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watsonx Assistant for Z

How does watsonx Assistant for Z work?

watsonx Assistant for Z is a new generative AI assistant that infuses automation into conversational AI to transform the way system programmers, operators, and developers of all experience levels engage with and manage the mainframe. It is designed to enable users to enhance their platform expertise, improve productivity, and accelerate efficiency through a trusted AI-powered conversational experience augmented with automation, designed to simplify and optimize the completion of routine tasks.

watsonx Assistant for Z codifies the knowledge of IBM Z subject matter experts (SMEs) into a trusted set of automation to improve autonomy and confidence. Clients using watsonx Assistant for Z can import existing automation created with Ansible, JCL, REXX, and other automation tools as skills into a catalog and orchestrate more advanced automation.

A guided conversation with watsonx Assistant for Z provides accurate answers to the questions along with step-by-step instructions and links to learn more. Where appropriate, watsonx Assistant for Z suggests automation that the user can invoke during the conversation.

Built on the watsonx Orchestrate platform and in partnership with IBM Research, watsonx Assistant for Z leverages a customized large language model (LLM) with an IBM Z domain-specific retrieval-augmented generation framework to deliver a trusted generative AI capability that helps IBM Z users to enhance their platform expertise and accelerate efficiency.

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