Many of the top global enterprises and organizations run their mission critical workloads on IBM Z. Building off the recent availability of IBM watsonx Code Assistant for Z, clients can now leverage Generative AI as they seek to modernize their mainframe applications and adopt a hybrid cloud strategy. This new capability enables an end-to-end, AI-assisted modernization experience for z/OS COBOL applications with tooling for each step of the journey, including application discovery, automated refactoring of business services, transforming COBOL to Java, and validating the resulting outcome with automated testing capabilities. With an AI approach grounded in trust and transparency, join us as we demonstrate how Generative AI is accelerating mainframe application modernization and what the future holds.