What’s New with zCX: Spyre AI Accelerators, OpenShift AI, and Hybrid Cloud on z/OS
Project and Program:
Core Platform,
z/OS Systems Programming
Tags:
Proceedings,
2026,
SHARE Pittsburgh 2026
Come to this session to find all about the exciting new announcements around Spyre AI accelerators support on zCX. With these new capabilities and AI enablement using Red Hat Inference Server and Red Hat OpenShift AI on z/OS using zCX, you can further integrate hybrid cloud solution on z/OS using zCX and unlock On-Platform AI where your data lives. The zCX for OpenShift product, is aimed to provide an open, enterprise-level cloud-native tools and cloud architecture components on z/OS using zCX to integrate z/OS with your hybrid cloud infrastructure. In this session, we will discuss latest new features, enablement around zCX for OpenShift, and discuss how it can significantly expand what you can do with your z/OS systems by allowing you to deploy containerized Linux on Z software side by side with your z/OS software, middleware, and data while preserving a z/OS operational model and z/OS Qualities of Service. We will also discuss resource requirements, licensing, service, support, and capabilities for this product. In addition, we will highlight few use cases that you can start exploring and will discuss co-location performance benefits comparison to x86 workload deployments.
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