Name: Breathing New Life Into RPG: AI as Your Modernization Partner
Start: 2026-06-16T15:55:00+0200
End: 2026-06-16T16:55:00+0200

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Breathing New Life Into RPG: AI as Your Modernization Partner

Tuesday June 16, 2026 15:55 - 16:55 CEST

05 -RHÔNE 3A

Modernizing RPG applications is essential for keeping IBM i environments efficient, maintainable, and attractive to new developers — but manually converting decades of fixed-format code to modern RPG Free can be slow, tedious, and error-prone. In this session, we’ll explore how AI can dramatically accelerate and improve the modernization process.We’ll walk through how AI tools can analyze legacy RPG code, identify outdated patterns, and generate clean, maintainable RPG Free equivalents. You’ll see examples of accurate AI-assisted rewrites, automated refactoring strategies, and techniques for preserving business logic while eliminating clutter and old syntax. We’ll also discuss best practices for validating AI-generated output, integrating modernization into your CI/CD workflows, and building a sustainable long-term modernization strategy.By the end of this session, you’ll understand how AI can reduce modernization time from weeks to minutes, empower your existing RPG developers, and create a cleaner, future-ready RPG codebase without disrupting the stability of your IBM i applications.

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Koen Decorte

CTO, IBM Champion, CD-Invest

Koen Decorte is the founder of CD-Invest nv, a Belgian IBM i consultancy with over 30 years of expertise in ERP/CRM and open source development, IBM i platform modernization, and PEPPOL e-invoicing services. CD-Invest is home to several IBM Champions and serves enterprise clients... Read More →

Tuesday June 16, 2026 15:55 - 16:55 CEST
05 -RHÔNE 3A

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