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Session management

Is your mainframe access secure and sustainable?

Modern enterprises face significant challenges with outdated session management software.

These systems often present multiple threats: escalating costs from license renewals, inherent security risks due to a lack of modern protections, and limited accessibility from the platforms your employees use every day.

Application access may have evolved within the wider IT infrastructure, leading to the creation of multiple interfaces being used to address these issues. This can lead to hidden deployment, maintenance and management costs for these disparate solutions.

If your current solution is hindering productivity and creating operational vulnerabilities, it may be time for an upgrade.

Tubes for z/OS: The next generation session manager

Tubes for z/OS is a comprehensive solution designed to modernize and secure access to your core enterprise applications. It's built to enhance security, improve the user experience, and ensure operational continuity.

Uncompromising security and access

Tubes provides a robust security framework by integrating with your existing security managers, such as RACF or ACF2. This means advanced security measures, including multi-factor authentication (MFA), can be implemented immediately without any changes to your critical applications. By leveraging your existing security profiles, Tubes creates dynamic user menus that provide seamless, personalized access, allowing users to switch between tasks.

Built for productivity and reliability

Tubes is engineered to boost efficiency. Its powerful multi-session capabilities allow users to switch between tasks with no loss of context, while its centralized access control simplifies IT management. The platform's robust Sysplex support ensures high availability and resilience for even the most complex z/OS environments. For deeper operational insights, Tubes offers advanced monitoring and reporting dashboards with native compatibility with platforms like Splunk.

Tubes DX: Modernizing for the web

Our Tubes DX option extends the power of Tubes by transforming your z/OS applications into modern, web-accessible services. This eliminates the need for expensive desktop terminal emulation software and allows users to access applications from any device with a web browser.
Tubes DX enhances productivity and the user experience with features designed for a modern workforce, including tabbed and dockable sessions which let users manage multiple tasks in a single browser. Its modern interface provides a rich, customizable web-based workstation experience complete with intuitive data retrieval and file management. It also provides significant operational benefits, such as automatically dispatching workloads to zIIP engines helping you save on MSU costs. Instant deployment means there is no software to install on individual PCs, further reducing IT overheads. 
Tubes for z/OS and Tubes DX offer a forward-thinking, secure, and user-centric approach to mainframe access which is straightforward to deploy, easy to use, all combined in one cohesive solution.

Mainframe session manager replacement

If you are thinking about replacing your mainframe session manager – to improve functionality, reduce your costs, or perhaps because your supplier is withdrawing product support – Macro 4 can help.

We are experienced in session manager conversions and the migration process can take as little as a few hours. When you convert to our Tubes session manager you can replicate your current features and interfaces or choose any of our modernization options alongside 3270 access.

Read our useful guide for advice on what to look for when choosing a new session manager – and how to avoid the pitfalls.

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Learn how our IBM Session Manager replacement program can save you months of work.

Time for a new session manager?

Tubes offers you advanced 3270 multi-session management – and so much more. Now could be the right time to take a look at Tubes if you are looking for a way to: