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Trevor Perry |
IBM i Application Modernization Revealed The Information Technology industry is undergoing continual transformation. Traditional application development continues to be popular and maintenance of legacy systems is still a major portion of IT work. At the same time, new technologies, methodologies, hardware and software appear at light speed. While vendors develop sales pitches for related offerings, there are few sources to help you understand the big picture. IT executives are asking questions about the current IT landscape, how to optimize IT, and how to retain legacy investments. They want to know more about cloud, mobile, and how they get started. These questions relate to the modernization of applications and modernization of the enterprise. Trevor’s presentation outlines a framework to understanding modernization and shows how to focus on a higher level of IT strategy without major effort or distraction. He addresses modernization questions with relevance to a company’s needs, applications, platforms and direction. View this session on the COMMON website and add it to your schedule |
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Promoting the Future and Value of IBM i to Your Business Executives This session shows you how IBM i can be presented to the business in order to raise visibility, preserve your investment in the platform, and ensure that business applications are developed using the right tools. Join us and take away information that can be used to educate your own business about the platform, its planned future, how it fits the requirements of your business, and how to leverage IBM i in your business. Your organization has a strong heritage with IBM i and the total cost of ownership of IBM i consistently proves to be a better proposition. With IBM i on Power Systems, the future of your business can be more agile, scalable and sound. Come and learn how to sell that proposition to your business executives. View this session on the COMMON website and add it to your schedule |
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Lessons Learned Building IBM i Mobile Applications Building and delivering mobile applications often appears to be a difficult task. There are many tools, many vendors and many architectures and approaches to consider. Traditionally, IBM i applications are lengthy procedural applications and don’t lend themselves to mobile delivery. This session will outline many lessons learned while building mobile applications for IBM i. Trevor will cover the tools that can be used, the modernization techniques that can be leveraged, and the new approaches that are required to deliver mobile applications from an IBM i base. He will discuss building new mobile applications and repurposing existing IBM i applications--both green-screen and web--to be delivered to mobile devices in a modern world. View this session on the COMMON website and add it to your schedule |
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Trevor Perry
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RPG Open Access - Easier than Pi RPG Open Access (RPGOA) has been called "the future of RPG on IBM i." Yet we have been told there are myths surrounding RPGOA. A standards committee has been established to guide the community to a consistent approach to RPGOA development and communication, but it has yet to gain much traction. Looking back to the introduction of RPGOA, the confusion and lack of information persists. This session will explain RPG Open Access, starting with a basic explanation and overview. It will describe actual customer implementations, and theorize on future possible uses for RPGOA. This session will also introduce you to resources on how to build your own RPGOA handlers to extend your existing applications and build modern IBM i applications from scratch. When you leave this session, you will be energized, and write your own RPGOA handler the same day!
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Marcel Sarrasin
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OPEN LAB: Leverage existing or build new Description: In this lab you can choose from Presto, Newlook or WebSmart to create fully functioning GUI & Web Applications. Through lab exercises you’ll discover three options to develop web applications to determine which approach is best for you.
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Angular JS and RESTful RPG Applications Legacy applications are composed of many programs in a single monolithic application, making them very difficult to enhance, maintain and test. In addition, their size and complexity make it difficult for programmers to manage them efficiently.Angular JS is a standard framework for modern web applications. Everything you need to transform your RPG-based applications to a modern web-based application leveraging Angular JS and RESTful service calls is already on your IBM i. Now is your chance to learn it.
View this session on the COMMON website and add it to your schedule How to Globalize your App Enabling a multi-lingual interface with your application can be an existing need or a feature you want to add to expand your business. From Occident to Orient, many characters set or ideograms need to be handled for your business app. This session will cover the methodology to develop or integrate, test and deploy a multilingual app from your Database to the User Interface and everything in between. Learning objectives:
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Marcel Sarrasin |
Prototyping and Wireframing for Application Success Identifying, understanding and meeting end user needs is always a challenge for designers. This session will show you how to create mock-ups and prototypes that will help you quickly and easily tune your application to user needs. The session will introduce you to tools and techniques that can be a quick and easy game changer in your application development cycle.
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How to Plan and Scope Your IBM i Modernization so that It Gets Organizational Buy-in Join Mani as he shares his experiences over the last 16 years on how to properly plan and scope IT projects. In addition he will cover the importance of understanding the value that each project is going to bring and being able to communicate that value to the organization in order to get buy-in. This session discusses how to:
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Greg Patterson |
HTML for Beginners HTML is a markup language that’s used to define the content of web pages. HTML knowledge is an asset for anyone who plans to modernize green screens or develop new IBM i web applications.
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The Business Case for IBM i Green Screen Modernization Many organizations rely on IBM i to run critical business applications like ERPs, inventory management and order fulfillment. Although IBM i is a rock-solid, modern enterprise platform, its green screen interface limits productivity and makes it look like antiquated technology. Attend this session to learn why modernizing your IBM i green screens improves end user productivity and reduces new user training costs. We'll discuss:
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CSS for Beginners CSS, which is similar to (but much more powerful than) DDS attributes, defines how HTML elements are displayed and styled. Learning how to work with CSS will help you create easier-to-maintain web applications that look consistent across all browsers.
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From RPG OA to Node.js: Modernization and Mobile There are many different approaches to modernizing green screens and developing new IBM i web and mobile applications. In this session, you’ll get an overview of the following approaches, as well as their pros and cons:
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Ray Everhart |
Preparing your Application for Modernization - Cleaning your Codebase Before an application modernization project begins, you will want to perform a code clean-up exercise. Cleaning the codebase can greatly reduce the scope and complexity of the project, reducing time, cost and risk. This session will show you some of the key areas that need to be addressed before a modernization project begins.
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OPEN LAB: Improving Your Application with X-Analysis This OPEN LAB gives you the chance to explore some of the ways that X-Analysis can help you improve your application. Choose from a list of self-paced lab exercises that walk you through using X-Analysis to accomplish specific tasks. Some of the topics are:
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Modern Application Architecture Techniques Legacy applications are composed of many programs in a single monolithic application, making them very difficult to enhance, maintain and test. In addition, their size and complexity make it difficult for programmers to manage them efficiently.
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Modernization Case Study - Creating a Database Abstraction Layer By providing a layer of separation between your applications and your database, you have much more agility to respond to changing business requirements and you can reduce your maintenance burden at the same time. This case study will review three approaches. View this session on the COMMON website and add it to your schedule
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