What’s New in Mainframe Solutions

Featured innovations

• Lock down critical systems and stop credential-based threats by extending Okta Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) to the mainframe with BMC AMI Security.

• Seamlessly adopt cloud object storage with BMC AMI Cloud’s ability to manage mainframe datasets up to 255TB without requiring complex tape infrastructure.

• Ensure your teams have the right answers whenever they need them by tapping into your organization’s institutional knowledge for accurate and consistent guidance with GenAI-powered BMC AMI Assistant infused into BMC AMI solutions [Beta].

Don’t wait—Unlock z17 value now

Reduce risk, lower operational overhead, and accelerate your return on investment with seamless support of IBM^® z17^TM throughout all BMC AMI solutions. Start realizing the performance, scalability, and AI-driven benefits of the z17 immediately while ensuring your mainframe stays secure, optimized, and available. 

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Enable enterprise-class security on the mainframe—now with Okta

Minimize risk, cut costs, streamline tools and compliance, and fast-track secure digital transformation by strengthening your enterprise-wide security posture with BMC AMI Security. 

• Unify enterprise identity security across all platforms and fortify defenses against credential-based threats with Okta Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) on the mainframe within BMC AMI Enterprise Connector for Okta, joining support for Illumio and Venafi.

• Achieve stronger regulatory alignment, meeting evolving global compliance and audit standards with new Db2 CIS benchmark reports for RACF.

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Store large files securely, modernize storage with cloud agility

Boost mainframe file storage, leverage Multi-Factor Authentication, and integrate with BMC AMI Storage FDR for enhanced data modernization with BMC AMI Cloud. 

• Seamlessly adopt cloud object storage with BMC AMI Cloud’s ability to manage mainframe datasets up to 255TB without requiring complex tape infrastructure.

• Safeguard cloud-connected mainframe data from unauthorized access and malicious actions with Multi-Factor Authentication for secure login and high-risk operations (restore, alter, delete) with password and IBM^® zMFA token.

• Simplify data management, enhance cyber resilience, and seamlessly scale in hybrid cloud environments with BMC AMI Cloud Enabler that integrates BMC AMI Storage FDR and FDRABR with on-premises object storage and public cloud object storage to redirect archives and backups for cloud agility.

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Activate frictionless access to mainframe expertise and trusted answers

Achieve greater efficiency, resilience, and value from your mainframe investment with a seamless, intelligent experience within your trusted BMC AMI solutions, leveraging the chat with a mainframe expert capability of AI Breakthrough Award-winning BMC AMI Assistant [Beta]

• Turn every user into a mainframe expert in an instant with answers at their fingertips—no searching, no waiting, just results with BMC AMI Assistant’s intuitive, real-time conversational knowledge expert for users seeking answers to mainframe questions.

• Translate your team’s accumulated expertise—from manuals, internal documents, support ticket data, and more—into instantly accessible answers and insights with a GenAI-powered knowledge hub that ingests, organizes, and activates your organization’s scattered institutional knowledge.

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Enhance operational resilience with expanded monitoring and visibility

Modernize mainframe operations with faster issue detection, better root cause analysis, and stronger service reliability with BMC AMI Ops.

• Extend application observability with robust monitoring support for Natural/Adabas environments to detect issues earlier, perform more complete root cause analysis, and strengthen service reliability across complex workloads with BMC AMI Ops Monitor for CICS.

• Enhance storage visibility with advanced reporting that helps analyze usage trends, monitor health metrics, and accelerate troubleshooting in hybrid mainframe environments within BMC AMI Storage FDR.

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Strengthen data management with secure, automated controls

Improve resiliency, security, and efficiency across IBM^® Db2^® and IMS with BMC AMI Data.

• Easily manage GRANTs to authorize user access to Db2^® tables and views—directly from BMC AMI Command Center for Db2 while streamlining workflows and access control by eliminating Catalog Manager, reducing context switching, and improving efficiency.

• Maintain data consistency and prevent missed updates during change data capture workflows by ensuring replication tools detect structural changes that force a REORG for tables defined with DATA CAPTURE CHANGES with BMC AMI Change Manager for Db2.

• Simplify troubleshooting by more effectively monitoring and tuning performance with a new deadlock report that links directly to the specific Unit-of-Work while a new IMS Message Queue Utilization report shows queue activity by message size, type, and time window.

• Confidently ensure smooth transitions and continued operational stability as you upgrade to IBM^® IMS version 15.6, including the new requirement for Managed ACBs.

Train your team on BMC AMI with new product education

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

• BMC AMI DevX Code Insights 23.x: Fundamentals Using Workbench for Eclipse – Web-based Training (WBT)

• BMC AMI DevX File-AID 23.x: Fundamentals Using Workbench for Eclipse (WBT)

• BMC AMI Ops Monitor for z/OS^® 6.x: Fundamentals Troubleshooting Performance Problems (WBT)

• BMC AMI Storage FDRABR 6.x: Fundamentals Concepts (WBT)

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