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…
The Other Half Of The Integration Bottleneck: Getting Real-Time Data Into IBM i (opens in a new tab)
A partner feed, a storefront, a sensor on the floor, all of them need to write into IBM i, not just read from it. Most organizations solve that with a…
Why Most IBM i Staff Augmentation Doesn’t Shrink Your Backlog (opens in a new tab)
Search “IBM i staff augmentation” and every provider claims the same thing: real experience, fast ramp-up, lower cost. Almost none of them can show you what that means on day…
What Technical Debt Is Really Costing Your IBM i Organization (opens in a new tab)
Every IBM i organization has a system it knows it should address and hasn’t. New research from McKinsey and Gartner puts a number on what that decision actually costs, in…
The Integration Bottleneck: Why It Still Takes Months To Connect IBM i To Modern Systems (opens in a new tab)
A new mobile app, a partner integration, a cloud service that needs real-time data. The business ask is usually simple. What happens underneath, translating decades of RPG and Db2 into…
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…
Futurizing Store Operations And Maintenance With Profound AppDev
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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.…