-- Tivoli Federated Identity Manager for z/OS Version 6.1, adding federated identity management to mainframe environments. Businesses can collaborate securely by managing identities and resources spanning multiple companies and trading partners. Also, network traffic is secured across firewalls;

-- Tivoli Composite Application Manager Version 6.1, enabling diagnosis of IT problems without having to switch between management tools. Problems are detected within composite applications. Tracing of applications is improved in this version;

-- Tivoli Workload Scheduler Version 8.3, allowing batch workloads to run across SOA-enabled mainframe, distributed and grid computing environments. Batch workloads are sent to available servers and networks without manual intervention;

-- Tivoli Omegamon XE Version 4.1, based on Candle technology, can diagnose IT problems across applications, middleware and systems that are not yet SOA-enabled. A detailed analysis is provided on different operating systems, databases, storage, networks and infrastructure software. Connectivity to systems such as CICS transaction gateways is featured, as is Dynamic Workspace Linking, to link between different Omegamon products.

The use of mainframes has changed in recent years, moving away from being a large transaction engine to supporting SOA, said analyst Joe Clabby, president of Clabby Analytics. "What IBM has done is it's created an environment where you can run multiple Java virtual machines" over virtualized infrastructure, using mainframes.