{"id":40840,"date":"2023-08-24T08:52:44","date_gmt":"2023-08-24T12:52:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=40840"},"modified":"2023-08-28T09:35:54","modified_gmt":"2023-08-28T13:35:54","slug":"ibm-introduces-watsonx-code-assistant-for-z","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/ibm-introduces-watsonx-code-assistant-for-z\/","title":{"rendered":"IBM introduces Watsonx Code Assistant for Z"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-ar-index=\"1\">IBM has announced a new generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) product called Watsonx Code Assistant for Z. The cloud-based service is designed to help developers translate existing COBOL code to Java on IBM Z mainframes.<\/p>\n<p data-ar-index=\"2\">Watsonx Code Assistant for Z uses AI to support application modernization and IT automation. The resulting Java code will be object-oriented and optimized to interoperate with the rest of the COBOL application, as well as CICS, IMS, DB2, and other z\/OS runtimes.<\/p>\n<p data-ar-index=\"3\">This is the second in a series of watsonx code assistants; the first was IBM watsonx Code Assistant for Red Hat Ansible Lightspeed. The code assistants integrate with Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code), allowing developers to leverage them within a familiar tool.<\/p>\n<p data-ar-index=\"4\">Trained on CodeNet and fine-tuned using Enterprise Z COBOL, Code Assistant for Z allows customization of underlying models. This grants users insight into code generation origins and ensures adherence to organizational best practices.<\/p>\n<p data-ar-index=\"5\">Watsonx Code Assistant for Z will debut at the IBM TechXchange in September and will officially launch in Q4 2023. Additionally, IBM will host a webinar on Sept. 21 at 11 am ET, highlighting the watsonx Code Assistant for Z. Registration is required for participation.<\/p>\n<p data-ar-index=\"6\">The sources for this piece include an article in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itworldcanada.com\/article\/ibm-launches-genai-offering-it-says-accelerates-app-mainframe-modernization\/545136\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ITWorldCanada<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IBM has announced a new generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) product called Watsonx Code Assistant for Z. The cloud-based service is designed to help developers translate existing COBOL code to Java on IBM Z mainframes. Watsonx Code Assistant for Z uses AI to support application modernization and IT automation. The resulting Java code will be object-oriented [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[349],"tags":[208],"class_list":["post-40840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-development","tag-ibm"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40840"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40842,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40840\/revisions\/40842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}