Running the Cloud Pak on the mainframe
Mainframe computers have been around since the 1950s, and today, they still power 90% of all credit card transactions and a large number of the world’s IT production workloads. 70% of Fortune 500 companies are using mainframe systems. Since the 2000s, they run on z/OS, which allows the leverage of a Java Virtual Machine (JVM) alongside traditional Cobol programs. This opens the door to the integration of existing Cobol programs with features developed in IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation.
While the whole Cloud Pak doesn’t support z/OS, one of its constituents, the Operational Decision Manager (ODM), does. This allows for adding decision-making capability to legacy Cobol applications.
From the standpoint of the business user in charge of modeling decisions, the fact that the target execution platform happens to be on the mainframe rather than on a distributed system is completely irrelevant, and they can continue to model...