Innovative modernization for today’s Mainframe Applications

Digital transformation has changed the game—again. The new pace of rapid change now requires every IT leader to re-think their strategy. Recent research shows that building on what works, while bridging to the latest technology is the new proven recipe for success in this digital age. Achieving that outcome requires the right balance of modernization planning, partnership and technology.

Join us for this exciting product launch webinar to discuss the next chapter of innovation supporting today’s core business applications, as Micro Focus unveils its latest release of the Enterprise Suite —version 7.0. Explore how these cutting-edge capabilities supporting application, process and infrastructure modernization, enable a continuous modernization strategy and customer success.

During this webinar you will explore:
• How the Enterprise Suite supports mainframe modernization and DX
• The latest 7.0 tools to support application, process and infrastructure modernization
• Brand new development tools for delivering contemporary mainframe-based systems
• Deep dive demos and best practices

Don’t miss an opportunity to pose your questions to our expert product panel. Register now.

And for more exciting news on innovative modernization, join us for the Visual COBOL 7.0 product launch on 23 June 2021.

Digital transformation has changed the game—again. The new pace of rapid change now requires every IT leader to re-think their strategy. Recent research shows that building on what works, while bridging to the latest technology is the new proven recipe for success in this digital age. Achieving that outcome requires the right balance of modernization planning, partnership and technology.

Join us for this exciting product launch webinar to discuss the next chapter of innovation supporting today’s core business applications, as Micro Focus unveils its latest release of Visual COBOL—version 7.0. Explore how these cutting-edge capabilities supporting application, process and infrastructure modernization, enable a continuous modernization strategy and customer success.

During this webinar you will explore:

• How Visual COBOL supports your DX strategy
• The latest 7.0 tools supporting application, process and infrastructure modernization
• New resources for the Java developer working with COBOL systems
• A live product demonstration
• Best practices for continuous modernization

Don’t miss an opportunity to pose your questions to our expert product panel. Register now.

And for more exciting news on innovative modernization, join us for the Enterprise Suite 7.0 product launch on June 30, 2021.

We appreciate the investments our customers continue to make with ChangeMan ZMF, and this latest Patch Update gives our customers the ability to not only adopt DevOps practices, but to automate and integrate traditional ISPF users with users who are more familiar with modern tools such as VS Code. As part of this patch update, we have been able to build new plugins for ChangeMan ZMF that reach new users and embrace a more open mainframe adoption. We recently joined the Open Mainframe Project, as a result, we have been able to build our first plugin. Based on the ZOWE platform, the ZOWE CLI plugin enables DevOps automation such as supporting CI/CD pipelines. For your modern users we have extended ChangeMan ZMF to integrate with VS Code Explorer. Both plugins will be available via our Micro Focus Marketplace and available to our customers for free. We will also be releasing the VS Code Explorer onto the VS Gallery. With these latest plugin extensions, ChangeMan ZMF can remain as your vault and allow your users freedom and flexibility to use the tools they want without sacrificing or compromising security and governing processes.

This Webinar session will help you chart a course where ChangeMan ZMF continues to evolve as the backbone for all your mainframe delivery.

In this session, you will:
• Discover what’s new in the latest Patch Update
• See the new plugins in action
• Explore the ChangeMan ZMF roadmap for the next 12 to 18 months

With so much important business data housed on the mainframe, it is logical to leverage RPA for mainframe initiatives. But accessing mainframe data can be more complicated. Since this data is business critical, utilizing RPA with the mainframe must be done right.

This webinar will give you information on a range of options for enabling the integration of host data into these RPA initiatives. Whether RPA developers prefer to integrate via web services or more traditional application programming interfaces, like HLLAPI or .NET, Micro Focus supports a programmatic interface that will optimally support the developer’s integration project.

Join us for this webinar to see how you can leverage host data in your RPA initiatives.

Join Micro Focus and the ACUCOBOL community on May 12 for a closer look at the next generation of ACU technology. Hear from Micro Focus product team as experts as we discuss and show the latest capabilities within Extend 10.4 supporting ACUCOBOL development, deployment and modernization. Don’t miss this opportunity to pose your questions to our expert panel. Join us at this ACUCOBOL launch event on May 12.

