TmaxSoft said on Oct. 13 its Japan unit completed a mainframe rehosting project for Japanese non-life insurer Sompo Japan using its OpenFrame mainframe modernisation solution. The company said it carried out the project with OpenFrame7, rehosting systems that had been running on an existing mainframe and migrating them to a Microsoft Azure cloud environment. TmaxSoft said the result reflects its strengthened presence in Japan’s digital transformation market.

IBM is working with Arm to develop a dual-architecture processor for IBM Z mainframes and LinuxONE systems. The chip is designed to run z/OS and Arm-native Linux workloads simultaneously on the same core. The chip has not been named. It uses a unified architecture aimed at eliminating the need to split work between Arm and IBM cores. It is built on a 2-nanometre process and includes 11 5.7-gigahertz cores.