Newsletter - November 1998
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President's Message from Don RimaFall is in the air, the leaves are turning color and the tune of an old Dutch hymn of Thanksgiving keeps reverberating in my mind. It’s been a year in which we all have much to be thankful of and in a society that places Santa and sales before Christ, it is refreshing that we still have a day to return thanks to our Benefactor (however we believe) for our daily bread and breath. Whether our year has been a smooth or rocky road, it should be clear to us that even though we don’t understand why the good or bad may happen, the universe is unfolding as it should. So let us resolve that in between mouthfuls of turkey and cranberry sauce we will find a way to develop and extend the spirit of Thanksgiving and Christmas beyond the bowl games and "after Xmas sales" to the goodness that was originally intended and to do so 365 days of the year. Our year at WAM has been VERY successful, for which we give thanks to many. A special thanks goes from me to our speakers and board for making this the most successful year with the absolutely BEST JAM ever. Folks, we couldn’t have done it without you and let’s hope that ‘99 is even better. Thanks to Chris and George Kosmides for their timely presentation of E- commerce. We also look forward to them presenting at the JAM this year. Speaking of the JAM, we’ve only got a finite amount of space, so please get your reservation in early. I don’t want to have to turn you away for lack of space or have you come in at the last minute and not get all the handouts you may need. This month we have another timely topic being presented by John Carr, "Using RPG to access the Integrated File Server". John will provide complete program examples of how to write to or read from the IFS stream files using RPG IV. The techniques involve RPG procedures and calling IFS APIs from within an RPG IV program. Looking forward into 1999, in January we have our own Paul Lambert presenting JAVA programming and a special IBM meeting in February (watch your newsletter for details). And we’re ALWAYS looking for good ideas for topics and speakers so don’t be bashful about emailing any of the board with your speaker or topic ideas. This will be the last letter I write as your president. As I informed the board in June, I have some family responsibilities that are going to preclude me from serving as President next year...but I’m not going to disappear. The board has just had the election of officers for ‘99 and I’m very proud to announce they are:
Vice President, Meeting Planning: John Blum Vice President, JAM Chairman: Pam Johnson Past President: Jack Fugiel Secretary: Don Rima Treasurer: KB Soni Newsletter Editor: Tom Jones At Large: Mark Grimley At Large: Ross Massey ...and good night Mrs. Kalibash, wherever you are ! November MeetingUsing RPG to access the Integrated File Serverwith John P. Carr, CDP 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. 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 applications 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.
Holiday Inn U S Route 1 College Park, Maryland (Parking is FREE!) Board Meeting Immediately After! 18:00 Buffet - - 19:00 Speaker - - 20:30 Adjournment This month join us for our Mexican Buffet with make-your-own tacos, burritos, or even taco salad. RSVP (by Friday 11/13) to Peter 703/834-3706 or 1stplace@crosslink.net $25.00/non-member JAM ‘98The best, most power-packed one-day-er on the east coast! The first Friday of December WAM presents the 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 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.
WAM ContactsOur home page is at http://www.wash-midrange.org. Send suggestions to Peter.
President: Don Rima 703/742-3744 F) 703/742-0448 dr2@access.digex.com
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