Simplify Mainframe Operations With Observability, Performance Tuning And Skills AIOps Corner podcast

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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 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 Granite 3.0 and watsonx Assistant for Z. To see more content with Martin, visit the IBM Technology YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@IBMTechnology Please be sure to join the AIOps on IBM Z Community and provide your feedback for future topics.…

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Simplify mainframe operations with observability, performance tuning and skills 20:22

πριν 6 weeks20:22

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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 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://ibm.biz/AIOps-Unite-Beta Please be sure to join the AIOps on IBM Z Community and provide your feedback for future topics.…

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Derek Powe, from M&T Bank, tells us the importance of software asset management 17:26

πριν 7 weeks17:26

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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 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 and maintain assets across multiple vendor solutions. Please be sure to join the AIOps on IBM Z Community and provide your feedback for future topics.…

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Year in review with the producers of the AIOps Corner podcast 20:41

πριν 9 weeks20:41

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

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Clever people fix problems, wise people avoid them 20:34

πριν 14 weeks20:34

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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 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 while “clever people fix problems, wise people avoid them”. Those are definitely words of wisdom. Please be sure to join the AIOps on IBM Z Community and provide your feedback for future topics.…

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Stay out of jail with Backup Resiliency 25:22

πριν 17 weeks25:22

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

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Can anything stump John Baker from IBM IntelliMagic? 13:44

πριν 19 weeks13:44

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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 John Baker , IntelliMagic Principal Consultant at IBM. Our focus is on the life of an IntelliMagic consultant, post acquisition into IBM Z AIOps. They talk about IntelliMagic and the future with System Automation, Workload Scheduler and the IBM Z AIOps portfolio. You will have to listen to see if anything has stumped John during his career in performance management. Please be sure to join the AIOps on IBM Z Community and provide your feedback for future topics.…

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No shortcuts! AIOps is a journey 16:59

πριν 21 weeks16:59

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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 Frank Petersen, IT Architect, Bankdata . The focus of our discussion is around AIOps being a journey and that you shouldn’t take shortcuts! They start the AIOps journey with OMEGAMON for monitoring and progress to the benefits of AI including detecting anomalies. Learn the benefits that Bankdata and their managed service providers experience on their AIOps journey with IBM. Please be sure to join the AIOps on IBM Z Community and provide your feedback for future topics.…

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IBM JCL Expert gives you more confidence in an agile world 15:09

πριν 22 weeks15:09

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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 Rebecca Levesque, CRO and Founder, 21CS. The focus of our discussion today is around the development partnership between 21CS and IBM, specifically on the IBM JCL Expert solution. Learn the benefits of IBM JCL Expert combined with IBM Workload Scheduler to build more confidence in your AIOps framework. Please be sure to join the AIOps on IBM Z Community and provide your feedback for future topics.…

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Fine tuning your signal to noise ratio with IBM Z Anomaly Analytics 15:14

πριν 28 weeks15:14

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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 Tim Brooks, IBM Senior Product Manager IBM Z AIOps. The focus is the new release of IBM Z Anomaly Analytics. Starting with the core messaging of the AIOps on IBM Z framework of Detect, Decide, Act, Tim then takes us to the evolution of this product that uses ensemble technology. With ensemble and the 4 algorithms in this release of IBM Z Anomaly Analytics, IT operators can tune the signal to noise ratio. Please be sure to join the AIOps on IBM Z Community and provide your feedback for future topics.…

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Ezriel Gross shares his passion for OMEGAMON and vision of AI for the future 13:12

πριν 30 weeks13:12

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In today’s episode of the AIOps Corner podcast, taped at SHARE, Kansas City, Joe Winchester , IBM Z Senior Technical Staff Manager and Master Inventor, interviews Ezriel Gross , Principal Solutions Advisor at Rocket Software and IBM Champion. The focus topic is OMEGAMON and it’s evolution leading up to Artificial Intelligence (AI) and recommendations for IBM in this space for the future. Please be sure to join the AIOps on IBM Z Community and provide your feedback for future topics.…

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Mike Shorkend talks about the modern way to monitor anomalies 14:18

πριν 31 weeks14:18

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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 Mainframe Consultant, Mike Shorkend at SHARE, Kansas City. Mike talks about the evolution of OMEGAMON over the last 40 years and how sharing his knowledge with new mainframers is important. Mike embraces new technologies and is learning all the time. They end with his views on the future of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning. Please be sure to join the AIOps on IBM Z Community and provide your feedback for future topics.…

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Eureka moment for Lynda Gernon, from Bank of Montreal (BMO) 14:59

πριν 34 weeks14:59

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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 Lynda Gernon , a Mainframe Systems Technical Specialist, at Bank of Montreal (BMO). They discuss IBM z/OS Workload Integration Navigator (ZWIN) and IBM z/OS Workload Integration Correlator (ZWIC) and how they help BMO with speed time to resolution. Lynda explains her eureka moment that drove the business case to support this IBM Z AIOps solution. Please be sure to join the AIOps on IBM Z Community and provide your feedback for future topics.…

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Joseph Westman, from CIBC tells us what the next big thing after AI 14:47

πριν 36 weeks14:47

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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 Joseph Westman , Director Mainframe Performance, Capacity and Innovation, at the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC). Our focus topic starts with Joseph’s thoughts on AIOps and the importance of detect, decide and act capabilities and integrated solutions. The discussion flows from there to recent IBM acquisition of IntelliMagic and ends with what Joseph feels is the future after AI. Please be sure to join the AIOps on IBM Z Community and provide your feedback for future topics.…

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Jim Horne, from Lowe’s Companies, provides a perspective on the IntelliMagic acquisition 11:26

πριν 39 weeks11:26