By Rich Larin, Stefan Liesche
Publication Date: 2026-10-01 00:00:00
zContext brings IBM-curated Z-specific expertise directly into Bob, helping developers work with greater confidence across languages, middleware, and platform-specific technologies that may be underrepresented in general-purpose AI models. By automatically retrieving and supplying relevant IBM Z knowledge at the point of interaction, zContext reduces the need for manual prompting, accelerates application understanding and delivers more accurate, context-aware guidance.
As organizations look for new opportunities to improve application performance and operational efficiency, IBM Bob continues to expand the insights available to development teams. By extending COBOL performance recommendations with application runtime profiling data, teams can focus optimization efforts on the code paths that have the greatest impact. Combining static code analysis with execution-time insights helps developers make more informed decisions to improve application efficiency and…
