1. The Softdate Date & Time Simulation Suite 2016
and Beyond!
The evolving application and automated release environment
The transformation in application development techniques is changing how enterprise software applications
are being constructed and deployed. This transformation is instigated by the mobile, digital revolution,
Internet, Big Data and the intense take up in the Cloud.
Combining these underlying architectures with enterprise applications is a must for every type of business, be
it automotive, banking, chemicals, consumer products, insurance, healthcare, mining, oil and gas, public
sector/government, retail, utilities and more. Whatever industry you are in, new players arrive with new ideas
to maximize technology and gain a competitive step ahead.
It is now about sophisticated front-ends for consumer and client self-service, migration of business apps to
new platforms and/or running, maintaining and enhancing/extending the ‘legacy’ apps for the future.
Research over the years consistently shows that approx. 80% of development resources are used in
maintaining existing applications on all platforms.
For all DevOps projects and business initiatives, enterprises must leverage application development with rapid
response to change with frequent, incremental and continuous software releases. Achieving an agile, digital
enterprise is often accomplished by integration of the legacy with the new, a heavy reliance on automated
and integrated testing within the development cycle and delivery to production.
The quality assurance challenge
The critical factor is to test before Production, and one of the most essential areas to test is application date
and time logic with Date and Time Simulation (DTS) testing.
Date and time logic is pervasive in the majority of applications and yet also prone to error due to the often-
complex nature of date/time computations and comparisons and the occurrence of conditions such as leap
years that are not properly catered for in application logic.
The Softdate Date and Time Simulation (DTS) Data Protection Suite is the only DTS software that runs across
an enterprise on differing platforms, systems and applications executing in the 21st Century. As such, it fully
supports software development and management under a DevOps culture.
The Softdate DTS Data Protection Suite is the premier solution for IBM’s z/OS ecosystem and the array of
alternative operating systems such as Microsoft Windows and all Linux/Unix variations. Now an enterprise
can truly perform maximum QA data protection by DTS testing all its apps, in all businesses, at the individual
level or by cross-platform suite synchronization.
The Softdate advantages
The Softdate Suite has a choice of options to enable any organization to move in a very agile manner at any
stage in their enterprise app developments:
• Softdate/z SOA supports all apps and systems on z/OS mainframes such as DB2, CICS, IMS and COBOL
with exclusive support for CICS MRO, full Parallel Sysplex and much more, plus the unique options:
Java & WebSphere Application Server (WAS) for z, Software AG’s Natural & ADABAS for z and Beyond-
2042 support.
• Softdate/z exclusively consumes only 0.01% or less background CPU overhead in comparison to the
2% to 5% of old MVS-based competitors, saving many MSUs/MIPS. At a valid average estimate of
USD 4,500 per MIP per year Softdate/z always immediately and substantially reduces mainframe
costs.

2. • Softdate/x supports all variations of Linux and UNIX in all IBM, Oracle, SAP, WAS and other database
and app environments.
• Softdate/w supports all supported versions of Microsoft Windows in all IBM, Oracle, SAP, WAS and
other database and app environments.
• The Softdate Broadcaster option, run from a Windows workstation, broadcasts virtual clock settings
across any number of Windows, Linux and UNIX systems servers that are participating in a DTS test
scenario. It allows simple and automatic coordination of your virtual clock settings across any number
of Windows and Linux/UNIX systems running Softdate*.
• The SETS (Softdate Enterprise Time Synchronization) option enables extended cross-enterprise date
and time testing. SETS synchronises virtual clock settings across any number of IBM z/OS, Windows,
Linux and UNIX systems servers participating in a DTS test scenario. It provides simple and automatic
synchronization of your virtual clock settings across an unlimited number of enterprise-wide
interconnected systems running Softdate.
* Softdate Broadcaster can be upgraded to SETS when Softdate/z for z/OS is acquired.
For more information contact: Softdate@ddvtechnologies.com
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