The mainframe lives in a connected, digital, hybrid IT World. It must meet a new generation of demands while continuing to extend enterprise-level security to an ever-changing world of business applications.

Traditional host platforms, such as IBM Z, IBM i, HPE NonStop, or Unix, are well-suited to play a pivotal role in digital transformation. These vendors have rigorously innovated the platforms over the years to expose their functionalities to internal and external systems.

Join a guest speaker from IDC for valuable insights for your protected and connected digital mainframe and hear from Micro Focus for simple technology steps you can adopt today to meet security, privacy, and mainframe access objectives.

Hear real world examples, see product demos, and learn customer stories about mainframe access, automation, and innovation. See how organizations are extending enterprise-level security to the mainframe, automating the testing of mainframe applications, and using robotic process automation (RPA) to provide modern mainframe access and security.

View this on-demand recording to learn how secure, modern mainframe access is becoming the standard. Organizations with solutions that enable modern host access, extend enterprise security to the mainframe, deliver terminal-based mainframe applications, increase business efficiencies, and improve services with RPA have a competitive advantage.

In this session you will:
• Hear real world examples of secure mainframe access, automation, and innovation.
• See product demonstrations.
• Learn how customers are extending enterprise-level security to the mainframe, automating testing of mainframe applications, and using RPA with the mainframe.

Learn the latest strategies for implementing secure mainframe access, automation, and innovation. In addition to implementation, we’ll discuss enterprise security controls with the mainframe, including multi-factor authentication (MFA), robotic process automation (RPA) and the mainframe, and automated testing of mainframe applications.

View this on-demand recording to learn how the mainframe continues to be an integral part of a rapidly evolving, connected, digital and hybrid world. You’ll hear how the mainframe must meet new demands for device connectivity and security, and how automation can help you meet these evolving demands.

In this session will get information on:
• Implementing enterprise security controls on the mainframe, including MFA, to ensure secure mainframe access.
• How RPA can be implemented within the mainframe to increase productivity, save time, and cut costs.
• How to use automated testing to increase delivery velocity of mainframe applications, and ensure they meet user requirements without compromising quality

How do you automate your software delivery on the mainframe platform when your software teams are pushing for modern development tools such as Git, Jenkins, and SonarQube? How can they be integrated seamlessly without being relegated to using glue and sticky tape?

If this is keeping you up late at night, view this on-demand recording to learn how you can enable our teams to manage complex release cycles and yet still increase their velocity with inroads and extensions to modern tools.

In this session, you will learn:
• Best practices for automating your CI/CD pipelines increase efficiency and improve software delivery.
• How auditing and history tracking increases transparency, helps identify problems, and mitigates risks earlier in the delivery process.
• How to resolve fixes quickly, cutting needless expense and waste.
• How to maintain high volumes of changes for complex, massive release management by automating the process with ChangeMan ZMF.

Agile practices and digital transformation is happening across multiple platforms. Your teams and developers continuously push for open tools, operations team adds more process and control, and your internal and external customers demand faster delivery. How can you accelerate your delivery to the various platforms while the core of your infrastructure needs to remain on the mainframe?

View this on-demand recording that will help you chart a course where ChangeMan ZMF continues to evolve as the backbone for all your mainframe delivery. You can provide your users freedom of choice for the development tools they want to use.

In this session, you will learn:
• How REST APIs can be leveraged to integrate with third-party and open source tools.
• How some of our other customers leverage their ChangeMan ZMF investment to accelerate their mainframe delivery.
• What the ChangeMan ZMF roadmap is shaping up to be for the next 12 to 18 months.

The Micro Focus group takes a closer look at innovative COBOL and mainframe technology supporting a smarter digital transformation journey. Explore why today’s IT digital transformation strategy requires a new approach to modernization across application, process, and infrastructure domains.

