeral One. The
data manipulation language within IMS DB. DL/I is also
the product name for IBMs VSE/ESA implementation
of IMS DB.
DLSw
Widely-used SNA/APPN(/NetBIOS)-over-TCP/IP
transport mechanism which, however, unlike EE, does
not support SNA COS or routing.
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EJB
Enterprise JavaBeans. A server-side, transactionoriented extension to the JavaBeans component model
specification published by Sun. EJB are JavaBeans, but
have no user interface and are designed to run within a
special EJB container. In principle, any properly coded
EJB should run within any fully compliant EJB container.
Enqueue
The z/OS expression (often abbreviated to ENQ) for
requesting resource serialization. ENQ can be used to
put a user-named entry in the system resource queue
in order to prevent another program using a serially
usable resource.
Enterprise Extender
Enterprise Extender (EE) is a combination of SNA
encapsulated in IP packets, so it can be thought of as
a kind of protocol.
EPI
A CICS External Presentation Interface service is an
implementation of a service that can be created from a
3270 terminal. EPI provides communication with 3270
terminal-based CICS applications.
ERP
Enterprise Resource Planning systems try to integrate
all the data and processes that exist within an
organization into a single unified system.
Error log
A dataset or file that contains a record of machine
checks on device errors, which are stored for later
analysis.
ESB
An Enterprise Service Bus is a software architecture
construct that is standards-based and flexible. It is an
attempt to separate the service being called and the
required transport medium.
ESCON
Enterprise System Connectivity. The high-speed
fibre-optic channel architecture (using a serial, packetswitched protocol) first available on ES/9000 and
3090Js and many peripherals. Replaced by FICON in
May 1998, though still available.
FLPA
The Fixed Link Pack Area is an area of storage
containing modules loaded at IPL time.
ESM
An External Security Manager is software that controls
access to applications and data externally. RACF is an
External Security Manager.
FORTRAN
FORmula TRANslation. A programming language best
suited for engineering, scientific, and mathematical
applications.
ESS
The Total Storage Enterprise Storage Server, codenamed shark, is a high-speed data storage product.
Fragmentation
When an operating system writes data to disk or other
storage media, and there is insufficient contiguous
space, the data is then written to discontiguous
sectors. The result is fragmented data. Fragmentation
can cause increased data access times because the
operating system must search different tracks for
information.
EWLC
Entry Workload Licence Charges allow customers only
pay for peak z/OS usage, not for full machine capacity.
FBA
Fixed Block Architecture is a way of formatting disk
drives where space is allocated in fixed-length blocks
rather than cylinders.
Fibre optic channel
Channel technology which replaced copper bus-andtag channel cables with fibre-optic links.
FICON
FIbre CONnection. Mainframe channel that implements
the ANSI FCS transport. Each FICON channel
can handle over 4,000 I/O operations per second,
equivalent to eight ESCON(qv) channels. The FICON
channel link speed is 100MB/sec full duplex, compared
with 17MB/sec simplex with ESCON links.
Firewall
Specialized software designed to prevent unauthorized
access to a computer system while permitting validated,
non-harmful interactions to get through.
Flat file
Any file (dataset, mainframe parlance) stored in a file
access method without an index which, of course,
eliminates all relational DBMSs.
Floating point
One of several methods of storing numbers on an
IBM mainframe and most other computers. Similar to
scientific notation, such as 3.75 times 10 to the 25th
power, only it is 2 or 16 that is taken to some power.
FTP
File Transfer Protocol is an application layer protocol
that uses TCP and Telnet services to transfer bulk data
files between machines or hosts.
FWLC
Flat Workload License Charge. A flat monthly charge
for a software product, no matter what size of zSeries
server it is being run on.
Gamification
A way of making using the software more fun like
in a game and so people are more likely to do it. It
has applications in mundane tasks such as updating
a knowledgebase.
Gateway
One way of integrating CICS applications as Web
services is to use gateways, which run off the
mainframe on middle tier servers and may well use
traditional methods, such as screen scraping.
GDG
Generation Data Group. Collection of (z/OS non-VSAM)
datasets all with the same logical name (GDG Base
Entry); the individual datasets are uniquely identified
by the generation number which is stored as part of
the dataset name.
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HFS
Hierarchical File System comes with Linux and refers
to the way files are stored.
HiperBatch
A way of running batch jobs in hyperspace, so there
was far less I/O and things ran faster.
HMC
Hardware Management Console used to manage
hardware.
GUIDE
Guidance for Users of Integrated Data processing
Equipment. For many years, an international user
group for users of large IBM equipment. Main GUIDE
interests were in applications and the commercial world.
Depending on the area of the world you live in, it either
stepped aside for SHARE or merged with SHARE (now
GUIDE/SHARE in Europe, for example).
Host
A computer system that is a server and/or serves
attached terminals. Often used to refer to mainframe.
Hadoop
An open-source software framework for storage and
large scale processing of data-sets. On a mainframe,
it runs in a Linux partition (Linux on System z).
HSA
High-Speed Adapter is the name for subchannels on
some servers.
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HPR
High-Performance Routing is an extension to APPN
networking providing improved routing performance
and reliability.
HTML
HyperText Mark-up Language is a mark-up language
for defining the structure of a document eg Web
pages.
