Gateway Technical College and WMCPA 2nd Annual System i
– Fall Conference
Learn
how IBM’s latest tools can move your company into
the 21st century. Experts will demonstrate how IBM’s
tools can quickly bring your products and services to the
web through four tracks offered. Don’t miss this excellent
opportunity to learn from IBM professionals how to modernize
your current System i Applications! (View
conference details.)
Friday,
October 12th
Gateway Technical College, Kenosha Campus
Center for Bioscience and Information Technology
3520-30th Avenue
$175.00 –includes all conference materials, refreshments
and lunch.
Register by Calling Lisa at 262.564.2498
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These
experts will be available on Thursday October 11th, at the
monthly WMCPA meeting (Details of this meeting at www.wmcpa.org)
to discuss their lectures and labs and help you make a decision
on which track to participate.
Track
01 - PHP
for System i
- PHP
for System i Perspectives:
An easy-to-use, industry-standard alternative on i5/OS.
This session provides an update on the PHP offering including
the Zend products for i5/OS, MySQL, and open community
solutions that can now be implemented on System i.
- PHP
for System i Programmers:
This session provides an introduction to programming using
the PHP language and how to web-enable i5/OS resources.
Code examples and references for further study are included.
- LAB:
Hands-on Zend's PHP for i5/OS:
A hands-on opportunity to explore PHP. This lab includes
the following exercises:
- Troubleshooting
the PHP environment
-
PHP development in Zend studio
-
Accessing DB2 within a PHP application
-
Debugging a PHP application using Zend Studio for
i5/OS
Taught
by Erwin Earley: Heads up the Open Community Technologies
Center of Competency for System i within the System i Technology
Center, Rochester, Minnesota. He provides education and
enablement services for Open Community Technologies on System
i including Linux, PHP, and MySQL. Erwin has worked in the
IT industry for 30 years and has experience with numerous
Unix variants, as well as Linux and i5/OS.
Track 02 - Websphere Development
Studio Client
- Morning
lecture:
Learn the importance of using new application development
tools. We start with a presentation that introduces WebSphere
Development Studio Client and Remote System Explorer.
These are Eclipse-based tools that exceed PDM and SEU
functionality and bring the power of an IDE to the world
of host development.
- Morning
Hands-on Lab: Introduction to Remote System Explorer
Learn to:
- Use
the WDSC workbench to edit, compile and debug.
- Connect
to the backend System i
-
Set up the environment and include the correct libraries
- Use
the table view to get a closer fit to the PDM views
and use the workbench debugger
-
Afternoon lecture: Presentation on UI
modernization for System i applications using WDHT , HATS,
and the IBM WebFacing tool
- Modernize
existing 5250 User Interfaces by using the IBM WebFacing
Deployment Tool with HATS Technology (WDHT) as the
runtime environment. We'll discuss the powerful transformation
features of WebFacing and HATS to simplify a user's
experience with the applications and extend the reach
of these applications to business partners, suppliers
and new users within the company.
- Afternoon
Hands on lab: Create a combined WebFacing and
HATS application using WDHT
Taught
by Claus Weiss: Claus Weiss is an advisory software
consultant with the Rational Software System i – Ecosystem
team at the IBM Canada Toronto Laboratory. He is a six-time
winner of COMMON’s Speaker Excellence award. He is
the lead author of the book Understanding the IBM WebFacing
Tool, published by IBM Press, and has co-authored several
IBM Redbooks.
Track 03 - Morning
Session
-
DB2 Web Query for System i:
IBM DB2 Web Query for System i is a new advanced reporting
and graphing solution for i5/OS that will allow users
to migrate or convert their current Query/400 applications.
DB2 Web Query is a browser-based suite of reporting tools
that enables users to create dashboards, analyze reports
through slicing, dicing and drilling into their data,
work off-line or in disconnected mode and much more.
Taught
by Colin Hendricks: Colin is a Certified IBM IT
Specialist in IBM’s Advanced Technical Support. Throughout
his I/T career he has worked exclusively on IBM’s
midrange platform performing various technical support roles,
application designing, application development, I/T operations
management and project management.
Track
03 - Afternoon
Session
-
Rational Business Extension (EGL) for System i:
Get hands-on experience using the WDSC 7.x workbench with
Rational Business Developer Extension. It will demonstrate
the ease of re-using DB2 UDB data definitions and record
definitions in an EGL web application.
Taught
by: Jim Buck: Jim has worked in IT for more than
25 years, primarily in the manufacturing and healthcare
industries. He is a System i programmer/analyst instructor
at Gateway Technical College in Kenosha, Wisconsin, recipient
of the 2007 IBM System i Innovation – Education Excellence
Award and four year president of the WMCPA user group (www.wmcpa.org).
Working with Bryan Meyers, he recently completed the fourth
edition of “Programming in RPG IV” published
by 29th Street Press.
Track 04 - Service Oriented Architecture
IBM
believes that Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is the
future of business solutions. At the heart of IBM's SOA
strategy is the WebSphere Process Server product which provides
the necessary Process Choreography infrastructure to coordinate
the invocation of service components in a distributed environment.
- Morning
Lecture/Lab: Getting Started with SOA on System i (Service
Enabling System i Applications and Data).
- This
session will show you different ways to create services
from traditional i5/OS programs and data. It will
also show how to leverage tools you probably already
have like WebSphere Development Studio Client (WDSc)
and the XML Toolkit for System i to accomplish these
tasks.
-
Afternoon lecture/lab: Assembling and Integrating
Business Processes on System i Using IBM SOA
Foundation
- In
this session we will learn how to model, assemble,
deploy and monitor business processes using IBM SOA
Foundation portfolio. You will learn how to model
business process using WebSphere Business Modeler
and later assemble the business process by using WebSphere
Integration Developer bringing the system i applications
as re-usable service components and deploy the business
process on WebSphere Process Server. After deploying
you will also learn how to monitor business processes
using WebSphere Business Modeler and feed the runtime
analytical data back into the modeler.
Taught
by Nitin Raut: A certified consulting IT Specialist
at TechWorks – Americas team. In his current role
as WebSphere i5 Technical Program Manager, he focuses on
technical enablement of WebSphere portfolio on System i
platform. He has over 19 years of experience which includes
assignments in SAP Basis Consulting, Enterprise Application
Development using RPG and COBOL and ERP (BPCS & Mapics
XA) Implementation on the iSeries Platform. |
