COMMON Belgium - October 10, 2007
System i - Announcements
IBM EGL - Power VDC

Linda Cole Rational System i Ecosystem Manager Business Ecosystem Team lcole@ca.ibm.com
Linda Cole's current assignment is with the IBM Toronto Lab as the Manager of the Rational Business Ecosystem. Linda is responsible for supporting Rational Enterprise Modernization products on System i. Most recently she was a Marketing Manager, working with over 120 IBM Business Partners in the System i Tools Initiatives for Innovation Program. She spent the previous six years with the Toronto Lab in several WebSphere iSeries Technical and Marketing postions. In her 30 years with IBM, she has had a variety of assignments including technical support, education, consulting, sales and marketing roles. Linda has an extensive background in iSeries and AS400 dating back to 1988 and specialized in WebSphere offerings, Application Development & Business Intelligence. She is a frequent speaker at COMMON, Users Groups and Technical Conferences. You can contact her at lcole@ca.ibm.com

IBM Rational Enterprise Generation Language (EGL).
A core component of the comprehensive Application Life Cycle and Management solution from IBM Rational. EGL is a highly productive, flexible language that offers a development model familiar to business oriented developers allowing them to quickly build modern business solutions without having to learn and master Java, Web technologies or Service Oriented Architecture, thus eliminating the need to re-staff in order to create the next generation of IT systems. Knowing how crucial your investment in existing legacy systems is, Enterprise Application Transformation tools help migrate your business-critical applications to EGL to fully leverage their business value. Specifically, through code migrations of VAGen, I4GL, Natural, RPG, COBOL, CA Cool:Gen, CA Cool Enterprise, CA Ideal, CA Synon, Maestro and other 3GL and 4GL applications, IT can leverage their existing investment in proven, reliable, production-ready code, preserving this logic while moving rapidly onto a modern software development platform. This is made possible through highly automated conversion utilities designed to migrate the specific legacy environment to EGL in a cost-effective, efficient manner, greatly reducing risk while shortening the migration process.
Accelerating Modernization of System i Applications with EGL Studies have shown that converting legacy developers into Java/.NET developers is both expensive and time consuming and has a remarkably high probability of failure. EGL, available through the Rational Business Developer Extension (RBDe) greatly accelerates modernization by providing an environment and language that is familiar for these same developers to quickly learn and begin building enterprise caliber, modern, web and SOA applications.

Happy Just de la Paisieres (happy@cardse.nl) is a former (retired) employee of IBM Netherlands with among others a System i5 background. One of his last commitments for IBM was to create awareness within IBM Rochester for the PowerVDC solution, being a desktop solution for the IBM Power based servers. Happy works now for card OEM Solutions in Best, The Netherlands, as Business Development Manager. Description of the presentation: The objective of this presentation is to position the PowerVDC solution in the desktop marketplace, describe the added value of this solution for the organization and go into more detail of the available functions. The PowerVDC client is a stateless unit that connects via an IBM Power based server to the existing server based backend infrastructure. The PowerVDC client is unique in the way that NO Operating System (Windows or Linux)runs at the desktop, meaning no desktop operations management.

9:00 - 9:30 Coffee and Welcome
9:30 - 10:45 Application Modernisation with EGL
(Linda Cole - IBM Toronto)
10:45 - 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 - 12:15 Virtual Desktop - Power VDC
(Happy Just de la Paisieres - ex IBM Netherlands)
12:15 - 12:30 IBM Education Services - Promotion
(Pierre Danze - IBM Belgium)
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch
13:30 - 14:45 i5/OS Annoucements (Jos Vermaere - IBM)
14:45 - 15:00 Coffee break
15:00 - 16:15 i5/OS Annoucements (Jos Vermaere - IBM)

Jos Vermaere is Senior Server Solutions Architect and iSeries Specialist 27 years of IBM, spent mostly as Systems Engineer, later as IT Specialist in the mid-range systems environment (S/3x, AS/400, iSeries). Joined the ITSO in 1987 until 1991; strong link with ITSO remained up to today; authored and co-authored several ITSO deliverables (Redbooks, workshops, presentations, etc.). Several presentations for the COMMON organization. Currently role as Systems Architects in the Server and Technology Group. During this session, provide an overview of the System i announcements done during the past months. Outline of the roadmap for i5/OS and System i.