HTTP
HyperText Transfer Protocol is the protocol used to
request, transfer, and display hypertext documents.
Hub
A generic term for a device that has a single connection
to the host and many connections for other devices to
connect to it.
I/O
Input/output. Refers to the transmission of data into
or out of a processors memory. This would include
communication lines and peripherals such as disk
drives.
ICETOOL
An enhanced DFSORT utility that includes the OUTFIL
feature.
IEHLIST
z/OS List System Data utility for listing a VTOC or the
directory of a PDS.
ICF
Integrated Catalog Facility contains catalog information
about datasets. It is made up BCS and VVDS.
IEHMOVE
z/OS Move System Data utility for moving or copying
logical collections of operating system data. Replaced
by DFSMSdss.
ICF
Integrated Coupling Facility is a component of a Parallel
Sysplex. It allows multiple processors to share, cache,
update, and balance data access.
ICSF
Integrated Cryptographic Service Facility is part of MVS
security, protecting data on the mainframe.
IDCAMS
Access Method Services. Multi-purpose batch VSAM
utility program.
IDE
Integrated Development Environment. Salesmen say it
stands for It Does Everything, and unlucky customers
as I Do Everything! An IDE could be a glorified text
editor right up to all-singing all-dancing software like
Eclipse and Visual Studio.
IEBCOMPR
z/OS Compare Datasets utility does a logical compare
of datasets. Replaced by SuperC in ISPF/PDF.
IEBCOPY
z/OS Library Copy utility for copying members of
a partitioned dataset (PDS), unloading a PDS into
a sequential dataset and back again. Unloading is
especially useful for copying a PDS to tape.
IEBGENER
z/OS Sequential Copy/Generate Dataset utility.
Replaced by ICEGENER in DFSORT and several
non-IBM products.
IEBPTPCH
z/OS Print-Punch utility for producing a hard copy of
datasets and library members. Replaced by ISPF/
PDFs hardcopy capabilities.
IEBUPDTE
z/OS Update Dataset utility. Can only be used for PDS
members and sequential datasets with fixed-length
records no greater than 80 bytes in length.
IETF
Internet Engineering Task Force. An open community
of network designers, operators, vendors, and
researchers concerned with the evolution of the Internet
architecture and the smooth operation of the Internet.
IFL
Integrated Facility for Linux. Dedicated Linux processor
on the zSeries.
IIOP
Internet Inter-ORB Protocol is an object-oriented
protocol that makes it possible for distributed programs
written in different programming languages to
communicate over the Internet.
IML
Initial Microcode (sometimes Machine) Load. The
first step in starting up a mainframe, during which the
firmware is automatically copied into the machine.
IMS
Information Management System. Vintage but
extremely powerful system for transactional workloads,
still underpinning many of the worlds business-critical
applications. Composed of two systems: Database
Manager (IMS DB) and a Transaction Manager (IMS
TM).
IND$FILE
Mainframe file transfer program.
Info/Man
IBM Information/Management. Software problem,
change and configuration management software. Now
called Tivoli Information Management for z/OS.
Internet of Things
This refers to devices such a remote sensors, CCTV,
weather satellites, etc that will be monitoring thrughout
the day, and producing data that can be captured and
analysed.
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ISPF/PDF
ISPF/Program Development Facility. ISPF facility
providing access to application development services
for end users and programmers. Incorporates C and
REXX programming support, and some support for
programmable workstations.
ISV
Independent Software Vendor. A software vendor
which isnt part of and/or doesnt belong to a hardware
manufacturer.
ITIL
Information Technology Infrastructure Library. ITIL
provides a framework of best practice guidance for IT
service managers. The actual ITIL publications cover
areas such as service strategy, service design, service
transition, service operation, and continual service
improvement.
J2EE
Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition. The Java Software
Development Kit (SDK) tools, APIs, and run-time (ie
execution) environment targeted at Java developers
building enterprise-class, server-side applications.
Java
An object-oriented programming environment
developed by Sun towards the end of 1995. Java
creates applets which can be downloaded across the
Internet, and which will allow clients to interact with
objects on the Web and intranet servers.
Java Virtual Machine
The facility allowing Java applets/source code to run
on a computer.
JavaBeans
A platform-independent, software component
technology for building reusable Java components
called Beans. The JavaBeans component model
specifies how to build reusable software components,
how the resulting Beans describe their properties to
visual rapid application development tools, and how
they communicate with each other. Beans can be
combined to create applications or applets.
JSP
JavaServer Pages. Uses XML-like tags and scriptlets
to encapsulate logic that fills out the dynamic content
of HTML pages.
JVM
see Java Virtual Machine.
Kantara Initiative
This is an organization dedicated to advancing
technical and legal innovation related to digital identity
management. It isnt a standards body, buts make
recommendations to standards bodies about digital
identity management.
Kerberos
Security system for Unix environments derived from
MITs Project Athena. Uses a trusted server to ensure
that there are no unwanted systems in the network.
Kernel
The core of an operating system that performs basic
functions such as allocating hardware resources.
Kilobit
1024 bits, or 2 to the 10th power, when referring to
processor storage, real and virtual storage, and channel
volume. However, when referring to disk storage
capacity it is 1000 bits. Abbreviated as Kb.
