Zos powerful features

  • Uses address spaces to ensure isolation of private areas
  • Ensures data integrity, regardless of how large the user population might be.
  • Can process a large number of concurrent batch jobs, with automatic workload balancing
  • Allows security to be incorporated into applications, resources, and user profiles.
  • Allows multiple communications subsystems at the same time
  • Provides extensive recovery, making unplanned system restarts very rare.
  • Can manage mixed workloads
  • Can manage large I/O configurations of 1000s of disk drives, automated tape libraries, large printers, networks of terminals, etc.
  • Can be controlled from one or more operator terminals, or from application programming interfaces (APIs) that allow automation of routine operator functions.