23rd Annual New Hampshire and Vermont iSeries User Group Meeting
All IBM i (Power Systems, iSeries, AS/400)
customers are welcome!
Wednesday, June 9, 2010
Location:
A Fireside Inn
25 Airport Road,
West Lebanon NH,
near I-89 and I-91 (see special lodging rate at bottom of this page)
Date: Wednesday, June 9, 2010
Agenda:
8:30 AM Registration and continental breakfast
9:30 AM Power and IBM i Roadmap, Steve Fier, IBM - Smarter Planet, latest Power System Announcements and IBM i7.1
10:30 AM Break
10:45 AM Open Access for RPG, Alex Roytman, Profound Logic The biggest RPG enhancement in years is Rational Open Access: RPG Edition - RPG can now communicate with browsers, XML and more through special handlers - Profound Logic is one of the first IBM partners to offer RPG handlers
12:15 PM Lunch
1:15 PM Upgrade Planning - Pete Massiello, iTech Solutions - Planning to upgrade to IBM i V6R1 or V7R1 - Planning for hardware upgrades
2:30PM From AS/400 to Power Systems - Skip Marchesani, VTMUG - Skip Marchesani will share stories from the early days of the AS/400 and we are planning some other mini-topics related to iSeries tips and techniques.
3:30PM Meeting ends
Cost: Free!
Sponsored by IBM, and the New Hampshire and Vermont Midrange User Groups.
All attendees should register in advance at the NHMUG web site so we have an accurate headcount for food and drink!
There is NO CHARGE for this event and a Continental Breakfast and Lunch will be served.
Speakers: 
Steve Fier is an IBM Power Systems expert and a regular speaker at the VT/NH user group meetings.
Alex Roytman is the founder and CEO of Profound Logic Software, a leading provider of IBM i modernization tools and services. Starting as a software architect, Alex now has more than 15 years of experience working with the IBM i and the latest Web technologies. His expertise and passion in the field of Web development have led his company to create many popular modernization tools, win multiple awards for innovation, and gain over a thousand loyal IBM i customers in more than 50 countries. Today, Alex and his company fully embrace the next era of the IBM i, an era where a graphical user interface is native to the system.
Pete Massiello, President, iTech Solutions, who's upgrade topics have been very popular at COMMON, NEUGC and VTMUG's annual tech conference.
Skip Marchesani, VTMUG president, worked in Rochester during the early days of the AS/400 and is an internationally known speaker on SQL.
The Fireside Inn is offering a rate of $99 per night for anyone who wishes to stay at the hotel on Tuesday night. Just mention the NH/VT/IBM User Group to get that rate. Visit their website or call 1-877-258-5900 for details on the hotel. If you have any questions please contact Paul Rogers, President of NHMUG, at or call 603-924-8818 ext 542 or Skip Marchessani.
If you want to share a 5-minute story of an iSeries project you're proud of or a interesting tip or technique, please let us know by contacting Dan Rothman at drothman@us.ibm.com. The User Group presidents will close the meeting with a request for your input about what you want from your user groups (VTMUG and NHMUG).
Thank You for your continued support of NHMUG.
Paul Rogers, President - 603-924-8818 ext. 542
Doug Davie, Vice President
Barb Dion, Treasurer