There is a special breed of IBM i programmer who will fight you to the death over the name of the box. Call it an IBM i Power system and watch their blood pressure climb. Mention Power Systems running IBM i and they start twitching. No, they insist, it is still an AS/400, always has

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I still get mildly shocked, in a mild English “I need a strong cup of tea” kind of way, by how many IBM i shops I walk into (or remote into) where the security officer password is still the factory default. Yes. QSECOFR / QSECOFR. On production systems. In 2026. And that’s before we even

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As I like to tell IBM i clients: the goal isn’t to get rid of the AS/400 database. It’s to discover that you’ve actually been running one of the world’s best SQL databases all along. The Advantages of Modernizing an Old AS/400 Database to Modern SQL If you are still rocking physical files defined in

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