SEMIUG Info Hot Spot

Dear Members:

We have an opportunity to share in on some in depth RSE training. Jon Paris and Susan Gantner will be doing a hands on 2 day in depth session in our area this fall (possibly as early as September). If you are interested in RSE training this is an opportunity to do so at a lesser cost. The training will be held at a location in South East Michigan.

If you are interested please contact Laura at and I'll be sure to follow up with details and contact information.

Regards,
Laura

2Q Central Area System i Newsletter

In this issue: The New Power Equation, New Packaging for Development Tools, Promotions and Rebates, and more (Word document).

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Do you have a Requirement that you would like to see IBM implement on the System i? COMMON solicits Requirements from the System i community and submits these to IBM three or four times each year. You may even comment upon Requirements that others have entered.

There are two paths to the Requirements forum (both end up in the same place). Go to www.common.org and, in the Members Only section select the Requirements link. Or go to the iSociety home page and select the Requirements link at the top of the page.

It is necessary to be registered with iSociety, but this is free to all System i professionals.

An Introduction To Dot Net

This PDF file looks at adapting the iSeries to the Dot Net world.

Learn about DB2 Web Query

(Website)

Look on the top right of the screen and it has a section on a product preview. If you click on the Demonstration, it will take you to a 90 minute customer demo web cast. There is also a FAQ on the product.

How to Evaluate a Web Application Development Tool

a PlanetJ article by Nikki Jensen:
N. Jensen article(Word Doc)

SOA (Service Oriented Architecture)

by Michael Silberberg:
SOA article(Word Doc)

Common

COMMON - Vendor Sponsored Webcast

Companies Discover Hidden Value in their Legacy Systems
Sponsored by LANSA

Free to Everyone
Presented by David Brault, LANSA
Thursday - September 25, 2008 - 12:00pm - 1:00pm CT

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Chances are you're contemplating how to modernize your legacy 5250 applications and trying to decipher the best implementation strategy. Before you commit to refacing, rewriting or Web enablement, discover a better modernization option that's cost effective and low risk. This session demonstrates how System i (AS/400, iSeries) 5250 applications can be transformed into a completely new application without changing a line of code. You'll learn how RAMP from LANSA allows you to reuse the valuable assets of your core applications, throw away the negative parts and deliver a completely modern and highly productive application to your end users. You'll also hear how some of your System i peers have successfully satisfied their modernization challenges with RAMP.

About the Speaker:

As Product Manager at LANSA, David Brault draws on over 15 years experience of System i knowledge to help determine the market message for LANSA's products. He has extensive experience integrating System i applications with various Windows, Web and Wireless technologies. He is responsible for launching new LANSA products and serves as the U.S. product line expert for press and analyst briefings. Dave is a member of the COMMON Americas Advisory Council (CAAC) and is a frequent speaker at COMMON and other industry events.

Learn more and register online

As a member of SEMIUG you are also a member of Common and therefore can participate in the Common Free webcasts.

COMMON Webcasts are part of the new "COMMON...Customized" education model, and are offered free to COMMON members as part of their membership benefits. They are one-hour long webcasts on leading edge topics to meet the increasing educational needs of COMMON members.

To learn more about COMMON Webcasts, and to see a complete list of all upcoming COMMON Webcasts, please visit www.common.org/webcasts.

September Meeting

PHP for System i: What to do after you say "Hello, world"

Summer break is over and we're ready to look at PHP in the System i environment with Larry Farmer.

Date:	Tuesday, September 9
Time:	5:30 (Deli snack) - 6:00 (Meeting)
Location:	IBM-Southfield 18000 West Nine Mile Road Southfield, MI 48075 (map)

From the President

We hope everyone enjoyed summer and are excited to start the SEMIUG 2008/2009 year. We are starting off with an exciting meeting for September. Larry Farmer from Michigan State University Housing and Food Service will show us how to incorporate use of PHP within our environments. Larry is a System Analyst and RPG programmer at Michigan State and has practical hands on experience and insight on using PHP within a business environment. In October Bob Padzieski from IBM will be presenting to our group and in November Alyn Walsh will be presenting on HMC. Plans are already under way for next years MITEC conference and will again be held in June of 2009.

