In this Guided Tour, Wayne Bowers explores IBM i Access Client Solutions (IBM i ACS)—a critical interface for both IT and business users interacting with IBM i. Understanding how to administer and control IBM i ACS is essential for maintaining a secure and efficient environment.
This session takes a deeper dive into the tools IBM provides to administer and restrict access within IBM i ACS. We’ll examine the ACSConfig.properties file, how it can be used to manage behaviors, and how to safeguard those configurations. We’ll also explore methods to limit user access to specific ACS functions, and conclude with a brief look at how ACS features can be automated through scripting.

Amy Blea and Steve Will share how modernization doesn’t have to mean disruption. IBM i empowers business leaders and developers to modernize with confidence—building on what works instead of replacing it. With deployment flexibility, you can optimize applications across hybrid environments, integrate cloud-native solutions, and extend core systems via APIs. Developers can refactor code, automate testing, and add AI capabilities—all while keeping critical workloads running.

The IBM i team is announcing a series of Guided Tours on important IBM i topics. These Guided Tours are intended for IBM and Business Partner sellers and technical sellers. Customers are also welcome to attend the Guided Tour sessions.

The iSee blog is getting started on a series on Security.  With the continued scrutiny on security, we figured it was time to review how you can use SQL to review various security features on the IBM i.  This session, it’s all about Limited Capabilities.  Learn how that can be put to work for you. 

BM i Access Client Solutions (IBM i ACS) is a foundational tool for interacting with the IBM i platform. This session will begin with an overview of IBM i ACS, presented by Wayne Bowers, covering its core features and capabilities. Attendees will then be guided through a structured, step-by-step approach to deploying IBM i ACS in their environments.

Short demonstrations of tools, techniques and examples (including working SQL examples!!) to help you solve real problems that are part of your everyday work.  Presented by Scott Forstie and Tim Rowe, IBM

IBM FlashSystem continues to evolve as a powerful storage solution, providing businesses with the tools necessary to stay ahead in a rapidly changing digital landscape. The session outlines the roadmap for future innovations and reinforces IBM's commitment to offering cutting-edge , Highly performant , extremely secure and AI-powered storage systems that enable organizations to scale efficiently and securely in a hybrid cloud world.

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AI is everywhere, but how does it actually apply to IBMi? In this session, we’ll cut through the buzzwords to show you how AI agents can “speak IBMi” and transform your decades of business-critical data into modern analytics.

What You’ll Learn:

– Why unlocking IBMi data is critical for competitive advantage and operational efficiency

– How agentic AI can decode the semantic structure of IBMi data: from cryptic table names and journals to business meaning

– Practical techniques for building AI agents that understand IBMi’s unique data language

– How to orchestrate modern data pipelines into platforms like Snowflake, Databricks, Tableau and Thoughtspot

– Smart automation strategies for translating from IBMi’s native structures to contemporary analytics frameworks

Your IBMi data speaks a unique language packed with decades of business logic, journals, and custom code. Now AI agents can finally understand it. Join us to discover how to harness this understanding to automate pipelines, accelerate reporting, and deliver a practical roadmap with real examples that unlock immediate business value from your IBMi infrastructure.

Join Brock Chamblin as he speaks on Instana -- IBM's observability and automation tool for the entirety of the organization. He will go over the three pillars of observability with Instana, the IBM i-specific Instana features and use-cases, and how Instana can be used to benefit any organization.