The new watsonx Code Assistant for Z is a generative AI-assisted product designed to enable faster translation of COBOL to Java on IBM Z, saving developers time and enhancing their productivity.

Watsonx Code Assistant for Z can help with application discovery, business services refactoring, and code transformation. It plans to add automated validation testing to the tool in the future.

Z-Code is part of Microsoft’s wider XYZ-Code initiative that looks at combining models for text, vision and audio across multiple languages to create more powerful and helpful AI systems.

Project Z-Code is from Microsoft's XYZ initiative that combines AI models for text, language, and audio. It also helps create AIs that will focus on giving outputs like speaking, talking, seeing ...