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  • Fresche Overhauls X-Analysis With Web UI, AI Smarts

    May 19, 2025 Alex Woodie

    Fresche Solutions recently unveiled a new release of X-Analysis, its popular impact analysis tool, which it’s now selling under the Application Intelligence brand. The product has undergone a major overhaul and now sports a new Web user interface as well as hooks to popular AI models to provide code explanation and documentation capabilities for RPG applications.

    Fresche Solutions operates a large application modernization practice and provides an array of products and services to help IBM i customers take their RPG, COBOL, and Java applications from the legacy past into the modern present. However, before a single byte of legacy code …

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  • Reader Feedback On State Of The IBM i Base, IBM i Salaries

    April 11, 2022 Timothy Prickett Morgan

    Hey, TPM:

    I have been enjoying your series on the state of the IBM i environment. Those and other recent IT Jungle articles have helped me better understand some of the things that I am seeing as a training vendor.

    As you and I have often discussed, the IBM i market has divided into two groups: the roughly 30,000 active customers and 120,000 others. My company, Manta Technologies, has customers among both groups.

    As a former math professor, I tend to think in Venn diagrams. I had to fight the urge to pull out the colored pencils when I read …

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  • Goodbye, Java Enterprise Edition. Hello, Jakarta EE

    April 30, 2018 Alex Woodie

    Developers who use Java Enterprise Edition will be happy to know that the development and runtime platform is gaining new life as Jakarta EE. As part of an agreement with Oracle, the tech giant will give up control over the platform to Eclipse Foundation, which has big plans to remake enterprise Java for the emerging cloud world.

    Since it bought Sun Microsystems back in 2010, Oracle has been fully in charge of Java. That includes defining not just the core Java language, but having a big hand in everything else governed through the Java Community Process (JCP), including the Java …

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