Common Europe Congress 2019: Full Schedule

Welcome to Common Europe Congress 2019 in Berlin!

10:00 CEST

Effectively Administering IBM i Security and Keeping Your Configuration in Compliance

During this workshop, Carol Woodbury will provide an in-depth look at administrating IBM i Security, including a checklist of the areas that need to be managed/administered. Carol will also describe the options available for monitoring your security configuration including examples of specific commands and/or SQL statements available. Finally, Carol will discuss popular compliance requirements and methods for maintaining compliance.

Speakers

Carol Woodbury

President and CTO, DXR Security

Sunday June 16, 2019 10:00 - 13:00 CEST
Aquamarin

Workshop

10:00 CEST

Generating and Consuming JSON Data

JSON (Java Script Online Notation) is a data exchange format like XML, however JSON is simpler, less verbose and can be faster parsed than XML. In this way JSON becomes more and more important especially when data is exchanged by RESTful web services. The use of XML declines in favor of JSON. With Release 7.3 TR 3 a bunch of scalar and aggregate functions were integrated into SQL, for generating JSON objects, arrays and for combining JSON components into complete documents. The JSON_TABLE tables function for consuming JSON data was already introduced with Release 7.3 TR 1. With the JSON_TABLE table function JSON documents can be parsed, converted into a relational representation and data picked specifically out. Additional scalar functions allow SQL to directly access JSON documents located within the IFS (Integrated File System) or in source physical file members. Last but not least IBM provides SQL http-functions for getting access to web services. In composition with the JSON_TABLE function the JSON answers returned by web services can be consumed within a SELECT-Statement.

Speakers

Birgitta Hauser

Database and Software Architect, Independent Consultant

Birgitta Hauser worked on the IBM i and its predecessors since 1992. She graduated with a business economics diploma, and started programming on the AS/400 in 1992. She worked and works as traditional RPG Programmer but also as Database and Software Engineer, focusing on IBM i application... Read More →

Sunday June 16, 2019 10:00 - 13:00 CEST
Rubin

Workshop

10:00 CEST

Hands-on IBM i + Node-RED = succeed faster in programming

IBM i is a private cloud on its own, and when used with open source technology in conjunction with Db2 for i, you can perform great things quickly and bring innovation for your business. Node-RED, which is built on Node.js, is a browser-based flow editor that makes it easy to wire together devices, APIs, and online services by simply dragging and dropping nodes on a palette. You then connect, or wire, the nodes to create flows that can be then deployed to the lightweight Node.js runtime with a single click. Make your idea a reality by prototyping like a master using Node-RED, and Node.js in conjunction with IBM i! Get hands-on experience and learn how to use Watson services, make a chatbot, connect to your RPG programs, use NoSQL databases using node-RED. And you don ™t even need any programming experience!

Speakers

Koen Decorte

CEO, CD-Invest

Sunday June 16, 2019 10:00 - 13:00 CEST
Jade

Workshop

10:00 CEST

Managing your IBM i with SQL - Made Easy!

On Db2 for i, SQL can be used for more than traditional database access. With the invention of IBM i Services, there are many options for accessing and managing your IBM i. This workshop will explore the many already existing examples shipped within IBM i Access Client Solutions. We will learn how to modify and enhance these to take your system management capabilities to the next level. Additionally, we will cover many examples that Scott has created to help IBM i clients accomplish specific modern system management. Come with your laptop loaded with the LATEST level for ACS. This will get you rolling on the road to managing your environment. Download ACS at http://ibm.biz/IBMi_ACS You don't need to be an SQL expert to use SQL to achieve proactive and automated management of your IBM i.

Speakers

Dave Owen

Advisory Software Engineer, IBM

David Owen is an Advisory Software Engineer at IBM. Joining IBM in 1991, he has worked in the guts of the operating system in Journal and Database. He is also the technical consult for Guardium on i and has assisted several customers with installation and proof of concept activities... Read More →

Sunday June 16, 2019 10:00 - 13:00 CEST
Turmalin

Workshop

13:00 CEST

Lunch for Pre-congress workshop attendees

Sunday June 16, 2019 13:00 - 14:00 CEST
Foyer

Event

14:00 CEST

Certifications

Speakers

Jakobs Koos

Board Member, NGN / SIG Common

Sunday June 16, 2019 14:00 - 17:00 CEST
Rubin

Certification

14:00 CEST

iDoctor for IBM i Deep Dive

iDoctor is the best tool for doing deep dive performance investigations on IBMi. iDoctor gives you a good graphical understanding about your performance data. This can be when you are looking at Collection Services data and Job Watcher data, but also PEX (Performance Explore) data. Wait accounting will be reviewed, so you understand how IBM i can make it possible to collect performance data used for deep diving into partition and your applications. You will see practical examples of iDoctor analyzing Collection Service data, Job Watcher data and PEX data, so you can get very deep information about bottlenecks and issues in jobs/threads that can help you solve performance problems. Before the conference, you are welcome to contact the speaker at morten.buur.rasmussen@dk.ibm.com to request your own data to be analyzed during the session. Before the conference, you will be guided through the collection of data, so that is ready for the conference. Almost all types of performance problems can be analyzed via iDoctor.

Speakers

Morten Buur Rasmussen

Senior IT Specialist at the IBM Technology Services, IBM

Morten Buur Rasmussen is a performance Specialist at IBM Lab Services Europe.Morten has 37 years of experience in the computing field. He started working with the S/38 and AS/400 in 1988 as programmer.Before joining the Lab Services, he worked for IBM Denmark and several European... Read More →

Sunday June 16, 2019 14:00 - 17:00 CEST
Aquamarin

Workshop

14:00 CEST

Make your move to free form RPG

Are you still holding on to fixed format RPG ? Or do you use free format RPG already, but not completely free ?
Then it’s time to upgrade your programming skills !

In this workshop we will walk through the RPG Free Format syntax, while keeping the old syntax in mind. We will look at practical examples, highlight new features and theory will be alternated with hands-on experience.

Speakers

Jürgen Desmidt

Software Developer, CD Invest

Jürgen Desmidt is software developer and trainer at CD Invest, a Belgian company specialized in modernizing IBM i applications.He started his career in 2000 as RPG developer and gained a lot of experience while working on projects in Belgium, Netherlands and France.LinkedIn - h... Read More →

Sunday June 16, 2019 14:00 - 17:00 CEST
Turmalin

Workshop

14:00 CEST

RDi for advanced users - in GERMAN

Learn the latest features and extensions of the newest RDi version.

Speakers

Andreas Bott

Anwendungsentwickler, PKS Software GmbH

Andreas Bott is RPG and Cobol developer at PKS Software, an innovative software house in Germany. Andreas is also trainer for programmers starting to learn RPG or Cobol, trainer for Rational Developer for i for experienced programers and trainer for modern programming techniques in... Read More →

Sunday June 16, 2019 14:00 - 17:00 CEST
Jade

Workshop

17:30 CEST

Welcome reception

Sunday June 16, 2019 17:30 - 19:30 CEST
Foyer

Event

07:30 CEST

Welcome Coffee in Expo

Monday June 17, 2019 07:30 - 08:00 CEST
Foyer

Event

08:00 CEST

Opening Session

Speakers

Ranga Deshpande

Immediate Past President, Coordinator/Moderator NextGen track, Common Europe

“Ranga” has been using IBM i and its predecessors in his entire IT professional career at Jules Bordet Institute, the Comprehensive Cancer Centre of the University of Brussels, Belgium.Ranga is an IBM Champion since 2012 and is a recipient of Lifetime Achievement Award of the... Read More →

Monday June 17, 2019 08:00 - 08:45 CEST
Saphir1

Event

08:45 CEST

IBM Key Note

Speakers

Steve Sibley

Vice President, IBM Power Product Management, IBM

Steve Sibley is the Vice President of Offering Management for IBM Cognitive Systems Infrastructure. Steve has held a variety of position in his 30 years at IBM and is passionate about bringing new technology to offerings that help customers transform their business for competitive... Read More →

Monday June 17, 2019 08:45 - 09:30 CEST
Saphir1

Event

09:45 CEST

RCAC - Row and Column Access Control - Secure your Data!

Data is the new Currency, is the essence of an article written by Neil Tardy based on an interview with Mike Cain (database consultant with IBM Lab Services). Since data is so important, it must be protected from unauthorized access and prevented from being stolen. With traditional methods and additional programming, data access could be restricted, but also circumvented! RCAC is an additional layer that is directly linked with the database tables. Users must be explicitly authorized for accessing either all or only a sub-set of the data. If a user is not authorized for any data, he will not get access to the data not even if his user profile has *ALLOBJ authority and independent which interface (SQL, native I/O, UPDDTA etc.) is used.

Speakers

Birgitta Hauser

Database and Software Architect, Independent Consultant

Monday June 17, 2019 09:45 - 10:45 CEST
Saphir2

Development

09:45 CEST

IBM i Roadmap

Deutscher Vortrag: Informationen über wichtige neuere Funktionen von IBM i in Kombination mit Anwendungsbeispielen

Speakers

Dr. Wolfgang Rother

Senior Technical Specialist Power, IBM

Monday June 17, 2019 09:45 - 10:45 CEST
Saphir1

German

09:45 CEST

Agile Concepts and integration for IBM i Environments

Agile Concepts and integration for IBM i Environments Agile (or Iterative) approaches to application management are a powerful and productive development model which is popular in many organizations. This session will explore the concepts including methods, lifecycle, pair programming, root-cause analysis, collaboration, collective ownership, planning, test-driven development, spike solutions, and exploratory testing. We will also cover the combination of agile development and traditional environment support. We will pay attention to this critical area of concern in many IBM i environment.

