“AS400” and “green screen” have become synonyms now, and you will get various articles and blogs out there describing the platform – but none of them paint a simple and easy-to-remember picture for the audience. All the information about AS400 is very disorganized and hence di...

Due to several name changes, confusion has persisted that AS400 and IBMi are the same things. And this confusion between AS400 software and IBMi has been a significant growth obstacle for enterprises in the market considering IBM technology. Both are like two different fruits...

In 1988, IBM introduced the AS400 system with several integrated systems featuring hardware (AS400) and an operating system (OS400). The system was used to perform data integration and several other core business functions. With the passage of time, both the hardware and softw...

Summary Around 16000 banks around the world rely on the IBM AS400 iSeries system because IBM iSeries can address the needs of banks indisputably and offer flexible and cost-saving solutions. You must have read about AS400 in our previous blog. The system is known for its secur...

To truly understand this, we must look closely at how IT processes used to run 30 years ago. This will help us understand how and why legacy systems are still responsible for downtime in the current day. While businesses and processes across the globe have transformed drastica...

We are concerned about the lack of attention among our iSeries customers who ignore IBM PTF and technology updates to keep their IBMi OS (OS400 / i5 / OS) up to date. Well, we understand the general justification - "The system is working fine and will be taken care of in the n...

Some companies that rely on IBM iSeries services have a clear vision of operating without it as more of these companies turn to outsourcing their iSeries operations. But it is crucial to understand why outsourcing is an attractive solution.

The COVID-19 pandemic has acted as a catalyst for many IBM iSeries enterprises by giving them the “platform” they needed to drive their digital transformation and modernization. For many companies, this means accelerating attempts to move an expanding percentage of workloads t...

By now, we’ve all heard of “The Cloud” only, and some of us may have heard of IBM Power Systems in the IBM Cloud. When “Cloud” was introduced, many experts said, “It’s nothing new in the cloud; it is just running something somewhere on someone else’s computer and accessing the...

In the current scenario, this is one of the most frequently asked questions regarding IBM iSeries. Most of the people ask — Should I upgrade to IBMi 7.3 or 7.4? The one-word answer to this question is — it depends! While deciding on up-gradation, you need to consider dependenc...