What’s New in Mainframe Solutions

Featured Innovations

• Make teams more productive with in-context, expert chat functionality from BMC AMI Assistant, now more widely available in nine BMC AMI solutions.

• Get clearer insights into development team performance with BMC AMI zAdviser’s AI-powered application analysis that consolidates mainframe activity metrics, productivity data, and failure patterns.

• Detect and resolve IMS performance and availability issues: With new AI-driven insights in BMC AMI Ops Insight, teams can get best-in-class integrated monitoring, now including IMS to spot IMS transaction performance or availability issues earlier, identify likely root causes, and follow guided remediation—reducing both MTTD and MTTR. And for modernized workloads, we’re excited to announce an industry-first with proven application restart control to COBOL-to-Java and pure Java batch processing in IMS environments, giving you the same robust batch restart capabilities you’ve relied on for years, now available for Java.

• Help shape the future of your team’s work: Co-create with us through the Customer Design Program to empower your teams to validate use cases and software early and provide structured feedback that we take back to development.

Expert Knowledge. Intelligent Guidance. Embedded in Your Workflow.

Help your teams resolve issues faster, preserve expertise, and shape impactful, real-world innovation with BMC AMI Assistant.

• Gain contextual answers within your workflows without manual searching or switching tools with expanded access to AI chat from BMC AMI Assistant, now available across nine DevX and Ops products.

• Capture scattered institutional knowledge and difficult-to-find content so the AI assistant can reference it during interactions, bringing organizational insight into the Knowledge Expert Chat experience with the Knowledge Hub (Beta) capability.

• Realize value faster and lower adoption risk by collaborating with BMC through the Customer Design Program to validate AI use cases, measure value, and refine product fit using structured governance and continuous feedback.

Leverage DevOps Telemetry in Decision-making.

Make informed decisions with a unified view of activity metrics, productivity data, and mainframe application failure patterns with BMC AMI zAdviser’s Development Team Analysis feature. 

• Make faster decisions without sifting through multiple dashboards with a comprehensive, narrative report for each application that includes metrics like time spent on development, testing duration, debugging frequency, and deployment patterns across teams and programs.

• Reveal expertise distribution and knowledge concentration, seeing development activity levels, productivity, and tool usage across programs and team members.

• Target stability improvements by analyzing production versus test failures to focus remediation where it matters most or by comparing failures at the application and program levels.

• Minimize operational risk by detecting single-developer dependencies and stability concerns before they lead to outages.

• Monitor your DevX tool adoption by tracking usage across your team, correlating adoption rates with productivity improvements to demonstrate ROI on your tool investments.

Learn more about BMC AMI zAdviser

Achieve Reliable Java Batch Restart. Unify Db2 Usage Insights.

Modernize batch processing across environments and enable proactive planning for resilient operations by extending Java restart control in IMS, an industry first, and accessing consolidated Db2 usage analytics with automated telemetry and exports with BMC AMI Data.

• Ensure operational continuity, compliance and resilience whether modernized from COBOL or built natively in Java by extending enterprise-grade restart capabilities to Java workloads.

• Reduce mainframe resource costs while improving throughput with optimized checkpoint pacing and CPU performance.

• Eliminate data silos and strengthen partnerships by consolidating multi-screen insights into a single, ready-to-analyze Excel workbook without manual steps and automatically sharing usage analytics with your stakeholders to influence future capabilities.

• Ensure operational excellence and drive growth by monitoring trends to confirm tuning impact and optimize workloads for reliability and applying advanced analytics to align capacity with business priorities and reduce risk exposure.

• Gain visibility into Db2 usage patterns, what was run, who ran it, and how long it took, all automated and formatted for audits and compliance with Runtime Insights.

See Issues Early. Fix Them Fast. Powered by GenAI.

Speed decisions with in-flow GenAI assistance, make help available in more places, and keep day-to-day operations current with BMC AMI Ops.

• Cut mean-time-to-detect (MTTD) and mean-time-to-repair (MTTR) with AI/ML-driven multivariate analysis, explanations, and step-by-step next actions in plain language in an on-screen chat for IMS issues within BMC AMI Ops Insight and BMC AMI Assistant.

• Resolve issues faster with plain-language, in-workflow answers within BMC AMI Ops Automation for Batch Thruput with BMC AMI Assistant.

• (Beta) Generate faster, more consistent answers that reflect how your organization operates and help next-gen teams move with confidence with in-workflow guidance within BMC AMI Ops Monitors and Insight powered by BMC AMI Assistant.

Learn more about BMC AMI Ops

Reduce Mainframe Processor Usage. Enhance Compliance for Backups.

Enhance performance, security, and regulatory compliance with Cloud Datasets zIIP enablement and retention-based backups with BMC AMI Cloud.

• Deliver up to 40–50% faster performance compared to tape, while maintaining similar General Central Processor (GCP) resource usage. With Cloud Datasets zIIP enablement, workloads are offloaded to zIIP processors for improved efficiency.

• Meet regulatory compliance requirements and streamline data management with precise retention periods for volume-level backups.

• Partners: Gain hands-on access to build customer demos of BMC AMI solutions (starting with BMC AMI Cloud) within the new BMC AMI Experience platform.

• Modernize hybrid cloud data management with BMC AMI Cloud, now functionally certified for Dell PowerScale and Dell ObjectScale—key storage engines of the Dell AI Data Platform for advanced analytics featuring the Dell Data Analytics Engine.

Simplify. Automate. Accelerate Mainframe Security.

Improve accuracy, save your security admin’s time, and strengthen alignment with IT change-management policies with BMC AMI Privileged Access Manager’s connection directly to Jira. Automatically find the change ID when users request elevated access and remove manual steps and speed up approvals. 

Learn more about BMC AMI Security

Ramp Up Sooner. Leverage Simplified BMC AMI Installation.

You asked, we listened. Simplify and speed up every step of your installation with an enhanced experience that shortens ordering, downloading, and installing the product including install documentation. BMC AMI is rolling out a new IBM® z/OSMF install experience for the entire BMC AMI suite. 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

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

Learn more about simplified installation

Become Productive Faster. Train your Team on BMC AMI.

Help your students build real-world skills using enterprise-grade software with the BMC AMI Education Access Program for accredited colleges and universities. 

Additionally, new courses have been added to the BMC Education library, supporting your team’s learning paths for BMC AMI. Check out the courses that are new this quarter.