Speakers

Yvonne Enselman

Director of Professional Services, iTech Solutions

Yvonne Enselman is the Director of Professional Services for iTech Solutions where she manages the technical team and coordinates customer work. Her background is in Quality Assurance and she is certified at the advanced level. She enjoys all aspects of software testing and implementing... Read More →

Monday June 17, 2019 09:45 - 10:45 CEST
Turmalin1

Mixed

09:45 CEST

Get-together for young conference attendees

Speakers

Ann-Kathrin Stückl

Junior Sales Consultant, PKS Software GmbH

Ann-Kathrin Stückl works as junior sales consultant for PKS Software GmbH and is especially focusing on promoting the young IBM i generation. At the Common Europe Conference in Berlin, she will therefore moderate a session which is especially designed for young conference attendees... Read More →

Monday June 17, 2019 09:45 - 10:45 CEST
Turmalin2

Special

09:45 CEST

Storwize advanced topics

For the average IBM i shop storage has been just that storage. The primary differences between Internal disk and SAN disk for years was the complexity of connection and the price of the solution. Until not long ago questions such as What else can it do? were left unasked because the cost and complexity answers often put SAN storage out of reach.Changes to the cost and complexity equation have placed SANs within reach of most if not all IBM i customers. So if we ™ve got a SAN what can it do besides be storage? Glad you asked!SANs bring to us the ability to make a combinations of storage types appear as one. They have the ability built in to move data between tiers of disk from the slowest of the spinning rust to the fastest of the Solid state storage based on frequency of access and you, the admin, doesn ™t need to waste a moment doing it. SANs can encrypt your data at rest with no overhead to IBM i.SANs can create a copy of 20TB of data in just seconds, really! OK Not really but it looks like it did so effectively it did. That copy can now be used to perform a backup or to run reports at a point in time or as a training environment or a test environment. When you ™re done with it it goes away as fast as it was created, in a flash.SANs can replicate date near or far for use in disaster recovery or high availability environments.Higher end SANs can even front end other storage presenting that to IBM i or migrating data from one SAN to another.In this session we ™ll show how to make each of the above work and how each of these can be useful in your shop.Learning objectives:Understand how to encrypt data at rest.Understand how to set up easy tier to enable data movement betweenstorage tiers.Understand how to build, trigger, and reset a Flash copy.Understand how to build a replicated data set between Storwize SANsUnderstand how to use the command line on StorwizeUnderstand how to communicate and control a Storwize SAN from IBM i

Speakers

Larry Bolhuis

Cloud and Datacenter Engineer, Service Express Inc.

Larry has grown up with computers since his father became a CE in 1967. He obtained a bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Calvin College in 1982 and soon after began working on IBM midrange equipment with the S/34 and S/36. Larry began working on the As/400 at its introduction In 1988.After spending many years as a developer Larry began working on communications, networking, and systems management tasks. Years of... Read More →

Monday June 17, 2019 09:45 - 10:45 CEST
Rubin

Systems & Security

09:45 CEST

IBM i 7.4 Overview

IBM i has so many features and functions, it's impossible to know about them all. In this session, Steve Will, IBM i Chief Architect will give an overview of the most recent capabilities which have been produced for IBM i, so you can be up-to-the-minute up-to-date!

Speakers

Steve Will

IBM i CTO & Chief Architect, IBM

Steve is the CTO and Chief Architect for the IBM i Operating System. Spending the past fourteen years of his IBM career in this position, he has become an award-winning speaker, author of the influential blog "You and i," (https://bit.ly/You-and-i-blog) and is one of the most sought-after voices at customer briefings and events. Steve has worked on IBM i and its predecessors since before the creation of the AS/400, and is currently responsible for setting the strategy of the IBM i operating system, as well as deciding which enh... Read More →

Monday June 17, 2019 09:45 - 10:45 CEST
Aquamarin

Trends

09:45 CEST

ML-Software: iNow UI – The Modernization Sensation for IBM i Applications

Modernize your applications faster than ever with iNow UI. Its proven technology automatically transforms all 5250 screens regardless of the underlying development technology RPG, COBOL plus others and even if no source code exists. Enhance your user experience by providing powerful rich clients which can also be used on ANY browser on ANY platform and through ANY device. Within days of iNow UI being implemented your users will be delighted by being greeted by modern interfaces, enhanced usability and a superior future proof way of working with their “trusted” familiar IBM i applications.

Re-build your applications smarter than ever before using tried and tested “intelligent algorithms” to both recognize then analyze the structure of each green screen and then automatically create modern and treasured UIs. iNow UI patented intelligent algorithms work seamlessly and automatically against any existing and newly developed screens eliminating development and modernization effort without limiting any future ongoing development and enhancements.

iNow UI delivers future-proof modernization alongside your existing and future software development plans using powerful integration interfaces between both the IBM i and the .NET world. iNow UI ensures that you maintain your IBM I skills base, retain your development personnel, software and hardware and prepares your IBM i investments for a whole new world of modern technologies to solve your industry’s key challenges around software development process improvement and hiring and retaining the best available development talents.

Speakers

Torsten Klinge

Owner, ML-Software GmbH

Torsten Klinge is the CEO of ML Software, the market leader in Modernization of IBM i User Interfaces and Digital Transformation. Torsten has been an expert in this field since completing his studies in Berlin in the early 90s. Before founding ML Software Torsten fulfilled a number... Read More →

Monday June 17, 2019 09:45 - 10:45 CEST
Jade 1

Vendor

09:45 CEST

Using FalconStor VTL as a Backup Target for IBM i

For too long, the standard method of backing up IBM i systems has been with a locally attached tape drive or library. The result is reduced performance due to limited backup streams, excessive manual tape handling, and no way to secure data offsite. By introducing the FalconStor® Virtual Tape Library (VTL) solution into an IBM i environment, organizations can non-disruptively replace tape backup in a disk-to-disk (D2D) format to accelerate backup/recovery processes and improve operational efficiency. FalconStor VTL provides integration with native backup tools, IPL bare-metal recovery from virtual or physical tape, and direct physical tape support with encryption to maximize secure operations. This reduces operational and media costs while increasing performance levels to meet stringent application recovery service level agreements (SLAs) and to maximize return on investment (ROI).

Speakers

Guy Berlo

Managing Director EMEA, Falconstor

Guy Berlo comes from ProphetStor Data Services where he served as VP Sales & Operations startingup an new business in Central & Eastern Europe around DC Orchestration using Artificial Intelligence(AI) driven Analysis and Prediction to support DC Operation.Prior to that he worked for... Read More →

Monday June 17, 2019 09:45 - 10:45 CEST
Jade 2

Vendor

11:00 CEST

17, no 27, no 37 facts and figures about Rational Developer for i (RDi)

You'll have to pry SEU from my cold dead fingers! Or I am SO much faster with SEU than I could possibly be with RDi! And of course, my favorite SEU offers so much more functionality than RDi! This fact and figure session discusses the basics of RDi terminology and how to get started. After just one session you will see how those green screen developer guys are all wrong

Speakers

Charles Guarino

CEO & IBM Champion, Central Park Data Systems

Charles Guarino believes in the “power” of IBM Power Systems. His career reflects his dedication and interest in bringing the platform and its solutions to others and as a result has been recognized as an IBM Champion.He is a member of COMMON’s Speaker Excellence Hall of Fame... Read More →

Monday June 17, 2019 11:00 - 12:00 CEST
Saphir2

Development

11:00 CEST

Modern programming with RPG

Speakers

Andreas Bott

Anwendungsentwickler, PKS Software GmbH

Monday June 17, 2019 11:00 - 12:00 CEST
Saphir1

German

11:00 CEST

Hidden Gems of IBM i

The IBM i team has been delivering new function two times per year since 2010. New releases and technology refreshes deliver a broad range of function and sometimes the smallest line items can be easily missed. Scott, Mark, and Alison have reviewed the past releases/refreshes and have assembled some of their favorite hidden gems; things that you might have missed but should know.

Speakers

Alison Butterill

WW Program Director, Product Management, IBM i, IBM

Alison Butterill is the offering manager for IBM i. She owns the responsibility for the IBM i business, including defining and guiding future directions and strategies. She works with the IBM i sales, marketing, and development teams as well as clients and partners to ensure that... Read More →

Dave Owen

Advisory Software Engineer, IBM

Tim Rowe

Business Architect Application Development & Systems Management for IBM i, IBM

Tim Rowe is the Business Architect responsible for Application Development and Systems Management for the IBM i operating system. His responsibilities include helping to make sure that the IBM i has what is needed to be successful both today and into the future. He sends much of his... Read More →

Jesse Gorzinski

Business Architect, IBM

Jesse Gorzinski is a tinkerer, programmer, hacker, and an award-winning speaker. In his role as business architect at IBM, Jesse has helped build an open source ecosystem on the IBM i platform. He has helped countless numbers of small businesses and enterprise clients deploy open... Read More →

Kris Whitney

IBM

Kris Whitney is a Senior Technical Staff Member at IBM Rochester. He has worked at IBM for the last 22+ years and currently is leading the development for Db2 Mirror for i and IBM i Public Cloud enablement.

Monday June 17, 2019 11:00 - 12:00 CEST
Turmalin1

Mixed

11:00 CEST

IBM i Explained part 1(2)

Let's see what IBM i is all about..

Speakers

Torbjörn Appehl

Vice President & IBM Power Advisor, Common Europe / Built on Power

I've been working with IBM i and It's predecessors since 1997. Today I have my own company Built on Power, focusing on helping IBM and their Independent Software Vendors (ISV) to fully take advantage of all technologies available on the platform. IBM Champion since 2016, producing... Read More →

Monday June 17, 2019 11:00 - 12:00 CEST
Turmalin2

Special

11:00 CEST

Administration Runtime Expert in action

See and learn how Administration Runtime Expert can be used to takeover the distribution and apply process from one central LPAR to other LPARs.

Speakers

Rudi van Helvoirt

Technical Director, Easi Nederland

After having started as a System/38 programmer in 1986. In 1989 the switch was made to system programming and systems management.Being passionate about systems management he founded van Helvoirt Automatisering in 1993.Rudi enjoys helping IBM i customers ever since for running their... Read More →

Monday June 17, 2019 11:00 - 12:00 CEST
Rubin

Systems & Security

11:00 CEST

Cloud Storage Solutions for IBM i

Cloud Storage Solutions for IBM i enables clients to store data in a cloud for backup or archiving using either BRMS or going direct via a UI/dashboard to an IBM cloud including the IBM COS or to an AWS cloud. We will cover all aspects of this solution including a live demonstration.

Speakers

Steven Finnes

Product Manager, IBM

Steve has spent several years in IBM with positions spanning basic research to product development, product offering and marketing. He is the product offering manager for IBM Power Systems with responsibility for PowerHA for AIX, PowerHA for IBM i and the CBU.

