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 |
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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 | |
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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
xPLC
xPLC is a full DevOps platform for distributed platforms: linux, windows and Unix.
xPLC is the distributed instance of zPLC.