Reduce Your Total Cost of Ownership
Full Exploitation of zIIP and zAAP Specialty Engines
In many circles, enterprise architects and developers equate the IBM System Z mainframe platform with expensive processing costs. However, by dramatically lowering mainframe Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) in a variety of ways, Progress® Shadow® is quickly changing this perception.
By maximizing IBM's System z Integrated Information Processor (zIIP) specialty engine exploitation, substantially reducing integration complexity, and optimizing developer productivity, Shadow enables enterprise organizations to better incorporate mainframe functionality and data into more modern service oriented architectures (SOA) and at the same time reduce TCO and save precious IT budget dollars. DataDirect provides a proven, risk-free method for exploiting zIIP specialty engines. Shadow does not cause IBM or other third party code to become zIIP-enabled.
Measure Value with the Mainframe TCO Calculator
There is no way around it; traditional approaches to mainframe integration are computationally expensive. Shadow exploits the zIIP specialty engine beyond DB2 for reduced mainframe TCO, and the new Shadow TCO Calculator measures the actual value of zIIP exploitation!
Unlike any product on the market today, Shadow provides a risk-free, proven method for unlocking the zIIP engine to run additional workloads beyond DB2, in particular, the processing involved with integrating mainframes with SOAs.
Take a Test Drive
The demonstration graphic below allows you to calculate the benefit of zIIP offload. Adjust the sliders to see for yourself!
**Please note: This is ONLY a demo graphic. This demo does not include the full functionality of the real Mainframe TCO Calculator. Please register to take a test drive of the fully functional TCO Calculator.
Dramatically Reduce MIP and MSU Utilization with zIIP Exploitation
Shadow offloads up to 99% of the mainframe integration processing for Web services supporting service oriented architectures (SOA) or large data queries to no-charge areas of the mainframe.
Here is more about what Shadow can do:
- Seamlessly diverts processing-intensive SOA workloads, such as Web services involving mainframe data sources including Adabas, DB2 for z/OS, IMS DB, and VSAM as well as legacy application environments such as CICS, IDMS, IMS TM and Natural – from the mainframe's General Purpose Processor (GPP) to the zIIP specialty engine
- Quickly and efficiently transforms working mainframe transactions or data queries, allowing the new processing to run economically on the zIIP specialty engine.
- Its patent-pending technology switches between ineligible zIIP environments - like CICS transactions, which must run on standard central processors - and our own processing code, which runs in enclave SRB mode, and is eligible to run on the zIIP.
- Significantly increases the Transaction per Second (TPS) rate – often by as much as 175% by leveraging the zIIP specialty engine beyond DB2. Shadow s. And as a result, Shadow helps organizations better manage IBM monthly licensing charges, as well as improving the ability to meet service level agreement requirements.
- Does not cause IBM or other third party code to become zIIP-enabled.
Also, this approach dramatically reduces MIP and MSU utilization – on average slashing per transaction CPU time by as much as 430%. In effect, Shadow’s unmatched zIIP exploitation translates on average to an 80% savings of GPP CPU time – immediate savings in monthly license and support fees as well as future savings in the form of deferred upgrades through more efficient workload management against capacity requirements.
Simple and Flexible Mainframe Integration
By eliminating the need for redundant point integration solutions, Shadow significantly reduces complexity, points of failure, and costs associated with maintaining the typical "accidental" architecture that defines most enterprise integration scenarios.
Shadow’s products work together seamlessly to meet a wide range of mainframe integration requirements, dramatically reducing the complexity, cost and risk associated with multi-platform connectivity.
Shadow products can also work independently as stand alone solutions to deliver the best of breed tool that meets the most tightly defined integration need. for the enterprise that has a specific project requirement.
Regardless of the scope of the project, Shadow not only seamlessly incorporates the mainframe into modern computing architectures, but also improves cross-platform performance, and delivers substantial TCO reductions.