Monday June 17, 2019 11:00 - 12:00 CEST
Aquamarin

Trends

11:00 CEST

Blue Consult - SAP HANA on POWER vs. SAP HANA on Intel

Gegenüberstellung der Hardware-Plattformen mit faktischem Vergleich anhand einer Analyse bei einem Kunden

Speakers

Grit Wasmund

Senior Consultant SAP/SAP HANA / Team Coordinator SAP, BLUE Consult

Durch ihre langjährige, branchenübergreifende Tätigkeit als SAP Beraterinverfüg Grit Wasmund über einen großen Wissens- und Erfahrungsschatz imBereich SAP bzw. SAP HANA. Frau Wasmund ist seit Oktober 2018 bei derBLUE Consult beschäftigt und begleitet in ihrer Funktion als Senior... Read More →

Monday June 17, 2019 11:00 - 12:00 CEST
Jade 1

Vendor

12:00 CEST

Lunch in Expo

Monday June 17, 2019 12:00 - 13:00 CEST
Foyer

Event

13:00 CEST

Automated UI modernization and so much more for IBM I applications

The modernization of outdated user interfaces of IBM I applications is regarded by our industry segment as the most obvious and pressing of the challenges we face. In this session, you’ll experience a fast and smart way of modernizing green screens to produce powerful rich clients in order to delight your user-base and ensure you remain competitive and ready for future challenges.
Get yourself started with an automated UI modernization delivering both excellent “time to value” through a robust, future proof and secure direction and strategy for your IBM I applications. Use intelligent proven algorithms to analyze and recognize the structure of each and every green screen to automatically deliver your users modern and treasured UIs. Enhance these algorithms and create your own bespoke versions to ensure ongoing optimization of your modernization strategy. Use a graphical UI designer for further customization, ongoing improvement and deliver your new rich clients into ANY HTML5 browser on ANY platform and through ANY device.
By the end of this session, together we will create the best looking rich and thin clients for IBM i applications with minimum effort, which are faster, smarter and future-proof software solutions with a cool “look and feel”, optimized usability and work flows, great performance, and of course delivering additional functionality.

Speakers

Torsten Klinge

Owner, ML-Software GmbH

Monday June 17, 2019 13:00 - 14:00 CEST
Saphir2

Development

13:00 CEST

Künstliche Intelligenz - zwischen Mythos und Wirklichkeit

Wie keine andere Technologie wird KI die Arbeitswelt verändern. Glaubt man den Medien, wird die Maschine den Menschen in den kommenden Jahren in vielen Bereichen ablösen. Doch was davon ist Mythos, was Wirklichkeit? In diesem Vortrag lernen Sie die wichtigsten Prinzipien der KI kennen, was bereits möglich ist und was noch nicht. Das Heute: Sie erfahren, was mit dem Stand der Technik tatsächlich ist. Das Morgen: Sie erfahren, an welchen Themen derzeit intensiv geforscht wird. Das Übermorgen: Sie erfahren, was Human Level Intelligence ist und wie sich diese auf die Gesellschaft auswirken könnte.

Speakers

Florian Werner-Jäger

Owner, Infofeld GmbH

Florian Werner-Jäger is a consultant and trainer for machine learning-related topics, with a focus on the finance sector.He's particularly active in developing and promoting innovative teaching methods, bringing close the nuts and bolts of AI to non-developers.Florian's academic... Read More →

Monday June 17, 2019 13:00 - 14:00 CEST
Saphir1

German

13:00 CEST

Panel discussion: Is Cloud the answer?

Speakers

Wolfgang Singer

Wolfgang Singer is an IT consultant in Vienna, Austria. He specializes in future technologies. He worked for four years at the IBM International Technical Support Center in Raleigh, USA, was a speaker at worldwide events, submitted patents and is the author of several books.

Juan Manuel Alcudia

IBM

Former WebSphere Portal Server Specialist and Specialist on Performance and DB2 on IBM i Software Services and RPG programmer . I'm also a longbow archer and a bass player. A renaissance man.

Larry Bolhuis

Cloud and Datacenter Engineer, Service Express Inc.

Monday June 17, 2019 13:00 - 14:00 CEST
Turmalin1

Mixed

13:00 CEST

Finding your voice (2 hour session)

Speakers

Jonathon Sawdon

COMMON Europe

After graduating from university with a BA in English/Theatre Studies I trained as an actor at the Poor School, London for two years (1988-1990). I then spent the next couple of years honing my skills in front of the most demanding of audiences - children - performing in TIE productions... Read More →

Monday June 17, 2019 13:00 - 14:00 CEST
Turmalin2

Special

13:00 CEST

PowerHA for IBM i

Abstract: In this session, we will discuss shared storage clustering, how it works the business value that is causing the transition from internal disk and software replication to PowerHA and IBM storage. We will also talk about the product roadmap; what ™s coming and when. PowerHA is about simplicity, certainty of outcome and economics. Come and find out why you should check this out and why. We plan to do a live demonstration as well take a look at the 2019 enhancements.

Speakers

Steven Finnes

Product Manager, IBM

Monday June 17, 2019 13:00 - 14:00 CEST
Rubin

Systems & Security

13:00 CEST

Getting Started wtih Machine Learning and IBM i

The emerging realm of AI and Machine Learning can bring seemingly-limitless opportunity for your enterprise (and perhaps even mankind). How can you leverage these new technologies from IBM i?This session will provide an overview of what technologies you can be using from your IBM i today. We will cover various AI/ML packages available to run on the system, as well as the cloud-based capability of IBM Watson. After all, IBM i has always been a data-centric platform. Surely, Db2 for i houses mission-critical and intensely valuable data. Coupling AI and ML with this data can bring an unprecedented amount of innovation.

Speakers

Jesse Gorzinski

Business Architect, IBM

Alison Butterill

WW Program Director, Product Management, IBM i, IBM

Monday June 17, 2019 13:00 - 14:00 CEST
Aquamarin

Trends

14:15 CEST

Panel Session: The future of Software on IBM i

Speakers

Liam Allan

Advisory Software Engineer | Visual Studio Code fellow, IBM

Liam Allan, an IBM Champion, helps IBM i development teams modernize their applications and bridge the gap between traditional and modern development practices. Founder of Works of Barry, he specializes in DevOps, RPG, ILE, Node.js, PHP, PASE and open source. He also supports the... Read More →

Birgitta Hauser

Database and Software Architect, Independent Consultant

Jennifer Fisher

VP, Business Engineering, Fresche Solutions

Jennifer is responsible for all aspects of the ecosystem, including all channel partners, VAR’s, CSP’s, ISVs, MSP’s, all aspects of influencers to our community and our strategic relationship with IBM. Prior to that, she was VP of Global Sales & Marketing where she was responsible... Read More →

Torsten Klinge

Owner, ML-Software GmbH

Monday June 17, 2019 14:15 - 15:15 CEST
Saphir2

Development

14:15 CEST

Integration of new technologies in existing environments by using data queues

You want to integrate new technology into your existing application?You want to integrate microservices on other plattforms (e.g. Windows or Unix) into your IBM i application?Scalability of parallelization should be easily done?Then the use of data queues will be interesting for your!

Speakers

Andreas Prouza

Trainer, Consultant

I started my education in this area in the only school which educates the IBM i server.This was the time when I get convinced into this system.When IBM i 6.1 was available for Beta testing, I had my first presentation for Common Austria.I like the idea of knowledge transfer, so I... Read More →

Monday June 17, 2019 14:15 - 15:15 CEST
Saphir1

German

14:15 CEST

What the Heck is Going on with Java

Java, there are all sorts of things going on in the news when it comes to Java. Some things apply to IBM i, others... not so much. This session will help sort out what is what when it comes to Java and IBM i. We will also take a look at the future changes and how they will effect your applications.

Speakers

Jesse Gorzinski

Business Architect, IBM

Monday June 17, 2019 14:15 - 15:15 CEST
Turmalin1

Mixed

14:15 CEST

Finding your voice (2 hour session)

Speakers

Jonathon Sawdon

COMMON Europe

Monday June 17, 2019 14:15 - 15:15 CEST
Turmalin2

Special

14:15 CEST

Moving from HMC Classic GUI to the new Enhanced GUI

We have used the Classic GUI on the HMC for years, now with the new Enhanced GUI delivered with HMC 8.7 and above, nothing is the same. Learn how to navigator the new GUI, where everything is now, and how to use the functions that you are used to.

Speakers

Pete Massiello

IBM i Advisor, iTech Solutions: A Service Express Company

Pete Massiello has been working with the AS/400, iSeries, IBM i since 1989, focusing on systems management and technical support. He has held numerous technical positions through out his career. He is the President of iTech Solutions Group, an IBM Premier Business Partner delivering... Read More →

Monday June 17, 2019 14:15 - 15:15 CEST
Rubin

Systems & Security

14:15 CEST

Whats brewing inside your server

Like all good beers your Power servers start with a great mix of key ingredients. IBM has brewed up a revolutionary new platform that has been able to secure the #1 and #2 spots on the Top500 list as well as the #1 spot on the IO-500 list. What are those key ingredients and are they in my POWER9 server? What can I do with them now and down the road?

Speakers

Douglas Gibbs

Product Manager - Power IO, IBM

Douglas Gibbs is the offering manager for IBM Power Systems I/O and works closely with the overall Offering Management, Sales and Development teams regarding all manners of I/O. Douglas has worked in the IT Industry for more than 25 years and has been in a variety of positions at... Read More →

Monday June 17, 2019 14:15 - 15:15 CEST
Aquamarin

Trends

14:15 CEST

GROUPLINK: Integrating IBM Power in Multi Clouds using Red Hat Open Source Technology

Based on a strong and long-standing collaboration between IBM and Red Hat, today’s IBM Power Systems provide an ideal hardware foundation for running modern applications and services. Do you plan to deploy your SAP HANA workloads on Power? Or do you need a container application platform for software development (and operations)? Sebastian Siegert from Red Hat and Nils Wulf from GROUPLINK member UBL will share how this can be achieved with Red Hat and IBM technologies.

Speakers

Sebastian Siegert

Alliance Manager EMEA for IBM/Lenovo, Red Hat GmbH

Sebastian Siegert started his career as a freelancer for Microsoft in Marketing and Training. Following marketing positions at major distributors a.o. as the Manager of Software Marketing in Ingram Micro, he moved into sales roles in 2002, when he joined SUSE Linux and with this the... Read More →

Nils Wulf

CEO, UBL Informationssysteme GmbH

Mr. Nils Wulf is CEO of UBL Informationssysteme GmbH in Neu-Isenburg /Frankfurt, member of GROUPLINK alliance. He is an Industrial Sales ManagementAssistant and holds a master degree in computer science. He has joined UBL in 1989and developed its company from a classical IT system... Read More →

Monday June 17, 2019 14:15 - 15:15 CEST
Jade 2

Vendor

14:15 CEST

Tech Data: Power-ful IT-Infrastructur for AI and Machine Learning based on IBM Power AC922 servers

The lifecycle of AI and ML applications pose new challenges on IT infrastructure like servers, storage and networking. This session shows the iterative nature of the AI/ML lifecycle and the positive impact of IBM Power's unique capabilities like NVlink and SnapML. Integration into existing infrastructure will also be shown

Speakers

Jens Mannteufel

IT Architect, TechData

Jens Mannteufel is an IT Architect in TechData's IBM AI Acceleration team helping IBMbusiness partners and customers to create value out of AI and ML use cases. He has astrong background in building IT infrastructures for data centric applications in globallydistributed environme... Read More →

Monday June 17, 2019 14:15 - 15:15 CEST
Jade 1

Vendor

15:15 CEST

Extended Coffee Break in Expo

Monday June 17, 2019 15:15 - 15:45 CEST
Foyer

Event

15:45 CEST

Migrating to git

Learn about the steps to migrating your application source code into git, which allows for modern build tools, CI/CD and the ability to move code around quickly. This session covers: RPG, git, GNU Make, deployment, CI/CD

Speakers

Liam Allan

Advisory Software Engineer | Visual Studio Code fellow, IBM

Monday June 17, 2019 15:45 - 16:45 CEST
Saphir2

Development

15:45 CEST

Create or Replace DDS Files with DDL Objects - IN GERMAN!

