IBM launches generative AI tool to help modernize mainframe software

Many large enterprises still rely on mainframes, but the use of legacy technology can hold back modernization and digital transformation efforts. To help organizations progress their modernization plans, IBM is launching watsonx Code Assistant for Z, a new generative AI-assisted product that will help enable faster translation of COBOL to Java on IBM Z systems and enhance developer productivity on the platform. It's powered by IBM's watsonx.ai code model, which will have knowledge of 115 coding languages having learned from 1.5 trillion tokens. At 20 billion parameters, it is on target to become one of the largest generative AI foundation… [Continue Reading]