COMMON POWERUp 2026

This session will evolve around your choices for future proofing your IBM i. With limited resources and stretched budgets, how do you get the most out of your system. Many companies face the challenge of improving or modernizing their IT environment. What does that really mean? What are your choices? • Modernize your applications? • Modernize your Infrastructure? • Modernize data management? • Enhance security? • Move to a Cloud Environment? We will explore your choices and offer tried and true suggestions. Your first choice - attend this session.

Learning Objectives:

Modernization means different things to different companies. Many decisions will have to be made, different choices. we will point out a few choices to help you in your decision-making process.

This session is a review of the newest and most awesome features added to the VS Code4i Database Extension. This is designed to be an interactive, with questions and comments from the attendees, so be ready to interact, cheer, jeer, or inspire us with your good ideas.

Learning Objectives:

1) Understand what's possible today with the VS Code4i Database Extension. 2) Understand when to use VS Code4i vs other tools 3) Interact with the VS Code4i Database Extension technology leaders

Introductory and survey level discussion that looks at the installation of the Open Source solutions on IBM i. We'll also review many of the components available via open source and discuss the PASE environment. If you've been on the outside looking in at Open Source, this is the place to start..

Learning Objectives:

1) Understand how to install open source solution on IBM i. 2) PASE basic understanding 3) Explore the solution in the open source packages

This session will cover future and existing applications of Agentic AI use cases for IBM Storage and specific implementation examples with FlashSystem and IBM Storage Insights.

One of the most important Features in IBM Rational Developer for i is the Outline Feature. When you - like my Team and I - need to work with a lot of large (and very large) and old (and very old) RPG programs the Outline is such a time saver. But I also miss some features which I send IBM in the RDi "wish list" some years ago... The Outline is also the most important reason why we are still using the RDi instead of VS Code with Code4i. While creating our RPG AI Analyzing Tools we did a lot of work with collecting information about the RPG source and then the idea was born to create our own Outline for VS Code and Code4i which should look and behave like the one in RDi but with all the features I miss for years. In this session you will see our new Outline Tool - Codename Morgana - with all the features we implemented in Version 1 and a first look into the next wave of Features we are working on.

Learning Objectives:

You will learn how you will save a lot of time by using the actual version of our new Outline Add On for Visual Studio Code and Code4i - Codename Morgana - and it's Features, like everything you know from the Outline of RDi as well as opening source code of a procedure or a Display File, Database File or even a CALL with one click without knowing in which Serviceprogram it resides or where the source code is saved. When the RPG Compiler can find these things we can too.