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21st Century Mid-Range Developer Training Series RPG has been the preferred choice for development on the IBM iSeries/400 platform. IBM continues to dramatically enhance the iSeries/400 development environment, specifically the RPG IV programming language. GEMKO Information Group has the expertise and capabilities to educate IT professionals in modern RPG IV development and best practices. GEMKO offers a nine track training series entitled, “21st Century Mid-Range Developer Training," which covers the RPG IV language, ILE programming model and other technologies that complement and extend RPG and your business applications (consistent with IBM's System i Developer Road Atlas). To increase effectiveness, comprehension and reduce the learning curve, the content of our training has been tailored towards leveraging the current skills of traditional developers as the basis for learning modern day technologies and best practices. Through the utilization of the newly acquired skills and knowledge, it is expected that developer capacity (throughput) will increase, resulting in "doing more with less through efficiency". ____________________________________________________________ 21st Century Mid-Range Developer Training Workshops: a nine track training series. >>Questions? Email info@gemko.com Training Pricing: >> Based on number of students and training track selection >> Click here to request a training proposal Training Instructor and Subject Matter Expertise: Christopher F. Burns, Director of Client Systems Modernization, has over 20 years of industry experience including Mid Range technology consulting, application architecture design, systems integration and support. Click here to read Chris' biography! >> Looking to talk shop with an iSeries subject matter expert? Check out Chris' iBlog! ____________________________________________________________ Track 0 – "Introduction to RPG for Non-RPG Programmers"
Track 1 – Not Your Father’s RPG
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Track 2 – Procedures & ILE Programming Length: 1 day Delivery Method: Instructor led, group-paced, classroom delivery learning model with structured hands-on activities. Course Description: This RPG programming training workshop helps transform the RPG programmer’s way of thinking from traditional to more object oriented. Procedures help make your applications extensible and flexible. The Integrated Language Environment (ILE) allows business logic written in different languages to collaborate and co-exist seamlessly to support enterprise-wide applications. Course Objective: You will learn how to leverage the benefits of the ILE architecture by organizing key business logic into tiny granules, such that it is written once and used throughout the application. Students will also learn how to interface with external programs and procedures more reliably. Target Student: This course is designed for programmers who have become proficient in the RPG IV language and are seeking to eliminate redundancy and cloning from their applications. Prerequisites: Track 1 or comparable experience. Performance Based Objectives: Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
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Track 3 – RPG IV and SQL, a 1-2 Punch Length: 1 day Delivery Method: Instructor led, group-paced, classroom delivery learning model with structured hands-on activities. Course Description: This RPG programming training workshop investigates ways to combine the unique powers of RPG IV and SQL development environments to provide even more flexibility and functionality. Course Objective: You will learn how to enable SQL and RPG to complement one another in a business application, especially when one is better suited for a particular task than the other. Target Student: This course is designed for programmers who have become proficient in the RPG IV language and are seeking better ways for their applications to harvest data. Prerequisites: Track 1 or comparable experience. Performance Based Objectives: Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
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____________________________________________________________ Track 4 – Triggers & API's Length: 1 day Delivery Method: Instructor led, group-paced, classroom delivery learning model with structured hands-on activities. Course Description: This RPG programming training workshop exhibits how to utilize database triggers, built into DB2, in order to better enforce business rules. API's provide access to System i resources above and beyond those of RPG IV and i/OS. Course Objective: You will learn how to give your business logic a more “event driven” design, thus making it less defined by software and more defined by the database itself. Also, how to interface with or manipulate various System i objects via API's. Target Student: This course is designed for programmers who have become proficient in the RPG IV and are seeking to improve the integrity of their database, as well as take advantage of more resources available on their System i or other platforms on their network. Prerequisites: Tracks 1, 2 or comparable experience. Performance Based Objectives: Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
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____________________________________________________________ Track 5 – Externalizing Modifications Length: 1 day Delivery Method: Instructor led, group-paced, classroom delivery learning model with structured hands-on activities. Course Description: This RPG programming training workshop explores ways to utilize System i programming techniques to enhance your 3rd party software without making modifications to their code, thus dramatically simplifying the deployment of new software releases. Course Objective: You will learn how to extend the event driven philosophy from Track 4 to include your modification programming efforts, thus getting mods out of the vendor's code and into external objects under your control. Target Student: This course is designed for programmers whose workload includes support of 3rd party software and execution of user requests for modifications to those software applications. Prerequisites: Tracks 4 and 1,2 or comparable experience. Performance Based Objectives: Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
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_________________________________________________________ Track 6 – Extending to the Web – A “Primer” Length: 1 day Delivery Method: Instructor led, group-paced, classroom delivery learning model with structured hands-on activities. Course Description: This RPG programming training workshop demonstrates how to utilize IBM supplied tools to bridge the gap between your mission critical RPG business logic and the World Wide Web. Course Objective: You will learn how to enable your RPG programs to output to web browsers on a real time basis, and thus generate dynamic web pages with your System i business data. Target Student: This course is designed for programmers who are proficient in RPG IV and are looking to provide browser based access to their System i data and legacy RPG business functions. Prerequisites: Tracks 1, 2, 4 or comparable experience. Performance Based Objectives: Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
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____________________________________________________________ NEW! Track 7 – Advanced SQL & RPG, The Knockout Punch Length: 2 days Delivery Method: Instructor led, group-paced, classroom delivery learning model with structured hands-on activities. Course Description: This RPG programming training workshop takes the SQL/RPG relationship to the next level, such that RPG may become less the application driver and more the application supported. Since SQL is a cross platform development environment, this will make your applications friendlier to other platforms in your network. Course Objective: You will learn how to use SQL to extend your core business logic which is securely rooted in RPG. At the same time, you will be exposed to problem solving techniques that are building blocks to low risk modernization strategies. Target Student: This course is designed for programmers who are proficient in both RPG IV and SQL, and are looking to shift some of the application load off RPG and/or modernize that application from its strategic core outward. Prerequisites: Tracks 1, 2, 3 or comparable experience. Performance Based Objectives: Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
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____________________________________________________________ NEW! Track 8 – Rational Developer for i Introduction / Primer Length: 1/2 day Delivery Method: Instructor led, group-paced, classroom delivery learning model. Course Description: This workshop introduces students to IBM’s Rational Developer for i software product (RDi) and how it can be used to carry out their daily duties on System i (AS/400). Course Objective: You will learn how to get started and be quickly productive with this product. For those who have used IBM’s Programming Development Manager (PDM), how to make the transition gracefully. Target Student: This course is designed both for programmers who are new to System i, as well as those who have a wealth of experience with traditional System i tools such as PDM, Source Entry Utility (SEU) and Screen Design Aid (SDA). Prerequisites: None. Performance Based Objectives: Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
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