70% of the world’s transactions by value are running on the Mainframe
Mainframe evolution strategies that are purpose-built to unlock AI innovation.
In today’s fast‑moving digital world, modernizing mainframe applications is a key step in any successful transformation strategy. IBM Consulting helps organizations unlock the full potential of their mainframe systems — reducing risk in hybrid multi‑cloud environments, ensuring every workload runs where it delivers the most value, and making modernization straightforward.
Whether your goal is to understand the business logic buried in legacy code, refactor applications, or identify the best platform for each workload, our experts can guide you every step of the way.
With AI‑powered tools, proven assets, and strong industry partnerships, we accelerate modernization from initial discovery to deployment — improving agility, lowering costs, and giving your business a competitive edge that wasn’t possible before.
Improvement in developer productivity, with faster impact analysis.1
Gain in agility, coupled with lower costs by using the ‘Hybrid by Design’ methodology.
Reduction in code refactoring efforts.2
We modernize and build mission‑critical applications on IBM z/OS to cut costs, boost efficiency, and unlock cloud‑native innovation—keeping your core systems relevant in a AI and hybrid cloud world.
We develop and modernize applications on Linux for IBM Z, combining agility, enterprise‑grade security, and seamless integration with cloud to drive faster digital transformation.
We adapt and migrate workloads from mainframe to cloud or distributed environments—freeing your business to scale, innovate, and reduce operational costs.
We upgrade legacy applications from IBM System i (AS/400) and AIX to modern, cloud‑ready platforms—preserving critical functionality while improving performance and agility.
We revitalize applications from non‑IBM platforms, enabling hybrid cloud integration and future‑ready operations while maximizing the value of your existing investments.
Use cases
Our automated assessment service facilitates business rules extraction, code tracing and documentation tools and services to significantly reduce your organization’s legacy code footprint.
We offer fast and accurate code conversion with guaranteed like-for-like functionality. We are able to refactor COBOL, CICS, CA Gen, ADS/O and other languages to a more appropriate counterpart.
Our optimizations solutions are for customers who want to keep their IBM mainframe applications, reduce operational costs and extend their capabilities to support new business requirements.
In tandem with our refactoring solution, our automated solution delivers modern Cloud-enabled databases and supporting applications that are functionally equivalent to their original counterparts.
Our tools allow you to retain your legacy source code and data in an easily accesible repository when migrating away from the mainframe as part of an ERP implementation or re-engineering effort.
We offer both automated refactoring and rehosting solutions for Software AG (SAG) modernization - including Natural to COBOL, Java or C#, migrating Adabas data to a relational model and rehosting Natural applications in a hybrid environment.
A hybrid cloud is the best architecture for application modernization. But not just any hybrid cloud approach, an integrated hybrid cloud platform that includes IBM Z. The reality for many businesses today is that they support many different computing models ranging from traditional on-prem to multiple public clouds and SaaS offerings and increasingly Edge based computing.
Strategic partnerships
Using agile methodologies and extensive reusable blueprints, we can help speed your design, migration and operation on AWS Cloud regardless of your industry segment.
Use our industry-leading cloud innovate methodology and cloud technology tools for application development and management to help accelerate growth, efficiency and innovation.
Gain support for modernization and migration of your cloud computing workloads and applications to Google Cloud and other multicloud platforms.
IBM Cloud with Red Hat brings together market-leading security, enterprise scalability and open innovation for increased agility and continuity.
Client story
See where the challenges lie in the transition from mainframe computing to modern cloud computing.
IBM has significantly invested in integrating AI capabilities into mainframe systems, recognizing the potential to enhance transactional workloads.
Insights into how mainframe modernization strategies are evolving across industries, based on a survey of over 400 IT decision-makers worldwide.
We work with you to determine the right cloud strategy, operating model, roadmap and ecosystem.
Our generative AI-infused platform helps your business navigate cloud adoption with certainty.
Using a cloud-native build strategy accelerates innovation at lower cost, helps achieve faster time to market and drives revenue growth with open and secure hybrid multicloud platforms.
Footnotes
1Gartner, Emerging Tech: Generative AI Code Assistants Are Becoming Essential to Developer Experience, ID G00790320, May 2023
2IBM internal stats