COMMON Belgium - February 13, 2008
System i - EGL Event

Jos Vermaere ( jos_vermaere@be.ibm.com ) 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.

9:00 - 9:30 Coffee and Welcome

9:30 - 10:45 i5/OS V6R1 Part 1 by Jos Vermaere (IBM Belgium)  

10:45 – 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 – 12:15 i5/OS V6R1 Part 2 by Jos Vermaere (IBM Belgium)  

12:15 – 13:15 Lunch

13:15 – 14:30 i5/OS V6R1 Part 3 by Louis Cuypers (IBM Belgium)  

14:30 – 14:45 Coffee break

14:45 – 16:00 i5/OS V6R1 Part 4 by Louis Cuypers (IBM Belgium)  

 "This event covers the January 29, 2008 IBM announcements on the new i5/OS V6R1 release. Capitalizing on the wealth of functionality and integration of the i5/OS V5R4 contents, this announcement adds quite a large number of possibilities and yields a base platform for deploying and managing an heterogeneous environment of application servers.
These are the individual topics of the announcement overview:
- IBM Systems Director Navigator for i5/OS
- Virtualization, LPAR tooling, Virtual I/O Server, i5/OS client partitions
- Performance and Capacity management
- Security, integrity and confidentiality: Secure perspective, user management, encryption, authorization
- Application development: enter the realm of Service Oriented Architecture using existing applications
- DB2: the power of data
- High availability: data and application resilience, environment resilience, automation and monitoring: the High Availability Solution Manager
See you on March 19, IBM Forum!"

Louis Cuypers : (Louis_Cuypers@be.ibm.com) Field Support Group : Customer Engineer iSeries & AS/400 Specialist. Louis is AS/400 Customer Engineer since a lot of years now. He spent this year several weeks in the iSeries Lab's in Rochester to prepare the V6R1 Hardware Technical presentations and the V6R1 System Handbook and System Builder.