Watsonx Code Assistant for Z also evaluates that the COBOL code and the Java translation are semantically equivalent and have the same result. AI model will be trained on open source or attributed ...

Watsonx Code Assistant for Z uses generative AI to assist in translating applications from COBOL to Java.

IBM’s generative AI tool aims to refactor ancient COBOL code for its mainframes Humans are still "in the driver's seat," but it could make code more modular.