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zPLC

DevOps and cloud infrastructure to speed delivery time in half and reduce costs by more than 70%

zPLC is a comprehensive DevOps platform designed for IBM z/OS mainframe including:

• state of the art DevOps practices to improve quality and delivery time
• Pre-integrated Open Source DevOps tools as used by java Software Development teams to automate activities
• IBM z/OS, z/OS subsystems and software running on commodity Linux Servers without consuming mainframe resources

Hosted on premises or in the cloud, zPLC is an INTEGRATED virtual appliance that enables the deployment of a Continuous Delivery platform with speed and confidence, providing

• continuous integration
• continuous testing
• continuous delivery

zPLC enables IT to more rapidly deliver traditional application change and maintenance as well as mobile, cloud, big data projects at improved quality and lowered risk:

KPI	Metric	Mainframe	zPLC
Full Build lead time	5-10 MLOC	2 days	2 hours
Test scenario creation workload	5 000 pgm	500 days	50 days
Full regression test execution	5 000 pgm	20 days	10 hours
Environment Provisioning Lead Time	duration	10 days	20 mn
Major Release Deployment	times a year	4	48
Application Change Lead time (commit to prod.)	duration	months	week/day
Mean Time to recover (rollback)	duration	n/a	1 hour

z/os DevOps stack

zPLC modules
Code Analytics	Improve code understanding, quality control, metrics, impact analysis
Code Refactoring	Automated code transformation: system upgrade, code enhancement
Continuous Testing	Full automation of risk analysis, test preparation and test execution
Continuous Integration	Automated release managt, versioning, orchestration, build, gate
Continuous Delivery	Full automation of provisioning, and z/os hardware emulation

As an option, zPLC is integrated with IBM Rational products:

• Rational Developer for System z
• Rational Team Concert
• Rational Test Workbench
• Rational Test Virtualization Server
• UrbanCode Deploy