With the latest releases and technology refreshes the SQL data definition language (DDL) for creating and maintaining database objects was enormously enhanced. DDS on the other hand is stabilized. But still a lot of applications even those with a modern graphical interface and where the latest goodies of the programming language are used in the source code are based on DDS described files. The excuse DDL enhancements cannot be used, because of the DDS description and the native I/O access of these files, does not count any more. With Reverse Engineering, the SQL code for DDS described objects can be retrieved. CREATE OR REPLACE statements allow DDS described files to be converted into SQL defined database objects, while the programs that use these files can stay untouched. With the CREATE OR REPLACE TABLE statement, files with fields based on field reference tables can be managed.

Speakers

Birgitta Hauser

Database and Software Architect, Independent Consultant

Monday June 17, 2019 15:45 - 16:45 CEST
Saphir1

German

15:45 CEST

Managing Open Source on IBM i with Containers and RPMs

You may have heard about the latest news with open source: RPM's! As a system administrator, you may have lots of questions. What does this mean for me? Come to this session to demystify this bold new world. In doing so, you will learn important facets of open source management, like checking software levels, installing updates, etc. What best practices should you follow? Also, we will explore the support options for the open source technologies you are leveraging.

Speakers

Jesse Gorzinski

Business Architect, IBM

Monday June 17, 2019 15:45 - 16:45 CEST
Turmalin1

Mixed

15:45 CEST

IBM i Explained part 2(2)

Speakers

Torbjörn Appehl

Vice President & IBM Power Advisor, Common Europe / Built on Power

Monday June 17, 2019 15:45 - 16:45 CEST
Turmalin2

Special

15:45 CEST

Common Observations and Pitfalls in the IBM i Performance Area

There are typical performance pitfalls that IBM Lab Services consultants find during many performance assessments. Some of the most important areas will be covered during the presentation. The main focus will be around the Power8 observations and experience, but also other areas are covered.Please be aware this is an advanced presentation.

Speakers

Morten Buur Rasmussen

Senior IT Specialist at the IBM Technology Services, IBM

Monday June 17, 2019 15:45 - 16:45 CEST
Rubin

Systems & Security

15:45 CEST

Db2 Mirror Revealed

In this session, Kris will dive into the latest new technology for IBM i – Db2 Mirror. He will discuss the value of Continuous Availability and how this is accomplished on IBM i.

Speakers

Kris Whitney

IBM

Monday June 17, 2019 15:45 - 16:45 CEST
Aquamarin

Trends

15:45 CEST

Fresche Solutions: Market Trends, Challenges and Customer Successes for IBM i Modernization

Join Fresche Solutions and their partners Axsos AG and GOERING GmbH, for an overview of trends and challenges in the market. Learn about customer experiences and how local knowledge and skills have helped companies innovate and implement change to their business and mission critical applications.

This session will be both in English and German

Speakers

Jennifer Fisher

VP, Business Engineering, Fresche Solutions

Michael Seifert

Head of CSDM Product & Product Services, AXSOS AG

Michael Seifert in working since 1988 in the IT business. After his study of Economics he started an training on the job working on several platforms (Cobol mainframe, Adabas Natural, SAP) before he focussed in the middle of the 90s to his target platform IBM i.He has experience from... Read More →

Andreas Göring

CEO, GOERING GmbH

Andreas has been an enthusiastic developer on the IBM i since 1989. As a consultant in ERP Systems he has a large number of customers in Germany, many of them international companies. Customers appreciate his mixture of technical know-how and business expertise, which makes Andreas... Read More →

Monday June 17, 2019 15:45 - 16:45 CEST
Jade 2

Vendor, English

15:45 CEST

Symtrax: E-Invoicing: Managing Document Output Processes Effectively

We shall demonstrate how easy and quick it is to realise complex processes around e-invoicing, be it in XML or ZUGFeRD-format. This includes intuitive solutions about how to enrich and distribute documents, and how to embed a validation process, simply by creating mapping templates for respective document output. The solution is capable of handling even large volumes, from bar code label to documents with multiple pages.

Speakers

Dominique Corazolla

Solution Sales (DACH), Symtrax

Dominique Corazolla grew up in Cologne. After some years in France and the UK, he returned to Germany to help develop the EMEA-market for the then unknown UK company Promethean, provider of interactive whiteboard solutions for education. Innovative technologies and user-friendly human-machine... Read More →

Monday June 17, 2019 15:45 - 16:45 CEST
Jade 1

Vendor

17:00 CEST

Debugging with RDi From the On Ramp to the Cruising Lane

Displaying active variables? Check. Breakpoints? Yep, we got those too. Conditional and watch breakpoints? Sure thing. But what about service entry points, which allow us to debug another user ™s job without having to use STRSRVJOB? Debug configurations to save multiple debug settings? Code coverage that shows each line of code executed when a program has completed? This is only the start of how the graphical RDi debugger exceeds the capabilities to the green screen version.

Speakers

Charles Guarino

CEO & IBM Champion, Central Park Data Systems

Monday June 17, 2019 17:00 - 18:00 CEST
Saphir2

Development

17:00 CEST

Direkte und indirekte Programmaufrufe

Lernen Sie, wie Sie Abhaengigkeiten und Zusammenhaenge Ueber Modulgrenzen hinweg verstehen.

Speakers

Joachim Sieber

Technical Account Manager, PKS Software GmbH

Joachim Sieber ist seit 28 Jahren bei der PKS Software GmbH beschäftigt und als Gesellschafter eng in die Gestaltung der Unternehmensstrategie eingebunden. Herr Joachim Sieber befasst sich seit mehr als 25 Jahren damit, RPG-/ Cobol-Programme und die zugehörigen Legacy Systeme nachhaltig... Read More →

Monday June 17, 2019 17:00 - 18:00 CEST
Saphir1

German

17:00 CEST

Considerations of IBM i in the Age of Cloud

In this session, Juan Manuel Alcudia from Lab Services will show you things to consider if you are thinking on moving your IBM i to the Cloud. How are they billing you? (CPW, cores...), who is responsible of what? (separation of duties), performance considerations...

Speakers

Juan Manuel Alcudia

IBM

Former WebSphere Portal Server Specialist and Specialist on Performance and DB2 on IBM i Software Services and RPG programmer . I'm also a longbow archer and a bass player. A renaissance man.

Monday June 17, 2019 17:00 - 18:00 CEST
Turmalin1

Mixed

17:00 CEST

Team Challenges: How to adapt when work-life becomes unbalanced

Speakers

Yvonne Enselman

Director of Professional Services, iTech Solutions

Monday June 17, 2019 17:00 - 18:00 CEST
Turmalin2

Special

17:00 CEST

IBM i Availability Update

This session covers the recent availability enhancements to the IBM i Operating System etc. It covers changes and enhancements from V6R1 thru to the latest release and technology refreshes.

Speakers

David Painter

Senior Managing Consultant, IBM UK Ltd

Monday June 17, 2019 17:00 - 18:00 CEST
Rubin

Systems & Security

17:00 CEST

The Best of ACS!

IBM i Access Client Solutions (ACS) is the strategic member of the IBM i Access Product Family, and it is a platform independent client that is supported running on multiple Operating Systems like Macintosh, Linux, and Windows. In this session Scott and Tim will use ACS to show best practices in managing and administering the database as well as other aspects of the system. Come to this session to learn about all the great features available in ACS for the database developer and administrator, and how they are in many cases better than what you've been using! Learning Objectives:Discover the latest features in Run SQL Scripts, SQL Performance Center, and moreRevisit the IBM i system access and management strategyLive Demo !!

Speakers

Tim Rowe

Business Architect Application Development & Systems Management for IBM i, IBM

Dave Owen

Advisory Software Engineer, IBM

Monday June 17, 2019 17:00 - 18:00 CEST
Aquamarin

Trends

17:00 CEST

Rocket ALM: Empower DevOps & Agile Development: How to bring together the modern development with DevOps tools such as Git/Jenkins/Maven and the IBMi development together.

We will first review why Agile Development and DevOps go together and why businesses are all adopting it now.
Then we will show you how you can demystify the complexity of using both modern DevOps tools and the IBMi ones all together to be able to deliver more to your business in an Agile but still controlled pace.

Speakers

Cyril Chaar

Account Executive, Rocket Software UK Ltd.

Cyril first started to work with Aldon in 2001 as a Sales Executive in Europe. When Rocket Software acquired Aldon in 2011, he later moved to a role where he would mentor the European teams sharing his project experience with over 200 customers using Rocket Aldon ALM in Europe. Today... Read More →

Monday June 17, 2019 17:00 - 18:00 CEST
Jade 2

Vendor, English

18:00 CEST

Open Evening (city-on-own, vendor events, or country group activities)

Monday June 17, 2019 18:00 - 21:00 CEST
City

Event

07:30 CEST

Welcome Coffee in Expo

Tuesday June 18, 2019 07:30 - 08:00 CEST
Foyer

Event

08:00 CEST

Development of the FIELDPROC Column-Level encryption procedures

Column-level encryption as well as the FIELDPROC mechanism
combined together can give you an excellent weapon against unauthorised data access.
However to make it happen you have to deep dive into the programming arcana.

Join my presentation to convince yourself that such a sophisticated task can be done by yourself.
Step by step I will explain all the components that the procedure has to cover,
such as the system APIs, call parameters, predefined structures, cryptography foundations.

Moreover, join to see how to do this in C/C++ language.

