Education

Session Abstracts

RPG Programmer Bootcamp

All You Need to Know About RDi in Four Hours

Charlie Guarino |  December 8, 2020  |  1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. CT

Your development efforts are constrained using ancient green screen tools; blast to a fast path to modern tooling by learning RDi.



REST APIs and RPG

Scott Klement |  December 9, 2020  |  1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. CT

Rest APIs are a key part of todays applications. Learn the many options for consuming and creating APIs on IBM i today.



How should RPG Programmers be Doing their Testing

Marcel Sarrasin |  December 10, 2020  |  1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. CT

Test driven development; Code Coverage; RPG Unit

Basics for Admins


IBM i Admin - Back to the Basics

Richie Palma |  December 8, 2020  |  1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. CT

New to the platform - back to basics.



Database Engineer Bootcamp

Kent Milligan |  December 9, 2020  |  1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. CT

SQL Performance Best-practices; Data Modeling



Managing Your IBM i in a Modern Way

Tim Rowe |  December 10, 2020  |  1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. CT

ACS; SQL; Replacing CL with SQL



Understanding and Managing the Performance of your IBM i

Dawn May |  December 17, 2020  |  1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. CT

Using PDI; Performance Management

Security Dive

Regulations and Security Standards and Impact on the IBM i

Craig Johnson |  December 16, 2020  |  1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. CT

SOX, SOC1 & 2, PCI-DSS, FFIEC, GDPR, NY Reg, CCPA, etc.



Security Tune-Up

Carol Woodbury |  December 17, 2020  |  1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. CT

Top 10 items to check, practical guide, quick and dirty and effective.

ACS Trail Map

Managing your IBM i in a Modern Way

Erwin Earley |  December 10, 2020  |  1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. CT

ACS; SQL; Replacing CL with SQL


Configuring, Controlling and Setting up ACS for your enterprise

Wayne Bowers |  December 15, 2020  |  1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. CT

Introduction to ACS, deploying, restricting access. Running on IBM i directly to modernize report creation.



Managing Open Source on the Platform

Erwin Earley |  December 16, 2020  |  1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. CT

Installing Ap Dev Environments; Setting up Containers.

Open Source Language Care and Feeding

Introduction to Open Source and Open Source Languages

Erwin Earley |  December 8, 2020  |  1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. CT

Intro to environment - what are my options? What are the languages? How do I know which language to use?



Managing Open Source on the Platform

Erwin Earley |  December 16, 2020  |  1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. CT

Installing Ap Dev Environments; Setting up Containers.


Connecting Open Source to RPG

Erwin Earley |  December 17, 2020  |  1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. CT

Temporal, RCAC

SQL Bootcamp

SQL Basics

Susan Romano |  December 15, 2020  |  1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. CT

SQL has become the standard for defining, manipulating, and accessing your data on IBM i, and on most other systems. What's the best way to get started with SQL without feeling overwhelmed? Why, join us for this session, of course! Even if you already use SQL, you're sure to learn techniques that will make you more productive.



Practical SQL in RPG

Birgitta Hauser & Vern Hamberg |  December 16, 2020  |  1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. CT

Now that you know the basics of SQL language, here are the important things to know to extend your knowledge and applications with RPG and SQL.

Pre-compiler messages

What makes valid host variable

Using SQLcod

SQLstate

OLAP 

Parsing XML and JSON

Database Engineer Essentials

Database Engineer Bootcamp

Kent Milligan |  December 9, 2020  |  1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. CT

SQL Performance Best-practices; Data Modeling



Understanding Data Analytics

Doug Mack |  December 9, 2020  |  1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. CT

DB2 Web Query

Career Growth & Development 

Your First Five Years in IT: Are You Ready?

Marina Schwenk & Shelly Petty |  December 10, 2020  |  1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. CT

Last year of College and Interview Prep; Managers' Perspectives; Your First Job; 5 Years of Progress



The Art of Advancing Your Career Beyond the Technical

Steve Wolk |  December 16, 2020  |  1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. CT

Speaking the language of the business
Thinking like a businessperson
Demonstrating strong leadership
Selling fellow business leaders on the value proposition of IT investments
Always being prepared
Earning influence
Preparing for and navigating board meetings
Difficult conversations
Always keeping your cool
Aligning IT with business goals.