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PKUTECH Corporation announced on the 6th that it has developed “Egeria-NextCode,” a solution utilizing IBM Japan’s watsonx. This solution visualizes the numerous COBOL assets present in Japan’s core systems and improves migration accuracy, enabling automatic conversion to the general-purpose programming language, Java. [Image] Benefits of Implementation:
PKUTECH is engaged in the migration of existing assets, including COBOL, and has responded to diverse migration needs through its proprietary asset analysis, visualization, and conversion tools. It also currently offers its own AI solution, the “Egeria Series,” developed by a group of AI experts. Meanwhile, IBM Japan supports company-wide digital transformation, including IT and business transformation, through its “watsonx” series, an AI for business. The two companies have leveraged their respective areas of expertise to jointly develop a new solution in the migration field. Egeria-NextCode was developed by combining PKUTECH’s accumulated migration technology and AI with IBM Japan’s AI agent and advanced AI coding support technology.
PKUTECH will serve as the distributor, providing the solution to domestic companies, particularly those in the financial and manufacturing industries, and the public sector, that operate large-scale COBOL assets on mainframes. The two companies conducted a three-step verification process to develop the solution. First, they conducted verification using IBM’s AI agent product, watsonx Orchestrate, to streamline asset analysis, which involves asset inventory, inventory list creation, conversion targets, and policy formulation . Next, they conducted a conversion verification using PKUTECH’s code conversion tool combined with IBM’s coding assistance product, watsonx Code Assistant. Finally, they verified the testing process across individual, composite, and comprehensive domains. By introducing watsonx Orchestrate and applying it to document creation and other tasks, Egeria-NextCode was able to significantly improve productivity by reducing the time and effort required for asset analysis and visualization during migration work. Furthermore, by combining PKUTECH’s conversion tool and AI tuning technology with IBM’s coding assistance product, watsonx Code Assistant, the combination of the two companies’ technologies increased the conversion rate to 97.4% and improved conversion accuracy.
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また、可読性が向上したことで、その後の修正や機能追加も容易になりました。Egeria-NextCodeは、COBOL資産の可視化から最新Javaへの移行までをカバーします。導入企業・組織は、従来のジェネレーティブAIでは困難だった独自COBOLの正確・高精度な変換を実現し、ドキュメント作成やコード変換を大幅に効率化できます。手作業による移行に比べ、移行工数を約70%削減できる見込みで、これまでメンテナンスができなかった老朽化したシステムを、柔軟かつ継続的に活用できる新たな資産として再構築することが可能になります。PKUTECHは今後、日本IBMの技術支援を受けながら、システム開発に特化したエージェントベースのAIソリューションを開発し、要件定義やテストの自動化など、開発プロセスのあらゆるフェーズでのAIエージェントの活用を目指していく予定です。.
PKUTECH will provide Egeria-NextCode implementation support, migration consulting, and maintenance support to support mainframe modernization, primarily for customers in the financial, public, and manufacturing industries. In addition, through Egeria-NextCode, the company aims to create a more flexible and continuously usable system environment, thereby contributing to users’ digital transformation.
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