IBM watsonx Code Assistant for Z, our latest Generative AI-assisted mainframe application modernization solution. Mainframe (IBM Z) application modernization is a topic that every mainframe client is addressing to various degrees today, driven largely from digital transformation. With generative AI comes the opportunity to reimagine the mainframe application modernization experience. Infusing generative AI will enable speed and trust, help de-risk, and lower total costs associated with heavy-lifting application modernization initiatives. This document provides an overview of the IBM watsonx Code Assistant for Z which uses the power of generative AI to make it easier for developers to selectively modernize COBOL business services while maintaining mainframe qualities of service.
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This document discusses IBM's mobile development offerings, including IBM Worklight. Some key points:
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This document discusses DevOps and containers. It provides an overview of DevOps, what Docker is, and IBM Bluemix and its Container Service.
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Accelerating Innovation with Hybrid CloudJeff Jakubiak
1) The document discusses IBM's hybrid cloud portfolio and how it can help organizations accelerate innovation through hybrid cloud.
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My presentation for our Benelux IBM Rational Innovate event. This presentation explains how the IBM Bluemix and devops as a service solution can be used for modern cloud based development.
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The literature has provided evidence that developers are likely to test some behaviors of the program and avoid other ones. Despite this observation, we still lack empirical evidence from real-world systems. In this paper, we propose to automatically identify the tested paths of a method as a way to detect the method’s behaviors. Then, we provide an empirical study to assess the tested paths quantitatively. We monitor the execution of 14,177 tests from 25 real-world Python systems and assess 11,425 tested paths from 2,357 methods. Overall, our empirical study shows that one tested path is prevalent and receives most of the calls, while others are significantly less executed. We find that the most frequently executed tested path of a method has 4x more calls than the second one. Based on these findings, we discuss practical implications for practitioners and researchers and future research directions.
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Speaker:
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2. Our principal challenge facing organizations
today is accelerating
mainframe application modernization
lines of COBOL are estimated to be
actively running by enterprises1
230+ billion
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An application developer can
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reliance on the application
subject matter expert (SME).
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An application developer can
generate code explanations
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comments or downloaded for
documentation, with the
confidence that the
explanation is reliable and up-
to-date.
Hill 3: Refactoring
A COBOL developer can
generate code explanations
that can help them
understand and refactor the
COBOL code into a new COBOL
service, without relying on the
application SME.
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Prem LLM Service
On prem LLM Stack overview
Openshift & CP4D services
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part
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