BMC AMI DevX is a mainframe DevOps platform for IBM Z environments that helps development and platform engineering teams increase release velocity, reduce change risk, and build a sustainable mainframe developer workforce.
Whether the priority is attracting the next generation of mainframe talent, safely evolving decades of business-critical code, accelerating release velocity, or demonstrating development ROI to leadership — BMC AMI DevX is designed to address all on a single platform. Teams can connect existing tools and adopt capabilities incrementally using an open-borders integration approach.
A 2025 Forrester Total Economic Impact study found that customers using BMC AMI DevX onboarded developers 50% faster, completed code changes 33% faster, increased release frequency by 50%, and reduced change failure rate by 33%.
Key capabilities:
- Modern IDE integration (VS Code, Eclipse) with a unified development environment that reduces context switching
- AI-powered code analysis including dependency mapping, impact analysis, and runtime execution path visualization
- Automated unit, functional, integration, and performance testing with code coverage analysis
- Git-compatible CI/CD integration with event-driven webhooks and an open plug-in library
- DORA metrics and DevOps KPI tracking with AI/ML anomaly detection across the mainframe SDLC
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