i-Rays Stresses Observability AI as Essential for IBM i Environments

i-Rays Stresses Observability AI as Essential for IBM i Environments

By Business Wire
Publication Date: 2026-04-22 13:08:00

Company offers key advice for switching from reactive to proactive best practices

NEW YORK, April 22, 2026–(BUSINESS WIRE)–i-Rays, an observability platform developed by Omnilogy, a global technology developer focused on the IBM i environment, is raising concerns that traditional IBM i monitoring often stops at surface-level events and alerts, leaving IT teams to diagnose the root cause. New AI observability systems are helping teams predict issues before they show symptoms, but embracing these ideas requires a fresh outlook on observability, a shift from alerts to predictive insights, and adopting the Observe, Understand, and Act framework.

“Users assume that because IBM i is one of the most reliable systems on the market, it will simply keep running flawlessly. But there is no universal, always‑correct configuration,” says Marek Walczak, General Manager of i-Rays. “But what works today may already be misaligned tomorrow as a business evolves, workloads shift,…