Case Study: a swedish bank achieves accurate mainframe time synchronization and error-free testing with Solution-Soft's Time Machine

Time Machine® Synchronizes Application Time with Mainframe Resolves expensive time & date glitches

Swedish Bank, the largest financial services group in the Nordic and Baltic region, faced persistent time synchronization problems between its Windows-based Midas banking platform and an IBM mainframe. The mainframe’s TIC TOC (Application Time Facility) was routinely set back to rerun batches, causing errors roughly every third day and leaving some transactions 10–12 months out of sync, which disrupted scheduled payments and impacted many critical systems. To address this, they turned to Solution-Soft and its Time Machine product.

Solution-Soft deployed Time Machine to simulate the mainframe’s adjusted dates on the Midas test environments while leaving other systems unaffected. With one-click synchronization, Time Machine eliminated the need for manual workarounds and administrator intervention, stopped the recurring time/date glitches, and enabled reliable, repeatable testing of critical banking functions and scheduled payments. Solution-Soft’s implementation restored timely processing and simplified ongoing test operations for the IT team.

Swedish Bank