Business Software for IBM Z

IBM watsonx Assistant is a next-gen conversational AI solution—it that empowers a broader audience that includes non-technical business users, anyone in your organization to effortlessly build generative AI Assistants that deliver frictionless self-service experiences to customers across any device or channel, help boost employee productivity, and scale across your business. -User-friendly interface with drag-and-drop conversation builder and pre-built templates. -Out-of-the-box Large Language Models, Large Speech Models, Natural Language Processing and Understanding (NLP, NLU), and Intelligent Context Gathering, to better understand the context of each conversation in natural language. -Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) for accurate, contextual, and up-to-date conversational answers around the clock, grounded in your company's knowledge base.

Monitor your servers, containers, and applications, in high-resolution and in real-time. Netdata collects metrics per second and presents them in beautiful low-latency dashboards. It is designed to run on all of your physical and virtual servers, cloud deployments, Kubernetes clusters, and edge/IoT devices, to monitor your systems, containers, and applications. It scales nicely from just a single server to thousands of servers, even in complex multi/mixed/hybrid cloud environments, and given enough disk space it can keep your metrics for years. KEY FEATURES: Collects metrics from 800+ integrations Real-Time, Low-Latency, High-Resolution Unsupervised Anomaly Detection Powerful Visualization Out of box Alerts systemd Journal Logs Explorer Low Maintenance Open and Extensible Troubleshoot slowdowns and anomalies in your infrastructure with thousands of per-second metrics, meaningful visualisations, and insightful health alarms with zero configuration. Netdata is different. Real-Time data collection and visualization. Infinite scalability baked into its design. Flexible and extremely modular. Immediately available for troubleshooting, requiring zero prior knowledge and preparation.

Security Solutions for Your DevOps Process Automate scanning your code to find and fix vulnerabilities. Kiuwan Code Security is compliant with the strictest security standards, such OWASP or CWE. It integrates with top DevOps tools and covers all important languages. Static application security testing and source analysis are both effective, and affordable solutions for all sizes of teams. Kiuwan provides a wide range of essential functionality that can be integrated into your internal development infrastructure. Quick vulnerability detection: Simple and quick setup. You can scan your area and receive results in minutes. DevOps Approach to Code Security: Integrate Kiuwan into your Ci/CD/DevOps Pipeline to automate your security process. Flexible Licensing Options. There are many options. One-time scans and continuous scanning. Kiuwan also offers On-Premise or Saas models.

OpenLegacy’s Digital-Driven Integration software enables organizations with legacy systems to release new digital services faster and easier than ever before. It connects directly to virtually any core system, instantly generating digital services on the cloud. OpenLegacy helps industry-leading companies drastically reduce costs and resources while helping them become digital to the core. The OpenLegacy HUB is an all-in-one enterprise digital and cloud modernization platform, without disruption.

IBM®, Z® Service Management Suite provides a single point for system management functions for many elements. This suite provides multiple AIOps capabilities that can be used to manage both software and hardware enterprise resources within an IBM Systems complex. Operational excellence is possible through policy-based automation. This allows you to maximize the availability of IBM Z systems as well as IBM Parallel Sysplex®, clusters, and optimize key IT operations objectives. Use IBM Z OMEGAMON® to increase monitoring and observability in order to manage the Z platform's health. Get product-provided best practice and expert advice through a single service management console. Watson AIOps can be used to correlate monitoring events, and to apply analytics to understand the effects of IBM Z events across hybrid clouds. For better visibility and anomaly detection, analyze IBM OMEGAMON metrics using popular AI platforms.

IBM® Z Operations Analytics is a tool that allows you to search, visualize, and analyze large amounts structured and unstructured data across IBM Z environments. This includes log, event, service request data, and performance metrics. Use your analytics platform and machine-learning to increase enterprise visibility, find issues in your workloads, uncover hidden problems, and perform root cause analysis quicker. Machine learning can be used to detect anomalies in operation and establish normal system behavior. You can detect emerging issues across services and be able to cognitively adapt to them. Get expert advice to improve service assurance and corrective actions. Identify unusual workload behaviors. Locate common issues hidden in operational data. Reduce the time needed for root cause analysis. IBM Z's domain expertise is your advantage. Benefit from the domain expertise of IBM Z to enhance your analytics platform.

IBM® z/OS Connect Enterprise Edition is a simple and intuitive way for you to harness the power of APIs on your mainframe. You can unlock the potential of your IBM Z®, subsystems by creating truly RESTful APIs. In minutes, you can create consumable APIs to add Z applications to your hybrid cloud strategy. To enhance your Z applications with cloud-native functions, call APIs from Z apps. Swagger-defined APIs can be created in minutes by removing platform-level dependencies. Enterprise-grade APIs are available to handle business-critical requests. One consistent approach for monitoring and auditing all IBM Z APIs across IBM's platform. Enhance z/OS® applications using cloud native functions. Also, you can easily call APIs with native interfaces from COBOL or PLI programs. Parallel development of APIs and Services with source code management systems like Git or RTC/Jazz can increase agility in your development teams.

