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Just out of curiosity, what geographical area is this university? Larry Ketzes iSeries Senior System Administrator American Life Insurance Company One ALICO Plaza 600 King Street Wilmington, DE 19801 Phone: 302-594-2146 Mobile: 302-559-1631 Fax: 302-830-4524 Email: larry.ketzes@xxxxxxx -----Original Message----- From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Eduard Sluis Sent: Saturday, March 10, 2007 2:49 PM To: RPG400-L Midrange; Midrange Systems Technical iSeries Discussion; easy400 easy400 Subject: iSeries educational plan with our local University Dear all, We have decided to start a iSeries education program with our local University. This also to suit our needs (and those from other iseries using companies) for students that already have basic iSeries knowledge when they arrive from University but more important to make them at least acquainted to the iSeries. There is already an 720 arranged for them from one of our local banks. Our local IBM will be asked to help with a license for it so they do not have to install the system every 70 day's..... This hardware will suffice for a couple of years (we would liked to have obtained it as development machine ourselves (would really speed things up)). So now the hard work begins, WHAT and HOW TO DO???.... We will need to develop an curriculum. We want to have the thing practical so the students can experience the operating-system and the very many and different ways to do things with it. We want them to experience the different forms iSeries applications can get (5250, Webfaced, Websites (CGIDEV2), Communication interfaces over HTTP/FTP and there uses (SOAP interfaces, Webservices, XML and so on), Modern EJB based applications, and so on). We want them to experience how easy and effective you can develop on the iSeries with RPGLE (so they can compare that with the far more elaborate ways of programming in C++, Java, .Net, etc). We want them to understand the concepts of application-servers compared to other types of servers or computers (and why they need to have different capabilities). We want them to understand why and when you have to choose to automate solutions on these types of servers. We want to open up their minds and make them know that the iSeries exists and that this type of automation is very viable and versatile and in the For-Front of automation development (besides it is fun to be in the iSeries world). So.... we want a lot! But we will probably get 7 weeks of 4 hours time to do it. If we do it right, probably some more time the other year. To do this we need some help. All of us know so much more on how and where to get existing stuff that can be very util for our goals (just send me the links). All of us could think of small things you could contribute (you just have) and adds on to the to be created idea that so much is possible on and with the iSeries (would be nice if it works)(The 720 will have V5R2M0 or V5R3M0 (or better when IBM decides to help)). Where are we looking for? - Examples of Curricula that could be usefull. - Existing short (few hours) illustrative labs/tutorials aimed on different expects of the OS (Multi-tasking, security, spool-handling, different standard available interfaces, concepts of subsystems, concept of logical partitioning,... ,???, !!!). - Example applications that show the divers way's of things to do and the many possibilities that can be explored to achieve a goal (Sending mail, accessing an web-service or Soap-interface, XML handling, Creating Excel sheets based on iSeries data, websites with specific features, Combining functions available in native iSeries with Java and PASE to achieve goals not that common on the iSeries, rock-solid iSeries DataBaseDriven applications (Ok, those we have ourselves), embedded SQL, and so much more). - Existing hands on and illustrative labs/tutorials aimed on iSeries development aspects (Starting with WDSC, RPGLE basics, ILE environment (Procedures, Binding libraries, Modules, ServicePrograms (what they are and how they interact.)and that results in working 'simple' applications. - Articles of use for the other aspects mentioned above. - All the things we might forget and should be included. - - Thanks in advance. Any help is appreciated. Eduard.
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