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The mainframe isn’t what it used to be – it’s a more powerful business asset than ever.

More and more organizations use the platform as a robust, highly available, and security-rich environment for running core applications, and they are extending existing applications and innovating workloads.

Through discovery and impact analysis, and in using modern architectures, technologies, and tools, they integrate mainframe systems with distributed applications to:

Application modernization solutions

  • Discover how your COBOL and PL/I developers can improve, remake and modernize existing production System z® applications, by exploiting decades-worth of business value, embodied in the code.


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People modernization solutions

  • Empower your staff of veteran COBOL and PL/I developers to become more productive at their daily mainframe development, maintenance, and support tasks. Learn how they can participate and contribute significantly in developing leading-edge Web 2.0 applications for System z.


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Team modernization solutions

  • Learn how your teams can develop and deploy using unified software collaboration, change, configuration, and build management solutions. Elevate and accelerate multiplatform and multi-site IT team cooperative development projects. Improve governance and business agility.


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