IBM watsonx Assistant for Z and IBM watsonx Code Assistant for Z are industry-leading generative AI (gen AI) tools that empower you to leverage AI technologies on IBM Z systems. While watsonx Assistant for Z transforms the operation and management of the mainframe itself, watsonx Code Assistant for Z accelerates the development and modernization of mainframe applications.

You want to take advantage of these powerful AI tools to optimize your mainframe AI workloads, but you don’t have the skills and resources required for software and application integration, data connection and processing, and network and security configuration. Being always forward-thinking and client-focused, IBM anticipates your challenges and has just released a solution that can completely meet your needs.

Introducing IBM AI Optimizer for Z Essentials Edition!

AI Optimizer for Z is a purposefully built software application that accelerates the adoption of gen AI solutions across your mainframe workloads by completely transforming the traditional onboarding experiences. Designed to save time, effort, and cost, AI Optimizer for Z enables you to deploy, integrate, and monitor onboarded gen AI solutions, including watsonx Assistant for Z and watsonx Code Assistant for Z, in your enterprise with speed, simplicity, and ease.

AI Optimizer for Z is platform agnostic and can be deployed to a Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform (OCP) cluster on an s390 or x86 system. It's perfectly suited for deploying gen AI applications on IBM Z and LinuxONE where the world’s largest AI workloads run.

Each AI Optimizer for Z instance consists of a collection of deployable services, an operator, and a web user interface (UI). The deployable services are the onboarded IBM gen AI products. The products are built, configured, and packaged natively in the OpenShift environment as services for autonomous installation, rapid integration, and frequent update. Powered by Red Hat OCP, the AI Optimizer for Z operator automates the installation and integration of the deployable gen AI services.

The AI Optimizer for Z UI features a dashboard that collects, categorizes, and visualizes real-time data of the deployed gen AI services, system resource utilization, and LLM consumption. As an OpenShift or system administrator, you can use the UI to manage deployed services, allocate system resources, and monitor the overall system health.

Early adopters of AI Optimizer for Z have reported up to 25% productivity gain in installing watsonx Assistant for Z and dependencies. They have also experienced up to 80% reduction in time and effort for installing the code transformation components of watsonx Code Assistant for Z.

Are you ready to get started with AI Optimizer for Z? Visit IBM AI Optimizer for Z to learn more.