AIOps Corner

In today’s episode of the AIOps Corner podcast, Executive Producer Mary Gorczynski goes rogue and interviews Wayne Bucek, Technical Sales Specialist, IBM Z AIOps, and MP Welch, Mainframe Performance Specialist for a Financial Institution.  While at the AIOps Technical Council 2026 event, the 3 talk about MP’s success with IBM Z AIOps solutions including IBM Z Operational Log and Data Analytics and Common Data Provider.  They discuss moving from correlated solutions for analytics, to the possibilities with IBM Concert for Z to eliminate the noise to deliver value faster.  Beyond that they look towards progressing to a future focused on agentic AI with IBM watsonx Assistant for Z.  MP tells us that “AI doesn’t have to be perfect, it just has to be better than HI (Human Intelligence)”. 
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In today’s episode of the AIOps Corner podcast, Joe Winchester, IBM Z Senior Technical Staff Manager and Master Inventor, interviews Sreekanth Ramakrishnan, Director AIOps on IBM Z.  The focus of the discussion today is an overview of the 2025 accomplishments in the IBM Z AIOps portfolio, that were driven by customer feedback to help them simplify their mainframe operations.  Sreekanth dives into IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision; IBM watsonx Assistant for Z; IBM Concert for Z; and IBM Z Observability Connect.  They discuss the phases of Observe, Optimize and Automate across the IBM Z AIOps framework and talk about the importance of the future with OpenTelemetry and Agentic AI.  The future is all about “less stress” and providing the agent that will help clients to be more productive faster.
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In today’s episode of the AIOps Corner podcast, Joe Winchester, IBM Z Senior Technical Staff Member and Master Inventor, interviews Kevin Stoodley, IBM Fellow, VP and CTO for IBM Z.  Kevin and Joe cover a wide range of topics including what role the  CTO for IBM Z  plays in the context of delivering the IBM Z tech stack, how IBM is combining the power of  agentic AI solutions with existing operational focused technologies and what value that brings to clients and their operations organizations, how IBM Z17 and the Telum II Accelerator can reduce anti-fraud times in the banking industry, as well as how the IBM Spyre Accelerator can enable the integration of agentic AI solutions working together across complex operations infrastructures.  “We need a revolution”.
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In today’s episode of the AIOps Corner podcast, Joe Winchester, IBM Z Senior Technical Staff Manager and Master Inventor, interviews Abdul Hafiz, Principal Mainframe Engineer at an International Airline.  The focus of this episode is the automation journey from IBM Z NetView and IBM Z System Automation to a future with AI using IBM watsonx Assistant for Z to help you automate your commands.  Abdul tells us that “After implementing IBM System Automation, this process became fully automated with a single command.  The entire switch is completed in less than 5 minutes, consistently and correctly every time.”
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In today’s episode of the AIOps Corner podcast, guest host Brett Allison, Program Director for IBM Z AIOps interviews Brian Craft, Assistant Vice President at USAA.  The focus of this episode is learning how USAA uses IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision with IBM Apptio to provide lines of business with total cost transparency into business applications.  The IBM solution will enable them to eliminate 300-400 batch jobs.
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