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Mainframe Competencies
Contents
Our History
Services
Technical Competencies at a Glance
Training
Outsourcing
Out-tasking
SPIRIT/21 Proprietary Software & Tools
Global TPF Development Platform (GTDP)
Middleware Tools
Mobile Solution
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Our History
Before becoming SPIRIT/21 Switzerland, we were known as Swissair IT Systems transitioning through Atraxis in 1996, EDS Switzerland in 2001 and Hew-lett-Packard in 2007.
IT Systems for Swissair starts using IBM mainframe for its reservation system.
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1996Atraxis becomes the IT solutions provider for the SAirGroup, Qualiflyer airlines, airport authorities and handling agents.
2001EDS acquires Atraxis and expands its collaboration to its US counterpart while solidifying its core market. 2007
HP completes its acquisition of EDS, creating a lea-ding force in technology.2015
SPIRIT/21 IT Services AG takes over HP’s ITO and adds to its portfolio a range of new IT services and skill sets.
Our customers:
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Who we are
Our organization specializes in IT Services, notab-ly z/TPF and z/OS environments. Today we provide many services, including: infrastructure, travel & transportation consultancy, hospitality, banking and insurance. We also host Swiss Airlines, SNBA, Malmö Airways and Kuoni.
Our main office and datacenter are conveniently located in the business center of Zurich airport and this is where most of our staff are based. The main team consists of twenty nine highly qualified z/TPF specialists, twelve z/OS experts and four senior net-work consultants.
Our main office and datacenter are conveniently lo-cated in the business center of Zurich airport and this is where most of our staff are based.
The main team consists of twenty nine highly quali-fied z/TPF specialists, twelve z/OS experts and four senior network consultants.
Our track record shows regular overachievement of SLAs. We have been consistently maintaining a level of service beyond our customers’ expectations.
Latest z/TPF Production system figures showing 100% uptime
Zurich Headquarter & Datacenter location
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Services
SPIRIT/21 has a complete portfolio of z/TPF and z/OS based technologies, products and services designed to improve efficiency, delivery and overall quality of your daily IT business. Our services cover the whole IT spectrum from consultancy and training to out-sourcing, out-tasking, system migration and hosting.
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Skills Consultancy
Outsourcing / Out-Tasking
Consultancy
Our business structure is based on three pillars:
1. Hosting/Operations2. Consulting/Training 3. Software/Tools.
These are organized under four core technical groups:
1. Systems2. Middleware3. Operations/Maintenance4. Development & Tools
We can provide highly skilled and experienced con-sultants in many specialties.
In our environment, the old adage attached to z/TPF and mainframe is not true at all. The bicolour ter-minals and long command entries are a thing of the past. All applications have a user-friendly graphic in-terface running on either Windows, MAC and/or Li-nux operating systems. We also offer our customers the choice of development of applications running on mobile under iOS or Android.
We implemented our Middleware and Systems soft-ware in many airlines such as Emirates/Mercator, Garuda/Asyst, TAP, VARIG, VASP, Turkish Airlines and Swiss Air. We are also the originators of TPFDF and, although IBM acquired the license from us, our team of experts continue to develop z/TPFDF enhance-ments and innovations as part of IBM’s contract.
Our services range from consultancy to full hosting with different levels of tailored solutions to meet your needs.
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Skillsets: z/TPF; Systems administration; Coverage; Automation (Supervision), Change, Incident & Pro-cess Management
Programming languages: Assembler; SPM; C; C++; HTML; PHP; Java; REXX; JCL
Database: TPFDF; MySQL
Network Protocols: TCP/IP; MATIP; IPv6, BATAP, (TypeA/TypeB), Galileo Comms Integrator, TN3270, MQSeries, OSA, MPIF
Environment: z/TPF, zLinux;
Tools: CMS, TSO, Plasma/Endevor, Mona, Netmaster (Solve/CMP), TPF Toolkit, zSST, Service Manger, Su-pervision/SvLite (Automation), WinCvs, UltraEdit, t-webTools/TDP GUI via browser, Putty command line, TPF Monitor, Aselpa, zODF, MESCO Monitor, Regres-sion Testing Tool, DISPO tool, NAGIOS, Sharepoint, PComm, Intran Wiki, MySQL DB.
Skillsets: z/TPF; Development environment; Pro-grammer tools
Programming languages: Perl; Java; Javascript; Shellscript (BASH; Kornshell); PHP; ISPF; REXX; AJAX; HTML; CSS; XML; CGI
Database: MySQL/Maria DB.
Network Protocols: TCP/IP; MATIP; WebSphereMQ; OSI; FTP; SFTP; SSH; Telnet; HTTP; MTP; PPP; IMAP; POP; IPv6; LDAP, Kerberos
Environment: z/TPF; z/VM; z/Linux; ISPF; TSO; Win-dows ; Linux ; Unix; Apache Tomcat; Java Platform EE (JSF; JBoss; JPA; JCA; EJB); Subversion
Skillsets: TPFDF; IATA Host-to-Host (Type-A); Mes-sage Switching (Type-B); EDIFACT; XML; Socketsma-nagement; Traffic monitoring & throttling; Mainte-nance & Problem solving; Tools development for UAT; Transactions simulation; Monitoring; Statistics and Automation.
