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IBM System z and the Cloud
Last updated: 28 April 2009
To purists, the “cloud” is an abstraction somewhere out in the network that delivers needed software services without regard to physical considerations like bandwidth or network latency. What they have in mind are providers like Google and Amazon.
System z as a Cloud for Business Services — Available Today to Meet the Needs of Tomorrow
Last updated: 23 April 2009
The costs of leveraging technology have continued to fall for the individual. For a business of more than modest size and ambitions, they have not. New ways to leverage technology for better relationships with customers and partners abound, but none is inexpensive on a large organizational scale. None is simple.
Redguide: The Mainframe Today: System z Strengths & Values
Last updated: 17 Mar 2009
IBM® mainframes process two thirds of the world’s business information every day, and have been doing so for decades, because of the many strengths provided by the mainframe, such as high availability, good redundancy, high performance I/O capabilities, and much more.
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IBM Tivoli NetView for z/OS V5.4 helps expand management of your business-critical IT resources
Last updated: 29 Sep 2009
IBM Tivoli NetView for z/OS V5.4 helps expand management of your business-critical IT resources, including further enhancements to its already robust IP, sysplex management, and automation capabilities
Additional information: IBM CICS Transaction Server for z/OS V4.1
Last updated: 15 Sep 2009
IBM® currently offers a set of source code modules as an optional no-charge feature of CICS TS for z/OS (CICS TS) V4.1.
IBM CICS Interdependency Analyzer for z/OS , V3.1 supports CICS Transaction Server for z/OS , V4.1 and the CICS Explorer
Last updated: 01 Sep 2009
IBM® CICS® Interdependency Analyzer for z/OS® (CICS IA) V3.1 delivers important new function to help control the cost of developing new and updating existing applications, by providing new insight into application structure and relationships.
IBM Redbooks related to DB2 for z/OS
Last updated: 16 Feb 2008
IBM Redbooks provide positioning and value guidance, installation and implementation experiences, typical solution scenarios, and step-by-step "how-to" guidelines for DB2 for z/OS and other IBM products. They often include sample code and other support materials.
InfoSphere Content Collector software: more than e-mail, more than archiving, more than an isolated solution.
Last updated: 22 Oct 2009
InfoSphere Content Collector is a key part of the IBM Smart Archive strategy. It helps organizations gain a deeper understanding of what information to archive and reduce runaway storage costs. It improves your ability to locate, collect, organize, analyze, trust and leverage information. Learn more.
Agile enterprise content management and the IBM Information Agenda
Last updated: 31 July 2009
IBM Agile ECM is a key component of the IBM Information Agenda and helps the world's top companies make better decisions, faster. IBM can help - from creating an Information Agenda to providing technology, products, services, and expertise needed to execute your agenda.
IBM ECM for managing employee information from "hire to retire"
Last updated: 19 Jan 2009
This 4-page brief explains how IBM ECM can address the business requirements for the human resources organization seeking a more efficient means of managing the increasing amount of employee information that is subject to a greater degree of oversight regarding creation, collection, processing and retention.
Mobius to Content Manager OnDemand Conversions
Last updated: 27 Oct 2009
Transitioning from a Mobius system to IBM Content Manager OnDemand presents unique challenges, production system impacts, and data integrity risks. IBM Lab Services has the experience to mitigate these risks and establish your fully tested and approved ECM reporting solution.
Maximo Asset Management for the aerospace and defense industry
Last updated: 22 Jan 2008
This brochure describes the capabilities of the IBM Maximo software portfolio to help organizations manage complex assets in the aerospace and defense industry. This portfolio includes IBM Maximo Asset Management, IBM Maximo Asset Configuration Manager, IBM Maximo Calibration and IBM Maximo Mobile.
IMS and SOA: Transforming the way you do business
Last updated: 09 Oct 2007
Learn how this reliable database management and transaction server, now enabled for SOA, enables the intelligent reuse of existing IT assets to generate increasing business operational savings for our customers.
