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  • The Pro's Guide to IBM i Security Fundamentals - Robin Tatam & Amy Williams
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    Two seasoned IBM i security pros, Robin Tatam and Amy Williams of HelpSystems, will lead a discussion around: Security tools built into the operating system itself Options for augmenting the operating system’s security Ways to bolster your staff’s security expertise

    Cybersecurity is blazing hot and for good reason! There has never been a time when technology was under greater threat of attack and the consequences can be devastating. 

    Yet, many shops running IBM i have barely applied the basics when it comes to securing their server and data. Excuses abound, ranging from the assurances of firewall protection to a lack of skilled resources and simply not knowing how to proceed.  

    Attend this free session to achieve game-changing clarity on three primary facets of IBM i security (and enhance your own career prospects in the process).

    Two seasoned IBM i security pros, Robin Tatam and Amy Williams of HelpSystems, will lead a discussion around:

    • Security tools built into the operating system itself
    • Options for augmenting the operating system’s security
    • Ways to bolster your staff’s security expertise

    If you—or your management—ever wished you knew more about IBM i security, then this is the event you’ve been waiting for!

    Robin Tatam

    Global Director of Security Technologies - HelpSystems

    Robin Tatam is HelpSystems’ Global Director of Security Technologies and a COMMON subject matter expert (SME). As an award-winning speaker on security topics, Robin has been interviewed and quoted by industry magazines and has published numerous trade articles. Robin’s extensive Power Server experience has resulted in more than 20 IBM certifications and the highly sought after designation of ISACA-certified Information Security Manager (CISM) and PCI-Professional (PCI-P). He is also co-author of IBM’s Redbook publication on IBM i Data Encryption.

    Amy Williams

    HelpSystems

    Amy Williams is a Senior Security Services Consultant who joined HelpSystems in 2015. She holds CISSP, CISA, and PCI-P certifications. Amy has worked on the IBM i platform since 1994 and her experience includes application testing, system installation, system administration, and architecture. She has worked in the warehousing distribution, travel, and gaming industries.

    Amyhasperformedsuccessfulroleswapsandcompletedasuccessfulobjectlevelremediationof5 disparate applications on the same IBM i LPAR. She has been responsible for consolidating over 60 LPARs to less than 30 while keeping the business moving forward. She has implemented exit point security when working towards a PCI ROCfiling.

    Since joining HelpSystems, Amy has worked with clients on system migrations and ensuring their application architecture was maintained. She has remediated all of the special authorities from users accommodating specific operational and security needs. Amy has implemented Authority Broker for a multi-system implementation, and has completed three specific remediations to remove *ALLOBJ authority.

    Amy served in the Air National Guard for 10 years in the communications flight (IT).

  • Why Migrate When You Can Modernize? - Eugene King
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    If you’re considering migrating away from the IBM i or modernizing your applications, you should understand the wealth of options you now have that make it easier than ever to bring your existing apps forward into the modern age.

    Many organizations have relied on packaged or homegrown applications on their IBM i platform for many years. If you’re considering migrating away from the IBM i or modernizing your applications, you should understand the wealth of options you now have that make it easier than ever to bring your existing apps forward into the modern age.   

    In this webinar, Eugene King, LANSA's Sr. Sales Engineer, will cover:

    • A variety of modernization techniques
    • How to extend the reach of existing apps
    • How to enable web and mobile devices on the IBM i

    Eugene King

    Lansa

    Eugene King is a pre-sales consultant who has over 20 years of experience with LANSA and has worked with LANSA customers across a wide range of industry verticals on new development, modernization, integration, and mobile, and web projects.

  • Find Object by Name in IFS
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    In this iSee we give/show you how to search the IFS for a specific object name.

    How do you find things in IFS ?  There is an amazing service for this.  In this iSee we give/show you how to search the IFS for a specific object name.  This was made important by the recent security issue sounding Log4J.  This iSee will show you how to find all reference to this in your IFS.  Help you identify applications that need to be resolved. 

    Tim Rowe

    Business Architect Application Development & Systems Management for IBM i

    Tim Rowe is the Business Architect for IBM i responsible for System Management and Application Development. He has a passion for modernization on IBM i and how we can continue to move IBM i into the world of 'Normal' . In his spare time he is a certified Soccer referee and enjoys refereeing games with his youngest son.

