TUG Buzz! for Thursday October 16th, 2025

IN THIS ISSUE:

1. October MoM - Topic: GiAPA with R2i
2. QUSER - Special Invitation
3. SUMMIT: - FREE online Lunch & Learn sessions
4. IBM i Community Calendar
5. List IBM i User Groups
6. Future TUG MoM Calendar - Upcoming Events
7. Stay Connected - Confirm your subscription to TUG Buzz

📣 Reminder... Our next MoM is:

Wednesday, October 22nd, 2025
12:00 PM (Noon) Eastern Time
Location: Zoom

* 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.

TOPIC: “GiAPA (Global i Application Performance Analyzer for IBM i):”

Whether you want to improve your IBM i application performance, decrease resource utilization, or remove a limit to growth within your code, this tool will quickly guide you to what needs to be done. There is no tool like it on the market! Come learn about this truly a well-kept secret.

Join this session to learn how this tool will prioritize what should be changed on your system right down to the ‘line of code’. The automated analyzer will not only estimate the improvement expected (runtime etc.…) it will estimate the effort in programmer hours required to do the changes. Take the guess work out of application performance. The data collection piece of GiAPA is very much like IBM performance tools, it runs 24/7 and is extremely lightweight.

SPEAKERS:

		Kaare Plesner (R2i) The founder of iPerformance, Kaare Plesner, has worked with the IBM Power System i since its inception in the 80’s from the mid-range systems System/38 on to the AS/400 and the iSeries. He has taught more than 200 courses for IBM on OS/400 performance in 20+ countries and has been an invited speaker at multiple COMMON conferences in Europe and the United States.
		Tamara Vandersluis (R2i) VP Innovation and co-founder of R2i – Has also worked with IBM Power systems since the mid-80s, she is passionate about IBM i performance and about getting the word out on the outstanding tools available on the platform.

		Luc Du Moulin (R2i) Director of Development at R2i – Luc leads a large team of experienced developers. He has created the managed service offering that is specialized in stabilizing and monitoring our customers solutions running on the IBM i platform. The team performs bug fixes, functional improvements and ensures the performance and reliability of the applications.

Get ready for your most productive lunches in 2025!

Starting October 21, please join us — Susan Gantner, Jon Paris, Simon Hutchinson, Patrick Behr, Mike Pavlak, and our guests — for a NEW series of FREE online Lunch & Learn sessions, all focused on practical IBM i development tips and tools.

Each 75-minute technical discussion gives you detailed how-to tips from Susan, Jon, Simon, Patrick, or Mike; a demo of an IBM i development tool or concept; and a live Q & A. You'll learn bite-sized techniques related to:

• RPG
• AI on IBM i
• Stored procedures
• IBM i web apps
• VS Code for i
• Code analysis
• DevOps
• Solving the skills issue
• Db2 for i
• BI on IBM i
• SQL

Check out the Lunch & Learn lineup and register FREE for as many topics as you'd like. Click on the titles to read the session descriptions.

Let's schedule a little time together, and catch up on the latest IBM i development tool enhancements.
Sincerely,
Susan, Jon, Simon, Patrick and Mikey
The System i Developer team

Wednesday
OCT 22 (Zoom)

Kaare Plesner,
Tamara Vandersluis,
and Luc Du Moulin
(R2i inc.)

Wednesday
NOV 19 (In-Person)

Steve Pitcher
(Service Express)

Wednesday
DEC 17 (Zoom)

Denise Walstead
(Midrange Dynamics)