Kilobyte
1024 bytes, or 2 to the 10th power, when referring to
processor storage, real and virtual storage, and channel
volume. However, when referring to disk storage
capacity it is 1000 bytes. Abbreviated as KB.
KSDS
Key Sequenced DataSet is a type of VSAM dataset in
which the physical location of records is controlled by
the key used.
LAN
Local Area Network. A generic term for the transport
mechanism for a local (eg site or building) network. The
thing that makes current LANs special is their intimacy
with the connected machines; effectively the LAN acts
as an extension to the internal bus of the attached
system, and allows a single system to be built from
physically dispersed components.
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Listener
An application that listens for input on a line and then
acts on it.
Load module
A program in a form that can be loaded into memory
for immediate execution.
Logical Partitioning
A way of dividing up a processors capacity under PR/
SM into physically separate areas (LPARs or Logical
PARtitions) for resilience, performance or security
reasons.
LPA
Link Pack Area. The z/OS area used for resident
programs, eg those programs which are most frequently
used and (usually for performance reasons) should not
be loaded by each application program from libraries
stored on disk.
LPAR
Logical PARtitioning is a way of dividing up a
processors capacity.
LSR
Local Shared Resources. A technique for improving
CICS performance by the sharing of a common buffer
pool for VSAM datasets.
LU
SNAs software interface (or port) through which end
users gain access to the SNA network.
LU 6.2
SNAs protocol suite for program-to-program
communications.
LUW
Logical Unit of Work is the amount of work that will be
backed out in the event of a failure. For example, a
CICS transaction is processing away happily and then
something goes wrong. The LUW defines how much
of what has been processed will be backed out and
how much that occurred previously can be left. Large
LUWs are efficient providing that failures are rare. Small
LUW use processing power, but are more efficient for
recovery after a failure.
MIB
Management Information Base. Generic term (often
used specifically in relation to the SNMP management
protocol) for the database of the objects managed in a
network usually a LAN.
Microcode
Although it can have very specific alternative meanings,
its most common usage is as a synonym for firmware.
Microsecond
1/1,000,000 of a second.
Microsoft
The company that made the shrewd move of persuading
IBM to use its DOS operating system for the IBM PC.
The rest is history.
Middleware
Though it defies definition, its primary role is to provide
connectivity and other shared services between
platforms. There are numerous types.
MIME
Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions. An encoding
format allowing e-mail messages containing a variety
of media forms (audio, video, image, and text) to be
sent across the Internet.
MIPS
Million Instructions Per Second (or Meaningless
Indicator of Processor Speed). A crude and not very
meaningful way of expressing raw computer power,
widely used for comparing the power of different
mainframe models and for demonstrating the futility of
comparing the mainframe with other platforms.
Mirroring
The technique of constantly maintaining a parallel copy
of critical datasets, so that the duplicate data can be
used if there is a problem with the main data.
MLPA
The Modified Link Pack Area is an area of storage used
to contain re-enterable routines from APF-authorized
libraries.
MOM
Message Oriented Middleware. For example,
WebSphere MQ.
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Multiplexer
A generic device (also known as a mux) that combines
data from two or more devices, transmits the data as a
single datastream over a high-speed communications
medium, and disentangles (de-multiplexes) the data
at the other end.
Multi-point
Communications configuration in which a single primary
node communicates with two or more secondary nodes
(which cannot communicate with one another, except
through the primary). Also known as multi-drop.
MVS
Multiple Virtual Storage. In z/OSs long history, MVS
has the honour of being its name for the longest
period (about 20 years), and the operating system is
still referred to as MVS by many mainframe technical
specialists. Popularly believed to stand for Man Versus
System.
Nanosecond
1/1,000,000,000 of a second.
NAS
Network Attached Storage.
.NET
.NET is a Microsoft strategy for creating Web services.
In essence, a Windows user should be able to run
applications locally or over the Web without noticing
the difference. Visual Studio .NET is a development
environment that is currently available.
NetView
SNA network management product. Announced
mid-1986. Although it started off life as a rather halfhearted bundling of various mainframe-centric network
management products (including NCCF, NLDM,
NPDA, VNCA, and NMPF), by mid-1995 it had turned
into a fully-fledged distributed network management
system, with a strong focus on distributed Unix boxes
as network management workstations. Replaced by
Tivoli NetView and other products.
OLE
Object Linking and Embedding. Microsoft-sponsored
standard for moving and linking data and other objects
between applications and systems in Windows.
NJE
Network Job Entry. JES facility enabling multiple hosts
to share job queues and system spools.
OLTEP
On-Line Test and Execution Program. IBM engineers
tool for analysis of hardware problems.
Node
In SNA, a total unit of network-attachable functionality,
realized in software, that gets implemented within a
device or runs on a computer.
OLTP
On-Line Transaction Processing. Generic term for highthroughput, very resilient transaction systems. OLTP
tends to be used to refer to systems with some degree
of fault tolerance.
NoSQL
NoSQL databases dont have to use SQL, but may.
They are different from traditional relational databases..
Notes
Lotus groupware product that IBM took on in June 91.
OAuth
This is an open standard for authorization. It allows
people to access third-party Web sites using their
validated Facebook or Twitter IDs.
OCR
Optical Character Recognition. OCR software is used
to convert scanned documents into machine-readable
text files.
