Using Mainframe Data in the Cloud: Design Once, Deploy Anywhere in a Hybrid World

Using Mainframe Data
in the Cloud
Ashwin Ramachandran

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Today’s Speaker
Ashwin Ramachandran
Senior Product Manager, Syncsort
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Overview of today’s session
2
4
5
Key Uses Cases
Solutions to deal with the challenges
How to get started
3 Challenges of Leveraging Mainframe data in the Cloud
1 Value of Mainframe and Cloud

Using Mainframe Data in the Cloud5
Mainframes Host the Most Critical Applications
71%Fortune 500
2.5 BillionTransactions / day / per MF
Top World
Banks92 of World’s
Top Insurers10 of Top 25
US Retailers23

Enterprises Are Seeing the Benefits of Moving to the Cloud
• Handle rapid changes in platforms
Regular software updates are handled by
the infrastructure supplier. Get the latest
capabilities without the maintenance
overhead.
• Flex with varying demand
The operational agility to scale up or down
with service demands can be a real
competitive edge.
• Reduce costs
Capital-expenditure free subscription
models cut the up-front cost of hardware.
And you only pay over time for the capacity
you use, not for machines sitting idle.
• Get value faster
No need to spend time acquiring,
provisioning and setting up a data center.
Take advantage of Cloud data centers ready
and waiting.

Leaving Mainframe Data Out of the Cloud is a Missed
Opportunity
• The value of the organizations big
data investments are diminished.
• Large, rich enterprise datasets
never even get analyzed.
• Analytics aren’t accurate or
complete without the full picture.
When mainframe data is left out
of the Enterprise Data Cloud:
Mainframe
Files
Databases
Cloud

Use Cases For
Mainframe
Data in the
Cloud
Powering Advanced Analytics
• Cloud data repositories to centralize
all enterprise data for analytics
• Mainframe is source of years – or
decades – worth of critical historical
and transactional data
• Provides context needed for
accurate customer insights,
predictive analytics, etc.
• Makes analytics, machine learning
and AI models more complete and
trusted
Feeding Real-Time Applications
• Streaming mainframe application
data into business applications
• Growing number of applications
require immediate access to data,
kept up-to-date in real-time
• Examples range from self-service
customer banking portals (need up-
to-date account balances, etc.) to
fraud detection.
Creating Active Archives
• Regulations require that data is
kept for a number of years – and
must be accessible to auditors, etc
• Cloud provides more cost-effective
and accessible storage
• And housing the mainframe data on
the cloud makes it more accessible
for other business initiatives

Mainframe
Data in
the Cloud
Case Study:
CHALLENGE
• Mainframe data coming in from a 3rd
party. No means to populate the MapR
cluster on AWS.
• Avant lacked the skills and technology
required for complex data types and
COBOL Copybooks.
• Open source alone was difficult to
implement causing delays and
inefficiencies.
SOLUTION
• MapR suggested Syncsort DMX-h – best-in-
breed solution for mainframe data access
and integration.
• DMX-h easily collected 2GB of data from
the 3rd party and loaded Amazon S3. Data
source expected to grow to 14GB per day.
• DMX-h converted the EBCDIC mainframe
files to ASCII Hadoop files and loaded
them from S3 into the MapR cluster with
no staging.
BENEFITS
• Created a new hosted product which
helped them recognize a new revenue
stream.
• Saved hundreds of man/hours over open
source coding and tuning.
• Solved the skills gap – Avant can
understand, use mainframe data, onboard
to Hadoop on AWS regularly.
• Easily identified and resolved data errors
and inconsistencies.
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Guardian Life
Insurance
"We found DMX-h to be very
usable and easy to ramp up in
terms of skills. Most of all,
Syncsort has been a very good
partner in terms of support and
listening to our needs.“
– Alex Rosenthal, Enterprise Data Office
Need to enable visualization and
BI on broad range of datasets,
and reduce time-to-market for
analytics projects.
• Reduce data preparation, transformation
times – long delay before new analyses.
• Make data assets available to whole
enterprise – including Mainframe data.
SOLUTION
• Hadoop, NoSQL data lake.
• DMX DataFunnel quickly ingested
hundreds of database
tables at push of a button.
• DMX-h adds new transformed,
standardized data with each new project.
• DMX Change Data Capture pushes
changes from DB2 and other sources to
the data lake in real-time. Current data
up-to-the minute.
Data Marketplace –
centralized, reusable, up-to-the-minute
current, searchable, accessible,
managed, trustworthy data for analytics.
Fast Time-to-Market
for new analytics and reporting.

