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Let’s modernize with Optimizing Skills & Efficiency from Rocket Software

Propel forward and scale IT
by optimizing skills & efficiency

Break down the barriers to IBM® i and IBM Z® systems. Transform challenges into opportunities - optimize skills, enhance efficiency, and foster innovation. Propel your business into a future of operational excellence.

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  • Avoid SLA breaches: AI Predictive Pulse provides insights to keep critical processes on track and prevent disruptions.
  • Diagnose performance issues quickly: Anomalytics for TMON Performance Monitors detects and resolves system anomalies automatically, reducing manual efforts and cutting costs.
  • Access data faster with AI: Content Smart Chat enables natural language queries, streamlining data access and decision-making while ensuring compliance.
WHAT'S NEW

AI-Driven Solutions for Skills & Efficiency

Rocket’s AI innovations help organizations optimize IBM i/Z systems and reduce reliance on specialized talent. With AI-driven detection, diagnosis, and predictive insights, we enhance efficiency and streamline operations.

WHY SKILLS AND EFFICIENCY OPTIMIZATION

Don’t be left behind.
Stay ahead in today’s
digital age.

In business, the only constant is change. Today, IT must move faster than ever to keep pace.

Are you facing any of the common challenges in the IT industry today?

  • Bridging the knowledge void by retiring IBM® i and IBM Z® systems experts
  • Pressure to do more with fewer resources, increasing workloads and
    system management demands
  • Staying competitive in a rapidly evolving digital landscape
  • Manual processes that create bottlenecks in IT and time to value for customers

Do more. With less.

Automate to maximize efficiency and be ready for the unexpected.

Close the skills gap

Enable next-gen talent to engage IBM i/Z systems without deep development and system expertise.

Unlock talent and resources

Free skilled talent to focus on tougher business-critical projects without creating a backlog.

Build business agility

Quickly respond to challenges across the tech stack and at the strategic business level.

Excellence through innovation

Get ahead of the curve when it comes to incorporating new tech and modern best processes.

Challenges
  • Significant UI usability issues
  • 9 month learning curve for new hires with high employee turnover
  • Long processing times with heavy manual queues
Results
  • Converted more than 800 green screens to modern UI
  • 75% decrease in research time required to complete policy renewals
  • Improved customer experience during claims process
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Challenges
  • Seasonal new hires dropping out during training
  • Significant order processing time differences between new hire and seasoned workers
Results
  • Eliminated 50 seconds from entire order entry process
  • Reduced training dropouts
  • Improved employee and customer experience while decreasing call center costs
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Challenges
  • Inability to pinpoint performance issues within CICS systems despite awareness
  • Limited insights into root cause of performance issues
  • Challenging to detect known bugs within CICS system
Results
  • Discovered a critical bug causing excessive CPU consumption
  • Reduced CPU usage by a remarkable 92%
  • Achieved substantial cost savings and enhanced system efficiency
Challenges
  • Inadequate overview of its LPARs
  • Outdated monitoring system based on Excel spreadsheets to estimate workloads and identify MIPs
  • CPU bottlenecks leading to delays in batch processing
Results
  • Quick identification of causes for batch processing issues
  • Automated monitoring of the LPARs system to track performance and implement adequate mainframe capacity
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System Operation Suite

Rocket® TMON™ One

Manage performance across multiple integrated monitors for all mainframe systems. Forecast and manage capacity for open systems and z/OS with graphical analysis and KPIs.

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Rocket® C\Prof

Visualize how IBM® CICS® transactions are executed and diagnose problems in your CICS applications faster with intuitive transaction profiling for CICS trace data.

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Rocket® iCluster

Rocket iCluster high availability/disaster recovery (HA/DR) ensures uninterrupted operation for your IBM® i applications, providing continuous access by monitoring, identifying, and self-correcting replication problems.

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Rocket® z/OS Storage

Manage mainframe data and optimize storage capacity with modern capabilities for hybrid cloud storage and surgical data recovery. Automate tasks like backup/recovery and tape migration and reduce downtime for improved SLA compliance.

Learn more about Rocket® Open Source Solutions for z/OS

Productivity and Workflow Suite

Rocket® API

Convert repetitive, time-consuming tasks like data entry, tracking, and escalation into automated user-centric workflows for improved productivity across business operations.

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Rocket® Process Insights

Modernize every green screen in your organization and enable deployment of pre-built or dynamically customized UI templates — no COBOL or RPG expertise required.

Learn more about Rocket® Process Insights

Rocket® Enterprise Orchestrator

A workload automation and DevOps orchestration platform that seamlessly integrates all your business processes, from mainframe to cloud.

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Rocket® Modern Experience

Modernize every green screen in your organization and enable deployment of pre-built or dynamically customized UI templates — no COBOL or RPG expertise required.

Learn more about Rocket® Modern Experience

Rocket® DevOps

Enable true end-to-end CI/CD for IBM® i and IBM® Z systems environments so your business can extend innovative experimentation, easily respond to compliance audits and adapt to the ever-changig expectations of process, technology, or experience.

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Rocket® Workload Automation

Streamline automation across different technologies reducing complexity, risk & costs. Enhance Operations or DevOps with seamless integration into major cloud services like AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud.

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Rocket® PRO/JCL

Integrate with your preferred IDE and DevOps tools for GUI-based JCL management and task automation. Boost throughput and reduce costs with a standardized, optimized, and error-free JCL ecosystem.

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Rocket® Open AppDev for Z

Accelerate mainframe application development with the latest open-source interfaces, tools, and languages.

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Rocket® Support for Zowe®

Help next-gen mainframe developers do their best work with modern, secure, fully supported open-source software for z/OS®.

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COMMON APPROACHES TO MODERNIZATION

Automate. Orchestrate. Optimize.

  • 80%

    of IT leaders will be using service orchestration and automation platforms

  • 89%

    of CIOs report more competition for qualified IT talent

  • 20%

    of lost revenue if no action is taken to close the skills gap

  • Modernize storage and performance management to alleviate the impact of skills shortages
  • Automate critical tasks and improve system responsiveness to reduce errors and improve business resiliency and agility
  • Integrate across hybrid IT infrastructure to ensure storage interoperability and efficient performance
  • Streamline DevOps processes to respond quickly to customers and market demands
  • Experiment with new tech like AI/ML and modern best practices
WHY ROCKET FOR IBM I AND Z SYSTEMS

Two tech stacks. One company.

Rocket Software delivers feature-rich products that “just work” without heavy reliance on services contracts. No one else in the market offers the full breadth of automation, talent enablement, and business agility capabilities across both IBM® i and IBM Z® systems.


Rocket equips you to continually optimize your business potential. Optimizing Skills and Efficiency solution for system operations and productivity and workflows, your talent can bring the best solutions to your biggest problems. You can automate to maximize efficiency and be ready for the unexpected. The nimble business you’ve been striving to build is well within reach.

Modernization. Without Disruption.™

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