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Offload mainframe workload to zIIPTM
Saving mainframe costs is a top agenda item at many organizations. Companies are looking for a risk-free approach to achieve immediate cost savings. With Adabas & Natural for zIIPTM products, you are now able to offload online and batch application and database workload to zIIP engines without compromising continuous operations or performance. Immediately reduce your mainframe capacity peaks and associated costs.
What can Adabas & Natural for zIIP do for you?
- Immediately save mainframe costs by reducing peak workloads
- Offload z/OS batch and online workload to zIIP
- Maximize the benefits of IBM® z Systems® Integrated Information Processor (zIIP)
- Ensure risk-free operation, as no change to application code or the database is required
- Avoid costly upgrades, instead release budget for modernization and innovation projects
- Ready your IBM z Systems® for new and growing workload at competitive pricing
Offload to achieve cost savings and future-readiness
Adabas & Natural for z/OS® applications process critical workloads and transactions—crucial to daily business operations. The mainframe is a trusted platform that ensures secure and reliable operations for mission-critical applications, but the ecosystem in which Adabas & Natural operates is under constant IT cost-saving pressure. With Adabas & Natural for zIIP products, you can continue to take advantage of the mainframe’s strengths and at the same time achieve immediate, risk-free and significant cost savings. Adabas & Natural batch and online workload can be offloaded to zIIP engines to reduce the overall peak capacity and workload without making any code changes. This enables organizations to better handle growing workload (e.g., driven by digital business) and to release budget for modernization and innovation projects.
Six reasons to offload workload to zIIP
- Offload up to 99% workload – Customers have offloaded up to 99 percent of eligible Adabas & Natural workloads to zIIP.
- Achieve significant cost savings – Reduce mainframe peak workloads to lower overall mainframe IT costs.
- Get value-based pricing – Get the best value/price ratio by leveraging proven assessment and value-based methodologies and tools.
- Address online and batch – zIIP offloading can move Adabas & Natural and Natural for Db2 online and batch workload for applications, databases and utilities.
- Ensure risk-free operation – Offload without disruption, as installation requires no changes to the application or database.
- Improve scalability and performance – Execute tasks faster as workload offloaded to zIIP can run at unlimited processor speed.
Don’t give up on your mainframe assets as you make your transformation to address the digital economy. By offloading Adabas & Natural workload to zIIP, you can immediately reduce costs while addressing increased demand for transaction processing.