Speakers

Rafal Jablonski

Founder CEO, DeLab

Founder of the DeLab company building a specialized midware applications.Rafal has begun his app-dev adventure in 80’s enchanted with processors of the time.He has been working for telcom as well as financial institutions. Former IBMer supporting IBM i clients, universities and... Read More →

Tuesday June 18, 2019 08:00 - 09:00 CEST
Saphir2

Development

08:00 CEST

Wie neue Technologien unser Leben verändern könnten

Diese Session gibt einen Überblick über neue Technologien und ihren Einfluss auf die Zukunft: Internet of Things, Selfdriving Cars, Robotics, Artificial Intelligence und welche Jobs dadurch ersetzt werden könnten.

Speakers

Wolfgang Singer

Tuesday June 18, 2019 08:00 - 09:00 CEST
Saphir1

German

08:00 CEST

The Strategy Behind Open Source

You may have noticed that IBM has been embracing open source technologies lately. Why has it been such a strong force in the IBM roadmap? Because open source technologies can bring a lot of business value to the enterprise! In this session, discover why open source can be strategic and how it can address some of the primary concerns in the marketplace.

Speakers

Jesse Gorzinski

Business Architect, IBM

Tuesday June 18, 2019 08:00 - 09:00 CEST
Turmalin1

Mixed

08:00 CEST

What you need to know to successfully upgrade to IBM i 7.4

When doing an upgrade to IBM i, there is more work involved in planning the upgrade than in the upgrade itself. When you have done the planning, the upgrade is simple. This session covers planning tips, prerequisites, hardware issues, software compatibility, and then post-installation requirements. Your upgrade isn't complete until this last step is done. While this presentation focuses on upgrading to V7.3, if you are upgrading to an earlier release, (V7.1, V7.2), we also cover those releases.

Speakers

Pete Massiello

IBM i Advisor, iTech Solutions: A Service Express Company

Tuesday June 18, 2019 08:00 - 09:00 CEST
Rubin

Systems & Security

08:00 CEST

IBM i in the Age of Approximate Computing

No one will argue that computing, across hardware and software, has evolved over the past 30 years to allow us to do things about which our grandparents never dreamed. Would they have guessed that all that computational power, combined with unfathomable volumes of data, would be used to get less accurate answers? That is the strength and beauty of the cognitive era, as computing works like our brains not giving the right answer, but to deliver the best answer. IBM i, with its integrated database, linkages to the latest programming languages, and connections to the very latest cognitive applications is just as relevant in the era of approximate computing as it was at its inception.

Speakers

Alison Butterill

WW Program Director, Product Management, IBM i, IBM

Tuesday June 18, 2019 08:00 - 09:00 CEST
Aquamarin

Trends

08:00 CEST

Iptor in a Cloud orientated, hyper connected world

The first part of the session will include details about the Iptor cloud offering through the IBM Partnership. In this section we will also talk about market trends that are fueling the Iptor investment in the Cloud Managed Services (CMS) as well as the business value that can be achieved by moving to the cloud. The second part of the session will be focused on Iptor aperio. Iptor aperio enables iPower users to expose methods and functions on the iPower platform as RESTful API’s that can then be consumed by external applications for a fully scalable, real-time integration.

Speakers

Steve Temple

Director Business Development Solutions Portfolio, Iptor

Responsible for identifying new portfolio opportunities and accelerate existing ones in order to drive revenue from the existing customer base as well as to ensure the portfolio meets vertical requirements for new customer acquisition in the future. Also a member of the Marketing... Read More →

Tuesday June 18, 2019 08:00 - 09:00 CEST
Jade 2

Vendor

09:15 CEST

RDi and Git - The Basics

What are the steps to getting your source code stored in GitHub? We will go through the entire process step by step and get you on your way. Once attending this session you will see how to implement RDi and Git The Easy Way!

Speakers

Charles Guarino

CEO & IBM Champion, Central Park Data Systems

Tuesday June 18, 2019 09:15 - 10:15 CEST
Saphir2

Development

09:15 CEST

Programmstrukturen schnell und einfach verstehen

Lernen Sie, wie Sie schnell und mit korrektem Ergebnis die interne Programmstruktur Ihrer Anwendungen verstehen und Zugriffe - egal woher â€“ analysieren.

Speakers

Joachim Sieber

Technical Account Manager, PKS Software GmbH

Tuesday June 18, 2019 09:15 - 10:15 CEST
Saphir1

German

09:15 CEST

Introduction to Quality Assurance and Software Testing

Introduction to Quality Assurance and Software TestingQuality Assurance in software development is known to be an important factor for IT teams and goals. Regardless if testing is done by developers or testers it is crucial. We will talk about concepts and practices defined as the foundation of testing by ISTQB methodology. This will covering topics such as defects and ramifications, how testing is part of the larger quality assurance model, the definitions of error, defect, fault, and failure. We will discuss the difference between debugging and testing, the objectives of testing, and how testing changes at different parts of development and in different development lifecycles. Learning Objectives Describe how a defect in software can cause harm to a company. Distinguish between the cause of a defect and its effects. Give reasons why testing is necessary by giving examples. Describe why testing is part of quality assurance with examples of how testing contributes to higher quality. Explain and compare the terms error, defect, fault, failure, and the corresponding terms mistake and bug. Recall the common objectives of testing.

Speakers

Yvonne Enselman

Director of Professional Services, iTech Solutions

Tuesday June 18, 2019 09:15 - 10:15 CEST
Turmalin1

Mixed

09:15 CEST

Worst Practices in Systems Management.

We've all heard stories of things gone wrong, some were just bad, some were horrible, and some were just plain hilarious! The more you know of these things the more likely you can avoid them. This session will be a user feedback session where the horrible terrible and very bad experieneces of audience members will be added to the speakers experiences and used as educational tools to prevent those problems from killing us. You know the rule, smart people learn from their mistakes, the truly brilliant learn from someone else's. Come make yourself look brilliant! Learning Objectives:System Admins have every opportunity to be the goat and no opportunity to be the hero. This session will help avoid some of the goat opportunities.

Speakers

Larry Bolhuis

Cloud and Datacenter Engineer, Service Express Inc.

Tuesday June 18, 2019 09:15 - 10:15 CEST
Rubin

Systems & Security

09:15 CEST

Using Machine Learning and Data Science Libraries

One of the hottest topics in computing today is machine learning, or creating an 'artificial intelligence' to help analyze and categorize your data. Many businesses are inundated with large amounts of data, but don't know how to leverage it to draw new insights. In this session we cover how to set up open-source machine-learning software on your IBM i, either through Python packages that enable machine learning or offloading data and then run through a few examples on simulated data. These examples will be used to show how creating models to draw inferences on your data can lead to real benefits for your business's bottom line.

Learning Objectives:

1. Learn what options are available for machine learning on the IBM i.
2. Understand what machine learning is, and most importantly what it is not
3. Understand a basic example presented, and start to brainstorm about how inferencing might help their business.

Speakers

Jesse Gorzinski

Business Architect, IBM

Tuesday June 18, 2019 09:15 - 10:15 CEST
Aquamarin

Trends

09:15 CEST

PKS: Develop web and mobile user interfaces - but in the right way. How to get away from apparent solutions and still not completely reinvent the wheel.

The replacement or extension of 5250 frontends by web and mobile applications is still on the to-do list of many IBM i users. PKS shows what is possible today and why now is the right time to switch to real web development.

Speakers

Heidi Schmidt

Geschäftsführende Gesellschafterin, PKS Software GmbH

Heidi Schmidt is Managing Partner of PKS Software GmbH with offices at the Lake Constance and in Frankfurt. She holds a degree in informatics and focuses on application development, modernization and migration of legacy software with her team of over 45 employees. Heidi Schmidt ist... Read More →

Tuesday June 18, 2019 09:15 - 10:15 CEST
Jade 1

Vendor

10:30 CEST

Let's Join Together - Joining SQL Tables and Views

Accessing data with SQL becomes more and more important. For resolving a single request data located in multiple tables must be filtered, accumulated and/or merged together. In this way we need to focus our attention on consolidating data split over multiple tables. SQL provides different methods for joining tables and views together, such as inner, outer, exception, cross and full join. A table or view even can be joined with itself or with the result of a different select statement. The result returned from multiple select statements can be merged and even accumulated in a single SQL statement.

Speakers

Birgitta Hauser

Database and Software Architect, Independent Consultant

Tuesday June 18, 2019 10:30 - 11:30 CEST
Saphir2

Development

10:30 CEST

Apache with node.JS & PHP

Get an introduction how to use the Open Source technology in your existing environment.Andreas Prouza, Developer and Consultant in new technologies on IBM i, will give you an overview how to easily set up an Web Server including security (e.g. certificates), integration of RPG & Co and to create a fully Web Service in 3 minutes.

Speakers

Andreas Prouza

Trainer, Consultant

Tuesday June 18, 2019 10:30 - 11:30 CEST
Saphir1

German

10:30 CEST

Introduction to Database Engineering (DBE)

Session title: Introduction to Database Engineering (DBE)Abstract:The Database Engineer (DBE) serves a critical role on the IBM i. Surprisingly, most IBM i clients do not have anyone in this role.In this session, I will show how you can use IBM i Access Client Solutions (ACS) to accomplish some of the most important tasks that fall upon the DBE.Will you be fully trained by the end of this session? NoWill you have enough skill to walk the walk and talk the talk? Yes

Speakers

Dave Owen

Advisory Software Engineer, IBM

Tuesday June 18, 2019 10:30 - 11:30 CEST
Turmalin1

Mixed

10:30 CEST

Java performance consideration for IBM i

This presentation will give you a base information about Java on IBM i. How does it work and what you should be aware of. What command can you use and what to look for. What settings should you for sure change by day one :o) This presentation is not about programming Java, but focusing about the IBM i environment and how to help your Java applications.

Speakers

Morten Buur Rasmussen

Senior IT Specialist at the IBM Technology Services, IBM

Tuesday June 18, 2019 10:30 - 11:30 CEST
Rubin

Systems & Security

10:30 CEST

A modern operating system

What is a modern operating system? What technologies are key to defining a system as modern? Can you create modern applications? Can you exist in clouds? What else does "modern" mean? This session will look at the key underpinning’s of the IBM i operating system and how these stack up in the modern world. We'll also examime how IBM i is being used in modern ways by clients, and discuss what is going on in the modern IT ecosystem and how IBM i fits into it.

