What’s New in Mainframe Solutions

Featured innovations

• Smooth transitions from traditional tape to cloud storage using the industry’s only solution for reading and writing directly from mainframe tape to cloud object storage with BMC AMI Cloud.

• Empower developers to understand and maintain complex PL/I, JCL, Assembler, and COBOL code with clear generative artificial intelligence (GenAI)-driven code explanations within BMC AMI DevX Code Insights, powered by BMC AMI Assistant.

• Minimize outages and enhance service resilience using actionable root cause insights from hybrid AI, AI and machine learning (ML) with GenAI, with BMC AMI Ops Insight, powered by BMC AMI Assistant.

• Reduce errors and increase operational efficiency by generating and managing certificates directly from the Venafi web interface within BMC AMI Enterprise Connector for Venafi.

• Increase ramp up speed and realize faster value from your BMC AMI solutions with a new, streamlined install experience that spans the portfolio, starting with BMC AMI Security.

Industry first: Scalable cloud backup and storage for every mainframe utility, faster and cheaper than tape

Empower your IT operations teams with BMC AMI Cloud scalable cloud storage, without modifying existing processes. Simplify operations, minimize disruption, and enhance their productivity with intuitive management tools. With this new functionality, you can:

• Achieve faster backups, reduce reliance on costly tape storage, improve disaster recovery capabilities, and accelerate cloud adoption in mainframe environments by enabling your enterprise to redirect tape backups to the cloud without any operational changes for all major backup utilities, including EXCP.

• Increase productivity by locating and managing data more efficiently using advanced filtering options and streamlined data actions from a new optimized data management resources page.

• Monitor and optimize your cloud storage resources effectively by gaining actionable insights into storage usage to reduce costs and optimize resource allocation with a new real-time storage usage dashboard that provides visibility into storage consumption.

• Allow existing back-up and restore procedures to continue as-is while supporting hybrid cloud environments and enable transparent data movement between on-premises and public cloud storage solutions by archiving and backing up data to object storage while appearing to send it to tape utilizing BMC AMI Cloud Enabler with BMC AMI Storage FDR.

Learn how to replace your tape and move your secondary storage to the cloud

Enhanced mainframe development with GenAI, DevOps analytics, and Java monitoring

Empower your developers to understand and maintain complex mainframe code, increase flexibility, and gain unprecedented visibility into mainframe operations for better data-driven decision making, and deep dive into monitoring Java applications on the mainframe. New capabilities will help your mainframe development teams:

• Easily maintain and extend mainframe applications with renewed confidence with newly expanded coverage of our industry-first, GenAI-enabled code explanations using your preferred large language model (LLM) for COBOL, PL/I, JCL, and Assembler. Empower your developers to review, extend, and test mainframe code with a simple right-click and in-product GenAI experience, allowing explanations to be copied as comments leveraging BMC AMI DevX Code Insights powered by BMC AMI Assistant.

• Measure performance, identify key correlations between actions and outcomes, and implement targeted improvements for enhanced efficiency with BMC AMI zAdviser Enterprise, available as a secure SaaS or new on-premises implementation. This enhanced visibility enables data-driven decision-making, workflow optimization, and improved efficiency across your mainframe ecosystem.

• Capture essential performance data for Java applications to deliver efficient and responsive mainframe applications that perform optimally throughout their lifecycle. BMC AMI Strobe for Java^® presents performance information in a structured hierarchy of reports, detailing where and how time is spent during a Java application's execution, which enables your Java developers to easily locate and eliminate sources of excessive resource demand—all within a single, user-friendly BMC AMI Strobe web interface.

Learn more about BMC AMI DevX

Accelerated issue resolution with GenAI-powered explanations and customizable dashboards for modern observability

Take control of system health and performance with customizable dashboards and actionable insights with hybrid AI-powered root cause analysis explanations to reduce outages and streamline issue resolution. 

• Enhance system monitoring, facilitate improved issue detection, and provide greater control by creating and personalizing interactive dashboards tailored to critical observability requirements, focusing on what matters most for your operations.

• Empower your systems programmers of all experience levels to rapidly identify and resolve mainframe outages and performance issues using GenAI to simplify complex root cause analysis outputs into clear, understandable explanations. Shorten mean time to detection (MTTD) and improve mean time to resolution (MTTR) with BMC AMI Ops Insight, powered by BMC AMI Assistant, leveraging hybrid AI that integrates deep learning, GenAI, rules-based logic, and machine learning (ML) for actionable insights.

• Ensure efficient and reliable mainframe operations by improving scalability, usability, and visibility into Java environments with new OpenAPI v3 support for BMC AMI Ops Monitor for Java^® Environments. This redesigned monitor delivers seamless integration and enhanced performance monitoring.

Learn more about BMC AMI Ops

Maximized efficiency with advanced solutions for Db2 and IMS

Maximize Db2 efficiency with parallel reorgs, SQL assurance support for GitLab, and new sort telemetry while ensuring IMS synchronization when moving to managed application control blocks (ACBs) and streamlining SQL query creation with real-time autocomplete. These new BMC AMI Data enhancements empower your database administrators (DBAs) and SysProgs to:

• Reduce downtime, enhance resource utilization, and accelerate large-scale database updates by addressing the pain of lengthy sequential processing within BMC AMI Change Manager for Db2^®.

• Track adoption and performance gains with the new built-in telemetry capability of BMC AMI Sort, part of BMC Reorg Plus. Offload workloads to zIIP processors while enabling reorganizations ~3x faster in elapsed time and ~2.2x faster in CPU time. BMC AMI Reorg also delivers ~5.5x faster reorganizations for large-scale operations with greater CPU savings.

• Shift-left, automate, and improve SQL quality with integration between BMC AMI SQL Assurance for Db2^® via the Universal Connector and GitLab to reduce bottlenecks and enhance delivery speed.

• Ensure synchronization when moving managed ACBs by generating reports on outdated DBD (database description) and PSB (program specification block) entries.

• Gain real-time autocomplete suggestions to streamline SQL query creation, boost speed, reduce errors, and enhance productivity using the SQL Processing Using File Input (SPUFI) feature within BMC AMI Change Manager for IMS^™.

Simplified installation experience for BMC AMI products

You asked, we listened. Starting with BMC AMI Security, we are rolling out a new IBM^® z/OSMF install experience for the entire BMC AMI suite that helps you simplify and speed up every step of the installation. This enhanced experience shortens ordering, downloading, and installing the product, including install documentation. 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

• Eliminate confusion between solutions and point products

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