Want to fight disruption and innovate faster? Both are possible when development teams make use of agile, modern DevSecOps practices and deliver applications through an automated and integrated pipeline—the backbone of the value stream. DevOps for IBM Z® hybrid cloud portfolio offers capabilities and best practices to accelerate delivery of your hybrid cloud solutions with higher quality, while minimizing risk.
The most effective organizations include IBM z/OS® applications alongside cloud-native applications, treating IBM Z as another platform that can be leveraged. This approach empowers teams to use a single pipeline to orchestrate the development, integration and deployment of an application across multiple target platforms and environments with the right security rules in place.
IBM extends generative AI-powered watsonx Code Assistant to accelerate mainframe application modernization.
Assess your mainframe application modernization readiness to uncover your path to digital transformation with IBM. Try the self-assessment.
Experience IBM Z DevOps software on demand, through virtual z/OS® systems at no charge.
Work smarter and minimize risk by discovering application and data dependencies. Leverage tools to collaborate more effectively during the development lifecycle.
Explore, discover and plan for z/OS hybrid applications
Understand the relationships between z/OS application artifacts and the impact of changes.
Quickly analyze IBM Z apps to discover API candidates, identify cryptographic exposures and understand the impact of changes.
Adopt faster release cycles by enabling your teams to efficiently manage plans, tasks and project status.
Develop, incrementally and continuously integrate code, and test it in parallel.
Explore the developer experience for hybrid cloud with IBM Z
Bring your own IDE to develop, debug, and build apps with IDs and problem-determination tools.
Build, analyze and test IBM z/OS app components within a containerized environment optimized for Red Hat® OpenShift®.
Get on-demand access to z/OS in minutes to speed the development and testing of cloud-native applications.
Detect defects early in the delivery lifecycle through automation and best practices for testing.
Explore automating and shift-left testing z/OS hybrid applications
Run app integration testing early in an open, automated test framework to accelerate continuous integration.
Develop and test mainframe apps on cloud instances or on premises.
Use code-coverage and unit-testing tools for batch, CICS and IMS products, as a component of IDz.
Deliver audited, controlled deployments with modern tools.
A scripted deployment tool that drives z/OS application deployment leveraging Python® and Ansible® that can easily be integrated into a CI/CD pipeline.
Leverage rapid feedback, continuous delivery, and audit trails.
Enable development and operations automation, and unified workflow, on z/OS and z/OS software.
Case studies
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