New features for Data Integrity, TechXchange conference sessions, and more

Sep 22, 2025

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Precisely Unveils AI Agents and Copilot for the Data Integrity Suite

Precisely, a global leader in data integrity, has announced plans to expand the Precisely Data Integrity Suite with a new generation of AI Agents and a context-aware Copilot. These innovations are designed to deliver autonomous yet fully governed data integrity across hybrid and multi-cloud environments, helping enterprises maintain accuracy, consistency, and context without constant human intervention.

Autonomous capabilities with enterprise guardrails

AI Agents will automate core data integrity tasks within customer-defined parameters, ensuring explainability and traceability. The first wave will focus on:

  • Integration Agent: Orchestrating and monitoring data pipelines across diverse systems, from mainframe to cloud.
  • Data Discovery Agent: Scanning, profiling, and classifying enterprise data to detect issues and surface meaning.
  • Data Quality Agent: Automating remediation of data integrity issues and refining strategies over time.
  • Location Intelligence Agent: Enriching data with geospatial context for deeper insights.

In addition to AI Agents, Precisely is introducing a Copilot with a natural language interface designed to simplify complex data integrity tasks for both technical and business users. By translating intricate processes into guided, conversational interactions, the Copilot allows users to delegate work to AI while maintaining oversight.

All of these innovations are built on the Precisely AI ecosystem for data integrity, which connects trusted, high-quality data to the AI models, tools, and platforms chosen by each customer. The ecosystem is designed for flexibility, transparency, and governance at scale, supporting machine learning, generative AI, and agentic AI. 

Earlier this year, Precisely enhanced the ecosystem with a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server, enabling natural language access to trusted location and consumer datasets. Together, these capabilities strengthen model performance, ensure compliance, and enable enterprises to shift their focus from managing data issues to using data as a strategic driver of growth and innovation.

“AI can only achieve its promise when it operates on data that can be trusted, and when users remain firmly in control of how it’s applied,” said Chris Hall, Chief Product Officer at Precisely. “We are building AI agents and a Copilot to help our customers build an ecosystem of trusted data with less effort and expense.”

Source: PR Newswire

Broadcom North American Mainframe Technical Exchange – October 15–17, 2025, Plano, Texas

As workloads, applications, and complexity grow, how can mainframers work smarter and deliver more value? Broadcom’s North American Mainframe Technical Exchange offers a chance to find out. This three-day, in-person event will be held October 15–17, 2025, in Plano, Texas, bringing together mainframe professionals, engineers, and product leaders for Broadcom’s premier technical gathering of the year.

The event features 90+ technical sessions across key solution areas, including AIOps and Automation, DevOps, Databases (IDMS and Datacom), Data Management (Db2 Tools, Output and Storage Management), Foundations, New to Mainframe, Open Mainframe, and Security. Attendees can expect product roadmaps, demos, how-to sessions, and hands-on labs designed to help them build resilience, accelerate delivery, and harness the mainframe’s full capabilities.

Registration is free, and attendees can download session completion certificates to document educational achievements. Whether you’re looking to deepen your expertise, explore best practices, or influence Broadcom’s roadmap, MTE is designed to help you—and the community—be bigger together.

IBM TechXchange Conference: Session Catalog Now Available

If you’re planning on attending the upcoming IBM TechXchange Conference, taking place October 27–30, 2025, in Las Vegas, Nevada, it’s time to start building your personal agenda

The four-day program features keynotes, hands-on labs, certification opportunities, and more than a thousand technical sessions spanning today’s most important IT domains. Attendees will have the chance to collaborate with IBM engineers, discover best practices from industry leaders, and connect with a global community of innovators.

Conference tracks include:

  • AI and Data
  • Automation
  • Hybrid Cloud and Infrastructure
  • Security
  • Sustainability
  • Business and Leadership

Whether you’re driving mainframe innovation, scaling AI, or securing hybrid environments, TechXchange is designed to give you the knowledge, tools, and network to accelerate success.

New Mainframe Podcast: Mainframe Coven

Sponsored by the Open Mainframe Project, Mainframe Coven is a 10-part mini-series honoring the past, present, and future women of IT. It’s about real stories from the essential yet unseen minds behind the machines. Hosted by Jessielaine Punongbayan (Product Manager, Dynatrace) and Richelle Anne Craw (Software Engineer, Beta Systems Software), the first episode explores the concept of “kilogirl” — a colloquial term from the last century that refers to 1000 hours of female computational labor. Disgusted? Intrigued? Check out all the episodes for a nuanced look at the history of cultural bias, institutional gatekeeping, and the motivation to rewrite the narrative.

Adventures in Moving a Data Center

Ever wondered what it takes to move a data center 1,600 miles across the country — from Dallas to New York, for example? Imagine relocating 10,000 square feet of equipment and getting everything up and running again as quickly as possible. IBM recently documented exactly that challenge and captured it in a series of short videos. Narrated by Meredith Stowell (Vice President, IBM Ecosystem), the clips follow the team from carefully packing up every piece of hardware to powering on and testing systems at the new site. Check out the series to see the entire process in action.

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