Is Your IBM i DevOps Pipeline Ready for AI Coding Agents? With the adoption of AI coding agents, every developer on your team is writing more code than they did a year ago. GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, Cline, Claude Code, IBM Bob, take your pick. The tools are different, but the effect is the same: AI […]
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The Pause That Changes Everything Last month, I was speaking with the IT director of a mid-sized IBM i shop who was genuinely excited about AI-assisted development. They’d seen the demos of using all the powerful tools accessible via VS Code. They’d read the case studies. They were ready to move. Then they paused. The pause was familiar. “The problem is that most
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EDI compliance is no longer optional for suppliers working with major retailers. When you partner with Walmart, Amazon, or Target, meeting their electronic data interchange requirements becomes critical to your survival. These retailers enforce EDI compliance standards so strict that a single missed deadline or formatting error can trigger thousands of dollars in chargebacks. Last
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The other day, I was chatting with a company CEO who’d just completed a major merger. He was excited about the growth opportunities but had one big concern: “60+% of our business transactions are completed via EDI documents and our EDI costs are out of control,” he confided. “We are charged by EDI document processed
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“Our EDI expert retired, and we don’t employ an EDI person anymore – I want a company to be responsible instead of another hire.” When a logistics company CEO told me this last month, it crystallized something I’ve been hearing across the industry. Companies aren’t just struggling with EDI technology. They’re facing a dramatic loss
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Recently, I have heard from many leading companies across various industries that are seeking modern EDI solutions to enhance their existing, challenging-to-maintain solutions. From retail giants processing millions of POs to manufacturers coordinating complex supply chains, businesses are discovering that EDI doesn’t have to be a bottleneck in business processes. Modern EDI solutions are revolutionizing
Last week, I had a conversation with the CIO of a mid-sized manufacturing company about IBM i integration services that has stuck with me. “Dan,” he said, “we just lost the programmer who did all of our integration work (APIs, EDI, etc.) to retirement, and now we need to connect our system to three new
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In today’s interconnected computing landscape, IBM i security has become a critical concern as these systems often find themselves in a precarious position. They typically house an organization’s most vital data while sometimes operating as “security islands” within the enterprise architecture. As I speak with CIOs and IT leaders, I frequently hear confidence about enterprise-wide
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Do you know with certainty what code you actually have running in production? Does the source location match the location identified in the object description? Are you really aware of what changes are being made to the code and whether that code is protected from potential security vulnerabilities? Implementing proper IBM i DevOps security practices
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Our previous security blogs explored how IBM i systems are often isolated from enterprise security architectures and discussed implementing technologies like Okta for Multi-Factor Authentication. Our last blog focused on the vulnerabilities inherent in using Basic Authentication and the reasons to replace Basic Authentication with more modern authentication methods. Today, I want to focus on
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