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Skyward Data

Give Cloud Apps Live Access to Mainframe VSAM Data — Without Copying It

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Every plan to use mainframe data in the cloud starts the same way: "first, make a copy."

In this Skyward Data episode, VirtualZ Computing Founder & CEO Jeanne Glass and Co-Founder & CTO Vince Re — the original author of CA Top Secret — explain how to give cloud, distributed, and AI applications live, real-time read and write access to mainframe VSAM data without moving or copying it, using VirtualZ Lozen.

Why does every mainframe-to-cloud project reach for a copy first?

Because mainframe data is complex — VSAM, EBCDIC, mainframe-specific formats — so the reflex is to extract it, transform…

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