IBM z/OS Operating System Products

Secure and scalable infrastructure

The IBM® z/OS® (PDF, 480KB) operating system delivers the secure, scalable, available infrastructure required for hybrid architectures to support on premises, off premises, or provisioned as-a-service.

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Security

Focus on a transparent and consumable approach to enable extensive encryption of data in-flight and at rest.

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Hybrid cloud

Transform from an IT cost center to a value-generating service provider, delivering world-class services on-premises or off-premises.

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Insights with AI

Minimize the cost and complexity of analytics by accessing your enterprise data “in-place” with minimal data duplication or data movement.

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Availability

Gain 99.999% application availability and unmatched disaster recovery. Some client installations run for a decade without a second’s downtime.

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The operating system

IBM z/OS V2.3

This operating system delivers innovations designed to build the highly scalable and securable next-generation infrastructure.

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Featured software and tools

System Display and Search Facility (SDSF)

SDSF technology uses IBM z/OSMF to view and help monitor and manage your z/OS sysplex, in both JES2 and JES3 environments.

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Resource Measurement Facility (RMF)

This optional feature collects data for z/OS and sysplex environments to monitor systems' performance behavior and tune and configure the system.

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IBM SDK for Node.js - z/OS

Node.js can enable enterprise clients to efficiently augment existing IBM Z® application stacks to provide a timely response to customer requirements driven by digital transformation.

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IBM® Multi-Factor Authentication for z/OS®

This software works with IBM Resource Access Control Facility (RACF®) to add authentication factors to z/OS systems, define policies for these factors and apply them to specific IDs.

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Resource Access Control Facility (RACF)

RACF technology provides security for an installation's data and protects your vital system resources and controls what users can do on the operating system.

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IBM Open Data Analytics for z/OS

This software integrates open source analytics, advanced data access and abstraction by combining open source run times and libraries with analysis of z/OS data at its source.

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“z/OS V2R3 runs extremely stable, robust and offers good improvements to manage our daily business e.g. in Unix System Services, JES2 and z/OSMF”

—Horst Schmidt, Generali Shared Services S.c.a.r.l.