Your team keeps
Everything above the OS line.
- The IBM i operating system (OS/400) itself
- Your RPG and application code
- Your database and your data
- Application changes, patches, and upgrades
Untouched by us, always.
For AS/400 and IBM i shopsRun AS/400 or IBM i?
Run AS/400 or IBM i?
We manage the Power underneath it.
Your team keeps the applications. PowerTrue keeps the platform they run on — Power frames, HMCs, VIOS, and firmware — current, monitored, and patched.
Why now
The people who tend the platform are retiring.
The people who tend Power infrastructure are retiring, and you can't hire their replacements. The frame, the HMC, the hypervisor, the firmware still need tending — to a defined N‑2 currency, on a schedule, with someone watching. That's all we do, and we do it as a structured, repeatable service.
The line we don't cross
We manage the platform. Not the 400.
We never touch your RPG, your apps, or your data. We manage the layer beneath your OS. And a qualified engineer runs every change by hand — AI helps us diagnose and prepare, but it never acts on your system.
PowerTrue keeps current
Everything the OS runs on.
- The Power frame and its system firmware
- The Hardware Management Console (HMC)
- VIOS — where your workloads are virtualized
- The schedule, monitoring, and patch cadence around them
The platform layer, tended on a schedule.
What we manage
The platform layer, done as a service.
A bounded, defined scope — the same structured work on every frame, every cycle.
Power frames & firmware
Kept to a defined currency and FLRT-validated before anything changes.
HMCs
The management consoles that run your frames, kept current and monitored.
VIOS (where present)
Only where your Power is virtualized. Bare-metal shops skip this layer entirely.
Monitoring + preemptive checks
Hardware events, firmware drift, and health, watched — not discovered during an outage.
Scheduled patch windows
Currency work happens on a plan you agree to, not "when we get to it."
Run bare-metal IBM i? The frame, HMC, and firmware still apply — VIOS only enters the picture where you virtualize.
Keep your team on the apps
Let us keep the platform current.
Twenty minutes with Tanner to talk through what you are running underneath the 400 — and what a structured, repeatable service would cover. Pick a time straight off the calendar. No form, no drip sequence.