IBM has released a no charge "Community Edition" of IBM Watson Machine Learning for z/OS Online Scoring. Details and the download link are available here:
https://www.ibm.com/products/machine-learning-for-zos As IBM explains, "This lightweight version of the WMLz scoring service provides a no-charge option enabling organizations to easily download and try the WMLz in-transaction scoring approach." In-transaction scoring means that you can run AI models within transaction scope (including batch interactions). For example, you can calculate a fraud risk score within a payment approval transaction based on your standard (and iteratively improving) risk models. Then you can approve or deny the transaction based on the risk score, preventing fraud instead of merely detecting it after the fact. Unlike "offboard" AI deployments, infusing your core transaction processing with AI means you won't keep users waiting. Transactions continue executing with consistently fast response. But your AI models are the same, and you can progressively improve them more quickly since you can score all transactions "in flight." That means you can also cut way down on false positives since you can more rapidly improve your risk models. Enjoy. - - - - - - - - - - Timothy Sipples I.T. Architect Executive Digital Asset & Other Industry Solutions IBM Z & LinuxONE - - - - - - - - - - E-Mail: [email protected] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