If lowering IT costs is one of your company‟s goals in this down economy, perhaps you should consider following the path of Fort Smith, Arkansas-based Baldor Electric.
Last updated: 01 Mar 2009
What percentage of your company‟s overall sales does it cost to run your information technology (IT) organization? Is it fifteen percent? Is it ten percent? Is it three percent? Well, how would you like to get that number down to one percent (or less)?
With IBM, Euronet Essentis adds SOA benefits to its solutions for banks in their payment card operations
Last updated: 05 May 2009
Euronet Essentis, an IBM Business Partner, develops software for banking applications for processing of payment card transactions. Those applications run on IBM System z and IBM middleware.
Voltage Security captures new contracts, expands customer base with IBM benefits, resources and expertise
Last updated: 21 April 2009
Voltage Security, an IBM advanced business partner, which specializes in enterprise security, has provided customers worldwide with sophisticated data protection and messaging applications. Voltage aggressively leverages the credibility associated with IBM PartnerWorld and leverages its benefits.
FileNet Report Manager Migration Services
Information Management Software Services safely and effectively migrate FileNet Report Manager systems to Content Manager OnDemand.
IBM solidDB Universal Cache v6.5
IBM solidDB Universal Cache is the industry’s first relational, inmemory database caching technology that accelerates virtually all leading relational databases, increasing their performance up to ten times.
IBM solidDB v6.5
IBM solidDB is relational in-memory database software that delivers extreme speed, performing up to ten times faster than conventional databases.
IBM solidDB Universal Cache
Last updated: 20 Jan 2009
This demo shows you the business impact of accessing and capturing performance-critical data assets at extreme speed. You will see use cases illustrating how IBM’s relational, in-memory database caching technology, solidDB Universal Cache, performs up to 10 times faster than conventional databases.
IBM Content Collection and Archiving
Last updated: 11 Nov 2008
This illustrated demo shows how IBM Content Collector offerings work with your ECM system and Information Infrastructure to collect, enhance, and manage content from different sources into a single integrated, holistic, non-siloed repository.
Content Federation - Unlocking the Value of Distributed Content
Last updated: 29 May 2008
See how fictional GlobalCo uses IBM FileNet Content Federation Services (CFS) and IBM Information Integrator Content Edition (IICE) for federated access to content in multiple repositories, giving each of their business units the flexibility to plan or avoid costly migrations.
Content Integrator Buyer's Guide
Make your company more competitive with integrated content management. Learn the requirements for an enterprise content management solution and how IBM ECM satisfies those requirements.
ISPF Productivity Tool vs native ISPF
Last updated: 26 Feb 2008
Compare keystrokes of common actions under native ISPF vs under ISPF Productivity Tool
A comprehensive solution for leveraging data in today’s financial industry
Last updated: 06 Feb 2008
Dynamic warehousing is part of the next generation of technology that enables organizations to gain more business insight and deliver relevant information on demand. An effective solution can help financial institutions access and analyze existing data and ultimately boost business in a highly competitive market.
Content Integrator
Last updated: 17 Nov 2008
V8.5 resources
CommonStore for SAP V8.4
Last updated: 15 Oct 2008
The V8.4 Information Center includes the installation and user's guides.
IBM OmniFind Discovery Edition
Last updated: 26 Aug 2008
Find installation, administration, and development information.
IBM System z – Exploration of Technology
Last updated: 15 Sep 2008
IBM System z – Exploration of Technology, Making System z easy with RDz and the CICS Explorer
WebSphere® MQ - Past, Present and Future
Last updated: 04 June 2008
A presentation documenting the past, present and future of WebSphere® MQ.
WebSphere® MQ - Universal Messaging Backbone
A presentation on WebSphere® MQ
V8.5 documentation and manuals
IBM OmniFind Enterprise Edition 8.5
Technical documentation in all supported languages.
Session Manager for z/OS V2.2 Technical Reference
Last updated: 09 Nov 2009
This is the Technical Reference manual for IBM Session Manager for z/OS. It is a detailed manual designed for use by Technical Programmers whose task it is to install, configure, and subsequently maintain Session Manager.