View this on-demand recording to understand how the Micro Focus modernization methodology supports a faster path to transformation over re-write or replacement alternatives. See the latest technology supporting COBOL and mainframe modernization using Visual COBOL and Enterprise Developer portfolios.

In this session, you will explore:
• A proven modernization strategy that delivers increased flexibility and choice.
• The latest COBOL and mainframe technologies supporting new API development, code refactoring, and deployment to Azure and AWS.
• How to leverage the Micro Focus Modernization Maturity Model to fast track your digital transformation journey.
• A variety of product demonstrations.

In this session, we explore the digital transformation journey of a major financial services provider, including ongoing efforts to modernize its business operations and enhance the customer experience. As digital and competitive pressures continue, organizations must find new ways to optimize core business applications, process, and infrastructure while refining operations, reducing cost, and reinvesting for the future.

View this on-demand recording to hear how IT and business are growing more tightly aligned to support new market opportunities and transform core business applications. We’ll take a closer look at how this organization and other industry leaders conquered these digital challenges with a strategic vision, flexible IT strategy, and technology partnership—all supporting their transformation journey.

In this session, you will learn:
• How new digital pressures have created new opportunity and challenge within the financial services industry.
• How Micro Focus technology sets a new blueprint for modernization success.
• Modernization lessons learned and a look at what’s ahead.

Whether developed with Net Express, Server Express or OCDS, Micro Focus COBOL applications have supported your digital transformation journey so far.

But what is on the horizon – or just around the corner? Because aligning the product roadmap to long-term strategic plans makes business sense, so does attending our webinar.

Our live webinar explores how Visual COBOL is the key to future innovation. With our help you will build on strength, adding future innovation to reliable COBOL business systems.

This will enable OS platform support, reuse data for open systems reporting and BI, while embracing agile practices and new modernization opportunities. Highlights include:

•The drivers behind upgrades and change
•New innovations in Visual COBOL, Net Express, Server Express and OCDS
•Enabling real time, relational access to COBOL data for BI/Reporting tools

Our live demo will prove how the upgrade to Visual COBOL delivers consistency, supporting development whatever your choice of IDE. We are encouraging your Q & A’s throughout this informal session.

Deploy to new platforms and architectures.

In this session learn how infrastructure modernization enables portability of business process and integration with Java and .NET frameworks. New scalable architectures support fit for purpose deployment of dev, test, and production workloads to any platform--mainframe, distributed or cloud.

PLEASE NOTE THIS IS A LIVE REPLAY OF AN ON DEMAND SESSION. THERE IS STILL OPPORTUNITY TO ASK QUESTIONS TO MICRO FOCUS RELATED TO THIS TOPIC.

Modernizing your mainframe development and delivery means implementing DevOps. Successful teams recognize it takes three factors: People, Collaboration and Automation, and a desire and commitment across each of them to reap the rewards from a DevOps transformation.

Automation is the most challenging and can be the most daunting. So, where do you start? ChangeMan ZMF is a proven Software Change and Configuration Management platform that has been aiding Enterprise customers with their DevOps journey. At the heart of DevOps is automating CI/CD.

Developers, systems engineers and tool admins:
• Get the inside track on how best to automate CI/CD pipelines to be more efficient and improve software delivery
• See how auditing and history tracking increases transparency, helps identify problems and mitigates risks earlier in the delivery process
• Learn to resolve fixes quickly, thus cutting needless expense and waste
• Realize how to maintain high volumes of changes for complex, massive release management by automating the process with ChangeMan ZMF

The net result? Mainframe and distributed application delivery times are reduced, while quality increases. Don’t miss this webinar.

Deliver better applications faster.

In this session learn how learn how process modernization enables a better customer experience through fast feedback and a continual commitment to quality and collaboration. Faster and more frequent delivery across COBOL and mainframe systems requires a new approach to software development enabled through the adoption modern IDEs and practices such as Agile and DevOps.

PLEASE NOTE THIS IS A LIVE REPLAY OF AN ON DEMAND SESSION. THERE IS STILL OPPORTUNITY TO ASK QUESTIONS TO MICRO FOCUS RELATED TO THIS TOPIC.