By Alex Woodie
Publication Date: 2026-10-26 04:02:00
October 26, 2026
Alex Woodie
IBM i developers have embraced AI-based coding tools, such as IBM’s Bob and Anthropic’s Claude Code, but IBM i administrators so far haven’t benefited from the AI productivity boost in the same way. That is starting to change, and one of the first AI-based administrative helpers is a free tool launched recently by Fresche called OpsIQ.
OpsIQ is an AI assistant designed to help IBM i users get answers to questions about their systems. It is currently a read-only tool for helping users interrogate the system for information about server configurations, the state of jobs, and errors or alerts, which means it’s up to the human administrator or operator to take action (although that could change in the future).
Instead of requiring users to know how to work with SQL-based IBM i services, CL commands, or APIs, OpsIQ provides a plain-language…
