MidAtlantic Midrange is proud to offer the next in our continuing education seminars, bringing you the best education and educators available in the iSeries world, and to do so at User Group Rates.

A Power Day of RPG Update - The Latest of RPG
With Paul Lambert

This one-day seminar explores topics that will help enhance your skill sets and abilities in System-I RPG in the latest V6R1 technology environment. During this packed seminar we will be covering the very timely topics of:

RPG IV Check point - Review of the features from V5R1 to V6R1

It's time to catch our breath, its been more than 5 years since V5R1 and some of us have yet to review and implement some of the new language extensions given. This session will give us a systematic review of the major features implemented in RPG IV ILE compilers since V5R1, culminating with "Free Form RPG." We will discuss IBM's motivation to continue to improve and evolve the language. What is the impact of these new features in modernization, re-architecting, and re-engineering your application? And most important the reason move forward why it is important to embrace and implement many of these new features.

Modernizing My RPG Programs

"Modernizing My RPG Programs" what does that really mean? It depends on where I am. We will discuss assessment strategies. We will discuss methodologies for implementing new features and programming techniques that provide value to the organization. Why modular coding? What should we focus on when we modernize our programming? Should performance be a consideration when modernizing? Should Embedded SQL be in the equation to modernize? This Web-Services thing does RPG participate well? Or should I leave it to my network and PC people to do those things. We will discuss what many of your options are to many our questions.

Tools, Techniques and Coding

The Tools that are needed to make an impact on your inventory of (legacy) programs are numerous. We will focus on a few, as well as show techniques which allow you to develop your own tools. Today PDM and SEU is not enough. If you don't have an "Impact Analysis Tool" and a "Data Modeling & Analysis Tool" you can't modernize efficiently. We will discuss your options. We will review the features in WDSc 7.0 and WDSc 7.0 Advanced Edition which address modernization. RDi 7.1 why it is a better alternative than WDSc 7.0 for modernization. In addition to we discuss other vendor tools that present similar functionality. All of these tools impact "Techniques and Coding Styles," we will discuss efficient means generating code and managing code.

How does RPG fit with Java and Web development

The days are over when RPG was a poor fit to participate with JAVA and Web Development. We have many tools both from IBM and third parties that help bridge the gap between RPG and JAVA. We discuss are RPG language extensions that allow it to invoke Java methods, as well as a Java Class ability to invoke RPG sub-procedures and programs. We do it all; an RPG program can be a Web Services (WDSc Web-Services Wizard). This can be accomplished in just a few minutes. This will be discussed and demonstrated. One of the draw backs to using RPG and Java together was performance issues. We will discus how this has changed and other options. This will be an exciting discussion, because to goal is to protect your investment in your current programming technology.

Paul Lambert is a former IBM'er and is currently teaching classes for IBM in the System-i world. He's a past presenter at JAM.

These seminars start at 8:30 AM and ends at 5:00 PM and will be held on:

August 21, 2008 at the College Park Holiday Inn in College Park, MD (Beltway and US-1).

The course fee is $285 for non-user group members and $250 for user group members. This fee offering is a special arrangement between Washington Area Midrange Users Group and MidAtlantic Midrange. Members of other AS/400 User groups may also apply under the user group rate.

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