For as long as I can remember, the mainframe industry has been talking about the skills gap. Experienced professionals are retiring. Finding people with deep z/OS knowledge isn’t always easy. And training someone to become an experienced systems programmer takes time. A lot of time. There is also another problem. Much of the knowledge required to operate a complex mainframe environment isn’t necessarily written in a manual. It exists in people’s heads. This week, IBM announced something that could begin to change that. On 6 October, IBM announced a private preview of the next evolution of watsonx Assistant for Z. [...]