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The longevity of mainframe

  • 1.  The longevity of mainframe

    Posted Thu September 09, 2021 09:44 AM

    The new generation of IBM Z confirms the longevity of mainframe.

    Reliability, robustness, and security features are just some of the reasons why today, after more than 30 years, Primeur solutions run on IBM Z.

    Our aim has always been to provide our customers with high-level technological solutions that enable them to:

    • Keep data safe and secure

    • Get experience through application modernization

    • IT Resiliency

    • Strengthen reliability, availability, and serviceability.

    • Improve long lasting performance

    That's why, from the previous generation of our products, Spazio, to most recent DATA ONE line, we developed our technology both on the distributed platforms and on the IBM Z platform, using JAVA technologies and exploiting the Z services offered by the IBM WebSphere Liberty Profile product.

    The Spazio series products, aimed at Managed File Transfer, are still used above all in z/Os contexts for banking and insurance customers.

    The products of the DATAONE line, in addition to satisfying the needs of MFT, contribute to the simplification of Data Integration processes.

    The experiences made on IBM Z technologies have allowed PRIMEUR to exploit the potential of the z/OS environment, especially as regards the concepts of continuos availability, strengthening the resilience of products in contexts of high reliability, concepts that are increasingly linked to application needs of customers.

    This was possible by exploiting the SYSPLEX and TCPIP concepts peculiar to the z/OS environment such as:

    zFS sharing

    the SYSPLEX DISTRIBUTOR associated with the VIPA functionalities of the TCPIP stack.

    Customers who have particular needs in continuos availability have chosen to use the database of the DATA ONE series products on the DB2 z / OS subsystems by exploiting the services offered by the SYSPLEX DB2 Data Sharing.

    We found it very useful to exploit the potential offered by the zOSMF product, for our development environment for the DATAONE series products,

    Through the development of classes and methods we have created a set of application APIs that in turn call the rest APIs of zOSMF, which allow us to automate:

    the processes of creating and deleting datasets

    reading and writing of datasets

    submission of JOBs and consultation of JOBLOGs relating to the execution of the jobs themselves.

    The zOSMF product has allowed us to automatically perform those integration tests that involve the use of the product's IBM Z components, reducing:

    test execution times

    the possibility of error in the test setup phase

    We are now experimenting DATAONE on zCX containers and on Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Z platform. In this regard we would be very happy to open discussions with other IBM Z users who are thinking of going in this direction.

    If you would like to know more about Primeur and our products and services please reach us at info@primeur.com



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    Angelo Pierotti
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