Your COBOL applications are essential to your business. But as your enterprise grows, these applications place increasing strain on your General Processor. By efficiently distributing the demand of these workloads across your mainframe’s processing resources, you can reclaim capacity to scale for growth, add new workloads & embrace new innovations without disrupting what works. Take advantage of your mainframe’s full potential to drive your business forward.
The burden of success
Your COBOL applications are the backbone of your business. They process millions of transactions, handle your most critical data, and keep your operations running smoothly around the clock. These are the hardest working applications in your organization. Night after night, weekend after weekend, your COBOL batch jobs run on your mainframe’s General Processor (GP).
While these workloads are essential to your operations, they can consume significant processing resources. As your business grows and transaction processing volumes increase, the demand for GP capacity grows as well. Without utilizing the capabilities of your mainframe more efficiently, you will not be able to take advantage of the innovative potential your IBM Z platform places at your fingertips. Traditional solutions like application rewrites or platform migrations come with enormous risks and unacceptable disruption to your business operations. There’s a better way forward.
Mainframe Optimization: Your path to efficient workload placement
There is a smarter approach to maximizing the efficiency, and resource utilization of your IBM Z mainframe that doesn’t require risky migrations or time-consuming application rewrites: mainframe optimization. By optimizing where your workloads are executed on your mainframe, you can reclaim valuable capacity for innovative projects like AI initiatives, advanced analytics, and modern application development. The most effective way to reclaim capacity on your general processor is to leverage modern compilers to create zIIP-eligible Java workloads and strategically redistribute high-volume workloads to IBM zIIP processors. This is precisely the process that JOPAZ seamlessly enables.
Como o JOPAZ funciona
JOPAZ works by compiling your existing COBOL code into Java bytecode at runtime, which executes on the Java Virtual Machines running on IBM zIIP specialty engines. This approach allows you to redistribute high-utilization batch workloads from the General Processor to zIIP, which optimizes workload placement across your mainframe’s available processing resources.
In measurements taken by our customers using JOPAZ in production environments, we have reduced COBOL batch workloads running on the general processor by over 80% on average. The only prerequisite for this level of workload reduction is a corresponding zIIP processor capacity, which many IBM Z systems already include or can easily accommodate.
O que a otimização do mainframe pode fazer pela sua organização
Reclaim capacity for innovation: When you leverage zIIP, you reclaim valuable general processor capacity. This free capacity becomes available for new workloads and initiatives, such as AI applications, advanced analytics, modern application development, and other innovations that drive your business forward.
Optimize resource utilization: By efficiently redistributing workloads across your mainframe’s available processors (GP and zIIP), you maximize the value of your existing IBM Z investment and create space for growth. Zero business disruption: Your COBOL applications remains untouched. Your developers continue working with their preferred languages and development tools. You’ll maintain the same reliability, security, and performance that make the mainframe so valuable. There’s no learning curve, no retraining, and no operational changes required.
Keep what works: Rather than migrating your data to a new, unproven environment, you can continue to embrace your reliable, time-tested IBM Z mainframe and keep your mission-critical data and applications exactly where they are.
Trabalhe com um parceiro tão confiável quanto o seu mainframe
You run some of your business’s most critical applications on your mainframe. That’s why it matters who you choose to optimize it with. With decades of mainframe expertise and deep experience in zIIP technology, Software AG helps you optimize workload placement and reclaim capacity for innovation while keeping your applications exactly where they belong: on your secure, proven, reliable mainframe.
Your mainframe has untapped potential. Ready to see what optimizing your mainframe with smart COBOL workload distribution can achieve for your business? Let’s explore how JOPAZ can maximize your mainframe investment and create capacity for AI, analytics, and modern innovations—all while preserving everything that makes your COBOL applications so valuable to your business.