IT Builds It. IT Controls It. The Case for Agent-Driven Business Automation on IBM i.
Every IBM i shop has business processes that run on human effort today: repetitive, documented workflows that someone executes manually because no one has gotten around to automating them. CoderFlow gives IT the ability to set up AI agents that handle those workflows autonomously, with full governance and control staying exactly where it belongs.
Agentic Display Files: The UI Breakthrough IBM i Teams Have Been Waiting For
What if an AI agent could design a complete, responsive web screen from a plain-English description of what it should do? With Agentic Display Files in Profound UI, that’s exactly what becomes possible and it changes what IBM i futurization looks like.
Why We Built CoderFlow for IBM i Instead of Retrofitting Something Else
The IBM i market has watched a lot of “solutions” arrive from the outside, built for other environments and adapted for legacy systems as an afterthought. CoderFlow was built differently: starting from a deep understanding of how IBM i systems actually work and designing an agentic platform that reality, rather than around it.
One Template. Hundreds of Programs. That’s What Scale Looks Like on IBM i.
Converting a single RPG program to free-format is a task. Converting 500 of them is a project that can consume an entire development team for months. CoderFlow’s templates and batch processing change that equation, turning repeatable futurization work into scalable, parallel execution with a human review step at the end.
Legacy Transformation Without the Risk: A Manufacturing Futurization Success with Profound Logic
Case Study Highlights Industry: Manufacturing Technology Legacy: IBM i (AS/400) Core Operations: Production control Inventory management Order entry Customer item tracking Technology Approach: Hybrid transformation from RPG to JavaScript with phased implementation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8SmfXQISJo The Challenge In the rapidly evolving manufacturing technology landscape, this major manufacturer found itself at a critical crossroads where their reliable but aging systems threatened to become a […]
Beyond the Green Screen: What Profound AppDev Makes Possible for RPG Teams
Most IBM i teams know their RPG code is worth keeping. What’s harder to see is what becomes possible when you build on top of it rather than around it. Profound AppDev gives RPG development teams the tools to create modern, browser-based applications without abandoning the business logic they’ve spent decades refining.
CoderFlow on the Go: Mobile Access for Your Agentic Workflows
Your autonomous agents don’t stop working when you leave your desk. Neither should your ability to manage them. CoderFlow’s responsive web UI puts task monitoring, environment control, and agent activity review in your pocket, with no app to install.
What a Junior Developer Learns in Six Months, CoderFlow Teaches Itself in Six Minutes
Hiring a junior developer to work in an IBM i environment doesn’t solve the knowledge problem. It transfers it. CoderFlow takes a different approach, and the implications for teams facing the talent cliff are significant.
What Happens to Your Day When AI Does the Build-Test-Fix Loop
Most conversations about AI and developer productivity focus on speed. Fewer ask the more important question: speed at what, exactly? When AI autonomously executes the build-test-fix loop, the daily rhythm of development work changes in ways that go beyond doing the same things faster. Here’s what that shift actually looks like.
The Staffing Cliff Is Real: What IBM i Organizations Should Be Planning Right Now
Every IBM i organization knows the headcount is shrinking. The average RPG developer is in their mid-to-late fifties. Retirements are accelerating. Hiring to backfill is difficult in the best of circumstances, and the pipeline of developers entering the field with IBM i expertise slow growing. Most technology leaders are aware of this. What many haven’t fully reckoned with is what leaves when a veteran IBM i developer […]
Profound Logic Adds IBM Bob to CoderFlow’s Agentic Coding Platform, Enabling Autonomous IBM i Execution Beyond What Bob Can Do Alone
CoderFlow gives IBM Bob deep IBM i integration, autonomous build-test-fix loops, and parallel orchestration. Profound Logic, the leader in IBM i futurization, today announced that CoderFlow now supports IBM Bob as a participating agent in its autonomous execution platform. CoderFlow is an enterprise agentic coding platform that gives organizations the governance, security, and infrastructure control required to deploy AI-driven development at scale. It runs autonomous agents that […]
The Skills System: How CoderFlow Learns Your Environment
One of the most common reasons AI coding tools underdeliver in IBM i environments has nothing to do with the AI itself. It’s that the agent doesn’t know how anything in your environment actually works. CoderFlow’s Skills system solves that problem at the architecture level.
What “Verified, Ready-to-Commit” Really Means
AI coding assistants promise faster development, but they stop at generating code, leaving compilation, testing, debugging, and validation to developers. Discover what “verified, ready-to-commit” really means as an outcome standard, and why enterprise teams, especially those running IBM i, should be measuring AI tools against it.
Why Modernization Isn’t Enough & What Futurization Actually Means for IBM i
Most IBM i organizations have tried modernization and found it falls short. Surface-level upgrades don’t resolve technical debt, close the talent gap, or prepare your platform for AI. Discover why futurization is a fundamentally different approach and what it takes to turn IBM i into a strategic growth engine.
Why Your DevOps Toolchain Is the Real Barrier to Agentic Coding on IBM i
Every IBM i organization exploring agentic coding is asking the wrong first question. Before selecting an AI model or platform, you need to assess whether your software delivery toolchain can support autonomous agents. Discover the three non-negotiable DevOps prerequisites and why CoderFlow is built to meet IBM i environments where they actually are.