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
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New! IBM DB2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS V2.1
Is a high performance analytics accelerator appliance for IBM System z, delivering dramatically faster complex business analysis transparently to all users.
Customers see immediate value through this easy to deploy appliance that typically requires no application changes to capitalize on the extreme acceleration of business analysis. It enables 'train of thought' analysis, where people are no longer constrained by the complexity of the query. It transparently speeds the most complex analysis from a wide variety of applications and tools such as Cognos 10 BI and QMF, as well as many other vendor applications. By immediately putting the right answers in the hands of your decision makers, your business is in the best position to quickly adapt. By selecting the System z based solution, you can count on a secure environment to protect your data from intrusions, while easily scaling to answer the questions of tomorrow
- New! The IBM Smart Analytics System – 9700 and 9710
The IBM Smart Analytics System is a unique, deeply integrated and optimized, ready-to-use analytics solution that can quickly turn information into insight. Designed to accelerate decision making in your business, the system helps deliver the insight you need where and when you need it, ensuring you can quickly respond to ever-changing business conditions and uncover and capture new revenue opportunities for your organization.
This offering combines the simplicity and rapid deployment characteristics of an appliance, while retaining the flexibility of a custom integration approach to take advantage of ongoing hardware and software enhancements. By centralizing information on the Smart Analytics System 9700, businesses can rest assured that the data is available, trusted, and secure.
The key to unlocking the information in your data, lies in a centralized IT infrastructure that is delivered by the 9700 offering. Now you can pool data from across your organization to deliver a single view of the business that is easy to access. Unlock the potential of your business with timely insights drawn from your latest data, delivered to decision makers across your operational lines of business.
To simplify the delivery of analytics, the IBM Smart Analytics 9710 provides an entry-level system, configured to provide an easy to implement, foundation environment that is designed to support an analytics workload. With this low cost offering, any size business can benefit from extracting business insights from their data. The 9710 enables you to start small, growing your system along with your business.
Inherent within these System z offerings, are the fundamental capabilities to identify and prioritize queries from critical users, while offering a highly available environment that can deliver near real-time analytics to the enterprise.
InfoSphere Warehouse on System z
IBM announces InfoSphere Warehouse on System z, that helps create a highly scalable, highly resilient, lower cost infrastructure to optimize a DB2 for z/OS data warehouse, data mart, or operational data store. This product delivers Data Warehousing capabilities that help you:
- Simplify operational complexity by deploying both operational and warehouse data on the System z platform, thereby reducing costs related to data movement while providing a high level of data compliance and security
- Dramatically improving query performance to save on processing costs and elapsed time through the use of Cubing Services caching for Multidimensional (MDX) query support
- Exploit unique System z advantages, including hardware based data compression, world class workload management, and high availability through data sharing, to deliver a robust infrastructure for your BI workloads
- Define and maintain a warehouse or data mart environment on z/OS with the use of the Design Studio component of InfoSphere Warehouse
Cognos for System z
Now you have two options for deploying Cognos on the System z environment.
First, Cognos 10 BI for Linux on System z, which has recently been enhanced to the latest version of the product, , with the addition of new features that together deliver a robust, business intelligence environment for enterprise warehousing. This offering includes lineage and federated server capabilities that enable you to gain access to a wide range of information scattered across a number of relational databases and servers within your company.
Additionally, Cognos for z/OS is now available for the platform. This recently added option delivers the robust Cognos 8.4 BI product to the z/OS customers, providing a complete, business intelligence environment for those that wish to deploy business analytics within the secure and highly available z/OS environment.
Query Management Facility (QMF™)
IBM® DB2® Query Management Facility (QMF™) 10 for z/OS® delivers a new dimension in enterprise business intelligence and reporting.
DB2 QMF Version 10 provides new features and functions to enhance existing QMF environments, as well as extends deeper into key business areas with new analytic features and functions.
- Provides on-demand access to enterprise business information, delivery, and scale across multiple platforms.
- Delivers support for the new DB2 10 for z/OS functions, including the Smart Analytics Optimizer accelerator for DB2 for z/OS.
- Supports dynamic and static SQL, massive result sets, and stored procedure results.
- DB2 QMF for Workstation and DB2 QMF for WebSphere® deliver a new dashboard capability, visually rich page-based reports, enhanced OLAP support (MDX) and over 150 new analytical functions. Significant enhancements in all QMF family products: QMF Classic, QMF Enterprise Edition.
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.
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.
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.
DB2 Query Management Facility
IBM® DB2® Query Management Facility (QMF™) 10 for z/OS® delivers a new dimension in enterprise business intelligence and reporting. Now, shipped in the box with Db2 for z/OS V10!
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.
Key offerings for System z include:
- WebFocus – the latest technology from IBI (Link resides outside of ibm.com)
- Focus, tried and true technology designed for the System z environment. (Link resides outside of ibm.com)
- To learn more about IBI WebFocus and System z (Link resides outside of ibm.com)
SAS Enterprise Business Intelligence (eBI) (Link resides outside of ibm.com)
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.
DB2 for z/OS V10
DB2 10 delivers great value by reducing CPU usage. IBM's internal testing and early beta customer results revealed that, depending on the specific workload, customers could achieve out-of-the-box DB2 CPU savings of up to 5% - 10% for traditional workloads and up to 20% for specific workloads; when compared to running the same workloads on DB2 9
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 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.
(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.
IBM Information Server for System z
IBM InfoSphere Information Server for System z is a fully integrated software platform that profiles, cleanses, and transforms information from mainframe & distributed data sources to drive insight without added z/OS operational costs.
InfoSphere Software
NEW Thought leadership Paper
Scalable Architecture for Financial Reporting Solution(SAFR)
Optimize Query performance on your z/OS System-today!!
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