Modernizing mainframes has been a long and expensive process for too long. Today, we’re launching new solutions that bring the combined strength of Gemini models, and our partners’ technologies and services to accelerate mainframe modernization.
Google Cloud generative AI products for mainframe modernization
Google Cloud currently offers three products for mainframe customers looking to reimagine their mainframe applications (significantly change the code logic and design), focusing on assessment, code transformation and testing.
1. Google Cloud Mainframe Assessment Tool (powered by Gemini Models)
Google Cloud’s Mainframe Assessment Tool (MAT), now generally available, allows customers to thoroughly assess and analyze their entire mainframe estate, including applications and data, enabling informed decisions on the optimal modernization path. MAT provides in-depth code analysis, generates clear code explanations, summarized application logic and specifications, automated documentation creation, identification of application dependencies, and the generation of initial test cases. This accelerates understanding of the mainframe code and jumpstarts the modernization process. Learn more.
2. Google Cloud Mainframe Rewrite (powered by Gemini Models)
To modernize your mainframe applications, Google Cloud’s Mainframe Rewrite, now available in Preview, helps developers transform and reimagine legacy mainframe code into modern languages, such as Java and C#. Mainframe Rewrite provides an IDE environment for developers to iteratively modernize legacy code, test and deploy the modernized application in Google Cloud. Learn more.
3. Dual Run
To de-risk the modernization journey, customers can use Google Cloud Dual Run to thoroughly test, certify, and validate the modernized mainframe applications. Dual Run allows users to verify the correctness, completeness, and performance of the modernized code during migration and before the new application goes live in production.
By replaying live events from the production mainframe onto the modernized cloud application, Dual Run compares the output between the two systems to detect any differences. Learn more.
Get started with Google Cloud Mainframe Assessment Tool, Mainframe Rewrite and Dual Run.
Source Credit: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/infrastructure-modernization/accelerate-mainframe-modernization-with-google-cloud-ai/
