Session A - 8:30 to
9:50
A1
- Managing the Soft Stuff: What goes wrong? - Ken Prager
When technology projects don’t deliver their expected results, it’s
usually not the technology that fails – it’s the soft stuff: Poor
executive sponsorship, resistance among middle managers and end-users,
misaligned organizations, inconsistent cultural traits, weak project
leadership. In this session, Ken will share soft stuff successes and
failures on major system implementations and describe an organizational
change framework to help you manage that soft stuff. Display grid
A2
- Web Enablement - Mark Borash,
Darryl Johns, Andy Chung
iSeries Access: Access your 5250 applications via a standard web browser
WebFacing, HATS, WDSc (WebSphere Development Studio Client): Transforming your traditional 5250 green screen to GUI point and click. Display grid
A3 - Ximple - Paul Lambert
Vendor
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A4 -
IBM's Investment in RPGIV: Past, Present and
Future - Clauss Weiss
Do you want to know if IBM is investing in RPG? This session will take
you
thru some of the history of RPG IV and IBM's investment in it as well as
covering the new functions recently introduced in the RPG IV compiler in
V5R3, and future RPG features that will be coming soon to an iSeries
near you! Time will be allocated at the end to allow attendees to
voice
their requirements and any other Q&A on RPG as well as on tools. Display grid
A5
- SQL Part 1 - Brian Kelly
SQL is IBM's relational database language that can be used for
query and for data definition, manipulation, and retrieval. SQL is a simple,
yet extremely powerful tool.
In this session, you will learn:
1. SQL standards
2. The basic concepts of iSeries SQL.
3. SQL data access examples
3. Usage for data retrieval and database management. Display grid
A6 - WebSphere for Dummies - Al
Grega
WebSphere, WebSphere, WebSphere! If you've been hearing this a lot maybe it's time to truly understand what it's all about. This session is geared towards IT Executives, Decision Makers or anyone that needs to understand WebSphere better. We'll approach the subject for attendees that have little or no knowledge of WebSphere and will gently introduce you to all the products in the family available on i5/OS along with their business value.
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Session B -
10:05 to 11:25
B1
-ITIL - Jim Carty
CMMi, Six Sigma and ITIL and how these approaches can be cost effectively leveraged to improve your game.
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B2 - Collaboration - Mark Borash,
Darryl Johns, Andy Chung
Portal, WBI (WebSphere Business Integration), the new IBM Workplace: See how your work will be streamlined.
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B3 - Top Ten iSeries and AS/400 Security Exposures
- John Earl/Powertech
Vendor
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B4 - RPG
& COBOL Tools in WDSC: The Remote Systems Explorer - Clauss Weiss
The Remote Systems Explorer (RSE) is the development environment
within
WebSphere Development Studio client that allows you to develop RPG and
COBOL applications. This development tool is the 21st century
follow-on to
the world of SEU, SDA, PDM, etc and even CODE/ 400. All the things
that a
developer might wish were possible with a green screen are in the RSE and
some that you haven't even thought of yet!! Other benefits include
improving programmer productivity and morale, off-loading host development
workload and allowing existing applications to be maintained more
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B5
- SQL Part 2 - Brian Kelly
SQL is IBM's relational database language that can be used for
query and for data definition, manipulation, and retrieval. SQL is a simple,
yet extremely powerful tool.
In this session (continuation of session A5), you will learn:
4. Usage in application programs.
5. Use of interactive SQL.
6. Use of Excel for downloading DB2 Data Display grid
B6 - iSeries Commerce Options featuring WebSphere - Al
Grega
The number one misconception in the marketplace is that electronic commerce solutions are only for selling products to consumers. The reality is many companies are using Commerce Software to extend their businesses to their supply chains and to provide better customer self service.
This session will introduce you to IBM's WebSphere Commerce Solutions for the IBM eServer iSeries Platform. We'll discuss the capabilities of the products, the customers who are using it today, and what products might best fit your organization.
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Keynote
- 12:30 to 1:10
Keynote address - Malcolm
Haines
Vendor
Presentations - 1:15 to 2:15
Session C -
2:15 to 3:25
C1 - Executive Roundtable -
Malcolm Haines/Al Grega/Timothy Pricket-Morgan/Brian Kelly/Ken Prager
This interactive session allows conference participants an opportunity for additional learning and networking in an ad-hoc group discussion with a panel of technical, marketing, and management experts.
This year, the panel is jam packed with executive talent from IBM as well as iSeries industry analysts and authors.
Malcolm Haines, the top creative marketing force within IBM, Al Grega IBM’s WebSphere Marketing Manger for IBM eServer iSeries, and Ken Prager, Associate Partner in the Organization & Change Strategy practice of IBM’s Business Consulting Services will fill the IBM seats.
Ken provides planning and executing organizational design and change activities in many different client environments -- including a number of major technology and ERP implementations.
Al is responsible for coordinating the entire WebSphere Product line for the IBM eServer iSeries platform Worldwide. Malcolm Haines is well known to iSeries audiences and he gets his best kudos from AS/400 fans as the "AS/400 Minister for Propaganda and Public Enlightenment".
Timothy Prickett Morgan (TPM), and Brian W. Kelly will fill the iSeries industry seats.
TPM is a top industry analyst and he has strong insights into the iSeries hardware and software lines and he has strong opinions about how it should succeed.
He is President of Guild Companies Inc and Editor in Chief of its IT Jungle publications:
The Four Hundred, Four Hundred Stuff, Four Hundred Guru, and Four Hundred
Monitor. Brian W. Kelly is a noted iSeries Author and industry analyst.
