SumTotal Mainframe Products

Welcome to SumTotal’s Mainframe Products page. For over 20 years, we have dedicated ourselves to supporting our mainframe customers. Our experienced team of developers and support personnel is committed to maintaining and improving our PHOENIX® and PREFERENCE® products.

We are proud to announce the availability of Release 8.0 for PHOENIX® training system and PREFERENCE® online help and reference system. Release 8.0 is a continued demonstration of SumTotal's commitment to ensuring its mainframe customers an ever-evolving software product designed to meet their needs.

Phoenix

PHOENIX Mainframe allows you to manage all phases of the computer-based training (CBT) life cycle-from design through evaluation. And your students and authors have to learn only one product. Learn more...

Preference

PREFERENCE is a centralized online help and reference system that works concurrently with your existing mainframe applications. It solves the immediate problems of workers who use these applications to do their jobs. With PREFERENCE, employees receive consistent, reliable assistance without depending on co-workers, supervisors, manuals, help desks, or trial-and-error. Indeed, PREFERENCE offers the high-value mentoring employees need—at the exact moment of need. Learn more...

Phoenix and Preference Product Information

• Documentation
• Phoenix/Preference Release Support and IBM Compatibility
• Product Announcements & Product Memos
• Release Information
• Technical Tips
• Zaps and Patches

Order Forms

Click here to request a Phoenix/Preference Expiration Code or to request the latest release of Phoenix and Preference.

Product Suggestion Form

Click here to submit a mainframe product suggestion. Remember to choose SumTotal-Mainframe from the Select the Product Family drop down list.

Phoenix and Preference Product Support

Mainframe customers can access support via the SumTotal Support Center.
To have your username and password emailed to you, click the Forgot password? link on the right of this page.