What’s New in Mainframe Solutions

Reimagine possibilities with Agentic AI workflows on the mainframe

BMC is agentifying the mainframe. By making AI mainframe-native, agentic AI is capturing BMC skills, knowledge and operational data so that mainframe expertise can live in any part of your enterprise AI strategy.

• Purpose-built AI for the mainframe brings intelligence into the workflows where work happens, while trusted execution and human oversight provide the confidence mission-critical environments demand.
• BMC has built agentic AI into the BMC AMI Platform with integration that provides cross-domain context and integrated user experiences, along with enterprise integration flexibility, that speeds time to value.
• Gain the confidence to innovate faster, increase resilience, avoid disruption, and harness intelligence at AI speed, without sacrificing governance, control, and reliability. 

With this release, new capabilities add agentic functionality throughout BMC AMI Ops, BMC AMI Data, and BMC AMI DevX, while also extending enterprise integrations across all domains.

Reinforce mainframe expertise with purpose-built agentic AI

Turn mainframe expertise into greater impact with AI-driven automation that resolves complex issues faster, improves database and operational performance, accelerates delivery, and reduces reliance on scarce skills with built-in governance and human oversight through BMC AMI Agentics and BMC AMI Assistant, the foundation of an agentic mainframe.

Access specialized AI agents by domain

Investigate issues, explain root causes, recommend next steps, and accelerate resolution with BMC AMI Agentics for Ops and BMC AMI Agents for Data, delivering high-value use cases across existing workflows while maintaining expert control through governance, transparency, and human oversight, including: 

• Agentic database management and performance engineering for Db2^® and IMS^TM
• Proactive anomaly detection and AI-guided root-cause analysis
• Policy-driven automation for faster remediation
• Predictive capacity and cost optimization

Investigate faster with AI where you work

• Move beyond answers to problem investigation and next-step guidance within the new Agent Mode of BMC AMI Assistant that, when combined with BMC AMI Agentics, applies specialized domain expertise grounded in BMC knowledge, organizational context, and live operational data to accelerate outcomes while keeping humans firmly in control.
• Bring purpose-built mainframe AI directly into everyday collaboration using the new BMC AMI Assistant integration with Microsoft Teams, eliminating context switching by accessing BMC AMI knowledge and AI assistance without leaving your collaboration environment, starting with BMC AMI Security and BMC AMI Cloud.

Learn more about agentifying the mainframe 

Prepare your mainframe for AI success with an AI Readiness Discovery Workshop 

Reimagine mainframe development and refactor applications

Innovate faster by removing barriers to continuous quality assurance in mainframe development and leveraging agent capabilities that enable enterprise-wide CI/CD integration to your favorite AI tools with BMC AMI DevX.

• Change complex enterprise COBOL with less risk and rework by generating test data from your own source and comparing every run against a baseline you approved, during development in VS Code, with the new BMC AMI DevX Unit Test (Beta).
• Move changes from suggestion to production with less context switching by connecting MCP-compatible assistants such as Cursor, GitHub Copilot, and Claude Code to mainframe build and deploy operations with the new BMC AMI DevX Code Pipeline MCP Server (Beta).

Learn more about BMC AMI DevX

Redefine mainframe operations with agentic AI

Resolve issues faster, reduce operational effort, and eliminate investigation silos with new agentic workflows, AI-driven insights, and automation that surface probable causes, accelerate CPU investigations, and explain legacy REXX with BMC AMI Agentics for Ops while connecting trusted z/OS^® data into ServiceNow and enterprise workflows with BMC AMI Service Discovery, and more.

• Turn hours of digging into minutes by skipping the guesswork on CPU spikes with agentic investigation in BMC AMI Ops Monitor that points straight to top consumers and looping jobs.
• See what’s wrong and what to check next with BMC AMI Ops Insight agentic AI that provides Db2 probable cause insights and recommended next steps, empowering you to quickly decide what to do next.
• Gain insight into mysterious legacy REXX automation with agentic explanation in BMC AMI Ops Automation that translates decades-old scripts into plain language, right where you already work.
• Give your teams the power to ask questions about your own live Ops performance data and get answers, without leaving your workflow, with BMC AMI Assistant Chat built on top of the core MCP server for BMC AMI.
• Tear down silos to give CMDB, service management, and operations teams a single view of your mainframe alongside the rest of your environment by feeding trusted z/OS configuration items into ServiceNow with BMC AMI Service Discovery.
• Reduce context switching across mainframe and distributed environments by connecting MQ, IMS, and CICS activity in BMC AMI Ops to shared OpenTelemetry trace IDs, helping teams follow transactions and troubleshoot faster, without leaving BMC AMI Ops.

Learn more about the new Ops announcements

Recertify cyber-resilience and business continuity

Strengthen your cyber resiliency by improving real-time insider threat and privilege escalation detection and shoring up zero trust, giving enterprise security teams richer context into mainframe activity with BMC AMI Security.

• Improve insider threat investigations with enriched security context in BMC AMI Command Center for Security, helping you quickly identify who is behind the activity, where it originated, and what systems or data may be affected.
• Connect mainframe insight with the broader enterprise to reduce security and operational blind spots with expanded BMC AMI Datastream capabilities that make mainframe data available to modern enterprise tools and platforms, including support for IBM^® MQ telemetry in OpenTelemetry format.

Learn more about BMC AMI Security

Transform mainframe data management

Reduce backup and recover costs by lowering general-purpose CPU (GCP) usage by up to 10x during backups and up to 5x during restores while increasing zIIP utilization with BMC zData Mover for Full Volume Backups.

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Strengthen resilience, accelerate recovery, unlock mainframe data

Modernize mainframe data protection and management with BMC AMI Cloud and new ecosystem integrations designed to improve cyber resilience, optimize costs, and make trusted data more accessible across the enterprise.

• Detect threats earlier, protect critical recovery assets, and rapidly recover trusted mainframe data with minimal disruption and transaction loss with the precision cyber protection solution built with BMC AMI Cloud, BMC AMI Security, and BMC AMI Data Recovery, featuring Everpure.
• Secure your cloud integration, data protection, and resilient recovery strategies for global mainframe environments with AWS-based cyber-protection offering using BMC AMI Cloud.
• Put mainframe data to work for modern analytics, AI, and enterprise decision-making with adherence to worldwide data sovereignty and country-level regulations with a collaborative solution that includes BMC AMI Cloud with Atos services and Dell AI Data Platform.

Learn more about BMC AMI Cloud

Refresh mainframe data management for agentic AI

Improve performance, productivity, and access to specialized knowledge by investigating database issues, explaining findings, and guiding optimization decisions with BMC AMI Agentics for Data.

• Enhance database performance and operational efficiency, up to a 70% reduction in CPU consumption in some cases, with AI-driven REORG analysis that explains recommendations in plain language and guides smarter maintenance decisions while reducing reliance on specialized Db2 expertise with AI Reorg Advisor.
• Increase the pace of optimization with SQL Workload Advisor, which explains application and SQL performance, identifies high-cost statements, evaluates access-path changes, and recommends tuning actions.
• Speed investigations and save hours of manual effort with a unified investigative view that correlates transactions, databases, PSBs (program specification blocks), units of work, and diagnostic information available in the Deadlock Advisor within BMC AMI Log Analyzer for IMS.
• Understand issues faster while reducing reliance on highly specialized IMS expertise by explaining root causes and affected resources with the IMS Exception Advisor, built on BMC AMI Database Advisor for IMS.

Learn more about the BMC AMI Data enhancements