Re: System i5 equivalent to DB2 Cube Views

Buying an i5 will get you an education voucher which you can use to attend 
a conference, but I think you still have to buy a membership.

Individual membership is $125.00 a year. Corporate membership is more. If 
you're a member of your local users group and your lug is a corporate 
member, you can participate through your lug membership.

Membership is slowly dwindling, but I don't think we're dying. There are 
many active members who derive a great deal of benefit from COMMON.

One of the benefits of membership is the requirements process. As a group, 
we have a great deal of clout with IBM. IBM has prompted and promoted this 
method of vetting and presenting user needs and wants. Through the 
requirements process, a requested feature is aired, discussed, revised, 
and presented to IBM in a form on which IBM can act directly. Sometimes 
that action will be to defer action, but you'll at least get a direct 
answer. PHP being directly supported on the iSeries was the result of one 
such requirement.

IBM pays attention to this list, as well. I don't want to make COMMON out 
as the only way to express your needs. However, the COMMON requirements 
system is an active and established FORMAL process for users to initiate 
changes in software and hardware on the iSeries (or whatever they're 
calling it today).





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You wrote:

COMMON members get your requirements for this feature onto the

COMMON
requirements forum.

http://community.common.org/forums/list/threads/?forumid=6 <<

Don't think we are COMMON members unless the sale of a System i5 from
IBM automatically makes us a member.   So, don't see how we can make any
such requests to COMMON.   It seems all we can do is put in any
"requests" to our IBM rep. 

Any idea of what it takes to join, especially in the way of money and
what the ROI is?    Looking at the discussions on the forum, it seems
like it is a dying organization because many member's shops have
converted or are going to convert off the System i5.   Hope that isn't
true. 

Thanks,

Dave