IBM Application Development and Problem Determination
Last updated: 10 Oct 2008
The Problem Determination toolset consists of a core group of IBM® products designed to work in with compilers and run times to provide a start-to-finish development solution. This IBM Redbook® provides you with an introduction, guidance for preparation for use, an overview of their integration, and several scenarios.
CICS VR Version 4 - Redbook (SG24-7022-01)
Last updated: 27 June 2008
This IBM Redbooks publication reviews how to install, customize, and implement CICS VR in your environment. It also looks at usage scenarios and new functions that are available with CICS VR 4.1 and CICS VR 4.2.
WebSphere® MQ - Cataloging WebSphere® MQ Applications in WSDL® for reuse in SOA
This IBM Redpaper discusses WebSphere® MQ Service Definition Specification, which can be used to describe WebSphere® MQ applications as services for use in SOA.
Optim Query Workload Tuner for DB2 for z/OS
Last updated: 29 Oct 2009
Optimize application performance to help reduce costs and increase client satisfaction
Optim Development Studio and Optim pureQuery Runtime
Last updated: 06 Aug 2009
This solution brief explains how Optim Development Studio and Optim pureQuery Runtime can help reduce costs throughout the application development lifecycle. Developers can deliver reliable, quality Java applications in less time. DBAs have more flexibility in optimizing, securing and managing application databases.
IBM InfoSphere Data Architect
This solution brief how IBM® InfoSphere™ Data Architect provides collaborative data modeling and integration design capabilities that enable data architects to discover, model, relate and standardize heterogeneous data assets.
Improving Business Flexibility through Application Integration - WebSphere MQ
Last updated: 13 May 2008
Many companies today have IT systems that cannot reliably exchange information. Learn how one manufacturer integrated its existing applications using a SOA, which also gives it the ability to swiftly implement new integration projects in the future. As a result, operational performance has risen, while costs have gone down.
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Accelerating Software Innovation on System z
Last updated: 01 April 2008
Through example, this video shows how one company modernized its legacy system on the System z platform and introduces you to the IBM Enterprise Modernization solution.
Exchanging business data and transactions with WebSphere MQ on z/OS
Join us for this teleconference and learn how WebSphere MQ on z/OS can help you eliminate risks to security and compliance, while giving you the flexibility to make changes as you need them, and make them quickly. This messaging powerhouse supports thousands of messages per second. Learn what it can do for you.
Integrating and deploying an SOA messaging backbone - WebSphere® MQ
A discussion with Ben Mann, WebSphere® MQ Product Manager, and Dermot Flaherty, WebSphere® MQ Lead Architect, on the messaging backbone for a service-oriented architecture. On "MarketWatch", Michael Love, Executive Architect for SOA solutions, discusses migration from SAP Business Connector to IBM WebSphere® software.
Enterprise Modernization: Making the Business Case for Modern Application Architecture
Last updated: 16 Jan 2008
This webcast focuses on the management of SOA development in System z IT organizations. It identifies areas where management is critical and gives you some technology overviews of IBM solutions that can help.
IBM System z10™ Mainframe, HP Integrity, No Contest!
Last updated: 24 Sep 2009
This new White Paper deeply compares and contrasts the resurgent, booming IBM System z mainframe with the HP Integrity server family (powered by much-troubled Intel® Itanium® microprocessors) which HP have, once again, been aggressively promoting as an alternative/replacement.
Not Your Father's Mainframe
Not Your Father's Mainframe presents a powerful case for System z's relevance to trends like SOA and Cloud. Analyst Terry Keene pens a very approachable document that credibly dismisses those claiming that z is archaic, irrelevant, and costly compared to alternatives.
Why z versus HP: No Contest, by SW Strategies Ian Bramley
This Executive Summary abridges our in-depth, 78-page White Paper of the same title above, also published in June 2009. Since Q4 2008, Hewlett- Packard (HP) ramped up its attacks upon IBM’s (System z10™) mainframe, pushing out press releases, critical Web page claims, and hostile comparisons, etc.
