mainframe solutions introduction

Micro Focus Customer Webinar SeriesTransforming what the mainframe can do

1. Turning Mainframe Thinking on its Head

Derek Britton, Micro Focus

> Agenda

Mainframe Value The mainframe challenge Addressing Common Themes Introducing the Enterprise product set Modernization – working with Micro Focus Questions and Answers [raise a hand!]

> Mainframe Value

Robust Scalable High-performance Platform choice Improved TCO

> Fundamental goals exist

COST QUALITY RISK AGILITYEnhance, increase

and exploit business agility

Improve quality of skills,

applications and processes

Mitigate, reduce and avoid risk

Reduce, remove or avoid cost

Mainframe IT Challenges Vary by Role

IT Ops MgrService Delivery Mgr

Head of Development

Strategy Manager Ops Mgr CTO QA Manager Chief Architect CIO Technical

Analyst

We need first to identify the applications that are costing us the most money across a variety of indicators – these are the ones we need to assess first!

We know what we need to try to do, but it is difficult to decide where to start. Everything relates to everything else and there’s no easy way of managing our system atlas. All studies we do are immediately out of date.

Which is the quickest way to build new services – what applications should we use?

I want to know how we can overtake our competition with superior IT functionality

Which applications are making us the most money – do we have the skills to take them forward?

We are stifled on 3270 and can’t meet demand because it takes too long to deliver any application changesWe won’t collaborate properly unless we can all use Eclipse

I can’t track changes made back to our original change request – there is simply no joined up process

My Java guys cut code well enough but they know nothing about our business processes

“Talent management is the #1 priority for corporate leaders, up from third on the list last year” - PWC

My teams just aren’t productive enough to meet the backlog of business requirementsWe need to find ways to meet our Service commitments which are harder than ever

Our mainframe environment can’t support the new testing we need to do. All our composite applications need their front ends to test against the back-end – but our developers don’t have access or the knowledge.All our testing is manual right now.

We are stifled on 3270 and can’t meet demand because it takes too long to get application changes delivered.We have no test cases to speak of and use copies of production data – but there’s no automation or process behind it and it takes forever to set up.

Our production system takes priority and frequently impacts our test run schedules. We never hit test milestones.

I have 20% more service delivery projects to complete this year than last

Testing is hugely expensive in human costs but also because it consumes over 50% of mainframe resources

My mainframe suppliers won’t change their pricing so we need to find a more cost-effective way of running the businessWe need to stop spending nearly all our Op Ex on just keeping the lights on

We are running short of batch processing time and soon enough we won’t be able to run end-of-month in time – the upgrade is too expensive

My mainframe environment is costly because I need experts just to run the environment.We need to find ways to meet our Service commitments which are harder than ever

I have a complex set of mainframe applications – nothing else would provide the same business function

I only have a couple of applications that needs this old environment but I’m paying a fortune for it each year. We need to fix this.

Exhibiting common themes


Head of Development


Analyst

DeploymentKnowledge Development Quality

Which of our applications should we take forward?

We need factual insight to shape our IT strategy

What is the impact of this system change?

We must solve our skills shortage

My teams aren’t collaborating enough

We never hit our test and QA milestones

Our mainframe testingis hugely expensive

We need 20% more capacity for testing

We are running short of processing time

The mainframe upgrade is too expensive

I’m paying a fortune to run our systems

We are stifled using old, 3270 software


Head of Development


Analyst

> Common themes


Portfolio Knowledge, Requirements Definition

Unified Application Development,

Requirements Definition and Management,

Change Management

Requirements Management,

Test Environment and Execution,

Test Data Management, User Access

Application Service Deployment

> Common themes with common needs


Head of Development


Analyst

Enterprise Analyzer Enterprise Developer Enterprise Test Server, Rumba

Enterprise Server

> Solved by Micro Focus



Head of Development


Analyst

Quality DeploymentDevelopmentKnowledge

A unified solutionWhatever your journey, wherever your destination

Addressing Common themes - The Enterprise product set

Enterprise-wide information and insight to support superior IT strategy

Knowledge

• Identify genuine priorities to improve application portfolio

• Accelerate modernization projects by 40% and more

• Cut 15% and more from maintenance budgets

Benefits

• A variety of technical, operational data is presented as business insight

• Dashboard views allow focus on key KPIs to enable informed decision making

• Detailed technical metrics are derived from the only source of truth – the applications themselves

