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What is IBM Z?
IBM Z is the company's mainframe enterprise server solution product line.
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What is IBM Z?
The new IBM z15 delivers performance,
flexibility, availability, protection, and agility to drive
digital transformation. It has changed the footprint of IBM Z
with a 19” frame, that scales from one to four frames depending on the
configuration, enabling significant floor space reduction.
IBM z15 has the commercial data privacy and security enforcement solution, Data Privacy Passports, that provides off-platform access revocation. Choose who accesses data, and when and at what level to revoke their access. One hundred percent of data, at-rest and in-flight, is protected with no performance trade off or application changes. With Fibre Channel Endpoint Security working with the latest DS8900F, achieve total end-to-end protection and authentication.
IBM z15 provides flexibility, portability and choice for hybrid cloud deployment. Cloud-native development simplifies life for developers as they build new applications and modernize existing ones. IBM Z supports private and public cloud via Linux, Kubernetes and industry-standard tools. With the Red Hat OpenShift support, IBM z15 adds to the user's options for cloud integration.
Instant recovery reduces the impact of planned and unplanned downtime. All systems need downtime for maintenance, and security patching.
IBM z15 has the commercial data privacy and security enforcement solution, Data Privacy Passports, that provides off-platform access revocation. Choose who accesses data, and when and at what level to revoke their access. One hundred percent of data, at-rest and in-flight, is protected with no performance trade off or application changes. With Fibre Channel Endpoint Security working with the latest DS8900F, achieve total end-to-end protection and authentication.
IBM z15 provides flexibility, portability and choice for hybrid cloud deployment. Cloud-native development simplifies life for developers as they build new applications and modernize existing ones. IBM Z supports private and public cloud via Linux, Kubernetes and industry-standard tools. With the Red Hat OpenShift support, IBM z15 adds to the user's options for cloud integration.
Instant recovery reduces the impact of planned and unplanned downtime. All systems need downtime for maintenance, and security patching.
IBM Z Features
- Supported: Data Privacy Passports
- Supported: IBM Z Data Privacy for Diagnostics
- Supported: IBM Recovery Boost
- Supported: Integrated Accelerator for zEDC
- Supported: Quantum-Safe digital signing algorithms
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IBM Z Technical Details
| Deployment Types | On-premise |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Linux, z/OS, z/VSE, z/TPF, z/VM |
| Mobile Application | No |
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IBM Z is the company's mainframe enterprise server solution product line.
Dell PowerEdge M and ClearPath Forward Libra are common alternatives for IBM Z.
Reviewers rate Support Rating highest, with a score of 9.1.
The most common users of IBM Z are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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November 14, 2023
Secure the world and even more, with LinuxONE with every core
Whenever a Business Application needs to run highly available, secure, and performant to a large number of users, it is just a perfect fit for IBM Z. The out of the box virtualisation capabilities are far beyond of any other platform and make even single systems highly available. That helps to reduce costs because we do not need to invest in software solutions to make it HA. And for sure, this makes the handling much easier.
October 10, 2023
IBM Z is an excellent option for reliable consolidation of a sprawling compute environment
Platform solves virtually all major technical issues with low latency, dynamic scaling and spike/surge handling, and hot sparing of all critical components. Compatibility with both 20+ year old applications and the most modern tech all on one platform makes it a great career path as well.
October 02, 2023
IBM Z - the AI Inspirer that reimagines delivery
I use IBM Z as the mainframe server framework, enabling enrichment with AI max productivity and statistical guidance.
September 26, 2023
Best way to process huge data.
IBM Z is used for transaction processing for credit cards.So every real-time transaction is captured and validates the transaction and everyday processing is done on the whole portfolio as part of night Batch processing. New application are also boarded and regular real time service requests regarding the account are processed and response are sent.
