What’s New in Mainframe Solutions

Continuous innovation for your future-forward mainframe

By actively infusing GenAI and Agentic AI into BMC AMI, you will see us building on our reputation for continuous innovations that harness the power of AI and Cloud to help you modernize in place on your modern mainframe while building a foundation for growth across an AI-ready, future-forward hybrid environment. 

Redefine mainframe operations with agentic AI

Make faster decisions with less risk by extending BMC AMI Assistant with MCP-enabled access to real-time operational data. Combining live operational data and institutional knowledge in a natural-language experience accelerates resolution and enables future agentic AI operations.

• Accelerate investigation and decision-making with BMC AMI Assistant, newly extended as an MCP client that now combines institutional knowledge with live real-time operational data in a single natural-language workflow.

• Reduce risk and enforce compliance with the new MCP Gateway, providing governed access to operational data, tools, and actions through policy-aware controls and guardrails.

• Minimize context switching for DBAs by infusing BMC AMI Assistant directly into BMC AMI Command Center for Db2, combining BMC expertise, institutional knowledge, and live operational data in a single natural-language experience.

• Prepare for the evolution from AI-driven insight to AI-assisted and agentic operations with a complimentary AI Readiness Workshop to assess organizational readiness, identify high-value use cases, and develop a practical roadmap aligned to your business priorities.

Transform mainframe secondary data management

Process more data faster with less overhead in hybrid environments by accelerating data movement, improving high-volume processing, strengthening Db2 integration, and validating S3 object storage backups to boost performance and resiliency with BMC AMI Cloud.

• Scale high-volume data processing with a high-performance data mover for Full Volume Dump backups—reducing DFDSS reliance, lowering GCP consumption, and improving zIIP engine utilization (coming soon).

• Improve performance and scalability with Java-based enhancements that optimize large-scale data workloads, including backups, transfers, and restores across hybrid environments.

• Deliver faster, more resilient data operations by extending Db2 data management to S3 with Cloud Data Sets (CDS), ensuring validated, ready-to-use backups with seamless tape-naming workflows.

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Reenergize mainframe operations

Resolve issues faster with less noise and complexity. Improve decision-making and productivity with contextual AI, expanded visibility across z/OS and now zCX, and flexible automation capabilities with BMC AMI Ops.

• Focus on the anomalies that matter most with contextual AI-driven Analytic Alarms in the BMC AMI Ops Monitors and workflows that go beyond traditional threshold alerting, learning from historical behavior to reduce noise and highlight meaningful issues.

• Detect and resolve issues faster while reducing risk with full-stack monitoring across IBM^® z/OS and IBM^® z/OS Container Extensions (zCX) that correlates system behavior in a single, integrated view to improve visibility into container-based workloads in BMC AMI Ops Monitor for z/OS.

• Increase efficiency and reduce manual effort by extending automation methods to include Python, a familiar option for new automation practitioners, alongside REXX and rules-based approaches to preserve existing workflows while enabling greater flexibility with BMC AMI Ops Automation.

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Reimagine mainframe development and refactor applications

Deliver applications faster with less risk and complexity by accelerating secure, compliant application delivery with AI-driven development, roles-based insights, real-time diagnostics, and governed workflows across the mainframe software lifecycle with BMC AMI DevX.

• Ensure compliance and transparency by generating a standards-based Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) during the build—capturing every component without adding tools or slowing delivery with BMC AMI DevX Code Pipeline.

• Boost team productivity with role-specific insights and targeted actions, extending the BMC AMI zAdviser Enterprise Application Analysis feature from a senior-only output to a whole-team capability across six distinct roles.

• Reduce time to repair and eliminate context-switching by analyzing abends directly in VS Code, with BMC AMI DevX Abend-AID root cause analysis and failure recreation embedded in BMC AMI DevX Workbench for VS Code.

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Recertify your cyber-resilience posture

Strengthen cyber resilience with less risk and friction with integrated Zero Trust controls and adaptive authentication with BMC AMI Security. 

Strengthen authentication and reduce user friction with customizable Sysplex-level push multi-factor authentication (MFA), improving security adoption without disrupting critical mainframe access workflows with BMC AMI Enterprise Connector for Okta.

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Redefine agentic mainframe data management

Gain faster insights with less complexity and context switching by accessing live operational data to improve decision-making and accelerate analysis of mission-critical transactions with AI-powered intelligence within BMC AMI Data. 

• Eliminate context switching for DBAs by accessing live operational data from BMC AMI Ops, directly within the workflow, using MCP Gateway and embedded BMC AMI Assistant in BMC AMI Command Center for Db2.

• Accelerate insights and improve productivity with centralized visibility into critical data and up to 38% faster reporting within BMC AMI Command Center for IMS.

Simplify and streamline vendor change

Reduce the cost and risk of switching vendors and move forward with confidence. Transition to BMC through a proven, structured approach delivered by BMC experts, designed to simplify execution, improve predictability, and support modernization at scale.

• Reduce migration effort, cost, and analysis time by streamlining complex analysis and preparation activities to significantly reduce manual effort and compress timelines from weeks to days in early use cases.

• Accelerate migration timelines through optimized execution using a coordinated, efficient delivery approach that reduces cycle time and helps organizations move faster than traditional, sequential methods.

• Handle critical migration tasks with precision, including extraction, transformation, validation, and configuration handling to ensure consistency and minimize disruption.

• Improve accuracy and reduce manual errors with structured validation and reporting processes that improve reliability, quickly identify mismatches, and ensure consistent outcomes across the migration lifecycle.

• Enable scalable and repeatable migration delivery with standardized, experience-led approaches that improve operational efficiency and consistency across environments.

• Build confidence with a proven, low-risk migration approach backed by real-world experience to ensure continuity and business stability.

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Renew mainframe resources

Solve real-world challenges with BMC expertise by confidently navigating mainframe workflows and troubleshooting complex scenarios with BMC Experience Guides that are designed to: 

• Easily progress through workflows with clear, step-by-step guidance

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

• Deliver cross-product guidance for integrated solutions

• Leverage best practices from real-world implementation scenarios

• Save time by providing actionable insights directly from BMC experts

Read the BMC Experience Guides