System iPortal

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All day event

Description:

On May 20-21 in Barcelona, System i Developer and COMMON Europe Congress join forces to bring the RPG & DB2 Summit curriculum to Europe in conjunction with CEC2008. Presented by experts Jon Paris, Susan Gantner and Paul Tuohy, Summit sessions will provide depth in several key RPG and DB2-related subject areas, including:

* i for Business 6.1
* RPG IV
* ILE
* SQL
* WDSC/RSE and RDi

Join us in Barcelona to learn first-hand why the RPG & DB2 Summit has earned its reputation for being the premier conference for RPG/DB2 development professionals.

Time:

5:30pm Eastern - 8:00pm Eastern

Description:

ASU meets on the third Tuesday of each month from September through June and we are off for the summer months of July and August.

Meetings are normally at the Berwick Manor Party House, 3250 Refugee Road at Winchester Pike, Columbus, OH. This is subject to change - please see the ASU newsletter (MidRanger) or the web site for next meeting location and program details.

Meeting cost is usually $20, which includes hot hors d’oeuvres and buffet style dinner.

Time:

6:00pm Eastern - 2:30am Eastern

Description:

The ABCs of PHP!
Renowned System i Educator, Sharon Hoffman, will be back by popular demand to explain what you need to know about one of the hottest topics in the Information Technology world today - PHP! PHP gives System i developers a simple way to get started with web development. Even if you ultimately choose another technology, such as Java or .Net, learning PHP can make it easier to understand web application architecture. This session covers how PHP fits in with other technologies, as well as basic PHP syntax and an introduction to the Zend Studio development environment. Sharon Hoffman began working with IBM midrange systems in 1981 and she is currently a senior technical editor for the System iNetwork web site and System iNews magazine. Sharon is particularly interested in how new technologies integrate with existing System i applications and in development strategies that can be used to make applications more modular and maintainable. Her background includes extensive application development experience as a programmer, systems analyst, and consultant. Sharon has been involved with IT education for nearly 25 years as an instructor, writer, and editor and is currently teaching several online e-learning classes.

Time:

All day event

Description:

On May 20-21 in Barcelona, System i Developer and COMMON Europe Congress join forces to bring the RPG & DB2 Summit curriculum to Europe in conjunction with CEC2008. Presented by experts Jon Paris, Susan Gantner and Paul Tuohy, Summit sessions will provide depth in several key RPG and DB2-related subject areas, including:

* i for Business 6.1
* RPG IV
* ILE
* SQL
* WDSC/RSE and RDi

Join us in Barcelona to learn first-hand why the RPG & DB2 Summit has earned its reputation for being the premier conference for RPG/DB2 development professionals.

Time:

12:00pm Eastern - 1:00pm Eastern

Description:

There are as many approaches to application modernization as there are technologies. And there are many places to start including the web, SOA, reporting, database restructuring, RPG rewrite or data warehousing/business intelligence. Join our panel of experts during this FREE webcast as they put forth their ideas about the best technology and the best place to start. They represent a range of opinions based upon multiple modernization projects; not theory and speculation but experience and actual results. You will have a chance to ask the panel your pressing questions as well as hear those of your peers. Don't miss it!

Panelists include: Carson Soule, Moderator, System iNEWS technical editor and CEO of CAS Severn, Inc.; Paul Touhy, well-known speaker and CEO of ComCon; Trevor Perry, well-known speaker and CTO at KMR Systems Corp.; Craig Pelkie, System iNetwork e-Learning instructor and owner of Bits & Bytes Programming Inc.; Mike Pavlak, System iNetwork e-Learning instructor and Director of IS for Trippe Manufacturing Company: Don Denoncourt, System iNEWS technical editor and a WebSphere consultant for CAS Severn, Inc.

Time:

2:00pm Eastern - 3:00pm Eastern

Description:

IBM knows you must create your own unique roadmap for modernizing your applications. They have created an Application Developers' Road Atlas that can assist you in your modernization efforts. Following the strategies outlined in the Road Atlas, you can determine how to incorporate new technologies while leveraging the code in applications that run your business. In this free, one-hour webcast, Alison Butterill will explain the various strategies of the Road Atlas, and discuss how they can be used in your modernization efforts. Trevor Perry will provide some examples on creating specialized roadmaps for various modernization projects, and a discussion on different scenarios will be included for each.

