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Welcome to the Z Innovation Offerings (ZIO) Community, a site for knowledge sharing and discussion among product experts, consultants and users.

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.

Introducing HCL Z and I Emulator (ZIE) for Windows

october 25, 2019
Kenichi Yoshimura, Senior Product Manager

Terminal emulators for IBM System Z (mainframes) and System I (AS/400) systems continue to be the primary user interface for many business-critical applications, systems programmers and application developers around the world. Terminal emulators are often underappreciated software, however their users typically require the highest level of reliability, availability, usability and security because they are essential enabler to access many core business applications and data.
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HCL Mainframe Software: Z Asset Optimizer (ZAO) update

august 21, 2019
​​Bret Dixon, senior software engineer

HCL Z Asset Optimizer (ZAO) is a market leading software asset discovery product for IBM z/OS mainframe systems. ZAO recognizes over 12,000 mainframe software products and features from IBM and other software vendors, as well as reports inventory and usage of in-house programs.  Benefits include:​

Z Data Tools APIs REST SERVICE

august 20, 2019

HCL’s Z Data Tools APIs (ZDT APIs) product now provides REST APIs to access Z data.
The Z Data Tools APIs REST Service enables client applications to access Z data using REST APIs. Client applications can read data sequentially, by relative record or database position, or by key.​​​

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