THE FOUR HUNDRED - Power Systems & IBM i Insights

1. Not April Fools: More Price Increases For Power Systems Coming

   IBM is at it again, raising prices for parts of the Power Systems stack and related hardware and software technologies often used with the platform.

   In announcement letter AD25-0860, which came out on March 3, Big Blue raised prices on various Power Systems and storage products and across various geographic regions.

   Another part of the price change was to rebalance against the U.S. dollar foreign exchange rate. IBM did a similar price harmonization across geographies in November 2011, and then did it again on September 3. In the latest announcement, eighteen different currencies in the Asia/Pacific and EMEA regions …

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2. What The Marketplace Study Says About IBM i Migrations And Outlook

   One of the values that Fortra’s annual IBM i Marketplace Survey brings to the table is to function as a forward-looking indicator. If something is stirring in the IBM i installed base – say, that a large chunk is looking to mosey off the platform – then it likely will appear in the data. So when we analyze the data from the 2025 report, that’s something worth looking for.

   The good news from the 2025 IBM i Marketplace Survey results is that there’s nothing to indicate any mass migrations are under way. Companies will always come and go on IBM …

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3. Guru: AI Pair Programming In RPG With Continue

   In my last article, I shared a brief introduction to the GitHub Copilot extensions. These extensions provide an easy way to get up and running with an AI coding assistant to aid you in your RPG development. Being cloud based, it’s lightweight in terms of system resources, but it does cost a little money per month, per user.

   For this article, I would like to share with you what I have learned about a newer extension for VS Code named Continue. Continue runs locally on your PC, is 100 percent free, and as of this writing, is the leading …

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4. Rocket CDC Tool Pushes Data Out Of IBM i

   IBM i shops that need a change data capture (CDC) tool to push Db2 data off the box onto a target system, such as an Apache Kafka stream, may want to check out the new DataEdge product that Rocket Software recently announced.

   In late January, Rocket Software unveiled DataEdge, a new suite that provides a spectrum of data integration, data discovery, and data virtualization capabilities under the specific product names Rocket Data Replicate & Sync, Rocket Data Intelligence, and Rocket Data Virtualization. Some of the components in DataEdge are preexisting, while others – such as the outbound IBM i CDC …

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5. IBM i PTF Guide, Volume 27, Number 10

   There are new PTF group updates for the current releases of IBM i – that would be 7.3, 7.4, and 7.5 – but not much in the way of the occasional weirdness we see in the software stack or the never-ending stream of security vulnerabilities. Take it while you can get it. . . .

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

   PTF Groups 7.5:

   • HIPERs (High Impact/Pervasive)
   • Security
   • IBM MQ for IBM i – v9.2.0/v9.3.0
   • PowerHA Tools for IBM i – Full System FlashCopy (FSFC)
   • PowerHA Tools for IBM i

   …

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