IBM®, Developer for z/OS®, (IDz), is a robust tool set for developing and maintaining IBM z/OS apps through the use DevOps practices. It allows you to deliver more, faster and with greater quality and agility. IBM Developer for z/OS (formerly Rational Developer For z Systems (RDz)) offers COBOL and PL/I, High Level Assembler as well as C/C++, JCL and JavaTM development tools on an Eclipse basis. Enterprise Edition gives developers the option of choosing Microsoft VS Code or Red Hat(R] CodeReady Workspaces to help them with their daily z/OS development. The IBM z/OS application building tools have an intuitive and simple user interface. Developers can use a fully integrated debugger to examine, monitor, control, and test the execution of programs within context. Modern editors are appealing to new mainframe developers, while ISPF-style editors offer navigation that is familiar for traditional mainframe users.

You can track and analyze historical performance of IBM Z®, mainframes and middleware subsystems. This will also help to reduce blind spots in multicloud environments. Integrate OMEGAMON monitoring into IBM System Automation, Netview and asset management for your enterprise's z/OS®. Optimize performance and availability for vital IMS systems. Allow operators to manage IMS from one console. Monitoring key IBM MQ and IBM Integration Bus deployments will ensure that system operations are free from bottlenecks and performance issues. Monitor WebSphere Application Servers running on z/OS to gain insight into subsystem and operating system performance.

IBM DevOps accelerate can speed up and optimize software delivery of any mix of mainframe, cloud and on-premises applications. DevOps software can automate builds and deployments of monolithic or microservices-based apps, or a combination, in the cloud, data center or mainframe. DevOps accelerate provides a single control point to manage the delivery of microservices across dev/test, production, and many clouds including traditional cloud providers. Eliminate human errors to release software confidently. Get comprehensive pipeline management, visibility and automation. Transform release toolchains to coherent pipelines. Get visibility and coordinated delivery. Visibility into your DevOps delivery pipeline will improve the flow and rate of application delivery. Eliminate the need for custom scripts to get a deployment that is easier to design and more secure.

This continuous monitoring solution will strengthen even the most secure mainframe. SDS IronSphere also helps U.S. agencies comply with standards. IronSphere's automatic z/OS STIG monitoring is a major feature, but it also offers many other security compliance features. This tool was developed by mainframe penetration testers and security experts who are compliance-minded. IronSphere for z/OS, a product of their expertise in the field and mandated to be followed in certain sectors, follows the guidelines which are integral to the frameworks of security compliance mandates. This solution automatically and continually identifies system risk and then provides easy-to-follow remedy steps as part the assessment results. The tool also keeps track of the results, which can be used to prove to auditors that your z/OS has been monitored continuously and that you have adhered to ISCM and RMF protocol.

IBM Z Anomaly Analytics software provides intelligent anomaly detection, grouping and identifying operational issues within your enterprise environment. IBM Z Anomaly Analytics builds a model based on historical IBM Z logs and metrics. The model is then used to score real-time data in order to detect anomalous behaviors. A correlation algorithm groups and analyses anomalous events in order to alert operations teams of emerging issues. In today's digital world, your essential services and applications need to be always available. With the increasing costs, skills shortages and changing user habits, detecting and determining hybrid application issues is becoming more complex for enterprises using hybrid applications. By detecting anomalies, you can identify operational issues and prevent costly incidents.

The IBM®, zSecure Suite provides additional layers of security assurance. This includes audits, alerts and administration, reporting, authentication and reporting. It enhances security and risk management in IBM Z® hardware, software and virtualization. Standard external security managers, such as CA ACF2, CA Top Secret, and IBM RACF, are also available. The zSecure Suite automates security administrative tasks to increase efficiency and decrease errors. It detects internal and exterior threats, issues real time alerts, monitors compliance, and issues alerts. Automates security administrative tasks to increase efficiency and decrease errors. An effective identity governance can enforce compliance with regulations and standards. Detect threats, issue alerts in real time, and monitor compliance, such as pervasive encryption usage for GDPR. Integrate for ease of administration and secure strong authentication to strengthen user controls.

IBM® Application Discovery and Delivery intelligence (ADDI), is an analytical platform that supports application modernization. It uses cognitive technologies to quickly analyze mainframe applications and discover and understand interdependencies of modifications. Rapidly improve mainframe applications to increase revenue. You will quickly see the return on your investment. To anticipate problems and reduce development costs, it is important to better understand the complexity of applications. Hybrid cloud allows you to rapidly evolve systems and applications. App insights can help you accelerate your digital transformation and lower risk. Rapid analysis capabilities allow you to quickly discover the relationships between components of your IBM OS® applications, and determine the impact of any potential changes. You can quickly find business rules, code snippets, and APIs to help you support your business processes.

