BMC is releasing a variety of updates to the BMC AMI portfolio, breaking new ground in enabling what is possible on the mainframe from a new approach to secondary data storage to the inclusion of artificial intelligence (AI) that enhances productivity and efficiency.
According to the company, BMC AMI Cloud introduces an industry first with Cloud Data Sets (CDS), a patented innovation enabling direct access to object storage on-prem or in a hyperscaler without modifying existing processes.
The CDS feature in BMC AMI Cloud Data provides a seamless transition to object storage, which streamlines backup and recovery and offers cost savings over traditional solutions.
Additionally, with cloud data sets current users of BMC AMI FDR can now redirect their tape backups to object storage without direct access storage device (DASD) or VTL staging, or any changes to code. This results in faster backups, improved disaster recovery, and the ability to eliminate the cost and infrastructure requirements of physical tape and VTL storage, the company said.
Additionally, the company is adding BMC AMI Assistant for BMC AMI DevX Code Insights to include the widest language support in the industry—including explanations of code written in PL/I, JCL, and Assembler.
This expands developers’ capability to understand and maintain mainframe code in all relevant languages, enabling them to review, extend, and test mainframe code with unmatched efficiency.
The new BMC AMI Stobe for Java enables comprehensive application performance management and analysis in a single tool with a user-friendly web interface. BMC AMI Strobe for Java allows developers to easily pinpoint sources of excessive resource demand and shift left to conduct performance tests earlier in the software delivery lifecycle.
Powered by BMC AMI Assistant, new hybrid AI capabilities which combine AI/ML with GenAI in BMC AMI Ops Insight simplify root cause analysis, helping to reduce mean time to detection (MTTD) and mean time to resolution (MTTR).
New interactive dashboards also empower users to create and personalize focused views based on their observability needs. By giving systems programmers greater control over the information they see, these customized insights enable faster and smarter decision-making.
New features in BMC AMI Data help maximize efficiency and accelerate database updates. Parallel reorg processing in BMC AMI Change Manager for Db2 reduces the downtime associated with sequential processing of reorgs while enhancing resource utilization.
BMC AMI SQL Assurance for Db2 integrates with GitLab to deliver an automated shift-left approach that enables organizations to catch SQL performance and compliance issues early in the DevOps pipeline.
BMC AMI Change Manager for IMS helps streamline creation of SQL queries for managed application control blocks (ACBs) with a new autocomplete feature for SQL Processing Using File Input (SPUFI). By suggesting relevant keywords and snippets in real time, it boosts query speed, reduces errors, and improves user productivity.
Based on customer feedback, BMC is also introducing a new, streamlined IBM z/OS Management Facility (z/OSMF) install process for BMC AMI solutions, beginning with BMC AMI Security.
This new installation experience covers every step of installation, including ordering, downloading, and installing the product. Enhancements include embedded installation documentation, fewer questions asked during install, saving answers to speed up future installs, reordering and grouping of similar install steps by role, and more.
New additions to the BMC Education library this quarter include courses on BMC AMI Storage, BMC AMI Security, and BMC AMI Data.
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