Industry

Banking

Business Challenge

A banking customer needed to streamline their digital transformation and improve time to market to minimize the technology gap between web/mobile systems and the mainframe. 

Solution

To streamline our customers digital transformation an agile approach was needed to modernize older technologies to align with the current state of the market.

Transformation

By implementing IBM z/OS® Connect and the COBOL programming language on IMS databases, it enabled our client to leverage the robustness, resiliency, and security offered by mainframes with the capabilities to launch new applications and services faster by creating an API-focused digital platform that would reduce customer churn, improve brand loyalty, and improve their overall business value.

Results

Supports creation of RESTful APIs without the need of Java™ code

IBM z/OS Connect allows for tighter security through controlled access

"IMS, paired with z/OS Connect API processing enabled the reuse of existing transactions/business logic, delivering proven processing at lower costs."

- Director, Transactional Processing Technologies

Solution components  

The IBM Solution consisted of the following  components:

• IBM z/OS® Connect
• COBOL
• IBM Information Management System (IMS)

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