IBM i Modernization

As I travel around the world (virtually these days) meeting with IBM i customers and discussing the challenges around managing a modern development environment, I am increasingly hearing a common refrain: "My company wants us to manage all of our development with Git." It is completely understandable. Companies would like to have a single repository for all their source code. They want to be able to take advantage of Git's powerful branching and merge capabilities. Most importantly, they want to allow new engineers to work with a tool with which they are familiar. Immediately after they say they want the source managed with Git, they go on to say that they want automated DevOps with continuous integration, automated builds and on-demand or automatic deployments. Typically, these initi

VP of Solution Sales, Dan Magid, and Senior Sales Engineer, Charles Jones, recently hosted the "Building Bridges: AS/400 to modern platforms" webinar in partnership with IBM Systems Magazine. A recording of the session is available here if you'd like to view it again or share with colleagues. The webinar focused on how organizations can "build bridges" by using services to connect applications built in RPG, CL, and DB2 for the AS/400 with applications and components built in the latest technology-regardless of whether those applications are running on IBM i, or any other platform. The problem for many organizations is their isolated application environments. Often split into core platform developers and new technology developers, the culture of these two application groups can be very different. The difficultly is in how to co

IntroductionThere are companies willing to invest millions of dollars and take enormous business risk to move their legacy applications and data to new platforms. Yet most don't take the time, or invest the minimal effort needed, to examine the existing options for delivering the latest user experiences on IBM i. If they did, they would find that their understanding of IBM i is-ironically-outdated.There is almost no interface that can be built on Windows, Linux or UNIX systems that you can't do as well-if not better and cheaper-on IBM i. And there is already a thriving ecosystem of tools to help companies modernize quickly.Welcome to the first of our three-part "Productive on Power: Bringing the latest User Experiences to IBM i" blog series. Over the next few weeks, we'll cover modernization initiatives that are making users and customers more productive and more satisfied.These posts will discuss cost-effective strategie