IBM i vs. IBM z/OS

IBM i is well suited for the Banking Industry, Manufacturing Industry, Pharmaceutical Industry and many more. Most major ERP solutions run on IBM i these days due to its proven capabilities of handling large transactions. A lot of banks have been relying on the IBM i platform for running its core banking solution as the technology offers capabilities to safeguard their data.

Incentivized

IBM z/OS, more specifically Omegamon, has access to a lot of relevant information for monitoring but a 90s interface with little or no ease of use and/or maintenance.

• Database Management
• Security
• Logging

Incentivized

• provides infrastructure metrics
• provides historical transaction behavior
• provides metrics on vital components for z/OS

• Needed more CASE tools like RDi on IBM i to be developed.
• The webSphere-related hosting procedure needs to improvised for quick turnaround or setup.
• Just like XML-into, JSON based parser will be helpful to deal with modern data sets.

Incentivized

• end-to-end requests
• correlated metrics of vital components
• facilities to consume historical transaction data

IBM needs to update, modernize and improve the usability of the Omegamon interface

IBM i platform is single shop solution for multiple business requirements. Its database architecture and security options made it dependable among multiple business domain entities. IBM i is IBM's well-told and well-known system. IBM i is popular in companies in the manufacturing and supply chain business. Thanks to IBM that it kept IBM i (AS400) ever-evolving so far.

Incentivized

IBM needs to update, modernize and improve the usability of the Omegamon interface

• Low cost on IBM i server maintenance.
• Easy to move on cloud based system.
• Data migration is easy between applications as well as servers.

Incentivized

• We need to have Observability on the Mainframe