ODBC
Open DataBase Connectivity. An API created by
Microsoft that allows Windows applications to access
relational databases, such as DB2 and Oracle, and
other data sources using SQL statements.
OEM
Original Equipment Manufacturer. An OEM is a
manufacturer who makes a product and sells it to
another company, which puts its own badge on it and
sells it to the end user.
OLAP
On-Line Analytical Processing. A term coined by
database guru Ted Codd and used to refer to multidimensional analysis and reporting applications of the
EIS and Information Warehouse type.
OMG
Object Management Group. A group of vendors
responsible for standards for object management and
interoperability including CORBA, UML, MOF and
CWM. IBM joined in 1991.
OMVS
The OMVS command is used to invoke the z/OS Unix
shell.From here you can use shell commands or utilities
requesting services from the system. You could also
write shell scripts and run shell scripts or programs
written in C.
Open Systems
Computer systems that provide either interoperability,
portability, of freedom from proprietary standards,
depending on your perspective.
OpenEdition
Open version of MVS that was replaced by Unix
System Services in z/OS and OpenEdition Shell and
Utilities in z/VM.
OpenID
This provides a way for users to consolidate their digital
identities by having a single OpenID when connecting
to different Web sites.
ORB
Object Request Broker. A specialized object that allows
other objects to communicate with each other to make
and receive requests and responses.
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Parity bit
A binary digit check bit appended to a group of binary
digits to make the sum of all the digits, including the
appended binary digit, even or odd, depending on
whether Even or Odd Parity is being used.
Parmlib
Parameter Library. A dataset in z/OS containing
parameter settings. The most important is SYS1.
PARMLIB which contains parameter settings for z/OS
and many key subsystems.
Parse
The analysis of the operands entered with a command
in addition to the creation of a parameter list for the
command processor. It can also refer to the initial
processing of source code by a compiler, when it
divides up each program statement into its component
parts, also known as tokens.
PASCAL
Programming language, mainly used in academia,
though even there it is rarely seen these days.
Patch
A code modification to correct a reported problem that
is sent to software product users after the release of
a product.
PAV
Parallel Access Volumes are used to eliminate I/O
supervisor queueing against DASD. Thus improving the
performance of anything accessing the disk devices.
PCI
Peripheral Component Interconnect. Extremely popular
PC bus standard originally promoted by Intel and soon
supported by IBM, even though it meant dropping its
beloved MCA.
PCMCIA
Personal Computer Memory Card International
Association. Industry-standard interface (not just for
memory, but for modems, network interfaces, etc) for
laptop and notebook computers.
PDF
Portable Document Format. File definition format used
by Adobe Acrobat.
Picosecond
1/1,000,000,000,000 of a second. A time span during
which even <insert your least-liked company name
here> would not be able to put up prices.
PING
Packet INternet Groper. A test of reachability in TCP/IP
networks. A PING is a program used to test the ability
to reach destinations by sending an echo request and
waiting for a reply.
Pipeline
In Linux and other Unix-like operating systems, a
pipeline is a set of processes chained together. Output
from one process is then input for the next process until
all the processes have executed.
PL/I
Programming Language/One. Language developed by
IBM. A sort of love-child of COBOL and FORTRAN, it
was widely used on the mainframe for many years but
never quite achieved the universal standard status
that IBM had hoped.
Plain text
Data that is not encrypted. Typically refers to data while
it is being transmitted across a network.
PLPA
Pageable Link Pack Area is part of memory containing
system-level programs that may be run by multiple
address spaces.
Polling
Generic name for a method for controlling devices
(eg networked workstations or terminals), in which
a computer calls (polls) each device in turn to see
whether it wants to communicate.
POP
Principles of Operation. The name of the manual
that defined the S/360 and subsequently the S/370
architecture.
Port
Generic noun and/or verb. As a noun, it means a point
at which data can enter or leave a data network or
individual device; as a verb it means to convert a piece
of software written for one environment so that it runs
in another.
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PROP
PRogrammable OPerator. A facility in z/VM that allows
remote control of a virtual machine, enabling limited
automation of routine operator activities.
Proprietary
Proprietary is used to refer to architectures and
standards owned by a hardware or software vendor.
The term is usually used in opposition to open.
Proxy server
A server that receives and fulfils requests intended for
another server.
PRPQ
Programming Request for Price Quotation. IBM
terminology for a customer request for a price quotation
on alterations or additions to the functional capabilities
of system control programming or licensed programs.
PSLC
Parallel Sysplex License Charge, a monthly license
charge designed to support the design of a Parallel
Sysplex cluster. In a fully qualified Sysplex environment,
PSLC software charges are based on the total MSU
value for only those machines where the products
execute.
PSW
Program Status Word. A hardware register (double
word) in the mainframe. The PSW contains the address
of the next instruction to be executed and, when an
application or system software error occurs, why it
happened and other status information.
PTF
Program Temporary Fix. An official IBM temporary
patch to a program often less temporary than IBM
and its users would wish. PTFs are distributed on PUTs.
Sometimes the term APAR is used instead of PTF.
Public key
A published key value used as one of the two keys in
public key encryption.
QMF
Query Management Facility. Query and report-writing
system for DB2 with some analysis and graphics
features.
