Welcome to another edition of Talsco Weekly IBM i Brief: FNTS Now Offers IBM’s Crypto Card as a Cloud Service. ALL400s Takes it International. Big Acquisitions for IBM and Databricks. AI: Ranking Industries by Their Potential for AI Automation. Modernization: Low-code and no-code can help accelerate modernization. Data: Data Lineage: Choose your own Data adventure. […]
Talsco Weekly: What were you doing 35 years ago?
Welcome to another edition of Talsco Weekly IBM i Brief: IBM i: What were you doing 35 years ago? IBM: Quantum Computing Milestone Reached. Frank Soltis’s take on the IBM i Leadership: Project Management is a promise. Remote Work: So, why do we need to come back to the office? IBM i Brief IBM i: […]
What is driving innovation in your market?
This Week’s Topics Modernization: What is driving innovation in your market? The IBM i: The Base Layer. IBM i Briefs: Eclipse AI: Chat Integration. IBM on AI: Enterprises want curated solutions. IBM to buy cloud services firm Agyla. Hiring: Hiring Next Generation IBM i Developers. Modernization What is driving innovation in your market? Innovation is […]
IBM i: The Base Layer
This post explores base-layer technologies like IP, TCP, HTTP, and IBM’s Power Systems, IBM i, and Db2, highlighting their essential roles in foundational infrastructure and their impact on modern digital platforms.
Talsco Weekly: Don’t Get Distracted Around the Hype of AI
Welcome to another edition of Talsco Weekly AI: Don’t get distracted around the hype of AI. Development: Remove the need for procedure prototypes. Leadership: Job Interview: A question that predicts how someone will lead. Modernization: The total economic impact of the IBM i. AI Don’t get distracted around the hype of AI As new technologies […]
Modernizing IBM i Applications: Building a Bridge to the Future
Modernization efforts are in full swing. Today’s IBM i shops are seeing rapid changes in the business landscape that require new ways of thinking, new business processes, and innovative technology solutions. This is leading traditional AS/400 shops to a critical decision point when it comes to their ERP systems: Should they modernize their existing IBM […]
Talsco Weekly: Balancing Technical Debt and Innovation
Welcome to another edition of Talsco Weekly IBM i Brief: IBM i Security Report. IBM Gains as Market Dips. Development: The State of Node.js in 2023. Modernization: Balancing Tech Debt and Innovation. Leadership: Traditional Leadership is Broken. Learning: The IBM i Community. Training: Harnessing Internal Talent: How RPG Developer Apprenticeships Can Propel Your Company Forward. […]
Harnessing Internal Talent: How RPG Developer Apprenticeships Can Propel Your Company Forward
Navigating the RPG Developer Landscape: The Internal Talent Goldmine If you are in an IBM i shop, there is a good chance you have RPG developers who (have gray hair) are close to retirement. As you know, we don’t believe that companies need to panic just because of RPG retirements, but we do believe they […]
Talsco Weekly: The Future of the RPG developer depends on this
Welcome to another edition of Talsco Weekly IBM i Brief: The Push To Modernize the IBM i. Watsonx: AI for the IBM i platform. Development: Do you know what QSHCURL is? Learning: The Future of the RPG developer depends on this. Hiring: Don’t Panic About RPG Developer Retirements: How Training and Open-Source Languages Can Ensure […]
Don’t Panic About RPG Developer Retirements: How Training and Open-Source Languages Can Ensure a Smooth Transition
As RPG developers on the IBM i platform reach retirement age, it has led to a concern about the availability of RPG Developers and the potential impact it will have on businesses that rely on mission critical RPG applications.
The one thing that needs to be addressed is that the availability of RPG developers, or the lack thereof, is not as big of an issue as one might think when it comes to the future of the IBM i platform.