If you are not sure where to begin your Modernization projects, this webcast will outline several examples of how the Application Developers’ Road Atlas can provide a kick-start for your own Modernization Road Map.

Time:

12:00pm Eastern - 1:00pm Eastern

Description:

This free, one-hour webcast will help you find the treasures in WDSc preferences that make development easier. These treasures can appear somewhat hidden in the myriad of options in WDSc's preferences. Jef Sutherland will uncover options such as making your editor appear just the way you like it, making RSE more effective, inserting code templates just when you need them, and much more.

Time:

12:00pm Eastern - 1:00pm Eastern

Description:

Because legacy applications contain business functionality of substantial value, savvy IT managers are challenged to find cost-effective and low-risk ways to leverage that value as they extend application capabilities and harness new technologies. Find out how RAMP from LANSA allows you to achieve these goals.

This Webinar explores how you can use RAMP to isolate and encapsulate the valuable portions of your legacy applications and repurpose them inside a modern application framework that can be deployed as a rich-client and/or Web-browser application. In addition, witness how other companies were able to re-use, improve and extend their legacy systems — and see if these examples can be applied to your modernization needs.

Time:

9:30am Eastern - 2:00pm Eastern

Description:

9th June 08 @ Triangle, Minstead, Hampshire, UK

To ensure that you’re kept up to date with the latest System i and Power important announcements and news, Triangle are bringing one of the IBM’s top System i specialists over from the world famous Rochester Laboratories to you for a series of free half day events, running across the UK.

These half day events are the perfect opportunity for you to hear the hottest new developments for 2008 and can help you to maximize returns on your IT investments, improve responsiveness of systems and people and drive innovation with technology advancement through IBM i and Power and Triangle’s expertise.

Agenda items include IBM i & Power Systems Trends and Directions, I5/OS V6R1 latest version and updates, VoIP Communications, Virtualization on the System i & customer experiences.

The day will run from 9.30am - 2pm with complimentary lunch and will be of particular interest to IT Directors and Managers along with Line of Business Managers. Please find attached an invitation with further information.

To register for this events please visit our event info link or contact Sian Easton, Marketing Assistant on sian_easton@triangle-group.com or 01420 547500 with your and any of your colleagues details who would benefit from attending.

Time:

9:30am Eastern - 2:00pm Eastern

Description:

10th June 08 @ Stirling Highland Hotel, Stirling, Scotland, UK

To ensure that you’re kept up to date with the latest System i and Power important announcements and news, Triangle are bringing one of the IBM’s top System i specialists over from the world famous Rochester Laboratories to you for a series of free half day events, running across the UK.

These half day events are the perfect opportunity for you to hear the hottest new developments for 2008 and can help you to maximize returns on your IT investments, improve responsiveness of systems and people and drive innovation with technology advancement through IBM i and Power and Triangle’s expertise.

Agenda items include IBM i & Power Systems trends and directions, i5/OS V6R1 latest version and updates, VoIP Communications, Virtualization on the System i and customer experiences.

The day will run from 9.30am - 2pm with complimentary lunch and will be of particular interest to IT Directors and Managers along with Line of Business Managers. Please find attached an invitation with further information.

To register for this events please visit our event info link or contact Sian Easton, Marketing Assistant on sian_easton@triangle-group.com or 01420 547500 with your and any of your colleagues details who would benefit from attending.

Time:

9:30am Eastern - 2:00pm Eastern

Description:

12th June 08 @ The Village Hotel, Warrington, Cheshire, UK

To ensure that you’re kept up to date with the latest System i and Power important announcements and news, Triangle are bringing one of the IBM’s top System i specialists over from the world famous Rochester Laboratories to you for a series of free half day events, running across the UK.

These half day events are the perfect opportunity for you to hear the hottest new developments for 2008 and can help you to maximize returns on your IT investments, improve responsiveness of systems and people and drive innovation with technology advancement through IBM i and Power and Triangle’s expertise.

Agenda items include IBM i & Power Systems trends and directions, i5/OS V6R1 latest version and updates, VoIP Communications, Virtualization on the System i and customer experiences.

The day will run from 9.30am - 2pm with complimentary lunch and will be of particular interest to IT Directors and Managers along with Line of Business Managers. Please find attached an invitation with further information.

To register for this events please visit our event info link or contact Sian Easton, Marketing Assistant on sian_easton@triangle-group.com or 01420 547500 with your and any of your colleagues details who would benefit from attending.