We current have IBM Z15 and are in the process of implementing IBM Z16. IBM Mainframes first and foremost provide not only the necessary uptime, fault tolerance, security, automation, high availability, etc. We currently utilize the IBM Z15 in a High Availability Scenario for many major applications. Utilizing one as primary and a secondary offsite at a secondary location. We also have the IBM Z carved out into LPAR's "Logical Partitions", which provide virtual environments for Test, Dev, etc. This is not new, LPAR's have been around for many many years on IBM mainframes, and another cool thing is we can create an LPAR and virtualize thousands of Servers in an isolated arena on the mainframe. We also use it has a test bed LPAR for AI along with Hybrid Cloud connectivity.
September 22, 2023
IBM Z review from a technician
Backend Server.
September 19, 2023
Honesty about IBM Z
Our team create IaaS solution designs incorporating IBM Mainframe server, DS8000 storage technologies. The implemented IaaS solution used for host other commercial corporations Mainframe infrastructure. We also provide modernization service for aged deployments during the migration.
IBM Mainframes turned out are very reliable, secure and powerful computer systems. With proper pricing, their TCO can be really competitive compared with other systems.
On the downside, these are very archaic systems, very different mindset required for Mainframe operation than for any other more popular systems. Therefore very few people has proper knowledge, and finding / educating a workforce is challenging.
IBM Mainframes turned out are very reliable, secure and powerful computer systems. With proper pricing, their TCO can be really competitive compared with other systems.
On the downside, these are very archaic systems, very different mindset required for Mainframe operation than for any other more popular systems. Therefore very few people has proper knowledge, and finding / educating a workforce is challenging.
September 18, 2023
z/OS - nothing better
We have two computers at our production site and one at our DR site. All computers run z/OS. One system runs a payroll application, and the other runs a provident Fund Application. Both systems provide services to external customers. The computers are connected to an IBM DS9810F storage system and an IBM TS7770 virtual tape system.
September 12, 2023
Reliable and secured IBM Z
Mainly IBM Z's versatile platform addressed our wide array of business challenges
1. Deployed to cater to the needs of middleware applications.
2. Focused on the modernization of legacy IT systems which are crucial for business operations and user experiences.
3. Custom in-house applications specific to the Next-generation AI and data analytics
4. Deployed mainly focus on business applications that need robust Reliability and Availability.
1. Deployed to cater to the needs of middleware applications.
2. Focused on the modernization of legacy IT systems which are crucial for business operations and user experiences.
3. Custom in-house applications specific to the Next-generation AI and data analytics
4. Deployed mainly focus on business applications that need robust Reliability and Availability.
September 10, 2023
Worth it product by IBM.
IBM Z is used in our organization for large data requirements as it is very versatile and has the capacity to store large amounts of data. We have freedom of choice with the type of data we store and there are scalability options that are inherent with this product from IBM.
Support the mainframe networks (tcpip & SNA) for our company. User of TSO and infrastructure tools.
April 13, 2023
The exclusive partner for IBM Z in the GCC recommends the mother of all servers for your enterprise needs
While my organization is an IBM Partner and we sell IBM Z to customers, we are a IBM Z user ourselves. Many of our internal workflow applications run on the mainframe platform and it has been supporting us for over a decade without having to take a downtime or even an upgrade. Reliability, Security and Scalability are the salient features of the platform. Getting it operational and forget it, it will run the company's business critical applications for you.
January 02, 2023
IBM Z is the best among others
Score 10 out of 10
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Verified User
Currently, the project we are working on in our team/company uses IBM servers, specifically IBM Z. This is also one of our customer's requirements and we want to do everything on IBM Z servers. We handle it ourselves. Very helpful in terms of service support. We have been using it for almost 7 months. The overhead of running workloads and copying data has been reduced. Its AI is the main thing that makes the decisions made practically realistic and increases the efficiency of work. This is one of the best I've seen from IBM. This is really great. So far, we haven't had many issues and no incidents requiring fines. He is one of IBM's great products.
November 30, 2022
Cloud at your premises
Reliable server which never fails, and has great disaster recovery offerings, is the definition of virtualisation, hence "the" cloud itself.
