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Welcome to IBM Destination z: a vibrant community to help you make the most of your mainframe. Learn more.

Welcome to IBM Destination z™

The IBM home for the mainframe community. Your entry point to:

  • Learn about System z and what it can do for you
  • Gain skills to help you deploy mainframe solutions
  • Reach out to others in the mainframe community
  • Find key IBM Business Partners and their mainframe solutions
  • Contact schools around the world to take advantage of their mainframe programs and augment your team with recent graduates

The community speaks
Destination z members talk about the IBM mainframe ecosystem and its benefits.

Primeur Solutions
"DataDirect and Destination z: Connect, Collaborate and Share"
"Trident Services speaks about delivering their solutions to customers and IBM Destination z."
Nastel Technologies Honored as an IBM “Destination z” Solution Provider
Dave Andrews talks about User Groups and CICS's 40th anniversary at SHARE
Blog: IMPACT 2009 Day 4! Primeur
IBM Business Partners talk about System z
Blog: SOA and z at IMPACT 2009! Meet HostBridge!
Blog:DataDirect at IMPACT 2009 - From SQL to SOAP to Events!
Blog: Sandy Carter: Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) -- Off the Record
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What's new

Powerful System z Solution Editions: Hardware, software and service, priced to win
Dynamic Infrastructure - Designed for a Smarter Planet
System z as a Cloud for Business Services - Available Today to Meet the Needs of Tomorrow (296KB)
Illuminata Analyst Paper - April 2009 - Gordan Haff - IBM System z and the Cloud. (216KB)
Speak French? Hear how Sogeti and IBM are working with a client through their Mainframe Academy program
Announcing Enterprise Modernization to help you reduce cost, save time, and lower risk
IBM unveils its vision for a dynamic infrastructure to help IT improve service, reduce costs, and manage risk.
System z10 Business Class revealed in 3D. Take the online tour--open it up, pull it apart, and look at it from the inside out.
Follow Twitter for the latest System z news and activities
IBM responds to the competition: Get the facts


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NEW Solutions

IBM Destination z Business Partners Solutions


Participate and learn

z/OS XL C/C++ at the C/C++ Café

Destination z blog

Blog—Common Sense, the simple truth about the mainframe

New to System z: Mainframe basics

Destination z Discussion forum

Blog—Enterprise Class Innovation: System z Perspectives

Visit the COBOL Café: An online community for COBOL developers

Share user community

Guide Share Europe

System z Sandbox: Try our latest products in a free virtual online environment

Academic Initiative System z program

IBM Systems z Mainframe Training

IBM Service Management Center for System z


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Partners and solutions

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Case studies

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Mainframe Central

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IBM offerings

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