About this episode

Vince Re discusses the launch of PropelZ 2.0, highlighting customer-driven innovations in mainframe data integration.

What's new in PropelZ 2.0, and what does the release change for enterprise mainframe data integration? VirtualZ Computing CTO Vince Re walks through the major 2.0 release of PropelZ — VirtualZ's no-code tool for moving and replicating IBM Z mainframe data to the cloud — covering dozens of customer-requested features, including a 60% throughput improvement and native binary data handling. Vince Re explains how real customer problems drove the release: a retailer's binary data requirements, a financial services customer's billion-row processing needs, and a large mainframe outsourcer's enterprise connectivity demands. He shares the technical detail behind each enhancement and how it maps to integration problems enterprises face now. In this episode of Skyward Data, the podcast from VirtualZ Computing: - Custom input/output handlers with variable-length record support and binary data processing - Java method integration delivering a 60% throughput improvement for billion-row workloads - Enhanced incremental processing with minimal-change algorithms that optimize database updates - Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) support for security and supply-chain compliance - Databricks…

People in this episode

Guest: Vince Re

Topics covered

• mainframe integration
• customer-driven innovation
• data modernization
• enterprise data processing
• performance improvements
• software features

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: VirtualZ, Databricks, Software Bill of Materials (SBOM), financial services, retailers, mainframe outsourcers

Products: PropelZ

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