WebSphere Portal Enable for zOS

Features and benefits

IBM WebSphere Portal for z/OS helps you deliver more reliable, security-rich enterprise portal solutions

IBM WebSphere Portal Enable for z/OS software provides an enterprise portal solution for organizations that want to improve the effectiveness of their operations. IBM WebSphere Portal software is an industry-leading portal platform designed to deliver a comprehensive set of portal platform services with the availability and scalability demanded by top global companies. WebSphere Portal Enable for z/OS provides the following business benefits:

• Exploits the high availability, serviceability, scalability and security features of IBM System z and IBM z/OS platforms
• Modernizes user access to legacy applications by providing a unified, protected and personalized front end to your back-end systems, applications and data
• Provides optimized access to System z resident systems, such as IBM DB2 data, IBM CICS and IBM IMS transaction systems
• Enables the creation of more intuitive, responsive and participatory SOA based composite business applications
• Supports fast time to value by speeding installation, configuration and deployment
• Delivers responsiveness and reliability from a leader in the enterprise portal market - IBM.

What's new in IBM WebSphere Portal Enable for z/OS
IBM WebSphere Portal Enable for z/OS Version 7.0 provides a complete portal solution that builds upon the solid foundation of previous WebSphere Portal releases, with additional new features such as:

• IBM Universal Hub Integration, a unified page presentation service that enables the rendering of components developed with different tools and frameworks, such as portlets, iWidgets, feeds, HTML pages and more.
• Blog and Wiki capabilities supported via out-of-box content templates, making it easy to add popular social capabilities.
• Multiple Profile Support speeds and simplifies an administrator's ability to create a portal farm / clustered environment, for increased scalability.
• Simplified Migration helps eliminate lengthy migrations by handling migration from WebSphere Portal 6.1 to 7.0 as an in-place software upgrade.
• Additional improvements include an updated Configuration Wizard, and more detailed error reporting & messages.

IBM WebSphere Portal Enable for z/OS utilizes the power of z/OS
In addition to the core portal services provided by WebSphere Portal Enable for z/OS, this enterprise portal platform is optimized for the IBM z/OS operating system and exploits the platforms high availability, serviceability, scalability and security features.

• Close proximity and tight integration with IBM DB2, IBM CICS and IBM IMS subsystems provide highly optimized, security-rich access to data and transaction systems.
• Optimized for running mixed workloads; IBM z/OS Workload Manager software supports high scalability and provides guaranteed results on service-level agreements.
• Exploiting IBM z/OS Communications Server technology provides a high-speed, enhanced-reliability and fault-tolerant environment for running WebSphere Portal software.
• Utilizing the IBM System z Application Assist Processor (zAAP) specialty engine for Java workloads helps improve price performance.

Industry Leadership
The features and benefits listed above have made WebSphere one of the leading solutions in the portal market as verified by industry analysts and press.

 

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