Reimagining Mainframe Development: The Executive Playbook
Engage with BMC's thought leaders as they unveil advanced strategies and the newest solutions designed to propel mainframe DevOps into the future. This briefing will equip you with actionable strategies tailored to your mainframe environment and designed to enhance developers’ experience and productivity, reduce time-to-market, and ensure seamless knowledge transfer across development generations.
Session 1: State of Mainframe DevOps – Past, Present & Future
Mainframe software delivery has evolved from the rigid waterfall practices of the 1980s to modern DevOps and platform engineering. Adoption of DevOps is now mainstream on the mainframe, driven by significant improvements in application efficiency and quality. Yet many teams still struggle to reconcile 40 years of stability with the need for velocity. This session provides an executive-level overview of the mainframe DevOps landscape and a framework to reach a structured, measured Mainframe DevOps practice across technology, culture, and processes based on industry research on high-performing development teams and the capabilities that distinguish them.
Session 2: Modernizing the Mainframe Development Environment
Attracting and retaining mainframe talent requires creating a development environment that meets today’s expectations. Despite 66 % of organizations investing in mainframe modernization, only about half believe they have adequate tooling, and developers often see their mainframe tools as inferior to the cloud-native tools they use elsewhere. This session explains how a unified development platform can bridge generational divides, reduce context-switching and drive productivity. This session demonstrates how BMC AMI DevX creates a unified development environment that meets developers where they are while establishing the tooling foundation for accelerated onboarding, lower burnout, and improved innovation.
Session 3: A Day in the Life of a Mainframe Developer: From Dev to Test to Production
Your mainframe developers navigate a complex journey every day: understanding code they didn't write, making changes under pressure, and delivering software to production without disrupting mission-critical systems.
This session follows that journey from change request to deployment. We'll demonstrate how a developer uses AI-powered analysis to understand unfamiliar COBOL, extracts and modernizes only the components that need attention, commits through Git-compatible source control, triggers automated tests, and promotes code through a governed CI/CD pipeline. By grounding the technology in a realistic workflow, you'll see how unified tooling transforms the developer experience while maintaining the governance your systems demand.
Session 4: Measuring Success with Data-Driven Mainframe DevOps
You cannot manage what you do not measure. Yet many mainframe teams fly blind because cultural barriers, complex release processes, skills shortages, and existing tools make it challenging to collect actionable metrics. Sustainable transformation requires measurement, continuous improvement, and demonstrable business value. This session focuses on implementing industry-standard DORA metrics alongside mainframe-specific KPIs to create comprehensive visibility into development effectiveness and demonstrate ROI.
Session 5: From Assistants to Autonomy: The BMC Path to AI-Enabled Development
Generic AI tools trained on GitHub and Stack Overflow don't speak mainframe. BMC isn't retrofitting cloud-native AI for the platform—we're building intelligence native to COBOL, JCL, and Assembler and the operational context that enterprise mainframe teams inhabit daily. This session articulates BMC's vision for Agentic AI and Model Context Protocol (MCP) adoption within Developer Experience (DevX), presenting a strategic architecture that positions BMC AMI DevX as the foundation for a truly connected, intelligent development ecosystem.