Name: Modernize Without Touching, Understand Without Guessing: AI-Ready Legacy IBM i Transformation
Start: 2026-06-17T09:10:00+0200
End: 2026-06-17T10:10:00+0200

Welcome to Common Europe Congress 2026

Modernize Without Touching, Understand Without Guessing: AI-Ready Legacy IBM i Transformation

Wednesday June 17, 2026 09:10 - 10:10 CEST

07 -RHÔNE 4

Legacy IBM i applications run the world’s most critical business processes, yet most modernization projects stall because of missing documentation, vanishing RPG/COBOL expertise, and the terrifying risk of touching production code.

In this session we demonstrate our No-Touch Modernization approach using IBM Rational Open Access Handlers to kickstart your modernization. You’ll see live how we bring proven legacy business logic to the browser — fully functional and ready to be optimized
— while the original RPG programs remain completely untouched.

We’ll show how we automatically extract real business logic, generate clean documentation and AI-ready artifacts that dramatically reduce token costs and hallucinations in LLMs.

Most importantly, you’ll see how automated GoTo removal, integrated testing, and Agentic AI work together to move beyond rewriting individual programs to truly modernizing end-to-end business processes.

Stop guessing. Start modernizing — safely.

Learning Objectives:

Recognize the hidden risks of modernizing code without modernizing the underlying business processes.

Demonstrate how IBM Rational Open Access Handlers enable a true No-Touch modernization strategy that keeps proven RPG business logic untouched while making it available to modern frontends and AI tools.

Generate clean, accurate documentation and AI-ready artifacts from legacy RPG code that significantly reduce token costs and hallucinations in LLMs.

Build a structured modernization approach that combines automated GoTo removal, integrated testing, and Agentic AI to move beyond rewriting individual programs toward truly modernizing end-to-end business processes.

Speakers

Steven Merel

Software Developer, i and me - IT Training and Solutions GmbH

Hi, I'm Steven! I've been working in IT since 2012, and since October 2024 I've found myself increasingly at home in the IBM i world.

My focus is where legacy systems meet modernization and AI. I work on making existing IBM i applications more transparent for developers and on helping old codebases become easier to understand. Python is usually my weapon of choice for AI-based analysis, while TypeScript keeps me... Read More →

Markus Glaser

IBM Champion | Software Developer, i and me - IT Training and Solutions GmbH

Proud to be IBM Champion! I am also a Software-Developer and coding enthusiast

Wednesday June 17, 2026 09:10 - 10:10 CEST
07 -RHÔNE 4

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