Large Insurance Company Moves Historical Data to Azure
• One year of sales data available to key business apps, data
stored on expensive DASD storage.
• 97 TB of historical data stored on unreadable, inaccessible
virtual tape.
• No access of key business applications to historical data.
• Syncsort MFX converted virtual tape to mainframe variable.
• Syncsort DMX used over 300 copybooks to translate mainframe
variable data into human readable text.
• Microsoft Azure Data Import Service put all 97 TB in Cloud.
• Key business applications moved to Cloudera CDH on the Cloud.
• All sales data encrypted securely in the Cloud.
• Business has instant access to all 97 TB of historical data.
Before
Current data on expensive mainframe DASD.
Older data on inaccessible virtual tape.
Virtual Tape
18 Years of
Sales Data
Mainframe
1 Year of
Sales Data NO
ACCESS
Mainframe App
Checks sold cases,
rejects and quotes.
After
with MFX, DMX & Azure
Cloud App
Checks sold cases,
rejects and quotes.
Instant access to all data.

Challenges of Using Mainframe Data in the Cloud
• Mainframe data can
be hard to access.
• Need to combine
with other data
(streams in from
POS, web clicks, etc.)
• Complex data,
incompatible
formats
• Lack of skills and
expertise
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Tracking Lineage
from the Source
• Capture of complete
lineage, from source
to end point – across
systems -- is needed
• Data changes made
to help train models
have to be exactly
duplicated in
production, in order
for models to
accurately make
predictions on new
data, and for
required audit trails.
Accessing &
Integrating
Mainframe Data
Ongoing Real-
Time Change
Data Capture
• Tracking and
detection needs to
happen very rapidly
• Current transactions
need to be constantly
added to combined
datasets, prepared
and presented to
models as close to
real-time as possible
• Managing
multiple clouds
and vendors
• Integrating data
and applications
on-premise to
cloud, across
clouds
• Avoiding cloud
lock-in
• Lack of skills to
handle hybrid
multi-cloud world
Supporting
Hybrid and
Multi-Cloud
Using Mainframe Data in the Cloud

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Teach the cloud to speak mainframe while meeting
enterprise-grade requirements
Connectivity
• Banking, insurance and healthcare all need to
preserve data in original format for compliance.
• With Syncsort DMX-h, you can:
• Easily create an exact bit-for-bit copy of
mainframe data in the cloud or on cluster.
• Work with that data in Spark, Spark 2.x.
• Still match data to copybook.
Compliance Latency
• Cloud platforms are disconnected from
mainframes.
• Securely access mainframe data with
FTPS, Connect:Direct.
• Transform data on the fly – no staging.
• Import hundreds or Db2 tables to your
cloud platform with a few mouse clicks.
• SLA’s are shorter and data is growing.
• Load data in parallel, to meet
tightening SLAs.
• Integrate even streaming data with
Spark 1.x or Spark 2.x.
• Keep cloud stores in sync with
mainframe and relational database
changes with DMX CDC.

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Single Interface for Streaming & Batch Integration
Simplify Streaming Data Integration
DMX-h
READS
STREAMING
WRITES
STREAMING
READS
BATCH
WRITES
BATCH
EXECUTES JOIN,
AGGREGATE,
LOOKUP, ETC.
Including 2
• Enhance streaming data with
batch data context
• Easy development in GUI
• No need to write Scala, C or
Java code
• Real-time job status
monitoring

be hard to access.
• Need to combine
with other data
(streams in from
• Complex data,
incompatible
formats
expertise
17
Tracking Lineage
from the Source
• Capture of
complete lineage,
from source to end
point – across
systems -- is
needed
to help train
models have to be
exactly duplicated
in production, in
order for models to
accurately make
predictions on new
data, and for
required audit
trails.
Accessing &
Integrating
Mainframe Data
Ongoing Real-
Time Change
Data Capture
• Tracking and
detection needs
to happen very
rapidly
• Current
transactions need
to be constantly
added to
combined
datasets,
prepared and
presented to
models as close
to real-time as
possible
• Managing
multiple clouds
and vendors
and applications
on-premise to
cloud, across
clouds
• Avoiding cloud
lock-in
handle hybrid
multi-cloud
world
Supporting
Hybrid and
Multi-Cloud