Redbook
A more readable version of an IBM manual
Relational database
A type of database that allows information in one set
of database tables to be connected to information in
another set of tables without requiring duplication of
information.
REXX
Restructured EXtended eXecutor language. A widely
used job control language, REXX has become a
replacement for existing procedural languages such as
CLIST. REXX is an effective programming language in
its own right with powerful string processing facilities.
RJE
Remote Job Entry. Dedicated RJE terminals include
2780/3780 or 3770.
RMF
Resource Measurement Facility. On-line performance
and resource monitor for z/OS. Also includes a
formatter for printing performance reports. An optional,
separately priced feature of z/OS.
RPG
Report Program Generator. Programming language
widely used on the eServer iSeries 400 and its
predecessors, AS/400 and System/3x. As its name
implies, originally used mostly for report generation
and very strong sort/merge facilities, where it can be
used completely non-procedurally.
RRDS
Relative Record DataSet is a type of VSAM file. Each
record is accessed directly by its record number.
RSM
Real Storage Manager. The part of z/OS that controls
real memory.
SAF
Security Authorization Facility can be used for example
with CICS to divert requests to an ESM (External
Security Manager such as RACF). In this way, security
can be added to an operating system of subsystem.
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SQL
Structured Query Language. IBM and ANSI standard
(they diverge and converge regularly with the passage
of time) for access to relational databases.
SRB
Service Request Blocks are requests to execute a
service routine and they are usually initiated by system
code executing from one address space to perform an
action affecting another address space.
SRM
System Resources Manager. Software which is meant
to improve throughput by optimizing the use of system
resources.
SSCP
SNAs System Services Control Point, in an hierarchical
network, typically implemented on a mainframe within
VTAM, that is responsible for directory services and
configuration management. Now superseded by the
peer-to-peer oriented functionality of APPN/HPR
control points.
SSL
The Secure Sockets Layer is a much-used protocol
for managing the security of messages sent over the
Internet.
Stand-alone dump
A display of all used memory locations, typically stored
on DASD or tape, created with a program that does
not required the operating system to be functioning
normally.
Superuser
A user ID with minimal security restrictions.
Supervisor State
A term used in performance measurement to indicate
when the machine is spending time generally managing
itself. The opposite is Problem State, when the machine
is performing end-user work.
SupportPac
A SupportPac is supplied by IBM and contains
complementary software, which may be new utilities,
or class libraries, or things that IBM thinks will make
the product more usable or work better.
SQA
System Queue Area. Storage area in z/OS.
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Tablet
For many executives, the must-have device is an iPad
from Apple or an Android device from Samsung and
other suppliers. As a consequence, these now need to
be connected to corporate data, with all the concomitant
security issues.
Swapping
The process of transferring a complete program
between main memory and auxiliary storage (usually
disk).
TCB
Task Control Blocks represent tasks executing within
an address space. There are usually several TCBs
associated with each address space, so more than one
task could be running in any one address space at any
one time. TCBs are created when a program issues the
ATTACH macro to initiate a new task.
Syncpoint
A point in a transactions life when updates are
committed. In a distributed environment, where the
transactions may be across several databases, the
syncpoint enables the commit to be delayed until all
the participants can commit simultaneously.
SYSGEN
System Generation. The process of creating a
customized version of an operating system. In the IBM
environment this was a complex, error-prone and timeconsuming process.
System i
Formerly iSeries and now called just i a later
incarnation of the AS/400 family of hardware that runs
on Power hardware.
System p
Formerly pSeries this is the latest incarnation of the
RS/6000 family of hardware.
System z
Formerly zSeries this is the name for mainframes
running z/OS and/or z/VM and/or other operating
systems.
SYSOUT
z/OS output intended for a printer. The name
comes from the JCL DD parameter SYSOUT, where
SYSOUT=A means send the output to the JESx Class
A spool queue.
Sysplex
SYStem comPLEX. A processor complex which is
formed by loosely coupling System/390 processors
together into a single unit (using channel-to-channel
adapters or ESCON/FICON fibre-optic links); the
processors are synchronized using the Sysplex Timer,
and can be managed as a single system image.
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TCP/IP
Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol. Set
of protocols for the network and transport layers of
a packet-switched data network, most notably the
Internet. Developed in the US for the Department of
Defense ARPAnet system and has become the de
facto standard for most forms of data communication.
telnet
The remote, or virtual, terminal protocol for the Internet.
Allows users to log-in to their home machine from any
other machine, or vice versa.
Terabyte
1024 gigabytes or 1,099,511,627,776 bytes. Abbreviated
as TB.
TeraFLOPS
1000 GigaFLOPS, a measure of supercomputer
performance.
Third platform
This is meant to represent the next phase of the IT
revolution. The first platform is the mainframe; the
second is the PC; and the third comprises cloud
services, mobile computing, social networking, and
big data analytics.
Threadsafe
Originally introduced with CICS 3.2, threadsafe refers
to the ability of an application to process multi-threaded
programs at the same time safely.
tn
Refers to tn3270, tn3270e and tn5250 collectively or
interchangeably.
tn3270e
Improved version of tn3270 that supports colour, the
3270 System Request key and other capabilities not
present in tn3270.
Unit of work
The statements executed between one commit point
and the next usually a group of SQL statements which
would need to be rolled back as a group if any single
statement in the group could not be executed. Its the
basic recovery unit.
