In today’s episode of the AIOps Corner podcast, Joe Winchester, IBM Z Senior Technical Staff Manager and Master Inventor, interviews Juergen Holtz, STSM, IBM Z AIOps Chief Architect. The focus of the discussion today is the newly released IBM Redbook titled Simplify Mainframe Operations. During the interview we learn about the challenges and use cases that drove the need for the redbook and the input Juergen got from customers to deliver it. Read the publication here: ...

In today’s episode of the AIOps Corner podcast, Mary Gorczynski, GTM Lead for IBM Z AIOps goes rogue and takes the microphone to interview Carolyn Reschke, System Test Lead, IBM Z AIOps. The focus of the discussion today is the newly released IBM Redbooks® publication titled Simplify mainframe operations. During the interview Carolyn tells us about the layout of the publication and how having a tool like this will help organizations to simplify mainframe operations, fill the skill...

In today’s episode of the AIOps Corner podcast, Brett Allison, Program Director of IBM Z AIOps takes on the role of guest host to interview Jon Ulrich, Health Insurance Industry IT Engineer. The focus of the discussion today is Cost Transparency and the impact for IT Operations, using IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS and IBM Apptio Mainframe Total Cost of Ownership. Brett and Jon dive into the journey for more graphical visibility and tying cost transparency for applications to ...

In today’s episode of the AIOps Corner podcast, Joe Winchester, IBM Z Senior Technical Staff Manager and Master Inventor, interviews Rosalind Radcliffe, IBM Fellow, CTO for IBM Z Ecosystem. The focus of the discussion today is AI technology for the IBM Z ecosystem. Rosalind tells us how simplification and standardization are key elements driving the future of AI. She brings it all together with a use case from the IBM CIO office. Please be sure to join the AIOps on IBM Z Com...

In today’s episode of the AIOps Corner podcast, Joe Winchester, IBM Z Senior Technical Staff Manager and Master Inventor, interviews Ruediger Schulze, Senior Technical Staff Member at IBM. The focus of the discussion today is observability and OpenTelemetry for trace management and metrics. The solution focus is on IBM Instana Observability for z/OS, IBM Z APM Connect and IBM Z OMEGAMON Data Provider. To learn more about the OpenTelemetry Special Interest Group that Ruediger...

In today’s episode of the AIOps Corner podcast, Joe Winchester, IBM Z Senior Technical Staff Manager and Master Inventor, interviews Paul Koniar, IT Architect specializing in System Automation and NetView at FIS. Our focus topic for this podcast is System Automation. Paul says that “AI running on the mainframe with tools like System Automation…will be very beneficial.” “AI has to step in and help the operators do their jobs”. Please be sure to join the AIOps on IBM Z Community and...

In this episode in the series recorded at the AIOps Technical Council 2025 (AOTC) meeting in RTP, NC, Joe Winchester, IBM Z Senior Technical Staff Manager and Master Inventor, interviews Jim Porell, Director, Solutions Advisor at Rocket Software. Our focus topic for this podcast is IBM Z OMEGAMON with the new Grafana plug-in. Just cut and paste from your existing tool into the Grafana plug-in, no migration tool needed! Experience easier data accessibility and CPU utilization...

In today’s episode of the AIOps Corner podcast, Joe Winchester, IBM Z Senior Technical Staff Manager and Master Inventor, and Rosalind Radcliffe, IBM Fellow and CTO of IBM Z Ecosystem, interview Virginia Rodgers, Customer Success Manager at 21CS. Our focus topic for this podcast is mainframe AIOps in the eyes of a “New to Z” employee. Join us to hear the welcoming observations and surprises Virginia has encountered during her brief career with the mainframe. Please be sure to join...

This is the first podcast in a series recorded at the AIOps Technical Council 2025 (AOTC) meeting in RTP, NC. Our guests for this episode of the AIOps Corner podcast, are Joe Winchester, IBM Z Senior Technical Staff Manager and Master Inventor, and Sowmya Kameswaran, IBM STSM and Chief Architect IBM watsonx Assistant for Z. Our focus topic for this podcast is observability for unlocking insights with a new Grafana plugin within IBM Z OMEGAMON. In addition to highlighting cu...

