Arcati Vendor Directory

21CS

Product/Service Information:
Product families developed by 21CS experts lie in the areas of data and storage management, resiliency, analytics, and system and operational tools.

Since 1992, 21CS has been developing solutions for foundational disk and tape migration solutions, as well as providing migration services with thousands of successful migration engagements completed.
In June 2021, 21CS entered an Agreement to License z/VSE Operating System and Middleware Stack from IBM, releasing its first version of the operating system in 2022. 21CS is prepared to effectively maintain and improve upon the OS and middleware stack well into the future.

ABIS

Company profile:
ABIS Training & Consulting provides technological ICT services, mainly for large and medium-sized enterprises.

These services are based on specialized knowledge, which we wish to transfer to you, in the form of:

• Training & Coaching
• Consulting & Projects.

The scope of these services is based on:

• a high level of technical knowledge and expertise;
• a profound commercial and technological relationship with our customers.

Our services are available both in-person and remotely, as standardized packages or tailored to your specific needs.

Product/Service Information:

• z/OS-based technologies: z/OS, USS, Db2, IMS/DM, TSO, CICS/TS, IMS/TM, COBOL, PL/I, REXX, and also
• IBM Developer for System z (IDz)
• Linux and UNIX
• Databases and Big Data Infrastructure: DB2, Oracle, MySQL & MariaDB
• Websphere Application Server
• IBM MQ
• Networking and Internet Security
• ITIL
• Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML)
• Programming: COBOL, PL/I, Java, Python

adesso Transformer Deutschland GmbH

Company profile:
adesso Transformer stands for economic and tailor-made application modernization of Mainframe Legacy Applications. The success of our approach is based on a hybrid modernization mix consisting of automatic code transformation, replacement by standard software, reengineering and replattforming. Our range of services includes consulting, conception and implementation of the best fitting migration and modernization strategy for the customer.

Product/Service Information:
We support your company in modernizing your legacy applications – from the first analysis to migration, implementation and maintenance. Together we select the best possible modernization option for your company. Our adesso Transformer Tool Suite enables us to transform your legacy applications fast and inexpensive into modern architectures and programming languages.

Applied Performance Technologies, Inc

Company profile:
Applied Performance Technologies, Inc. is a 21st-century IT Capacity and Performance Management company offering solutions designed for busy, cost-conscious IT professionals who want maximum value and performance.

Product/Service Information:
PerfTechPro’s zAnalytics® is a software solution to provide automated data collection, analysis, reporting and modeling. It is a Capacity Planning and Performance Measurement tool specifically designed for the cost conscious and savvy 21st Century data center. zAnalytics is the next evolution in Mainframe Capacity Planning tools

Atos

Company profile:
Atos is a global leader in digital transformation with 110,000 employees and annual revenue of c. € 11 billion. European number one in cybersecurity, cloud and high-performance computing, the Group provides tailored end-to-end solutions for all industries in 69 countries. A pioneer in decarbonization services and products, Atos is committed to a secure and decarbonized digital for its clients. Atos is a SE (Societas Europaea), listed on Euronext Paris.

The purpose of Atos is to help design the future of the information space. Its expertise and services support the development of knowledge, education and research in a multicultural approach and contribute to the development of scientific and technological excellence. Across the world, the Group enables its customers and employees, and members of societies at large to live, work and develop sustainably, in a safe and secure information space.

Product/Service Information:
Wherever our clients are on their digital journey, we’ll help them manage, optimize, integrate and future-proof mainframe in today’s hybrid technology world. We’ll reduce risk, increase efficiency, and empower them to modernize and innovate at the pace and scale that’s right for them.

Our services:

Mainframe operations services
Our experts support clients in operating their mainframes worldwide—from complementing in-house teams with additional or specialist skills, right through to running entire operations.

Mainframe as a Service (MaaS)
We provide a resilient, efficient and innovative MaaS worldwide via our mainframe hubs. This end-to-end service is delivered on IBM mainframe systems.

Mainframe platform modernization
We help our clients unleashing the full potential of the mainframe by connecting the platform to the cloud.

Mainframe modernization to AWS cloud
Our CloudCatalyst for AWS solution accelerates mainframe transformation journeys to public cloud to support new business processes, migrating critical workload and applications to AWS cloud.

Black Hill Software

Company profile:
Black Hill Software is based in Australia and has been developing and selling the EasySMF family of tools since 2010.

Product/Service Information:
The EasySMF tools simplify and modernize SMF processing. The original EasySMF Windows Software provides a suite of SMF reports designed to help Systems Programmers manage z/OS systems and investigate problems.

Several Java based tools are also available. EasySMF:JE provides Java classes to map SMF records for custom or ad-hoc reporting. SMF records and reports can be converted to JSON for further processing by other tools. EasySMF:RTI connects to the z/OS SMF Real Time Interface and allows real time SMF reporting using Java. EasySMF:Events connects to the SMF Real Time Interface and forwards event data from SMF to Splunk.

The Java reporting tools can run on z/OS using zIIP processors, or on other Java platforms.

Can Do Systems, Inc.

Company profile:
Can Do Systems develops top-notch software products for IBM’s z/OS operating system. The first Y2K software testing solution in the world, TICTOC, our date and time simulation product, was developed by Can Do back in 1992.

Can Do Systems’ staff consists of people who have been in the z/OS, and MVS systems software development field for a combined total of more than fifty years. We’ve kept up with the times, though, and are committed to using the latest technologies to provide our customers with products that support the latest z/OS hardware and software.”

Product/Service Information:
TICTOC for z/OS® and CICS® is date and time simulation software for IBM Z™. It helps software development teams ensure that their software performs as intended with virtual date and time testing. It may also be used to simulate multiple time zones and to trigger date and time sensitive applications in both test and production program environments. TICTOC’s date and time simulation supports numerous IBM and vendor products, including DB2, LE, IMS, and many other software products.

