AIOps Corner

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 to unveil some of the behind-the-scenes secrets of Joe and the future of his famous t-shirt collection!  Joe closes the episode with the key topics for 2026.

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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 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 mean?  

Be sure to follow Phaedra on LinkedIn and check out her book AI for the Rest of Us.

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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 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 life with IBM Z System Automation, IBM Z NetView, IBM Z OMEGAMON and IBM Z Software Asset Management on a path to what she would like to see for Operations in the future.  They end with a discussion on IBM Concert for Z and how it might help her to plan for the future by introducing AI.

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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 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:  https://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/redp5761.html 

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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 skills gap and become more productive in a fast-paced world of AI.  

Read the publication here:  https://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/redp5761.html 

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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 achieve 90% of CPU consumption.

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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 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.

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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 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 references, visit this slack channel:  https://cloud-native.slack.com/archives/C05PXDFTCPJ

Also, to learn more about what OpenTelemetry is, visit this video by Chris Walker:  https://ibm.biz/POV-Open-Telemetry 

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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 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”.

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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 reduction with OMEGAMON.  And finally, build on what’s out there by sharing dashboards on the z Open Data Github:  https://github.com/z-open-data

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