When most people think of legacy software, we think of software that is outdated and due for replacement.

Yet, an alternative definition of legacy, particularly when it comes to mainframe application, is, simply, software that works.

This is a definition that our partner, Syncsort, is proud of. The legacy DMX Sort product has been helping customers to reduce the cost of running their mainframe for decades.

This legacy – the understanding of how to optimally move vast amounts of data – is brought to Syncsort’s line of data integration tools – particularly for moving both logs and data from the IBM mainframe and the IBM i series to advanced analytics platforms like Hadoop and Splunk.

These data integration and change data capture solutions are complemented by the data quality stack, meaning that we don’t just move data efficiently, we ensure its quality as well.

Mainframe data is big data