Mainframe Modernization

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Flexible mainframe development and test on x86 hardware.  BM® z Systems® Development and Test Environment (previously named Rational® Development & Test Environment for System z) is a platform for mainframe application demonstration, development, testing and education. It enables IBM z/OS® middleware and other z/OS software to run on Intel-compatible platforms without IBM Z® mainframe hardware. It emulates IBM Z architecture with virtual I/O and devices. It also provides role-based tools that allow you to create, manage and deploy your emulated environments for development and test activities. 

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IBM® Developer for z Systems® provides a range of integrated development environments for developing and maintaining IBM z/OS® applications. It offers a rich set of COBOL, PL/I, HLASM, Java® and C/C++ development tools for IBM CICS®, IBM IMS™ and IBM Db2® on an Eclipse base. It helps you deliver more, faster, with better quality and agility.  IBM Z® systems application development tools offer an intuitive user interface and are designed to be simple to use.  ISPF style editors offer navigation that is familiar to traditional mainframe developers, while Eclipse style editors appeal to newer mainframe developers. 

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IBM® Rational® Host Access Transformation Services (HATS) extends mission critical terminal applications to the web, mobile, portal, rich client, or as standard SOAP or RESTful web services without touching the existing application. No rewriting, refactoring, or access to application source code is required. This low risk HATS transformation can reduce training costs, increase end user productivity and satisfaction, and enable re-use of proven business logic in new applications.  Use HATS tunable default rendering and screen customization capability to get all the screens of your existing application rendered with a new, intuitive user interface. 

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           Many of your company’s employees may be forced to navigate numerous outdated

           mainframe green screens to do simple tasks.  In some cases, this could mean interacting 

           with 50-100 screens plus interactions with other systems and data sources to complete

           daily tasks.  Significant efficiency gains and work productivity can be achieved by 

           consolidating these applications (mainframe, databases, Excel, etc) into one modern web 

           interface, with minimal effort and at a low cost.  The Smith Group and HCL Technologies 

           are partnered to bring this unique Business Process Optimization solution to IBM’s 

           mainframe customers.  The following is just one example of how we did that for a 

           multi billion-dollar electronics distribution company:

           Our client has 300+ buyers worldwide and were navigating up to 100 green screens, Excel

           spreadsheets, and other data sources to create a single purchase order.  Through a Design

           Thinking methodology, the latest version of IBM HATS, and HCL’s HATS application 

           development services, we were able to consolidate all of the disparate systems into one

           single web interface within 4 months.  Today, the buyers create all purchase orders and

           review demand data through the HATS application and run all buying activity through the 

           application that was built.  In the CIO’s words, we “Optimized their Business Process and 

           significantly streamlined their operations; delivering value to the business in a very short

           period of time."

Need help getting your mainframe data into Splunk? IBM Common Data Provider for z Systems is the answer.

IBM® Common Data Provider for z Systems® rapidly centralizes mainframe operational data and feeds it to analytics platforms – accessing data from multiple sources and distributing it in near real-time to multiple destinations, including off-mainframe locations such as Splunk.

Single collection point for mainframe operational data including:
     • SMF records
     • SYSLOG (IBM z/OS System Log and USS SyslogD)
     • JOBLOGs
     • Application logs (IBM CICS Transaction Server logs and IBM WebSphere Application Server

        logs)

Streaming data or batch mode
     • Stream structured and unstructured mainframe data or use batch mode to collect data

Expand consumption options using the configuration tool
     • Send mainframe data to multiple analytics engines, including Splunk, in different formats for

        different consumers—or filter to send select data to authorized consumers.

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 Integrating critical IBM z and IBM i machine data into today’s IT analytics and operations management platforms to provide a 360° view of your IT environment and enable faster, more accurate decisions.

Integrate mainframe and IBM i machine data into your IT analytics, security and operations management systems

Maintain real-time visibility into all aspects of your IT environment, their relationships and dependencies

 Quickly identify and resolve security issues with a 360° view of your IT environment 

Improve service availability, with increased IT efficiency and better decision making

identify and resolve security issues

Quickly identify and resolve security issues with a 360° view of your IT environment

Improve service availability

Improve service availability, with increased IT efficiency and better 

System and event data is not easily integrated, leaving a gap in many vendors ability to visualize the complete IT environment.  Ironstream can fill this gap by seamlessly integrating traditional IBM systems into the following vendor applications:

1. Splunk
2. ServiceNow
3. Micro Focus
4. Microsoft SCOM
5. Elastic

IBM® Db2® Analytics Accelerator is a high-performance component tightly integrated with Db2 for z/OS. It delivers high-speed processing for complex Db2 queries to support business-critical reporting and analytic workloads. The Accelerator transforms the mainframe into a hybrid transaction and analytic processing (HTAP) environment. It drives out cost and complexity and enables analytics on transactional data as it is generated. Leverage your business-critical data where it originates to integrate real-time insight with real-time operational decisions.

IBM Dependency Based Build (DBB) provides capabilities to build traditional z/OS® applications such as COBOL and PL/I. The goal of DBB is to provide some automation capabilities based on a modern scripting language that can be used on z/OS. DBB is built as a stand-alone product that does not require a specific source code manager or pipeline automation tool.

IBM Dependency Based Build is also included in IBM Developer for z Systems® Enterprise Edition.

IBM DBB, with modern Software Configuration Management and Continuous Integration tools such as Git and Jenkins, provides uniform DevOps processes and practices across multiple platforms.

DBB provides you with a Java API to support the running of tasks on z/OS and to create and use dependency information for the source code that is being processed.

JAVA APIs in DBB run MVS and TSO/ISPF commands and provide utility capabilities, zImport capability for migration to Git, and the ability to create and store the build report

DBB works as a dependency control agent that makes sure all files—source and dependencies—in the mainframe build process are current.

The DBB web application stores and manages the dependency information and build reports. The web application is used by provided REST APIs and the toolkit APIs to create the intelligent build scripts.

IBM InfoSphere Optim Test Data Management

Extract data across systems and databases into test environments for rapid software testing, while maintaining test integrity.

IBM InfoSphere Optim Data Privacy

Protect non-production confidential data, using a variety of masking techniques across databases, applications and systems.

IBM InfoSphere Optim Archive

Decommission and archive applications and their data to reduce storage costs and risks, while keeping the necessary data.

IBM InfoSphere Optim Test Data Fabrication

Accelerate software development lifecycles, using rule-based synthetic data creation to meet testing needs, while reducing risk.

IBM InfoSphere Optim Test Data Orchestrator

Use easy-to-define rules to calculate and extract the test data values needed to match the exact requirements of test cases.

IBM InfoSphere Optim Data Privacy for Unstructured Data

Protect unstructured data in testing, development and analytics environments across the enterprise.