Cartagena Software Limited

Company profile:
ounded in 1991, Cartagena Software develops and delivers targetted solutions to reduce risk and exploit new technologies, which are easy-to-use, flexible, and efficient. We continue the legacy of experience in storage (StorageTek), automation (Cybermation), and security (Rubin services). Cartagena is a member of IBM PartnerWorld, exhibits at SHARE, and participates in IBM’s z Systems Technical Disclosure Meetings. We are partners with EMC, Fujitsu, IBM, and Oracle.

Service partners include Kofill (Asia), 4Bears and StorageD (Brazil), GlassHouse Systems and Eclipsys Solutions (Canada), Rubin (Germany), SoftPlex (Japan), Trident Services (USA).

Our head office is in the Greater Toronto Area, Canada.

Product/Service Information:
zTrustfer Cloud storage file transfer: Reduce storage costs with our new zTrustfer server running on z/OS, providing hardware-independent backup and restore using Cloud object storage. Interfaces include built-in web-server, and batch client. Backups are compressed and encrypted, and tracked using built-in SQL database management system or external MySQL. zTrustfer authenticates users and protects cloud credentials via SAF/RACF and secure certificates, not passwords. The server is multi-threaded, exploits zIIP, and provides graphical reports.

Prevent file damage with Immutable copies. Contact us for evolving capabilities!

Tape migration: TelTape z/OS migrated millions of volumes since 1998. TelTape’s high speed copy engines non-disuptively move data between Dell EMC, Fujitsu, IBM, Luminex, Optica, and Oracle libraries, supporting all tape management systems, plus USERTMS, “No TMS”. “Clone” volumes to same volume serial, load balancing, automatic comparison, statistics spreadsheet. Backup VTL: TelTape’s 30+ selection criteria to regularly backup virtual tape data. Media Refresh: TelTape stacking consolidates 64K datasets per volume, continues stacking to active volumes.

zFS Security Administration: Superuser, a powerful tool for zFS file systems of Unix System Services, enabling system programmers to make small to large file permission changes, in ISPF/RACF terms. Automatically generates UNIX change commands, run in ISPF/batch. Change objects in a directory plus all related subdirectories.

Supports Access Control Lists. Pre-defined and user-created reports. Automation: Co-Pilot z/OS replaces expensive console automation, consolidates controls to table-driven tool. Responds to console messages, date, time, enforcing rules to issue commands, submit jobs, execute REXX. Restart applications. Customize console message attributes. Report management: Speedview z/OS replaces expensive products. Automatically extract from SPOOL, filing based on output group, dataset, or job into VSAM database.

Reports indexed by folders, view and manage in ISPF. E-Mail reports to distribution lists. Archive/delete expired reports. Print Management: Speedview z/OS routes reports to TCP/ IP printers, can control e.g. restart.

CPT Global

Company profile:
CPT Global is an independent IT consulting firm with a strong focus on mainframe and emerging technologies. For over 30 years, the company has helped 80% of the world’s largest banks and many other Fortune 500 companies maximize their IT investments and enhance their mainframe capabilities.

Our consulting services span three main areas: Modernization, Optimization, and Assurance.

For enterprises that depend on mainframes, CPT Global leverages its specialist team to identify undiscovered savings, risks, and opportunities in our clients’ mainframe technology to deliver a more cost-efficient, better-performing mainframe.

Product/Service Information:
CPT Global stands out from the competition through our tailored services and extensive expertise in Mainframe Modernization and Performance Tuning & Engineering.

For Mainframe Modernization, we offer a wide array of services. These include strategic advice, DevOps for mainframes, rationalizing licenses, upgrading legacy COBOL, migrating to the cloud, switching to alternative technologies, and providing off-mainframe testing environments. We focus on solving client challenges like increased digital transactions, resilience risks, and diminishing mainframe specialists.

What sets us apart is our global experience and strong partnerships with industry leaders. We’ve successfully served various industries worldwide, using our partnerships to deliver the best solutions to our clients.

In Performance Tuning & Engineering, we work to ensure systems perform at their best. We identify and fix system inefficiencies, make improvements, and monitor performance to ensure optimal operation.

We don’t believe in one-size-fits-all solutions. Instead, we tailor our services to each client’s specific needs. This personalized approach, combined with our deep mainframe knowledge, distinguishes us in the market.

CSE

Company profile:
Through the excellence of its range of services and with its role as aggregator and facilitator, CSE allows Client Banks to govern change and align themselves with the inevitable and competitive dynamics of transformation, both process and market.

Operational efficiency, flexibility and investments in resources, technology and research represent the reference principles of the CSE philosophy.

DINO-Software Corporation

Company profile:
Dino-Software Corporation (DINO) develops enterprise-wide solutions for the management, analysis, protection, and repair of complex z/OS mainframe environments. DINO has long been acknowledged for its superiority in ICF catalog management and technical support, helping organizations ensure their business-critical assets remain online and recoverable in a disaster. Their flagship product, T-REX, incorporates over two decades of experience gained from the original Softworks® developers who devised the Mechanic® and later Catalog Solution®, and it rapidly became the fastest-selling ICF catalog management and recovery tool ever released. This formula of producing superior products, at a reasonable cost, all backed up by first-class support from industry experts, has allowed DINO to enjoy unprecedented growth and rapidly establish DINO technology as the gold standard in enterprise-wide z/OS management solutions.

Product/service information:
T-REX is the fastest and most comprehensive ICF catalog management product available to analyze, diagnose, report, backup, repair, reorganize, recover, and assist with the overall maintenance and ensure continuous operational capabilities of the ICF catalog environment. T-REX prevents downtime, improves throughput, automates recovery & repair in record speed, REORGs catalogs while OPEN, and pays for itself with just one broken object. GUI optionally available.

