THE FOUR HUNDRED - Power Systems & IBM i Insights

1. Power Systems Grows Nicely In Q3, Looks To Grow For All 2025, Too

   Here’s a funny thing, or maybe not. In its conference call with Wall Street analysts going over the financial results for its third quarter ended in September, neither Arvind Krishna, IBM’s chairman and chief executive officer, nor James Kavanaugh, the company’s chief financial officer, said “Power” or “Power Systems” or “Power11” or anything directly relating to IBM i or AIX. Nary a peep, even though the Power11 upgrade cycle has begun in earnest and it looks like growth was pretty good in the third quarter and will be decent for all of 2025.

   For a long time now, Big Blue …

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2. Beta Of MCP Server Opens Up IBM i For Agentic AI

   When Anthropic quietly released Model Context Protocol (MCP) in November 2024, it didn’t garner a whole lot attention. But as the agentic AI wave grew in early 2025, the protocol suddenly was hailed as the new standard for integrating AI applications, tools, and data sources. A good indication of just how far MCP has come is the fact that IBM released an early version of the MCP server for IBM i this month.

   Project Bob got the big headlines at the IBM TechXchange conference, which took place the second week of October in Orlando, Florida. And for good reason, as …

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3. Sundry IBM i And Power Stack Announcements For Your Consideration

   There is always a little mop up after major IBM i and Power Systems announcements, and there is usually a trickle of announcements that are not tied to the bi-annual launches of Technology Refreshes, which we generally expect in April and October. This latest cycle is no exception, and we have the mop and bucket out to finish out the current cycle.

   In announcement letter AD25-0006, IBM says that it will allow customers to mix and match shared utility capacity for latency compute and main memory activated using Power Enterprise Pools 2.0 om-site capacity on demand with pay per …

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4. Please Take The IBM i Marketplace Survey

   Time is running our for you to take the annual IBM i Marketplace Survey from Fortra, and we are asking you to take a few moments and give us all some insight into what is going on inside of your IT organization.

   The annual survey, which is in its 13^th year, opened up on September 15. You can give back to the IBM i community and help nudge IBM and ISVs in directions that are helpful to you by taking the survey, which you can do at this link.

   The results of this survey are an invaluable resource …

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5. IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 27, Number 43

   In case you have been away on vacation or just fell asleep for a few weeks, we wanted to remind you that there are Technology Refreshes for the two most recent IBM i releases.

   IBM i 7.6 Technology Refresh 1 has a planned availability date of November 21, 2025 and you can find out more at this link. IBM i 7.5 Technology Refresh 7 has the same availability, and you can find out more here.

   Here is the rundown of PTF Groups by IBM i release level since we last published:

   PTF Groups 7.6:

   • QMGTOOLS
   • RPG Café
   • Visual

   …

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