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    IBM i Technical Conference

    July21–23, 2022

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Technical Conference Overview

Three Days of Inspiration & Innovation!

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2022

Technically, We’re passionate about continuing education on the IBM Power Systems platform!

#OceanTechCon22

2022 Innovate & Thrive with IBM i - Online-Only Day

Thursday, July 21, 2022
8:30 AM - 5:30 PM

Online

Focusing on how to Innovate & Thrive with IBM i.

Technical Conference

Friday, July 22, 2022
8:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Crowne Plaza Hotel - Costa Mesa

Full day of technical presentations focusing on all aspects of IT from strategic directions to drilling down into today’s latest technologies plus the Vendor Solutions Expo.

Workshops

Saturday, July 23, 2022
8:30 AM - 5:00 PM

Mission Viejo Community Center

Workshops & Hands-on learning to tune up your skill sets.
Lunch is included.

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OCEAN TechCon22
IBM i Technical Conference

July 21–23, 2022

Innovate and Thrive with IBM i Panel Discussion Moderator: Mike Pavlak
Panelists: Andrew Clark, Birgitta Hauser, Mark Irish, Scott Klement, Pete Massiello, Robin Tatam

Break - Chat with attendees

String Manipulation and Regular Expressions with SQL Birgitta Hauser

Break - Chat with attendees

What You Need to Know to Successfully Upgrade to IBM i 7.4 & 7.5 Pete Massiello

Lunch Break

What’s New and Exciting in RPG Scott Klement

Break - Chat with attendees

IBM i Security: G.O.A.T or more of a donkey? Robin Tatam

Break - Chat with attendees

Node.JS and IBM i Mark Irish

Break - Chat with attendees

DevOps in the Cloud Andrew Clark

End of Sessions
 

Technology Updates & Refresh Charles Guarino

Vendor Expo and Coffee Break

The Magic of Creating REST APIs for IBM i Tim Rowe

Merlin and Application Development - A Technical Deep Dive Tim Rowe

Lunch and Vendor Expo

VS Code on IBM I Patrick Behr

Git 101 Patrick Behr

Vendor Expo and Refreshment Break

Web Language Face-Off Liam Allan & Patrick Behr & Mike Pavlak

End of Sessions
 

What's New in DB2 for i for 7.5 Scott Forstie

Vendor Expo and Coffee Break

Temporal Tables - Looking Back into Your Data's Past Simon Hutchinson

Configuring RDi for RPG Development Charles Guarino

Lunch and Vendor Expo

What's Going on with My Code: Debugging 101 with RDi Charles Guarino

Journey to the Cloud David Contreras

Vendor Expo and Refreshment Break

Simon's Top 10 SQL Favorites Simon Hutchinson

End of Sessions
 

IBM i Navigator, An Administrator’s View Tim Rowe

Vendor Expo and Coffee Break

What's New in Security for i for 7.5 Carol Woodbury

Moving to a Higher Level Carol Woodbury

Lunch and Vendor Expo

What is SYSTOOLS & How Can You Leverage IT Scott Forstie

The Best of iSee Scott Forstie & Tim Rowe

Vendor Expo and Refreshment Break

IBM i Security Cocktail with an SQL Chaser Scott Forstie & Carol Woodbury

End of Sessions
 

RPGLE as a Web Service Liam Allan

Vendor Expo and Coffee Break

Node.js Intro Liam Allan

Digital Directions & Modernization: Real World IBM i Roadmaps Revealed Eamon Musallam

Lunch and Vendor Expo

Python APIs: aka REST with FLASK Mike Pavlak

Test Driven Development using Python Mike Pavlak

Vendor Expo and Refreshment Break

No session during this time slot

End of Sessions
 

Schedule for Saturday, July 23, 2022 - Workshops

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  • Managing your IBM i made EASY with SQL, ACS & New Nav Workshop

    Scott Forstie & Tim Rowe

     jQuery Master Class   jQuery Master Class

    Mission Viejo Community Center


    In this workshop Scott & Tim will show you how to use IBM i (SQL) Services, IBM i Access Client Solutions (ACS), and IBM i (New) Navigator to manage the IBM i. There are new and improved tools to help anyone responsible for the IBM i. Join this session to gain skills and competence in these valuable tools.

    SQL is for more than just doing database things. With the invention of IBM i Services, there are many options for accessing and managing your IBM i. This workshop will look to explore the many already existing examples shipped in Access Client Solutions. We will learn how to modify and enhance these to take your system management capabilities to the next level. Additionally, there are many examples that Scott has created to help IBM i clients accomplish modern system management. We will also look at the new features in the IBM Navigator for i and how it is leveraging IBM i (SQL) Services and how you can even use the same SQL used by the navigator for your own system management purposes.

