The Co:Z Co-Processing Toolkit for z/OS is used widely throughout the z/OS
community. Our users have discovered that Co:Z offers them the essential tools they need to connect their
z/OS platforms to other computing environments securely and reliably.
While Co:Z can be used in a number of different ways, the primary use cases are:
Co:Z SFTP is a port of OpenSSH SFTP for z/OS which adds support for z/OS datasets, catalogs,
spool files, SMF, etc.
This product is designed to work with secure SSH connections provided by
IBM z/OS OpenSSH.
The rich set of z/OS features in Co:Z SFTP are implemented in such a way as to be
completely accessible from OpenSSH or standard-compliant SFTP products
on other platforms. The Co:Z SFTP client and Co:Z Batch are frequently used together.
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Co:Z Batch is an IBM z/OS batch utility program that allows
Unix commands (including shell scripts) to be executed in a batch job step.
Co:Z Dataset Pipes commands and Co:Z z/OS Utilities are easily integrated
with Co:Z Batch jobs. Co:Z Batch can also be used to script a Co:Z SFTP client job that,
for example, transfers a remote file to a z/OS dataset.
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Co:Z is perfectly positioned to allow our customers to relocate
traditional z/OS programs to servers running Linux or AIX.
We refer to this model as z/OS Hybrid Batch processing.
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The commands provided by the Co:Z Dataset Pipes component
enable z/OS services and data to be incorporated into standard workloads running on Linux or AIX.
We refer to this model as z/OS Remote Services.
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