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Providing less stress with agentic AI solutions

April 07, 2026 • Z AIOps • Episode 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, 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 into IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision; IBM watsonx Assistant for Z; IBM Concert for Z; and IBM Z Observability Connect. They discuss the phases of Observe, Optimize and Automate across the IBM Z AIOps framework and talk about the importance of the future with OpenTelemetry and Agentic AI. The future is all about “less stress” and providing the agent that will help clients to be more productive faster.

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