Rocket Software porta avanti l'intelligenza artificiale governata e agentica sul mainframe con Rocket^® EVA^™

WALTHAM, Mass. — September 23, 2026 — Rocket Software, a global technology leader in modernization software, today announced the expansion of Rocket^® EVA^™, its agentic AI platform for mission critical systems. The expanded platform provides governed, auditable AI agents on the mainframe to correlate and reason across operational data and automate operational tasks within enterprise-defined policies. The latest capabilities expand the operational use cases teams can address with EVA, helping enterprises put agentic AI to work across mission-critical environments.

As enterprises bring AI to the mainframe, specialized expertise remains a significant challenge. According to a Hanover Research study for Rocket Software, 81% of financial services IT leaders report a very or extremely significant mainframe skills gap, while 87% believe AI will help address it over the next two years.  

“Enterprises have relied on the mainframe to run their mission-critical workloads for decades,” said Milan Shetti, president and CEO of Rocket Software. “AI promises to unlock even more value from these environments, but only if enterprises can deploy it securely and without disruption. We’re helping customers apply agentic AI to mission-critical systems with speed, confidence, and control, closing the skills gap and putting that expertise within reach of every enterprise team.”

Backed by Rocket Software’s mainframe expertise, modernization portfolio and purpose-built AI architecture, EVA enables agents to understand and act on mainframe environments in real time. Global organizations across financial services, government, insurance, retail, and telecommunications are participating in EVA pilots. The focused pilot program enables customers to validate high-value operational use cases with their own data and move from installation to actionable insights within days, not weeks.

The expanded EVA platform includes the launch of Rocket^® PlanGuard^™, a new security layer that puts a policy checkpoint between AI reasoning and system execution, extending auditable, highly scoped agent access to mainframe resources. PlanGuard adds a policy decision point and identity controls to ensure AI-driven actions remain within approved boundaries while maintaining enterprise control.

Putting agentic AI to work across core operations

According to Hanover Research, 94% of financial services IT leaders rank enhancing IT operations with AI as a high or top priority. EVA uses natural language to apply AI to operational challenges that have traditionally required specialized expertise, multiple tools and significant manual analysis, significantly lightening the burden on IT teams.  According to a recent Rocket survey of mainframe AI use, Rocket customers are seeing early success with EVA across a range of high-value operational use cases, including:

• Operations/Diagnostics: Identifies and correlates operational issues across systems to accelerate analysis and resolution, with use cases spanning job failure pattern analysis, operational dashboard and KPI generation, end-to-end agentic workflow automation, end-of-month financial reporting analysis, IBM^® CICS^® online banking application optimization, and IBM CICS queue and backlog analysis.
• Security: Protects critical systems and data with vulnerability detection, automated compliance, and intelligent patch management, and identification of emerging risks associated with Post Quantum Cryptography (PQC).
• Batch processing: Assists teams in monitoring batch performance against SLAs, identify critical failures and investigate root causes faster through AI-assisted analysis.  
• Application/Configuration management: Helps pinpoint performance and configuration issues through high CPU utilization analysis and IBM^® Db2^® data sharing, buffer pool and cache degradation.
• Data: Advances Rocket's vision for unified enterprise data access, enabling more intelligent delivery and streamlined output management across the enterprise.  

Together, these use cases show how EVA can reduce manual investigation and accelerate the path from operational issue to root cause and resolution.

Capabilities for mainframe professionals

EVA combines AI-powered assistance with governed access to help mainframe professionals work more efficiently while maintaining enterprise control:

• Reduce Mean Time to Resolution (MTTR): Quickly diagnose and resolve operational issues by connecting data, context, and expertise across mainframe and distributed environments, helping teams move from problem identification to resolution faster.
• Improve visibility: Surface insights from logs, metrics, applications, and system data through a conversational experience, making it easier to understand system health, identify dependencies, and detect issues before they escalate.
• Preserve expertise: Capture and operationalize institutional knowledge, enabling team members of all experience levels to benefit from the expertise of seasoned professionals and reducing reliance on a shrinking pool of specialists.
• Governed mainframe access: Keeps AI-driven actions within patent-pending defined policy boundaries through contextual, just-in-time authorization, with activity logged for auditability and human oversight supported where required.

The expansion also extends Rocket’s model-agnostic architecture with a lightweight, standards-based approach to connecting z/OS^® data. By simplifying access to operational and enterprise data while maintaining governance and control, EVA enables organizations to accelerate AI adoption across core business systems with less complexity and risk.  

To learn more about Rocket Software’s AI and modernization solutions, visit www.rocketsoftware.com.

IBM, CICS, Db2, and z/OS are trademarks or registered trademarks of International Business Machines Corporation.

Informazioni su Rocket Software 

Rocket Software è un leader tecnologico globale nel campo della modernizzazione e un partner di riferimento che supporta le aziende leader a livello mondiale nei loro percorsi di modernizzazione IT e mainframe, dai sistemi core al cloud. Con oltre 13.500 clienti e 850 partner, e più di 3.000 dipendenti in tutto il mondo, Rocket Software consente ai clienti di massimizzare i propri dati, applicazioni e infrastrutture per fornire servizi essenziali che alimentano il mondo moderno.

Rocket Software è una società statunitense privata con sede nell'area di Boston e centri di eccellenza strategicamente dislocati in Nord America, Europa, Asia e Australia. Rocket Software è una società in portafoglio di Bain Capital Private Equity.

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Lacey Darrow 

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