iSeries Application Modernization

November 29, 2005

Speaker : Alison Butterill (IBM Toronto Lab)
Alison is an IBM Certified Consulting I/T Specialist working for the eServer iSeries ISV WebSphere Enablement Team. She has worked in the mid-range area for more than 20 years holding a wide variety of positions at IBM, from field support to Technical Education to Technical Marketing of WebSphere Development Studio for iSeries. During her career, Alison has continually specialized in the areas of application development and database. In her present position, Alison provides worldwide technical support to ISVs and customers on programming languages and WebSphere Development tools for the iSeries. Developing and promoting one of the iSeries key initiatives, the iSeries Developer Roadmap is a key component in her current responsibilities. Alison is a regular speaker at technical conferences and COMMON conferences around the world and holds numerous Speaker Excellence medals from COMMON North America.

9:15 to 9:30 - Welcome Coffee
9:30 to 11:00 - iSeries Applications in SOA environment - Pat Fleming
Service-oriented architecture (SOA) is a new model for building on-demand applications. Web services are an implementation of SOA. This session will introduce Web services technologies and explain how to implement and use iSeries applications in the SOA environment.
11:00 to 11:15 - Coffee break
11:15 to 12:45 - iSeries Application modernization with PHP - Pat Fleming
PHP is a popular scripting language for building Web applications. In this session we cover PHP basics and explain how to build a PHP application that accesses traditional iSeries applications and data.
12:45 to 13:30 - Lunch
13:30 to 15:00 - Websphere development studio for iSeries- Alison Butterill
WebSphere Development Studio client is IBM's 21st century suite of tools for creating and maintaining applications for the iSeries and the i5. Included in the tool set are components to work with traditional technologies such as RPG and COBOL, as well as components which assist in the integration and creation of applications using Java, Web, XML, etc. What are the pieces included in WDS and how should they be used? This question and more will be reviewed and answered during this session. WebSphere Development Studio for iSeries continues to make the iSeries the best platform for development of any application – traditional or eBusiness.
15:00 to 15:15 - Coffee break
15:15 to 16:45 - The Remote System Explorer - Alison Butterill
The Remote System Explorer (RSE) is the component of WDSc that allows a developer to explore application code, and explore file systems on many platforms, including the i5. As well, RSE is the 21st Centure way to create and maintain traditional applications. It replaces the world of PDM, SEU, SDA, etc. Other key benefits include improving programmer productivity and morale, offloading host development workload and allowing existing applications to be maintained more effectively. This session will introduce you to the many powerful features of the Remote System Explorer.

Speaker : Pat Fleming (IBM Rochester Lab)
Pat Fleming has been working with IBM for 24 years, with the iSeries family (S/36, S38, AS/400, iSeries) in Rochester Minnesota USA. Pat has had technical leadership responsibilities in SLIC, file systems, LDAP directories, NetWare and Windows on a card and most recently IBM middleware on iSeries. Currently Pat is a Senior Technical Staff Member with technical planning for iSeries middleware.

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