Use generative AI for accelerated and simplified modernization
Transforming mainframe applications
Mainframe application modernization empowers organizations to create agile, cost-effective and scalable solutions by using modern technologies. This approach unlocks new value from existing investments, keeping applications competitive in a rapidly evolving digital landscape.
Benefits
Modernizing outdated components, improving code quality, and streamlining architecture reduce technical debt, making maintenance easier and future enhancements more efficient.
Organizations gain the flexibility to adapt quickly to changing needs, optimize development cycles, and enable seamless integration and data sharing in hybrid cloud environments.
Equipping developers with modern tools and technologies boosts creativity and accelerates exceptional application development, with generative AI playing a key role.
Adopting modern security frameworks and automated compliance checks strengthens data protection, mitigates risks, and ensures adherence to regulatory standards in hybrid and cloud environments.
Relevant products
Designed to assist developers in enhancing and extending mainframe applications by using AI-driven code transformation and generation capabilities. This tool simplifies the process of modernizing COBOL applications and integrating new features, enabling organizations to evolve their legacy systems more effectively.
Provides a bridge between traditional mainframe systems and modern cloud-based applications. IBM z/OS Connect allows organizations to expose mainframe assets, such as COBOL programs, CICS® transactions and IMS services as RESTful APIs. These APIs enable mainframe applications to communicate and interact with cloud services, web applications, mobile apps and other systems in a standardized and secure way.
Enables the real-time integration of mainframe data with modern applications and cloud services without directly impacting the performance of core transactional systems. By creating a centralized, high-performance data hub that synchronizes data from IBM Z and other sources, IBM Z Digital Integration Hub provides a single point of access for applications, reducing the complexity of accessing mainframe data.
A suite of tools which together provide a robust environment for developing, testing and deploying mainframe applications. These tools help streamline the development process, integrate with CI/CD pipelines and support modern development practices to enable faster and more reliable delivery of mainframe applications
Deploy and run AI models directly on IBM Z, enabling real-time inference and decision-making. By bringing AI models closer to where the data resides (on the mainframe), businesses can reduce latency and make instant, AI-driven decisions, such as fraud detection, risk assessment and customer personalization.
Connect IBM Z systems to your wider enterprise automation strategy through the Ansible Automation Platform ecosystem. This certified content enables organizations to automate and standardize their mainframe IT operations, improving efficiency, consistency and reliability across their mainframe environments.
Related Services
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.
Resources
See IBM watsonx Code Assistant for Z in action! Learn how watsonx Code Assistant for Z can increase developer productivity and agility throughout the application development lifecycle.
Design, build, test, and debug z/OS software so that you can make the most of your investment, and the tools can also be obtained individually.