Universal Data Manager (UDM) is a z/OS-based solution providing a consolidated global view via a GUI of the Enterprise storage environment, extending Automation, Auditing, Monitoring, Reporting and Control Functions of data and related storage objects with a mouse click. No distributed servers required. Simple and superior alternative to legacy tools such as CA Vantage, IBM Omegamon, BMC Mainview.

TERADON delivers Fast REPRO Mergecat for closed or open Datasets.

VELOCI-Raptor (VR) reduces application overhead by continuously and dynamically optimizing the VSAM batch buffering strategy, eliminating redundant requests and increasing throughput.

HSM Adminisaurus (HSA) is a consolidated management tool providing extensive reporting, fast & comprehensive auditing, in-depth processing analysis, and simplified administrative functions to help establish and maintain a healthy HSM environment.

XTINCT provides permanent DASD and Tape data erasure and meets federal and international regulatory requirements.

Realtime Defrag—24×7 nondisruptive DASD optimization for zOS & Db2—Defrag, Combine, Release without downtime.

Direct Computer Resources

Company profile:
During a period where more people than ever are working from home, Direct Computer Resources’ mainframe software products allow you to mask, edit, and manage your data safely, efficiently and affordably. DataVantage software products create production-like data for non-production uses such as DevOps, testing, analyses, and more. Data Masking functionality protects sensitive information enabling compliance with corporate policies and government regulations including GDPR, HIPAA, and CCPA (among others) while reducing the risks of data breaches.

Product/Service Information:
DataVantage® for Db2 for z/OS & DataVantage® for IMS DataVantage® software for z/OS provides data management capabilities including browsing, editing and copying. Data masking functionality creates productionlike data for non-production uses such as DevOps, training, testing, and more, while enabling compliance with corporate policies and government privacy regulations.

Features:

• Data Masking masking protects sensitive information
• Logical compare highlights differences between two database tables
• Creates smaller test databases that reflect production conditions to explore multiple logic paths
• Provides easy before-and-after testing reports for internal audits
• Multiple reloads enable customization of test databases
• DataVantage for IMS 5.1 users get free upgrade to 7.2 with support

DataVantage® Data Masking Express™ is an affordable z/OS data masking-only software that creates production-like data for nonproduction uses, enabling compliance with corporate policies and government regulations. It runs alongside current data management software, and installs as an application program in less than four hours. A single installation can mask any one or all combinations of z/OS data such as Db2 or IMS, or Db2 plus IMS, VSAM, and Sequential files. Competitively-priced subscriptions are CPU-based regardless of processing capacity.

Features:

• Buy only data masking
• Affordable annual subscription with no upgrade fees
• Multiple data masking methods

DTS Software

Company profile:
DTS Software is recognized worldwide as the leader in enterprise storage management software. Our integrated suite of software products helps our customers to monitor, manage, and control their storage subsystems. We specialize in storage software tools and solutions developed for the IBM z/OS, Hitachi VOS3, and Fujitsu MSP operating systems.

DTS Software provides superior function and features that allow managers and users to more effectively utilize their investment in storage systems. Our software is designed to solve many of the problems encountered by storage administrators and operations staff – allowing a limited number of administrators to manage a rapidly expanding storage environment. DTS Software was founded in 1991, is headquartered in Raleigh, North Carolina, and has more than a thousand customers in the US, Canada, Europe, and Asia.

Product/Service Information:
STORAGE is one of the fastest-growing items in most installations’ budgets, yet a large percentage of this critical resource is often wasted. Inadequate standards enforcement, poor JCL practices, and system limitations often result in misdirected data and underutilized resources.

DTS Software’s STORAGE CONTROL CENTER family of products is an integrated suite of storage management programs that allows users to get the most out of their storage dollars. The Storage Control Center products improve disk space utilization, prevent storage-related errors, allow installations to monitor the storage subsystem in real time, and proactively control the use of storage space.

Complete and total satisfaction is of paramount importance to us. All our efforts at DTS Software are driven by attentiveness to customer needs and responsiveness to the demands of the market. DTS Software is committed to providing products that will let you effectively and reliably manage your storage subsystem, now and well into the future.

Enterprise Systems Associates, Inc. (ESAi)

Company profile:
Enterprise Systems Associates Inc. (ESAi) has tools for database productivity, enterprise-wide test data management, data masking, performance, audit and security for mainframe and distributed systems. Our mission is to help IT get the job done, efficiently, on-time and under budget. Thus maintaining service-level agreements and realizing operational savings. Qualified database and IT staff resources are in short supply, and workloads are increasing. Our innovative solutions help you meet challenges through automation optimizing workloads, and reducing cost, machine and staff efforts. We distribute for European authors including SPR, UBSHainer,GmbH. Contact us to learn about these quality solutions.

Product/Service Information:
DBARS™ access recording services for Db2® can record all accesses to the sensitive Db2 tables selected – read, write and data definition. The product provides database audit and protection (DAP) and database activity monitoring (DAM) in one solution. DBARS unique intercept technology does not depend on Db2 tracing or log records. Efficient, flexible recording and auditing is now possible with optional alerting and blocking to protect against corporate data breaches.

XDM™ is an enterprise-wide Test Data Management (TDM) tool that enables staff to find and order the data that fits their needs, manage data across different environments and automatically deliver data where it’s needed. This comprehensive TDM solution facilitates data refresh, PII data masking/encryption, cloning and highly efficient data provisioning. It supports Db2 LUW, Oracle, MS-SQL, PostgreSQL, Db2 z/OS, VSAM, IMS, Cloud, DevOps and more. The XDM suite enables developers, DBAs, test/QA and general IT staff to tackle daily challenges with flexible, repeatable, error-free processes.

BCV5™ is a high speed copy/migrate/clone tool that automates copies/refreshes of Db2 z/OS® objects and environments. This highly regarded product delivers source to target refreshes in a fraction of the effort, time and CPU required by other solutions. The Masking Tool™ option adds powerful masking of sensitive data during the copy or simply mask in-place Get fast, repeatable, error free migrations and refreshes with BCV5.

