A new era of mainframe productivity with generative AI assistants

IBM watsonx™ Assistant for Z brings decades of experience and best practices at your Z users’ fingertips and transforms how they engage with and manage the mainframe.

This AI assistant provides users with accurate, up-to-date answers to their IBM Z queries and simplifies the execution of both complex and repeated tasks, by codifying the knowledge of Z experts into trusted set of automations, that can be used by system programmers and operators of all experience levels. You can also customize this AI assistant by ingesting your documentation for personalized experience.

IBM watsonx Assistant for Z improves IBM Z® users' autonomy and confidence by reducing the time to onboard new-to-Z users and accelerating knowledge transfer from Z experts.

Features

• **Conversational AI assistant: **Deliver self-service experiences that yield curated answers and timely assistance with a contextually aware, conversational assistant n resources. 
• **Intelligent automation: **Leverage recommended next best actions and executed automations to complete tasks by invoking skills that are relevant to your conversation
• **Sales: **Discover pre-built skills or import trusted automations created with Ansible, JCL, and REXX, among others. Build custom skills for your unique use cases leveraging multiple skills.
• **Customizable Assistant: **Personalize AI assistants based on Z user role, team, experience and access level. Multiple assistants can be created to support user needs.

Benefits

• **Increase productivity: **Enhance IBM Z users' productivity, autonomy and confidence by simplifying access to information and automating time-consuming tasks.
• **Minimize the learning curve: **Help new-to-Z users access the IBM Z domain knowledge base and get answers to their questions with conversational AI capabilities.
• **Codify your knowledge base: **Enable IBM Z experts to codify their IBM Z knowledge for improved access to information and collaboration.