    Scott Forstie

    Db2 for i Business Architect

    Scott Forstie is a Senior Technical Staff Member within IBM i development and spends most of his time working as the Db2 for i Business Architect. He has worked on IBM operating system development since joining IBM in 1989.

    Scott is a frequently published author, speaker at industry events around the globe and can be found @Forstie_IBMi and forstie@us.ibm.com. Scott is an avid runner and enjoys cooking.

  • IBM iSee Video Blog
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    Short demonstrations of tools to help you in your everyday work. Presented by Scott Forstie and Tim Rowe, IBM

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    Short demonstrations of tools, techniques and examples (including working SQL examples!!) to help you solve real problems that are part of your everyday work.  Presented by Scott Forstie and Tim Rowe, IBM

  • Using Views to Unlock Your Physical Files
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    In this iSee, we will look at an automated way to create a set of views over a number of physical files.

    When is comes to modernizing your applications, it can be a very daunting task.  This also include modernizing your data. We know that there are still many physical files out in the wild and converting them to a new DDL based table while can be very freeing, is a huge task. The good news, is using Views, you can start to unlock that data and not have to also modernize that applications that have been using these physical files.  In this iSee, we will look at an automated way to create a set of views over a number of physical files. This will not only give you this automated process, but we then also talk about leveraging these View in new ways. 

    Tim Rowe

    Business Architect Application Development & Systems Management for IBM i

    Tim Rowe is the Business Architect for IBM i responsible for System Management and Application Development. He has a passion for modernization on IBM i and how we can continue to move IBM i into the world of 'Normal' . In his spare time he is a certified Soccer referee and enjoys refereeing games with his youngest son.

    Scott Forstie

    Db2 for i Business Architect

    Scott Forstie is a Senior Technical Staff Member within IBM i development and spends most of his time working as the Db2 for i Business Architect. He has worked on IBM operating system development since joining IBM in 1989.

    Scott is a frequently published author, speaker at industry events around the globe and can be found @Forstie_IBMi and forstie@us.ibm.com. Scott is an avid runner and enjoys cooking.

  • Journal Receiver Growth Monitor
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    This iSee is really a template that you could use to watch and monitor growth of not just Journal, but pretty much anything you might find interesting. We are putting Temporal tables to work in a practical way.

    We all have Journal Receivers, and I am sure you all at some point have wondered how large are they. Which of course is nice to know, but what if you could watch the and monitor the growth of your Journals over time.... Now, that might not only be investing, but could prove enlightening! In this session, Scott and Tim look at how to solve this problem. This iSee is really a template that you could use to watch and monitor growth of not just Journal, but pretty much anything you might find interesting.  We are putting Temporal tables to work in a practical way.  This video shows you how simple it is to accomplish.  When you are done you have working framework, today showing Journal receiver growth, but easily leveraged for your favorite topic in the future. 

    Tim Rowe

    Business Architect Application Development & Systems Management for IBM i

    Tim Rowe is the Business Architect for IBM i responsible for System Management and Application Development. He has a passion for modernization on IBM i and how we can continue to move IBM i into the world of 'Normal' . In his spare time he is a certified Soccer referee and enjoys refereeing games with his youngest son.

    Scott Forstie

    Db2 for i Business Architect

    Scott Forstie is a Senior Technical Staff Member within IBM i development and spends most of his time working as the Db2 for i Business Architect. He has worked on IBM operating system development since joining IBM in 1989.

    Scott is a frequently published author, speaker at industry events around the globe and can be found @Forstie_IBMi and forstie@us.ibm.com. Scott is an avid runner and enjoys cooking.

  • Multi-Factor Authentication: Best Practices for the IBM i - Joe Hertvik & Lloyd Ramdarie
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    Depending on which regulatory or governmental entities cover your industry, you may soon need to implement an IBM i multi-factor authentication system.

    Security breaches caused by compromised passwords are driving IBM i shops to implement stronger user authentication practices, such as multi-factor authentication (MFA).   

    Many regulatory standards—such as PCI DSS, GDPR, and CCPA—also require user authentication techniques found in multi-factor authentication (MFA) and two-factor authentication (2FA) systems. And governmental entities such as the United States government are mandating MFA protection be used for critical systems. 