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Seamlessly flow data to, from and among clouds
Design Once, Deploy Anywhere – Public cloud, Private Cloud, Multi-Cloud, Hybrid or On-Prem
• Build a modern data pipeline with flexibility, agility and
elasticity
• Get the most from the Cloud – no silos, no lock-in, no
re-work
• Simplify accessing, integrating, governing your data in
a single software environment
• Get excellent performance every time -- without
tuning, load balancing, etc.
• No re-design, re-compile, no re-work ever -- move
from on-premise to Cloud, or from one Cloud to
another

be hard to access.
• Need to combine
with other data
(streams in from
• Complex data,
incompatible
formats
expertise
19
Tracking Lineage
from the Source
• Capture of
complete lineage,
from source to end
point – across
systems -- is
needed
to help train
models have to be
exactly duplicated
in production, in
order for models to
accurately make
predictions on new
data, and for
required audit
trails.
Accessing &
Integrating
Mainframe Data
Ongoing Real-
Time Change
Data Capture
• Tracking and
detection needs
to happen very
rapidly
• Current
transactions need
to be constantly
added to
combined
datasets,
prepared and
presented to
models as close
to real-time as
possible
• Managing
multiple clouds
and vendors
and applications
on-premise to
cloud, across
clouds
• Avoiding cloud
lock-in
handle hybrid
multi-cloud world
Supporting
Hybrid and
Multi-Cloud

End-to-End Data Lineage
Data Sources
Auditors
get end-to-end
data lineage.
Syncsort onboards
data, modifies
on-the-fly to match
Cloudera storage model, or
stores unchanged for
archive compliance.
Syncsort accesses
data from streaming
and batch sources
outside cluster.
Syncsort changes,
enhances, joins,
blends data in cluster
with MapReduce or
Spark.
Analytics,
visualizations, and
machine learning
algorithms get ALL
necessary data.
Navigator or Atlas
gathers any other
changes made to
data on cluster.
Syncsort passes
source-to-cluster data
lineage info to
Navigator or Atlas.
Enterprise Data Cloud
Analytics,
Visualization,
Machine
Learning
Data changes made
by MapReduce,
Spark, HiveQL.
Data
Data Lineage
Combined
Data

be hard to access.
• Need to combine
with other data
(streams in from
• Complex data,
incompatible
formats
expertise
21
Tracking Lineage
from the Source
• Capture of complete
lineage, from source
to end point –
across systems -- is
needed
to help train models
have to be exactly
duplicated in
production, in order
for models to
accurately make
predictions on new
data, and for
required audit trails.
Accessing &
Integrating
Mainframe Data
Ongoing Real-
Time Change
Data Capture
• Tracking and
detection needs
to happen very
rapidly
• Current
transactions need
to be constantly
added to
combined
datasets,
prepared and
presented to
models as close
to real-time as
possible
• Managing
multiple clouds
and vendors
and applications
on-premise to
cloud, across
clouds
• Avoiding cloud
lock-in
handle hybrid
multi-cloud world
Supporting
Hybrid and
Multi-Cloud

Real-time Change Data Capture
Keep data in sync in real-time
• Without overloading networks.
• Without affecting source database
performance.
• Without coding or tuning.
Reliable transfer of data you can trust even if connectivity fails on either side.
• Auto restart.
• No data loss.
Real-Time Replication
with Transformation
Conflict Resolution,
Collision Monitoring,
Tracking and Auditing
Files
RDBMS
Streams
Streams
RDBMS
Data
Lake
Mainframe
Cloud
OLAP
Broad Source and Target Support
• Mainframe – IBM I, Db2, VSAM, …
• Streams – Kafka, Amazon Kinesis, …
• Relational databases – Oracle, SQL Server, …
• Cloud – MS Azure SQL, S3, …
• OLAP databases – Teradata, …
• Hadoop / Big Data – Hive, HDFS, Impala, …

How to Get
Started Using
Mainframe
Data in the
Cloud
1.Determine the business
use case that requires
mainframe application
data
2.Identify key mainframe
data assets, what form
they exist in, and where
your metadata lives
3.Define SLAs for data
delivery, compliance and
security requirements,
and data formats to
select the right toolset
4.Let Syncsort help! We are
the industry leaders in
connecting mainframes
with next-generation
data platforms

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