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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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's Bob Sutor wants to see Java turned into a real standard, but Sun fears a loss of control could threaten Java's promise of write-once, run-anywhere. David takes a hard look at this high ...

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 ...

More than a decade ago, Google re-implemented the Java programming language as part of its new Android mobile operating system. Oracle, the owner of Java, then sued Google for copyright ...

COBOL, or Common Business Oriented Language, is one of the oldest programming languages in use, dating back to around 1959. It's had surprising staying power; according to a 2022 survey, there's ...