CM First Group

10/16/2026

Nobody attacked these agents.

They were asked to show their work, the approved door was locked, and they found another one.

New on PixelLeak and IBM’s self-hosted Bob.

Spend a week reading modernization news and you’ll hit two stories that belong in the same sentence but never show up in one. On September 30, IBM announced that Bob can run inside a customer-managed environment, so mainframe shops don’t have to ship code to a cloud service.

10/16/2026

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10/15/2026

How much is Technical Debt costing your company?

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10/15/2026

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10/15/2026

Watch our exclusive webinar on leveraging AI for enhancing pair programming in COBOL development for IBM i and IBM z systems. Discover how AI can revolutionize your coding collaboration and efficiency. "

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10/14/2026

Trust CM First Group to provide the most reliable, rapid, and cost-effective tools for optimizing and transforming enterprise applications.

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10/14/2026

Three objections used to end open source conversations on IBM i: it isn't secure, the platform doesn't support it, and nobody's there to call.

One of them now has a formal answer. IBM announced enterprise support for VS Code on IBM i in July 2025, with Level 1, 2 and 3 behind it. The catch is that it's available only through P30 Enterprise Edition, so commercial backing exists and it's priced for the top of the range.

I work through all three objections in my latest article, with the qualifiers left in.

https://ow.ly/5JHH50ZXnBa

Bring up open source in an IBM i shop and one of three things comes back within a minute. It isn't secure.

10/13/2026

Ready to embrace Intelligent Automation? CM First Group can help your company reinvent modernization efforts with RPA.

Leverage our deep experience with legacy enterprise systems for a seamless transition to the future of automation.

10/12/2026

Before any modernization program gets a budget: can you produce a verified, extracted inventory of what you have, not an estimate?

https://ow.ly/svFi50ZLFln

The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) formally shut down on July 4. A month later, on August 6, the Government Accountability Office published its audit of what DOGE had actually accomplished, and the number that traveled fastest was 96 percent, the share of DOGE's reported grant savings wh

10/12/2026

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