Yes, this is the mainframe, and yes, I am a mainframer.
Yes, this is the mainframe, and yes, I am a mainframer.
November 16, 2022
IMS on z/OS provides speedy transactions and high availability
Ericsson (formerly Telcordia) provides IMS DB/TM-based inventory systems for very large phone companies. Although primarily IMS-based, we use IMS Connect, DB2, and MQ as well. We make extensive use of MQ and IMS Connect to allow access to our systems for users beyond just the 3270 world. We transformed all our 3270 green screens with our Xj (JAVA eXtensions) product so our users have the advantage of a modern interface. MQ is used to interface with both our other systems that run on other platforms (UNIX, LINUX, etc) as well as an interface to other phone company systems not written by Ericsson.
September 24, 2022
Mainframe Support Technical Leader.
Core banking processing of billions of transactions and batch jobs each day to address all kinds of banking operations originating from different parts of the company. Thanks to IBM Z’s high availability features, the platform is the main backend for all mobile transactions that represent more than 80% of all of the bank's workload. Another key feature is security. IBM Z’s security features like RACF can build multiple levels of security, protecting all data and access!
September 17, 2022
A great software design for hybrid cloud, it has great security, keeps our files very safe.
It is trustable and grants high availability, which is very appropriate for managing different conversion processes like inventory and billing. Server trustability and can accumulate huge amounts of data. At first, it is challenging to learn, and we see that it is a high-priced platform; the command line interface should be upgraded, which makes it user-friendly and it is beneficial.
September 08, 2022
Precise Solution for System Automation and Application Support.
IBM Z delivers on digital transformation, where it delivers high performance and perfect protection, among others, to increase the validity of the business functionality. Besides, IBM Z focuses on data privacy, where reputable security is deployed, and access measures are deployed for correct individuals. The program has excellent flexibility, which allows both on-premise and cloud usage, which increases the convenience of the users.
February 06, 2022
Excellent tool to handle large transactions and provide details data analytics for data storage and data warehousing.
Used across various functions 1. To handle various billing transactions 2. To handle data storage and data warehousing analytics 3. To handle run various automated batch processing.
January 17, 2020
The powerhouse of the world economy
The IBM z/OS is being intensively used to run batch processes of enterprise-level applications for various in-house projects. We actively make use of a whole array of IBM z/OS middleware services ranging from DB2 relational database management systems to the CICS transaction processing servers. Additionally, various other suites of technology are interfaced with the z/OS for additional services access.
August 06, 2019
IBM Z Review of Actual Experiences by Destiny Corporation
IBM Z is used across many functions of the organizations we support. It handles transactional processes such as billing, CRM, claims, and other types of data entry functions. In addition, it is used for advanced analytics when the data is stored in databases and data warehouses that support this style of processing. It is also an extremely secure platform as both Z and Z Linux are not standard targets for hackers. Even their design offers no single admin user ID. As Donna Dillenberger of IBM Research said in a recent presentation 'We know better'.
May 24, 2019
IBM Z - Fast, Reliable and Secure.
IBM Z is used throughout the mainframe department. It addresses the availability, reliability and performance need for this ever-changing IT technology.
May 06, 2019
Z Review from Spring 2019 TechU
IBM Z is our enterprise system housing 90% of our data and does all of out back end processing. We execute 45 million CICS transactions and 24 million CICS transactions daily.
May 02, 2019
IBM Z and Storage Technology
IBM Z Mainframes are used to support z/OS and z/VM operating systems on a minute to minute basis.
These operating systems support critical applications and infrastructure to support front line business needs such as Claims Processing, Web Applications, DB2, CICS Transactions, and IMS Databases.
These operating systems support critical applications and infrastructure to support front line business needs such as Claims Processing, Web Applications, DB2, CICS Transactions, and IMS Databases.
May 02, 2019
IBM Z - Nice
As a credit union, we use IBM Z for all online transactions and batch processing, including on-line web interface and mobile transactions.