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The Incredible i Show follows Peg Tuttle through energetic interviews with IBM i users and professionals. Recent episodes turn AI, BOB, Ansible, open source tooling, and platform modernization into concrete workflows instead of vague strategy talk.
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The Incredible i Show is built for the IBM i world, but it does not treat that world as frozen in place. Peg Tuttle hosts brisk, friendly interviews with people working around the platform, from IBM architects to infrastructure engineers, CIOs, and community figures. The rhythm is conversational. A simple question often turns into a practical chain of examples, cautions, and shop-floor lessons. Recent episodes lean heavily into AI, but the show keeps asking what adoption looks like after the excitement settles. That means security review, compliance, champions inside the organization, and the nervous moment when a team has to learn a new tool without derailing the work already in front of them. Michael Gallagher talks about CIO-level reality around AI at LightEdge. Tim Rowe walks through BOB as a tool that can document applications, show database relationships, map program flows, and help modernize code with the right prompting. Jesse Grzynski connects AI and open source to Db2 access, VS Code, Rocket CE, and small devices talking to enterprise data. Steve Wolk and Nima Bank make automation feel concrete by describing Ansible work around QMG tools, service action logs, and information gathering across many IBM i systems. The show also leaves room for classic IBM i expertise, including hardware guidance and pro tips from Steve Bradshaw. It is warm without becoming fluffy. It is technical without turning into a lecture. The strongest episodes work because they translate big platform themes into the workflows, risks, and tools that teams are likely to face. For listeners who live near IBM i modernization, managed services, automation, AI enablement, or community education, the show offers a useful pulse check. It is less about selling the future than showing how practitioners are already testing it, correcting it, and making it usable.
Made for: For IBM i professionals, enterprise technologists, infrastructure teams, and modernization-minded leaders who want practical conversations about the platform. It also fits newer IBM i listeners who need approachable explanations without losing the technical thread.
What sets it apart: The show stands out by keeping IBM i modernization tied to real workflows: documenting applications, building Ansible playbooks, securing AI adoption, and connecting Db2 to newer tools. Its interview style gives guests room to explain the messy middle between announcement and implementation.
Join Peg Tuttle as she sits down with IBM i users and professionals to chat about your favorite IT system. Hear from innovators, thought leaders, and everyday users about how they run the i in their shops and what this powerful platform has allowed them to accomplish in their business.
Based on 4 episodes we listened to · September 2026
The Incredible i Show turns IBM i modernization into concrete conversations about automation, AI adoption, database access, and legacy application work.
Peg Tuttle keeps The Incredible i Show close to working systems, asking practitioners how IBM i tools behave inside real organizations. The interviews favor concrete implementation questions over broad forecasts, giving enterprise AI and automation a practical frame.
One failing adapter across 80 IBM i systems becomes an Ansible-and-AI rescue mission.
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A grounded CIO-level look at AI adoption, security, champions, and small experiments that move quickly.
AI comes through at LightEdge as something to govern, secure, and put to work, not as a vague promise. Peg Tuttle talks with Michael Gallagher, LightEdge's CIO, about adoption, AI champions, and the hesitation that often comes with learning a new workplace tool.
Legacy modernization gets practical when Bob is treated as a helper, not a wizard.
IBM's Bob tool comes across as a practical sidekick for legacy modernization, not a shortcut that does the job by itself. Peg Tuttle and Tim Rowe walk through how it documents an IBM i application, maps the data diagram and application flow, and shows how the called programs fit…
IBM i comes across as active and practical because the discussion keeps returning to working tools, database access, and AI integration.
IBM i is framed as a living platform, not a relic, and Jesse Grzynski makes that case through concrete examples of an IBM-built VS Code tool that supports stateful database access, procedures, and AI workloads.
A practical IBM i automation story about using Ansible, AI, and scripting to turn a hardware problem into a fix.
The Incredible I Show treats IBM i automation as a hands-on answer to a messy operations problem. Steve Wolk and Nima Bank walk through how Ansible, AI prompts, and scripting helped them gather service logs, clean up the output, and follow a failing IO adapter card across…
Business technology risk, translated fast.
Blunt ServiceNow talk with practical teeth.
Live VMware shop talk, community news and lab lessons
Frank enterprise tech talk, often recorded at the event itself
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