Name: Modernizing IBMi Applications - From Monolith to Future-Ready
Start: 2026-04-28T09:15:00-0500
End: 2026-04-28T10:15:00-0500

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Modernizing IBMi Applications - From Monolith to Future-Ready

Tuesday April 28, 2026 9:15am - 10:15am CDT

Studio 9-10

Evaluation Survey

According to Fortra Survey 2026, IBM i Skills & Modernizing Applications figure in “Top 3” concerns of IBM i shops. In this session, we explore a framework to help customers modernize their core IBM i applications in-place leveraging their existing IBM i infrastructure & engineers.
Start with an IBM i monolithic application written in fixed RPG with display files for menus and Db2 as the datastore. Explore how to transform it into a modern & future-ready IBM i application with techniques such as Code Transformation, AI-powered Unit Test generation, DevOps Integration, UX & UI Modernization and Integration with modern applications.

Learning Objectives:
Understand the challenges associated with IBM i monolithic applications while appreciating the robustness and decades of proven performance of the IBM i platform itself. Explore techniques to modernize the applications in-place on the IBM i platform.

Speakers

Kuldip Vikram

Senior Technical Staff Member, Architecture & Technology, Rocket Software

Kuldip is a Senior Technical Staff Member at Rocket Software responsible for modernizing IBMi applications/workloads and their development through a combination of Generative AI and pure/hybrid cloud deployments. He has a rich and diverse experience architecting, designing, developing... Read More →

Andrew Clark

Andrew Clark is the Senior Principal Software Engineer for IBM i at Rocket Software. Andrew has over 35 years of experience on IBM i beginning with the "secret Mankato Project" on a pre-release version of OS/400, and an internship at IBM Rochester working on the Query team. He... Read More →

Tuesday April 28, 2026 9:15am - 10:15am CDT
Studio 9-10

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Kuldip Vikram

Andrew Clark

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