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The industry is racing to build the substrate that autonomous agents need: integrated data and logic, a single security model, durable transactions, and a unified runtime where code and database are not separate worlds. IBM i has had all of these for decades. This session argues that IBM i's integrated architecture, often dismissed as legacy, anticipates the requirements the rest of the industry is now assembling out of loosely coupled parts. We will trace three core design decisions in particular: the integrated database and operating system, object-level authority, and SQL service interface. Each one maps to a problem that teams building agentic systems are solving today. The talk is about perspective as much as technology. You will come away with language to reframe the platform you already run as a strategic advantage for AI, and a sharper sense of which architectural properties actually matter once agents start acting on production systems
