Frequently Asked Questions

VirtualZ Computing is a mainframe software company. Our product enables mainframe clouds, automates mainframe optimization, and...

zWaaS™ stands for IBM Z Workload as a Service. This foundational technology from VirtualZ allows you to redirect eligible...

We believe this is one of our biggest differentiators. Today, “mainframe cloud” is most akin to outsourcing, in which an entire...

Customers with a single mainframe are good candidates for VirtualZ’s cloud solutions, allowing you to offload processing and...

VirtualZ is generally able to redirect any product that meets the following requirements: It can be executed as a batch job,...

We created a VirtualZ Savings Guide to outline ways to look at your environment with a fresh perspective with the goal of...

IBM’s Tailored Fit (TF) pricing, announced in May 2019, is a notable advancement of IBM’s monthly license charge model. However,...

When a user initiates an application that VirtualZ has been configured to manage (such as a COBOL compiler), VirtualZ intercepts...

Security is paramount, and VirtualZ ensures that users cannot gain additional privileges or access as a result of our...

Naturally, if a job is redirected from one system to another, the data that job needs in order to execute properly must be...

Our software is masked from your end users: they just submit the same thing they’ve always submitted, no changes needed. The...

Our installation process is designed to be simple and straightforward. Start up VirtualZ and everything is dynamically...

VirtualZ is a software product for the IBM z/OS operating system. It requires z/OS Version 2.1 or higher with JES2 and a TCP/IP...

While we are both focused on cost reduction, we’re solving different problems of what drives mainframe costs. We are focused on...

While we are both focused on batch workloads and cost reduction, our focus is cost reduction by redirection to other, lower-cost...

Yes, VirtualZ supports redirection of UNIX-style executables invoked under the z/OS UNIX Services shell or via z/OS UNIX...