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Mainframe, Simplified.

Meet AMI Assistant—contextual AI that explains code, accelerates resolution, and captures institutional knowledge across the mainframe.

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Simplify and transform the way you work with your mainframe

BMC AMI Assistant brings conversational, contextual AI to the mainframe—helping teams understand code, streamline documentation, and resolve issues faster. Explore the capabilities that make it possible.

Code Explanation

Explain complex and unfamiliar mainframe code in clear natural language to shorten learning curves and accelerate confident development.

COBOL-to-Java Code Conversion

Convert COBOL business logic into clean, maintainable Java using generative AI—accelerating application transformation with confidence.

Root Cause Explanation

Use Hybrid AI—combining rules logic, machine learning, and generative AI—to explain probable causes in natural language and accelerate detection and resolution.

Knowledge Expert Chat

Answer complex mainframe development, operations, and security questions instantly using conversational and contextual AI—delivering trusted guidance directly within workflows across the BMC AMI portfolio.

Code Documentation

Automatically generate clear, consistent documentation to preserve knowledge and accelerate maintenance and modernization efforts.

AI Model Selection

Select the right AI model using a curated LLM library or bring-your-own LLM to align AI capabilities with specific mainframe use cases.

Next Best Actions for Resolution

Deliver guided next-best actions for remediation, helping teams resolve system issues faster and with confidence.

Knowledge Hub (beta)

Ingest, capture, and make institutional knowledge accessible to power accurate, contextual responses across the Knowledge Expert Chat experience.

From BMC's 2024 Mainframe Survey:

60%

of organizations are implementing GenAI solutions to solve AIOps complexity on the mainframe

2024 BMC Mainframe Survey

57%

implementing machine learning-based solutions to resolve mainframe system issues

2024 BMC Mainframe Survey

34%

want to use GenAI to augment existing expertise to provide critical business insight

2024 BMC Mainframe Survey

36%

want to use GenAI to identify issues and risks

2024 BMC Mainframe Survey
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Preserve Institutional Knowledge with an AI-Powered Knowledge Expert

BMC AMI Assistant is your always-on knowledge expert — blending GenAI with the power of Hybrid AI to deliver insights that make sense.

  • Keep expertise in-house. BMC AMI Assistant captures decades of institutional knowledge, ensuring it’s never lost when experts retire.

  • Instant answers, every time. AI-powered responses adapt to the user’s context, delivering precise, relevant guidance.

  • Beyond generic AI. Unlike standalone LLMs, AI agents provide expert-level insights tailored to mainframe challenges.

  • No more manual knowledge transfer. Teams get the right information when they need it—boosting efficiency and reducing dependency on institutional knowledge.

Guide & Create - AI Agents that work for you

Get natural language explanations for selected code, system behavior, and code coverage — all context-aware and actionable.

  • Explain unfamiliar code and system behavior in plain language.

  • Auto-generate code documentation to accelerate modernization.

  • Use AI-driven root cause explanation (RCE) to reduce mean time to resolution.

  • Speed MTTR/MTTD with guided next step recommendations for mainframe system issues

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Flexible AI, Your Way

Bring the AI model that fits your organization or task at hand — not the other way around.

  • Curated LLM library vetted for mainframe tasks.

  • Plug in your own model with Bring-Your-Own Language Model (BYOLM) support.

  • Smarter answers tailored to the task at hand.

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Award

Award Spotlight

BMC AMI Assistant wins 2025 AI Breakthrough award

BMC AMI Assistant has been awarded the 2025 AI Breakthrough Award for innovation in Conversational AI, recognizing its ability to simplify mainframe work with natural-language guidance, contextual support, and generative AI.

You've never mainframed like this before

Harness Intelligence

Turn decades of knowledge and expertise into an AI-powered guide—ready when you need it. BMC AMI captures critical mainframe knowledge before it’s lost, providing instant access to expertise and documentation. Powered by GenAI, it explains, assists, and recommends next steps—helping both seasoned professionals and new talent to solve problems faster.

The Rise of AI Agents: A New Era for Mainframe Transformation

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Before using BMC AMI DevX Code Insights, powered by BMC AMI Assistant, understanding unfamiliar code required digging through machine code, user manuals, and other documentation—a slow and time-consuming process. We needed a way to get clear explanations for individual lines, logical code blocks, or entire programs to accelerate our analysis. Now, with the GenAI-powered code explanation capability, we can quickly understand and evaluate the code in seconds, significantly speeding up our investigation and development workflows.

Swapnil Jathar

Senior Product Developer, Enterprise Software Company

Choose the Right LLM: Why AI Flexibility Matters for Mainframe Transformation

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