IBM releases 'watsonx' AI programming assistant, dedicated to alleviating the shortage of COBOL programmers

IT House News on October 31, IBM recently issued a press release stating that in order to alleviate the current shortage of language programmers proficient in COBOL (a programming language designed and developed in 1959), launched generative AI programming. Assistant "watsonx".

IBM launched a service called "IBM Z" in August this year, aiming to convert COBOL into Java language. Recently, the service was officially launched under the name "watsonx"

Watsonx's core functionality simplifies the conversion of COBOL code to Java and is designed to modernize mainframe computers. IBM said that the artificial intelligence assistant is extremely accurate in code translation and can reduce common grammatical errors, thereby improving the efficiency of line-by-line translation

To improve the reliability of the output, IBM plans to launch an automated unit testing tool that will help review the converted code

The CodeNet model is a key component behind Watsonx, which was reportedly trained using 1.5 trillion parameters and has 20 billion parameters. To enable more efficient COBOL to Java conversion, a large context window of 32,000 parameters was designed to capture a wider range of context information

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