Programming languages: Assembler; SPM; C; C++; SQL; PL/1; Rexx; HTML; PHP; Java
Database: TPFDF; MySQL
Network Protocols: TCP/IP; MATIP; MQSeries; OSI; IPv6; FTP; HTTP
Environment: z/TPF; Windows; Linux; TSO; Java Plat-form EE (JSF; JBoss; JPA; JCA; EJB)
3. OPERATIONS
2. MIDDLEWARE
4. DEVELOPMENT SUPPORT & TOOLS
1. SYSTEMS
Skillsets: z/TPF architecture; Systems programming; z/TPF updates (PUT & APARs); z/TPF customization; z/TPF user modifications; Data Collection & Ana-lytics; Database management; Diagnostics & Debug- ging; System monitoring; Communicationsprotocols & Network configuration.
Programming languages: Assembler, SPM, C, C++, SQL, Shellscript, Rexx, Perl, Java
Database: TPFDF; MySQL
Network: TCP/IP; MATIP; MQSeries; IPv6; FTP
Environment: z/TPF, z/VM, z/Linux, Windows
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Technical Competencies at a Glance
Training
Our experts will take the time to understand your company‘s learning needs so that we can provide a training solution that satisfies your business objec-tives.
We offer training courses in the following areas: If you have any specific needs in term of training in z/TPF and mainframe environment please let us know. We can build a training to suit your requirements.
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Outsourcing
Whether you want to reduce cost, face issues in IT resources, plan to sunset your existing IT environ-ment or simply concentrate on your core business, we have the solution for you. As an external service provider SPIRIT/21 can effectively deliver IT-enabled business process, application services and infrastruc-ture solutions for your business outcomes with a gu-aranteed quality level and delivery.
SPIRIT/21 has a solid background in outsourcing services and our success stories include Hewlett-Packard and IBM.
We can offer several options, including:
� Transferring over part or all your IT staff to SPIRIT/21 in the USA without disruption of service and our company takes responsibi
lity for of all service level agreements.
� Transfer part or all your IT processes to SPIRIT/21
Out-tasking
If your company embarks on a new IT project or needs help to complete specific tasks, we offer to be your out-tasking partner. We can act as adjunct staff resources to your IT team and bring with us speci-fic expertise backed by sophisticated tools and best practices.
SPIRIT/21 can also provide 1st to 3rd level operations support and coverage with 24/7 availability. You would benefit from our solid experience and extensi-ve service management expertise.
SPIRIT/21 Proprietary Software & Tools
Our portfolio of tools is extensive and we are conti-nuously striving to design and develop new software to help not only in daily work but also to improve quality assurance and reduce time to market.
If you have a specific need, we are ready to discuss it, in order to determine your exact specifications and develop a tailor-made solution that is right for you.
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Global TPF Development Plat-form (GTDP)
Our TPF development product offers a simplified user interface and highly integrated suite of tools. This allows the developer to focus on the work instead of the tools.
There are many benefits using GTDP:
� Significantly simplified “new user” set-up.
� Simplified hardware and software inter faces for easier maintenance.
� Common product across all TPF develop ment sites.
� Implementation of existing product will minimize TDP development effort and mi-nimize user impact caused by loading new, unproven, software.
� Enhanced security, control, monitoring and alerting processes surrounding the new development environment.
� Cost savings though elimination of VM mainframe system for developer support and a significant reduction in the use of mainframe z/OS.
� Replacement of CVS repository (which has reached end of life) with modern reposi-tory product.
� All user interfaces based on TPF Toolkit or Web Browser.
� Underlying infrastructure built using “off the shelf” / open source products and based on centralized database to manage process flow.
� VM elimination for development support and move to a LINUX-based infrastructure.
� Development based on project/task workspace and away from single entities (instead of promoting program/macros you promote the workspace).
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Example of GTDP integrated tools:
CrossReference: allows easy source lookup of Asem-bler, C & C++ programs, program flow analysis and free text search.
Listing: useful tool to search all compiled listings. It supports multiple source code version listings.
Dumps: Reporting tool for applications and system dumps with features such as multiple search crite-ria (per complex, per type, applications area, date/time), transfer report to text and print facility.
Middleware Tools
s/EDI: Resource friendly package which as a conse-quence of being web GUI based, facilitates main-tenance and dynamic Edifact message version up-grades. The package supports Web Services and includes simulators which obviate the need for an external system and test tools.
s/XML: Resource friendly package and web GUI based. It offers several features such as editing, tes-ting/validating and managing XML schemas library.
s/HTH: IATA Host-to-Host protocol management through web user interface. This includes logical de-finition, user entry log, error log & alerts, statistics and administrator tools.
s/MSW: This covers a whole range of type-B mes-sage tools: connection settings, error reports, de-tailed statistics, message facility and operations & administration tools.
s/WebServer: TPF embedded HTTP server, allows for HTTP client or web browser functionalities.
Mobile Solution
SPIRIT/21 can help you extend your applications and tools to mobile devices and deliver a flexible multi-platform solution.
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