Overview
Optimize your IBM Z environment without changing your COBOL applications
Your COBOL applications running on IBM Z are among your organization’s most valuable assets, supporting critical business processes with proven reliability, security, and scalability. As workload demands continue to grow, however, available General Processor (GP) capacity can become a constraint, limiting performance and restricting your ability to take on new initiatives.
Mainframe Optimization Services help organizations maximize the value of their existing IBM Z investments by identifying opportunities to redistribute COBOL workloads to zIIP specialty processors by using Software AG’s JOPAZ product. By leveraging JOPAZ, organizations can reclaim valuable GP capacity, improve processing efficiency, and create room for innovation—without application rewrites, data migration, or changes to existing COBOL source code.
Professional Services experts help you evaluate your current environment, identify optimization opportunities, and develop a strategy to achieve maximum value from your IBM Z platform.
Get started
Start with a conversation, workshop, or assessment based on your needs
Whether you’re ready for a detailed assessment or simply want to explore your options, our Professional Services specialists can start with an introductory conversation to discuss your IBM Z environment, workload demands, and business objectives. Schedule yours now:
For organizations seeking a deeper evaluation, we also offer a no-cost workshop designed to identify optimization opportunities and potential capacity gains.
What to expect during your workshop:
- Identification and review of COBOL programs, copybooks, and JCL in scope
- Assessment of current compilation, testing, and batch processes
- Evaluation of performance and benchmarking requirements
- Identification of integration points with existing SDLC processes
- Review of operational challenges and support requirements
- Definition of priorities, risks, and modernization opportunities
This no-obligation workshop provides a clear understanding of your current COBOL environment and outlines practical next steps for modernization and validation.
Benefits
Reclaim capacity. Improve efficiency. Enable growth.
JOPAZ enables organizations to optimize processor utilization and unlock additional value from their IBM Z environments. By shifting eligible COBOL workloads to zIIP specialty processors, organizations can create additional capacity while preserving existing applications and business logic.
Key benefits include:
- Increased available GP capacity for new and existing workloads
- Improved processing efficiency and batch performance
- Better utilization of zIIP specialty processors
- Reduced need for disruptive modernization projects
- Preservation of existing COBOL applications and development processes
- Greater flexibility to support business growth and innovation
- Enhanced scalability for future workload demands
- Faster realization of business value through immediate capacity gains
Organizations have achieved significant CPU savings for eligible COBOL batch workloads while maintaining their existing applications and operational processes.
Service offerings
Comprehensive services for capacity optimization
From initial discovery through Proof-of-Value and deployment planning, our Professional Services team provides the expertise required to identify and realize optimization opportunities.
Core services
- Environment discovery and workload assessment
- IBM Z capacity and utilization analysis
- COBOL workload identification and profiling
- JOPAZ optimization strategy development
- Capacity planning and forecasting
- Performance analysis and validation
- Proof-of-Value planning and execution
- Optimization roadmap development
Advanced capabilities
- Workload redistribution planning
- Performance benchmarking and measurement
- zIIP utilization optimization
- Scalability and growth planning
- Operational readiness assessments
- Mainframe modernization alignment
- Innovation and capacity enablement strategy
Trust the experts
IBM Z optimization requires specialized expertise and a proven methodology. Our Professional Services team combines deep mainframe experience with JOPAZ product expertise to help organizations maximize performance while minimizing risk.
We understand the importance of maintaining operational stability while preparing for future growth. Rather than relying on costly rewrites or disruptive migrations, JOPAZ focuses on leveraging your existing assets and infrastructure to immediately unlock additional processing capacity and business value.