CoderFlow
An agentic AI development platform from Profound Logic, reported by IT Jungle on January 19, 2026, that runs multiple competing AI agents to write, compile, test, and fix RPG, COBOL, and CL code on IBM i rather than just suggesting code.
CoderFlow is an agentic coding platform built by Profound Logic specifically for IBM i, positioned as a step beyond copilot-style code suggestion tools. IT Jungle reported on January 19, 2026 that the platform runs multiple AI agents in parallel on a given task, such as converting an RPG III subprocedure to free-format RPG IV, letting the agents compete and self-validate against concrete signals, successful compiles, passing tests, and expected runtime behavior, rather than stopping at generated text. CoderFlow compiles RPG, COBOL, and CL using the actual IBM i compilers over SSH, drives 5250 terminal flows and Rich Display Files for interactive testing, and integrates with Git and CI/CD pipelines. It can call out to cloud models including Anthropic Claude, OpenAI GPT-5, and Google Gemini, but Profound Logic says only limited code snippets, not full repositories or credentials, leave the customer network, with builds, tests, and validation run on-premise or in a private cloud. CEO Alex Roytman said the tool aims for five-to-tenfold productivity gains versus roughly 20 percent from typical AI copilots.
Related Terms
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.
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.
COBOL
A long-established business programming language still running production logic on IBM i and other legacy enterprise platforms alongside RPG.
IBM Bob (Project Bob)
IBM's generally available AI coding agent for IBM i, built as a fork of Visual Studio Code and tuned for RPG, CL, DDS, and SQL. Reached GA on March 24, 2026; Bob 2.0 and the IBM i-specific Bob Premium Package for i shipped June 24, 2026.