Definition
watsonx is IBM's platform for building and governing AI, made up of assistants for conversational interfaces, foundation models for generative tasks, and watsonx.governance for monitoring and auditability. For IBM i shops, the relevant piece is usually watsonx assistants connecting to existing data through APIs, Db2 connectors, and event streams.
Because watsonx reaches applications through those integration points rather than through source code changes, RPG and COBOL programs, Db2 for i databases, and other IBM i systems stay untouched while watsonx reads, summarizes, and helps act on the data they produce.