Alpha-Bytes Fortified

Posted: March 29, 2008 | Author: | Filed under: Abe Batthish, COBOL, EGL, George Farr, RBD, RDi, RPG, System i | Tags: , , , , , , | 2 Comments

Great feature article by George Farr in the April edition of SystemiNEWS that goes over the new host and client application development tools line up and their latest features

(update: changed links to point to public article)

TUG MoM @ Toronto Lab

Posted: February 2, 2008 | Author: | Filed under: Abe Batthish, Conference, EGL, HATS, RBD, RDi, TUG, WebFacing | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

On Wednesday, George Farr and the Toronto Lab hosted the Toronto User Group (TUG) for System i Meeting of Members (MoM) event.

TUG has always had close ties with the Lab, and we were happy to welcome them once again. Visiting from Raleigh N.C., Wendy Toh, Software Development director of Enterprise Development Tools & Compilers, and Danny Mace, Program Director of Rational Enterprise Transformation and Tools Development, were also in attendance. The session was conveniently held the day after the big V6R1 Announce, allowing members of the IBM System i AD team to introduce the changes and (quickly) demo some of the new features available in the latest release of our tools. Wendy also gave an insightful overview of IBM’s strategy in this space. Overall, the response was very positive. Some questions about the repackaging which George readily explained, and a lot of excitement over the new features made available through RPG, HATS, and the new RDi line.

As a follow-up, TUG will be hosting their annual TEC conference, Apr 22-24, which will contain over 20 sessions and labs presented by members of the IBM Toronto Lab System i AD Team, that will dig deeper into many of the new features introduced in the announce and at this event. Hope to see everyone there!

Announced! Now where to get the info…

Posted: February 2, 2008 | Author: | Filed under: Abe Batthish, HATS, RBD, RDi | 3 Comments

Woohoo!

On Tuesday, Jan. 29, System i announced i5/OS V6R1. On the same day IBM Rational announced the suite of tools that would accompany the latest version of the OS:

Stay tuned for upcoming posts where developers will introduce you to the new features found in the latest suite of tools for i5/OS developers.

In the meantime, be sure to visit the Announce Site where you’ll find Webcasts, Podcasts, Demos, Tutorials and more!

Hm… time to change this blog’s name.