Subject: Intelligent Automation April 2026 Newsletter

For intelligent automaters

April 2026

In this issue...

  • Featured: Stop Fearing AI Hallucinations, Start Managing Them: The Enterprise Leader's Guide to AI Reliability - CM First

  • Article: 80% of Fortune 500 use active AI Agents: Observability, governance, and security shape the new frontier - Microsoft

  • CA 2E/Plex Conference: Watch AI Day at the 14th CA 2E Plex Worldwide Developer Conference

  • Webinar - NexGen Pair Programming: AI Collaboration on IBM i and IBM z Systems - CM First Group

  • Video - What is AI Technical Debt? Key Risks for Machine Learning Projects - IBM Technology

  • Intelligence: Intelligent automation news on the greater web

Featured

From Guesswork to Control: Fixing AI’s Biggest Weakness


Do you know your AI’s hallucination rate? Most teams don’t, until it costs them.


Instead of fearing hallucinations, leading organizations are treating them as a manageable risk. That means combining layered defenses like retrieval-based grounding, prompt design, guardrails, monitoring, and human review. 


With the right approach, some teams are reaching up to 99.3% accuracy. Not by eliminating errors, but by catching and controlling them.


Because the real risk isn’t that AI makes mistakes. It’s not knowing when it does.


Read our full article →

Announcing CM evolveIT 11.7


Available for Streaming: Join us for informative, hands-on sessions focused on the new CM evolveIT 11.7 release. 


Tailored for future-minded developers, these sessions showcase groundbreaking enhancements aimed at revolutionizing your code analysis and transformation workflows. Expect hands-on demonstrations that you can take to your development workflows right away.

Watch one of these two webinars now...

Mainframe

Latest Advances in Mainframe COBOL Code Analysis and Transformation

Learn about cutting-edge artificial intelligence tools that promise streamlined analysis and transformation processes, automated tools that convert legacy COBOL code to Java, and advanced code slicing.


Watch Now

IBM i

Latest Advances in IBM i Code Analysis and Transformation

Learn how to cut your analysis costs by up to 80% with new capabilities. We'll demo new CA 2E (Synon) and CA Plex superpowers, AI and Code slicing innovations, and improved support for DB2 and COBOL and more.


Watch Now

Heads Up

80% of Fortune 500 use active AI Agents: Observability, governance, and security shape the new frontier


AI agents are already inside the enterprise, the question is whether anyone is watching them. Microsoft's new Cyber Pulse report finds that more than 80% of Fortune 500 companies now run active AI agents, yet nearly a third of employees are turning to unsanctioned tools their IT teams can't see.


The result is a shadow AI problem that makes decades of shadow IT look manageable by comparison. For organizations modernizing legacy environments, the lesson is familiar: you can't govern what you haven't mapped. Visibility has to come first.


Read the full article at Microsoft Security →

Video Vault

Next-Gen Pair Programming: AI Collaboration on IBM i and IBM z Systems


Join us for a cutting-edge webinar that merges the art of pair programming with the innovation of AI for IBM i and IBM z systems. This session is dedicated to COBOL developers working on IBM's midrange and mainframe platforms and offers a deep dive into how AI can amplify coding collaboration and efficiency.


In this webinar:

  • Discuss the integration of AI-driven pair programming in IBM i and IBM z COBOL development.

  • Address the unique challenges of maintaining and evolving COBOL applications with AI support.

  • Showcase a live demonstration of AI tools tailored to IBM i and IBM z developers.

  • Share actionable strategies for embedding AI into the pair programming workflow on both platforms.

Whether you're involved in IBM i or IBM z development, this webinar will equip you with the knowledge to leverage AI for better code quality, faster problem-solving, and more productive pair programming sessions. Take the first step towards a smarter, AI-assisted development future.


Watch →

Watch

What is AI Technical Debt? Key Risks for Machine Learning Projects


AI can write code fast. The cost shows up later.


With every function, test, and refactor it generates, technical debt builds in the background—duplicated logic, fragile design choices, and systems that work today but get harder to change tomorrow. The more AI accelerates output, the faster complexity accumulates.


Nothing looks broken at first. Until everything is harder than it should be.


Watch →

Are you tired of time-consuming manual testing software applications? Fortra's Automate Plus RPA is here to help. Join us for a webinar where we review the features of this powerful tool and show you how it can revolutionize your software testing processes, making it better, more accurate, and quicker to get results.


Watch →

Frightened about the prospect of your legacy IBM i and z application developers leaving? We have a solution that can put your fears to rest. In this webinar, we demonstrate how you can “refactor” your legacy app developed in COBOL, RPG, or CA 2E (Synon) directly to maintainable runtime-free Java and JS.


Watch →

 Broadcom Support 


Many enterprises struggle with obtaining Broadcom support for their CA 2E (Synon, COOL:2E) or CA Plex systems


If you're working with an older unsupported release, upgrading your IBM OS, or otherwise under the shadow of lapsed maintenance, we can get you back on Broadcom support based on your unique situation. We specialize in all sizes of customers.


Fill out our 2 minute form and schedule a no-commitment fifteen minute conversation with a CM First Group technical rep.

Get rock solid Broadcom support

CM First Support

Current CM First Group customers can access tutorials and submit support tickets at support.cmfirstgroup.com.

Current Releases


CM WebClient 1.8.7 (with nightly builds) For details, go here.

CM Matchpoint ALM 7.0 Build 004. For details, go here.

CM evolveIT 11.7, last supported 10.6
CM M3 2023 Edition
CA Plex 7.2.1 SP005, last supported 7.2.1 (as of January 31, 2022)
→ Details can be found here at Broadcom (login required)
CA 2E 8.7.3, last supported 8.7 (as of January 31, 2022)
→ Details can be found here at Broadcom (login required)
Contact CM First to learn more: info@cmfirstgroup.com

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