BMC AMI DevX

BMC AMI DevX delivers a mainframe-inclusive DevOps toolchain designed for next-generation developers and accelerating innovation. The platform streamlines the development lifecycle—from coding and testing to debugging and deployment—enabling organizations to automate application development while providing a single place to manage end-to-end DevOps capabilities.

Core Platform Components

Development Environment

• BMC AMI DevX Workbench: Provides an integrated development environment (IDE) based on Eclipse or Visual Studio Code, featuring automated analysis, editing, and seamless transitions between coding, testing, debugging, and deployment.

Code Management and Analysis

• BMC AMI DevX Code Pipeline: Source code management built specifically for agile mainframe development, enabling true concurrent development without risk while providing RESTful APIs for integration with any orchestration, scanning, and testing tooling.
• BMC AMI DevX Code Insights: Simplifies mainframe applications by visually representing code structure, logic, and dependencies while providing AI-powered explanations that help developers rapidly understand complex and unfamiliar COBOL, JCL, PL/I, and Assembler code. Enables developers to confidently break apart COBOL-based applications into smaller, callable sub-programs that pave the way for modernization initiatives.

Testing and Debugging

• BMC AMI DevX Code Debug: Guides developers to resolution when logic errors occur, enabling them to optimize mainframe applications across multiple environments even when unfamiliar with the source code.
• BMC AMI DevX Total Test: Automates unit, functional, integration, and regression testing throughout the development cycle, instantly verifying code changes.
• BMC AMI DevX Performance Test: Accelerates testing to ensure applications consistently meet production performance standards.
• BMC AMI DevX Code Coverage: Provides advanced analysis that clearly identifies which portions of an application have or have not been tested, helping teams improve test quality and application reliability.

Test Data Management

• BMC AMI DevX Data Studio: Streamlines test data preparation by enabling developers to discover, visualize, and secure both mainframe and non-mainframe data through a unified interface.
• BMC AMI DevX File-AID: Together with Data Studio, developers can manage, pull, and obfuscate data to satisfy testing needs across almost any file type and database interface.

Operations and Development Analytics

• BMC AMI DevX Abend-AID: Captures crucial metadata when program execution fails, sending automatic notifications to developers through webhook alerts and creating detailed trouble tickets. Enables quick diagnosis through root cause analysis and provides the data present at the time of failure to help developers recreate and resolve issues efficiently.
• BMC AMI zAdviser Enterprise: Delivers deep insights into every aspect of the SDLC through predictive analytics dashboards to improve quality, velocity, and efficiency of software delivery and operations. Tracks key DORA metrics (deployment frequency, lead time, change failure rate, MTTR) in pre-built dashboards that provide a single-pane-of-glass view.
• BMC AMI Strobe: Pinpoints application inefficiencies that cause excessive CPU consumption, helping IT departments reduce hardware and software costs while improving application performance and increasing customer satisfaction.

Key Benefits

• Modernizes the developer desktop experience, making mainframe development as accessible as any other platform
• Enables mainframe developers to adopt the same DevOps practices as other development teams
• Helps attract and quickly onboard younger talent to mainframe development
• Provides measurable quality metrics to mitigate risks and performance issues
• Drives continuous improvement in software delivery quality, velocity, and efficiency
• Creates a destination that developers are excited about, helping organizations attract and retain top talent

BMC AMI DevX aims to transform the mainframe developer experience into one that is modern, efficient, and infused with AI-powered capabilities. It makes the mainframe as adaptive as any other platform while preserving the reliability and security that make mainframe systems essential to enterprise IT infrastructure.