commoneuropecongress2026

Join Laurent and Ludovic for a live demonstration of the Migrate While Active product using partition mirroring. This session will showcase the solution setup as well as the execution of a full migration of an IBM i environment in real conditions.
You will see how to migrate your workloads with no downtime, while ensuring business continuity and data integrity. This demonstration will highlight the key steps, best practices, and benefits of a seamless and controlled migration.

Discover how to migrate IBM i environments with minimal downtime across on-prem, remote, or cloud targets using three different migration strategies: advanced partition mirroring, assisted save/restore, and the manual method. This session details architectures, technical requirements, and workflows for each approach.

The pace of change and innovation is accelerating with the advent of AI. IBM i, as an integrated solution platform, has a strong strategy and roadmap for the future. In this session, Steve Will, IBM i CTO and Chief Architect will partner with Kris Whitney, IBM i Chief Engineer, to explain the strategy, show the roadmap, and highlight the ways in which IBM collaborates with the IBM i community to set the direction of the platform.

High availability is often confused with what can be achieved using FlashCopy or Snapshots. Come and find out in detail why these features are not only very different, but also complementary – a point that should not be ignored in critical environments. We will also take this opportunity to show you a few ways to use FlashCopy and Snapshots for purposes other than backup.

AI agents are quickly becoming a practical tool for automating workflows, assisting developers, and simplifying system administration. In this session, we will walk through how to build an effective AI agent specifically for IBM i.
We will start with high-level concepts, including what an AI agent is, how it differs from traditional automation, and what makes IBM i a unique and powerful environment for agent-based systems.
From there, we will cover concrete patterns, tips, and best practices for designing agents that can safely and reliably interact with IBM i resources such as the database.
The session will focus on real use cases, including system administration tasks like performance and security monitoring, as well as developer productivity workflows.
Throughout the presentation, we will demonstrate working agents in action, showing how these concepts translate into practical solutions that IBM i developers and administrators can start applying today.

In this session, we will cover the basics of IBM i system administration. Together, we will explore the most commonly used commands, how to browse ACS and 5250, user profile preferences, system management, networking, working with objects, disk space and backups, FTP, jobs, performance, logs, links to IBM i web-based interfaces, and useful ACS parameters. This session is intended for beginner IBM i system administrators, those who are new to the platform, and NextGen participants. It will help you focus on daily system administration tasks and commonly used commands.P.S: Even if you come from a different position and would like to refresh your knowledge of IBM i basics, you are welcome to join.