We would like to welcome Charles Nalbandian to the SEMIUG board of directors. Also, Thank you to Bob Buscemi for serving on the board of directors for the past several years. The board works hard to bring leading edge education to our local i community and thanks to all on the board for you efforts.

We look forward to seeing you at upcoming meetings.

Regards,
Laura

Laura A. Ubelhor
President South East Michigan iSeries User Group

Previous Meetings:

June 2008	Ten of the 17 Project Pitfalls and How to Avoid Them	Russ Bartlett
May 2008	System i and i5/OS Announcements	John Bizon
April 2008	What's New in V6R1	Larry Bolhuis
March 2008	IBM Rational Software Delivery Platform	Linda Cole
February 2008	CGIDEV2 - RPG Programming for Web Browsers	Gordon Larkins
January 2008	What's New With CL	Kevin Forsythe
November 2007	DB2 Web Query	Jackie Jansen
October 2007	.NET	Richard Schoen
September 2007	SQL Stored Procedures and Functions	Kevin Forsythe
June 2007	Introduction to Unified Modeling Language	Omar Pérez
May 2007	LPAR Configuration Issues and Planning	Larry Bolhuis
April 2007	The System I Developer Roadmap	Allison Butterillo
March 2007	DB2 - What´s New and other Cool Stuff	Doug Mack
February 2007	IBM Toolbox for Java and Toolbox Micro Edition	Kim Button
January 2007	RPG and Cobol Tools in WDSC	Nazmin Haji
November 2006	IBM Websphere Commerce	Lisa Hunter/Chris Putnam
November 2006	PHP on the iSeries	Leonardo Llames
October 2006	RPG Free	Kevin Forsythe
September 2006	The Modernization Meal	Christopher Burns
June 2006	IP Telephony on the System i	John Tsang
May 2006	Introduction to WebTooling in WDSc	Claus Weiss
April 2006	Simplify Your Life - Eliminate Passwords with Single Sign On	Dan Riehl
March 2006	WDSC for RPG Programmers	Joe Pluta
February 2006	V5R4 Announcement	John Bizon
January 2006	Intro to the IBM Java Toolbox	Kim Button
November 2005	The best of both worlds: ILE RPG and SQL	Kevin Forsythe
October 2005	WDSc the latest release and what´s IBM´s Investment in RPG	George Farr
September 2005	Hardware Management Console	Allyn Walsh
June 2005	Building WebSphere Based Applications for The iSeries Server	Bob Maatta
May 2005	Modernizing RPG with Prototyping, free Format, and CGIDEV2	Kevin Forsythe
April 2005	A Critical Comparison of Refacing Tools	Carole Miner
March 2005	Spam and Virus Solutions	Chuck Finley and Dave Scheinost
February 2005	iSeries Access for Web Open Lab	Carole Miner
January 2005	How to Achieve Sorbane-Oxley Compliance Faster	Laurie LeBlanc
November 2004	iSeries Navigator	Larry Bulhois
October 2004	Security - top-10 Security Exposures	John Earl
September 2004	i5/OS - What´s new in V5R3	John Bizon
June 2004	Many uses for SQL on the iSeries	Kevin Forsythe
May 2004	Websphere Commerce Express for the iSeries	Robert Desmarais
April 2004	Utilizing SQL in RPG/LE Programs	Bob Bergstrom
March 2004	Using the Apache Server	Michael Ryan
February 2004	Client Access for Web	John Bizon
January 2004	Building Dynamic iSeries WebSphere Apps in 3 steps and 3 minutes	Paul Holm

Meetings are a great opportunity to socialize with iSeries Colleagues and are always a great learning experience. We look forward to seeing you at upcoming meetings.