COMMON POWERUp 2026

This topic will cover the point-of-view for AI with IBM Power. We will talk about the challenges that the industry is facing with AI, how this is relevant to Power customers and the portfolio that we are building to address these challenges.

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IBM i Migrate While Active makes it easy to transition between systems and platforms with minimal service disruption, supporting seamless migrations to new hardware, private cloud environments, or public cloud infrastructure. In this session, you'll get a comprehensive overview of IBM's latest release of Migrate While Active. Discover how this solution enables near-zero downtime migrations, and explore real-world use cases and success stories.

Learning Objectives:

1. Understand the functionality of IBM i Migrate While Active, including how it enables near-zero downtime migrations across systems, platforms, and cloud environments. 2. Identify key prerequisites, planning steps, and best practices for executing a successful migration using Migrate While Active, whether moving to new hardware, private cloud, or public cloud. 3. Analyze real-world use cases and success stories to gain practical insights into how organizations have leveraged Migrate While Active to modernize their infrastructure while maintaining business continuity.

We have some customers that run a lot of different Linux Servers (unfortunately on x86 Hardware still...) and I heard there should be still some of them out there running Windows Servers for hosting different kind of layers like Database instances, Backend Programs, Web Server and so on.  Most of them do, what they used to do. They use a different VM or Docker Container for each of these layers. In many scenarios these VM's or Containers are not heavy loaded but need to be administered and therefore they cost money.  Unfortunately the most of them don't know that they could move these workloads easily to IBM i on IBM POWER and get some advantages like: - reduce the amount of Servers to administrate and therefore normally the amount of administrators and save not only Hardware cost - Backup and HA Processes can be used of IBM i - run everything in one environment that is one of the most stable in the world - run everything in one environment that is one of the most scalable in the world - run everything in one environment that is one of the most secure in the world - get ideas what you can do when combining old and new technology stacks on one server like combining (old) RPG Programs with (new) REDIS Databases - etc. ...  Thanks to the Implementation of the PASE environment and the ongoing support for more and more Open Source solutions and frameworks we can run a lot of things inside IBM i that were not possible 10 years ago.  Some examples are Node.js, Python but also Databases like Postgre SQL or MariaDB, as well as Web Servers like Nginx and many more. On the other hand many "non IBM i" Developers and Administrators don't know about the possibilities of the i Operating System itself with it's great DB2 for i Database that is integrated into the OS.

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Get a quick overview about PASE within IBM i and the history of Open Source on IBM i.  Learn what you can do and how you can do the steps to move your workload into IBM i. Learn where it make sense to put Data into DB2 for i although your software is running on other platforms with other frameworks and how you can solve that easily for everybody for example with a Database Access Layer that is all created in RPG or Node.js or Java or .... Why this is maybe more secure for your data and the best place to save it and which data is better stored somewhere else.  Get a quick overview about accessing DB2 for i as well as other databases in different ways, like using ODBC, ADO.NET, Mapepire, REST APIs (in different flavors) and so on.  See how you can boost performance of your (old or new) applications by using an In Memory Database like REDIS.  Learn and talk about where all this makes sense and where not.  This is not a golden bullet which solves all your problems but it can reduce a lot of them - depending on your Environment and your Use cases.

In this new session you'll discover 20 features of Db2 for i that are typically less known or under used. Your presenter is the Db2 for i Architect and he's lead the Db2 for i development team for decades. Invest 20 minutes to raise for your Db2 for i and SQL capabilities!

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1) Discover features, tools, or capabilities within Db2 for i 2) Improve how you leverage or use Db2 for i and SQL on i 3) Extend your Db2 for i knowledge

Db2 for i provides useful tools and examples in the SYSTOOLS schema. Come to this session to learn what shiny gems lie within this unopened treasure chest. You need not be an SQL programmer to gain tremendous value from SQL tools! https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/i/7.6?topic=optimization-systools

Learning Objectives:

1) Understand what SYSTOOLS-based tools exist 2) Learn the basics of how to use these tools 3) Hear what others are already doing with these amazing tools 4) Interact with the IBM architect responsible for SYSTOOLS