The Metrics That Matter After Year One (opens in a new tab)
Twelve months into an IBM i transformation, someone will ask whether it is working. Counting converted programs will not answer that question. Here are the measures that will, and how…
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Building A Modern IBM i Screen With Agentic Display Files (opens in a new tab)
Agentic Display Files remove the widget ceiling on IBM i screen development, but the announcement left the mechanics abstract. Here is what actually happens when a developer builds a real…
The Rewrite That Never Shipped. What Failed RPG Replacement Projects Have In Common (opens in a new tab)
Most failed IBM i replacement projects do not fail loudly. They drift for 18 months, then quietly end with the business back on the system it tried to leave. The…
Behind The Brand. The Companies Still Running (And Thriving) On IBM i (opens in a new tab)
For years, running on IBM i got treated like something to explain away. Ryder cut delivery cycle times and saved $30,000 a year on it. Trimble modernized three product lines…
You Just Inherited An IBM i Environment. Here’s Where To Start. (opens in a new tab)
Most CIOs and IT directors step into a role they didn’t build the foundation for. On IBM i, that foundation is often decades of undocumented RPG and COBOL. Here’s why…
Stop Guessing Which AI Model To Use: How CoderFlow’s Automatic Model Selection Works (opens in a new tab)
Not every coding task needs your most expensive model, but figuring out which ones do has been a manual guessing game. CoderFlow’s new Auto model selection rates each task and…
Inside The Judge: How CoderFlow’s Judge Agents Decide What Ships (opens in a new tab)
Verified, ready-to-commit is the standard. Judge agents are the mechanism. Here’s how CoderFlow actually decides which of several competing implementations ships, what it evaluates to get there, and why a…
Your Best RPG Developer Retires Next Year. Does Anyone Know What Their Code Actually Does? (opens in a new tab)
Most IBM i organizations don’t have a documentation problem so much as an undocumented-decisions problem. When the developer who wrote a program leaves, whatever they knew about it leaves too.…
One Platform, Any Agent: How CoderFlow Keeps IBM i Teams Out Of AI Vendor Lock-In (opens in a new tab)
Autonomous coding agents that work in parallel, run against your repositories, and hand back reviewable code, all under your team’s existing controls. Parallel Agents Reviewable Diffs Governed Access Your Repositories…
From One Screen To A Thousand: Futurizing An Entire Application Portfolio (opens in a new tab)
Most futurization conversations start, and often stay, at the scale of a single application. But the real test isn’t whether Futurization works on one flagship program. It’s whether it holds…
Why The Right AI Model For Your RPG Codebase Isn’t Always The Same One (opens in a new tab)
Most AI coding tools ask you to trust one model with everything. For decades of RPG and COBOL logic, that trade-off deserves more scrutiny than it usually gets.…
Why Most IBM i Shops Haven’t Started With AI Yet (And What The First Step Actually Looks Like) (opens in a new tab)
IBM i leaders are more worried about falling behind on AI than ever before, but worry has not translated into action. Here is what is actually causing the freeze, and…
Your Toughest Futurization Problem Is The People, Not The Platform (opens in a new tab)
A futurization effort can clear every technical hurdle and still stall, because the people who run the business on the same screens every day are afraid of what’s coming. The…
CoderFlow On IBM i: What Real Development Tasks Actually Look Like (opens in a new tab)
Descriptions of agentic coding are easy to find. What is harder to find is a straight answer to a simple question: what does it actually look like when you hand…
AI Digital Labor On IBM i: Scaling Delivery Without Scaling Headcount (opens in a new tab)
The question IT leaders are asking is no longer whether AI can write code. It’s whether AI can take on the sustained delivery work that enterprise teams need done without…