If you have ever stared at a dusty fixed-format RPG III program from the 1990s and thought “there has to be a better way”, then IBM’s latest AI-powered sidekick might just be your new best friend. Meet IBM BOB (yes, that’s the official name now – Project Bob has grown up). BOB is IBM’s AI-first

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AKA – Taming the wild west of RPGLE/SQLRPGLE source code comments with IBM i BOB, turning cryptic developer scribbles into a perfectly standardized, comment utopia. If you spend any time maintaining IBM i systems like I do, you know how messy legacy RPGLE and SQLRPGLE source can get. One program after another with zero comments,

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If you are developing software on IBM i systems then IBM Bob has probably caught your attention by now. This AI powered coding assistant lives right inside your IDE and acts as a smart programming partner that understands your full codebase. It helps you design, refactor, review and modernize code with real expertise in RPG,

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You know the drill. You fire up the IDE full of hope, and immediately get mugged by debugging hell, fossilized 90s RPG that smells of mothballs, pointless documentation, and soul-crushing code reviews. Absolute murder. Enter IBM BOB – my cheeky AI mate who actually enjoys hoovering up all that tedious programming guff for me. In

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Removing Java 17 from IBM i and Watching BOB Compile Without any Java Log Drama If you have been following my adventures in IBM i land, you know I have been wrestling with some pesky Java issues for a while now. Today, I am thrilled to report a major win: we finally yanked Java 17

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If you caught yesterday’s meltdown video, you know I had a rough time with abnormal ends, full-on crashes, and what felt like nuclear-level explosions on the system. All thanks to IBM BOB struggling to chat properly with my IBM i box. Today, we are bouncing back with some smart tweaks to our CLRBOBLOG command. We

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Today, I want to share a wild ride that started as a simple video lesson, I planned to record a video on IBM BOB generating a CL program to check library sizes but quickly turned into a full-blown system emergency as I found my connection locking up, and my IBM-i system sitting at 99.9% disk

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Phone Trills… Trills… Click.. Guinness Book of World Records “Hello?”Me “Hi – I would like to register this blog title as the worlds longest and most unnecessary title for a technical IBM-i blog ever in the world ever!!!”Guinness Book of World Records “Idiot! Don’t ever call us again.”Click…. Static If you’ve spent any time developing

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Today we’re diving into something seriously exciting for anyone working with IBM i or AS/400 systems: IBM’s Project Bob, an AI-driven powerhouse with an incredible ability to analyze and document those ancient, mysterious RPG source codes. You know the ones. Dusty fixed-format RPG III programs from the 90s, packed with logic but completely lacking comments.

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The more I use Visual Studio Code the more I like it. (NOTE The same applies to IBM BOB – which is VS-Code under the covers) Here are my top 10 reasons I find this such a useful programming tool: VS-Code is the ideal choice for IBM i developers.VS Code is an ideal choice for

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