iBegin: IBM i Essentials
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When first beginning work on IBM i, people always ask the same types of questions. How does it differ from other OS? What are the primary interfaces? What is the organizational structure like? In this bootcamp directed at new graduates and early-career professionals, we answers all of these questions and more.
This bootcamp will be released over 13 weeks, from January 25th, 2024 through April 19th, 2024.
All sessions will appear on the CONTENT tab of this page at 2:00PM CT on Fridays. Register now and return here on the premier dates to access the content.
The primary subjects of the bootcamp are as follows.
- Overview of IBM i
- Acronyms and Terminology
- Programming Languages
- Career Pathways
- Soft Skills
- Interfaces and Connections
- Security
- Database
This bootcamp is being provided at no charge to COMMON members through a generous sponsorship from Fortra.
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In the first part of the iBegin Bootcamp series, Scott Klement will begin with an overview of IBM i aimed towards individuals new to the platform.
In the first part of the iBegin Bootcamp series, Scott Klement will begin with an overview of IBM i aimed towards individuals new to the platform.
Scott Klement
Director, Product Development and Support
Scott volunteers as a member of COMMON's Board of Directors, Strategic Education Team, Certification Committee and Innovation Awards. He is the author of around 1000 articles and a dozen open source projects. Scott's efforts to help out the IBM i Community have resulted in dozens of awards and accolades, including an IBM Innovation Award, Gary Guthrie Award, Al Barsa Scholarship, John T Earl Scholarship, medals from the American Society of Business Publication Editors, and the COMMON Speaker Excellence Hall of Fame. IBM has named Scott an IBM Champion for Power Systems.
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In this session, Scott Forstie will be reviewing specific programs, resources, and tools that can be used when creating code to interact with databases.
In this session, Scott Forstie will be reviewing specific programs, resources, and tools that can be used when creating code to interact with databases.
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.
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In the 4th installment of the iBegin: IBM i Essentials bootcamp series, Scott Klement will talk about the architecture of IBM i. This will include information on the history of IBM i and the basic object structure.
In the 4th installment of the iBegin: IBM i Essentials bootcamp series, Scott Klement will talk about the architecture of IBM i. This will include information on the history of IBM i and the basic object structure.
Scott Klement
Director, Product Development and Support
Scott volunteers as a member of COMMON's Board of Directors, Strategic Education Team, Certification Committee and Innovation Awards. He is the author of around 1000 articles and a dozen open source projects. Scott's efforts to help out the IBM i Community have resulted in dozens of awards and accolades, including an IBM Innovation Award, Gary Guthrie Award, Al Barsa Scholarship, John T Earl Scholarship, medals from the American Society of Business Publication Editors, and the COMMON Speaker Excellence Hall of Fame. IBM has named Scott an IBM Champion for Power Systems.
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In the 2nd installment of the iBegin: IBM i Essentials bootcamp series, Scott Klement will walk you through the basics of the IBM i OS.
In the 2nd installment of the iBegin: IBM i Essentials bootcamp series, Scott Klement will walk you through the basics of the IBM i OS.
Scott Klement
Director, Product Development and Support
Scott volunteers as a member of COMMON's Board of Directors, Strategic Education Team, Certification Committee and Innovation Awards. He is the author of around 1000 articles and a dozen open source projects. Scott's efforts to help out the IBM i Community have resulted in dozens of awards and accolades, including an IBM Innovation Award, Gary Guthrie Award, Al Barsa Scholarship, John T Earl Scholarship, medals from the American Society of Business Publication Editors, and the COMMON Speaker Excellence Hall of Fame. IBM has named Scott an IBM Champion for Power Systems.
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In the 3rd installment of the iBegin: IBM i Essentials bootcamp series, Scott Klement will continue with the basics of the IBM i OS.
In the 2nd installment of the iBegin: IBM i Essentials bootcamp series, Scott Klement will continue with the basics of the IBM i OS.
Scott Klement
Director, Product Development and Support
Scott volunteers as a member of COMMON's Board of Directors, Strategic Education Team, Certification Committee and Innovation Awards. He is the author of around 1000 articles and a dozen open source projects. Scott's efforts to help out the IBM i Community have resulted in dozens of awards and accolades, including an IBM Innovation Award, Gary Guthrie Award, Al Barsa Scholarship, John T Earl Scholarship, medals from the American Society of Business Publication Editors, and the COMMON Speaker Excellence Hall of Fame. IBM has named Scott an IBM Champion for Power Systems.
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In the 6th installment of the iBegin series, Simon Hutchinson and Jasmine Kaczmarek will be going through information on the programming languages used on IBM i.
In the 6th installment of the iBegin series, Simon Hutchinson and Jasmine Kaczmarek will be going through information on the programming languages used on IBM i.
