It’s Time to Move from Legacy Change Management to DevOps on the IBM i

Are you still relying on change management tools from the 1980s? These legacy solutions—many minimally maintained—are creating bottlenecks in your development process and putting your IBM i modernization goals at risk.

Join our roundtable webinar where ARCAD’s Technical Consultants share real-world insights on transitioning from outdated tools like Turnover and MKS/Implementer to modern DevOps practices.

What you’ll discover:

  • How legacy change management limits IBM i capabilities (SQL, ILE, and beyond)
  • The advantage of ARCAD’s highly-optimized bi-directional Git integration
  • Why ARCAD’s repository accelerates development and reduces risk and is called ‘golden’ by users
  • Leveraging AI and VS Code for IBM i development
  • Proven migration strategies and automated workflows

Whether you’re just starting your DevOps journey or ready to leave legacy tools behind, our experts will show you the path forward to faster, safer, and more efficient development.

Ready to move to DevOps?

Speakers

Jeff Tickner

Jeff Tickner

CTO North America, ARCAD Software

Jeff is CTO, North America for ARCAD Software. He has worked in the Application Lifecyle Management sector on the IBM i for 22 years. He leads client engagements in product implementation and training, including ARCAD for DevOps, ARCAD Transformer for application modernization, and ARCAD Verifier test automation. Jeff lends his expertise in the DevTestOps field as frequent speaker at conferences around the world.

Ray Bernardi

Ray Bernardi

Senior Solution Architect, ARCAD Software

Ray Bernardi is a 30-year veteran involved in the System 38/AS/400/iSeries/IBM i development and currently is a Pre/Post Sales technical Support Specialist for ARCAD Software, international ISV and IBM Business Partner.  Ray has been involved with the development and sales of many cutting edge software products throughout his career, with specialist knowledge in Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) products from ARCAD Software covering a broad range of functional areas including enterprise IBM i modernization and DevOps.  In addition, Ray is a frequent speaker at COMMON and many other technical conferences around the world and has authored articles in several IBM i publications on the subject of application analysis and modernization, SQL, and business intelligence.

Alan Ashley

Alan Ashley

Solution Architect, ARCAD Software

Alan has been in support and promotion of the IBM i platform for over 30 years and is the Presales Consultant for DevOps on IBM i role with ARCAD Software. Prior to joining ARCAD Software, he spent many years in multiple roles within IBM from supporting customers through HA to DR to Application promotion to migrations of the IBM i to the cloud. In those roles, he saw first hand the pains many have with Application Lifecycle Management, modernization, and data protection. His passion in those areas fits right in with the ARCAD suite of products.