August 17, 2010 at 1:00 p.m. EDT

Join us as our team of thought leaders from IBM and featured analysts from IDC discuss how the next wave of IBM Power Systems™ delivers capabilities that are generations beyond competitive UNIX and x86 alternatives.

Get more details from the PDF flyer or Register for the event here.

A no-charge Hardware Management Console seminar is coming to Southfield on Thursday, August 26

Gain a detailed understanding of how the HMC fits into the Power Systems equation, when and why an HMC is required, and how to manage and maintain your HMC and firmware levels.

Topics included in this NO CHARGE event:

• Introduction to the HMC for Power Systems
• Advanced HMC Management Features
• Managing the system firmware on your Power based servers

8:00 to 8:30 Coffee and Rolls

8:30 to 11:30 HMC Seminar

11:30 to 12:30 Lunch will be provided

Please register for this event at this website:

http://www.formstack.com/forms/IBM-ibm_hmc_seminar

HMC Seminar flyer

Reuse, extend, integrate & recreate! With re:new, applications can be created and extended 5 times faster than manual development. View the webinar to learn more and see live demonstrations of this new technology in action. View the on-demand webinar

By viewing this Webinar, you will learn:

1. How to reuse any IBM i application quickly & easily
2. How to extend the application with new .NET functionality
3. How to write new applications using your existing IBM i database

Looksoftware:

We specialize in helping companies increase their profitability, reduce expenses, and be more competitive by helping to modernize the look and functionality of IBM i applications. Our software solutions increase user efficiencies and productivities, reduce training time, automate processes, integrate multiple applications and databases, and provide multi-channel user interface access for IBM i applications and data bases with our GUI, Web-facing, Modernization, Workflow re-engineering, Web-enablement, Integration via Web services, and Mobile (iPhone, iPad, Blackberry, Palm Pre) access solutions. Click here to see our customers by industry. Please visit our Showcase Gallery for some screen shots of our modernization solutions for IBM i applications. For a quick overview of our solutions, please View the 4 minute What We Do video.

IBM is having a premier training event on October 18-22 in Las Vegas.

The IBM Power Systems Technical University offers hundreds of sessions on extensive topics, multiple training levels (beginner to advanced), best practices, a solution center and certification testing. There will never be a better time to refresh your skills and learn about this new generation of technology all at once.

Power University brochure

2nd Quarter System i Newsletter

The 2nd Quarter System i Newsletter is available in the SEMIUG library page.

Midwest Power Systems Newsletter

The monthly newsletter for the Power Systems community (both System i and System p). Here is the April 2010 edition.

Explanation of program benefits:

Review copies:

O'Reilly offers free review copies of our books to qualified groups.

Discounts:

Your group members are entitled to a discount on O'Reilly products purchased directly from us.

Other benefits:

In addition, we regularly donate books and other promotional items for raffles or auctions to help your group raise money, or for meeting door prizes.

We'll also send you links to articles, tips, and news from the O'Reilly web site and from the O'Reilly Network when we think the topics may interest you.

V6R1 and Rdi

Rdi is chargeable beginning in V6R1. The rest of the development tools are user based now. For more information, this PDF file and website.

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Prodata is offering a rebate to those who have an existing maintenance contract. There is a link on the Special Offers page.

Common

COMMON Webinars offer a series of live web-based seminars on leading edge topics to meet the increasing educational needs of attendees. Delivered over multiple weeks and conducted by industry-leading experts, COMMON Webinars provide focused education at a minimized cost. Learn and interact with the presenter right from your desk!

The fee is $149 to COMMON members, providing a competitive value and allowing you to take advantage of your membership benefits. Non-members may also participate for a fee of $249.

Webinar Benefits:

• Multiple hours of comprehensive web-based education on leading edge topics.
• Presented by industry experts.
• Focused, interactive education.
• Great value for COMMON members ($149) and non-members ($249) alike.
• Access to iSociety discussions with the presenter and other participants.
• Receive Webinar handouts.

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

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COMMON provides cost-effective, web-based education on leading-edge topics to meet the increasing needs of COMMON members and the Power Systems community as a whole. This education is delivered by recognized industry experts in the form of Webcasts and Webinars, providing a variety of options for attendees

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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)

July/August

Summer Break, No Regularly Scheduled Meetings

(Special events will be posted)

From the President

Hello Everyone:

We will be breaking for summer and will begin again in the Fall. The board will get together to plan for next years user group events and activities. Some of the suggestions we have heard for meeting topics include; more RPG topics, more hands on activities, RDP and PHP. Please don't hesitate to share your thoughts on topics or presentations that you would like to see included within next years user group meeting agenda. We had a great 2009/2010 year and look forward to next year. MITEC 2010 was a great success and we have already begun to plan for next year.

While we are on break during July and August we plan to organize a trip to Toronto to visit and tour IBM Toronto labs. We are in the process of organizing the event and details will be posted on the user group web site. An email will also be sent to the group list. We are hoping to arrange for a Friday tour so those that would like to do so can plan a trip and spend the weekend in Toronto. We'll have updates soon!

Be sure not to miss the free HNC webinar in August.

Have a great summer.

Regards,
Laura

Laura A. Ubelhor
President Southeast Michigan iSeries User Group
Phone: 248-701-7410
Email:

MITEC

MITEC 2010 was a great success. The new venue "Schoolcraft College Vistatech Center" was well received. The facility was well suited to our event. It was truly a power packed day of education enjoyed by all. Plenty of current topics and sessions to choose from(including a PHP "hands on" lab) with an all star line up of presenters. The culinary institute provided food for the event and many expressed how great the food was. We were very pleased to again have AIX included at the event. The vendors were very generous this year with raffle items including 2011 MITEC conference registrations, 2 GPS devices, an iPad and a digital camcorder and much more. A great thanks to our presenters, vendors, MITEC staff and Vistatech staff.

Some of the feedback received included:

"I enjoyed the PHP sessions and getting to see people I have not seen for years" "I had a great time and the food was great too." "Just wanted you to know that MiTec was excellent (Even if I didn't win the iPad)." "Just wanted to let you know that the MiTec conference keeps on getting better! The speakers and sessions this year were wonderful. Our team is pulling together some “learning” sessions from what we gleaned at the conference." "The location this year was very easy to get to. Much less traffic congestion." "It was an excellent event, and I picked up so many things that will be immediately useful. Everyone here should have gone."

We hope you were able to participate at MITEC 2010 and if you weren't we look forward to seeing you at MITEC 2011.

Previous Meetings:

June 2010	IPv6 - In your mirror and closer than you think!	Fant Steele
May 2010	System i Product Announcements	John Bizon
April 2010	RPG Free	Jim Martin
March 2010	Hardware Upgrade considerations: Green, ROI, Do the Math	Larry Bolhuis
February 2010	An Introduction to Browser Based Applications and HTML	Laura A. Ubelhor
January 2010	Installing and configuring Zend PHP Sever for IBM i	Mike Pavlak
November 2009	IBMi and Web 2.0	Tim Rowe
October 2009	Virtual Tape and Virtual Vaulting/Recovery Using The Secure Data Solution	John Sawyer
September 2009	PHP for IBM i: Getting started	Erwin Earley
June 2009	Practical Web Services for RPG	Tim Rowe

More in the archives

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.