Newsletter - September 1998
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President's Message from Don RimaElections in October!We will be holding elections at our October 20, 1998 meeting. Our bylaws call for electing 9 Board members who in turn select the officers, who will guide our organization through the coming year. The officers are; President, Immediate past President, Vice President, Secretary, and Treasurer. Please give some serious thought to running or nominating someone to run. This is a volunteer organization and as such we need active board members to provide the speakers and events that make the organization successful. The personal commitment required is really not very extensive, and you can tailor it to your own skills and preferences. You WILL find it a personally rewarding experience. [Competitive Pay/Regular Raises/EOE/Free Parking/etc, etc] Please give this some serious thought and give me a call if you have any questions. (703-742-3744) -Don Rima JAM '98 ...The best, most power-packed one-day-er on the east coast! The first Friday of December WAM presentsthe finest technical conference ever ... An ALL NEW line up of sessions featuring the likes of Al Barsa, Susan Gantner, Wayne Madden, Jon Paris, Jim Sloan, and Carson Soule. You'll hear about AS/400 System Values, JAVA, intermediate CL, RPG IV, E-commerce, and there's a full track (4 sessions) on ILE-programming AND a Live session on creating a WEB page on the AS/400. We know resources are especially thin this year in terms of both time and dollars. That's why we've brought all these folks and topics together for you on December 4th. So plan to give yourself and your staff an early Christmas gift by enrolling for JAM '98. Check out the grid on our web page for more details of what's going to be presented in the various time slots. Fax copies of the registration form to KB Soni at 301/590-0213. For enrollment information contact KB Soni at 301/590-7121 or kbsoni@aol.com. For technical questions on sessions call Don Rima at 703/742-3744 or dr2@access.digex.com. September MeetingOS/400 Version 4 Release 3!
with Mary McConnell
Mary will showcase all the features and facilities new to V4R3. What release are you on? Which should you be using and Why? Mary is a Senior Systems Engineer in IBM's Baltimore office. She brings insights from the vantage point of 19 years experience in the industry. She has been a standout speaker at JAM as well as our regular monthly meetings. You won't want to miss the opportunity to hear her presentation. Tuesday Sep 15, 1998 - 18:00
Holiday Inn
(Parking is FREE !) Board Meeting Immediately After !18:00 Buffet - - 19:00 Speaker - - 20:30 Adjournment Vegetable Spring Rolls with Ginger Sauce! Chicken Wings. Assorted Cheese Platter. Veggie Tray. RSVP (by Friday 09/11) to Peter 703/834-3706 or 1stplace@crosslink.net $25.00/non-member Training Now On-LineBone up on the latest AS/400 technology with on-line tutorials! IBM's AS/400 Partners in Development (PID) Web site has a dozen Internet Based Education (IBE) tutorials covering the latest additions and enhancements to AS/400 technology. For instance, the current subjects (IBM's been adding to the offerings) are DB2/400 V4 Overview, Application Development for Domino, Net.Data, E-mail, TCP/IP Overview and Configuration, Domino for AS/400 Installation/Configuration/Administration, HTTP and AS/400 Web serving, Net.commerce, Domino Mail Configuration, Domino-AS/400 Database Integration, and Server Based JAVA on AS/400.The FREE courses tend to last 1 to 2 hours and require you to have JAVA and Javascript enabled on your browser, with RealPlayer available to handle the audio. Some courses also include video. To browse the list of courses see http://www.softmall.ibm.com/as400/education/courses.html. WAM Contacts:Our home page is at http://www.wash-midrange.org. Send suggestions to Peter.Board of Directors
President: Don Rima 703/742-3744 F) 703/742-0448 dr2@access.digex.com
November Meeting:"Using RPG to access the Integrated File Server" November 17, 1998 More and more information of the AS/400 world is starting to be stored in stream files on the IFS. Imagine from an RPG program summarizing, say, production after some batch run and put that summarized information in a comma delimited file so that your users could bring up the information and graph it in Excel or 123! This session will provide examples of how to write to and read from IFS stream files using RPG IV. The techniques involve RPG procedures, calling IFS APIs from within an RPG IV program. Complete program examples will be provided. Presented by John P. Carr, CDP John is President of EdgeTech, a Virginia corporation, and has 17 years experience working with the IBM Midrange environments. His expertise lies in helping companies develop and implement programming standards and methodologies. He has worked on and developed most major business appllications including: Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, General Ledger, Sales Analysis, Production Scheduling, and Order Entry, to name a few. Through EdgeTech John has developed and markets ETIKIT (pronounced etiquette), a software package for the AS/400 that contains application program prototypes and APIs which radically increase programmer productivity and dramatically improve application consistency. ETIKIT also contains an advanced file driven menu/security system. U P C O M I N G E V E N T S
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Latest Update - September 1998