BMC was named a Challenger in the inaugural 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for AI-Augmented Code Modernization Tools.

What does that mean? Especially, what does it mean for you, our customers, and the users of BMC BMI DevX solutions?

Join us for this exclusive technical workshop to see how BMC’s approach to AI-Augmented Code Modernization helps mainframe development teams to turn complex, legacy systems into understandable maintainable system, by fusing the power of Generative AI with the long-standing expertise, experience and reliability of BMC’s AMI DevX solution, augmenting the AI model’s results by the insights our solutions provide into the mainframe. 

During the hand-on experience you will experience how BMC AMI DevX, uniquely:

• Quantifies application health, including mapping program-level abend patterns
• Fuses static source code analysis with operational telemetry surfacing dependency impacts
• Enables development teams to gain insight into complex legacy applications from unified application profiles

Our expert team will guide through the required tasks to set up your experience and follow along at your own pace

What you’ll get:

• Clear insights into BMC’s approach to AI-augmented code modernization for mainframe applications
• Connect live with peers and BMC experts during interactive Q&A for tailored insights
• Practical answers to common concerns around understanding complex mainframe application systems, drawing the right conclusions and implementing resulting restructuring and refactoring actions, without the risk of compromising application reliability. 
• Live demo showing and Hands-on experience exploring, understanding and refactoring and testing mainframe code from modern IDEs such as Eclipse or VS Code 
• Insights into future developments from BMC around AI augmented code modernization

Agenda

10:00 – 10:10 | Welcome & Objectives

• What you’ll learn and build today

10:10 – 10:30 | What is AI-Augmented Code Modernization?

• What is the 2026 inaugural Gartner Magic Quadrant for “AI-Augmented Code Modernization Tools”?
• What does BMC’s approach look like?
• How does this help BMC’s customers?
• Where does BMC go from here?

10:30 – 11:20 | Hands-On Lab: AI-Augmented Code Modernization

• Getting insights into a mainframe application system
• Identifying candidates for intervention
• Understanding an application program
• Identifying refactoring opportunities
• Refactoring an application program
• Validating the changes

11:20 – 11:30 | Wrap-Up & Q&A

Speakers:

Dr Elizabeth Maxwell - Global Director Mainframe Modernisation
Ralph Nuesse - Principal Solution Engineer at BMC Software
Dr Xavier Eraso - Principal Solution Engineer at BMC Software