BCV4™ is a leading Db2® and/or IMS® subsystem cloning tool that reduces cloning from hours/days down to minutes. Db2, SAP and PeopleSoft users can have clones and system copies in record time.
BPA4DB2™ is a buffer pool tuning product that replaces old, dated vendor solutions with a new level of expert analysis. It identifies, recommends, and performs ongoing monitoring and health alerts to ensure optimum performance of your Db2 systems. BPA4DB2 saves on staff tuning efforts and transferring volumes of trace data required by other solutions.

SQLQC™ easily identifies, analyzes and provides automated alerts on problem SQL from mainframe or distributed systems. It offers actions for improvements, simulation and overall performance advise. SQLQC’s quality control technology helps shops with increasingly complex workloads maintain performance and service levels.

ULT4DB2™ is a log tracker/analyzer for Db2 answers the question “Why is a good, reasonably priced log analyzer so hard to find?” Functions include Undo/Redo, identify, and data propagate. A faster, better, more economical alternative.

ICPU™ gives programmers the ability to easily identify code causing CICS® application performance problems. Its very low overhead allows use in production or test environments.

Fischer International Corporation

Company profile:
For more than 40 years, Fischer’s vision for software development has been to provide innovative solutions designed to leverage and enhance the mainframe’s place in the enterprise. Accelerate time to productivity with Fischer solutions for the mainframe. Interactive Output Facility (IOF), provides value with a strategic diagnostic ability and bottom-line problem resolution. Additionally, Fischer’s strategic partnership with LogOn provides maintenance and support for various IBM products including QuickSelect for Db2 and Netview FTP.

Better IOF JES2 Management tools, better function.

Complete JES2 Management with a powerful toolset: IOF includes the ultimate job summary screen with online help on each display panel for easy access to better function. IOFSend, a popular tool, delivers batch job information in HTML form directly to a designated and authorized email. IOF training includes a functionality site available to access IOF tips and tricks with training videos. Very functional and user friendly, use commands from other JES2 management products to start using IOF with a minimal learning curve. IOF is the user’s choice for JES2 management in many Fortune 500 data centers. Visit: www.FISC.com and click on the IOF button.

Through a partnership with LogOn Software, Fischer offers QuickSelect for Db2 for plug and play performance gains, no JCL or Db2 changes required. Minimize static SQL: Email: information@fischerinternational.com to learn of all the IBM products maintained and supported through our partnership.

Enterprise Software:
The principles of Zero Trust are the foundation for Fischer’s full suite identity solution. When you can control all aspects of identity, you will have a more secure business. We offer automated provisioning, identity governance, password management, and access management. Request a demo at www.FischerIdentity.com

Franklin Skills

Company profile:
We partner with workforce boards, funding partners, technology associations and training partners committed to developing exceptional talent and closing business critical skills gaps.
Franklin Skills connects employers with top tech talent through coaching, reskilling, upskilling, and apprenticeships. From IBMz Application Developers to Mainframe Administrators, our programs boast a 95% success rate and a 90+ Net Promoter Score from partners. Build your workforce with proven results.

Fujitsu Germany GmbH

Company profile:
Fujitsu in Germany, Austria and Switzerland

Fujitsu is a leading full-service information and telecommunications provider that supports its customers in all aspects of digital transformation. The company combines IT services and products with future-oriented digital technologies – such as artificial intelligence (AI), the Internet of Things (IoT), Analytics, Digital Annealing, Container Technology as well as Multicloud-, SAP-, ServiceNow- and Security-Solutions – and creates new values together with its customers and partners. The range of products and services can be tailored to individual needs – from conception to implementation, operation, and orchestration of digital ecosystems. In Germany, Austria and Switzerland, Fujitsu has more than 4,000 employees and has with over 10,000 channel partners in these three countries one of the most powerful partner networks in the industry.

Product/Service Information:
The BS2000 SE Infrastructure combines standard mainframe technology with the technology of the open world. This makes the SE Series the optimal platform for running business-critical applications both on /390 and x86 technology. Customers can select the ideal platform for each application and will thus get the most out of their mainframe investments. With its comprehensive set of functions, the BS2000 mainframe operating system provides the best possible support for existing and new IT infrastructures, enabling the integration of latest technologies, as e.g. Cloud Computing, AI, Edge Computing, Blockchain and DCMA. With its open interfaces it offers future-proof integration into modern application architectures. The extensive scalability of the BS2000 platform reaches into the very highest performance bands. BS2000 services offer uncompromising availability and operational security for BS2000 systems with utmost profitability and cost transparency. Your IT infrastructure is designed more efficiently and becomes more sustainable for the future as we design and implement intelligent solutions in partnership with you. Fujitsu’s Third-Party Mainframe Services is specialized in providing a Mainframe Managed Service offering positioned around the support of IBM Enterprise z and i platforms to customers across North West Europe and North America. We are a key provider in the provision of Third-Party IBM Mainframe Managed Services and provide end-to end PaaS, in addition to tailored mainframe professional services designed around client TCO improvements.

We support customer requests for digital transformation!

IBA Group

Company profile:
At IBA Group, we’re revolutionizing mainframe development by seamlessly integrating DevOps and open-source technologies, including Zowe. With a robust partnership with IBM since 1993 and a dedicated team of over 250 experts, we specialize in delivering future-proof solutions compatible with modern IDEs. Our services encompass end-to-end application development, support, and cutting-edge Mainframe DevOps solutions, leveraging a comprehensive tech stack featuring Jenkins, Git, Docker, and the Zowe ecosystem. This approach not only enhances efficiency and agility but also accelerates the delivery of high-quality software solutions. Embracing these innovations, IBA Group is committed to maximizing the potential of mainframes, empowering teams, and shaping the future of mainframe development. Discover more at ibagroupit.com/services/mainframe.

Information Systems Asset Management, Inc.

