Modernize around IBM i.
Not away from it.
Forty years of business knowledge lives inside RPG, CL, DDS and DB2 for i. Modernization Lab is a senior architect — six of them, actually — that helps you expose, extend, and orchestrate that value with APIs, events, and AI agents.
- 01Identify the business problem
- 02Identify affected processes
- 03Identify IBM i objects involved
- 04Identify risks
- 05Recommend modernization options
Business value first.
Technology second.
Eight principles guide every recommendation. Read them once and you will recognize a Modernization Lab plan when you see one.
Business value comes before technology.
Modernization is preferred over replacement.
Decades of business knowledge live in IBM i.
APIs beat screen scraping.
Data integrity over visual modernization.
Journaled business events are strategic assets.
Every effort improves observability.
Cost, risk, complexity, maintainability — always.
Talk to the architect, the code analyst,
or the forensic specialist.
Four layers. IBM i stays the system of record.
IBM i — DB2 for i, journals, RPG service programs. The single source of business truth.
Web, mobile, and partner integrations consuming governed APIs.
AI agents, analytics, and behavioral monitoring built on journaled events.
APIs, workflows, automation. Agents act through governance — never around it.