AS/Forward
A modernization platform from startup Golden Path Digital, covered by IT Jungle on April 13, 2026, that pairs deterministic RPG source code analysis with AI-powered conversion to document and migrate aging IBM i RPG applications.
AS/Forward is offered by Golden Path Digital, a company founded in 2025 in Hot Springs Village, Arkansas by Aaron Balentine and Ty Woods, and covered by IT Jungle on April 13, 2026. It combines a source code analyzer that parses RPG across six dialects and builds deterministic cross-reference and dependency maps, plus vector-search-based fuzzy matching to find similar code components, before handing the result to an AI-powered conversion module that runs on-premises or in the cloud. The company positions dependency mapping and dead-code analysis as deterministic groundwork that AI then builds on, rather than having an LLM read raw RPG source unaided. Engagements are sold with professional services attached. At minimum, a customer ends up with better-documented RPG code; a full engagement can convert a codebase to free-format RPG, Python, or another target language. IT Jungle reported no pricing.
Related Terms
RPG
Report Program Generator, the primary business application programming language on IBM i and its AS/400 predecessors, still running the majority of production logic in most IBM i shops.
Free-Format RPG
A modern RPG coding style that drops the rigid column-based syntax of traditional fixed-format RPG in favor of freer, more readable statement syntax.
IBM i
IBM's operating system for Power servers running traditional AS/400-lineage business applications, with Db2 for i built directly into the OS.
Vector Store
A vector store holds embeddings and finds the ones closest to a query. It is the retrieval half of RAG, and Db2 for i has no vector store as of 2026.