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Analyzing your database environment can provide significant performance riches, provided you have the right tools for the job. Visual Explain fits the bill, but learning to understand Visual Explain diagrams can be overwhelming and difficult. This session provides an introductory look into how to read and analyze your Visual Explain diagrams to find SQL performance gold.

As the business landscape evolves, so must the technology that supports it. IBM i remains a robust and reliable platform, but many organizations are looking to extend its capabilities beyond traditional RPG development. In this session, we’ll explore how Python brings new life to IBM i — enabling modern, scalable, and open-source application development without abandoning the platform’s trusted stability.You’ll learn how to run modern Python applications natively on IBM i, integrate them with existing RPG and DB2 systems, and gradually modernize legacy code. Through practical examples and migration strategies, we’ll discuss how teams can leverage Python’s rich ecosystem to modernize workflows, enhance productivity, and attract new developer talent — all while preserving the value of their IBM i investment.By the end of this session, you’ll have a clear roadmap for starting your organization’s journey from RPG to Python and unlocking the next generation of IBM i innovation.

In this session, we will explore one of the latest offerings to help you deploy and manage AI workloads at scale: the Wallaroo AI Starter Kit! Now, one can stand up a new AI inferencing stack and integrate it with RPG in minutes!

Artificial intelligence is gradually becoming an essential part of software development; yet many IBM i and Power IT teams still struggle to identify AI use cases that are genuinely useful, manageable, and compatible with their requirements for quality, security, and governance.

On the occasion of the launch of ARCAD MCP Server, ARCAD Software presents a pragmatic approach to AI: using the LLM of your choice to orchestrate and leverage existing expert IT services, whether from ARCAD solutions, without granting direct access to sensitive systems.

Presented by Philippe Magne, CEO of ARCAD Software, and Michel Mouchon, DevOps Business Line Manager, this session will demonstrate how AI can analyze application portfolios, trigger code generation or code review services, enforce security policies, and orchestrate DevOps actions on IBM i.

Ever wondered if you could use Jenkins with IBM i? Guess what, you can! Designing IBM i centric pipelines has never been so easy, thanks to the IBM i pipeline steps plugin. But what about your build artifacts? Seems like they should be hosted somewhere...into an artifact repository like Nexus, perhaps? Join this session to discover why it may be a good idea to build once, store the result of your builds and deploy it many times, to ensure deployment consistency and traceability. And all of this using state of the art open source tools!

The Rest API engine for IBM i (IWS) continues to transform and innovate!  With the recent move to the Jakarta EE runtime engine a whole new world of possibilities arise. In this session we will review the recent change to support Jakarta EE, what does that mean and how to take advantage of these new features. We will include live demo where ever possible to help you understand how powerful and easy to use this integrated features is. The best part, you already own it and its on your system today!