What’s New in Mainframe Solutions

Featured innovations

• Simplify AI model selection with curated or custom models, accelerate issue resolution, and preserve institutional knowledge with Generative AI (GenAI)-driven insights for seamless mainframe transformation with BMC AMI Assistant.

• Resolve Java exceptions quickly with new Java support, which delivers automated diagnostics and rapid notifications through collaboration tools, maintaining mission-critical reliability while supporting modernization initiatives with BMC AMI DevX Abend-AID.

• Optimize mainframe operations with intelligent automation and seamless data integration to reduce manual effort, accelerate issue resolution, and bridge the skills gap with BMC AMI Ops.

Remove toil and knowledge gaps with GenAI-powered intelligence

Optimize your mainframe transformation with GenAI that matches enterprise policies and evolving business needs, simplifying tasks, speeding issue resolution, and preserving critical knowledge with BMC AMI Assistant.

• Gain greater control, better align with organizational GenAI policies, and optimize GenAI for your mainframe transformation with the flexibility to choose from a curated language model library or bring-your-own language model (BYOLM) to match your specific policies, use cases, and requirements.

• Accelerate detection and resolution of system issues with new GenAI-guided capabilities that not only explain the root cause but also recommend the next best action—reducing downtime and keeping mainframe operations running at peak performance.

• Eliminate reliance on manual knowledge transfer by instantly accessing expert knowledge using GenAI agents that deliver precise, context-aware responses tailored to mainframe challenges. (BETA)

Boost Java reliability with less risk and more confidence

Ensure the reliability of your mission-critical workloads with the new automated exception handling for Java applications on the mainframe, powered by BMC AMI DevX Abend-AID. This strategic enhancement complements BMC's recent launch of performance monitoring capabilities in BMC AMI Strobe for Java. This unified approach enables teams to efficiently develop, monitor, and troubleshoot their Java applications. As organizations increasingly adopt Java—64% are currently developing new mainframe applications in Java, according to the latest BMC Mainframe Survey—this guarantees the reliability expected from mission-critical mainframe systems while also optimizing operational costs.

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Avoid system outages and downtime with GenAI automation and insights

Modernize mainframe operations with GenAI-powered insights, automation, and data integration to reduce toil, accelerate resolution, and bridge the skills gap with BMC AMI Ops.

• Accelerate mean time to detect/repair (MTTD/MTTR) by reducing downtime and improving service reliability with root cause analysis explanation and GenAI-guided “next best action,” leading your team through issue resolution, reducing the reliance on mainframe expertise with BMC AMI Ops Insight.

• Maintain flexibility and control when managing mission-critical environments by eliminating manual tasks, optimizing response times, and increasing operational accuracy with REST-enabled automation and dynamic, rules-based workflows within BMC AMI Ops Automation.

• Monitor, analyze, and act on network insights faster, regardless of mainframe experience, with near real-time streaming of z/OS network activity into Splunk, Elastic, and other enterprise analytics tools with an integration between BMC AMI Ops Monitor for IP and BMC AMI Datastream for Ops.

Learn more about BMC AMI Ops enhancements

Eliminate data disruptions with self-correcting recovery, DORA compliance, and more

Accelerate database modernization, enhance resiliency, and optimize operational efficiency by modernizing Db2 management with shift-left DevOps collaboration and self-correcting recovery. Additionally, strengthen security, simplify backup processes, provide more granular security enforcement for DORA compliance, and improve backup management, and catalog visibility for IMS.

• Reduce manual intervention required from your DBAs and Sysprogs, minimize downtime, and enhance resiliency by intelligently adjusting recovery execution options with BMC AMI Recovery for Db2.

• Streamline DevOps and SQL performance with GitLab support for BMC AMI DevOps for Db2 (now GA) and BMC AMI SQL Assurance for Db2 (GA in January), plus support for online EXPLAIN of SQL with global temporary tables from BMC AMI SQL Explorer for Db2.

• Ensure faster, more efficient reorganizations with BMC REORG PLUS and its ability to natively process LOBs.

• Strengthen security and achieve compliance with BMC AMI Application Restart Control for Db2 by enforcing secure configuration and logging unauthorized access for DORA.

• Safeguard data using Image Copy JCL Wizard in BMC AMI Backup and Recovery for IMS, enabling backup to disk with cloud/tape hardening.

• Improve lifecycle management with BMC AMI Change Manager for IMS TM, showing retention settings for better visibility and control.

Automate certificate management to stay ahead of compliance

Simplify certificate management and enhance security visibility on the mainframe with BMC AMI Security.

• Enhance mainframe resilience and security by enabling seamless failover and multi-DNS support to simplify secure connections, enhance hybrid IT integration, and ensure compliance with support for SAN parameters in BMC AMI Enterprise Connect for Venafi.

• Enable comprehensive analysis with easy-to-read dashboards that track compliance and monitor security performance with out-of-the-box BMC AMI Security Policy Manager dashboards for BMC AMI Command Center.

Learn how to better secure your mainframe

Improve performance and reduce costs with new advisory services

BMC AMI advisory services for mainframe provide assessment reports with actionable recommendations to help IT leaders maximize system performance and ensure seamless operations.

• BMC Mainframe Performance Advisory Service:

  Safeguard business continuity and boost customer satisfaction by improving your mainframe component performance, accelerating transactions, and minimizing downtime.

• BMC Mainframe Capacity Planning Advisory Service:

  Save money, build efficiencies, and better meet changing workload demands by augmenting resource application and performance.

• BMC Mainframe Storage Advisory Service:

  Improve operational efficiency, reduce costs, and make informed decisions about resource allocation, aligning with your data-driven objectives.

• BMC Mainframe Cost Reduction Advisory Service:

  Enhance mainframe efficiency and support business growth by addressing issues of underutilization or overprovisioning to get more out of your resource allocation and performance.

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