IBM watsonx Code Assistant for Z is here, allowing ISVs to modernize COBOL applications.

New automated and AI-assisted capabilities support an end-to-end application modernization lifecycle with auto discovery, refactor, language conversion, and testing. Watsonx Code Asssitant for Z includes a watsonx.ai Large Language Model tuned for COBOL to Java translation. 

Join this Knowledge Exchange webinar and learn how a new generative AI service allows ISVs to drive application modernization with generative AI. This product complements the extensive capabilities offered for COBOL modernization, while also enabling selective conversion to Java on z/OS.

• Leverage the power of generative AI to make it easier for developers to selectively modernize COBOL business services to well architected high-quality Java code
• Easily integrate into existing core COBOL business applications running on IBM Z with interoperability and optimized to deliver mainframe qualities of service
• AI generated code is optimized to interoperate with the rest of the COBOL application, with CICS, IMS, DB2, and other z/OS runtimes

Rich Larin, watsonx Code Assistant for Z Product Management Lead, will be on hand to answer your questions and illustrate how leveraging generative AI accelerates code generation and increases developer productivity.