Rocket® Zeke™

For enterprise-wide systems management and job / process management for IBM® z/OS®.

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Automate your entire mainframe job scheduling

Rocket® Zeke™ is the advanced automated mainframe job scheduling software that optimizes your workload through real-time, logical, and physical resource control to automatically check condition codes at every step and to react in real time.

Rocket Zeke schedules and submits events at machine speed, and it improves system efficiency and throughput by checking physical and logical resources before job dispatching. It checks step-level condition code for you by utilizing the IBM® SMF facility and allows job cancellation based on condition codes.

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Comprehensive mainframe job scheduling

Rocket Zeke is a mainframe job scheduling software that manages every aspect of the job schedule. It provides you with the automation and visibility needed while reducing human error with minimal user intervention.

Automatically checks condition codes at every step and helps to react in real time.

Enterprise-wide mainframe job scheduling tools

Rocket Zeke creates schedules, performs backups, and maintains calendars without interrupting service.

Take automation a step further with Rocket AI Predictive Pulse add-on. This feature helps identify and address potential errors, delays, or missed SLAs, which might otherwise go unnoticed.

Presents all schedule information for z/OS, Windows/Linux platforms on a single screen.

Predictive Pulse add-on enables proactive decision-making and strategy recommendations.

Features

Schedule View

Easily view schedule information on a single screen and gain highlighted exceptions automatically by using the Schedule View feature.

Import / Export facilities

Use import/export facilities to ease migration across Rocket Zeke for z/OS implementations or to move from test to production environments.

Direct integration

If you need advanced automation in the Cloud or with many applications off the mainframe, Rocket Zeke directly integrates with Rocket® Zena® and Rocket Enterprise Orchestrator. 

Scheduling Environment Manager

If your ecosystem has multiple instances of Rocket workload automation products, you can add Rocket Scheduling Environment Manager to centrally monitor your scheduling environments across all three platforms.

Rocket Software recognized as a Challenger in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for two years in a row

Rocket Zeke™ is a core part of our Service Orchestration and Automation Platform (SOAP) strategy, delivering enterprise-wide mainframe job scheduling. We think this Challenger recognition validates Zeke’s role in helping organizations ensure reliability, scalability, and innovation across hybrid IT environments.

 

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Available add-ons

AI Predictive Pulse

AI Predictive Pulse uses AI-powered analytics to predict and prevent business service interruptions. By unifying data from multiple third-party schedulers, it automatically monitors, analyzes, and helps resolve potential issues before they impact your operations. This proactive approach saves time, prevents SLA failures, reduces manual effort, and makes workload automation easier—even for users without specialized mainframe skills 

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Self-Service Automation

Self-Service Automation lets authorized business users securely trigger and manage approved automated processes themselves—without relying on IT—making automation more accessible while maintaining security and control. 

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Scheduling Environment Manager

Scheduling Environment Manager is a central monitoring tool that lets you view, organize, and manage multiple scheduling environments (like Enterprise Orchestrator, Zeke, and Zena) from one place. It provides dashboards, custom views, and quick access to act in each environment. 

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Resources

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AI Predictive Pulse Webinar

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What’s New and Exciting for Zena, Enterprise Orchestrator, and Zeke

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Rocket® AI Predictive Pulse

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Rocket® Scheduling Environment Manager

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