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The home of our own experiments: open-source IBM i tools, AI agent experiments, reusable skills, and the source code behind this site. Browse the repositories, fork them, and contribute.

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  • ReplicTest

    Commercial automated end-to-end testing for IBM i from Polverini & Partners. It records and replays tests across 5250 green screens, web, REST APIs, and SQL, and captures and restores the database files each test touches.

    polverinipartners.comAdded Nov 12, 2026

  • GiAPA

    Commercial performance analysis for IBM i. It samples every job with very low overhead, then points to optimization opportunities down to the source line and estimates the savings.

    giapa.comAdded Nov 12, 2026

  • Project4i

    A free DevOps platform for IBM i inside VS Code and IBM Bob, adding project grouping, Git versioning, and governed promotion to production.

    project4i.cloudAdded Nov 11, 2026

  • Mapepire

    A cloud-friendly database access layer for IBM i: a daemon server plus client libraries for .NET, Node.js, and Python.

    mapepire-ibmi.github.ioAdded Nov 11, 2026

  • IBM i MCP Server

    An MCP server that lets AI agents run YAML-defined SQL tools against Db2 for i through Mapepire. Also ships the ibmi CLI.

    github.comAdded Nov 11, 2026

  • TOBi: The Object Builder for i

    An open-source build system for IBM i (formerly Better Object Builder) that compiles native QSYS objects with GNU Make, rebuilding only what changed.

    ibm.github.ioAdded Nov 11, 2026

  • Veneer

    Renders IBM i 5250 and IBM Z 3270 green-screen applications as modern web pages, with customization and macros.

    github.comAdded Nov 11, 2026

  • DSPF-edit

    Live visual preview and schema view for IBM i DDS display files, inside VS Code and IBM Bob.

    christianlarsen.github.ioAdded Nov 11, 2026

  • Zanden ZCOMX

    Commercial native ILE REST middleware that exposes existing IBM i programs as secure, auditable endpoints, including MCP access for AI agents.

    zanden.comAdded Nov 11, 2026

  • Code for IBM i

    The open-source VS Code extension for developing RPGLE, CL, COBOL, and SQL on IBM i.

    github.comAdded Nov 11, 2026