He has written numerous technical books and articles and he continually encourages IBM to strengthen the iSeries platform. Brian is the author of
The All-Everything Machine and his latest book, Chip Wars, is his 25th.
Feel free to come armed to this session to discuss the issues pressing on your mind in a variety of areas. For example, you may want to discuss issues you may have as an IT Manager or as an employee in relation to company / IT management.
Of course, you may also want to discuss the iSeries itself, its inherent technology, its hardware and software facilities, its development facilities, its Web capabilities, its marketing, its pricing, its presence in higher education, its conspicuous absence from mom and pop stores and the home, its "legacy label", and its future.
All of these topics and others that you may have are all fair game for our esteemed panelists.
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C2
- Infrastructure Simplifications - Mark Borash, Darryl Johns, Andy Chung
Windows integration: Create and link a virtual disk, manage the integrated Windows
environment.
AIX: Show SMIT in action
LINUX: See how SAMBA works in LINUX, file serving
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C3 - Strategic Computer Solutions
- J Pagotto
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C4 - Introduction to VisualAge RPG - Clauss Weiss
Rich Graphical User Interfaces are needed for business applications, a browser based user interface doesn't always fit the requirements in a business setting.
This session offers a guided tour of building a rich user interface applications using RPG. VisualAge RPG provides a very easy transition for RPG programmers from building 5250 text based user interfaces to building rich client user interface applications.
In this session, you will learn how to:
1. Build the graphical user interface using the VARPG designer.
2. Use your RPG skills to build the logic behind the graphical user
interface.
3. Access your iSeries data and invoke your business logic on iSeries with VARPG
4. Compile and run the VARPG application on a Windows workstation.
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C5 - Demystifying Security -- Understanding Security and Compliance
- Pat Botz
Understanding the fundamentals of security is required in order to provide your organization with the level of security it requires.
This session defines security and the process required to effectively implement it.
The different aspects of the process are described along with the roles and input required to "do" security with reasonable amount of effort and cost.
In this session you will learn:
1. Fundamental security concepts required in order to effectively implement security.
2. The standard security process and how to implement it in your organization.
3. Your role, the roles of others, and where they fit within the security process.
4. The role of a security auditor and how to manage them.
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C6 - .NET Part 1 - Bernard
Bialt
IBM iSeries systems are installed in an estimated 250,000
organizations. If yours is one of them, then most likely your group is
either interested in or committed to modernization, which could mean you
wish to enhance the user interface while maintaining the existing core
business logic, or to integrate data on an iSeries with Windows-centric,
SQL-based back-office applications, or to implement a service-oriented
architecture (SOA) and offer Web services to better serve your customers and
your enterprise's own competitiveness.
We will explore a high level overview of the options for modernizing legacy
iSeries assets. You will gain a better understanding of the challenges
faced when addressing the preservation of existing people, processes,
applications and data. The continuum of these assets is crucial to a
cost effective, rapid and successful evolution and this session will weed
through the myriad of confusing choices, presenting you with a clear
understanding that when it comes to modernization, you don't have to
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Session D -
3:40 to 4:50
D1 - Intro to SOA - Al Grega
How to get started with SOA on iSeries
There are a lot of misconceptions out there about Services Oriented
Architecture (SOA). Many think that SOA is just about web services, some think it's some new thing that IBM created and is trying sell. The reality is SOA is a new way to look at your business and how to better adapt to the rapid changes you face every day. The technology behind SOA is not new and it's all based on mature industry standards.
The purpose of the session is to help you better understand What SOA is, What the business value is, Why every major software company and analyst are endorsing this architecture and most importantly How can you get started with this on iSeries?
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D2
- System Management - Mark Borash, Darryl Johns, Andy Chung
DLPAR (Dynamic Logical Partitioning)
HMC (Hardware Management Console)
iSeries Navigator: Performance monitors, job scheduling, user
administration, drag & drop spool files, database: Visual Explain & Database
Navigator, graphical view of hardware and manage Windows servers. Display grid
D3 -
iSeries Disaster Recovery Training Session - Hainey Business Systems
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D4 - WebTooling
- Clauss Weiss
The new WebSphere Development Studio Client for iSeries contains awesome tools for Java and Web Development, as well as Web Services development. These tools are for the Java and the Web expert, and for those new to Java and Web development. Included in the tooling are a number of optimizations for iSeries programmers who wish to leverage their code, and their skills, in this exciting new world.
Come see the awesome tools you have on your desktop, and how to use them together with your existing iSeries skills to quickly extend existing RPG and COBOL logic to Java and the Web.
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D5 - Don't Synchronize Passwords! Eliminate Them!
- Pat Botz
This session provides an overview of the many definitions of SSO and how the i5/OS approach is entirely different. The session introduces the business case and explains the industry unique, non-disruptive, and password elimination attributes of the IBM eServer approach to SSO.
In this session you will learn:
1. The Business ramifications of eliminating passwords verses synchronizing them.
2. The rationale behind the OS/ 400 & i5/ OS strategy.
3. The technologies involved in the OS/ 400 & i5/ OS strategy.
4. Why the OS/ 400 & i5/ OS approach can be cheaper than other approaches.
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D6 - .NET Part 2 - Jim Connor
A technical overview of how you can incorporate a .NET solution to address
your iSeries modernization goals. You will gain a better understanding
of what .NET is and how it can help you extend your legacy assets through
native MSIL compliant RPG and iSeries connectivity. You will learn how
your existing code and programmers can be used to create Windows and Web
applications as well as the creation of web services to begin implementing
SOA based initiatives. From detailed discussions to sample
applications and code,you will gain a high level understanding of how
rapidly and easily .NET can have your iSeries assets ready to face the
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