Does the z architecture have something like the SIMD instructions

[Ze'ev Atlas]

I admit being away from the mainframe for long time.  Most of my work is on 
Solaris and Linux servers and therefore I do not code in Assembler.  However, I 
was active in porting a C library into classic z/OS.I was looking to do another 
port and stumbled upon the fact that that library has several SIMD architecture 
specific extensions (Altivec, Neon are two examples).  While I can ignore that 
stuff, I became somewhat interested in the subject.
Ze'ev Atlas