Mainframe Archives

17Apr2022

What have we been up to?

2022 is well underway! I thought now was a good time to take a look back over the first 100 days of 2022 and recap on what’s been going on at Sandhata.

New Technical Frontiers

Earlier this year we launched our new product company, PopUp Mainframe! PopUp Mainframe provides the capability to get a virtual mainframe up and running in only 2 hours, with absolutely no reliance on physical mainframe hardware. It is a game changer in the world of mainframe and we look forward to growing our PopUp team.

In April 2022, we launched our new API Platform. This is a really exciting milestone for us as we are now able to support our clients better by providing them with API services or a fully hosted API Platform.

January saw us sign a service agreement to provide employee services for Oracle across the Oracle stack.

We were very proud to achieve the milestone of over 100 consultants working at a single client. This is testament to our team’s excellence across many different technologies, and our client’s trust in us.

21Mar2022

Sandhata Technologies Launches PopUp Mainframe

21st March 2022

The DevOps, Integration and digital transformation specialist, Sandhata Technologies, has launched its new product company, PopUp Mainframe.

PopUp Mainframe is a cutting-edge solution which finally removes the bottleneck of mainframe test environments by enabling clients to create mainframe environments on-demand, either on-prem or in the cloud.

Sandhata Technologies has taken the decision to separate its new product offering, PopUp Mainframe, from Sandhata’s services offering to ensure that PopUp’s software engineering team can focus fully on responding to client needs with the PopUp product roadmap. Sandhata Technologies will continue to offer its award winning consultancy services, specialising in innovative and enterprise-wide DevOps-centric service propositions.

17Jun2021

Webinar: Delivering Secured Mainframe Environments On-Demand

You can now watch this on-demand webinar now!

Join us for this live webinar where our very own Gary Thornhill, along with Gary Hallam of Delphix, will outline and demonstrate how to provision fully data-compliant mainframe environments on demand through self-service, running on-prem or in the cloud, across dev and test.

4Feb2021

Need a dedicated mainframe environment? Look no further than PopUp Mainframe

For distributed applications, it is now routine and often expected that a dedicated environment can be spun up anytime one is required. This is in line with the agile and DevOps ways of working which are becoming ubiquitous in the distributed world. However, this has not commonly been the case for mainframe (and certainly is not widely implemented yet).

Non-prod mainframe environments are hard to get hold of!

Usually, mainframe test environments run on dedicated LPARs with typically fixed MIPS allocation. As these test environments are “sharing” the mainframe resources with prod environments, there is a strict quota with tight restrictions on usage. The total mainframe capacity (including test capacity) cannot be extended without purchasing more resources at great cost.

This lack of mainframe test environments necessitates tight scheduling and control so the environments can be shared. Many organisations have a mainframe-skilled environment management team for this purpose, and in many cases, inefficient processes governing mainframe test environment setup and requests.

22Dec2020

Mainframe testing: What’s the difference between PopUp Mainframe and physical mainframe?

The challenge of testing in the mainframe world

Modern development teams require agile, flexible environments to be able to deliver quick change reliably and enable business competitiveness. But the reality is that fixed, shared mainframe environments cause environment bottlenecks that hinder projects, slow time to market, and result in quality issues and spiralling costs.

The shortage of mainframe test environments is a big blocker to any project across the enterprise which relies on mainframe. Many projects involve a change only in the “front end” but depend on testing the “back end” (i.e. mainframe) even when it is not changing, and suffer from lack of mainframe test environments.

How does PopUp Mainframe solve this problem?

30Nov2020

Webinar: Programmable Data infrastructure for the mainframe

You can watch this on-demand webinar now!

Join us for this live webinar where our very own Nadim Yousaf and John Edwards, along with Chay Thornhill of Delphix, will show a live PopUp Mainframe demo and outline how virtualising your non-production Mainframe environments allows you to adopt an agile strategy that will accelerate application development.

We will also highlight how driving Mainframe modernisation, enabling AI and CX programs and reducing cost is imperative for every company.

19Nov2020

Introducing PopUp Mainframe

We are very excited to introduce the PopUp Mainframe – a brand new offering which finally removes the bottleneck of mainframe test environments by making mainframe self-service a reality.

Mainframe environments are expensive to buy and time-consuming to build and maintain. This leads to a shortage of mainframe test environments, project conflicts and slow production releases and time-to-market.

27Aug2020

Tame your mainframe testing with Robotic Process Automation

Are your mainframe systems holding you back from delivering change?

Does your mainframe testing snowball – taking more time and more resources each project?

Our experience with a wide variety of mainframe clients has shown us that the traditional slow, cumbersome, manual mainframe testing has knock on effects throughout the whole organisation, preventing change from being delivered in a timely manner. Many organisations are hamstrung by the need to test the mainframe systems (the back end) when changing only the front end which means their Agile and DevOps teams are unable to release fast and frequently.

7Dec2018

Sandhata wins Best Overall Testing Project at TESTA 2018

7th December 2018

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Agile, Awards, DevOps, Mainframe Blog, News room

The DevOps, Integration and IT transformation specialist, Sandhata is delighted to announce its joint entry with RBS won ‘Best Overall Testing Project – Finance’ at The European Software Testing Awards 2018.

Now in its sixth year, The European Software Testing Awards (TESTA) celebrates companies and individuals who have accomplished significant achievements in the software testing and quality assurance market.

Sandhata, in partnership with Royal Bank of Scotland, has been recognised by TESTA for its innovative testing project ‘Accelerating Mainframe Change’ delivered by the RBS engineering team and Sandhata.

17Jul2018

Press Release: DevOps for Mainframe – Act Before It’s Too Late

Act before it’s too late!

Mainframe systems are incumbent in nearly all large financial institutions and incredibly powerful at processing high volume transactions. Mainframe is here to stay, but it is in desperate need of modernising.

DevOps has been seen by some as not suited to the mainframe. However, recent legislation and fast-growing competition are forcing large financials to keep pace or lose out. Mainframe modernisation is urgently needed to remain competitive in this market.