ibi™️ FOCUS is the premier integrated development environment (IDE) designed to exploit the power of the IBM Z platform for both performance and scale. It offers optimized application development with direct support for reporting, transaction processing, charting, interactive and batch processing, and universal file description. This provides rich data access with data adapters for all major mainframe databases and file systems, including VSAM, DB2, IMS, IDMS, ADABAS, and DATACOM, and output to a wide variety of formats. FOCUS simplifies user and data access by using the same access language for all data structures, including universal JOIN and merge functionality. It produces sophisticated reports with complex logic to support critical operational areas, enabling expedient analysis and reporting of massive data sets. FOCUS optimizes runtime on IBM Z Systems, allowing users to take advantage of unique IBM Z functionality to maximize speed and cost savings. It delivers high levels of accuracy through the incorporation of hardware-level native arithmetic, and integrating decimal precision formats speeds processing. FOCUS powers applications that exceed millions of users and supports full-blown applications with data entry to create closed-loop content. It also allows users to create extracts to feed downstream systems and leverages native capabilities by integrating with system utilities like Syncsort and SMF.

• Operational reporting FOCUS produces sophisticated reports with complex logic to support critical operational areas of your business that require expedient analysis and reporting of massive data sets.
• Large scale deployments Deploy reports and applications at enormous scale. FOCUS powers applications that exceed millions of users.
• Scheduling and distribution Schedule and distribute FOCUS reports through native and integrated mainframe scheduling software–distributing to email, printers and archives.
• Full application support Support full blown applications with data entry in order to create close-looped content. Many customers use these types of applications for budgeting.
• Feed downstream applications Create extracts to feed downstream systems for other applications to process. Easy to use language to create extracts of all different formats.
• Leverage native capabilities Quickest most powerful hardware is still the mainframe and FOCUS integrates to many system utilities like Syncsort, SMF and other capabilities.