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I/05 · Manufacturing & distribution

Your business runs on IBM. Your batch doesn’t have to.

Axio Intelligence works with US manufacturers, distributors, wholesalers and mid-size retailers that still run the business on IBM mainframes (z/OS and COBOL), IBM i (AS/400 and RPG), or legacy Oracle and SQL Server databases. We move those workloads — starting with inventory, replenishment, pricing feeds, nightly reports and partner file exchanges — to AWS, Azure or Google Cloud and PostgreSQL or MySQL, cutting licensing and compute cost and the dependence on the last person who understands the code.

Scope your project What we build
ManufacturersDistributors & wholesalersMid-size retailersIBM Z / z/OS shopsIBM i (AS/400) shops

What we hear

Where these projects get stuck

01

Licensing that grows every year

IBM, Broadcom, BMC, Oracle or Microsoft — whatever the contract model, the bill rises with the work on the old platform.

02

Batch nobody wants to touch

Inventory, replenishment and pricing jobs feed the warehouse, the stores and EDI partners. If one is late, someone screams.

03

The last person who knows the code

The RPG, COBOL and stored procedures that run the business depend on a shrinking group of people.

What we build

Off the old platform, one workload at a time.

How it’s priced

Mainframe and IBM i migration has no upfront fee: we are paid a percentage of the net savings in licensing and compute spend, measured against a baseline we agree before work starts.

  • Mainframe batch migration

    COBOL batch and extract jobs on z/OS moved to the cloud in a modern language, starting with the ones that cost the most.

  • IBM i batch & extract offload

    RPG and COBOL batch and file extracts rebuilt in the cloud, documented and owned by more than one person.

  • Database migration

    Db2, Oracle and SQL Server moved to PostgreSQL or MySQL, with data kept in sync until cutover.

  • Inventory, pricing & replenishment feeds

    Extracts landed in Postgres or your warehouse, so planning, pricing and e-commerce read from the cloud instead of the box.

Standards & interfaces

Platforms and systems in scope

What we design to and integrate with. Named platforms describe scope, not a formal partnership or certification.

IBM Z

  • z/OS
  • COBOL
  • JCL
  • Db2 for z/OS
  • VSAM

IBM i

  • IBM i (AS/400, iSeries)
  • RPG IV / ILE RPG
  • CL
  • Db2 for i
  • Physical & logical files

Databases

  • Oracle → PostgreSQL
  • SQL Server → PostgreSQL / MySQL
  • Db2 → PostgreSQL
  • Change data capture
  • EDI (X12) & SFTP feeds

Where it lands

  • AWS · Azure · Google Cloud
  • PostgreSQL · MySQL
  • Amazon RDS / Aurora
  • Snowflake / BigQuery
  • Terraform / OpenTofu

Services used

How we deliver it

Engagement patterns

See the project shapes we run most often — from stalled pilots to platform rescues.

View work

Questions

Manufacturing & distribution: common questions

Can you move inventory and pricing feeds off the mainframe?

Yes. They are typical first candidates: they read IBM data and write a file, feed or report, so they can be rebuilt in the cloud and run side by side with the old job until the outputs match.

Can you migrate our Oracle or SQL Server databases too?

Yes. We migrate Oracle, SQL Server and Db2 to PostgreSQL or MySQL, converting schemas and stored procedures and keeping data in sync until cutover.

Who is this not for?

Bank deposit and money-movement cores, card authorization, insurance claims adjudication and government benefit systems. Our focus is manufacturers, distributors, wholesalers and mid-size retailers.