Hopper: The First Agentic Development Environment for Mainframes
Summary
Hopper introduces an agentic development environment for mainframes, enabling AI agents to navigate TN3270, manage JCL, decode errors, and operate inside z/OS. It highlights mainframe automation, enterprise features like SSO and SOC 2, and demonstrates a unified prompt-driven workflow for building and deploying mainframe tasks. The article positions AI-assisted mainframe operations as a path to streamlined, audit-ready system management.