IBM Z System Automation turns 10-15 pages into 1 command

About this episode

The episode discusses the automation journey in IBM Z systems and the integration of AI for command automation.

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. Abdul tells us that “After implementing IBM System Automation, this process became fully aut...

People in this episode

Host: Joe Winchester

Guest: Abdul Hafiz

Topics covered

• automation
• IBM Z
• AI
• mainframe engineering
• System Automation
• watsonx Assistant

Keywords

• IBM Z
• System Automation
• automation journey
• AI
• watsonx Assistant
• mainframe
• NetView

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: IBM, International Airline

Products: IBM Z System Automation, IBM Z NetView, IBM watsonx Assistant for Z

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