Company profile:
Founded in 1996, ISAM specializes in helping procurement, vendor management, and data center managers manage software expenses and license compliance risk. ISAM’s GreenBook is the software industry’s largest and most comprehensive database which contains more than 100 million software cost, product usage and categorization data points from over 900 software vendors across 1,000 data centers worldwide.

Armed with the knowledge of industry software benchmarks, GreenBook provides the backbone for numerous applications to guide data centers to best in class software licensing and costs.

Product/Service Information:
Mainframe Advisory, SAM Advisory, SAM Maturity, Compliance Mgmt, Audit Defense, Benchmark, Negotiation Support, License Optimization, ISAMaaS.

Macro 4 Limited

Company profile:
With over fifty years’ experience in mainframe software development, Macro 4 helps IBM mainframe users to:

• Deliver fast, seamless and secure web and mobile access to mainframe and non-mainframe applications
• Analyse and fix failures in mission-critical applications, quickly and efficiently
• Develop software troubleshoot problems and resolve program errors with unprecedented speed
• Create a secure testing and debugging environment using accurate test data
• Measure and report on application performance, quickly identifying opportunities for performance improvement
• Assure printing and digital delivery of business documents to support key business processes

Product/Service Information:
Macro 4 is a developer of software solutions that increase operational efficiency in IBM’s mainframe environments and enable rapid modernization of mainframe applications and development processes. Today, these solutions are delivering significant cost savings as well as assuring the reliability of core applications in thousands of IT departments globally. Eclipse, browser and 3270 interfaces meet the access needs of every user.

Modernization, analytics, AI, integrated user authentication:

• UNICOM Universal Gateway (UNIGW®) – cross-platform systems access, mobile enablement and digital transformation

Fault analysis:

• DumpMaster – high performance fault diagnosis of mainframe application failures
• TraceMaster – source level interactive program testing and debugging
• TraceMaster CodeTrack – CICS code path analysis and pre-emptive storage violation detection

Data Manipulation:

• InSync – simplified data management and secure test data creation

Application performance management:

• FreezeFrame – comprehensive, yet easy-to-use application performance measurement
• ExpeTune – performance tuning for z/OS applications and subsystems
• ExpeTune DB – DB2 performance management, with a strong focus on dynamic DB2 workloads

Session Management:

• Tubes – secure access to multiple mainframe, IBM i and UNIX VT220 applications from a single menu, with optional web enablement of any application

• Enterprise Information Management:
• Columbus suite—content management, multi-channel customer communications and document workflow.

Max Training ApS

Company profile:
Skills and competencies are two of the biggest challenges Mainframe customers face, but based on experience, it doesn’t need to be like that.     Imagine if you could focus on business and growth.    We created a modular solution for companies committed to solving their Skills and Competency Challenges. The solution’s value lies in its results (reaching a specific goal within a specific time).

• Skills and Risk Management: Get insight into the past and current skills of Mainframers in the organization. Understand needs, redundancies, and gaps within your teams, departments, and the organization.
• Education: standard and customer courses. Remote-online or on-site.    – Workshops: cover specific topics that are either customer specific or not covered by any course.
• Academies: to prepare a person or team for a specific role.
  • Core z/OS (7 weeks)
  • SysOp
  • SysProg (8 to 30+ weeks)

MQGem Software Limited

Company profile:
MQGem Software is a small company producing affordable tools to support users of IBM MQ on all platforms including z/OS. Our tools help you to administer and monitor your queue managers, and manipulate messages on your queues.

To help you administer and monitor your queue managers, we offer our GUI Admin tool, MO71, our command line admin tool, MQSCX which can be run natively on z/OS and our event processor, MQEV which also can be run natively on z/OS. For message manipulation, we offer the Q and QLOAD tools which can run natively on z/OS and the GUI MQEdit utility which can connect to z/OS.

Mullins Consulting Inc

Company profile:
Mullins Consulting focuses on delivering services that improve application and database performance, deliver higher availability, and better protect and secure your vital corporate data. Services include consulting, writing, education, speaking, and more

Product/service information:
Craig S. Mullins, principal consultant of Mullins Consulting, has been working with IBM mainframes his entire career; and with Db2 since Version 1. The primary focus of service delivery is to improve and optimize the performance and management of Db2 for z/OS systems.

Pop Up Mainframe

About:
Pop Up Mainframe is revolutionizing mainframe accessibility by providing modern solutions tailored to evolving enterprise needs. Our focus is on delivering innovative tools that enhance efficiency and simplify mainframe operations.
Pop Up Mainframe offers cutting-edge solutions designed to streamline mainframe development, testing, and deployment. Our platform provides a flexible, on-demand mainframe environment that empowers organizations to optimize their workflows without traditional infrastructure constraints.

Activity: Software vendor
Specialist areas: Mainframe Modernization, Application Development & Testing, DevOps & CI/CD for
Mainframe
Mainframe platforms supported: z/OS
Software pricing options: Subscription Model
Website: https://www.popup-mainframe.com/

Oh7FoxEasy LLC

Company profile:
Oh7FoxEasy has taken over where The Edge Information Group left off by enhancing the EPA product to support the most recent mainframe compilers.

Product/Service Information:
EPA2, the Executable Portfolio Analyzer, analyzes executable libraries (PDS or PDSE) and provides a wealth of detailed information about each executable to assist application developers with the complicated task of knowing all of the intricacies of the overall application.

QMSI-Quintessential Mailing Software Incorporated

Company profile:
QMSI’s charter is to significantly reduce the cost of postal processing for mainframe mailers. QMSI software is exclusively IBM Mainframe. QMSI’s principals, developers – and customers – are accessible to anyone who sees the value in – and wants to learn about – lowering CPU overhead, I/O resource utilization and overall processing time … with the guarantee of saving money! Our customers will tell you “QMSI prices are not based on MIPS or MSUs and QMSI never increases costs for licensed CPUs; so there is no renegotiating – ever!” Adding a CPU is easy and inexpensive.

