vs IBM watsonx
A smarter cockpit
on the same ship.
watsonx Code Assistant for Z makes life on the mainframe genuinely better — refactoring help, COBOL explanations, Java assists. One thing it is not designed to do: get you off.
Bolt on the copilots.
Polish the hull.
The odometer
still reads zero.
Palm lifts the logic
off the ship entirely.
One question
Where does the logic live afterward?
If your strategy is to stay on Z — modern tooling, happier engineers, same platform — watsonx is a fine choice, and we’ll say so in the meeting. But many of our customers were sold “modernization” that, on inspection, meant renovating the room they were trying to leave.
Palm’s job is the exit. Palm Ark extracts every business rule deterministically, with the source lines attached. Palm Ray rebuilds them as open microservices or inside your ERP. MIPS go down because the workload actually leaves.
Ask one question of any mainframe AI: when it finishes, where does my logic live? If the answer is “where it always did,” you bought a cockpit, not a voyage.