• Profound Says New Agentic AI Dev Tool Delivers Huge Productivity Boost

  January 19, 2026 Alex Woodie

  Profound Logic is rolling out a new AI-powered development tool that it says will increase the productivity of individual developers by five to 10 times. Dubbed CoderFlow, the software coordinates the work of multiple AI agents to assist with the development new IBM i applications or the maintenance and modernization of existing ones.

  Existing AI copilots provide some productivity gains for developers working in an IDE, somewhere around 20 percent, according to Profound Logic chief executive officer Alex Roytman. But CoderFlow is a different type of product. It is not a coding co-pilot, he said. Instead it is a framework …

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• FalconStor Doubles Down On IBM Power With Habanero Offsite Data Protection

  January 19, 2026 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  One of the secrets to the success and longevity of the OS/400 and IBM i platform is integration for the sake of simplicity. That may be two closely interrelated secrets, now that we think about it, but the important thing is that for any product or service to take off among the IBM i faithful, it has to integrate well with the platform and it has to mask complexity even when an underlying technology might be quite hairy.

  With the rise of many clouds and hosters based on Power Systems machinery and the desire to get offsite data protection to …

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• Guru: Taming The CRTSRVPGM Command – Options That Can Save Your Sanity

  January 19, 2026 Gregory Simmons

  If you have ever run CRTSRVPGM without paying attention to its parameters, you are not alone. Many developers just accept the defaults and move on, only to discover later that those defaults can introduce subtle bugs or unnecessary headaches. The command looks simple, but it is packed with options that can either make your life easier or create a ticking time bomb in your system. Let’s talk about a couple of the most important ones.

  One parameter that deserves special attention is OPTION. By default, this parameter is blank, which seems harmless, but that blank value means you’re allowing duplicate …

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• Izzi Taps Virtutem To Modernize Infor LX Environments With Valence

  January 19, 2026 Alex Woodie

  Izzi Software entered the IBM i market in 2025 with cash for acquisitions, and promptly landed CNX and its Valence application modernization tool. Fast forward to 2026, and Izzi has formed a strategic partnership with longtime Infor partner Virtutem to sell and support Valence to users of Infor LX and other IBM i-based ERP systems.

  Virtutem founder and chief executive officer Alwyn Francis has a long history with the IBM i platform and the BPCS product from Infor. He was an RPG II programmer working on System/3, System/34, and System/36 before joining an SSA partner based in the United …

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• IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 28, Numbers 1 Through 3

  January 19, 2026 Doug Bidwell

  We are determined to get you all caught up on the happenings with PTF patches and such that have happened so far in the new year after getting you caught up with what happened at the end of 2025 in last week’s issue.

  So, without further ado, here are the first three editions of the IBM i PTF Guide for 2026, which will end our “Ketchup” Weeks until the next holiday rolls along. (Technically, it is Martin Luther King day in America as we go to press, which is a holiday for many but not for all.)

  We will start …

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• 2025: An IBM i Year In Review

  January 12, 2026 Alex Woodie

  The calendar has flipped over into the new year, bringing with it hope that the next twelve months will unfold in a positive way. It’s also a good time to reflect on what 2025 brought to the IBM i community, and to remember the big news events that occurred in our little sector of the IT market.

  January

  IBM hired a new vice president of product management for the Power Systems business. Bargav Balakrishnan was promoted to the position, which was previously held by Steve Sibley. Balakrishnan, who has a master’s degree in electrical engineering from the University of Michigan, …

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• A Tale Of Two Server Markets

  January 12, 2026 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  Happy New Year! It is hard to imagine what might happen next. But what I can tell you for sure is that until the gas comes out of the GenAI expansion, infrastructure spending in the datacenter in the aggregate will continue to be increasingly dominated by AI systems even if this is not the case at most IBM i shops.

