THE FOUR HUNDRED - Power Systems & IBM i Insights

1. Learning And Laughing With Scott Forstie And Tim Rowe

   In the darkest days of the 2020 pandemic, with COVID lockdowns in full force, IBM i business architects Tim Rowe and Scott Forstie decided to try something new: start a video blog. Dubbed iSee, the short videos blend serious technical content around ACS and SQL services with goofy puns and silly drawings. Fast forward to fall 2025, and iSee is going strong, as the pair recently aired their 100th iSee episode.

   “Scott and I have been thinking about some fun things that we want to talk about to help you in your every day job,” Rowe said in the very …

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2. IBM’s CEO Says GenAI Is Great For Enterprise, But It Will Not Be AGI

   You might think that Arvind Krishna, chief executive officer of IBM, just has a bad case of sour grapes because Nvidia, not Big Blue, is the dominant supplier of AI hardware and the main driver of the GenAI boom. But maybe Krishna is just the adult in the room with deep experience with enterprise customers, and that is why he poured some cold water on the exuberant spending forecasts for AI systems spending.

   Krisha sat down with Nillay Patel, editor in chief of The Verge on his Decoder podcast last week, and as part of an hour-long conversation, they …

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3. Guru: A First Look at Bob, The IBM i Assistant That’s Closer Than You Think

   I recently was granted early access to IBM’s new Project Bob, and I have been putting the Bob-IDE through its paces to understand what IBM is aiming for and what IBM i developers should expect as the offering matures. Bob is IBM’s emerging AI-powered development assistant and IDE ecosystem designed to modernize how developers work on the IBM i.

   One of the first things that stands out is that the Bob-IDE is not an extension like the older WCA4i project, which was in extension form. IBM learned a lot from that experience, and those lessons led them to take a …

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4. Happy Holidays To All Of You From All Of Us

   Well, 2025 is almost in the rear view mirror, as hard as that may be to believe. And thank heavens for the holidays – they are literally holy days – that give us a chance to reflect on the year and to spend precious time with family and friends.

   As the years go by, time seems to run faster and faster, but that is, in part, an illusion that is caused by the cycle time of the real neural network in your head and decreasing differentiation among functional areas in our brains. Neurons fire less often as we age, and …

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5. IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 27, Number 48

   If you are using WebSphere Application Server Liberty along with Java SE 8, you just got a new lease on life for this combination. IBM had been planning to make Liberty 26.0.0.9 the final release that supported Java SE 8, with interim fixes available through September. Now, as you can see in this announcement, now Liberty will support Java SE 8 up through the 28.0.0.12 release and interim fixes through December 31, 2030.

   IBM says that this change was done to give customers more than two more years to upgrade to more recent and modern versions of Java. Liberty …

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