• EvolveWare Makes Progress With RPG Code Modernization Using AI

  November 3, 2025 Alex Woodie

  IBM i shops that are looking for a partner to help them modernize RPG using AI have a number of companies to choose from, including IBM, which unveiled Project Bob last month. Another company to keep in mind is EvolveWare, which recently released its RPG code understanding tool and has plans to release a code generation product for RPG based on large language models (LLMs) in 2026.

  EvolveWare has been treading the code modernization waters since it was founded by chief executive officer Miten Marfatia in Santa Clara, California, back in 2001. The company has primarily been involved in COBOL …

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• Why The IBM i Market Needed Another VTL Option

  November 3, 2025 Greg Tevis

  Over many decades now, the IBM i community of software vendors has done a great job coming up with new ways to extend and improve the systems that IBM has built for midrange customers. But every once in a while, a new idea comes into the IBM i community from the outside.

  So it is with Compass Tape Gateway from Cobalt Iron, which modernizes IBM i backup by replacing traditional VTL complexity with an automated, software‑defined experience. It treats IBM i as a first‑class part of enterprise data protection – not a silo – so teams get simpler operations, …

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• What Price Power?

  November 3, 2025 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  One of the things that is great about the cloud is that the cost of a configured server instance with a given compute, memory, storage, and network capacity has a published list price, including volume discounts for reserving instances over relatively long periods of time. Similarly, sellers of X86 servers – mainly Dell and Hewlett Packard Enterprise, and mainly for entry and midrange X86 machines – still have online configurators that allow customers to see all of the pricing on components and to actually configure the machines they want to order, making tradeoffs for overall price and feature function and …

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• Cloud Revenues Saved By The GenAI Boom

  November 3, 2025 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  Growth in spending by end users on the clouds was slowing and slowing even more as time went by as we expect in a mature and competitive market from the end of 2021 through the end of 2022. And based on the trends that were happening at that time, about this time growth would have probably slowed to maybe 2X to 3X of the growth in global gross domestic product, which is how you know (in my opinion) how a subset of the IT market is mature.

  IT markets tend to always grow faster than GDP, unless something weird is …

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• IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 27, Number 44

  November 3, 2025 Doug Bidwell

  Welcome to the IBM i PTF Guide, we start out this week with a security vulnerability. Specifically, we have Security Bulletin: IBM i is affected by a privilege escalation in IBM i SQL services [CVE-2025-36367], about which you can find out more at this link. IBM strongly recommends addressing the vulnerability now, with the following patches:

  IBM i Release	5770-SS1	PTF Number(s)
  7.6			        SJ07552
  			        SJ07650
  			        SJ07651
  			        SJ07652	
  7.5			        SJ07553
  			        SJ07653
  			        SJ07654
  			        SJ07655	
  7.4			        SJ07554
  			        SJ07656
  			        SJ07657
  			        SJ07658	
  7.3			        SJ07555
  			        SJ07659
  			        SJ07660
  			        SJ07661	
  7.2			        SJ07556
  			        SJ07662
  			        SJ07663
  			        SJ07664 
  

  And now, for downloads and drivers: Upcoming Migration of Secure File Transfer …

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• Power Systems Grows Nicely In Q3, Looks To Grow For All 2025, Too

  October 27, 2025 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  Here’s a funny thing, or maybe not. In its conference call with Wall Street analysts going over the financial results for its third quarter ended in September, neither Arvind Krishna, IBM’s chairman and chief executive officer, nor James Kavanaugh, the company’s chief financial officer, said “Power” or “Power Systems” or “Power11” or anything directly relating to IBM i or AIX. Nary a peep, even though the Power11 upgrade cycle has begun in earnest and it looks like growth was pretty good in the third quarter and will be decent for all of 2025.

  For a long time now, Big Blue …

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• Beta Of MCP Server Opens Up IBM i For Agentic AI

  October 27, 2025 Alex Woodie

  When Anthropic quietly released Model Context Protocol (MCP) in November 2024, it didn’t garner a whole lot attention. But as the agentic AI wave grew in early 2025, the protocol suddenly was hailed as the new standard for integrating AI applications, tools, and data sources. A good indication of just how far MCP has come is the fact that IBM released an early version of the MCP server for IBM i this month.

  Project Bob got the big headlines at the IBM TechXchange conference, which took place the second week of October in Orlando, Florida. And for good reason, as …

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• Sundry IBM i And Power Stack Announcements For Your Consideration

  October 27, 2025 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  There is always a little mop up after major IBM i and Power Systems announcements, and there is usually a trickle of announcements that are not tied to the bi-annual launches of Technology Refreshes, which we generally expect in April and October. This latest cycle is no exception, and we have the mop and bucket out to finish out the current cycle.

  In announcement letter AD25-0006, IBM says that it will allow customers to mix and match shared utility capacity for latency compute and main memory activated using Power Enterprise Pools 2.0 om-site capacity on demand with pay per …

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• Please Take The IBM i Marketplace Survey

  October 27, 2025 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  Time is running our for you to take the annual IBM i Marketplace Survey from Fortra, and we are asking you to take a few moments and give us all some insight into what is going on inside of your IT organization.

  The annual survey, which is in its 13^th year, opened up on September 15. You can give back to the IBM i community and help nudge IBM and ISVs in directions that are helpful to you by taking the survey, which you can do at this link.

  The results of this survey are an invaluable resource …

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• IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 27, Number 43

  October 27, 2025 Doug Bidwell

  In case you have been away on vacation or just fell asleep for a few weeks, we wanted to remind you that there are Technology Refreshes for the two most recent IBM i releases.

  IBM i 7.6 Technology Refresh 1 has a planned availability date of November 21, 2025 and you can find out more at this link. IBM i 7.5 Technology Refresh 7 has the same availability, and you can find out more here.

  Here is the rundown of PTF Groups by IBM i release level since we last published:

  PTF Groups 7.6:

  • QMGTOOLS
  • RPG Café
  • Visual

  …

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