TPF
Transaction Processing Facility. Low-function but high
performance mainframe TP monitor for very large
communications systems. Derived from ACP (Airline
Control Program), which was derived from PARS
(Programmed Airline Reservation System).
Unix
A misspelling of UNICS (UNiplexed Information
and Computing Service). A hardware-independent
operating system originally for minicomputers.
Transport layer
The network layer responsible for quality of service
and accurate delivery of information, ie error detection/
correction occurs here.
TSO
Time Sharing Option. These days, everyone just says
TSO when they mean TSO/E.
Usage pricing
The principle of charging for software on the basis of
the amount of work done, eg the number of transactions
or the amount of batch data processed.
TSO/E
Time Sharing Option/Extensions. An element of z/OS
that provides an on-line interactive environment for
programmers and users. Best known for the ISPF/PDF
environment that runs on TSO/E. Can also be used to
test batch programs.
TXSeries
A merging of CICS, Encina and IBM Transaction Server.
UCB
Unit Control Block is used to control access to devices.
UDDI
Universal Description Discovery and Integration
is a directory model for Web services. UDDI is a
specification for maintaining standardized directories
of information about Web services, recording their
capabilities, location, and requirements.
User catalog
In z/OS, an ICF catalog created to reduce the number
of entries in the Master Catalog, thereby improving
performance.
VIO
Virtual I/O. Hyper-efficient z/OS paging technique.
Simulates DASD using real storage and so avoids the
overhead of channel activity.
Virtual storage
A technique for giving programs the illusion that they
have massive quantities of main storage to themselves.
The technique works by allowing programs to address
lots of virtual memory, but making the operating system
page the required data in and out of real main store
and to and from a paging device at the appropriate
time. The technique enables cheap DASD to be used
instead of expensive main storage.
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VTOC
Volume Table Of Contents. The area of a disk used to
store the directory of components, including datasets,
held on that volume. Anything that takes DASD space
is listed in the VTOC. For example, the index and data
components of a VSAM KSDS file are listed in the
VTOC, but not the cluster name, which is only listed
in the catalog.
VVDS
The VSAM Volume DataSet along with the BCS make
up the ICF catalog structure. The VVDS is a special
type of ESDS. It is created automatically whenever a
VSAM component (including a BCS) is allocated on a
volume which does not yet have a VVDS. The VVDS
is always called SYS1.VVDS.Vvolser.
VWLC
Variable Workload License Charge. IBM software
pricing scheme that allows users to license a product
for a capacity less than the total capacity of the system.
Replaced by AWLC on zEnterprise mainframes.
WAS
WebSphere Application Server. IBMs Java application
server. WAS for z/OS version 6.0.1 supports J2EE 1.4
and many mainframe-specific functions.
Web 2.0
A practically meaningless term in itself (the Web is
not software with version and release numbers) that
can be used as a way of highlighting some of the new
technologies that are available over the Internet and
identifying the companies that are using them, like
Google Earth, Flickr, etc.
WebSphere
An IBM Internet-focused software platform that supports
e-business applications and sits at the heart of IBMs
middleware strategy. The foundational products are
WebSphere Application Server and WebSphere MQ.
WebSphere MQ (WMQ)
Originally MQSeries. IBM software/middleware that
provides a message queuing infrastructure; it sits on
various systems in a heterogeneous environment,
providing integration between disparate systems and
applications.
X-Terminal
A type of terminal developed in the Unix world that
provides a GUI type environment (usually X-Windows)
without the need for a programmable workstation.
WLM
Workload Manager. Feature within SRM for simplifying
the management of system resources such as CPU
and storage. eWLM reportedly adds the ability to define
business performance objectives across disparate
systems.
z/OS
The latest incarnation of MVS, the principal operating
system for the IBM mainframe. Announced in October
2000, it brought with it support for 64-bit addressing
and a broad range of technical innovations. As well
as running on zSeries machines, it also runs on
System/390 G5 and G6 processors and Multiprise
3000 systems.
z/Architecture
IBMs latest architecture for mainframes and peripherals.
Z/TPF
The latest version of the Transaction Processing
Facility, a low-function but high-performance TP monitor
for very large data communications systems.
z/VM
The latest version of the much-loved Virtual Machine, a
hypervisor that enabled users to run multiple operating
systems on a single machine.
zAAP
A Java co-processor for the z890 and z990, which
allows customers to offload Java application processing
without paying software costs for the additional capacity.
Zap
Affectionate name for various utilities (AMASPZAP,
aka SUPERZAP in z/OS), which can be used to apply
a fix directly to object code in situ. Zapping is a bad
thing it creates programs in which the object code
does not agree with the source, and which are hence
totally unmaintainable.
zBX
The zEnterprise BladeCenter Extension (zBX) on
operates as a tightly-coupled extension to the z196
and z114 mainframes through a high-performance
private network. Users then add POWER7 or System
x blades to four racks.
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Zombie computers
These are used to spread e-mail spam and launch
distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks.
zFS
zSeries File System is a Unix file system that can be
used in addition to HFS. zIIP
z9 Integrated Information Processor. A co-processor
similar to zAAP (the idea is that you pronounce them
ZIP and ZAP), but designed to off-load DB2 work and
integrate data across the enterprise. Like zAAP, you pay
for the hardware but do not incur IBM software charges
for the additional capacity. Minimum requirement: z9109 with z/OS 1.6 or later and DB2 V8.
