From Legacy to Cloud: AI-Driven Code Modernization with Bloop and Seamless Mainframe Data Access with VirtualZ
As enterprises accelerate their application modernization efforts, AI-driven tools like Bloop are transforming how organizations analyze, refactor, and migrate legacy code. However, modernizing COBOL, PL/I, JCL, and Assembler applications is only half the battle — once in the cloud, these applications still need access to the mainframe data they were built to rely on. That’s where VirtualZ Computing comes in. With PropelZ™ and Lozen™, businesses can get real-time, seamless mainframe data integration for Bloop applications running in the cloud — without data replication, complex ETL processes, or disruption to critical operations.
Bridging the Gap Between Legacy Code and Cloud-Native Applications
For decades, IBM Z mainframes have been the backbone of enterprise computing, handling high-volume transactions and mission-critical workloads. While modernization is essential, most cloud migration efforts stall because of two major challenges:
- Understanding and modernizing complex legacy codebases
- Ensuring continuous, secure access to mainframe data from the cloud
Bloop solves the first challenge with its AI-powered code intelligence platform, helping organizations:
- Analyze legacy applications and gain insights into dependencies, logic flows, and outdated code.
- Refactor mainframe applications into modern programming languages like Java, Python, or C#.
- Generate automated documentation to bridge the knowledge gap for developers unfamiliar with legacy systems.
But once an application is modernized and deployed in the cloud, the data challenge remains — and that’s where VirtualZ provides a solution.
Ensuring Seamless Mainframe Data Access for Modernization
Even after replatforming applications, many enterprises still rely on mainframe data for AI, analytics, and business transactions. Instead of duplicating massive amounts of data into the cloud — which is costly, risky, and inefficient — VirtualZ enables direct, real-time access to mainframe data from cloud applications.
Lozen: Access Live Mainframe Data Without Replication
Lozen acts as a bridge between mainframe and cloud environments, enabling applications running in the cloud to directly read and write to mainframe databases without moving or replicating data.
With Lozen, organizations can:
- Securely access DB2, VSAM, IMS, and flat files from modern cloud applications.
- Eliminate batch processing delays by enabling real-time, transactional data access.
- Reduce costs by avoiding unnecessary data replication and movement.
PropelZ: Streaming Mainframe Data for AI & Analytics
For enterprises looking to integrate mainframe data into cloud analytics, AI, and observability platforms, PropelZ provides an automated, no-code solution for transforming and streaming mainframe data to MongoDB, Snowflake, AWS, Google Cloud, and other platforms.
With PropelZ, businesses can:
- Extract and format legacy data (COBOL copybooks, VSAM, DB2) into modern formats like JSON or BSON.
- Enable AI-powered analytics and real-time data pipelines in hybrid cloud environments.
- Ensure compliance by integrating security and audit logs into SIEM tools and monitoring solutions.
A New Era of Mainframe Modernization
The modernization journey doesn’t stop at rewriting code. It requires a strategy for ongoing, secure, and efficient mainframe data access. By combining Bloop’s AI-driven code modernization with VirtualZ’s data integration solutions, enterprises can move to the cloud without losing connection to their mainframe’s most valuable resource — its data.
With Lozen and PropelZ, VirtualZ Computing ensures that modernized applications remain fully functional, data-driven, and future-proof. Instead of being weighed down by legacy infrastructure, enterprises can leverage AI, cloud computing, and advanced analytics, all while keeping mainframe data accessible, secure, and up to date.
Ready to Modernize Without Disrupting Your Business?
Bloop and VirtualZ Computing together offer an end-to-end modernization framework, from code transformation to real-time data integration. Whether you’re replatforming, refactoring, or replacing mainframe applications, VirtualZ ensures that your data is always available where and when you need it.
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