Business Software for IBM Z

The ibi Open Data Hub for Mainframe offers immediate access to mainframe data, facilitating smooth integration with a variety of business intelligence applications. By keeping data on the mainframe, it guarantees adherence to security measures and regulatory requirements. The platform minimizes the necessity for custom SQL queries, boosting productivity and enabling quicker, well-informed decisions. Leveraging zIIP specialty engines allows for economical data access by shifting workloads away from general-purpose processors. This innovative solution equips organizations to quickly adapt to market changes and customer needs by delivering thorough and current business data. By streamlining data access without the burden of custom SQL queries, users can quickly retrieve and analyze information, ensuring a swifter decision-making process. Furthermore, real-time access to mainframe data enhances the ability to generate actionable insights, allowing for timely and strategic business decisions.

IBM Z System Automation is an application built on NetView that serves as a centralized hub for managing a comprehensive array of system management tasks. Its significance lies in delivering advanced automation solutions tailored for enterprise needs. By efficiently monitoring, controlling, and automating a wide variety of system components, it encompasses both hardware and software resources throughout the organization. This policy-driven, self-healing, and high-availability solution is specifically aimed at enhancing the performance and uptime of vital systems and applications. Moreover, it minimizes the workload associated with administrative and operational tasks, lowers the need for customization and programming, and streamlines the time and costs required for automation implementation, particularly in environments using Parallel Sysplex and policy-driven automation. Furthermore, the seamless integration with Geographically Dispersed Parallel Sysplex (GDPS) equips IBM Z System Automation with advanced disaster recovery functionalities, ensuring robust protections for IBM Z systems against potential failures. Overall, its multifaceted capabilities make it an indispensable tool for modern enterprises reliant on high availability and efficiency.

eXplain is a robust tool developed by PKS Software GmbH for code analysis and the assessment of legacy systems, specifically aimed at performing in-depth evaluations of legacy applications on mainframe platforms like IBM i (AS/400) and IBM Z. This software allows organizations to gain insights into their software's contents, structural integrity, and identifies components that may be retained, improved, or phased out. By importing existing source code into a standalone "eXplain server," the tool eliminates the necessity for installations on the host system, utilizing sophisticated parsers to scrutinize programming languages such as COBOL, PL/I, Assembler, Natural, RPG, and JCL, along with information pertaining to databases like Db2, Adabas, and IMS, as well as job schedulers and transaction monitors. eXplain creates a centralized repository that functions as a knowledge hub, from which it can produce cross-language dependency graphs, data-flow diagrams, interface evaluations, groupings of related modules, and comprehensive reports on object and resource usage. This enables users to visualize relationships within the code, enhancing their understanding of the software landscape. Ultimately, eXplain empowers organizations to make informed decisions regarding the future of their legacy systems.

Hybrid data estates create silos, duplicate datasets, and “unknown” data flows. Teams lose time finding the right data, can’t trace lineage for audits, and take on risk when changes break downstream reports and apps. Rocket® DataEdge™ is a metadata-driven data intelligence, integration, and virtualization platform. It connects and delivers data across heterogeneous systems while adding business and technical context, lineage, and end-to-end visibility so teams can understand what data exists, where it’s used, and how it moves. Key capabilities: • Metadata capture and cataloging with glossary/tags/ownership • Lineage and impact visibility to troubleshoot and govern change • Seamless hybrid data integration plus virtual/federated access • Connectors/APIs for mainframe, distributed, and cloud sources/targets • Policy-driven security/governance controls across environments Outcome: faster time-to-data with fewer brittle pipelines, audit-ready visibility, and more trusted analytics/AI inputs.

Your modernization journey doesn't have to be risky. Rocket® Enterprise Suite™ empowers you to securely migrate mainframe applications using your existing code. This approach minimizes failure risk and delivers much faster project timelines. We partner with you to support both COBOL and PL/I workloads across on-premises, cloud, or hybrid environments, giving you complete flexibility. - Accelerate development: Access comprehensive tools for analyzing, securing, testing, and deploying your critical applications. - Simplify complexity: Leverage an AI-powered natural language assistant to easily understand and document complex code, improving your DevOps practices. - Ensure reliability: Trust in four decades of experience and thousands of successful modernization projects. Build the foundation for your future IT infrastructure today. Discover how we can help you accelerate modern application development with total confidence.

Managing software changes across mission-critical mainframe environments can be complex and risky. You need a solution that ensures quality without slowing down your development lifecycle. Rocket® ChangeMan™ is a comprehensive suite of mainframe change management tools built to strengthen control, governance, and productivity. We help you confidently manage software changes across IBM Z®/OS® environments—from development through testing and straight into production. By centralizing and automating the lifecycle of your code changes, assets, and configurations, this tool builds accountability and quality assurance into every step of your workflow. Key benefits for your organization: - Strengthen governance and control across mission-critical systems. - Automate the lifecycle of code changes, assets, and configurations. - Ensure strict quality assurance from development to production. Partner with Rocket Software to streamline your mainframe change management today.