IBM Z Customer Council – Tysons, VA

Next, Chris Walker will discuss our AIOps portfolio and how to ensure that the mainframe is an integral part of your enterprise observability strategy. Operational resiliency depends on detecting application performance issues in mobile, cloud, or on-prem environments before things turn ugly. Yet most enterprise-wide observability solutions provide little to no visibility into IBM Z resources. Even the best operations teams sometimes cannot identify application performance problems until end users are impacted, and reactive root cause analysis delays resolution. In this session we introduce the topic of enterprise observability, including the concept of Open Telemetry, and show why a complete end-to-end view of hybrid applications, including IBM Z, is essential today for everyone in the enterprise from business operations to development to operations.

Then, Barry Silliman will present AI-Assisted Application Modernization with IBM watsonx Code Assistant for Z. IBM watsonx Code Assistant for Z is an AI assisted mainframe application modernization solution that will make it easier for developers to incrementally modernize, and re-factor COBOL business services and selectively transform to high quality Java code optimized for IBM Z.

After lunch, Matt Hodak will close out the day with a presentation on the IBM LinuxONE 4 Express–the newest addition to the IBM LinuxONE product family. The new system will extend the latest performance, security, sustainability, and AI capabilities of LinuxONE to small- and medium-sized businesses and within new data center environments. The pre-configured rack mount system is designed to offer cost savings and remove client guesswork when rolling out solutions to address new and traditional use cases such as digital assets, medical imaging with AI, and workload consolidation.

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