AWS PartnerCast — Leveraging VirtualZ Lozen™ in Your Mainframe Modernization Journey, featuring integration with Rocket Enterprise Server

Modernizing COBOL workloads on IBM Z requires more than application migration — it demands real-time, secure access to mainframe data throughout the process. In this AWS PartnerCast, AWS showcases how VirtualZ’s Lozen™ can serve as a seamless, no-code data access layer as part of your mainframe modernization journey.

A key feature of this solution is Lozen’s native integration with Rocket Enterprise Server, which enables COBOL applications running on distributed platforms — such as Windows, Linux, or cloud environments — to read and write to IBM Z data sets (like VSAM) in real time, without code changes or replication.

By combining Lozen’s automation and Rocket Software’s Callable File Handler API, AWS customers can reduce complexity, lower modernization risk, and accelerate cloud adoption.

What You’ll Learn

• Why COBOL data access is often a roadblock in mainframe modernization
• How Lozen integrates with Rocket Enterprise Server to provide secure, real-time access to mainframe data without disrupting legacy applications
• How to configure Lozen as a lightweight data access layer — no refactoring required
• How this integrated solution supports AWS-native services for analytics, storage, and application modernization
• Best practices for aligning this approach with your AWS modernization roadmap

Whether you’re migrating COBOL workloads, modernizing batch processes, or building hybrid mainframe-cloud architectures, this session will help you unlock your mainframe data — and move forward faster.