IBM COBOL-to-Java translation. Image: IBM. IBM announced today watsonx Code Assistant for Z, a generative AI-assisted solution for COBOL-to-Java mainframe application modernization.It opens up new ...

Risks aside, IBM no doubt sees tools like Code Assistant as important to its future growth. Today, about 84% of IBM’s mainframe customers run COBOL — mostly customers in the financial and ...

IBM has previewed its upcoming watsonx Code Assistant for Enterprise Java Applications at its annual Think conference. The generative AI-based code assistant is aimed at accelerating Java ...

In a bid to help IBM Z systems customers modernize their applications, IBM is expanding the abilities of its generative AI based Watson Code Assistant to include COBOL code translation into Java ...

Watsonx Code Assistant for Z is powered by IBM’s 20 billion-parameter watsonx.ai model, which is said to be one of the world’s largest generative AI foundation models dedicated to code automation.

IBM says that Granite has been further polished by filtering toxic, sensitive or copyright-protected code, with programmers fluent in COBOL and Java working side-by-side to create thousands of ...

The new watsonx Code Assistant for Z is a generative AI-assisted product designed to enable faster translation of COBOL to Java on IBM Z, saving developers time and enhancing their productivity.

IBM, eager to keep those legacy functions on its Z mainframe systems, wants that code rewritten in Java. It tried getting humans to do it a few years back, but now it has another idea. Yes, you ...

IBM has begun participating in open-source Java project Harmony and intends to contribute code to the initiative, according to a Big Blue executive. In the past week, IBM has dedicated an employee ...

IBM did not provide pricing on the z890 but said it would cost less than the z990. IBM mainframes generally start at $1 million. The z890 will be sold at 28 capacity levels, so configurations will ...

At Oracle Code One 2019, the Microsoft vs. IBM debate took a sharp turn in one direction. Microsoft has laid major inroads to the Java community within the past 18 months, while IBM seems to backtrack ...