    Depending on which regulatory or governmental entities cover your industry, you may soon need to implement an IBM i multi-factor authentication system.  

    In this webinar, we’ll discuss several best practices for evaluating and implementing MFA on IBM I, including:

    • What is MFA and how does it protect my IBM i?

    • MFA versus SFA & 2FA

    • Possible pitfalls when implementing MFA

    • IBM i best practices for MFA

    Lloyd Ramdarie

    IBM i Technical Support Team Member, Software Engineering of America

    Lloyd Ramdarie is an IBM i Technical Support team member at Software Engineering of America. His background includes working in IBM i space for quite a number years with a large extent of his experience coming from heavy involvement with securing the IBM i. He is a seasoned IT professional who can utilize his vast experiences and expertise to help you implement the very best end to end security solutions in the IBM i environment.

    Joe Hertvik

    Hertvik & Associates

    Joe Hertvik, PMP is the owner of Hertvik & Associates, an IT administration and infrastructure consultancy, specializing in IBM i and network management. He has managed IBM i hardware and network systems for Fortune 500 and private companies for 20+ years. 

    Joe has written more than 1000 articles covering IBM I, networking & project management topics, making him a go-to reference for IBM i & infrastructure information.

  • IBM i Gets No Respect - Tom Huntington, Chuck Losinski, & Lauren Propson
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    The technology behind IBM i and IBM Power is modern and sound. It’s just another database server, after all! But how do we in IT speak the language of the business to express its deeply engrained value and importance?

    Legacy. Not strategic. Different from Windows or Linux. Just an AS/400. You name it; we’ve heard it all. Organizations in every industry around the world take IBM i for granted because they simply don’t understand how much it does for the business.  

    Here’s the reality: It’s not the platform. It’s the perception.  

    The technology behind IBM i and IBM Power is modern and sound. It’s just another database server, after all! But how do we in IT speak the language of the business to express its deeply engrained value and importance?  

    Join this webinar as the IBM i experts from HelpSystems offer education around what you should do when facing objections, obstacles, and real-life business challenges, including:  

    • Adding additional partitions (VMs) to support growth or DR initiatives

    • Mergers and acquisitions standardizing or consolidating technologies

    • Migrating or consolidating servers

    • Unique IBM i licensing considerations

    • Consultants who don’t recommend IBM i

      

    You’ll also learn how to automate, secure, and get data out of IBM i when your staff is not familiar with the operating system. Together, let’s defend the honor of this powerful platform—and save ourselves the headache and expense of re-platforming in the meantime!

    Tom Huntington

    Executive Vice President of Technical Solutions at HelpSystem

    Tom Huntington is Executive Vice President of Technical Solutions at HelpSystems, and has been with the company for nearly 30 years. He works with business alliances, acquisitions and large customer relationships and ensures that the HelpSystems software works with other major software and hardware vendors worldwide.

    Tom often speaks on enterprise scheduling, security, automation topics, IBM i technology, and the HelpSystems products, and hosts technical presentations on a variety of automation topics. He is the author of the HelpSystems IBM i Marketplace Survey and has written articles on automated operations, security, cloud computing, and business intelligence for leading trade journals and newsletters. He was named an IBM Champion in 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2019 for over three decades of advocation and thought leadership on the IBM i platform.

    Chuck Losinski

    Director of Technical Solutions, HelpSystems

    Chuck Losinski, Director of Technical Solutions for the Robot product line, has been with HelpSystems for nearly 20 years. He has over 30 years of experience in IT, including 25+ years on the IBM i platform.

    Chuck's background covers a wide variety of technical responsibilities, involving system implementation, programming, operations, and support. He is certified as an IBM System Administrator and as a HelpSystems Robot Certified Specialist.

    Chuck has helped numerous customers automate business applications from Infor, Oracle JD Edwards, HBOC, RxClaim, Infinium, Fiserv, Jack Henry, and more. Currently he is the co-president of the local IBM i user group, QUSER.

    Lauren Propson

    HelpSystems

    Lauren Propson is a Regional Sales Manager at HelpSystems focused on Security and Automation. She works directly with customers of all sizes on a daily basis to recommend IT Solutions on IBM i according to their business needs. She has also assisted with managing hardware upgrades for our customers and the business considerations that align with this initiative.