Armed with the knowledge of industry software benchmarks, GreenBook provides the backbone for numerous applications to guide data centers to best in class software licensing and costs.

Product/Service Information:
QCODE is the only modern USPS CASS-Certified software that takes full advantage of IBM’s zSystem hardware and software. QCODE can run on a zIIP (eliminating IBM’s MSU charges!) and QCODE’s unique DataSpaceDataBase (DSDB) is a significant reason for QCODE’s great performance. Placing your page data sets on SSD (Solid State DASD) devices, makes QCODE’s performance “amazing!” All while utilizing less CPU and I/O resources, and running faster than all other CASS products. QSORT is the only single-purpose presort for First Class Mail (cards, letters and flats) that does not contain all the extra code and overhead found in other multi-purpose products. It’s the perfect complement to QCODE and ready for the USPS Full Service requirements. QVIEW is a sub-second response time, online query tool for USPS Zip4 database look-ups. It is a complementary component of QCODE, and runs under CICS, IMS or CA’s IDMS.

Together or individually, these products provide the most cost-effective, resource-efficient Postal Processing software available on IBM Mainframes. How is this possible? Because this entire software application suite was designed by system-level software architects.

QMOVE is coming soon!

Rocket Software

Company profile:
In today’s rapidly evolving business landscape, the imperative to modernize is not just about staying relevant; it’s about setting the best course for your enterprise, influencing your industry, and potentially reshaping global markets.?? Trusted by over 12,500 customers and 750 partners, and with more than 3,000 global employees, Rocket Software is the global technology leader and partner of choice that empowers the world’s leading businesses on their modernization journeys, spanning core systems to the cloud. It enables small and large enterprises in many industries, including most of the Fortune 500, to maximize their data, systems, and infrastructure to deliver critical services that power our modern world. An authority in mainframe modernization, Rocket provides mainframe modernization tools and expertise that empower enterprises looking to modernize their applications without massive rewrites. Rocket Software boasts partnerships with the leading names in IT and mainframe, including IBM.

From day one, Rocket Software has been committed to developing and building tools to help organizations get more out of their mainframe investments and derive business value. Rocket Software supports and leverages their deep relationship with IBM to share expertise and guide customers achieving mainframe modernization through products including: Rocket® Mainframe Application Testing and Debugging helps developers rapidly identify program problems and apply corrective solutions and test fixes. Rocket® Mainframe Integrity Assessment Services provides a proactive approach to continuously ensuring mainframe integrity at the code. Services are designed to help users achieve compliance, both internal and external. Rocket® Mainframe Security Services provides a comprehensive suite of mainframe security services to ensure adherence to industry regulations, Rocket® Mainframe Compliance Assessment Services delivers a proactive approach to assessing mainframe compliance. Rocket Software is also committed to supporting the people and culture around IBM Z with its Z Center of Excellence. Comprised of IBM Z experts and IBM Champions, this group is dedicated to sharing Rocket Software’s expertise, insights, and guidance for customers as they navigate the complexities that come with mainframe modernization.

RSH Consulting

Company profile:
RSH Consulting, Inc. is a professional services firm established in 1992 and dedicated to helping clients strengthen their IBM z/OS mainframe cybersecurity by fully exploiting the capabilities and latest innovations in RACF. RSH staff is comprised entirely of exceptionally experienced technicians led by a recognized RACF expert. Our finely honed processes and extensive software toolset enable us to deliver the highest quality services efficiently and cost effectively. For your next RACF project, contact RSH.
RACF Security Reviews: RSH reviews pinpoint even the most obscure security exposures and identify opportunities for improving RACF administration and performance. We scrutinize all RACF controls to ensure critical system resources are protected. RSH looks beyond RACF to examine mainframe security policies, standards, and procedures and to inspect RACF-interface configuration options in other system software. This holistic approach provides a more insightful picture of the overall mainframe security posture. Knowing your security exposures is essential to prioritizing remediation. RACF Implementation Services: RSH can tackle almost any RACF implementation, enhancement, or remediation task, whether large or small no matter how intricate. Our services are customized to meet specific client needs and budgets and range from occasional advisor to ad hoc assistance to complete hands-on implementation. RSH staff can work independently or as teammates alongside client staff. We provide clear explanations of what was done and why so that clients can properly maintain controls going forward. RACF Training: RSH is at the forefront of training the next generation of RACF administrators, technicians, and auditors. Our course series, ranging from basic administration to advanced technical topics, offers the ideal pathway for expanding your staff’s RACF skills

RSM Technology Ltd

Company profile:
First founded in London in 1980 to serve the UK, RSM now provides its services worldwide, either directly or via selected partner organisations.

Product/Service Information:
RSM provides technical education and training via open-enrolment (public) courses and as exclusive, one-company presentations. These can be live, over the Internet via RSM’s Virtual Classroom Environment service or on-site at customers’ locations. RSM’s courses are suitable for all personnel working in the IBM mainframe computing environment, including software developers/programmers, systems programmers, DBAs, operations personnel, and managers.

SecuriTeam Software Ltd.

Company profile:
SecuriTeam Software is a software development company concentrates in IBM legacy system’s security. Our aim is to develop a solution for each security vertical exist on these platforms. We started with Security assessment automations and documentation and will release an “on z”n code review product under our brand IronSphere.

Product/Service Information:
Our products are branded as IronSphere. Our flagship product is IronSphere Inspector. A solution to continuously monitor security controls on Z & I and perform DISA STIG based security assessments. The product can monitor hundreds of Lpars of any kind, since each agent installed on an Lpar reports to an on-prem virtual appliance. The end-user is using a browser to ao authenticate and access findings and documents. IronSphere Inspector is fully automated and is installed on some of the largest organizations in the world.

