Mainframe Modernization - Best Kept Secrets and Approach

Name: Mainframe Modernization - Best Kept Secrets and Approach
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An Approach towards Modernizing Enterprise Mainframes

Created byRamanathan Perinkolam Krishnamurthi

Last updated 9/2018

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What you'll learn

After this course, a thorough understanding and approach towards Modernizing Enterprise workloads in Mainframe will be obtained.

Course content

1 section • 9 lectures • 1h 17m total length

Introduction6:53
Explore how to turn mainframe assets into digitally accessible workloads, align with CIIC and testing, and deliver a prescriptive modernization roadmap.
Modern Mainframe Best Kept Secrets - Part A15:01
Unearth modern mainframe best kept secrets and practical modernization options, from exposure via services and specialty processors to COBOL-to-Java migration, SDLC automation, and analytics acceleration.
Modern Mainframe Best Kept Secrets - Part B4:42
Explore mainframe modernization strategies, including offloading data to cloud ecosystems and using Apache technologies for analytics. Learn how to select workloads, enable APIs, and integrate DevOps for real-time COBOL workflows.
How to Modernize your Mainframe15:01
Explore how to modernize your mainframe by incrementally migrating COBOL to Java, migrating data to databases, exposing services via API-enabled interfaces, and optimizing workloads and costs to boost business agility.
How to Optimize your Mainframe7:52
Optimize your mainframe by preserving COBOL and the technology stack, leveraging IBM upgrade options, consolidating software, and tuning workloads with caching and strategic backups.
Re-hosting Options for the Mainframe9:01
Explore re-hosting options to move mainframe applications to distributed systems, comparing IBM DXi, Micro Focus Clarity, and COBOL hosting tools; assess pros and cons, performance, and retrofit challenges.
File Based to Db2 Migration7:54
This lecture teaches a two-type approach to file-based to Db2 migration, emphasizing field-level usage analysis, selective targeting, and a separate API layer to minimize changes and protect performance.
New Age Differentiators5:07
Identify new age differentiators in mainframe modernization by using planning and monitoring tools, Rational testing, application discovery with ADT, data virtualization for API-enabled data access.
Conclusion5:33
Assess your current landscape, inventory workloads, and identify target options for mainframe modernization. Embrace that modernization is a journey, not a silver bullet, with workload-focused options and realistic timelines.

Requirements

Many Enterprises are challenged with the Beast called Mainframe. The Modern Mainframes provide a lot of options to Optimize and Modernize Enterprise Workloads. This course provides a detailed approach on the various options and best kept secrets to Modernize an Enterprise Mainframe.

Description

Many Enterprises are challenged with the Beast called Mainframe. The Modern Mainframes provide a lot of options to Optimize and Modernize Enterprise Workloads. This course provides a detailed approach on the various options and best kept secrets to Modernize an Enterprise Mainframe.

This course is NOT for beginners, instead its meant for Mainframe Programmers or Architects looking for various options to Modernize their Mainframe. The options vary from short term to long term solutions. Mainframe modernization is a journey which needs to rigorously understood and adopted.

After this course, a thorough understanding and approach towards Modernizing Enterprise workloads in Mainframe will be obtained.

Who this course is for:

This course is NOT for beginners, instead its meant for Mainframe Programmers or Architects looking for various options to Modernize their Mainframe. The options vary from short term to long term solutions. Mainframe modernization is a journey which needs to rigorously understood and adopted.