Time:

9:30am Eastern - 2:00pm Eastern

Description:

13th June @ IBM Southbank, London, UK

To ensure that you’re kept up to date with the latest System i and Power important announcements and news, Triangle are bringing one of the IBM’s top System i specialists over from the world famous Rochester Laboratories to you for a series of free half day events, running across the UK.

These half day events are the perfect opportunity for you to hear the hottest new developments for 2008 and can help you to maximize returns on your IT investments, improve responsiveness of systems and people and drive innovation with technology advancement through IBM i and Power and Triangle’s expertise.

Agenda items include IBM i & Power Systems trends and directions, i5/OS V6R1 latest version and updates, VoIP Communications, Virtualization on the System i and customer experiences.

The day will run from 9.30am - 2pm with complimentary lunch and will be of particular interest to IT Directors and Managers along with Line of Business Managers. Please find attached an invitation with further information.

To register for this events please visit our event info link or contact Sian Easton, Marketing Assistant on sian_easton@triangle-group.com or 01420 547500 with your and any of your colleagues details who would benefit from attending.

Time:

5:30pm Eastern - 8:00pm Eastern

Description:

ASU meets on the third Tuesday of each month from September through June and we are off for the summer months of July and August.

Meetings are normally at the Berwick Manor Party House, 3250 Refugee Road at Winchester Pike, Columbus, OH. This is subject to change - please see the ASU newsletter (MidRanger) or the web site for next meeting location and program details.

Meeting cost is usually $20, which includes hot hors d’oeuvres and buffet style dinner.

Time:

6:00pm Eastern - 2:30am Eastern

Description:

Have you done a Reality Check lately? With the economy and talk of recession, mergers & acquisition, green screens verses GUI screens, how well are you prepared for the "winds of change?" This timely topic will be discussed by our panel which will include IT management, developers and IT search & recruiting specialists.

Time:

12:00pm Eastern - 1:00pm Eastern

Description:

Because legacy applications contain business functionality of substantial value, savvy IT managers are challenged to find cost-effective and low-risk ways to leverage that value as they extend application capabilities and harness new technologies. Find out how RAMP from LANSA allows you to achieve these goals.

This Webinar explores how you can use RAMP to isolate and encapsulate the valuable portions of your legacy applications and repurpose them inside a modern application framework that can be deployed as a rich-client and/or Web-browser application. In addition, witness how other companies were able to re-use, improve and extend their legacy systems — and see if these examples can be applied to your modernization needs.

Time:

All day event

Description:

This 5-day class programming class is for experienced AVR for .NET programmers who want to take their applications to the next level. Because so many of the skills required to create a great application aren't limited to either Web or Windows user interfaces, this class replaces the previously-offered 5-Day Advanced AVR for .NET Web programming class. Most of the concepts and topics taught in this class apply to both Windows and Web apps. There are, however, some Web- and Windows-specific sections to this class (see below).

A core part of this class's curriculum is dedicated to teaching how to program effectively with classes. Building and using AVR classes effectively is at the root of virtually every task, Windows or Web, that you need to tackle to build advanced applications. This class devotes quite a bit of time early in the week teaching the intermediate and advanced object-oriented skills you need to work effectively with AVR classes.

After attending this class, you'll have a well-rounded knowledge of how to partition your applications appropriately with classes and how to add many sophisticated capabilities to your Windows and Web applications.

To attend this class you must be an intermediate level AVR for .NET 8.0 programmer with two or three applications under your belt. This class uses AVR for .NET 8.0 and Microsoft Visual Studio 2005, so experience with those products is assumed. This class covers very little introductory material and by mid-morning Monday morning moves into advanced topics.

Class begins each day at 8:45 AM and concludes by 5:00PM on the final day. Casual attire is recommended for training classes.

Time:

10:00am Eastern - 11:00am Eastern

Description:

Because legacy applications contain business functionality of substantial value, savvy IT managers are challenged to find cost-effective and low-risk ways to leverage that value as they extend application capabilities and harness new technologies. Find out how RAMP from LANSA allows you to achieve these goals.

This Webinar explores how you can use RAMP to isolate and encapsulate the valuable portions of your legacy applications and repurpose them inside a modern application framework that can be deployed as a rich-client and/or Web-browser application. In addition, witness how other companies were able to re-use, improve and extend their legacy systems — and see if these examples can be applied to your modernization needs.