Software AG

Company profile:
Software AG helps you create effortlessly connected experiences for your customers, employees and partners with an enterprise iPaaS that integrates anything, anywhere, any way you want. By bringing together applications, data, B2B with APIs and events in the same AI-enabled integration platform, you can run a high-performing enterprise and constantly improve it based on data.

Get end-to-end visibility and governance across geographies, IT environments, and complex business ecosystems, with hybrid multi-cloud connectivity, and enterprise-grade security relied on by the most powerful banks, governments, and corporations in the world.

Trusted by the world’s best brands for more than 50 years, Software AG is a pioneer in software innovation and understands the value of enterprise software. Businesses and governments around the world rely on mission-critical applications built on the Adabas & Natural development platform. Our proven application modernization capabilities can connect mainframe applications, data and people to the cloud, new technologies, channels, and services so you can build on your strengths and become part of a truly connected world.

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Adabas
Adabas is a high-performance database that supports large-scale transaction processing of data on IBM z/OS, Linux and the cloud. Adabas can store multiple data relationships in the same table, eliminating data redundancies found in RDBMS. You can easily access Adabas data with SQL and replicate data to the cloud, data lakes and BI platforms.

Natural
Natural is the programming language used by the world‘s largest companies and governments to create modern enterprise applications on IBM z/OS, Linux and the cloud. It is so easy to learn that developers can be productive in a matter of days. With the NaturalONE Eclipse®-based IDE, you can increase developer productivity, accelerate modernization, and participate in DevOps lifecycle and toolchains.

CONNX Data Integration
Connect, replicate and migrate mainframe data from Adabas, Db2®, flat files, IMS™, QSAM and VSAM™ to cloud and on-premises environments. CONNX can unlock native database architectures and transform data into a format that allows it to be used in data warehouse, business intelligence, cloud and IoT projects.

User Experience Modernization
Connect your users with a better experience—transform green screens into modern web interfaces, redesign user workflows and use APIs to extend capabilities to new channels and applications.

Systementwicklung

Product/Service Information:
Product families developed by 21CS experts lie in the areas of data and storage management, resiliency, analytics, and system and operational tools.

Since 1992, 21CS has been developing solutions for foundational disk and tape migration solutions, as well as providing migration services with thousands of successful migration engagements completed.

In June 2021, 21CS entered an Agreement to License z/VSE Operating System and Middleware Stack from IBM, releasing its first version of the operating system in 2022. 21CS is prepared to effectively maintain and improve upon the OS and middleware stack well into the future.

The Source Recovery Company Inc

Company profile:
Source Recovery started in 1994 when reverse engineering source from a load module was thought to be impossible. Over the past 29 years, we’ve recovered over 10,000 programs using our patented ReSource technology.

Product/Service Information:
We recover COBOL and Assembler source code directly from the mainframe executable. Our results are guaranteed to be 100% functionally equivalent to the original executable.

TONE Software Corporation

Company profile:
Tone Software develops and markets business software to increase z/OS mainframe efficiency and modernize host operations, reduce z/OS support costs, and increase the productivity of z/OS IT teams responsible for critical business applications.

Based in Anaheim, California, TONE is a privately owned company that answers to customers, not shareholders. Leveraging more than 40 years of extensive mainframe expertise, TONE is committed to delivering quality z/OS software and exceptional support and service to every client.

TONE products are marketed and supported throughout North America, Europe, and Australia through the Anaheim headquarters and international agents. Tone’s solutions include:

• OMC-FLASH JES2, JES3, and JES3plus SPOOL viewing and management
• JES2Mail, JES2FTP, Mail2ZOS and CICS2PDF z/OS output transformation and electronic delivery solutions
• OMC-PRINT and OMC-TCP/IP host VTAM and TCP/IP output routing and printing
• DYNA-STEP dynamic STEPLIB and ISPF library management
• TRX TSO resource and performance management

TONE’s mainframe solutions modernize host operations, enabling users to manage and control the z/OS, TSO, JES2, JES3, JES3plus and VTAM infrastructure. Tone’s solutions reduce system resource consumption, increase host productivity, and lower operational costs. A summary of Tone’s mainframe solutions follows:

• OMC-FLASH JES spool management users can view and control jobs, datasets, output, devices, operations, resources, and workflow across the JES2, JES3 and JES3plus environment, all with one seamless solution.
• JES2Mail, JES2FTP, Mail2ZOS and CICS2PDF transform z/OS output into customized PDF, HTML or CSV, then securely delivers the output via Email, FTP, RSS, or the cloud, all with few or no host changes.
• OMC-PRINT and OMC-TCP/IP host output management solutions route and print z/OS output directly from JES to VTAM and TCP/ IP printers, and provide full control of enterprise- wide print activity.
• DYNA-STEP Dynamic STEPLIB allocation and ISPF library management saves time and resources, reduces overhead, speeds user logons, reduces LOGON PROC maintenance, and expedites migrations from test to production. DYNA-STEP replaces unsupported STEPLIB tools and shareware with no re-coding.
• TRX TSO performance management solution reduces TSO resource consumption, improves response times, reduces system overhead, and improves TSO user productivity.

Trident Services

Company profile:
Trident Services has provided z/OS solutions and systems consulting services since 1978. Trident has established a solid reputation for the excellence of its software and the expertise of its consulting staff while continuing to keep pace with industry changes, emerging technologies and client needs.

Our flagship software, zOSEM (zOperating System Environment Manager), is one solution for total system management of z/OS. Trident’s zOSEM simplifies and modernizes z/OS management by implementing dynamic controls of functions, delivers improved system throughput, better control of JCL standards, optimizes HSM, and includes resource routing functions to significantly reduce ISV footprint, helping you reduce ISV and MLC charges. The latest release of zOSEM introduces step-level routing, which allows for further reduction of software license footprints by routing only the job step to a penalty box or LPAR.