  • PHP is Here to Stay: PHP 8 and Beyond - Mike Pavlak & Matthew Weier O'Phinney
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    Join Mike Pavlak, Senior Solutions Engineer and IBM Power Champion and Matthew Weier O'Phinney, Product Manager at Zend by Perforce as they discuss the future of PHP, and how you can leverage PHP on the IBM i to build value for your business.

    Is PHP dead? Absolutely not! 

     

    Today, W3Tech data shows just over 78% of the internet runs on PHP, which is less than a 2% decline from 5 years ago. But if you think about how much the internet has grown in five years, PHP is clearly a well-established programming language that continues to be a driver behind some of the largest sites like Facebook, WordPress, and Etsy.

     

    Join Mike Pavlak, Senior Solutions Engineer and IBM Power Champion and Matthew Weier O'Phinney, Product Manager at Zend by Perforce as they discuss the future of PHP, and how you can leverage PHP on the IBM i to build value for your business.

     

    In this webinar, they will dive into:

    · Why making an investment in PHP is still the right choice

    · How PHP can help modernize your business

    · Why keeping up to date with releases is critical

    · PHP 8 Key Feature Review

    Mike Pavlak

    Perforce Software

    Mike Pavlak has been working with IBM midrange solutions since 1992 and IBM Mainframes before that. After years of developing applications using RPG, CL and PHP he managed IT development and IT for power protection manufacturer Tripp Lite. Later Mike was instrumental in developing the adoption of PHP as a primary solution for web development on IBM i working with Zend Technologies. Today, as Solutions Engineer with Perforce, Mike helps companies around the world approach the challenges of modernization and open source technologies. In addition to several roles as a volunteer with COMMON the premier IBM midrange user group, Mike also teaches PHP & Python classes part time at Moraine Valley Community College in Suburban Chicago. Mike lives in suburban Chicago with his wife, five kids, dog, cat, Russian tortoise, and a half dozen fish.

    Matthew Weier O'Phinney

    Perforce Software

    Matthew Weier O'Phinney is an original contributor to Zend Framework, an enterprise PHP framework, and took over as Project Lead in 2009. Starting in 2019, he helped transition the project to an open governance model to the Linux Foundation as the Laminas Project. In addition to developing PHP frameworks, he is a founding member and Core Committee member of the PHP Framework Interop Group (PHP-FIG), which creates standards for PHP development, focusing on shared interfaces. As Product Manager at Zend by Perforce, Matthew helped shepherd products from idea to market, most recently working on ZendPHP product, a supported PHP runtime that includes security fixes for end-of-life versions and consultative support.

  • Printer Devices Using Magic
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    In this iSee we will unwrap how to use a CL command that only creates spool data, use some nifty SQL to pull part that spool file to build a table with the data we are after. This iSee while sure it give you the printer devices, its far more, its a learning guide to some very powerful SQL techniques

    Today there is NO SQL service for getting the list of printer devices.  If you want to automatically integrate you devices.. its just not easy.  One of our ISV asked us is there a way to do that with SQL.  At first the thought was no...there is no SQL services.  BUT, upon review we thought, we have a toolbox of services that can be used and if you combine a few...walla!   You have your list devices in an automated manner.  In this iSee we will unwrap how to use a CL command that only creates spool data, use some nifty SQL to pull part that spool file to build a table with the data we are after.  This iSee while sure it give you the printer devices, its far more, its a learning guide to some very powerful SQL techniques

    Tim Rowe

    Business Architect Application Development & Systems Management for IBM i

    Tim Rowe is the Business Architect for IBM i responsible for System Management and Application Development. He has a passion for modernization on IBM i and how we can continue to move IBM i into the world of 'Normal' . In his spare time he is a certified Soccer referee and enjoys refereeing games with his youngest son.

    Scott Forstie

    Db2 for i Business Architect

    Scott Forstie is a Senior Technical Staff Member within IBM i development and spends most of his time working as the Db2 for i Business Architect. He has worked on IBM operating system development since joining IBM in 1989.

    Scott is a frequently published author, speaker at industry events around the globe and can be found @Forstie_IBMi and forstie@us.ibm.com. Scott is an avid runner and enjoys cooking.