AIOps Corner

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 i...

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...

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 jus...

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 del...

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 resour...

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...

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. ...

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. ...

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 m...

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 ensem...

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 b...

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...

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 h...

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.  Th...

In today’s episode of the AIOps Corner podcast Joe Winchester , IBM Z Senior Technical Staff Manager and Master Inventor, interviews Jim Horne , a MVS Systems Programmer, at Lowe’s Companies and an IBM Champion.  The focus topic today is on the acquisition of IntelliMagic and how IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS helps Lowe’s with performance and reporting within their AIOps framework.  He tells...

Today’s episode of the AIOps Corner podcast features Bala Rajaraman , an IBM Fellow, who fields questions from clients after the AIOps Technical Council (AOTC) meeting in May, 2024.  In addition to Joe Winchester , IBM Z Senior Technical Staff Manager and Master Inventor, the podcast features Kim Oerbo Pedersen from JN Data and Jim Horne from Lowe’s Companies, Inc.  Questions cover the gambit from...

In today’s episode of the AIOps Corner podcast Joe Winchester , IBM Z Senior Technical Staff Manager andMaster Inventor, interviews Lukas Jaks , a CICS System Programmer at IVV, GmbH and IBM Champion.  Our focus topic today will be on the new generation of mainframers, and how important integration is for your AIOps journey. Please be sure to join the AIOps on IBM Z Community and provide your feed...

In today’s episode of the AIOps Corner podcast Joe Winchester , IBM Z Senior Technical Staff Member and Master Inventor, interviews Erik Weyler , Mainframe Platform Architect from SEB, a leading northern European financial services group.  The focus of today’s podcast is around the future of AI, modernization of Cobol tools, machine learning, and the importance of integration of tools to drive suc...

In today’s episode of the AIOps Corner podcast Joe Winchester , IBM Z Senior Technical Staff Manager andMaster Inventor, interviews Stefan Ekman , Deputy Domain Architect at SEB, a leading northern European financial services group.  The focus of today’s podcast will be IT Automation in a mainframe centric world, especially looking at skills, Artificial Intelligence (AI), and root cause analysis. ...

In today’s inaugural episode of the AIOps Corner podcast Joe Winchester , IBM Z Senior Technical Staff Member and Master Inventor, interviews Brent Phillips , Managing Director from the IntelliMagic acquisition.  The focus topic of today’s podcast is the very exciting acquisition of the IntelliMagic company into the IBM Z AIOps portfolio.  Brent gives Joe an overview of the history and a preview o...