Techstrong TV — Wed, Jun 24

Bringing Coordinated AI to the Mainframe

Alan Shimel with Priya Dorty & Matt Whitbourne

Part two of an ongoing mainframe and AI conversation on TechStrong TV. Priya Doty, VP Solutions Marketing for BMC AMI Solutions, and Matt Whitbourne, VP Product Management and Design for the BMC AMI portfolio, return with Alan Shimel to go deep on what it actually takes to move from isolated generative AI use cases to coordinated, agentic intelligence inside real mainframe shops. They explain why every install is unique, why introducing change always introduces risk on revenue-producing systems, and how BMC is aligning with emerging interaction protocols like MCP and Agent2Agent (A2A) — the new APIs of the agentic era. Priya and Matt walk through where coordinated intelligence lives, why orchestration plus governance is the new central plane, and how a federated model lets operations, security, data, and platform teams keep their authority while agents stitch their workflows together. They also share real-world scenarios — from BMC AMI Assistant code explanation to agentic capacity planning — that show how mainframe customers can modernize in place without ripping out the systems running mission-critical transactions.