Ensure Compliance and Boost Performance with Active Data Archiving for IBM zSeries Mainframe

Digitization has resulted in an explosion of data in enterprises. The amount of data stored in mainframe systems are also expanding quickly and resulting in decreased application performance, higher license and maintenance costs, scalability challenges, and risk of regulatory non-compliance. SOLIXCloud Active Archiving for IBM zSeries Mainframe can help By identifying and moving infrequently used data from the production Mainframe system to a low-cost compliant cloud archive, all while providing real-time access to the archived data for compliance and business reporting.

Cloud Data Management for IBM zSeries Mainframe

Optimize IBM zSeries Mainframe with Active Data Archiving

Reduce Mainframe Data Management Costs

By archiving infrequently accessed and legacy transactional data from active mainframe systems to cost-effective archive storage, organizations can realize significant savings from expensive application licensing, database licensing, infrastructure, and maintenance costs. Further, active archiving can keep the total cost of ownership (TCO) low for Mainframe systems, ensuring cost optimization throughout the application's life.

Improve Mainframe Systems Performance

The Mainframe database and application performance can decline with growing data volumes. Implementing an active policy-based Mainframe archiving approach can significantly reduce the volume of transactions the Mainframe system processes, resulting in enhanced application response time and user productivity.

Ensure Data Compliance for Mainframe

Policy-based archiving and disposition enable regulatory data retention obligations to be met efficiently. Moreover features such as legal hold, data privacy, end-to-end encryption, metadata management, data profiling, sensitive data discovery, and data masking enable organizations to effectively fulfill complex and intertwined global data retention and privacy requirements.

Continued Access to Legacy Mainframe Data

Ongoing access to archived Mainframe data is crucial for compliance and business operations. SOLIXCloud facilitates real-time access to archived data, allowing authorized users to text search, create custom reports, forms, and archive print reports independently of the source system. Furthermore, application reports can be tagged, indexed, and made searchable in SOLIXCloud, and APIs enable archived data tp be accessed and analyzed with third-party BI tools.

The Solix Advantage for IBM zSeries Mainframe Archiving

SOLIXCloud archiving for mainframe includes support for archiving from multiple mainframe data sources, such as Db2, z/OS, IDMS, IMS, VSAM, sequential files, and QSAM. Our mainframe experts can help you strategize multi-application retirement scenarios with a phased approach. Talk to our experts today to learn more.

Key Capabilities

Archive
Any Data
Data
Retention
eDiscovery
& Legal Hold
Print Report
Archiving
Text
Search
Advanced
ILM
Metadata
Management
Structured and
Adhoc Reports

Cloud data management to archive all data and legacy applications

SOLIXCloud Enterprise Archiving provides a fully managed, cloud-scale, compliant archive repository for less-active enterprise data (structured, semi-structured and unstructured) and retirement of legacy applications
- Centralized data governance and administration
- Improve application performance and optimize infrastructure
- Manage data growth and reduce costs
- Meet compliance objectives
- Supports ERP, CRM, Custom Apps, Mainframes, File servers, IOT, Email, Documents, Social and Log data
Achieve compliance objectives with policy-based data retention

Through advanced Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) organizations handle the complex regulatory landscape and minimizes risks of accidental data deletion from the archive.
- Retain data only as long as required by law
- Automatic or manual purge with prior notification
- Custom rules engine
- Standard retention plans including Fair Labor Standards Act, Bank Secrecy Act, Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS), Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA), General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA)
eDiscovery & Legal Hold

Compliance and legal professionals can quickly identify and retrieve records to meet data requests from regulatory agencies and law enforcement. Further, they can place legal holds on records of interest to ensure such data is retained beyond the pre-defined data retention periods to comply with legal proceedings.
- Supports multiple cases
- Robust text search
- Structured and Adhoc reporting
Print Report Archiving

The Solix Virtual Printer feature enables users to print important legacy application reports and have them ingested into SOLIXCloud Enterprise Archiving. These reports are denormalized, indexed and tagged for easy text search and retrieval by end-users.
Solix Search provides comprehensive text search, structured reports and adhoc queries

Text search provides simplified user access to enterprise business records (EBR) which are denormalized views of a specific business function such as invoicing. EBR's organize data into templates (i.e. invoices, customer data, spreadsheets, and other documents) for easy self-service access to complex business processes.
Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) is a best practice for managing data throughout its lifecycle

ILM solutions are intended to improve the performance of enterprise applications, reduce infrastructure costs and provide governance, risk and compliance frameworks for enterprise data. With ILM, organizations are able to optimize their infrastructure with a tiered enterprise data management strategy, and establish a control framework for proper data governance and compliance.

Industry analysts point out that up to 80% of data is not current, and the value of data declines dramatically over time. ILM classifies data at creation and moves data across infrastructure tiers based on business rules and retention policies. ILM ensures that only current, active data is consuming valuable tier one compute and storage resources, and that all data is governed by compliance policy throughout its lifecycle.
End-End Metadata Management

Solix Metadata management is an end-to-end framework to explore all enterprise metadata and lineage from a centralized repository and business glossory.
- Explore your Enterprise Data Landscape
- Understand the data lifecycle
- Establish consistent descriptions and business context for your data
Comprehensive reporting for all structured data
- ODBC, JDBC, SQL access
- Comprehensive REST API
- Legacy reports
- Custom and adhoc reports

Resources

White Paper

Guide to Digital Transformation: Cloud Data Management

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On-Demand Webinar

Archive Modernization Using Cloud

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eBook

Mainframe Modernization: Why Do You Need It? And How Can Archiving Legacy Mainframe Applications Help?

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Why SOLIXCloud?

SOLIXCloud Enterprise Archiving delivers a fully managed low-cost, scalable, elastic, secure, and compliant data management solution for all enterprise data.

Single Platform

Unified archive for structured, unstructured and semi-structured data.
Reduce Risk

Policy driven archiving and data retention
24/7 Support

Solix offers world-class support from experts 24/7 to meet your data management needs.
On-demand Scale

Elastic offering to scale storage and support with your project
Fully Managed

Software as-a-service offering
Secure & Compliant

Comprehensive Data Governance
Low Cost

Pay-as-you-go monthly subscription so you only purchase what you need.
End-User Friendly

End-user data access with flexibility for format options.

Active IBM zSeries Mainframe Data Archiving