WASHINGTON AREA MIDRANGE

Newsletter - February 2, 2006


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President's Message by Don Rima

Greetings....

It's finally here. Of course, I'm talking about V5R4 and the renaming of the midrange product line to System i5 and i5/OS.

Thanks to IBM, we're having two Announcement Briefings this month:

Richmond - February 27 at 6pm - Richmond Airport Hotel and Conference Center
College Park, MD - February 28 at 6pm - College Park Holiday Inn

As with the regular meetings, Happy Hour will start around 6pm. Dinner will be served around 6:30pm and the main presentation will start about 7pm. It will continue until the presenter is finished.

So, plan now to come hear about the new announcement items like:

  • i5 Models: 520, 550, 570 and 595 and the new features.
  • Power 5+ technology in the i5 family of systems
  • New 32bit Java Virtual Machine
  • New features in the WebFacing Deployment Tool
  • Changes in the WebSphere Development Studio including free-format SQL in RPG applications!
  • Integrating SOA Web Services with RPG
  • Changes in iSeries Access for the Web
  • CL Language enhancements
  • RPG Language enhancements
  • New Blade server functionality
  • New DBA Tools to help with database management
  • i5/OS Security updates
  • New features in backup/recovery - INCLUDING SPOOL FILES!
  • And LOTS LOTS MORE!
See you at the Announcement meeting in Richmond or College Park.

Register early and bring a friend!

February 27th and 28th Meetings

V5R4 i5/OS Announcement Details

Presented By IBM RSVP by 4:00pm 2-23-2006 to Mark at wammeeting@yahoo.com

When RSVP'ing, please specify which location.


Latest Update - February 2, 2006