Capability

Cards Consumer Banking

Core Banking

Account Opening

EnterpriseApplication

Knowledgebase

Technical Analysis

Understand application code

Technical Users

Execute development and modernization activities

Business Users

Manage IT like a business

Business Insight

Understand how applications support the business

Understanding the Mainframe Application Portfolio

Knowledge

Multiple perspectives boost insight

Intelligent diagrams let users make smarter

changes

Share insights in standard formats

Users can customize their views

Select code of Interest quickly

Understanding and Visualizing Mainframe Applications

Knowledge

Enrich “technical” metrics with data from business stakeholders

Metrics sorted by business groupings like

“department”

Executive dashboards summarize portfolio

trends

Users can “drill down” within a dashboard for

more detail

Collect data from other sources to locate

productivity & quality issues

Visualizing Mainframe Applications to support strategic IT decisions

Knowledge

• Rejuvenation of skill pool across modern environments

• Delivery times improved by 40%

• Improved application quality

• Unprecedented innovation capacity

• Unified Visual Studio or Eclipse environment supports cross-development

• Productive environment reduces rework, saves time and accelerates new opportunities

• Collaboration improves quality

Benefits Capability

Best-in-class development environment for superior productivity

Development

Limited development capacity

Expensive resources

Time-consuming, poor collaboration, low productivity

Application Development

Cost

Best-in-class enterprise development environment for superior productivity

Development

Unrestricted capacity

Lower-cost resources

Rapid development, high collaboration,

accelerated productivity

CostEnterprise Developer

Team Edition

Application Development


Development

Industry-standard programming environmentEquivalent to all other contemporary languagesComposite application development and testing


Development

z/OS

Eclipse based Environment

• Mainframe Data VSAM, DB2

• Applications

Mainframe Source ControlProdTestDev

Source Loadlibs Config

Integ Source Loadlibs Config

FuncSource Loadlibs Config

Pre-Prod

Data

Data

Windows based Team Development Server

Rem

ote

Acc

ess

Local Edit, Compile, Debug, Unit Test

Sync

hron

ize

LocalData

LocalData

LocalData

Remote System Access- JES/MVS explorer- SCLM- Edit/Compile/Debug


Development

Windows, zBXz/OS

User Acceptance Testing

System Testing

Functional Testing

Integration Testing

Unit Testing

Development

Limited capacity

Expensive resources

Lack of agility

Ground-breaking quality with unprecedented flexibility and cost-efficiency

Quality


System Testing

Functional Testing

Integration Testing

Unit Testing

Development


Quality

High, scalable capacity

Cost-effective resources

Highly Flexible


System Testing

Functional Testing

Integration Testing

Unit Testing

Development

Efficient Service Delivery


Quality


System Testing

Functional Testing

Integration Testing

Unit Testing

Development

Micro Focus Enterprise Test Server

• Reduce costs of testing resources and contain costs of expanding test resources

• Remove capacity bottlenecks and improve time-to-delivery

• Improve delivery quality and unify the development process

• Undertake scaled enterprise testing without consuming mainframe cost or resource

• Server-based solutions flex and scale to support intensive testing periods

• Test more in less time

• Provides an end-to-end Java and .NET test framework

Benefits Capability


Quality

• Identify application Inventory

• Synchronize source/data (MFA)

• Automate

Mainframe Synchronize

• Initiate Automated build

• On failure – Output listing

• Build to local Test Server Loadlibs

• Refresh data

Automate Build

26

z/OS

Windows Server

Build

• Mainframe Data VSAM, DB2

• Applications

Mainframe Source ControlProdTestDev

Source Loadlibs Config

Integ Source Loadlibs Config

FuncSource Loadlibs Config

SysTest

Data

Data

Data

Test Regions

Rem

ote

Acc

ess

• InSync with Mainframe

• Multiple Test Regions available

• Online, Batch, User, Functional etc

Test Platform Available

Enterprise Test Server

Sync

hron

ize


Quality

Constrained capacity

Expensive resources

Lack of agility

Production Deployment

Cost

The low-cost, low-risk route to agile enterprise application deployment

Deployment

Production Deployment

Improved capacity

Cheaper resources

Improved agilityCostEnterprise Server


Deployment

• Up to 77-90% reduction in operating cost; the low-risk alternative to rewrite and replace

