What’s New in Mainframe Solutions

Featured Innovations

• Purpose-built AI for the mainframe with BMC AMI Assistant to surface institutional knowledge from BMC and your organization in a natural-language, in-workflow chat.

• Understand how your mainframe applications actually work—from code complexity to development patterns to knowledge concentration—with BMC AMI zAdviser Enterprise.

• Reduce operational risk and disruption by extending leading certificate management platforms like Venafi and KeyFactor to the mainframe. BMC AMI Digital Certificate Management is designed to integrate with RACF, ACF2, and Top Secret to automate the full certificate lifecycle—without requiring infrastructure changes.

Customized enterprise knowledge in your workflow at the moment it’s needed

Make decisions faster with greater confidence and reduce operational risk with BMC AMI Assistant’s new Knowledge Hub capability, surfacing mainframe expertise from BMC and your institution in-workflows exactly when you need it with Knowledge Expert Chat.

• Reduce your reliance on shrinking mainframe expertise by capturing and unlocking your institutional knowledge—such as prior resolutions, operational insights, and guidance from runbooks, tickets, and shared files—without pre-documentation or a single expert.

• Speed up onboarding and work confidently by using natural-language interactions that share relevant experience during troubleshooting, system analysis, or operational decisions within your workflow.

• Make faster, safer, more confident decisions with context-aware, vertically and horizontally grounded, mainframe-specific guidance tailored to your environment with the combination of Knowledge Expert Chat and Knowledge Hub.

• Realize value faster and lower adoption risk by collaborating with BMC through the Customer Design Program to validate AI use cases, measure value, and refine product fit using structured governance and continuous feedback.

Application intelligence that protects institutional knowledge and gives every organization the context to move faster

Ensure your application modernization decisions are accurate, shorten developer onboarding time, and confidently maintain applications, regardless of team experience levels, with BMC AMI zAdviser Enterprise.

• Make faster, better-informed application modernization decisions leveraging a single, AI-generated report combining your own source code analysis, DevX telemetry, and development productivity data.

• Bring the same depth of application analysis that modern engineering intelligence platforms deliver to distributed teams—built on mainframe-native data sources that no distributed tool can access.

• Future-proof your mission-critical applications by capturing and vetting what your most experienced developers know about your programs—before they retire—with narrative assessments that analyze your source code, development history, and failure patterns.

• Shift from being reactive to proactive with clear views into which programs are consuming your team’s time and why by correlating production failure history with code complexity and maintenance patterns automatically.

• Make informed decisions based on real complexity scores, failure rates, and resource consumption to ensure you retire, refactor, or replace applications optimally based on actual evidence, not opinions.

Learn more about BMC AMI zAdviser

Modernized mainframe certificate management with enterprise automation

Simplify your enterprise security tool sprawl and standardize certificate lifecycle management with industry-first, mainframe automated certificate management and get visibility into compliance issues faster with BMC AMI Security.

• Decrease your risk of outages and compliance issues as SSL and TLS certificate lifespans decrease from 398 days to 47 days by 2029 by eliminating manual certificate handling and automating issuance, renewal, and enforcement with BMC AMI Digital Certificate Management.

• Avoid vendor lock-in while simplifying certificate operations by standardizing on one BMC solution that is designed to support multiple vendors to provide a unified integration layer between enterprise certificate management tools and IBM Z ESMs.

• Strengthen compliance, speed up issue resolution, and reduce the risk of configuration errors with real-time alerts when there are CIS failures in BMC AMI Command Center for Security.

Learn more about BMC AMI Security

Improved mainframe data decisions with automation and trusted knowledge

Evolve from reactive investigation to confident action with faster Db2 insight, lower extraction costs, and leverage AI-powered support for high-performing IMS systems with BMC AMI Data.

• Eliminate manual correlation and guesswork by positioning your team to start from a JOB or Db2 OBJECT and quickly understand execution, ownership, and resource usage with best-in-class Runtime Insights workflows in BMC AMI Command Center for Db2.

• Realize cost efficiency by significantly reducing CPU costs for Db2 data extraction while preserving existing jobs and workflows, offloading up to 80% of processing to zIIP with BMC AMI Unload Plus.

• Act faster and with greater confidence without forcing architectural changes with more intelligent, context-aware Db2 insights leveraging BMC AMI Assistant.

• Enhance usability while maintaining your current architectural structure with BMC AMI Assistant’s Knowledge Expert Chat feature delivered through the BMC AMI Command Center for IMS web interface to seamlessly integrate across BMC AMI Data for IMS tools.

AI-powered institutional knowledge. On-demand control. Faster decisions.

Detect issues sooner, respond faster, and act with greater confidence using on-demand Open-Telemetry trace control and AI embedded directly into operational workflows with BMC AMI Ops.

• Extend OpenTelemetry-based observability control directly in BMC AMI Ops Monitors for Db2, IMS, CICS, and MQ. Start or stop tracing on demand, enable tracing by subsystem, and view real-time trace status to capture deeper diagnostic insight during incidents.

• Capture institutional knowledge and deliver organization-aware guidance directly in workflow using the Knowledge Hub feature within BMC AMI Assistant. Now available across BMC AMI Ops Insight, the BMC AMI Ops UI, BMC AMI Ops Automation for Batch Thruput, and BMC AMI Capacity Management.

Learn more about BMC AMI Ops

Expanded compatibility with leading storage and mainframe management vendors

Enable data storage scalability and choice with S3 object storage and modernize HSM/RMM workflows with BMC AMI Cloud.  

• Seamlessly transition secondary data workloads to scalable object storage with on-premises S3 object storage from leaders like Dell Technologies, Everpure, Hitachi, NetApp, and VAST Data alongside continued compatibility with public cloud hyperscalers AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure.

• Modernize your tape, HSM, and RMM workflows while preserving existing investments through stronger interoperability with key mainframe storage management solutions including BMC AMI Storage, CA-1, and Syncsort.

• Accelerate digital transformation while protecting and activating mainframe data through BMC's Strategic Collaboration Agreement (SCA) with AWS, allowing you to purchase BMC AMI solutions with AWS spend commit credits, consolidate expenditure tracking across your organization, and access enhanced dashboard integrations.

Real-world challenges, solved with BMC expertise

Empower your development and operations teams to confidently navigate mainframe workflows and troubleshoot complex scenarios with BMC Experience Guides designed to: 

• Help you navigate workflows with ease using clear, step-by-step guidance

• Reduce errors and manual effort in deployments and operations with actionable insights

• Deliver cross-product guidance for integrated solutions

• Share best practices from real-world implementation scenarios

• Save you time by providing actionable insights directly from BMC experts

Get more details on the BMC Experience Guides

Ramp up sooner. Leverage simplified BMC AMI installation.

You asked, we listened. Simplify and speed up every step of your installation with an enhanced experience that shortens ordering, downloading, and installing the product including install documentation. BMC AMI is rolling out a new IBM® z/OSMF install experience for the entire BMC AMI suite. The new install experience will: 

• Directly embed install documentation into the install itself

• Reduce the number of questions required to get the product up and running

• Save your installation question responses to speed your next install

• Reorder and group similar install steps by role

• Pre-apply maintenance, eliminating a manual step

• Show only the products you are entitled to in the order interface

Learn more about simplified installation