Speakers

Steve Will

IBM i CTO & Chief Architect, IBM

Tuesday June 18, 2019 10:30 - 11:30 CEST
Aquamarin

Trends

10:30 CEST

Help Systems: IBM i Skills Gap

IBM i skills depletion is a top concern for IBM i shops around the world. How can you prepare to handle your IBM i experts departure when they move on or retire?
It’s likely your IBM i experts have been managing all areas of your business-critical systems for decades. Everything from IT operations to data and application security. However, they often use homegrown tools that don’t have the documentation or the features you need to move forward when these experts leave the building. The strategies you’ll discover during this short session will help you ensure that your IBM i continues to deliver a powerful business advantage, including:
- Educate and mentor the next generation of experts
- Automate manual application and system processes
- Consolidate monitoring into a single, graphical display
- Secure the system against data loss and viruses
- Fill security knowledge gaps with help from the experts

Speakers

Ash Giddings

Product Manager, Helpsystems

With more than 25 years of experience in the IT industry and coming from anoperational background, Ash Giddings has worked for some of the largest datacenters in Europe and has advised large companies in the U.S. on major projects tosave costs and improve efficiencies.He began his... Read More →

Tuesday June 18, 2019 10:30 - 11:30 CEST
Jade 1

Vendor

10:30 CEST

Menten: EDI on IBM i

EDI has found its way into the everyday life of our business relationships and many IT managers already regularly deal with EDI processes. The more interesting it is to consider the renewal and modernization of established EDI programming or software solutions, especially in the IBM Power Systems environment. We provide basic information on EDI, case studies and the concrete use of modern software solutions.

Speakers

Björn Reimann

Sales Manager Software & Services, menten GmbH

EDI; Electronic Data Interchange; Data Integration; Conversion of structured data formats such as EDIFACT, XML, CSV, Flatfile, X12 or any other; Communication via AS2, OFTP2, (S)FTP, e-mail ..; ZUGFeRD; Communication between databases via EDI mapping

Tuesday June 18, 2019 10:30 - 11:30 CEST
Jade 2

Vendor

11:30 CEST

Lunch in Expo

Tuesday June 18, 2019 11:30 - 12:30 CEST
Foyer

Event

12:30 CEST

Configuring RDi for RPG Development

RDi is the most versatile application development tools available today. It provides more and more functionality with each update, and the results are obvious. This session focuses on the particular attributes of enhancing your RPG development. How many of these features are you already using?

Speakers

Charles Guarino

CEO & IBM Champion, Central Park Data Systems

Tuesday June 18, 2019 12:30 - 13:30 CEST
Saphir2

Development

12:30 CEST

Update on Power & IO and questions answered you always wanted to know

This session is giving you a little bit of everything - market , family overview, news, IO update and in the end we will go through the most common questions we received around Power in general over the last few years. Some simple but not always obvious ones, some with some more technical background and some hat are maybe somewhat funny. Focus will be on the Scale Out product line with IBM i as operating system.

Speakers

Douglas Gibbs

Product Manager - Power IO, IBM

Simon Porstendorfer

ISV Ecoystem Leader Europe, IBM

Simon spent the last 18 years with IBM in various sales roles from Client Executive in the Business Partner Channel up to being the Sales Leader for Scale Out Servers in Europe. After being the responsible Principal Offering Manager for Power Scale Out Worldwide he took over in 2020... Read More →

Tuesday June 18, 2019 12:30 - 13:30 CEST
Saphir1

German

12:30 CEST

The Wide World of Open Source on IBM i

A lot has been happening in the world of open source on IBM i! As part of this exciting adventure, customers are now trying new languages, compiling their own utilities, and using a large assortment of new tools.So, what does this mean for you? Come to this session for a quick glance at what technology is available and what IBM has been doing to ensure the IBM i customer can leverage the great business value in open source. Also, learn about the open source community and how you can participate in this exciting frontier!

Speakers

Jesse Gorzinski

Business Architect, IBM

Tuesday June 18, 2019 12:30 - 13:30 CEST
Turmalin1

Mixed

12:30 CEST

Cool things in Navigator for IBM i to make you a rock star system administrator

IBM Navigator for i is a powerful tool to better manage your IBM i environment. Get expert advice for features in the tool to make you a rock star system administrator. Step through the functionality of this product and learn how to leverage the Performance Data Investigator to turn the collection services data into graphs you can use to identify performance issues. Learn ways to protect your system from intrusions, as well as close security holes such as FTP. See how this tool can help you select and install logical files on your system to improve performance with the Index Advisor. Learn about the enhancements to this tool in version 7.3, and see how this tool provides tips/techniques for better system administration.

Speakers

Pete Massiello

IBM i Advisor, iTech Solutions: A Service Express Company

Tuesday June 18, 2019 12:30 - 13:30 CEST
Rubin

Systems & Security

12:30 CEST

At the Speed of REST

REST Apis are a key piece of the application development portfolio. This session will look at what REST is , why its important and how using the IBM i operating system you can quickly and easily leverage REST to connect to your existing ILE programs and service programs. We will also look at some of the very latest support that has been delivered.

Speakers

Tim Rowe

Business Architect Application Development & Systems Management for IBM i, IBM

Tuesday June 18, 2019 12:30 - 13:30 CEST
Aquamarin

Trends

12:30 CEST

M81: A full clone of your Production in 2 minutes for your backups or tests or recovery!

Embedded with external storage from IBM (SVC, Storwize Vxxxx, FS9xxx, DS8xxx) or from other manufacturers there is a very powerful function: FLASHCOPY (or SNAPSHOT or INSTANT COPY). This function allows you to CLONE all the disks of a full partition in some seconds!!!

But how to use it from IBM i? Is it possible to launch a New Partition on the Cloned disks? For which usages?
- simply to execute hot backups (with or without BRMS) and even daily system backups (Save 21) ?...
- but also to create fresh environments for validation, test, acceptance, formation even for development ?...
- or to make copies that will be used as 'recovery' or as reference for analysis or for extractions toward a data warehouse or for simple SQL queries ? ...

The M81 product - "Flash for i" - allows you, from your Production partition, to automate, manage, integrate and log all the necessary tasks for those kinds of usages … Example: execute a Daily SAVE21 backup in less than 2 minutes downtime!

Speakers

Karl Prisching

Region Manager DACH, M81

Involved with IBM i (AS/400) since the beginning, about 30 years inside IBM. Now we implement new and quick save solutions for IBM i full data including SAVE21 without or only small interruption of the users. Our product "Flash for i" and external Storage are the combination which... Read More →

Pascal Ruckebusch

CEO, M81

Pascal Ruckebusch has felt into the AS/400 since he was young … Many jobs: developer, product manager, system expert, technical manager always in the IBM i world…Pascal founded M81 editor because he detected that this platform still needs improvements in areas as important as... Read More →

Tuesday June 18, 2019 12:30 - 13:30 CEST
Jade 1

Vendor, English

12:30 CEST

PROFI Engineering Systems AG: Integrierte Datenbanksicherheit auf der IBM i

These: bei 90% aller Systeme ist die Sicherheit nicht korrekt eingerichtet, was kann man dagegen tun? Folgende Kapitel umfasst der Vortrag:
Bei 90% aller Maschinen ist die Sicherheit nicht korrekt eingerichtet.
Gesetzliche Grundlagen
Sicherheitsprobleme des Auslieferungsstandards
Datenbanksicherheit und Systemwerte
Nutzerprofile und Datenbanksicherheit
Objektsicherheit ist NICHT Datensicherheit
Wie erfolgt eine Berechtigungsprüfung?
Warum ist die Standardauslieferung der Datenbankberechtigungen unsicher?
Ein sehr einfaches Verfahren zur Gewährleistung eines sicheren Datenbankzugriffs
Fehler, die man vermeiden sollte
Der Nutzer als Operator seiner Druckdateien
Das Audit
- System
- Nutzeraudit
- Objektaudit
-Auswertungen
Was sollen Sie jetzt tun?

Speakers

Nobert Pelzmann

Senior System Engineer, PROFI Engineering Systems AG

- Diplom-Mathematiker- seit 1988 in der Kundenbetreuung der AS/400 bis System i bei Buissnesspartnern der IBM tätig- seit 1994 bei der PROFI System Engineering AG- besondere Themen: Sicherheit, Performance, Datenbank, Workmanagement, Sicherung, Wiederherstellung, HA-Löung über... Read More →

Tuesday June 18, 2019 12:30 - 13:30 CEST
Jade 2

Vendor

13:45 CEST

Modern screen design for 5250 people

Learn how to take your skills and experiences in building 5250 applications to the graphical and web World. Nick Hampson, Director of Design at Fresche, has 20 years of experience in turning 5250 to GUI. Nick will show you how to map your knowledge from 5250 to the web. This session will focus not on any technology or implementation but on the core knowledge of how to build great application interfaces transforming existing skills RPG developers have. You will learn what works, what doesn't, what translates well and where you have to think differently.

Speakers

Nick Hampson

Director of Design, Fresche Solutions

Nick has extensive experience in design, UX, product management, innovation and pre-sales. Focused on bringing the business value of design and UX to IBM i customers and the community at large, Nick is recognized as a UX expert on IBM i. He also describes himself as a geek and a bookworm... Read More →

Tuesday June 18, 2019 13:45 - 14:45 CEST
Saphir2

Development

13:45 CEST

HA Lösungen in der Praxis

english version scroll down**Hochverfügbarkeit in der täglichen Praxis IBM i
Hochverfügbarkeitslösungen werden heute als reine Hardware- oder Softwarelösung angeboten. Dabei bietet jedes Konzept grundsätzlich Vor- und Nachteile die es zu kennen gilt. Dieser Vortrag möchte aufzeigen, dass Hochverfügbarkeit speziell auf der IBM i Plattform immer noch eine ständige Weiterentwicklung erfährt. Vertrauen in die HA-Lösung ist gut, eine permanente Kontrolle jedoch stets besser. Im Vortrag möchten wir Ihnen die gängigsten Kontrolloptionen aufzeigen, damit Sie stets auf die Verfügbarkeit Ihrer IT vertrauen können. Wie Sie mit SNMP, SNMP-TRAPS, NAGIOS und anderen Herstellertools eine zuverlässige und transparente Kontrolle erhalten. Zusätzlich ist es heute möglich, noch Automatisierungstools hinzu zu ziehen. Diese können die HA-Lösung steuern und nach Abhängigkeiten auch Aktionen einleiten wie z. B. einen Role Swap kontrolliert durchführen. Neben der allgemeinen Wichtigkeit für jedes Unternehmen sind hier auch zusätzliche Potenziale realisierbar, die Ihren IT-Betrieb aktiv unterstützen.
English: High availability in daily practice IBM i high availability solutions are offered today as pure hardware or software solutions. Each concept offers advantages and disadvantages that need to be known. This lecture would like to show that high availability, especially on the IBM i platform, still undergoes continuous further development. Trust in the HA solution is good, but permanent control is always better. In the lecture we would like to show you the most common control options so that you can always rely on the availability of your IT. How you get with SNMP, SNMP-TRAPS, NAGIOS and other manufacturer tools a reliable and transparent control. In addition, it is now possible to add automation tools. These can control the HA solution and also initiate actions such as a role swap in a controlled manner according to dependencies. In addition to the general importance for every company, additional potentials can be realized that actively support your IT operations.

