Overview
Take your business to the next level
IBM z/OS® brings the computing power and resources of the IBM zSystems™ platform to help you drive business transformation and accelerate innovation. Get the stable, secure environment your organization requires to improve performance for mission-critical workloads and meet future challenges.
Preview: z/OS 3.1
The next version of z/OS intends to be an AI-infused, hybrid cloud operating system built for the next generation of computing. With new and enhanced features created collaboratively with key enterprises, z/OS 3.1 is designed to be a resilient, secure, and simplified platform for the future of industry’s most critical workloads.
Benefits
Accelerate hybrid cloud
Achieve rapid application development and provisioning for hybrid cloud deployment.
Gain ease of use
Simplified and modern experience for easier installation, management and use of z/OS with no special skills required.
Enable security and resilience
Build competitive advantage with cyber security solutions that help maintain exceptionally resilient environments.
Featured capabilities
Simplified management
Improve z/OS programmer productivity with a web-based interface and streamlined, automated tasks.
Upgrade workflows
Enable and drive innovative development to support new hybrid cloud and AI business applications.
Linux integration
Integrate popular open-source packages, Linux applications, IBM software and third-party software.
Cloud provisioning
Easily create software service templates that provision IBM middleware for additional functionality.
JSON databases
Easily create and access JSON databases through a comprehensive set of C-based APIs.
Management services
Deploy services that streamline management tasks and apply best practices and internal standards.
Faster recovery
Restore services and recover workloads substantially faster with zero increase in licensing costs.
IT resilience
Rapidly adapt and respond to disruptions or threats, and continue operations without significant impact.
Pervasive encryption
Enable extensive encryption of data in-flight and at-rest to safeguard data and achieve compliance.
Simplified data archiving
Use serverless data movement and storage cloud communication to simplify data archiving in the cloud.
Server communications
Run multiple copies of z/OS as a single image, so you can manage multiple systems and resources from a single point of control.
Supporting capabilities
Workflow automation
Orchestrate configuration management, application deployment and provisioning IT tasks on z/OS.
Container images
Download open-source, no-cost container images that can run in Linux and zCX environments of z/OS.
Modernization
Jumpstart or accelerate application modernization and take a standardized approach to IT automation.
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