IBM Concert for Z

Simplify IT operations management for mainframe with AI-powered efficiency 

Built-in expertise for mainframe resilience

IBM Concert® for Z is an AI-powered IT operations management hub that transforms how organizations manage mainframe resilience by aggregating siloed data and insights to act faster and simplify operations.

Focus on critical priorities

Address issues and warnings across IBM Z® that have been grouped, ranked and prioritized for effectiveness and clarity.

Reduce MTTR of issues

Quickly resolve issues with AI-driven root cause detection and built-in recommendations tailored to your environment.

Close mainframe skill gaps  

Gain complete awareness of system health and dive into issues with built-in expert recommendations and AI agentic chat to take decisive action.

Gain unified end-to-end visibility

Understand the full impact of incidents with intuitive dashboards, topology views and real-time impact analysis.

 

Features

Product ui for IBM Z Operations Unite features anomaly detection

Anomaly detection: Use machine learning to spot issues early by identifying deviations from normal system behavior.

 

Topology mapping: View transaction-level links between applications and infrastructure for full-stack visibility.

 

Event correlation: Group and prioritize alerts across Z systems to cut noise and speed up response times.

 

AI-powered expert advice: Get precise remediation recommendations with generative AI and built-in IBM Z expertise, ensuring faster resolution of complex issues.

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Maintenance risk insights: Visualize risks, prerequisites and relationships to clearly define a software upgrade roadmap.

 

Drift monitoring: Track and manage maintenance drift across z/OS® to ensure timely, consistent updates.

 

AI-based mitigation strategies: Monitor running products, track features and utilize mitigation strategies generated by watsonx.ai® to reduce risks.

 

Impact analysis: Identify APAR dependencies and apply critical updates faster to minimize disruption.

 

Certificate management product ui

Certificate health visibility: Monitor IBM Z certificate health and compliance posture from a single, unified view.  

 

Compliance monitoring: Track compliance across the app lifecycle with centralized, audit-ready controls.

 

Product ui for IBM Z Operations Unite features anomaly detection

Anomaly detection: Use machine learning to spot issues early by identifying deviations from normal system behavior.

 

Topology mapping: View transaction-level links between applications and infrastructure for full-stack visibility.

 

Event correlation: Group and prioritize alerts across Z systems to cut noise and speed up response times.

 

AI-powered expert advice: Get precise remediation recommendations with generative AI and built-in IBM Z expertise, ensuring faster resolution of complex issues.

Screenshot made for the How it works session of the Concert for z Observability page

Maintenance risk insights: Visualize risks, prerequisites and relationships to clearly define a software upgrade roadmap.

 

Drift monitoring: Track and manage maintenance drift across z/OS® to ensure timely, consistent updates.

 

AI-based mitigation strategies: Monitor running products, track features and utilize mitigation strategies generated by watsonx.ai® to reduce risks.

 

Impact analysis: Identify APAR dependencies and apply critical updates faster to minimize disruption.

 

Certificate management product ui

Certificate health visibility: Monitor IBM Z certificate health and compliance posture from a single, unified view.  

 

Compliance monitoring: Track compliance across the app lifecycle with centralized, audit-ready controls.

 

Use case

IBM z17 test center
Maintenance risk for IBM Z

Optimize Hybrid Resilience with Concert for Z and give SecOps teams improved visibility across hybrid environments. With generative AI-driven insights, you can enables risk assessment, holistic compliance and faster troubleshooting to enhance application resilience and reduce downtime.

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More automation to accelerate efficiency

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IBM Concert

IBM Concert is an AI-powered operations hub for modern distributed environments that unifies fragmented data and automates actions to strengthen application resilience and ensure continuous compliance across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. It delivers real-time insights, prioritized actions, and audit-ready reporting—helping teams reduce risk, optimize performance, and prove control effectiveness at scale.

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Watsonx Assistant for Z

Gen AI & Automation technology can provide the answer for organizations seeking a simpler and more productive mainframe experience. Enhance IBM Z users' productivity, autonomy and confidence by simplifying access to information and automating time-consuming tasks.

 

Next steps

Discover how Concert for Z turns disconnected signals into actionable insights—helping teams act faster, simplifying mainframe operations.

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