AIOps Corner

In today’s episode of the AIOps Corner podcast, Mary Gorczynski, Executive Producer of the AIOps Corner podcast series, interviews IBM colleagues:·       Joe Winchester, IBM Z Senior Technical Staff Member and Master Inventor·       Domenico D’Alterio, IBM Z AIOps Principal Product Manager·       John Baker, IBM Z Performance Management Principal Consultant·       Chris Walker, IBM Z AIOps Principal Product ManagerWe have fun and discuss memorable quotes and tips from their favorite episodes.  After that we dive into the meat of the podcast when they give us their tips to help operations teams be successful.  We cover various IBM Z AIOps solutions including IBM watsonx Assistant for Z, IBM Concert for Z, IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision and IBM Z Observability Connect. We hope that this episode gives you the inspiration to join us on a future podcast where you can share the tips and tricks you have gained from IBM Z AIOps solutions.Please be sure to join the AIOps on IBM Z Community and provide your feedback for future topics. 

In today’s episode of the AIOps Corner podcast, Joe Winchester, IBM Z Senior Technical Staff Member and Master Inventor, interviews Fabien Gautreault, Product Strategy & Modern UX at Rocket Software.  They discuss the latest product enhancements for OMEGAMON, the Grafana UX, and OMEGAMON AI Insights before they dive into what AI will look like in the future.  A key take away for Fabien was that “agentic AI should not come with more complexity and should not put the burden on customers to orchestrate”.  They also discuss Fabien’s work with Frank Petersen from Bankdata, who participated in a previous AIOps Corner “No shortcuts” podcast link.  If you are interested in participating in co-designing future OMEGAMON agents, please comment here or reach out to Fabien directly on LinkedIn.Please be sure to join the AIOps on IBM Z Community and provide your feedback for future topics. 

In today’s episode of the AIOps Corner podcast, we highlight clips from the Ask me Anything session Bala Rajaraman, IBM Fellow and Master Inventor hosted at the AIOps Technical Council (AOTC 2026).  Bala fields questions from Joe Lavallee a Systems Programmer at Bank of America and Ramu Kristam a CICS Systems Programmer at Truist Financial.  Bank of America was interested in a real use case for AI to satisfy enterprise operations management requirements.  Truist Financial was interested in learning how optimization can be achieved with OpenTelemetry across multiple vendor solutions within the enterprise.  As always Bala shares his insights from navigating AI solutions and proposals across multiple client engagements.Please be sure to join the AIOps on IBM Z Community and provide your feedback for future topics. 

In today’s episode of the AIOps Corner podcast, Joe Winchester, IBM Z Senior Technical Staff Member and Master Inventor, interviews Darren Surch, CEO of Interskill Learning and Lifetime IBM Champion.  Joe and Darren discuss Interskill Learning’s place in the mainframe industry, delivering over a million hours of mainframe training annually and powering 80% of IBM badges awarded for IBM Z training, and how both the importance and the nature of mainframe training is changing to keep pace in the Age of AI.  They discuss the staggering potential of AI as a productivity tool for mainframers, and the concern that without ongoing training, cognitive surrender will see mainframe skills erode, and they chat about the IBM Champion program, the Open Mainframe Project, Joe’s mainframe t-shirt collection, and much more. Please be sure to join the AIOps on IBM Z Community and provide your feedback for future topics. 

In today’s episode of the AIOps Corner podcast, we highlight clips from the Ask me Anything session Rosalind Radcliffe, IBM Fellow hosted at the AIOps Technical Council (AOTC 2026).  Rosalind fields questions from Jill Sweeney and Cassie Fosberg from FNTS; Bruno Guimaraes from Banco Bradesco; and Paul Koniar from Fidelity Information Services.  FNTS was interested in the integration of IBM Z AIOps solutions with ServiceNow and Agentic AI solutions; Banco Bradesco was interested in Observability and OpenTelemetry and FIS was interested in IBM Concert for Z.Please be sure to join the AIOps on IBM Z Community and provide your feedback for future topics. 

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)”. Please be sure to join the AIOps on IBM Z Community and provide your feedback for future topics. 

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.Please be sure to join the AIOps on IBM Z Community and provide your feedback for future topics. 

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”.Please be sure to join the AIOps on IBM Z Community and provide your feedback for future topics. 

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.”Please be sure to join the AIOps on IBM Z Community and provide your feedback for future topics. 

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.Please be sure to join the AIOps on IBM Z Community and provide your feedback for future topics.