IBM®, z/OS®, brings the computing power of the IBM Z(r platform to your business transformation and accelerates innovation. Your organization will have the environment you need to meet future challenges and improve performance on mission-critical workloads. An operating system that is highly secure and scalable for mission-critical applications. The new IBM®, z16™, platform accelerates decision speed, protects your business from threats, and modernizes for hybrid clouds. IBM z/OS V2.5 allows for innovative development to support hybrid cloud, AI business applications, and next-level technologies for security. New z/OS capabilities are made available every quarter through a continuous delivery model. This has no impact on stability, cost, complexity, or cost. Rapid application development and provisioning for hybrid clouds. Modern and simplified experience for easy installation, management, and so on.

Reduce the risk of malicious insider threats as well as inadvertent threats. Trusted Access manager for Z helps you deliver trusted systems, improve business efficiency and manage privileged access for your mainframe. By eliminating the need to share credentials, working with existing software, and producing forensics of all privileged user activities, you can maintain complete control over your mainframe data. Limit the users who can access privileged states and limit the duration of elevation to reduce the risk. Simplify auditing through the elimination of privileged credentials sharing and a complete view into the activities of each privileged user. Maintain control over when users can access the most sensitive information in the business to ensure that systems are trusted and operated efficiently. Broadcom's training, certifications and resources can help you transform your company and advance your career.

IBM z/VM, an operating system that includes a security-rich hypervisor and virtualization technologies, is designed to run virtual machines such as Linux and z/OS virtual machines and Red Hat OpenShift as well as IBM Z and LinuxONE server. IBM z/VM can run hundreds to thousands guest servers on a single IBM Z server or IBM LinuxONE with high efficiency and elasticity. It supports multiple machine architectures and images, simplifying migrations and facilitating application transitions. IBM z/VM excels at sharing system resources between virtual machines. It offers extreme scalability and security, resulting in cost savings. Hybrid cloud strategy that uses on-premises cloud. Scale and run Linux and container workloads with efficiency. IBM's resilience offerings can help ensure continuous availability.

Most of the largest companies and organizations in the world rely on mainframe systems to deliver trusted digital experiences. Hackers can easily exploit passwords that protect critical users, data and applications because they rely on education and compliance from the user. Criminals have used social engineering and phishing to exploit employees, partners and general users in order to hack into the most secure platforms. IBM Z MFA increases the level of assurance for your mission-critical system with expanded authentication options and options that help mitigate the risk of compromised credentials and system hacks. Our designers are IBM Z MFA users. We incorporate their knowledge and expertise into every new version.

Unified Key Orchestrator, formerly IBM Enterprise Key Management Foundation - Web Edition, is a software that manages encryption keys in your enterprise. It can be used on-premises or in multiple cloud environments including IBM Cloud, AWS KMS and Azure Key Vault. Unified Key Orchestrator (UKO) for z/OS can help your organization manage and move key-management workloads between on-premises environments and cloud environments. This helps with compliance and security. UKO for z/OS allows you to manage encryption keys throughout your enterprise using a single, trusted interface. UKO for z/OS, deployed as a z/OS application, allows you to orchestrate your keys across multiple public clouds and all of your IBM z/OS servers. It extends key management support for zKey on Linux® on IBM Z, and IBM Security Guardium key lifetime manager.

IBM Hyper Protect Virtual Servers use IBM Secure Execution on Linux. It provides a confidential computing platform to protect sensitive data in virtual servers and container runs by performing computations in a trusted execution environment. It is available both on-premises and as a managed service in IBM Cloud. Confidential computing on IBM Z or LinuxONE allows you to securely build, deploy and manage mission-critical apps for hybrid multi-cloud. Equip your developers to build applications securely in a trusted environment. Admins can validate that applications come from a trusted source by using their own auditing process. Give operations the capability to manage without having access to applications or sensitive data. Protect your digital assets with a Linux platform that is tamper proof and security-rich.

ibi™, FOCUS, is the premier integrated environment for IBM Z Applications. It supports reporting, transaction processing and charting, interactive batch processing and batch processing as well as universal file description. It offers rich data access, with adapters for major mainframe databases and files systems. It also outputs in a variety of formats. FOCUS simplifies user and data access by using the same access languages for all data structures. This includes universal JOIN functionality and merge functionality. Reporting can be produced in a variety of data and graphic formats including HTML, PDF (InDocument Analytics), PS, XLSX and PPTX. FOCUS creates an efficient and powerful runtime environment for IBM Z Systems. This allows users to take advantage of unique IBM Z functionality in order to maximize speed and save money. It provides high levels of accuracy by incorporating hardware-level native math, with integrated decimal formats.

ibi Open Data hub for Mainframe allows real-time access mainframe data and seamless integration with business intelligence tools. It ensures compliance with regulatory standards and security protocols by allowing data to stay on the mainframe. The platform reduces the requirement for custom SQL queries. This enhances productivity and facilitates prompt, informed decisions. It offers cost-effective access to data by offloading general-purpose processors' workloads. This solution allows organizations to respond quickly to market trends and customers' demands by providing comprehensive business data. By eliminating the need to create custom SQL queries, you can access data faster and make better decisions. Access data from the mainframe to gain insights that will help you make informed decisions quickly.