    Come with your laptop loaded with the LATEST level for ACS. This will get you rolling on the road to managing your environment. Download ACS at http://ibm.biz/IBMi_ACS

    Acquire skills in IBM i (SQL) Services, SQL programming, IBM i Access Client Solutions (ACS), and IBM i (New) Navigator to manage the IBM i.


  • Intro to VS Code, Writing the Cleanest RPGLE, and RPGLE and Git the Right Way
    Workshop


    Liam Allan

    SQL BootCamp

    Mission Viejo Community Center


    1. Intro to VS Code on IBM i: Installation, Writing code, developer tools, creating programs and much more.

    2. Writing the Cleanest RPGLE: Learn about linting; how a linter can not only show you potential issues, but enforce code standards in your RPG as you write code.

    3. RPGLE and Git the Right Way: Understanding how to use git with VS Code, writing RPGLE locally, and deploying and building to IBM i.


  • Advanced Python Workshop

    Mike Pavlak

    security

    Mission Viejo Community Center


    So, you’ve played a bit and are looking to go to the next level? In this session we’ll explore some of the more interesting features of Python. We’ll start by exploring some of the more powerful language constructs, OOP, exception handling and database accesses. Then we’ll move into some of the more useful modules in the Python landscape and explore ideas like API management and wrap up with a Machine Learning example.


  • Modernize the Monolith: Service Programs & Test-Driven Development Workshop


    Patrick Behr

    security

    Mission Viejo Community Center


    1. Why Procedures Are Better than Subroutines Discover the superpowers that procedures have and how they can help you create more reliable and more easily maintained programs. We'll talk about the benefits of input parameters, local variables, return values, error handling with on-exit, and recursion.

    2. The Awesomeness of Service Programs Learn why service programs are so awesome. We'll weigh the pros and cons of different options we have for creating shared routines. We'll learn how to create a service program and how easy it is to use these shared procedures in our applications. We will discuss the importance of binder source and how it can make updating our service programs painless.

    3. Test-Driven Development: Clean Code that Works Let's take a look at how testing is often done today, and why it's so difficult. We'll discuss the benefits of test-driven development, and show how it works. We will look at the xUnit testing frameworks, and do a little test- driven development together.

    4. Working with Legacy Code: Refactoring and Restructuring Our legacy code has been running the business for decades and represents a tremendous amount of business knowledge. It can also be terribly difficult to understand and downright scary to work on. In this session we'll discuss how our code got in the shape it's in, and look at some techniques we can use to make our legacy code more testable, understandable, and maintainable.



Venue

OCEAN Technical Conference - FRIDAY
Will Be Held At:

Crowne Plaza Hotel

Costa Mesa

3131 S. Bristol Street, Costa Mesa, CA 92626





OCEAN Technical Conference - SATURDAY
Will Be Held At:

Mission Viejo Community Center

Mission Viejo

24932 Veterans Way, Mission Viejo, CA 92692





CANCELLATION POLICY: Conference fees, less a $50 cancellation fee, will be refunded if a cancellation request is received prior to July 9, 2022. Please contact us at info@oceanusergroup.org to request a refund. No refunds will be issued for requests made after July 8, 2022.

Exhibitors & Sponsors

Exhibitors and Sponsors play a major role in the success of our event.

Please visit these Exhibitors in the Vendor Solutions Expo:

Additional Sponsorship Provided by:

Membership

Benefits of Membership

Benefits of being a member of the OCEAN User Group

As we move into a new era of technology, it is critical that we are aware of how and when to implement technology at our companies. At OCEAN, we hope to provide a venue so that you can get an overview and education in many of these new technologies that will enable you to be an informed professional.

OCEAN Members get a discount off the registration price for our annual Technical Conference, which helps to justify the cost of membership.

Types of Membership

Individual Membership – $80 - This is a membership for one person. (Please note that companies with two or three employees can save money by purchasing multiple individual memberships rather than a Corporate Membership.) Allows full access to the OCEAN website, free access to OCEAN’s monthly meetings (including food & refreshments), a discount on the OCEAN Technical Conference and eligibility for OCEAN special members only education events.

Corporate Membership – $250 – This membership is for companies that want to sign up four or more employees as OCEAN Members. Up to five persons may attend each monthly meeting, and an unlimited number can attend the annual technical conference at the member rate. Allows full access to the OCEAN website, free access to OCEAN’s monthly meetings (including food & refreshments), a discount on the OCEAN Technical Conference and eligibility for OCEAN special members only education events.


Non-members – The monthly meeting fee is $20 (dinner & parking included), except for special meetings at a hotel for which the fee is $45 (dinner & validated self-parking included). Your first monthly meeting is FREE! Sign up for our mailing list to receive notice of OCEAN meetings and special events.

Dress Code - The dress code for all OCEAN events is business casual, except for Saturday labs which are casual.

Get in touch

Contact info

We would love to hear from you. Please contact us.

2022 OCEAN Conference Info: info@oceanusergroup.org