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TUG Buzz! for Wednesday April 16th, 2025

⌚ Reminder! TUG's next MoM is:

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2025
12:00 PM Eastern Time (11:00 AM Central Time)

           

* Note: An MP4 recording of this meeting will be available to download for TUG members in good standing, by email request to admin@tug.ca.

SPEAKER:

Barbara Morris  

Barbara Morris

Barbara is the lead developer for the RPG compilers in the IBM Toronto Lab. She has been working on the RPG compilers since she started at IBM in 1989 after receiving a Computing Science degree from the University of Alberta. The first enhancement she developed was the ENDIF/ENDDO opcodes for RPG/400 in V2R1.

Some of her most recent enhancements were the DATEYY parameter to check for the “2039 problem” and the %PASSED built-in function to check a parameter. A few of the other notable enhancements that she developed for RPG include sub procedures, qualified data structures, call-interaction with Java, Open Access: RPG Edition, and fully-free-form RPG.

TOPIC: "Barbara's favourite recent enhancements for RPG "

SESSION ABSTRACT:

Barbara will talk about some of her favourite RPG enhancements that are available as PTFs for 7.4 and 7.5.
For example:
      • New and updated built-in functions
      • New and updated opcodes
      • Improved handling for UTF-8 data
      • An option to pass "any type" parameters as strings
      • And more

*** This will be a joint meeting with QUSER ***

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Future TUG MoM Calendar:

DATE / VENUE TIME / TOPICS SPEAKERS / SPONSOR

Wednesday
APR 23 (Zoom)

12:00 PM (EDT) Noon Zoom TUG MoM
  Topic: Barbara's favourite recent enhancements for RPG
SPECIAL JOINT SESSION WITH QUSER

Barbara Morris
(IBM Canada)

Wednesday
MAY 14
Live in Markham
(Monte Carlo Inn & Suites)

5:00 PM (EDT) - Session 1:
Topic: Better projects, objects and AI
for IBM i - Part I
(live with streaming on Zoom)

6:00 PM (EDT) - Intermission

7:00 PM (EDT) - Session 2:
Topic: Better projects, objects and AI
for IBM i - Part II 

Edmund Reinhardt
(IBM Canada)
with Sanjula Ganepola
and Jonathan Zak

Wednesday
JUN 18 (Zoom)

12:00 PM  (EDT) Noon Zoom TUG MoM
  Topic: ONE Semester of AI Learning
  During ONE Lunch Period ~ Let’s Go!

Monty Chicola, President
(Real Vision Software)

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