Modernize mainframe applications faster, with lower risks and costs with the purpose-built coding assistant
Why watsonx Code Assistant for Z
Capabilities
Discover how watsonx Code Assistant for Z streamlines mainframe application modernization and boosts developer productivity. Explore the product's key capabilties and see it in action with our interactive demo.
Achieve a clear understanding of your mainframe applications and visualize their relationships and dependencies. Reduce the time that developers spend reviewing millions of lines of code, dependencies or outdated documentation.
Generate natural language explanations of mainframe languages such as COBOL, PL/I and JCL code for deeper insights into programs. Streamline documentation by automatically inserting explanations as comments into the application code.
Discover the programs and data needed to automatically refactor your COBOL and PL/I applications into modular business services. Improve accuracy and reduce the developer time and skill required with automated code refactoring.
Get prioritized insights on performance inefficiencies—identifying issues at the source code level through an in-depth analysis of COBOL modules—to improve application performance and streamline development.
Use generative AI to accelerate COBOL to high quality Java transformations in minutes, not months. Maintain IBM Z® runtimes and quality of services with interoperability, integration and enterprise standardization.
Accelerate testing with auto-generated unit tests—comparing semantic equivalence of new Java service to original COBOL code—to gain confidence in the language transformation and de-risking the process.
Achieve a clear understanding of your mainframe applications and visualize their relationships and dependencies. Reduce the time that developers spend reviewing millions of lines of code, dependencies or outdated documentation.
Generate natural language explanations of mainframe languages such as COBOL, PL/I and JCL code for deeper insights into programs. Streamline documentation by automatically inserting explanations as comments into the application code.
Discover the programs and data needed to automatically refactor your COBOL and PL/I applications into modular business services. Improve accuracy and reduce the developer time and skill required with automated code refactoring.
Get prioritized insights on performance inefficiencies—identifying issues at the source code level through an in-depth analysis of COBOL modules—to improve application performance and streamline development.
Use generative AI to accelerate COBOL to high quality Java transformations in minutes, not months. Maintain IBM Z® runtimes and quality of services with interoperability, integration and enterprise standardization.
Accelerate testing with auto-generated unit tests—comparing semantic equivalence of new Java service to original COBOL code—to gain confidence in the language transformation and de-risking the process.
Use cases
Whether you want to understand, manage, modernize or build COBOL applications from scratch, watsonx Code Assistant for Z assists you right in your IDE.
Expand your mainframe developer talent pool. Transform COBOL applications with confidence by using generative AI and automated unit testing.
Enable deep analysis of PL/I application landscape, code explanation and auto-refactoring to speed-up modernization.
Gain insights of JCL jobs with graphs to map dependencies, datasets, executed procedures and programs. Generate natural language explanations of JCL steps.
Resources
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