Have you ever seen IBM enterprise servers displayed in a museum? When people think about museums in Jakarta, they often picture Indonesia’s rich cultural heritage, colonial architecture, or national history. However, tucked away in the heart of Jakarta’s Old Town (Kota Tua) is a museum that deserves a place on every IBM i professional’s bucket…
IBM Bob 1.0.0 helps developers solve enterprise problems within real codebases while offering proactive improvement insights Published: 20 February 2026 Planned availability date 24 March 2026 Overview IBM Bob is an AI Software Development Lifecycle partner that is designed to augment existing workflows, helping developers understand, plan, improve, and work confidently with real codebases, while…
For over a decade, the IBM i community has looked to the annual marketplace survey to benchmark trends and plan for the future. The 2026 IBM i Marketplace Survey Results by FORTRA, representing the viewpoints of 320 IBM i professionals worldwide, reveals a significant shift in the landscape. While stability and reliability remain the platform’s…
The IBM i community recently welcomed a new member to its open-source family: Mapepire. Named after a South American pit viper (pronounced MAH-pup-ee), this tool isn’t something to fear. In fact, it’s a venomous strike against the legacy headaches often associated with database connectivity. It addresses the complexities of traditional ODBC and JDBC drivers, offering…
In the world of enterprise IT, the IBM i (formerly AS/400) is a powerhouse of reliability. However, it often exists as an island. On one side, you have the IBM i Administrators, the guardians of uptime and performance. On the other, the Security and Compliance Officers, the guardians of data integrity and regulatory standards. IBM…
IBM i security discussions usually focus on special authorities, exit programs, and object-level permissions. Very few discussions go deep into object ownership chains, even though they can silently bypass carefully designed authority models. Ownership chains exist by design. They simplify application execution. But in real environments—especially legacy-heavy systems—they create unintended privilege escalation paths that remain…
One of the reasons organizations trust IBM i is its stability. An IBM i system can run for months—or even years—without a restart. Still, certain maintenance tasks, configuration changes, or recovery situations require you to stop and start the system correctly. In this post, I’ll explain how IBM i starts, how users sign on, and…
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In an era where cyber threats evolve at breakneck speed, the security of enterprise systems like IBM i (formerly known as AS/400 or iSeries) cannot be left to chance. While IBM i has long been celebrated for its robust architecture and inherent security features, the notion that it is impervious to malware and ransomware is…
IBM i and AIX are both proprietary operating systems developed by IBM for its Power Systems hardware, but they represent divergent evolutionary paths. AIX, released in 1986, is IBM’s Unix-based OS derived from System V with BSD extensions, designed for general-purpose enterprise computing. IBM i, evolving from OS/400 (1988) and rooted in the AS/400/System/38 lineage,…
