Re: 2015 COMMON Thoughts!

[DrFranken <midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Responding to Vern's note on the Labs. I provide the server and setup of 
that for the conference. I spoke to most of the lab presenters and 
interest in labs was Excellent at this conference. One of the labs had 
folks outside in the hallway sitting on the couches doing the lab!

You know that Power Systems are tough when the server rack which is (er, 
WAS) bolted to a 4x4 pallet with 6 IBM Rack Casters under it had it's 
pallet completely ripped off and discarded. That had to be a serious 
impact to shred that! Yet everything in side was undamaged and ran 
perfectly. :-)


        - Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis

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On 5/12/2015 10:14 AM, Vernon Hamberg wrote:
> Hi Brad
>
> I can speak as both an attendee and a speaker. In addition, as a member
> of CAAC, I benefit from hearing some of the material from IBM throughout
> the year.
>
> 1 of my sessions was full - the one on creating XLSX files. And the lab
> for it was almost full.
>
> Open labs were well used, I was told, so people wanted to try out what
> they learned.
>
> I went to a session on node.js and finally think I have an idea of what
> it could be used for.
>
> I went to a session on the new samba support and, again, feel I have a
> better handle on it.
>
> Then a surprise about XML shredding - something I'd missed completely
> when working with XML-INTO instead of trying to master the XML support
> in SQL a couple years ago.
>
> So for me, the new technologies were there and something I can use. I
> think there was strong interest in the new stuff and living in a world
> of disparate operating systems.
>
> Vern
>
> On 5/11/2015 10:39 PM, Bradley Stone wrote:
> > I rarely have the time to attend these events but I would love to hear
> > from
> > those that got to attend the latest COMMON...
> >
> > What topics where hot?  What were not?
> >
> > What did you learn and bring back to your shop?
> >
> > What did you wish would have been covered, and what was covered that you
> > thought didn't need to be (and why?)
> >
> > What will you implement and what won't you implement?... and what you you
> > WISH you could implement, but can't?
> >
> > Brad
> > www.bvstools.com