Case Study: Colruyt Group achieves interactive mainframe performance insights with IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS

Colruyt Group opts for interactive mainframe analysis with IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS

Colruyt Group, the Belgian retail group behind supermarket chain Colruyt Lowest Prices, needed a better way to monitor mainframe performance and capacity for real-time price adjustments and other critical IT processes. With IBM Z mainframes supporting several core systems, the team wanted daily insights and more efficient reporting than its static, manual SAS-based approach could provide.

IBM implemented IBM Z IntelliMagic Vision for z/OS in the cloud, with support for IBM z/OS Disk, virtual tape, Db2, CICS, MQ, and TCP/IP. The solution gave Colruyt Group interactive reporting, drill-down analysis, and built-in expert explanations, streamlining performance tuning, WLM reviews, and root-cause analysis while replacing legacy reports. The result was faster, more flexible monitoring across most mainframe domains, better visibility for engineering teams, and significant time savings in daily and monthly analysis tasks.

Colruyt Group

Pieter Rogge

Mainframe Platform System Engineer