Mainframe application infrastructure

Solutions

• Application Foundation
• Batch Modernization
• Cloud platform and application virtualization
• Connectivity and Integration
• Business Process Management
• Decision Management

Products

• CICS Transaction Server
• CICS Tools

• Problem Determination Tools
• WebSphere Application Server
• WebSphere MQ
• WebSphere Message Broker
• WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus
• WebSphere DataPower Integration Appliance XI50 for zEnterprise
• IBM Business Process Manager
• IBM Operational Decision Manager

Featured resources

• Analyst reports
  • Forrester: The Total Economic Impact of IBM System z (April 2012)
  • Ovum: Business Rules for Mainframe Computing (March 2012 – PDF, 115KB)
  • Info-Tech Research Group: Vendor Landscape - Application Integration Middleware (November 2011 - PDF, 732KB)
  • Lustratus Research: Making better business decisions with flexible, automated business rules and events (August 2011 - PDF, 827KB)
• Articles
  • Transaction Integrity Is Integral to Business Success (April 2012)
  • Correlated BPM Offerings Help Improve Agility (January 2012)
  • WebSphere Compute Grid: IBM’s Java Batch Processing Platform (September 2011)
• Client success stories
  • Bank of Tokyo increases re-utilization rate by 18%
  • Garanti Bank pushes the boundaries of efficient processing
  • University of Florida helps students stay on track with a mobile app based on IBM CICS Transaction Server
• Events
  • Webcast replay: Five Reasons Why Top Companies are switching to IBM Problem Determination Tools for z/OS (September 2012)
  • Webcast replay: Blurring the line between Batch & Online Processing (November 2012)
  • Webcast replay: More Agile Transaction Processing with CICS V5.1 (November 2012)
  • Podcast: Are your transaction processing systems ready for mobile commerce? (July 2012) (MP3, 00:15:05, 13.8MB)
  • IBM WebSphere connectivity and integration podcast series
• Redbooks
  • IBM Redbook: Batch Modernization on z/OS (PDF, 5.66MB)
  • IBM CICS Performance Series: CICS, DB2, and Thread Safety (July 2012 - PDF, 1.80MB)
  • CICS and SOA Architecture and Integration Choices (March 2012 - PDF, 3.35MB)
  • Flexible Decision Automation for Your zEnterprise with Business Rules and Events April 2012
• Trial downloads and scenarios
  • Demo: Rule authoring using WebSphere Operational decision Management
  • Hosted trials: Enterprise Modernization Sandbox for System z
  • PD Tools demo for Debug Tool (March 2012, FLV, 00:07:47)
  • CICS Transaction Server for z/OS Developer Trial V5.1
• White papers
  • Optimizing process management with IBM System z (September 2011 - PDF, 1.08MB)
  • WebSphere for System z Prescriptive Use Cases (June 2011 - PDF, 372KB)
  • Integrate banking services with IBM WebSphere DataPower Integration Appliance XI50 for Enterprise (February 2011 - PDF, 345KB)
  • WebSphere Message Broker for z/OS (December 2010 - PDF, 196KB)
• More resources
  • System z software resource library

Connect with the community

• IBM System z software community page
• IBM System z blog
• IBM System z on Twitter
• IBM Software News on Twitter
• IBM CICS on Twitter
• System z on Facebook
• Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) on Facebook
• System z Advocates on LinkedIn
• SOA Special Interest Group on LinkedIn
• zNextGen on LinkedIn
• IBM Rational café communities for System z developers

Mobile app based on CICS Transaction Server running on IBM zEnterprise helps students navigate the 2,000-acre campus.

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Time to analyze coding issues was reduced from hours to seconds, cutting costs and increasing programmer productivity by 10 percent.

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