Zombie data
This is old forgotten data that you thought youd deleted,
but hadnt.
zIIP
z9 Integrated Information Processor. A co-processor
similar to zAAP (the idea is that you pronounce them
ZIP and ZAP), but designed to off-load DB2 work and
integrate data across the enterprise. Like zAAP, you pay
for the hardware but do not incur IBM software charges
for the additional capacity. Minimum requirement: z9109 with z/OS 1.6 or later and DB2 V8.
Zombie programs
These are the programs that hackers use to gain
access to your computer. They are often called bots.
Courtesy of wordle.net
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Technical information
Hardware tables:
zEnterprise EC12 2827
System z z114 2818
System z z196 2817
Mainframe hardware timeline 1952-2013
Mainframe operating system development
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Model
IBM MIPS
MSUs
2827-616 11,524 1,397
2827-617 12,096 1,464
2827-618 12,654 1,530
2827-619 13,197 1,594
2827-620 13,728 1,656
2827-701 1,514 188
2827-702 2,853 352
2827-703 4,151 511
2827-704 5,409 664
2827-705 6,628 813
2827-706 7,809 957
2827-707 8,954 1,092
2827-708 10,063 1,224
2827-709 11,137 1,350
2827-710 12,179 1,473
2827-711 13,188 1,593
2827-712 14,166 1,709
2827-713 15,126 1,822
2827-714 16,069 1,934
2827-715 16,994 2,043
2827-716 17,904 2,149
2827-717 18,797 2,254
2827-718 19,673 2,359
2827-719 20,534 2,462
2827-720 21,380 2,564
2827-721 22,222 2,661
2827-722 23,061 2,755
2827-723 23,896 2,848
2827-724 24,728 2,940
2827-725 25,557 3,032
2827-726 26,382 3,122
2827-727 27,205 3,212
2827-728 28,023 3,301
2827-729 28,839 3,389
2827-730 29,651 3,480
2827-731 30,460 3,571
2827-732 31,266 3,665
2827-733 32,069 3,760
2827-734 32,868 3,853
2827-735 33,664 3,947
2827-736 34,457 4,040
2827-737 35,247 4,132
2827-738 36,034 4,224
2827-739 36,817 4,316
2827-740 37,598 4,408
2827-741 38,375 4,499
2827-742 39,149 4,590
2827-743 39,920 4,680
2827-744 40,687 4,770
2827-745 41,451 4,859
2827-746 42,210 4,948
2827-747 42,966 5,037
2827-748 43,718 5,125
2827-749 44,466 5,213
2827-750 45,211 5,300
Model
IBM MIPS
MSUs
2827-777 63,963 7,499
2827-778 64,610 7,574
2827-779 65,254 7,650
2827-780 65,895 7,725
2827-781 66,532 7,800
2827-782 67,166 7,874
2827-783 67,797 7,948
2827-784 68,425 8,022
2827-785 69,049 8,095
2827-786 69,671 8,168
2827-787 70,289 8,240
2827-788 70,905 8,312
2827-789 71,517 8,384
2827-790 72,124 8,455
2827-791 72,724 8,526
2827-792 73,319 8,595
2827-793 73,909 8,665
2827-794 74,492 8,733
2827-795 75,070 8,801
2827-796 75,643 8,868
2827-797 76,210 8,934
2827-798 76,772 9,000
2827-799 77,329 9,066
2827-7A0 77,880 9,130
2827-7A1 78,426 9,194
Model
IBM MIPS
MSUs
2818-A01 26 3
2818-B01 29 4
2818-C01 38 5
2818-D01 46 6
2818-A02 47 6
2818-E01 51 7
2818-B02 53 7
2818-F01 59 7
2818-A03 67 9
2818-C02 69 9
2818-G01 70 9
2818-B03 75 10
2818-H01 80 10
2818-D02 84 11
2818-A04 86 11
2818-I01 88 11
2818-E02 93 12
2818-B04 96 12
2818-J01 98 12
2818-C03 98 12
2818-A05 104 13
Model
IBM MIPS
MSUs
2818-F02 107 13
2818-K01 110 14
2818-B05 116 15
2818-D03 119 15
2818-C04 126 16
2818-G02 127 16
2818-L01 130 16
2818-E03 132 16
2818-H02 145 18
2818-M01 150 19
2818-F03 153 19
2818-D04 153 19
2818-C05 153 19
2818-I02 160 20
2818-E04 170 21
2818-N01 172 21
2818-J02 178 22
2818-G03 181 23
2818-D05 185 23
2818-O01 193 24
2818-F04 196 25
159
Model
IBM MIPS
MSUs
2818-K02 200 25
2818-E05 205 26
2818-H03 207 26
2818-P01 216 27
2818-I03 228 29
2818-G04 233 29
2818-L02 236 30
2818-F05 237 30
2818-Q01 247 31
2818-J03 254 32
2818-H04 266 33
2818-R01 272 34
2818-M02 273 34
2818-G05 281 35
2818-K03 285 36
2818-I04 293 37