Speakers

Ralf Reetmeyer

CEO, UBR Reetmeyer GmbH

Tuesday June 18, 2019 13:45 - 14:45 CEST
Saphir1

German

13:45 CEST

Trends in IT Technologies

IT technologies are changing rapidly influencing the ways companies will (have to) work in the future. The presentation will cover aspects of the Internet evolution, Cognitive Computing, new developments in the energy sector, Blockchain, Nano technology, Quantum Computing, and Ray Kurzweil's exciting Nanobot predictions. .

Speakers

Wolfgang Singer

Tuesday June 18, 2019 13:45 - 14:45 CEST
Turmalin1

Mixed

13:45 CEST

Lessons Learned from an IBM i Hack

Yes, an IBM i has been breached! During this session Carol Woodbury will describe what the administrator did that allowed this breach to occur. Carol will then discuss the steps you can take to protect your system and your data.

Speakers

Carol Woodbury

President and CTO, DXR Security

Tuesday June 18, 2019 13:45 - 14:45 CEST
Rubin

Systems & Security

13:45 CEST

IBM i and the Cloud

Cloud is all the buzz these days. In this session Kris will talk about several recent announcements and what this means to IBM i and how you might be able to leverage IBM i in the Cloud

Speakers

Kris Whitney

IBM

Tuesday June 18, 2019 13:45 - 14:45 CEST
Aquamarin

Trends

13:45 CEST

Raz-Lee: Fulfil your IBM i security requests with iSecurity – for GDPR and other compliance regulations

Robert Engel, CEO of Raz-Lee Germany will show you in an entertaining presentation which compliance regulations also IBM i users have to comply with and how iSecurity, the Raz-Lee security product family with its modules, is exactly the right answer. With live demos, it is clearly explained how iSecurity can also help automat your company’s compliance requirements.

Speakers

Robert Engel

CEO, Raz-Lee

Robert Engel is as CEO of Raz-Lee Security GmbH in Germany responsible for Sales and Support of the Raz-Lee Products in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Robert is skilled industrial business manager and has the commercial background for many of his IT projects. With more than 30... Read More →

Tuesday June 18, 2019 13:45 - 14:45 CEST
Jade 1

Vendor

14:45 CEST

Extended Coffee Break in Expo

Tuesday June 18, 2019 14:45 - 15:15 CEST
Foyer

Event

15:15 CEST

What is COMMON & how to become a volunteer?

Tuesday June 18, 2019 15:15 - 16:15 CEST
Turmalin2

15:15 CEST

Modern ILE Dev Ops

In this session, we'll go over technologies and terminologies used in the world of devops and how they can be applied to IBM i. Ranging from development, unit testing, deployment, Jenkins, git, make and much more.

Speakers

Liam Allan

Advisory Software Engineer | Visual Studio Code fellow, IBM

Tuesday June 18, 2019 15:15 - 16:15 CEST
Saphir2

Development

15:15 CEST

IBM Hardware Management Console Update

Edelgard Schittko will give you an overview about newest IBM HMC and vHMC ( virtual HMC ) environments and about IBM Roadmap. She includes in her presentation Tipps about Upgrading and Updateing HMC software from V8 to V9 and SceenShots from newest WebInterface for HMC. Slides are in English, presentation will be in German.

Speakers

Edelgard Schittko

IBM

Edelgard Schittko is working for IBM Germany since 1990, Dec 1.. She holds a Diploma degree as mathematician from Humboldt-University in Berlin. Edelgard Schittko has a lot of experience since 1990 at IBM with IBM Power Hardware, includes iSeries and AS/400 as well as Operating Systems... Read More →

Tuesday June 18, 2019 15:15 - 16:15 CEST
Saphir1

German

15:15 CEST

Things i-Love about 7.4

In this session, I will give you a rundown of some of the new features I love in IBM's latest version of IBM i. &.4 is new to us all so I will try and tell you what these new features are, what do and why they might be useful to you. Some of these new functions are big, some small but all are beneficial. Even if you are not in s position to upgrade O/S just now, many have been PTF'd back to 7.3 and some 7.2 so it's still worth knowing about.

The aim of the session is to look beyond the headline enhancements and give you a flavour of these smaller but still useful functions that IBM has now delivered and to let you know how easily you could get them.

Speakers

Steve Bradshaw

Managing Director, Rowton IT

I've worked in the IBM Business Partner world for over thirty years now and despite IBM's best attempts I still love them ;-)In 2008 I set up my practice (Rowton) and now spend my time supporting clients or designing new IT solutions using a combination of Power servers, Intel and... Read More →

Tuesday June 18, 2019 15:15 - 16:15 CEST
Turmalin1

Mixed

15:15 CEST

Get best performance out of IBM i when running on Power 9

Learn from the experience we have got after installing many Power 9 systems running IBM i and worked with the performance optimization.One of the common asked question raised, is if you need to do anything with your single threaded programs to get most out of Power 9? Can you still run old RPG programs on Power 9 and get efficient performance?

Speakers

Morten Buur Rasmussen

Senior IT Specialist at the IBM Technology Services, IBM

Tuesday June 18, 2019 15:15 - 16:15 CEST
Rubin

Systems & Security

15:15 CEST

Administrators Guide to Access Client Solutions

IBM i Access Client Solutions is the strategic member of the IBM i Access Product Family, and it is a platform independent client that is supported running on multiple Operating Systems like Macintosh, Linux, and Windows. Actually the future is already here as in April of 2015 IBM announced that there are no plans to support the r7.1 IBM i Access for Windows client on future versions of the Windows OS. So, this IBM i Access Client Solutions product is the only environment fully supported on the Windows 10 OS and its the strategic direction for IBM i Access workstation client environments. This session will specifically focus on the advanced Administration tools and approaches for IBM i Access Client Solutions.

Speakers

Tim Rowe

Business Architect Application Development & Systems Management for IBM i, IBM

Tuesday June 18, 2019 15:15 - 16:15 CEST
Aquamarin

Trends

15:15 CEST

PKS: Are you urgently looking for application developers? Then use eXplain and increase your personnel capacity by at least 20% in no time at all!

Many development teams still complain about too little manpower. With eXplain, the intelligent code analysis tool from PKS, you can get down to the root of the trouble: in this lecture, you will learn how eXplain can save you time and money four times over and how your personnel worries can be eliminated. An investment that pays off in just a few months!

Speakers

Heidi Schmidt

Geschäftsführende Gesellschafterin, PKS Software GmbH

Tuesday June 18, 2019 15:15 - 16:15 CEST
Jade 2

Vendor, English

15:15 CEST

WS Datenservice: Global MSP for your future IBM i business

What benefits does your business an your IT get when you will use IBM i systems out of the cloud?
What synergies does apply for future planing and quick adaptation to market changes or expansion plans?

Welche Vorteile ergibt sich für Ihr Business und Ihre IT wenn Sie IBM i als Managed Service nutzen?
Welche Synergien ergeben sich zukünftig für schnelle Anpassungen an neue Marktsituationen und Unternehmensänderungen?

Speakers

Wolfgang Greulich

WS Datenservice

Wolfgang Greulich ist Inhaber und Geschäftsführer der Firma WS Datenservice, welche 1996 gegründet wurde. Mittlerweile zählt das Unternehmen mit seinen 10 Mitarbeitern zu den wichtigsten europäischen IBM Power Partnern. In dieser Rolle war es dem Unternehmer und Familienvater... Read More →

Tuesday June 18, 2019 15:15 - 16:15 CEST
Jade 1

Vendor

16:30 CEST

Advanced SQL Procedures, Functions and Triggers

This session covers in-depth how to and what not to do detail for the SQL programmer building SQL procedures, functions and triggers. Topics include, but are not limited to compound statements, piping, handlers, inlining, debugging, creating extensible code bodies, protecting and obscuring the code logic, and more.Last and certainly not least, dynamic SQL will be highlighted.Relevant materials... http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redpieces/abstracts/sg248326.html

Speakers

Dave Owen

Advisory Software Engineer, IBM

Tuesday June 18, 2019 16:30 - 17:30 CEST
Saphir2

Development

16:30 CEST

Das IBM i Software Assessment - damit Sie wissen, wo die Reise hingeht.

Erfahren Sie, wie Sie fundiert ueber die Zukunft Ihrer IBM i Anwendungen entscheiden.

Speakers

Joachim Sieber

Technical Account Manager, PKS Software GmbH

Tuesday June 18, 2019 16:30 - 17:30 CEST
Saphir1

German

16:30 CEST

Open Source Fight Night

There will be blood!! The moderator Steve Bradshaw will promote the two fighters Niels “the mad doctor” Liisberg and Liam “Barry” Allan. The two champions will fight over which open source is the best on the IBM i. Come and see how they battle with open source editors, package managers, version control, continuous integration, webservers and Github projects. It is not a quest about “if open source” can work on the IBM I – The question is: what is best for you?

Speakers

Liam Allan

Advisory Software Engineer | Visual Studio Code fellow, IBM

Niels Liisberg

Chief Software Architect, Partner & IBM Champion, System & Method

Niels has developed IBM i middleware used in numerous applications worldwide. He is the architect of the IceBreak application server for IBM i. Over the years he has contributed to the IBM i community with presentations, demos, and loads of open source: ILEastic and noxDB to name... Read More →

Tuesday June 18, 2019 16:30 - 17:30 CEST
Turmalin1

Mixed

16:30 CEST

Securing the IFS

Speakers

Carol Woodbury

President and CTO, DXR Security

Tuesday June 18, 2019 16:30 - 17:30 CEST
Rubin

Systems & Security

16:30 CEST

IBM i in Business Around the World

Do you ever feel like you’re the only business using IBM i? Nothing could be further from the truth! IBM i is the operating system underneath the applications which are used by thousands and thousands (and thousands!) of companies around the world to run their business. Yet as most IBM i clients go about their normal day, they have very little awareness of the many kinds of businesses which depend on Power Systems running IBM i. Steve Will, Chief Architect for IBM i, and Alison Butterill, the IBM i Global Offering Manager will take you on a virtual journey through many countries and many industries, giving specific examples of IBM i clients who are using advanced, integrated technology to succeed.