• Shorten delivery cycles by 50%

• Agile IT through Server Consolidation and Flexibility

• Enterprise application deployment without the mainframe cost

• COBOL and PL/I, CICS, IMS-TM, DB2, IMS DB, VSAM and JCL apps redeployed with little source code change

• Proven environment supporting hundreds of live clients

• Deploy to any enterprise-standard environments

Benefits

Capability

Open Systems HardwareWINDOWSLINUX UNIX

Systems Infrastructure

SCHEDULING, OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT,

BACKUP / ARCHIVE…

Micro Focus Infrastructure

SQL ServerOracle DB2 VSAM IMS-DB

ADABAS

CICS IMS-TM JCL

Your business application


Deployment

zEnterprise

Communications Interfaces Execution Environment Batch Infrastructure Data Development & Test

Micro Focus Enterprise Server

Development & Test

RUMBA3270 clients

LU 6.2 /APPC

MS IIS

Rumba OnWeb

Administration

Requirements Assessment IDE Source Mgnt Test UI Mod SOA Enablement

Caliber Ent. Analyzer Visual Studio VSTS Silk Rumba IMTK

Execution Environment

JCL

CICS

IMS TM

SOA

PLI

COBOL

Management + monitoringESKMAC MS Operations Manager

SORT Utilities GDG

SecurityESM MS Active Directory

Batch InfrastructureJob Scheduler

Output and Print Management

Sort

Backup and Archive

Library Utilities

CA WA

LRS VPSX

Syncsort

DS DataArc

Email, FTP .. 3rd Party

Communications interfaces

tn3270

CICS 1SC

HTTP SOAP

MQ Series

CTG / ECI

IMS Connect

EZASOKET

…

Ms Biz TalkHIS

Data

VASM SEQ IMSDB

SQLMS SQLServer

WebServices

HTML/httpclients

DeploymentThe Micro Focus Reference Architecture: Blueprint for Success


Portfolio Knowledge, Requirements Definition

Unified Application Development,

Requirements Definition and Management,

Change Management

Test Environment, Test Data Management,

User Access

Enterprise Analyzer Enterprise Developer Enterprise Test Server

> Your Modernization Journey

Micro Focus Enterprise product set

Deployment

Application Service Deployment

Enterprise Server

Package

Rewrite

Modernize

COST

RISK

TIME TO VALUE

COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE (0 – 10)

Lowest cost

High risk

Medium risk

Low risk

2-3 years

3-5 years

4 months

4x cost

10x cost

1x cost

0/10 competitive advantage



Lowest risk

Shortest time

Greatest advantage

Package

Rewrite

Modernize

Package

Rewrite

Modernize

Package

Rewrite

Modernize

> Modernization: sound practice

Source: CIO

Client Success

> Delivered by Micro Focus &our partners

Hundreds of enterprise deployments

Skills Tools

Process

Across dozens of platforms

35 years investment & skills

Global delivery partners

Overall Summary – App Totals, Developer Totals,

Outline Application Summary, Indicative Costs

Application by Application key data - value, cost, composition, function,

deployment characteristics

Detailed Application Information - Languages, Data Volumes, Interfaces,

Subsystems

Outline of IT strategy and key considerations

> First Steps – Application Value Profile Day

Strategy FitGeneral Information Application Overview Technical Review


Head of Development


Analyst

Client-site meeting

Outline survey of key application stakeholders Review and outline

proposal within days

Product homepage: http://www.microfocus.com/products/enterprise/

Product set landing page: http://Online.microfocus.com

Webinar Series : Sept 2012

1. Introduction2. Enterprise Analyzer (9/12)3. Enterprise Developer (9/19)4. Enterprise Test Server (9/26)5. Enterprise Server (10/3)

http://www.microfocus.com/resources/events/mainframe-webinars/mainframe-webinars.aspx

Email: [email protected]

> Supporting Information

http://www.microfocus.com/products/enterprise/

http://online.microfocus.com/



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