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Data serving with the IBM mainframe platform helps you reduce cost and complexity in your IT infrastructure. It also helps you simplify compliance and leverage your core asset – your data. Learn more about industry-leading innovations from IBM, including the following:

  • Data serving solutions that support your business
  • Innovative technologies that help simplify process integration
  • Tools and utilities that can streamline business processes

Featured offerings

Latest offerings
Cognos 8 for System z
Cognos 8 delivers a broad range of BI capabilities on your System z mainframe platform with a single, service-oriented architecture (SOA) for users throughout your company.
Scalable Architecture for Financial Reporting for System z (SAFR)
Leverage IBM's highly skilled services team to design a high performance, high volume, data extraction and reporting environment for your System z environment. This quality solution is designed for the z/OS environment, and is capable of leveraging available zIIP capacity. Deliver performance improvements across your organization, without consuming your staff's valuable time. Engage the professionals at IBM to get the job done fast.
Master Data Management for System z
IBM Multiform Master Data Management manages master data domains (customers, accounts, products) that have a significant impact on the most important business processes and realizes the promise of SOA.

Infrastructure Offerings
IBM Rapid Deployment of z/OS and DB2
An IBM STG Lab Services offering that is designed to ease the barriers of moving to the System z platform. It allows you to derive the benefits of a robust, secure, high-availability environment, enabling the quick deployment of OLTP and BI applications to support your business. This offering prepares an operational environment, ready for application installations, data loading and customization. By engaging IBM Lab Services, your staff can focus on the business aspects of your environment. With this offering, you may reduce system installation and customization time from weeks to days.
Information Server for System z
IBM Information Server for System z is a fully integrated software platform that profiles, cleanses, and transforms information from mainframe and distributed data sources to drive insight without added z/OS operational costs.

Reporting and query tools
Cognos 8 for System z
Cognos 8 – now available for the System z platform.
DataQuant
DataQuant is a Business Analytics tool, featuring dashboards and data visualization. Free DataQuant trial — download now.
DB2 Alphablox
DB2 Alphablox embeds analytics directly into web-based applications.

Business Partner offerings
Information Builders: WebFOCUS
WebFOCUS is a comprehensive, business intelligence solution that delivers information to all levels of an organization. It makes data available, accessible and meaningful – when and how it is needed.
SAS Fraud Management
SAS Fraud Management is designed to fight fraud with sophisticated analytic intelligence and complete integration with the latest antifraud measures.
SAS Enterprise Miner
SAS Enterprise Miner is designed to streamline the entire data-mining process from data access to model assessment to help extract actionable insights to gain a competitive advantage
SAS Enterprise Business Intelligence (eBI)
includes data integration, intelligence storage, business intelligence and analytics software with the IBM System z mainframe. In addition, the introduction of sub-capacity pricing - a pricing structure that reflects the industry movement towards server consolidation - provides SAS mainframe customers with a cost-effective way of adding new workloads and new applications to the System z platform.

Industry Solutions
Supplier Parts Quality:
Industrial Sector Business Intelligence offering
With companies outsourcing their manufacturing to strategic partners across the globe, automotive supply chains have become very complex. Many manufacturers have streamlined their supply chains and implemented lean inventory techniques. Understanding the quality of the parts that are used in the manufacturing process, enables manufacturers to control their warranty costs, through the supplier parts quality management solution from IBM.

Databases
DB2 Version 9.1 for z/OS
DB2 Version 9 extends traditional DB2 strengths in many areas, like online schema evolution, Unicode, XML, DB2 family SQL, utilities, security, compliance, and 64-bit virtual storage.
DB2 Enterprise 9 for Linux
DB2 data server easily scales to handle high-volume transaction processing, multi-terabyte data warehouses, and mission critical applications.
DB2 for z/OS Version 8
DB2 UDB for z/OS Version 8 offers key improvements that enhance scalability, application portability, security, architecture, and continuous availability.
Oracle for System z
Oracle applications leverage System z platforms to drive a secure, economical, and energy-efficient platform for their solutions. Whether on z/OS or zLinux, Oracle solutions can work for you.

Utilities and tools
DB2 and IMS Tools
DB2 and IMS tools are specifically designed to enhance the performance of DB2 and IMS, placing affordable database power tools at your fingertips.
Downloadable Features for DB2
Visit the optimization service center for DB2 and z/OS and more.
DB2 Query Management Facility for z/OS
DB2 QMF is a tightly integrated, powerful, and reliable query and reporting toolset for the IBM DB2 relational database management system.
DB2 Data Archive Expert for z/OS
This product has been withdrawn from marketing as of June 11, 2008. The following link provides information on new product plans.

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Extract, Transform, and Load (ETL) products
(See Master Data Management and Information Server — listed above)
Also:
WebSphere DataStage for z/OS
WebSphere DataStage for z/OS takes ETL performance to a new level with powerful data integration and transformation.
WebSphere Replication Server for z/OS
WebSphere Replication Server for z/OS replicates data between DB2 for z/OS and other databases for high availability.


 
New offering

Optimize Query performance on your z/OS System-today!!

Scalable Architecture for Financial Reporting Solution(SAFR).

This new offering from IBM Global Services can help optimize your existing query performance on DB2 for z/OS.

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IBM System z
Advantage for SAP
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Boosting performance for SAP, the IBM System z9 advantage for SAP applications with DB2

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CICS

CICS provides online transaction management and connectivity for mission-critical work.

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IMS

IMS is a key transaction & database management system that exploits SOA.

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SAP on System z

The BI Accelerator enables fast response times for System z based SAP/BI solutions.

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DB2 9 for z/OS
DB2 9 for z/OS

Secure information services you can trust.

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Migrate to IBM
Migrate to IBM

Simplify your infrastructure and reduce costs, with IBM Systems, Servers and Storage.

Migration case studies

Move up to System z
Move up to System z

Moving to a mainframe has never been easier.

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