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Mission-critical workloads on IBM Mainframe?

  • 1.  Mission-critical workloads on IBM Mainframe?

    IBM Champion
    Posted Mon November 13, 2023 05:01 AM

    What role does the IBM mainframe play in your company's mission-critical workloads today?

    #mainframe#workloads



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    Heidi Schmidt
    CEO
    PKS Software GmbH
    Ravensburg
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  • 2.  RE: Mission-critical workloads on IBM Mainframe?

    Posted Sun November 19, 2023 04:31 AM

    Mission critical workloads in Banking & Financial Markets, and in particular in Tiers-1 Banks, sits "essentially" on Mainframe systems, and more precisely on Cobol – CICS – DB2. When I claim "essentially", I mean that more than 75% of their core-banking systems (Account Mngt, Loans, Collections, Payment engines…) run on Z.

    There are multiple ongoing discussions with clients (IT teams in general) about how to modernize in a fit-for-purpose manner functional components that could get benefit of this modernization.

    We need to keep in mind that clients (in B&FM) are not looking to leave the mainframe but how to leverage modernization techniques in situ (API exposure, Data Access, ML on Z, Cobol to Java with interoperability to be executed on the z : Linux on z, LinuxOne...)

    GenerativeAI and Watsonx code assistant create opportunities in that direction, but we (IBM) have to be very pragmatic on how to leverage such a solution for regulated industries and strong needs for Operational Resilience.



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    Christophe Sorre
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  • 3.  RE: Mission-critical workloads on IBM Mainframe?

    IBM Champion
    Posted Sun November 19, 2023 10:14 AM

    I absolutely agree, @Christophe Sorre
    It would be great to hear or read also endcustomers here in the forum - looking forward for their reply!



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    Heidi Schmidt
    CEO
    PKS Software GmbH
    Ravensburg
    +49 751 56140 229
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