Speakers

Alison Butterill

WW Program Director, Product Management, IBM i, IBM

Steve Will

IBM i CTO & Chief Architect, IBM

Tuesday June 18, 2019 16:30 - 17:30 CEST
Aquamarin

Trends

16:30 CEST

Blue Consult - Cloud Native and Traditional Deployments in Hybrid Clouds

Cloud native and traditional multi-tier cloud applications and Service Objects will run anywhere their SLA permits, securely, based on policies; requesting and receiving resources on-demand from brokered pools of multi/hybrid cloud resources provisioned as a utility, with the intelligence to migrate to the most optimal resources available. Cloud owners need the ability to fully automate, control and orchestrate the creation, delivery, deployment, and management of cloud services with integrated business support systems; increasing quality, whilst decreasing risk and drastically reducing operations costs

Speakers

Phillip Hyde

CEO, Incontinuum Software, Netherlands

Phillip Hyde is the CEO & Founder of InContinuum Software, and original Chief Architect of the CloudController® technology. InContinuum is a market-leading ISV of Hybrid Cloud Management Platform (CMP) software, headquartered in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Phil was a pioneer in the CMP... Read More →

Tuesday June 18, 2019 16:30 - 17:30 CEST
Jade 2

Vendor

18:00 CEST

Reception in Expo

Tuesday June 18, 2019 18:00 - 19:00 CEST
Foyer

Event

19:00 CEST

Congress Dinner

Tuesday June 18, 2019 19:00 - 22:00 CEST
Boat trip

Event

07:30 CEST

Welcome Coffee

Wednesday June 19, 2019 07:30 - 08:00 CEST
Foyer

Event

08:00 CEST

Using open source to help modernize ibm i

How open source tools ranging from RPG backend tools tojavascript frontend tools, pase tools, and even linux applicationscan help you modernize your applications.Get new ideas of the possibilities of IBM i.See how you can add and integrate excel, printing, GUI webinterfaces,image manipulation, etc... to your existing applications.

Speakers

Koen Decorte

CEO, CD-Invest

Wednesday June 19, 2019 08:00 - 09:00 CEST
Saphir2

Development

08:00 CEST

Software on IBM i is not only indestructible, but also future-proof!

Are you facing the challenge that your current development team will soon be retiring and you have to prove, nevertheless, that IBM i remains the right system for the next strategic period? In this lecture you will learn how Schweizer Reisekasse (Reka) has mastered this topic in a sustainable, innovative and future-oriented way. A real customer report, with all the pitfalls, from whose experiences you can only benefit and learn. This session will be hold by Peter Schwarzenbach, CIO of Schweizer Reisekasse

Speakers

Peter Schwarzenbach

Leiter IT & Technik, Reka

Peter Schwarzenbach is a business informatics engineer and has been working as a developer, project manager and CIO, quite often in touch with IBM midrange systems. Since 2008 he is the head of the IT department of the Swiss Travel Fund (Reka).

Wednesday June 19, 2019 08:00 - 09:00 CEST
Saphir1

German

08:00 CEST

AI & Cloud Computing for IBM i Modernization : Introduction to IBM PowerAI & Watson Studio

Learn how to build your own Artificial Intelligence applications, using Public and Private Cloud and see how to get started with a illustration on IBM i. - Challenges & solutions when building a private AI solution. - Private AI Architecture based on IBM PowerAI, a cutting-edge, open source based Hardware and Software technology proposed by IBM- Solutions taking benefits of this technology: AI Vision, IVA, Watson Studio, H2O.ai Driverless AI ...- How to use them in your IBM i environment with a Demo using Open Source on IBM i & Watson Studio.

Speakers

Benoit Marolleau

Architect, IBM

Benoit Marolleau is Senior Solution Architect at IBM Client Engineering EMEA, based in Montpellier, France. Since 2006, he helps customers design innovative solutions, modernize infrastructure and applications with Open Source, Cloud, Storage, and AI technologies with a focus on IBM... Read More →

Wednesday June 19, 2019 08:00 - 09:00 CEST
Turmalin1

Mixed

08:00 CEST

IBM i IASP Migration - How hard can it be?

There is a lot of confusion about how complex an IASP migration is, come and find out the reality of a migration.

Speakers

David Painter

Senior Managing Consultant, IBM UK Ltd

Wednesday June 19, 2019 08:00 - 09:00 CEST
Rubin

Systems & Security

08:00 CEST

Dueling SQL

At this new session, Tim and Scott will enter into an SQL duel. Who will win? The attendees of the session will decide.
They will take turns presenting their favorite approaches to using one or more of the IBM i Services.

Come to this session to have some fun and see the best of the best SQL has to offer.
Let the match begin.

Speakers

Tim Rowe

Business Architect Application Development & Systems Management for IBM i, IBM

Dave Owen

Advisory Software Engineer, IBM

Wednesday June 19, 2019 08:00 - 09:00 CEST
Aquamarin

Trends

09:15 CEST

That free IDE for IBM i development

In this session, we'll learn about the free open-source IDE ILEditor. ILEditor is an IDE which can be used as a free replacement to SEU in your dev shop. This session will cover everything from installation to writing complex programs with developer productivity in mind.

Speakers

Liam Allan

Advisory Software Engineer | Visual Studio Code fellow, IBM

Wednesday June 19, 2019 09:15 - 10:15 CEST
Saphir2

Development

09:15 CEST

ILE RPG Stand 2019

Webapplikationen, Dokumentenmanagement, Digitalisierung, Office-Integration. Alles mit ILE (RPG, Cobol etc.) und APIs.

Speakers

Torsten Klinge

Owner, ML-Software GmbH

Wednesday June 19, 2019 09:15 - 10:15 CEST
Saphir1

German

09:15 CEST

Introduction to Design Thinking. Concepts, Tools and Techniques

Since 2014 IBM has invested over 130 million dollars in Design Thinking. Learn what Design Thinking can do for your IBMi business with a practical introduction to the concepts, key ideas, tools and techniques along with how Design Thinking works with Agile and Lean to provide a platform for customer-centric development and innovation. Includes key templates and deliverables to get a head start.

Speakers

Nick Hampson

Director of Design, Fresche Solutions

Wednesday June 19, 2019 09:15 - 10:15 CEST
Turmalin1

Mixed

09:15 CEST

The Best of IBM i Security including What’s New in version 7.4!

During this session, Carol Woodbury will discuss some important features added in version 7.3 and 7.4 including the very useful Authority Collection feature. Carol will also discuss enhancements added in recent releases that you may have missed or forgotten about that will help you administer the security on your system.

Speakers

Carol Woodbury

President and CTO, DXR Security

Wednesday June 19, 2019 09:15 - 10:15 CEST
Rubin

Systems & Security

09:15 CEST

Db2 Mirror Deep Dive & Demo

Deeper look at what is Mirror and how your applications can participate in this environment.

Speakers

Kris Whitney

IBM

Wednesday June 19, 2019 09:15 - 10:15 CEST
Aquamarin

Trends

10:15 CEST

Coffee break

Wednesday June 19, 2019 10:15 - 10:30 CEST
Foyer

Event

10:45 CEST

Help, my printed reports could use a facelift !

As our businesses move to modern report presentations such as Excel spreadsheets,fancy PDF documents, etc. we face the challenge of taking our existing stock of printer files and programs and converting them to produce modern output.Learn how to build modern reports by using RPG and open source. Use true type fonts, include images, print by using PCL and PSlanguages, build excelfiles, ... Your wildest dreams are possible, just use thetools available on your IBM i.

Speakers

Koen Decorte

CEO, CD-Invest

Wednesday June 19, 2019 10:45 - 11:45 CEST
Saphir2

Development

10:45 CEST

node.js auf IBM i: Welche Möglichkeiten bietet NODE-RED?

node.js mit seiner server-seitigen JavaScript-Ausführungsumgebung erweitert maßgeblich die Integrationsmöglichkeiten von IBM i.
NODE-RED bietet die Möglichkeit, mit minimalem Coding-Aufwand die Vorzüge dieser Plattform zu nutzen.
Der Vortrag zeigt, wie diese grafische Umgebung verwendet werden kann, um Web-Anwendungen oder Web-Services zu erstellen.
Desweiteren wird die Integration mit der künstlichen Intelligenz von IBM Watson behandelt.

Speakers

Dirk Neumann

Owner, Neumann Softwaretechnik Consulting

Dirk Neumann ist Experte für Software-Integration, Architektur und Projektmanagement.Seit mehr als 25 Jahren ist er im Bereich Power Systems (IBM i, AS/400) tätig. Als Experte für Softwaretechnik erstellt er integrative Konzepte für Web-Anwendungen auf den Plattformen OS/400... Read More →

Wednesday June 19, 2019 10:45 - 11:45 CEST
Saphir1

German

10:45 CEST

Help to shape the future of IBM i

Would you like to be able to influence the future of IBM i by sharing your ideas and suggestions to improve our products? Then attend this session to find out how Request for Enhancements (RFE) lets you do just that, From your thoughts to IBM development plans.

Speakers

Therese Eaton

Client Technical Architect and CEAC Program Manager, IBM UK

I help to put great tech into your hands. I’m a Client architect for IBM's Systems portfolio: Storage, Servers, Hybrid Cloud & AI. In addition I lead the Common Europe Advisory Council (CEAC).

Wednesday June 19, 2019 10:45 - 11:45 CEST
Turmalin1

Mixed

10:45 CEST

IBM i Services the future of systems management

IBM i Services are perhaps the best kept secret of managing and monitoring IBM i. Relatively few users of our favourite platform know what they are and even fewer use them regularly. This is a crying shame as they are truly remarkable. IBM i Services can tell you in seconds what it takes a skilled system operator minutes or even hours to discover.http://powerwire.eu/are-ibm-i-services-the-future-of-systems-management

Speakers

Steve Bradshaw

Managing Director, Rowton IT

Wednesday June 19, 2019 10:45 - 11:45 CEST
Rubin

Systems & Security

10:45 CEST

Db2 Web Query as never see before....

Many IBM i clients rightly use Db2 Web Query as their solution for modern and advanced reporting and analytics on IBM i.
In this session, Tim and Scott will show how Db2 Web Query can be used for advanced (i.e. greatly improved) IBM i systems management.
Using Db2 Web Query's EZ-Install package, Tim and Scott will show how Db2 Web Query includes many of the most important IBM i administration reports.

Db2 Web Query can soar above other systems management technologies by allowing you to customize, drill-into and share graphical perspectives of systems management data, derived from IBM i Services. Scott and Tim will dive into Db2 Web Query and give their own unique view on what this product brings to the table.

Speakers