2026 Year kick-off event

Thank you participants for making our 04 March Kick-off event at Comics Art Museum a big success

Not only upskilling (see below), you (re)discovered your favorite Comics through a Quiz.
The prestigious prize of a FREE Registration worth 1200€ to Common Europe Congress 2026, Lyon, France, 14-17 June, was won by Kris De Vlieger, part of Smurfs team. Congratulations Kris. The delicious convivial dinner was a nice moment to relax.

Here are the knowledge exchange topics discussed and debated:

  1. Migrate jobs from the legacy job scheduler to the advanced job scheduler,
    Philippe Vanden Bussche, GGNOOR, Belgium
  2. Tip: We manage 5 production sites on 1 IBM i in 1 partition.  Since we use also a lot of SQL we use different connections, all connecting to the same IBM i, but with a different predefined library list.
    Kris De Vlieger, ASCO Industries, Belgium
  3. The challenges of the modern IBM i architect: real world and AI
    Guy Staskowiak or Nicky Vermeerbergen, Founders, Igentiq, Belgium
  4. Top 1 concern, depletion of IBM i skills
    Patrick De Blende, IBM i Product Owner, Group IT – Solutions, Atlas Copco Group, Belgium

And here was help that colleagues sought to enhance their skills:           

  1. Best practices to setup Security on the IFS,
    Requested by – Pascale Crosiers, ASCO Industries, Belgium
  2. How to debug in VSCODE, no clue how to debug,
    Requested by – Kris De Vlieger and Pascale Crosiers, ASCO Industries, Belgium

Event pictures available.

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