[Info-vax] Adding AI functionality to VMS ?

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 8/9/2023 12:16 PM, John Dallman wrote:
> In article <ub005b$3uj2f$1 at dont-email.me>,
> clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP (Simon Clubley) wrote:
>> IBM have decided to start adding AI functionality to z/OS itself:
>> https://www.theregister.com/2023/08/09/ibm_z_os_upgrade/
> 
> There seem to be two parts to that:
> 
> Software that enables the use, if not construction, of LLMs. The main
> purpose for that presumably is to let mainframe people defend their
> systems to management as being modern.

The linked https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/announcements/ai-system-services-zos
has a little more detail:

<quote>
AI System Services for IBM z/OS 1.1 is designed to do the following:

     Provide the following two major capabilities of the AI Framework 
for IBM z/OS:
         A Data Collection engine that delivers a common way to ingest, 
filter, and collect IT data intended to be used for AI model training 
and to perform inference. It parses and collects the raw IT data, and 
streams it to the data store, an AI Framework for IBM z/OS component 
that holds data to train the AI models and data to be used for inference 
purposes. The AI Framework for IBM z/OS uses IBM Z Common Data Provider 
(ZCDP) as the data collection engine.
         An AI model server that provides a set of capabilities used to 
operationalize AI models by use case providers. It focuses on training 
the prebuilt models or AI model training applications with your data to 
take your data patterns into consideration, deploy the trained model, 
and apply inference and AI model management, including model quality 
monitoring, retraining, and versioning capabilities. The AI model server 
leverages IBM Watson® Machine Learning for z/OS Core edition (WMLz Core).
</quote>

looks pretty serious to me.

Arne