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Prerecorded WebinarsView prerecorded webinars of our award winning System i solutions. Prerecorded BCD Webinars are educational sessions you can view on your computer, and are designed to provide in-depth information to help you become more familiar with BCD products and services. Webinars typically feature an educational session, detailed product information, product demonstrations, and a question and answer session. Prerecorded Webcasts:To view recently recorded Webinars you will need to download the WebEx player (2.1 Mb).
Rapid Web Application Development with PHP on the System iHosted by Don Denoncourt, System iNEWS Tech Editor and consultant for CAS Severn, Inc. and Duncan Kenzie, President and CTO of BCD Technical Services IBM now fully supports PHP on the System i and that opens up a whole new world for System i application developers. PHP is a proven web development language that brings many benefits to our platform, such as:
The System i is a technologically advanced, secure and reliable server with a powerful database and robust web hosting capabilities. The advent of PHP provides System i professionals with a challenge to keep pace with these advances in technology. Don Denoncourt, System iNEWS Tech Editor and consultant for CAS Severn, Inc. explains why you should consider using PHP to modernize and transform your System i business applications. Don discusses how PHP is implemented on the System i and what the advantages are of writing applications using PHP. He also discusses some of the tools that are available for coding PHP. You learn the answers to these questions:
During the second part of this one-hour webcast, Duncan Kenzie, President and CTO of BCD Technical Services presents a demonstration of WebSmart PHP, BCD's Rapid System i Application Development (RAD) tool for PHP. Duncan also demonstrates BCD's Nexus Portal with tighter security, application frameworks and executive dashboards that integrates with WebSmart. You learn answers to these questions:
This unique webcast is offered as part of the RPG and Beyond Web Conference. Create Dynamic Web 2.0 Applications with AJAX, PHP and RPGHosted by Duncan Kenzie, President and CTO of BCD Technical Services Next generation Web applications are starting to look and act much more like desktop applications, with much more targeted responses to user actions. Benefits of Web 2.0 are greater ease of use, faster response time, improved user productivity and, often, reduced server workload. Duncan Kenzie provides detailed technical examples that show how you can meld the 3 best technologies for System i hosted Web 2.0 development - AJAX, PHP and RPG. You learn how you can transform your applications into highly responsive Web 2.0 applications that will get your users excited about the web all over again.
What the future may hold for System i - Hear from IBM, COMMON and System iNEWSHosted by Jim Herring, Director of IBM System i Products and Business Operations; Randy Dufault, Principal with MBS Technologies; Ian Jarman, IBM System i product manager; Carson Soule, CEO of CAS Severn, Inc. This special System iNEWS 25th Anniversary Webcast features an outstanding panel of System i industry experts. During this one–hour event your will hear from IBM's Jim Herring and Ian Jarman as well as COMMON President, Randy Dufault. This panel discussion is lead by System iNEWS Technical Editor, Carson Soule. The key to System i's future is in the solutions and the value clients place on these solutions. Jim Herring, Director of IBM System i Products and Business Operations will take some time to expand on this as well as other industry–wide trends that could affect System i in the future and how IBM will respond. COMMON President, Randy Dufault sees a bright future ahead for the System i and the COMMON organization. COMMON will be there with educational opportunities, with an independent voice of advocacy, and with a complete platform of ways for members to communicate amongst themselves and with the community at large. Moving forward we will see the i5/OS operating environment being deployed on scalable POWER processor–based systems as well as in BladeCenter. Ian Jarman, IBM System i Product Manager, will discuss this and more. You will also hear from Gary Bishop who will be representing the Young iSeries Professionals (YIPs) organization. Carson will put forward the tough questions you want answers to and there will be time for you to ask your own questions. Don't miss this exciting event! Find out what the top players think about the future of the System i. About the speakers: Jim Herring is Director of IBM System i Products and Business Operations. He most recently was responsible for the development and launch of the System i product line in 2007. Randy Dufault is a Principal with MBS Technologies. Randy is also a member of the COMMON North America Board of Directors and currently serves as the organization's president. Ian Jarman is the IBM System i product manager. Ian has been a frequent speaker at COMMON since 1993. He joined IBM in 1986 as a systems engineer in the United Kingdom and relocated to the U.S. in 1991 to work for IBM at its Rochester, Minnesota facility. Carson Soule is the CEO of CAS Severn, Inc. Carson has been active in COMMON (an IBM user group) as a speaker and as the AS/400 and System/36 Project Manager. He is a technical editor and columnist for System iNEWS. This webcast is sponsored by System iNEWS 25th Anniversary Silver Sponsor, BCD. Processing XML with RPGHosted by Jon Paris, founding member of the System i Developer consortium and the bi-annual RPG & DB2 Summit conference. In this webcast Jon Paris looks at the latest enhancements made to the RPG compiler to support XML processing. He also provides a brief overview of the features added in previous releases of Version 5 that are critical to understanding V5R4's XML support. Whether you are using XML for web services or data interchange, dealing with XML in RPG is definitely challenging. V5R4 brings welcome relief in the form of new native RPG IV language support that greatly simplifies parsing XML within your RPG programs. In this session we'll discuss the two types of native XML parsing support offered and the new operation codes that provide that support. This webcast is based on an educational session from the upcoming RPG & DB2 Summit (www.SystemiDeveloper.com).
