Case Study: Global Bank achieves ~40% reduction in mainframe CPU time and cuts IBM MLC costs with Precisely Syncsort MFX & ZPSaver

Global Bank - Customer Case Study

Global Bank, an international banking group operating multiple IBM mainframes across four major data centers (Brazil, Mexico, Spain and the UK), faced rapidly rising general-purpose CPU usage after years of growth and M&A. Much of that CPU time was consumed by sort/copy/merge processing using IBM’s DFSORT, driving high utilization and escalating MLC (monthly license charge) costs — a problem Precisely’s sort optimization products (Syncsort MFX and Syncsort ZPSaver) were well positioned to address.

Precisely’s Syncsort MFX together with Syncsort ZPSaver (implemented across the sites by Ciber) offloaded the bulk of sort-type work to zIIP engines — in some cases up to 90% — and delivered measurable savings: CPU time for sort/copy/merge dropped about 39–40% on average across the four data centers, MSU charges were reduced, existing CPUs gained capacity for higher-value workloads, and customer-facing services became more responsive. Precisely continues to work with the bank on additional mainframe optimizations to further lower costs.