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From Stable To Scalable: Visual LANSA 16 Powers IBM i Growth – Launching July 8

June 23, 2025 Nichole Ballesteros

IBM i remains one of the most trusted enterprise platforms in the world, running mission-critical operations across industries like manufacturing, logistics, and finance. Its unmatched reliability and performance have made it a mainstay for organizations running high-volume, always-on business systems.

But as innovation speeds up, IBM i teams are under pressure to do more: modernize applications, integrate with newer systems, and deliver modern user experiences – all without compromising business operations. The problem? Most legacy environments weren’t built for agility, and rewrites are often expensive and risky.

That’s where Visual LANSA 16 comes in. Originally built for IBM i and …
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IBM i Modernization – Life After RPG

March 30, 2022 Jose Caso Jacobs

How an IBM i business approaches legacy application modernization doesn’t differ from application modernization on any other platform. Well, there is one slight difference. Many of those IBM i businesses have the added weight of replacing working legacy applications for the simple fact that RPG fell out of mainstream coding decades ago. The code is efficient and perfectly runs mission-critical apps, but there are fewer and fewer programmers around to maintain that code.

Colleges and universities stopped teaching RPG before Y2K was even a concern. Developers that learned RPG in the 1980s and early 1990s were 30 or 40 years …
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To My Dearest IBM i . . .

February 9, 2022 Visual LANSA

Very rarely do hardware and software stay together for so long…

Hardware finds newer, younger, more trendy software….

The trendiest software jumps to the best hardware….

But every so often…

The best hardware and software stay together for a lifetime!

To My Dearest IBM i:

As Valentine’s Day approaches, I wanted to profess my love and gratitude to you. Although we have spent over 30 Valentine’s Days together, I didn’t want this one to pass us by without acknowledging the special place you hold in my heart.

I have watched you blossom from a young aspiring server to the …
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Idera Bolsters Visual LANSA 15

May 13, 2020 Alex Woodie

Idera last month issued the first major announcement for its LANSA product lineup since it bought the application development toolmaker last year. With Visual LANSA 15, the company has delivered more than 500 enhancements, including a new API creation experience, native chart controls for Web apps, and a host of sample apps, among many other new features.

Before LANSA sold itself to Idera in January 2019, Visual LANSA was the company’s flagship integrated development environment (IDE) for creating modern graphical applications that run on IBM i, Windows, and cloud platforms.

While Visual LANSA users can get down and dirty …
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From Stable To Scalable: Visual LANSA 16 Powers IBM i Growth – Launching July 8

IBM i Modernization – Life After RPG

To My Dearest IBM i . . .

Idera Bolsters Visual LANSA 15

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