What’s New in Mainframe Solutions

Featured Innovations

• Enable low-risk, incremental modernization while expanding your talent pool and optimizing workloads by selectively transforming COBOL while maintaining decades of business logic through AI-powered code explanation and refactoring, yielding sustainable Java code with BMC AMI Assistant and BMC AMI DevX.

• Accelerate problem solving, close skills gaps, and onboard talent faster with the new knowledge expert capability of BMC AMI Assistant delivering trusted, contextual answers to mainframe questions directly in your workflow—empowering teams to maximize mainframe performance and business outcomes.

• Gain visibility across your complex, hybrid environments to solve issues faster and make proactive decisions by connecting mainframe Ops metrics to enterprise observability tools like Elastic and Splunk with OpenTelemetry (OTel) within BMC AMI Ops.

No Delays. No Disruptions. Just z/OS 3.2

Your BMC AMI solutions now seamlessly support IBM^® z/OS 3.2, allowing you to unlock the full value of the new IBM^® z17^TM while ensuring the reliability, scalability, and security of your most critical applications.

Learn more about BMC AMI z/OS 3.2 support

See More, Resolve Faster with OpenTelemetry and GenAI

Help your team detect, analyze, and act faster while closing the skills gap with cross-platform visibility, GenAI assistance, and interactive dashboards with BMC AMI Ops. 

• Resolve complex/hybrid environment issues quicker, empowering your Ops teams to make faster, more proactive decisions by streaming key metrics into enterprise observability tools like Elastic, Splunk, BMC Helix, and more with OpenTelemetry (OTel) within BMC AMI Datastream for Ops.

• Streamline problem-solving and onboarding with BMC AMI Assistant’s GenAI-powered chat experience, providing conversational and contextual answers to mainframe questions drawing from trusted BMC documentation and subject matter expert expertise to give clear, relevant guidance in real time.

• Unlock greater operational visibility with an enhanced, interactive dashboard that allows you to view metrics, key performance indicators (KPIs), and subsystem data for CICS^®, z/OS^®, Db2^®, and more in a single pane of glass.

Learn how to improve your mainframe operations

Modernization that Makes Code Easier to Maintain, Not Harder

Modernize incrementally by selectively transforming COBOL with AI-powered code explanation and refactoring to produce maintainable Java code with BMC AMI DevX Code Insights and BMC AMI Assistant.

• Adapt swiftly to changing business demands by empowering your developers to make changes faster and more confidently by providing the full context of what the required code does and why it exists.

• Eliminate the fear of managing monolithic COBOL programs by breaking them into clean, modular components with proper architecture to make it easier to manage code.

• Modernize with lower risk by selectively converting only frequently changed COBOL modules that drive maintenance effort to Java while preserving stable systems (available mid-quarter).

Learn how to strategically modernize your applications

Expert Knowledge. Contextual Guidance. When/Where You Need It.

Make faster, smarter decisions while reducing risk, controlling costs, and accelerating transformation with BMC AMI solutions—enhanced by AMI Assistant’s GenAI-powered knowledge expert and chat.

• Resolve incidents faster with BMC AMI Assistant’s knowledge expert embedded in AMI Ops UI. The GenAI-powered chat taps trusted product knowledge and expertise, delivering clear, contextual guidance directly in your tools—right when it’s needed—to drive efficient mainframe operations.

• Avoid risky full COBOL rewrites while reducing technical debt and preserving platform stability by converting only the code that needs to be accessible to Java developers, leaving the rest in COBOL, to make COBOL-to-Java conversion safe, targeted, and achievable.

• Eliminate guesswork and drive data-backed decisions for Development Managers with BMC AMI Assistant embedded in AMI zAdviser Enterprise. Its GenAI-powered chat leverages trusted BMC knowledge and SME expertise, delivering clear, contextual answers to KPI and metric questions instantly within dashboards.

Learn how to tap into GenAI on the mainframe

Protect Log Files. Enhance Operational Resiliency.

Strengthen your operational reliability with secure, resilient log file storage within BMC AMI Cloud. Ensure log files stored on the mainframe remain secure and accessible, even during failures or file system issues, with the enhanced BMC AMI Cloud Management Server that moves log data files to object storage, enabling full container platform adoption and improving resiliency.

Learn how to leverage cloud object storage

Detect Sooner. Comply with Ease. Defend with Confidence.

Help your security team stay ahead of threats and regulatory requirements by strengthening compliance readiness, detecting abnormal activity in real time, and expanding integration with enterprise observability tools with BMC AMI Security. 

• Meet compliance benchmarks with less effort by eliminating the need for custom reporting with built-in CIS benchmark reports for CICS and RACF.

• Detect insider and credential-based threats with greater precision by expanding behavior analytics beyond interactive activity to include batch job activity—like unexpected dataset access—alerting your security teams earlier and more accurately to threats across the full range of mainframe activity.

Learn how to fortify your mainframe

Become Productive Faster. Train your Team on BMC AMI.

Help your students build real-world skills using enterprise-grade software with the BMC AMI Education Access Program for accredited colleges and universities. 

Additionally, new courses have been added to the BMC Education library, supporting your team’s learning paths for BMC AMI Cloud and BMC AMI Security. Check out the courses that are new this quarter.