As organizations accelerate AI adoption, the need for a trusted, secure, and high-performance platform has never been greater. IBM z17™ is purpose-built to help enterprises realize the full value of AI—while maintaining the reliability, security, and scalability required for mission-critical operations.
Building on the strength of the IBM Z platform, IBM z17 enables organizations to drive innovation, improve efficiency, and protect their most valuable assets in an increasingly complex digital landscape.
Accelerate Growth with AI at the Core
IBM z17 helps organizations bring AI closer to their mission-critical data and business processes, enabling them to:
- Drive faster business outcomes and fuel business growth
- Unlock new Agentic AI services and speed innovation
- Modernize faster to free up development resources
By integrating AI directly into the core of the enterprise, organizations can move from experimentation to execution, transforming insights into measurable business value.
Transform Operations with End-to-End Automation
Operational efficiency remains a top priority for organizations seeking to maximize performance and agility. IBM z17 helps enterprises:
- Slash operational complexity
- Expedite insights and eliminate blind spots
- Get the most out of their investment
These capabilities enable organizations to improve productivity, increase responsiveness, and create a more resilient operational foundation for the future.
Protect Critical Data with Uncompromising Security
As cyber threats continue to evolve, organizations require a platform designed to safeguard sensitive data and maintain trust. IBM z17 helps enterprises:
- Strengthen cyber resilience
- Increase transparency to reduce risk
- Simplify security and compliance operations
By embedding security throughout the platform, IBM z17 helps organizations protect critical workloads while supporting regulatory and business requirements.
H&W Computer Systems helps IBM Z clients innovate by making the mission-critical systems they already depend on more available, more automated, and more resilient. With SYSB-II, organizations can keep CICS/VSAM applications online while batch processing continues safely, giving users access to current data without requiring application rewrites.
As IBM z17™ advances end-to-end automation and cyber resilience, H&W is focused on helping mutual customers remove operational limits from existing IBM Z workloads. Automation is raising expectations for fewer manual processes, faster operational response, and more efficient use of trusted systems. Cybersecurity is increasing the need for strong controls, data integrity, recoverability, and continuity across the applications that support critical business services. SYSB-II supports those priorities by helping clients reduce batch window constraints, automate CICS/VSAM file access, and preserve the CICS rules, locking, journaling, and recovery practices their teams already trust.
This announcement matters because IBM Z continues to be where many organizations run the systems that cannot fail. H&W brings deep CICS and VSAM expertise to that ecosystem, helping clients protect availability, preserve proven applications, and modernize operations without unnecessary disruption.
Together with IBM Z, we remain focused on enabling organizations to fully capitalize on the AI era—while preserving the reliability, scalability, and trust that define the mainframe. We are committed to helping clients transform today’s investments into sustained competitive advantage, driving long-term value in an increasingly digital world.
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