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AI-enabled mainframe modernization
Modernize your mainframe. Accelerate innovation. Reduce complexity — with AI at the core.
Susash Consulting helps organizations modernize mainframe applications, infrastructure, and development processes through a pragmatic, incremental, AI-accelerated approach — using IBM BOB, watsonx Code Assistant for Z, our Custom AI COBOL-to-Java conversion engine, and zAIOps.


Why Modernize Your Mainframe?
Improve developer productivity
- Modern IDEs plus watsonx Code Assistant for Z speed up COBOL and PL/I work.
Accelerate delivery
- AI-assisted code analysis and test generation cut manual effort.
Unlock business logic
- IBM BOB maps and documents rules buried in legacy code.
AI-driven development
- AI accelerates understanding, documentation, and conversion.
Mainframe modernization services
AI-powered discovery and blueprinting (IBM BOB)
Auto-discover business rules, dependencies, and modernization candidates.
COBOL to Java conversion (Custom AI tool)
Automated translation with functional-equivalence checks against the original.
Modern IDE integration
watsonx Code Assistant for Z inside modern dev environments.
Application Refactoring
AI-assisted refactoring finds dead code and simplifies logic paths.
Infrastructure modernization — powered by zAIOps
AI-driven operations with zAIOps
Predictive monitoring and anomaly detection across the mainframe estate.
z/OSMF implementation
Browser-based system management and workflows.
Workflow Automation
AI-assisted automation for repetitive operational tasks.
Ansible on z/OS
Infrastructure-as-code paired with zAIOps insights.
Tech Stack
Technologies We Use
Process Modernization & zDevOps
Bring Agile and DevOps Practices to the Mainframe
Modern mainframe delivery requires more than modern tools—it requires modern development and delivery processes. We help organizations establish automated, collaborative, and repeatable mainframe delivery pipelines using leading enterprise DevOps platforms.
GitHub Actions
Integrate mainframe development and deployment into GitHub-based workflows, enabling automated CI/CD pipelines.
GitLab CI
Implement GitLab-based continuous integration and delivery for mainframe applications and development teams.
Jenkins
Integrate mainframe builds, testing, and deployments with existing enterprise Jenkins pipelines.
Azure DevOps
Connect mainframe development and delivery processes with Azure DevOps to create an integrated enterprise delivery model.
Assess → Modernize → Automate → Integrate → Optimize
Assess
IBM BOB discovery
Modernize
watsonx + Custom AI
Automate
AI-assisted CI/CD
Integrate
APIs and cloud
Optimize
zAIOps tuning
Ready to modernize your mainframe?
Let’s discuss your AI-powered modernization journey.