  Before the Dot Com Boom, the market researchers at Gartner and IDC put out competing reports on sales of servers and external storage arrays, which we found very useful and you no doubt did, too. In 2022, both companies stopped …

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• Guru: CRTSRVPGM Parameters That Can Save or Sink You

  January 12, 2026 Gregory Simmons

  It was 2 a.m., and the phone wouldn’t stop ringing. A production job had failed, and the error logs weren’t making any sense. After an hour of digging, the culprit finally revealed itself: the wrong procedure had been bound in a service program. Somehow, a silent duplicate had snuck through, and everything downstream was broken. If you’ve ever been in that situation, you know that “it compiles, it runs” is the worst mindset you can have when creating service programs. The parameters on CRTSRVPGM exist for a reason, and ignoring them can turn a simple build into a nightmare at …

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• As I See It: What’s Past is Prologue

  January 12, 2026 Victor Rozek

  Imagine working as a sailmaker in the 1830s. You apprenticed as a young boy and now, in your mid-40s, you work with dozens of highly skilled tradesmen to produce the motive power for fleets of whalers, fishing boats, coastal and global trading vessels, and naval frigates.

  Your work is considered essential. It fuels trade, exploration, transport and defense. To outfit a single large ship, the amount of canvass required could span three-quarters of an acre. The lives of sailors depend on the quality and craftsmanship of your labor. Since the mid-16th century your profession has been secure, respected and – …

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• IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 27, Numbers 49 Through 52

  January 12, 2026 Doug Bidwell

  Welcome to 2026! And to start the year off for the IBM i PTF Guide, we will wrap up four weeks of patches for and notes about the IBM i platform from 2025.

  So, let’s start with Volume 27, Number 49 and then roll forward. Here, we have one security vulnerability and one notice. First, we have Security Bulletin: IBM WebSphere Application Server and WebSphere Application Server Liberty are affected by SMTP injection due to Jakarta Mail (CVE-2025-7962), which you can read more about here. There is a vulnerability in the Jakarta Mail library which affects IBM WebSphere …

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• Learning And Laughing With Scott Forstie And Tim Rowe

  December 8, 2025 Alex Woodie

  In the darkest days of the 2020 pandemic, with COVID lockdowns in full force, IBM i business architects Tim Rowe and Scott Forstie decided to try something new: start a video blog. Dubbed iSee, the short videos blend serious technical content around ACS and SQL services with goofy puns and silly drawings. Fast forward to fall 2025, and iSee is going strong, as the pair recently aired their 100th iSee episode.

  “Scott and I have been thinking about some fun things that we want to talk about to help you in your every day job,” Rowe said in the very …

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• IBM’s CEO Says GenAI Is Great For Enterprise, But It Will Not Be AGI

  December 8, 2025 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  You might think that Arvind Krishna, chief executive officer of IBM, just has a bad case of sour grapes because Nvidia, not Big Blue, is the dominant supplier of AI hardware and the main driver of the GenAI boom. But maybe Krishna is just the adult in the room with deep experience with enterprise customers, and that is why he poured some cold water on the exuberant spending forecasts for AI systems spending.

  Krisha sat down with Nillay Patel, editor in chief of The Verge on his Decoder podcast last week, and as part of an hour-long conversation, they …

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• Guru: A First Look at Bob, The IBM i Assistant That’s Closer Than You Think

  December 8, 2025 Gregory Simmons

  I recently was granted early access to IBM’s new Project Bob, and I have been putting the Bob-IDE through its paces to understand what IBM is aiming for and what IBM i developers should expect as the offering matures. Bob is IBM’s emerging AI-powered development assistant and IDE ecosystem designed to modernize how developers work on the IBM i.

  One of the first things that stands out is that the Bob-IDE is not an extension like the older WCA4i project, which was in extension form. IBM learned a lot from that experience, and those lessons led them to take a …

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• Happy Holidays To All Of You From All Of Us

  December 8, 2025 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  Well, 2025 is almost in the rear view mirror, as hard as that may be to believe. And thank heavens for the holidays – they are literally holy days – that give us a chance to reflect on the year and to spend precious time with family and friends.

