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.

Bsecure

Company profile:
Bsecure – The Mainframe & Security Company, is one of the major players in Security, auditing, and compliance in z/OS mainframe environments.

We have the only course in the world through the internet to train members of the red team, IT risk departments and IT auditors: VA-080.

With more than 30 years of experience, we help our customers to cover the lack of experience and knowledge in security and audit environments for infrastructures based on Mainframe, protect sensitive data of your company, and comply with the the most demanding international regulations: DORA NIS 2, DISA STIG, ISO 27001, NIST, GDPR.

We have developed a new infrastructure called Bsecure DataPASS Hub to help the main MSSPs, and large consulting firms worldwide produce auditing and treat hunting services in z/OS mainframe environments without hiring professionals with dozens of years of experience.

Product/Service Information:
With Bsecure DataPASS service, we provide the services listed above to our own clients.

What can Bsecure DataPASS do for Mainframe customers?

• Reduces the Civil Liability of the Board of Directors.
• The output data of each cycle is sufficient to cover the most demanding audits of DORA, NIS2, PCI, SOX, GPDR, BASEL, SOLVENCY, ISO27001, etc…
• More than three hundred technological controls are based on the industry’s Best Practices of Security and auditing. CALCULATED OUTSIDE THE MAINFRAME ENVIRONMENT.
• Risk assessment, audit of security controls, and level of compliance with the leading international regulations.
• Dashboard generation to follow the evolution of fundamental risk and security parameters for security managers (CISO, CIO, CTO, Compliance Manager, Data Privacy Manager…).
• Checking and correlating millions of information entities (Files, DB2 Tables, and USS) by applying all the access rules defined in RACF.
• Detection of “excessive” authorized access to critical and confidential data (White Lists).
• Service data NEVER leaves the customer’s IT environment. Everything is done through remote connections to your infrastructure.
• Mapping user roles vs. real access rules to information (PROFILING).
• Detection and alarm of ransomware installation, open doors, and unauthorized modifications to system components (FIM).
• Detection and alarm of hacking actions in VTAM/SNA environments through the generation of connection activity information.
• Detection and alarm of abnormal user behavior.
• Integrity control of critical files of the system architecture through our FIM (File Integration Management) functionality.
• Framework for continuous security improvement and early detection of security incidents.
  There is no need to license any software product, just services.

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

Diversified Ventures LLC

Company profile:
Research on cost of defect mitigation and error prevention

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.

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.

Product/Service Information:
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.
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 out 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.

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.

IntelliMagic

Company profile:
IntelliMagic is the worldwide leader in replacing status quo RMF/CMF and SMF performance and capacity reporting solutions. No other solution derives better intelligence for more root cause metrics across a broader scope of the z/OS infrastructure.

Our solutions enable your team to deliver higher application availability at a lower cost and in less time from your z/OS infrastructure.

Detect anomalies, quantify infrastructure risk to predict and avoid problems, understand and solve issues more quickly, and augment both deep experts and new staff with Artificial Intelligence that quickly identifies what is most important and why.

Through our partnership with Watson & Walker, Watson & Walker uses IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS with their consulting efforts when helping customers and generating reports.

Product/Service Information:
IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS

IntelliMagic Vision’s AI-driven analytics enables z/OS experts to proactively monitor and manage their end-to-end z/OS environment, prevent disruptions, optimize performance, improve support for new applications, reduce software costs, eliminate unnecessary hardware purchases, and preserve the reliability and availability that mainframes are known for.

IntelliMagic Vision enhances the RMF and SMF data and applies its built-in knowledge to understand how the z/OS architecture handles workloads. This helps to tune z/OS to improve performance and protect availability, and can also help tuning the processor configuration to increase the MIPS of the mainframe hardware.

Supported Areas Include:

• CICS
• Db2
• Disk & Replication
• Systems & MLC
• MQ
• TCP/IP & zERT
• Virtual Tape
• WebSphere
• z/OS Connect
• More through our Data Warehouse

IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS Features

• Predictive Analytics
• MLC Cost Optimizer
• Rated Metrics and Prioritized Issues in a Single Frame
• Intuitive Graphical User Interface with Easy Drilldowns
• Dynamic Thresholds

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.

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.

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.

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 deiver the highest quality services efficiently and cost-effectively. For your next RACF project, contact RSH.

Product/Service Information:
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 and 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.

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.

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.

Product/Service Information:
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.

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