Today, IBM announced an innovative new platform, IBM z16, to help clients accelerate digital transformation and unlock new opportunities. In addition to delivering Decision Velocity with a new on-chip AI accelerator, and the industry's first quantum-safe system to improve cyber resilience, IBM z16 also delivers new and improved cloud capabilities to help clients modernize with Hybrid Cloud.

Today, IBM also announced a suite of compiler products, including IBM Enterprise COBOL for z/OS 6.4, that fully support the IBM z16 architecture to optimize application performance and provide new features to help clients modernize their business-critical applications to propel forward with their digital transformation plans. 

• Support of the latest IBM z/Architecture® to maximize your IBM z16 investment, reduce CPU usage, and improve performance of critical COBOL applications
• Improved Java™/COBOL interoperability to easily extend the capabilities of your COBOL programs with Java
• Interoperability between AMODE 31 (31-bit) and AMODE 64 (64-bit) COBOL programs to handle your growing COBOL program data without converting the entire application to run in AMODE 64
• Support for user-defined functions to enable you to write your own functions and invoke them like intrinsic functions, improving code modularity and maintainability
• Improved integration with IBM Automatic Binary Optimizer for z/OS to invest in your future so that modules you compile today take advantage of future IBM zSystems hardware enhancements, without having to be recompiled

• PDF:
  • Data sheet
• Full announcement letters:
  • Enterprise COBOL for z/OS 6.4
  • Enterprise COBOL Value Unit Edition for z/OS 6.4