COMMON Fall Conference & Expo

Are you on a POWER7? This seminar will make a case on why moving to POWER9 could be a good move for business, and tips on how to get you there.
This webinar will cover:
Key differences between POWER7, POWER8, and POWER9
POWER9 Server specifications and details to know about
POWER9 Chips specifications and details to know about
What to look out for when moving from POWER7 to POWER9, including
compatibility, LAN consoles, HMCs, and more
Upcoming dates for End of Support to be aware of
Roadmap of Power processors

PHP is the most popular open-source scripting language for coding business logic into web applications. This session will help you to get your feet wet with PHP by going through the syntax of the language and exploring basic capabilities. Both procedural and Object Oriented (OO) coding is supported by PHP and while this session will stay mainly focused on procedural an introduction to Object Oriented programming in PHP will be provided.

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Successful projects are key to a successful business. How do you navigate the process and ensure your projects are a success? By attending this session of course! We will talk about and address: barriers and threats to success; key elements to forming teams and how to be a successful team player; leadership essentials; why communication is paramount to any successful project, what needs to be communicated at all times, how to have effective meetings, and how to excel at all forms of communication; managing relationships; essential elements of schedules; how to resolve problems; and the importance of customer involvement and high integrity communication.

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Frameworks are a great way to bring structure to your PHP development. When properly utilized frameworks can speed up the development effort by putting an end to the need to develop repetitive code. This session will explore the basic concepts of frameworks and highlight some of the more popular PHP frameworks including Zend Frameworks, Laravel, and Symfony.

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Domino 10 has a tremendous number of new features and enhancements! This session will not only explain these enhancements but will also demo a number of them. Be prepared to be blown away by how much new functionality is included in this new release!

Learning Objectives:
Learn about what's new in Domino 10.
See Domino 10 in action.

While version 7 of PHP has been available since late 2015, many companies are just now looking at moving to the current version. This session will explore various features of version7, as well as highlight those features/functions from earlier versions of PHP that are deprecated in the latest version. Additionally, the session will take a look at migration strategies for moving from version 5 to version 7 of PHP and highlight how separate subsystems for version7 and version 5 of the PHP engine on IBM i can be leveraged to perform a step-wise migration of your PHP application(s).

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The complexity and cost of managing diverse software development toolchains is driving the IT industry to standardize on common enterprise solutions across all technology platforms. This is no less true on the IBM i platform, whose traditional tools and languages have tended to foster a specific IBM i development culture and in some cases a resistance to change. Based on IBM i customer case studies, this session will explore how the use of enterprise tools such as Git, Jenkins and Jira can reduce development effort, cost, and the risk of error.

Learning Objectives:
1. Learn about DevOps tooling
2. Learn what DevOps tools and strategies apply across multiple dev environments
3. Implement a checklist for getting started with DevOps

We all dream of being a superhero, right? What if your superpower was providing awesome, world-class customer service. Customer service? Who needs customer service when you work in IT? The answer is that we all have customers. Even if you develop software just for use in your own company, those people who use your software are your customers. Those people who contact your help desk for support are your customers. You'd be amazed how much you can improve the perception of your software and your IT department by unleashing your inner customer service superhero! As part of this presentation, we'll examine real world examples of excellent - and terrible - customer service, and discuss what we can take away from each.

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Learning objectives:
* Who are your customers
* A customer first mindset
* Is the customer always right?
* How helpful is your help desk?
* The Superhero skills required to deliver world class customer service

System administrators are blamed for everything. Think about it...How many Monday's have you barely walked in the door, only to find the production system is in trouble and management is in your office screaming. ou then learn a change was implemented over the weekend, one where your systems team was blindsided…Just Perfect...Happy Monday. Whether it is a hardware change, software change, or network related, it is vital for system admins, application programmers, and especially IT management to understand the impact of ALL changes to the system / environment.

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In this session you will learn:
1) The methodologies to do powerful What's Different Analysis for all critical performance metrics.
2) The mission critical performance management tasks that most system admins fail to every month.
3) How to change your IT performance management culture from a "reactive" mode to a successful "proactive" mode.
4) How to measure the impact of memory tuning changes.
5) How to measure the impact of Capacity Planning projects when the upgrade didn’t go as planned.

We will install Loopback and the brand new IBM i Loopback connector, and use it to create an API accessing db2, lightning fast! We will use the rest of the time to expand on this demo and eat chocolate. Come see how quickly you can deliver your data with Node and Loopback.

Learning Objectives:
1. What is Loopback and how can it work for me?
2. How can I create a quick and secure REST API?

This session will cover the basics of Django, including installation, configuration on IBM i, and utilization of Django's ORM with db2. You should come out of this session excited to try creating some web apps with Django.

Learning Objectives:
1. Learn what Django is and how to get started
2. Learn how you can use Django to rapidly develop Python applications on IBM i
3. Introduce some useful Django plugins.

In this session find out how to use Git to contribute to open source projects, and get an introduction on how to use Git to manage source code within your organization.

Learning Objectives:
1. How to create your own repository
2. The basics of Git flow
3. Tips and tricks for using Git on Mac/Windows
4. How to use Github/Gitlab/Bitbucket to contribute to open source projects