BMC AMI

What’s New in Mainframe Solutions

Learn about our October 2024 release.

Gen AI-Powered Mainframe Management

BMC AMI Assistant is a new, innovative generative AI (Gen AI)-driven solution that closes knowledge gaps left by the evolving mainframe workforce demographic. It enables all mainframe professionals—from novice to expert—to increase efficiency and gain insights for strategic decision making. With this first phase of our AMI Assistant roadmap, users can access Gen AI capabilities directly within BMC AMI DevX Code Insights. In upcoming releases, more Gen AI functionality will be introduced across the BMC AMI portfolio.

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Rapid Code Comprehension
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Streamlined Development
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Root Cause Analysis
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BMC AMI DevX Code.CBL

Faster, more frequent modification and delivery of mainframe applications

Reduce the fear of changing complex, unfamiliar code; maintain and extend your mainframe applications with confidence; and continuously improve mainframe development with new Gen AI-driven capabilities infused within BMC AMI DevX Code Insights. 

  • Help developers quickly understand and modify unfamiliar code, ensuring smooth maintenance and continuous improvement.

  • Simplify delivery with BMC AMI DevX Workbench for VS Code, enabling developers to track data flows, refactor programs, and comment out dead code. Gen AI-powered BMC AMI Assistant integrates into both IDEs, providing real-time code insights, structure charts, and guided improvements for faster debugging and better quality.

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Cloud storage optimization and usability

Reduce overhead and ensure more efficient use of cloud resources while boosting efficiency with BMC AMI Cloud capabilities that help you: 

  • Automate the expiration of backups for deleted data sets to resolve object storage redundancies, remove manual intervention, reduce overhead, and ensure more efficient use of your cloud resources.

  • Streamline the process of expiring batches of resources with a new multi-selection delete feature in the resources page.

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Automated security reporting

Automated security reporting

Significantly reduce mean time to resolution (MTTR) by automatically generating detailed forensic reports for specific events within seconds with BMC AMI Command Center for Security.

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DSNDMS Event

Gen AI-driven problem resolution for advanced mainframe operations

Reduce MTTD and MTTR and accelerate problem resolution with a new GenAI-powered explain capability for root cause analysis. Provide clear, actionable explanations, enabling all experience levels to quickly identify and resolve issues, enhancing service resilience and operational efficiency with BMC AMI Ops Insight and BMC AMI Assistant (Beta).

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Scalability, efficiency, and simplification across IBM® Db2® and IBM® IMS environments

Deliver performance enhancements, streamlined migrations, and advanced support for modern applications with new BMC AMI Data enhancements that enable your database administrators (DBAs) and systems programmers (SysProgs) to manage complex systems and empower robust, resilient database performance. New functionality enables you to:

  • Reduce costs by optimizing resource usage in BMC AMI Data for Db2 with a completely redesigned sort capability for Db2 management that reduces CPU utilization by over 50% versus competing solutions and offloads workloads to low-cost zIIP.

  • Support views and large objects (LOBs) with BMC AMI DevOps for Db2®and improve query performance with BMC AMI SQL Explorer for Db2®'s EXPLAIN of SQL queries with temporary tables.

  • Enhance schema management, boost data integrity, and streamline resource management across Db2 environments.

  • Simplify migrations from DELTA IMS to BMC AMI Change Manager for IMS, reducing manual intervention.

  • Optimize log analysis with BMC AMI Log Analyzer for IMS, including multi-volume extract and enhanced filtering.

Get Up to Speed with New Product Education

New courses are continually added to the BMC Education library, supporting learning paths in BMC AMI DevX, BMC AMI Ops, BMC AMI Storage, BMC AMI Security, and BMC AMI Data. Check out the courses that are new this quarter.






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