IBM sets up a machine learning pipeline for z/OS

If you're intrigued by IBM's Watson AI as a service, but reluctant to trust IBM with your data, Big Blue has a compromise. Now the bad news: It'll only be available to z System / z/OS mainframe users ... for now. It's a collection of popular frameworks -- in particular Apache SparkML, TensorFlow, and H2O -- packaged with bindings to common languages used in the trade (Python, Java, Scala), and with support for "any transactional data type." IBM is pushing it as a pipeline for building, managing, and running machine learning models through visual tools for each step of the process and RESTful APIs for deployment and management. Even as the number of frameworks for machine learning mushrooms, developers still have to perform a lot of heavy labor to create end-to-end production pipelines for training and working with models.