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Watsonx Code Assistant For Z Is The Rosetta Stone For Mainframes

IBM, June 25,2025

The COBOL language underlies critical business systems, but WCA for Z is using the power of AI to help developers understand and modernize it.

With every passing year there are fewer COBOL programmers. Yet more than 65 years after COBOL was developed, the first programming language for business remains key to the daily operations of countless enterprises around the world. And these codebases can be huge - a core banking application may contain thousands of programs. Working with that as a monolith is difficult. That's where watsonx Code Assistant for Z comes in.

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