Many modern organizations are implementing enterprise-wide observability solutions to gain end-to-end visibility across all their systems, and IBM Z plays a crucial role in many of those environments. OpenTelemetry offers a vendor-neutral, open-source framework to simplify the collection and management of telemetry data (traces, metrics, and logs) from diverse environments. This session will show you how OpenTelemetry bridges the gap, providing visibility into transaction flows spanning critical z/OS components such as MQ, CICS, IMS, and Db2. We’ll demonstrate how instrumenting these applications generates standardized OpenTelemetry data, allowing seamless integration with your existing enterprise observability platform. You’ll learn practical steps to enable OpenTelemetry on z/OS and discover how to leverage this data to improve incident detection and accelerate troubleshooting.