IBM watsonx Assistant for Z

Simplify and secure mainframe operations with IBM watsonx Assistant for Z

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IBM brings secure, on-platform agentic AI to mainframe

Discover Spyre Accelerator support enhancing IBM watsonx Assistant for Z with secure, real-time AI execution within trusted mainframe boundaries.

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A new era of productivity

IBM® watsonx Assistant® for Z is an AI-powered tool that simplifies how users interact with and manage the mainframe with agentic workflows and generative AI.

It integrates with your mainframe, working across AI agents, assistants, data and applications. This integration helps users with answers to IBM Z-related questions and performs tasks autonomously, driving greater confidence, productivity and faster onboarding of new talent.

Spyre Accelerator support brings secure, high-performance agentic AI directly onto IBM Z — keeping data private and operations contained within trusted mainframe boundaries.

Generative AI chat

Help mainframe users get context-aware answers and timely task support by using conversational AI for IBM Z® systems.

Integrated automation

Augment the conversation with real-time system insights and execute context-driven automations on your IBM Z system.

Agentic AI for increased productivity

Bring more autonomy to the mainframe by orchestrating IBM Z, third-party, custom agents and tools.

Customizable AI assistant

Personalize with your documentation, enforce guardrails and control AI behavior by role, team or experience. 

Agentic AI capabilities

IBM watsonx Assistant for Z makes it easy to build, manage, deploy and scale AI agents for the mainframe—delivering faster value.

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Agent orchestration​

Need help? Just ask and the right agent will act.

IBM watsonx Assistant for Z intelligently coordinates across agents, assistants and tools in your IBM Z environment—planning, supervising, negotiating and collaborating to get the job done​.

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IBM Z agents

Get started quickly with out-of-the-box agents for IBM Z upgrades, topology insights and system health checks and much more. Minimal setup required.

Connect and interact with your mainframe with minimized context switching.

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Agent catalog

Explore a unified catalog of IBM, partner and custom-built agents.

Search by domain, use case or application to find the right agent for your Z tasks.

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Custom agent builder

Quickly create custom agents tailored to your business needs by using intuitive no-code or procode tools.

Have a process that you want to automate? Build it in minutes—no heavy lifting required.

Hybrid UI illustration of Watsonx Assistant for Z describing conversational assistant features
Agent orchestration​

Need help? Just ask and the right agent will act.

IBM watsonx Assistant for Z intelligently coordinates across agents, assistants and tools in your IBM Z environment—planning, supervising, negotiating and collaborating to get the job done​.

Hybrid UI illustration of watsonx Assistant for Z describing intelligent automation features
IBM Z agents

Get started quickly with out-of-the-box agents for IBM Z upgrades, topology insights and system health checks and much more. Minimal setup required.

Connect and interact with your mainframe with minimized context switching.

Capabilities for IBM watsonx Assistant agent catalog screenshot
Agent catalog

Explore a unified catalog of IBM, partner and custom-built agents.

Search by domain, use case or application to find the right agent for your Z tasks.

Hybrid UI illustration of Watsonx Assistant for Z describing the skills catalog feature
Custom agent builder

Quickly create custom agents tailored to your business needs by using intuitive no-code or procode tools.

Have a process that you want to automate? Build it in minutes—no heavy lifting required.

Why do we stand apart?

Domain expertise built in

Trusted, context-aware responses with AI solution that embed decades of IBM Z expertise and best practices.

Unified orchestration

A single solution to coordinate with different agents, assistants, tools and data in your mainframe environment.

Trust, governance and scalability

Scalable AI with Granite LLM, built for compliance and security and uses IBM Z Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG).

On-platform intelligence with Spyre Accelerator

Spyre Accelerator enables secure AI inference on IBM Z, keeping data and agentic workflows on-platform in a trusted environment.

Take the next step

Get new levels of productivity on the IBM Z platform with IBM watsonx Assistant for Z with Spyre Accelerator support. Schedule a live demo or speak with one of our IBM experts.

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