Triton Consulting Ltd

Company profile:
Triton Consulting is a highly focused, independent data management and digital transformation service provider. We’re proud to be home to four IBM Gold Consultants, seven IBM Data and AI Champions, and some of the most highly qualified Db2 experts in the world. For over 25 years, we’ve been providing consultancy services, offering expert advice across all areas of information management. We deliver a broad range of high-level consultancy services, including senior project management, technical planning, technical architecture, performance tuning, and systems programming. We also offer services, from large-scale data migrations and tool replacements to the implementation of processes, tooling, and culture designed to speed up your application development and deployment life cycle—all to help your business drive change and transform services. Our services are available to clients worldwide.  

Mainframe Consultancy Services

• Mainframe DevOps
  • Ansible 
  • Jenkins
  • OpenShift
• Db2 for z/OS Version Upgrades
• Cloud Migrations
• Db2 for z/OS Tool Replacement
• Mainframe Cost Management
• Data replication
• Database design and implementation
• Db2 system and application performance reporting, management and tuning

 Z Mainframe Availability and Resiliency Service (ZMARS)

Our Z Mainframe Availability and Resiliency Service (ZMARS) is designed to enhance your Db2 server’s resilience, ensure continuous application service availability, improve recovery speed, and boost overall system performance. We work closely with you to uncover potential vulnerabilities in your Db2 for z/OS environment. By focusing on your unique infrastructure and requirements, we ensure your systems are optimised for resilience and availability. The ZMARS service consists of multiple modules, giving you the flexibility to choose which ones to include or prioritize based on your specific needs.  

• Db2 System Application and Performance Monitoring
• Database Backup and Recovery
• ZPARMS  
• Software Maintenance  
• Db2 for z/OS Single Points of Failure  
• Disaster Recovery  
• Workload Manager  
• CICS Attach 
• IMS Attach  
• Automation  
• Database Housekeeping 
• Distributed Application Connectivity to Db2 for z/OS  
• Db2 for z/OS Application Design and Quality Assurance

Virtel

Company profile:
Virtel, a division of the SysperTec Group, is an independent software publisher founded in 1993 that develops, markets, and supports a comprehensive suite of System Z application modernization solutions. Virtel has more than 30 years’ experience helping organizations modernize access, usability, and integration of legacy mainframe applications to improve productivity, save money, and simplify support.   Virtel sells and supports it solutions directly from its headquarters outside Paris, through a US-based support team, and a small network of authorized resellers around the world.

Virtel Web Suite is a comprehensive and highly scalable set of  System Z application enablement solutions to improve and extend the access, usability and integration of legacy 3270 mainframe applications.  It is comprised of 3 solution sets that utilize the same underlying System Z centric Virtel protocol conversion technology.

• Virtel Web Integration (VWI) creates highly scalable real-time connections to integrate CICS, IMS, TSO and other mainframe applications with server, web or Cloud applications. VWI exposes host transactions either through legacy 3270 screen UIs or screenless COMMAREA transactions 
• Virtel Web Access (VWA) securely serves 3270 screens as standard HTML5/JavaScript web pages over encrypted HTTPS connections. VWA replaces outdated TN3270 terminal emulators and expensive VTAM session managers to save organization money, simplify support and improve mainframe application security.
• Virtel Screen Redesigner (VSR) transforms 3270 application screens into modern web pages that produce a genuine web experience, without making any changes to the mainframe application. VSR is a no-code solution which overcomes issues earlier generations of 3270 web enablement tools experienced and is a simpler, faster and more cost-effective solution than redeveloping, replacing, or rehosting 3270 applications.

VirtualZ Computing

VirtualZ is an innovative mainframe software company revolutionizing data access for AI, BI, modernization, and digital transformation. Our patented products—Lozen™, PropelZ™, and Zaac™—enable secure, real-time access to IBM Z data across hybrid cloud environments.    We partner with leading technology providers like IBM, AWS, Google, and Snowflake, as well as consulting firms such as Accenture, Kyndryl and Mainline, to deliver seamless enterprise solutions. Our no-code software simplifies ETL, report migration, legacy tape modernization, and mainframe storage integration, reducing costs and accelerating digital initiatives.    As the first and only women-founded, women-led mainframe ISV, VirtualZ is committed to driving innovation and diversity in enterprise computing. Our software empowers organizations to unlock the full potential of their mainframe investments while seamlessly integrating with modern cloud and analytics platforms.

VirtualZ delivers cutting-edge software solutions that transform how enterprises access and manage IBM Z data. Our product families—Lozen™, PropelZ™, and Zaac™—enable seamless, secure, and cost-effective data integration between mainframes and hybrid cloud environments without requiring data replication.  Lozen™ provides real-time, read-write access to mainframe data from any platform, eliminating the need for complex ETL processes. It accelerates application modernization, AI/BI initiatives, and hybrid cloud strategies.  PropelZ™ is a no-code data extraction and migration solution that simplifies report migration, SMF data archiving, and legacy tape modernization by seamlessly moving mainframe data to cloud-based analytics and storage platforms.  Zaac™ redefines mainframe storage by enabling direct access to cloud and SAN storage, reducing on-premises storage costs while maintaining security and performance.  Our professional services, in collaboration with partners like IBM, AWS, Google, Accenture, Kyndryl, and Snowflake, ensure smooth implementation and optimization for diverse enterprise use cases. VirtualZ solutions eliminate the need for traditional ETL, enhance data accessibility, and drive digital transformation, all while maintaining mainframe security and reliability. Whether for real-time analytics, storage modernization, or cloud integration, VirtualZ empowers organizations to maximize the value of their IBM Z investments.

Weintraub Systems Consulting

Company profile:
Serves clients modernizing their mainframe systems and applications. Independent consulting including product and managed services vendor evaluation and selection, contract negotiations.

We provide consulting services to users of mainframe systems.

WL Petty, LLC

zdevops

Company profile:
It’s all about having a passion for your job and being proud of all the awesome things you do.

Product/Service Information:
Support tools. Output management, Mattermost intergration, USS/Splunk Interfacing