  As the years go by, time seems to run faster and faster, but that is, in part, an illusion that is caused by the cycle time of the real neural network in your head and decreasing differentiation among functional areas in our brains. Neurons fire less often as we age, and …

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• IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 27, Number 48

  December 8, 2025 Doug Bidwell

  If you are using WebSphere Application Server Liberty along with Java SE 8, you just got a new lease on life for this combination. IBM had been planning to make Liberty 26.0.0.9 the final release that supported Java SE 8, with interim fixes available through September. Now, as you can see in this announcement, now Liberty will support Java SE 8 up through the 28.0.0.12 release and interim fixes through December 31, 2030.

  IBM says that this change was done to give customers more than two more years to upgrade to more recent and modern versions of Java. Liberty …

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• Bob More Than Just A Code Assistant, IBM i Chief Architect Will Says

  December 1, 2025 Alex Woodie

  When IBM i professionals finally get their hands on Bob, the new AI-powered tool currently in development in Big Blue’s labs, they will find that it is much more than just a code assistant, IBM i chief Architect Steve Will said recently. “It has a lot of knowledge,” he said. “It knows things about IBM i.”

  While precise details about the timing of the release of Bob are slim, IBM is widely expected to release a public preview of the new AI-powered plug-in for VS Code in early 2026. The new software, which was unveiled in early October around the …

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• Stacking Up Entry IBM i-Power11 Systems Against Windows X86 Platforms

  December 1, 2025 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  Having spent the past several weeks going over the hardware and software costs and performance of systems in the IBM i P10 and P20 software tiers. We had an admittedly small sample, but one that we could get Big Blue’s pricing information for, which is hard to come by. This week we wanted to see how those entry P10-class and P20-class machines stack up against modern X86 servers based on Intel’s latest Xeon 6 systems running a Windows Server stack that was functionally equivalent to the IBM i stack.

  So we did a little spreadsheet work on your behalf.

  Our …

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• IBM Brings AI-Enhanced OpenShift Container Platform To Power Systems

  December 1, 2025 Timothy Prickett Morgan

  Given that Big Blue owns Red Hat, any Red Hat software that runs on X86 or Arm machinery should eventually make its way onto IBM’s own Power processors and their Power Systems servers. But, it takes time to do this, of course, and some Red Hat software is more important to the Power Systems based than other systems software.

  In announcement letter AD25-1628, dated November 25 when IT Jungle was, like many of you, getting ready for the Thanksgiving holiday, IBM said that it had Red Hat OpenShift Platform Plus ready to go on its Power Systems iron. The …

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• As I See It: Artificial Integrity

  December 1, 2025 Victor Rozek

  I don’t remember it being taught in school. Through high school and college I cannot recall a single instance where the concept of integrity was discussed or even mentioned. Occasionally I heard words like “honest” and “honorable” applied to virtuous historical figures. But those concepts describe behavior. Integrity, on the other hand, is based on character, on a commitment to consistently practice those virtues. Integrity drives behavior but it denotes more than action; it denotes essence, a state of being whole, and ethically unabridged.

  Honor is about what you do; integrity is about who you are. Which is why a …

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• IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 27, Number 47

  December 1, 2025 Doug Bidwell

  We start this week with performance anxiety. Well, more like performance degradation. As you will see at this link, if you have installed IBM i 7.4 TR12 or IBM i 7.5 TR7, SQL query plans might be spending more time waiting for I/O pending faults and therefore are performing poorly. There are actually two different but related issues and two different fixes that resolve this issue.

  This week, there is also a security vulnerability. See Security Bulletin: IBM i is affected by obtaining information without proper authority [CVE-2025-36371], with more information available here. The fixes for this vulnerability, …

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