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Our 2027 Technical Roadmap: Scaling the "Plan B"

The modernization of legacy IBM i environments is accelerating. Following the successful deployment of our baseline and stress-test architectures, our 2027 focus shifts to advanced deployment automation, AI-assisted translation, and enterprise-scale data streaming.

Q1 2027: Enterprise Pipeline Scaling & Security

  • Zero-Trust CI/CD Automation: Expanding our automated translation pipeline to integrate natively with AWS CodePipeline, enabling continuous integration and security scanning of refactored Spring Boot applications.
  • Advanced EBCDIC to ASCII Strategies: Developing comprehensive toolsets to handle complex, multi-lingual DB2 database encoding conversions without halting production environments.
  • Live LPAR Pilot Programs: Launching isolated, collaborative technical experiments with enterprise teams to process their heaviest legacy RPG batch jobs in a sandboxed AWS environment.

Q2 2027: The Cloud Migration Agent (RAG Integration)

  • Custom RAG Prototyping: Building a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) agent trained specifically on RPGLE-to-Java translation patterns and AWS well-architected frameworks.
  • Automated Translation QA: Deploying this agent to assist in real-time syntax validation, streamlining the CLI workflow used during initial codebase rollouts.
  • Contextual Documentation Generation: Automatically generating modern, readable Java documentation and API Swagger definitions directly from the legacy RPG source code comments and logic flows.

Q3 2027: Advanced DB2 Decoupling & Serverless Analytics

  • Real-Time Data Streaming: Implementing AWS DMS and Amazon MSK (Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka) to build active-active data pipelines between legacy DB400 and AWS.
  • Serverless Ad-Hoc Analysis: Standardizing architectures that route telemetry and transactional data into Amazon S3 data lakes for complex queries via Amazon Athena.
  • Legacy API Wrappers: Releasing standardized API gateways to allow lingering IBM i programs to safely consume cloud-native microservices during the transition phase.

Q4 2027: The "Plan B" Community Framework

  • Open-Source Migration Utilities: Releasing non-proprietary scripts and utilities for assessing codebase readiness, counting lines of code, and identifying untranslatable legacy opcodes.
  • Bridging the Generational Gap: Publishing deep-dive technical content and webinars connecting retiring RPG veterans with incoming Java/Cloud architects to capture institutional knowledge before it leaves the building.

Don't Wait for 2027 to Build Your Plan B.

The timeline to modernize is shrinking. See how our current, production-ready pipeline handles your legacy complexity today.