Simon Hutchinson
RPGPGM.COM
Simon’s experience with IBM midrange started in the United Kingdom, in a pre-AS/400 world. Since immigrating to the USA he has worked mostly in the western half of the country, and is currently IT manager responsible for the Power servers and IBM i for a large bank in Central Texas.
Simon has been writing his acclaimed IBM i blog, RPGPGM.COM, for almost ten years sharing his knowledge, experience, and giving many detailed examples of the latest RPG, SQL, and CL. He was recognized by IBM as an IBM Champion for Power (2021,2022), and as an IBM i Community Advocate.
Since its founding, in 2020, Simon has been the president of the Central Texas IBM i User Group, CTXiUG.
Jasmine Kaczmarek
VP of Technology
M.R. Williams
With over ten years of experience on the IBM Power System, Jasmine's passions include modernization, API development, integration of gamification techniques into business applications and mentoring new developers. Jasmine is an avid promoter of adopting open-source languages into traditional RPG-only businesses to aid in the development of modern user experiences. She also has a keen interest in hobby development projects using Unity and improving outdated small business websites. Jasmine is a member of the N2i Committee and the COMMON America Advisory Council (CAAC)
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In the 7th installment of the iBegin series, Marina Schwenk will be going through useful soft skills for new professionals.
In the 7th installment of the iBegin series, Marina Schwenk will be going through useful soft skills for new professionals.
Marina Schwenk
Software Developer, Everbrite
Marina started her career in January 2015 at Everbrite LLC in Greenfield WI after graduating from Gateway Technical College in May of 2014 with an Associate’s degree in IT Software Development. Marina works as a developer in both RPG and Java and she also is one of two junior IBM i admins at Everbrite. Marina earned her bachelor’s degree in Computer Information Systems Software Development from Bellevue University in June of 2017. She is currently working on her Master’s degree program in Computer Information Systems Software development, with the goal of teaching part time, and empowering the younger generation. Marina is also a member of the Wisconsin Midrange Computer Professional Association, Women in IT committee and has recently started speaking on a couple of topics, ranging from RPG to SQL. She has completed one open source project and is currently working on releasing iUnit an open source RPG unit testing framework written in RPGLE.
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Marina Schwenk will be discussing the available career paths in the IBM i ecosystem in this segment of the iBegin: IBM i Essentials bootcamp.
Marina Schwenk will be discussing the available career paths in the IBM i ecosystem in this segment of the iBegin: IBM i Essentials bootcamp.
Marina Schwenk
Software Developer, Everbrite
Marina started her career in January 2015 at Everbrite LLC in Greenfield WI after graduating from Gateway Technical College in May of 2014 with an Associate’s degree in IT Software Development. Marina works as a developer in both RPG and Java and she also is one of two junior IBM i admins at Everbrite. Marina earned her bachelor’s degree in Computer Information Systems Software Development from Bellevue University in June of 2017. She is currently working on her Master’s degree program in Computer Information Systems Software development, with the goal of teaching part time, and empowering the younger generation. Marina is also a member of the Wisconsin Midrange Computer Professional Association, Women in IT committee and has recently started speaking on a couple of topics, ranging from RPG to SQL. She has completed one open source project and is currently working on releasing iUnit an open source RPG unit testing framework written in RPGLE.
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In the 5th installment of the iBegin series, Simon Hutchinson will be going through some of the common acronyms and terminology used in the IBM i environment.
In the 5th installment of the iBegin series, Simon Hutchinson will be going through some of the common acronyms and terminology used in the IBM i environment.
Simon Hutchinson
RPGPGM.COM
Simon’s experience with IBM midrange started in the United Kingdom, in a pre-AS/400 world. Since immigrating to the USA he has worked mostly in the western half of the country, and is currently IT manager responsible for the Power servers and IBM i for a large bank in Central Texas.
Simon has been writing his acclaimed IBM i blog, RPGPGM.COM, for almost ten years sharing his knowledge, experience, and giving many detailed examples of the latest RPG, SQL, and CL. He was recognized by IBM as an IBM Champion for Power (2021,2022), and as an IBM i Community Advocate.
Since its founding, in 2020, Simon has been the president of the Central Texas IBM i User Group, CTXiUG. -
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In the 8th installment of the iBegin series, Margaret Fenlon will be going through the authorities settings of IBM i.
In the 8th installment of the iBegin series, Margaret Fenlon will be going through the authorities settings of IBM i.
Margaret Fenlon
Software Engineer, IBM
Margaret started working for IBM in 1983 on the S/36. From 1986-1994 she worked in various areas of what is now the IBM i including Authorization Management support of POSIX and the integrated file system. She worked on the port of SAP R/3 from 1994-1997. In 1998 Margaret joined the integrated file system team. As a member of the integrated file system team she has worked on the file server, QFileSvr.400 file system and the utilities to convert to the new directory format. Margaret is currently the team leader for the integrated file system and servers team.
