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Practical ideas, modern techniques, and emerging trends.

Explore focused perspectives on IBM i modernization, platform capabilities, real-world engineering, and the technologies shaping its future.

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APIs & Integration1
- Building REST APIs from IBM i Applications
Modernization1
- Modernizing RPG Applications with SQL and APIs
AI & Emerging Tech2
- IBM i MCP Server: The New Bridge Between AI Assistants and IBM i
- Practical AI-Assisted Development for RPG Programmers
Operations & Performance2
- Db2 for i and QSYS2 Services Every Developer Should Know
- IBM i Application Monitoring and Production Troubleshooting

Modernization

Modernizing RPG Applications with SQL and APIs

A practical, incremental path to modernizing RPG applications — embedded SQL for cleaner data access, reusable business-logic services, JSON generation and parsing, and REST APIs to expose or consume — without a risky, all-at-once rewrite.

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