June Meeting
| Date: | Wednesday, June 24th 2009 |  |
| Time: | 5:30 (Deli snack) - 6:00 (Meeting) | |
| Location: | IBM-Southfield 18000 West Nine Mile Road Southfield, MI 48075 (map) -or- Your Computer with Internet Access
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| Speaker: | Tim Rowe | |
| Notes: | Meeting presentation (PDF) |
Practical Web Services for RPG
We have all heard the hype surrounding Web services and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). But what truly are the benefits for i? Find out in our June meeting webinar.
May Winner for the MITEC Registration
Congratulations to Carl Henne. He is the winner of free registration at the 2009 MITEC conference.
One name was drawn from the list of attendees at the March, April and May User Group meeting.
From the President
Dear i Colleagues
It is already June and we are excited to have a very interesting meeting planned to end the user group 2008/2009 year. Be sure to join in the webinar remotely or you are welcome to participate by joining us at IBM in Southfield to enjoy the webinar with i colleagues. The topic "Practical Web Services for RPG" presented by Tim Rowe of IBM Rochester is sure to be both an interesting and very useful topic. We will be breaking for the summer and will not have a regular monthly meeting in July or August. We'll start back up in September. During the summer the board will get together to plan for the 2009/2010 SEMIUG year. The board puts forward much effort to bring group members current topics of interest and to align world class industry experts to present to our group. If there is a topic of particular interest you would like to see included in next year's agenda please make sure to let someone on the board know. Your input is very helpful for planning the agenda.
MITEC 2009 was a great success. Attendance was actually up a bit from last year’s conference. We were very pleased to have such a great turn out, especially with today’s business economy. This was the 4th year for the event and it continues to grow each year. The event included a variety of current topics. RPG, PHP, Web development, BRMS, Web Query, CL,AIX and much more. Thank you to all of the conference presenters and the MITEC staff for making the event such a success. The conference included a small vendor expo and a vendor raffle. Some great items including cash, iPod, WOW RAD web development software worth $20,000, technical books and a variety of other items were awarded to conference attendees. Russ Johns of AAA Life and Fabio Kang of Borders were awarded a free registration for the 2010 conference. We greatly appreciate your participation at the event and look forward to MITEC 2010. Plans are already under way. We are hoping to add some hands on labs for next year’s conference.
Education is always important, especially when things are tough. Many are finding within today's business environment i colleagues are required to have a much broader and robust skill set. SEMIUG's priority is education, helping i colleagues expand and improve skills to fit within today’s business environment and providing a comfortable setting for i colleagues to converse and share information. We very much look forward to a great 2009/2010 SEMIUG year and an improved Michigan economy. Thank you for your participation in the group activities. We hope you join in the webinar on June 24th.
Have a great summer.
Laura A. Ubelhor
President South East Michigan iSeries User Group
Previous Meetings:
| May 2009 | Integrated Application Server | Tim Rowe |
| April 2009 | System i Navigator | Larry Bolhuis |
| March 2009 | OS/400 Forensics 101 | John Earl |
| February 2009 | A Great Time To Be i | Ross Freeman |
| January 2009 | Top 10 “Gotchas” for Admins in Upgrading to V6R1 | Larry Bolhuis |
| November 2008 | Introduction to Hardware Management Console (HMC) for Power systems | Allyn Walsh |
| October 2008 | What's New in Systems Management for Power Systems and IBM i | Bob Padzieski |
| September 2008 | PHP for System i: What to do after you say "Hello, world" | Larry Farmer |
| June 2008 | Ten of the 17 Project Pitfalls and How to Avoid Them | Russ Bartlett |
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.