The LzLabs Software Defined Mainframe®, is a managed container technology, which enables customer mainframe applications and data to be migrated effortlessly to commercial of the shelf, open source technology including the cloud. Their unique approach eliminates the need to modify and recompile mainframe application source code, preserving mainframe data in its native encoding format. Essentially the customer applications and data are 100% functionally equivalent, when running in the LzLabs Software Defined Mainframe (see also https://www.lzlabs.com/products/).