Your mainframe is your most valuable AI asset. Here's how to unlock it. Imagine an Operational Data Fabric (ODF) that provides real time and non-disruptive access to mainframe sources without requiring the data to be moved. The ODF simply makes the data consumable. This Operational Data Fabric doesn't just move raw data — it assembles it into business entities. For example, the ODF pulls together everything the mainframe knows about a Customer, (accounts, transactions, policies, billing history), alongside data from CRM, digital channels, and other systems, and presents it as a unified, governed, real-time data product. This is the "context" that makes the difference between an AI model that hallucinates and one that reasons accurately. Mainframe data has the transactional depth; this ODF gives it the structure. This structure provides AI-readiness without re-architecture. What AI needs is context-enriched, entity-resolved, temporally consistent data — essentially what a human analyst would assemble before making a decision. The ODF automates this assembly at runtime. Your mainframe transaction history becomes immediately usable as AI training context and real-time retrieval augmentation, without touching your mainframe architecture. Come learn more about how we are enabling others to implement this at Enterprise scale!
