Welcome to another edition of Talsco Weekly: 2025 in review IBM i Brief: 🔥 Power11 & IBM i Hardware Direction. 📣 IBM Project Bob: AI Development Tool Enters Preview. 📌 IBM i Technology Refreshes (TRs) & OS 7.6. AI: 👷 Meet Bob: Your AI Coding Partner. Career: 📖 Navigating the AI Revolution: An IBM i […]
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Talsco Weekly: IBM i’s Modernization Crossroads
Welcome to another edition of Talsco Weekly IBM i Brief: 🔧 ACS 1.1.9.10 brings security-focused enhancements. 💻 Power11 systems compete with Windows on price. AI: 🔗 IBM’s Bob goes beyond simple code assistance. ⚙️ AI agents struggle with legacy systems’ hidden rules. 🤖 Prompt Engineering for LLMs, PDL, & LangChain in Action. 💼 CxOs prioritize […]
Talsco Weekly: It’s Time to Build Your First AI Agent
Welcome to another edition of Talsco Weekly IBM i Brief: 💻 Power11 shows modest price/performance gains over Power10. 🔄 IBM wraps up 2025 with Power Systems updates. AI: ✨ Writing an LLM agent is surprisingly simple and you should know how to do it. Career: 💭 AI’s Promise and Peril. ERP: 🔄 Infor unveils IBM […]
Talsco Weekly: RPG – The Hire, Train & Mentor Model
Welcome to another edition of Talsco Weekly IBM i Brief: 💰 IBM Power Systems pricing remains opaque for customers. AI: 🏦 JPMorgan Chase leads AI transformation in banking. Career: 🚀 Why This Is the Most Exciting Time to Be in Enterprise IT. Hiring: 👥 IBM i: Hire, Train & Mentor. Leadership: 🏢 The real question […]
Talsco Weekly: Empowering RPG Developers to Access Any Datasource
Welcome to another edition of Talsco Weekly IBM i Brief: 🏎️IBM’s Spyre accelerator: A Power Systems revenue play. 🔭 IBM beats Q3 expectations, raises outlook. AI: 🚪 IBM reveals more about Project Bob. 🏃 IBM and Groq partner for faster AI. Career: 💼 Should I take this job or not? Development: ⚰️ IBM discontinues Merlin […]
Talsco Weekly: Why the “Wait & See” Approach No Longer Works
Welcome to another edition of Talsco Weekly IBM i Brief: ⚙️ RPG quietly powers critical systems. 🔩 Power11 servers outpace predecessors. 📄 What Are You Thinking? Development: 🔹VSCode DDS editor gets smart update. 👨💻 RPG code should be recipe-like. 💻 RPGLE ILE still powers critical systems. Database: 🟦 Amazon RDS for Db2 supports backing up […]
Talsco Weekly: RPG Transformation & Modern Capabilities
Welcome to another edition of Talsco Weekly IBM i Brief: ⏰ IBM i Updates for September 2025. 🔧 IBM i needs your security attention. 🚀 IBM and AMD power AI innovation. AI: 📊GenAI rivals the Dot Com boom. 🔗 MCP Is Really A Big Deal, Here Is Why. Career: 👔 IBM exec seeks entrepreneurial spirit […]
Talsco Weekly: IBM i: The Signal Through The Noise
Welcome to another edition of Talsco Weekly IBM i Brief: 📺 IBM Creates New Ad Campaign. ☁️ IBM Cloud replaces human support with AI. AI: 🤔Is There A Danger of AI for the Developer? 🧠 Docling: Transforming Document Parsing for AI Workflows. Career: 📡 The Signal Through The Noise. Hiring: ❓IBM i : Hiring For […]
Talsco Weekly: SDK: The Bridge Between IBM i & AI
Welcome to another edition of Talsco Weekly IBM i Brief: 🔧 IBM rethinks transistor counting in Power11. 🔬 IBM and AMD join forces on quantum computing. AI: 🔒 AI browsers reshape cybersecurity landscape. Development: 🎥 Moving Beyond the Green Screen: A Visual Tutorial. 🔌 New SDK bridges IBM i with modern AI services. Hiring: Strategic […]
Talsco Weekly: Upgrade Yourself to be Ready for What’s Coming
Welcome to another edition of Talsco Weekly IBM i Brief: 🔄 IBM Power11 eliminates planned downtime. Career: ⬆️ Upgrade Yourself: To Be Ready For What’s Coming. IBM i Training Resources. Development: 🧩 Only an RPG Developer Can Put It All Together. 🛠️ IBM i Low-code brings development to everyone. 🔍 Decoding Base64 ASCII. Hiring: 🔄 […]