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Z innovation offerings (zio) Defined

Z Innovation Offerings (ZIO) bring a set of products, expert consultants and service offerings to enable Innovation on IBM Z mainframe platform. Arguably the most scalable, secure and proven platform which has evolved by decades of continuous enhancements, many large Enterprises and Organizations chose to run their core business applications on this platform. With careful planning with the right strategic intent, the platform can enable Innovation with great ROI for your business.
Join the community and learn from others. Why? It’s a daunting task to comprehend large systems where enhancements and adjustments were made by many people including your own employees (today and past) as well as people from third party vendors.
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Products: Products are designed to perform your tasks more efficiently. Get to know Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) of the products you are using. A quick chat with SMEs often result in significant productivity improvement.


​Consultants: Expert consultants can perform assessment of your mainframe assets and help you develop the roadmap for digital transformation of your mainframe assets.
Service Offerings: Directed towards specific goals to help you accelerate the implementation to realize your goals sooner. The service delivery team ensures products are installed and configured properly so you achieve the desirable outcomes sooner. This may involve training of end users.
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Community of End Users: Learn from others and let them help you understand the value, risks and outcomes based on their practical experiences.

rest access to ims and db2 data on z

march 25, 2019
​​Bret Dixon, senior software engineer

The File Manager Service Provider for z/OS Connect now supports REST API access to IMS and DB2 data on Z.
For IMS, the service provider allows API callers to read through IMS databases, position within a database, and read one or multiple segments at a time. Databases and segments can be filtered and mapped by File Manager views. ​

Introducing HCL Z Asset Optimizer (ZAO)

january 29, 2019
Kenichi Yoshimura, Product Manager

We are delighted to announce first HCL branded software product for IBM® mainframe customers around the world! HCL Z Asset Optimizer (ZAO).
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FAULT ANALYZER FOR Z/OS RECENT ENHANCEMENTS

October 29, 2018

Come and learn about some of the latest enhancements in the IBM Fault Analyzer for z/OS product in our upcoming webinar!
  • History File auto space management:  We will review the existing automatic space management features for history file data sets plus give you details of recent enhancements.
  • IBM CICS®  Asynchronous reporting:  We will show a demonstration of Fault Analyzer’s new static & dynamic reporting of CICS® asynchronous task related information.​​

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