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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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  • NAViGATE, inPower 2025 On Tap for September 2025

    September 15, 2025 Alex Woodie

    As the summer turns to fall, IBM i professionals will be turning out to a pair of events being hosted in the Midwest, including Infor’s imPower 2025 conference in Wisconsin, and COMMON’s NAViGATE conference taking place in Pennsylvania. Both shows are expected to draw hundreds of participants.

    NAViGATE 2025 takes place this week in Pittsburgh. COMMON is hosting about 110 sessions on IBM i topics across the three-day event, including sessions on application development, security, high availability, and administering the system.

    Tim Rowe, an IBM architect for application development, and Julia Yan, the lead developer of Navigator for i, will …

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  • Profound Logic Adds MCP To IBM i AI Tool

    July 28, 2025 Alex Woodie

    The world of AI is moving extremely fast right now, with new models, techniques, and technologies emerging every week. One of the newest bits of AI tech to catch on is Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol (MCP), which has quickly become a defacto standard for connecting data sources to AI models. Profound Logic, which has been on the cutting edge of AI, is the first IBM i vendor to bring MCP support to the server and the Db2 for i database.

    Anthropic quietly launched Model Context Protocol in late November 2024 as a way to enable large language models (LLMs), such …

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