Time:

5:30pm Eastern - 9:30pm Eastern

Description:

DVCUG Presents The New Power Equation from IBM

Join Us As We Celebrate the 20th Birthday of the AS400/iSeries/System i/POWER!

Where: The Union League of Philadelphia

Date & Time & Agenda:
Wednesday, June 25, 2008
5:30 - 6:00 pm Registration & Networking
6:00 - 6:30 pm Power Equation and IBM Announcements
6:30 - 7:30 pm Dinner will be served
7:30 - 8:30 pm DB2 for System i
8:30 - 9:30 pm Networking Continues
Register by Wednesday, June 18, 2008.

All this, plus dinner, for just:
$ 30.00 Member
$ 40.00 Non-Member
$ 40.00 Not Pre-Registered

www.dvcug.org

MIDRANGE Lovers:

Can you believe that the AS/400(System i) will be 20 years old this June?

On June 22, 1988 the AS/400 was introduced to the public. Join us as we celebrate this occasion and meet old and new associates.

You will hear Rick Clements, DVCUG IBM Liaison and Mark Anderson, Distinguished Engineer and Chief Architect for DB2 for i5/OS.

Come and celebrate with us! Bring a guest or an old systems buddy too.

There will be gifts and plenty of trivia.

Looking forward to seeing you then.

Regards,

DCVUG Board of Directors

www.dvcug.org

Questions:

Contact : Denise Ketzes at register@dvcug.org
(302) 285-0730 (Phone)

Time:

All day event

Description:

The 15th Annual "Catch the Wave" Technical Conference is the Best Educational Value for modernizing and advancing your System i / Power System, technical skills. Six tracks and thirty sessions focusing on RPG skills, Web Development tools, Security for System i, Infrastructure for System Admin's, i5 Integration techniques, and i5 Optimization. Featured speakers include: Jon Paris; Susan Gantner; Joe Pluta; George Farr; Patrick Botz; Larry Bolhuis; Al Grega; Doug Mack; Sharon Hoffman; Craig Pelkie; Jeff Howard; Jorge Sanguinetti. Make it a family Vacation with a West Coast Fourth of July. This is the biggest System i education event in the West!

Time:

8:30am Eastern - 6:45pm Eastern

Description:

The OCEAN User Group Technical Conference will be hosting a Special Executive Breakfast and Briefing on IT Modernization Trends and How to Increase Your R.O.I for your IT group. Location: the Hyatt Regency Hotel, Irvine, California. This is a limited seating Free event. To request a reservation, contact Bob Langieri - President OCEAN User Group at 949+240-0438 or staff@ocean400.org. Featured keynotes by Jeff Howard and George Farr of IBM.

Jeff Howard is Director, IBM Power Systems Offerings.George Farr is the World Wide product line manager for all system i tools and compilers.

Time:

All day event

Description:

This class covers AVR for .NET Web programming in detail, explaining how to use AVR for .NET to create effective and powerful ASP.NET Web-based applications. The class will cover best practices, tips and techniques for creating ASP.NET Web apps with AVR for .NET.

This 5-day class (July 7-11) shows you how to do web application beyond the basic

Class begins each day at 8:45 AM and concludes by 5:00PM on the final day. Casual attire is recommended for training classes.

Time:

All day event

Description:

Migrating IBM System i Applications with ASNA Monarch

This 4-day class covers ASNA Monarch technology in detail. A good understanding of RPG/ILE, DDS and CL is assumed as well as some intermediate knowledge of AVR for .NET.

This class covers best practices, tips and techniques for modernizing and migrating applications using Monarch and AVR for .NET.

The seminar begins at 8:45 a.m. on the first day. The seminar will end between 4:30 and 5:00 p.m. each day and at 3:00 on the final day. Attire for the seminar is casual.

This class lasts four days and will be presented at our San Antonio training facility.

Time:

5:30pm Eastern - 8:00pm Eastern

Description:

ASU meets on the third Tuesday of each month from September through June and we are off for the summer months of July and August.

Meetings are normally at the Berwick Manor Party House, 3250 Refugee Road at Winchester Pike, Columbus, OH. This is subject to change - please see the ASU newsletter (MidRanger) or the web site for next meeting location and program details.

Meeting cost is usually $20, which includes hot hors d’oeuvres and buffet style dinner.

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