IBM’s BOB AI Tool Explained with Tim Rowe

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Peg Tuttle interviews Tim Rowe from IBM about the BOB AI tool and its impact on modernizing legacy applications.

In this episode of The Incredible i Show, Peg Tuttle sits down with Tim Rowe from IBM to explore BOB—IBM’s new AI-powered development tool designed to help modernize and understand legacy IBM i applications. From analyzing decades-old RPG code to generating documentation in minutes, BOB is changing how developers approach modernization, reduce risk, and accelerate development. Peg and Tim discuss what this means for IBM i shops today and how organizations can begin thinking about AI as part...

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Host: Peg Tuttle

Guest: Tim Rowe

Topics covered

• AI development tools
• legacy application modernization
• IBM i
• software development
• RPG code analysis

Keywords

• IBM
• BOB
• AI tool
• legacy applications
• RPG code
• software development
• modernization

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: IBM

Products: BOB

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