A Fresche Perspective

Retain your IBM i team and service continuity while Fresche takes responsibility for employment, payroll, and day-to-day management. 

QSYSOPR message on an IBM i screen, an inquiry message waiting for a C, D, I, or R reply

It’s 6:40 a.m., the overnight batch should have finished an hour ago, and WRKACTJOB shows it parked in MSGW. There’s a QSYSOPR message you don’t recognize, a reply line with the cursor blinking in it, and a short list of letters you could type. The person who would know what to do is on a

Fresche and X-Modernize AI logos over a dark blue background of code on a computer screen

IBM i teams can now convert their own RPG applications to Java with 1,000 free credits, or have Fresche run the modernization end-to-end through Modernization-as-a-Service. This announcement was also distributed via Notified/GlobeNewswire. View the official release here. MONTREAL, QC — November 4, 2026 — Fresche Solutions today announced the general availability of Fresche X-Modernize AI as

Data streaming from a keyboard into checked-off documents and reports, representing AI data readiness

“Is our data even ready for this, or do we need to clean everything up first?” That question came up in our recent Fresche Talks session, Beyond the Hype: What MCP Really Delivers for Your Data. Nearly every leadership team asks it before connecting AI to their business data. The short answer is that you

Diagram showing IBM i application modernization from fixed-format to free-format RPG.

Why Convert Fixed-Format RPG to Free-Format? Converting fixed-format RPG to free-format removes column-dependent source rules and makes established business logic easier to read and change. Some benefits are immediate. Others such as stronger testability and more reusable architecture require refactoring after the initial conversion. It’s important to understand these differences to set the right scope

Zero Trust IBM i: 3 Myths Leaving It Unprotected

Zero Trust has become the security model most companies build around. NIST, which maintains the framework most vendors and auditors point back to, defines it as an approach that narrows defenses from wide network perimeters down to individual resources, rather than assuming anything inside the network is automatically safe. Most organizations have rolled that thinking

Fresche Solutions 50th anniversary logo, established 1976

Fifty years after helping its first customers move off punch cards, Fresche Solutions is looking firmly ahead. Today marks the Fresche Solutions 50th anniversary, with five decades of IBM i modernization leadership now extending into Microsoft, data, and AI. This announcement was also distributed via Notified/GlobeNewswire. View the official release here. MONTREAL, QC — September 10,

Planning an IBM i Workforce Transition?

If you want to keep a good team in place while changing how that team is employed and managed, Fresche can help. Tell us about your team, your goals, and what is driving the change, and we will help you assess whether IBM i staff rebadging services are the right fit. 

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