Several combinations of IBM® hardware and software have been selected as SAA environments. These are environments in which IBM manages the availability of support for applicable SAA elements, and the conformance of those elements to SAA specifications. The SAA environments are the following:

• z/OS®
  • Base system (TSO/E, APPC/MVS, batch)
  • CICS® TS
  • IMS™
• z/VM®
• i5/OS™
• Operating System/2® (OS/2)