About the speaker: Jon's IBM midrange career started when he fell in love with the System/38 while working as a consultant. This love affair ultimately led him to joining IBM. Jon left IBM in 1998 to focus on developing and delivering education focused on enhancing AS/400 and iSeries application development skills. Jon is a frequent speaker at User Groups meetings and conferences around the world, and holds a number of speaker excellence awards from COMMON. Jon is also a founding member of the System i Developer consortium and the bi-annual RPG & DB2 Summit conference.This webcast event is offered as part of the RPG & DB2 Summit Webcast Series and is sponsored by BCD. Development Alternatives for System i Web ApplicationsHosted by Sharon Hoffman, senior technical editor and regular contributor at System iNEWS. Some of the technologies that can be part of an iSeries/System i web application include CGI, Java Server Pages (JSPs), .Net, PHP, AJAX, Ruby on Rails, and of course, Java, SQL, and RPG or COBOL. In some cases, you can mix and match technologies, and in other cases, selecting a particular technology narrows the options for other parts of the application. During this educational webcast, Sharon Hoffman will provide an overview of some of the most commonly used web technologies and application architectures, how they can interface with iSeries/System i data and business logic, and the factors that influence which approach is most appropriate for a particular application. Sharon will also discuss supporting software components such as development tools and middleware, as well as the skills you'll need to have or acquire to implement each solution. About the speaker: Sharon Hoffman is a senior technical editor and regular contributor at System iNEWS. She is also a technology consultant, speaks at user group and industry events throughout the country, and teaches via e–learning as well as in classrooms and at conferences. "I enjoy spending time with people and finding out what problems they are facing, what questions they have, and how technology can help their situation," she notes. Getting Your iSeries Business To The Web Is Now A Lot Easier - Modernize with Integrated SolutionsHosted by Wayne Madden, Publisher and editor–in–chief of System iNEWS. View this webcast now [59 minutes] Your iSeries provides a complete integrated solution at the hardware and operating system levels. But what about your business applications and workflow needs? The challenge facing many IT environments is to present users with a consistent and secure user interface with integrated information from web applications, enterprise content and workflow/personal productivity applications. Wayne Madden, publisher and editor–in–chief of System iNEWS, discusses the various approaches to integration using the browser as the user interface to deliver all your applications, legacy and new, on the web. Modernizing applications involves creating better user interfaces that take advantage of browsers and web-based technology. True modernization also involves tight integration with existing services, such as a managed application framework, distributed access to existing spool files and reports and enterprise content management. During the second half of this presentation you hear from Duncan Kenzie, CTO of BCD Software. Duncan explains how products in BCD's application modernization family can address these needs. During this webcast you will learn:
You also hear from Susan DeFrance, Senior Programmer / Lead Analyst for Mitsubishi Fuso North America's leading mid–size truck manufacturer. Susan describes her three month experience evaluating several iSeries Web application development solutions. She discusses why WebSmart was selected, view one of her Mission Critical iSeries web apps, hear how quickly it was created, and her level of satisfaction after one year. Prerecorded Webcast: Better Than Green Screen: How You Can Use Next Generation Web Technologies To Become an iSeries IT HeroHosted by Duncan Kenzie, President and CTO of BCD Technical Support View this webcast now [53 minutes] We hear all the time about the need to modernize our iSeries applications and move from greenscreen to Web-based user interfaces. But is there a business case for this approach? And how will it affect your career? During this Webcast, you will learn:
This Webcast is hosted by Duncan Kenzie, President and CTO of BCD's Technical Support group, the development and support group for WebSmart, the popular Web application development solution for iSeries-System i servers. Duncan has 29 years of experience on the midrange systems platform in creating programmer productivity tools for both green-screen and native web environments. He is a published author of numerous technical articles on programming on the midrange platform and the web, and a frequent public speaker. This unique Webcast was offered as part of the RPG and Beyond Web conference. Prerecorded Webcast: How to Modernize RPG Applications using High Productivity System i Web Development ToolsHosted by Paul Conte, Senior Technical Editor for System iNEWS View this webcast now [57 minutes] The System i is a technologically advanced, secure and reliable server that supports the most up-to-date database and Web capabilities. System i professionals also need to keep pace with these advances in technology. Paul Conte, Senior Technical Editor for System iNEWS, will discuss the need for fundamental skills such as SQL, modular programming with ILE, and Web technology. He’ll also discuss how it’s impossible to keep up with technology without using the appropriate tools to do the job. And, he'll compare fundamental tools such as WDSc and SCM to highly productive tools such as Web application generators. During this Webcast you will also learn the answers to these questions:
This Webcast includes a demonstration of BCD's WebSmart System i Web application development tool, and Clover, BCD's integrated Web query tool. Learn how you can build a fully working Web application in minutes with no programming required. Learn how to easily integrate business rules from legacy RPG code. Learn how to use Clover to create powerful Web based queries, charts and graphs. Duncan Kenzie, President BCD Technical Services, presents this portion of the Webcast. Also, Alfis Jones, Systems Solution Manager, for Stanley Furniture will share his experience in developing modernized iSeries Web applications and real-time queries using BCD's WebSmart and Clover solutions. This unique Webcast is offered as part of the RPG and Beyond Web conference.
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