In this AIOps Corner podcast, Uwe Gramm, Program Director, IBM Z AIOps gives Chris Sayles, Producer AIOps Corner podcast an overview of what he saw at the AIOps Technical Council 2025 meeting in Durham, NC. Uwe was encouraged by the feedback that IBM received from the clients and partners as they try to set the IBM strategy for AIOps in an AI driven world. 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 Paul Buchanan, Principal Mainframe Systems Programmer at Ensono. Our focus topic for this podcast is AIOps in the eyes of a managed service provider. Listen to hear how Paul thinks mainframes are like Formula One race cars and how IBM Z AIOps solutions help them to reduce the time to resolution. Learn more about how IBM is now a sponsor of Form...

In today’s episode of the AIOps Corner podcast, Joe Winchester, IBM Z Senior Technical Staff Manager and Master Inventor, interviews Frank Kyne, Semi-retired Editor of Cheryl Watson's Tuning Letter. Our focus topic for this podcast is AIOps from the eyes of a mainframe editor. Frank provides his views on IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS, the recent IBM z17 launch and his overall views on using AI for anomaly detection. Please be sure to join the AIOps on IBM Z Community and prov...

In today’s episode of the AIOps Corner podcast, Joe Winchester, IBM Z Senior Technical Staff Manager and Master Inventor, interviews Skyla Loomis, General Manager, IBM Z Software. The focus of the discussion today is on the importance of simplifying mainframe operations for clients. In addition to telling us about the new IBM Z Operations Unite release complementing the IBM z17 hardware release, Skyla tells us about the AIOps Technical Council (AOTC) event June 3-5, where she will...

In today’s episode of the AIOps Corner podcast, Joe Winchester, IBM Z Senior Technical Staff Manager and Master Inventor, interviews Andy Bradfield, Vice President IBM Z Hybrid Cloud Software. The focus of the discussion today includes Andy’s insights on game changing tools from IBM. Andy takes us on a journey from hybrid cloud to what’s in store for integration of IBM Z AIOps software with the next generation hardware. He gives us a sneak preview of new operational tools ma...

In today’s episode of the AIOps Corner podcast, Joe Winchester, IBM Z Senior Technical Staff Manager and Master Inventor, interviews Martin Keen, Master Inventor at IBM and winner of the NC Inventor of the Year award with 400 patents. The focus of the discussion today is the topic of Artificial Intelligence (AI). They dive into Martin’s view on AI Trends for 2025, and try to weave operations into the story across things like large language models, agentic AI, RAG algorithms, IBM G...

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 the simplification of mainframe operations. During their discussion Sreekanth takes the opportunity to encourage listeners to sign up to provide feedback on the BETA program for the new IBM Z Operations Unite product. To learn more visit this blog: https...

In today’s episode of the AIOps Corner podcast Joe Winchester, IBM Z Senior Technical Staff Manager and Master Inventor, interviews Derek Powe, Senior Vice President, zPlatform Manager at M&T Bank. They discuss how the end-to-end observability plan is to make the mainframe transparent, which will enable you to pull up your topology mapping on an ipad. IBM Z Software Asset Management is just one of the products within the IBM Service Management Suite that helps him to detect an...

In today’s episode of the AIOps Corner podcast, Joe Winchester, IBM Z Senior Technical Staff Manager and Master Inventor, is joined by the IBM producers of the podcast series, Mary Gorczynski, GTM Marketing Manager and Chris Sayles, Digital Marketing Strategist. Mary and Chris have fun discussing what it’s like to produce this podcast and review highlights from the 16 episodes that we have delivered in 2024. You will love the clips from some of our fabulous guests! Please be sure ...

In today’s episode of the AIOps Corner podcast, Joe Winchester, IBM Z Senior Technical Staff Manager and Master Inventor, interviews Yasemin Ciftcisoy Sen, Z Middleware and Communication Services Manager, at a Turkish bank. The focus of the discussion today is OMEGAMON and how Yasemin uses it for preventive automation. Yasemin discusses how she has been using OMEGAMON for 20 years to set resource limits for the 1.5 billion daily transactions. Her words of wisdom are that whi...

In today’s episode of the AIOps Corner podcast, Joe Winchester, IBM Z Senior Technical Staff Manager and Master Inventor, interviews Rebecca Levesque, Chief Revenue Officer and Founder, 21CS. The focus of our discussion today is around the product IBM Z Backup Resiliency and the importance of having a cyber resilient industry solution to keep you compliant and out of jail. Joe and Rebecca also dive into the competitive differentiating new features, vs homegrown solutions and why y...