AIOps Corner

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 A...

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 trainin...

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 AIOp...

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 a...

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 int...

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 opera...

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.  Abd...

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-...

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.  This Year in Review episode explores the 20 episodes of 2025, with clips from Mary’s top episode selections.  As always Chris tries t...

In today’s episode of the AIOps Corner podcast, Joe Winchester , IBM Z Senior Technical Staff Manager and Master Inventor, interviews Phaedra Boinodiris, IBM Global Leader for Trustworthy AI for IBM Consulting .  Our focus topic for this podcast is to understand what Trustworthy AI means for your organization with the evolution from predictive AI to generative AI to agentic AI.  What does it all m...

In today’s episode of the AIOps Corner podcast, Joe Winchester , IBM Z Senior Technical Staff Manager and Master Inventor, interviews Jennifer Graham, Mainframe Consultant at Nationwide Insurance .  Our focus topic for this podcast is Automation - past, present, and future : moving from today’s daily operations to the vision of Operations with AI.  Jennifer takes Joe through a day in her current l...

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 th...

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...

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 t...

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 wi...

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 P...

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 h...

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,...

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 Vi...

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 insig...

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 IB...

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...

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 o...

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 releas...

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 th...