2818-S01 303 38
2818-N02 313 40
2818-H05 321 40
2818-J04 326 41
2818-L03 337 42
2818-T01 340 42
2818-O02 351 44
2818-I05 353 44
2818-K04 366 46
2818-U01 389 49
2818-M03 389 49
2818-P02 393 49
2818-J05 394 49
2818-V01 429 53
2818-L04 432 54
2818-K05 442 55
2818-N03 446 56
2818-Q02 449 56
2818-W01 480 60
2818-R02 494 62
2818-M04 499 62
2818-O03 500 62
2818-L05 522 65
2818-S02 551 69
2818-P03 560 70
2818-N04 572 71
2818-X01 584 73
2818-M05 602 75
2818-T02 618 77
Model
IBM MIPS
MSUs
2818-Q03 640 80
2818-O04 642 80
2818-Y01 690 86
2818-N05 691 86
2818-R03 705 88
2818-U02 707 88
2818-P04 718 90
2818-O05 775 97
2818-V02 780 98
2818-Z01 782 98
2818-S03 785 98
2818-Q04 821 102
2818-P05 868 108
2818-W02 873 109
2818-T03 881 110
2818-R04 904 113
2818-Q05 992 123
2818-S04 1007 125
2818-U03 1008 125
2818-X02 1062 132
2818-R05 1092 136
2818-V03 1112 138
2818-T04 1130 140
2818-S05 1217 151
2818-W03 1244 155
2818-Y02 1254 156
2818-U04 1293 161
2818-T05 1366 170
2818-Z02 1421 177
2818-V04 1426 177
2818-X03 1514 188
2818-U05 1562 194
2818-W04 1595 198
2818-V05 1723 214
2818-Y03 1788 221
2818-W05 1928 239
2818-X04 1941 240
2818-Z03 2026 251
2818-Y04 2293 283
2818-X05 2346 290
2818-Z04 2598 321
2818-Y05 2771 343
2818-Z05 3139 388
160
Model
IBM MIPS
2817-401
240
2817-402
459
2817-403
672
2817-404
879
2817-405 1,082
2817-406 1,280
2817-407 1,476
2817-408 1,667
2817-409 1,855
2817-410 2,039
2817-411 2,220
2817-412 2,397
2817-413 2,571
2817-414 2,742
2817-415 2,909
2817-501
588
2817-502 1,123
2817-503 1,642
2817-504 2,147
2817-505 2,639
2817-506 3,118
2817-507 3,586
2817-508 4,042
2817-509 4,486
2817-510 4,919
2817-511 5,342
2817-512 5,754
2817-513 6,156
2817-514 6,547
2817-515 6,929
2817-601
768
2817-602 1,460
2817-603 2,131
2817-604 2,783
2817-605 3,417
2817-606 4,035
2817-607 4,635
2817-608 5,219
2817-609 5,788
2817-610 6,341
MSUs
Model
30 2817-719
58 2817-720
85 2817-721
110 2817-722
135 2817-723
160 2817-724
183 2817-725
207 2817-726
229 2817-727
252 2817-728
274 2817-729
296 2817-730
318 2817-731
339 2817-732
359 2817-733
74 2817-734
140 2817-735
204 2817-736
265 2817-737
326 2817-738
385 2817-739
442 2817-740
498 2817-741
552 2817-742
604 2817-743
655 2817-744
705 2817-745
754 2817-746
806 2817-747
849 2817-748
97 2817-749
182 2817-750
263 2817-751
344 2817-752
421 2817-753
497 2817-754
569 2817-755
640 2817-756
709 2817-757
777 2817-758
IBM MIPS
16,476
17,171
17,862
18,550
19,234
19,915
20,592
21,266
21,937
22,604
23,268
23,929
24,586
25,241
25,893
26,543
27,191
27,837
28,482
29,124
29,765
30,403
31,040
31,675
32,308
32,938
33,568
34,195
34,820
35,443
36,065
36,683
37,297
37,907
38,514
39,117
39,717
40,313
40,905
41,494
MSUs
1,983
2,064
2,144
2,224
2,306
2,388
2,469
2,550
2,627
2,704
2,780
2,855
2,927
2,998
3,068
3,134
3,207
3,279
3,351
3,418
3,489
3,564
3,639
3,713
3,788
3,861
3,935
4,009
4,082
4,155
4,228
4,300
4,372
4,444
4,515
4,586
4,656
4,726
4,795
4,864
161
843 2817-759
907 2817-760
969 2817-761
1,028 2817-762
1,084 2817-763
150 2817-764
281 2817-765
408 2817-766
531 2817-767
650 2817-768
766 2817-769
879 2817-770
988 2817-771
1,091 2817-772
1,191 2817-773
1,286 2817-774
1,381 2817-775
1,473 2817-776
1,562 2817-777
1,648 2817-778
1,731 2817-779
1,816 2817-780
1,899
42,079
42,661
43,239
43,814
44,385
44,953
45,517
46,078
46,622
47,147
47,656
48,149
48,626
49,087
49,534
49,967
50,385
50,791
51,183
51,563
51,931
52,286
4,933
5,001
5,069
5,136
5,203
5,270
5,336
5,402
5,466
5,528
5,588
5,646
5,702
5,757
5,810
5,862
5,912
5,960
6,007
6,053
6,097
6,140
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163
164
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