Rocket Software Enhances Job Control Management Solution to Drive Efficiency in Mainframe Data Centers

WALTHAM, Mass. – June 6, 2022 –  Rocket Software, a global technology leader that develops enterprise software for some of the world’s largest companies, today introduced the next version of its PRO/JCL, a job control language (JCL) management solution that includes a new interface through VS Code®1 extension, Enhanced Directed Execution to include options for sending PROCs and PARMLIBs to remote LPARS, and improved visibility for NODE and LPAR in the primary panel. These updates help mainframe data centers achieve and operate a JCL environment that is error-free, standardized, and optimized.

Enterprises with mainframes typically have a higher number of experienced developers retiring, and an influx of new professionals joining the workforce. A recent survey from Rocket Software found that companies continue to face skills gaps in their talent pool, and modernizing systems is the most popular way respondents are working to maintain talent pipelines with 45% of IT professionals citing it as the top method.

This version of PRO/JCL provides customers with new interface options that are appealing to today’s mainframe professionals and the organizations hiring them. A new interface through a VS Code® extension adds to Rocket Software’s list of current interfaces, including through ISPF, Eclipse®, IBM® Developer for z/OS® (IDz), BMC® Compuware® Topaz® Workbench, and a RESTful API.

Nearly all growing organizations are modernizing, making PRO/JCL and its many interfaces the strongest choice for any mainframe ecosystem. Benefits of PRO/JCL include:

• Simplified JCL management: Reduce the complexity of JCL management through DevOps capabilities, more integrations, and increased automation.
• Increased developer productivity: Reduce elapsed time of the JCL management cycle by including tools within users’ favorite IDE for a seamless DevOps integration, enabling developers to increase business value.
• Improved production quality: Detect JCL inconsistencies before execution and easily make changes to production environments to help ensure error-free production runs, reducing backlog and production turnover while increasing throughput and value delivered by the system. 
• Improved responsiveness to change: Reduce mainframe bottlenecks to meet service level agreements more reliably.
• Reduced costs: Eliminate costly re-running of production jobs.

“Existing DevOps initiatives often omit JCL management from the DevOps toolchain, causing critical interruptions to business value streams, resulting in slower processes and potential revenue losses,” said Phil Buckellew, president of Infrastructure Modernization, Rocket Software. “Our customers often operate several mainframe solutions and require a JCL management solution that can integrate with all of their critical mainframe software. The newly released PRO/JCL will do just that.”

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Acerca de Rocket Software

Rocket Software se asocia con las organizaciones más grandes de Fortune 1000 para resolver sus desafíos de TI más complejos en aplicaciones, datos e infraestructura. Rocket Software lleva a los clientes desde donde se encuentran en su proceso de modernización hasta donde quieren estar mediante la arquitectura de soluciones innovadoras que brindan experiencias de próxima generación. Más de 10 millones de profesionales de TI y negocios en todo el mundo confían en Rocket Software para ofrecer soluciones que mejoran la capacidad de respuesta al cambio y optimizan las cargas de trabajo. Rocket Software permite a las organizaciones modernizarse en el lugar con una estrategia de nube híbrida para proteger la inversión, disminuir el riesgo y reducir el tiempo de obtención de valor. Rocket Software es una corporación estadounidense privada con sede en el área de Boston y centros de excelencia ubicados estratégicamente en América del Norte, Europa, Asia y Australia. Rocket Software es una empresa de cartera de Bain Capital Private Equity. Siga a Rocket Software en LinkedIn y Twitter .

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