COMMON POWERUp 2024: Full Schedule

THE BEST IBM i & POWER SYSTEMS EDUCATION.When you come to POWERUp, you’ll be able to customize your experience. Choose from 300 sessions, covering over 20 areas of IT, when you plan your schedule. Visit the largest Expo of its kind and meet the experts behind the solutions. Attend social events to meet renowned speakers and peers alike. This conference is structured to give you the pure education and professional connections needed to best enhance your career. Are you ready to POWERUp?

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10:15am CDT

292: IBM i Shops: Prepare for DevOps

EVALUATION

DevOps is a long twisting road that has no destination. But even more harrowing can be the tasks needed to prepare before embarking on this life-changing adventure. In the session we will explore several aspects that should be explored before embarking down the DevOps Road, all based upon open source implementations which means there is no price of admission! We will cover concepts like preparing the code, developers, management and users. In additional we will review a basic open source road map for leveraging DevOps features in an IBM i environment.

Learning Objectives:
1) Learn the basics of DevOps.
2) Explore how best to prepare the environment for a DevOps journey.
3) Review open source tooling and references for educating the team on DevOps.

Speakers

Mike Pavlak

Solution Architect, 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... Read More →

DevOps StartingV1.2 pdf

Monday May 20, 2024 10:15am - 11:15am CDT
Meeting Room 204A 1508 Houston St, Fort Worth, TX 76102

DevOps

Session Level Beginner
Audience All folks interested in exploring DevOps from the beginning.

11:30am CDT

177: Using DevOps to Quickly React to Business Needs: DevOps ROI

EVALUATION

Learn how to use DevOps to make your Development, Testing and Deployment steps truly agile - all while reducing risk and realizing immediate and significant ROI

Learning Objectives:
1. Learn about DevOps
2. Learn about the significant ROI benefits of ROI
3. Understand the DevOps steps needed

Speakers

Alan Ashley

Presales Consultant for DevOps for IBMi, Arcad Software

When it comes to describing someone, even yourself, it can be difficult. This time it's easy. I grew up on the AS400, through iSeries, and into the IBM i world. Started on a model B50 (I know it was a B model) where the disk drive needed two persons to replace and now in the DevSecOps... Read More →

DevOps ROI pdf

Monday May 20, 2024 11:30am - 12:30pm CDT
Meeting Room 201C 1508 Houston St, Fort Worth, TX 76102

DevOps

Session Level Intermediate
Audience Development, Operations, and C-level executives wishing to take advantage of DevOps ROI

11:30am CDT

214: Git and IBM i - How to Build Your Source

EVALUATION

Getting started with native source in Git isn't that hard and there are multiple development tools but what about getting your source changes to the IBM i? What about those special IBM I dependencies that need to be managed? We'll look at what a Build is and how the IBM i has different requirements then other platforms and how we can meet those requirements. We'll also discuss the open source tools that you can use to set up a Build for native source and how to automate it.

Learning Objectives:

Speakers

Jeffrey Tickner

ARCAD Software

Jeff Tickner has worked in Change Management on the IBM I for 17 years at different companies. He is certified in Rational Team Concert as well has having experience with other Change Management packages from SourceSafe to Subversion. Jeff currently works for ARCAD Software, an international... Read More →

Git and IBM i How to Build your source pdf

Monday May 20, 2024 11:30am - 12:30pm CDT
Room 202 C-D 1508 Houston St, Fort Worth, TX 76102

DevOps

Session Level Intermediate

2:45pm CDT

235: Git Branch Management for IBM i Source; I Want JUST the Changes

EVALUATION

One of the challenges of managing IBM i source with Git is we don't want to Build ALL of our objects for a few changes like a Java project. We want just the changes specific to our project. How do we get JUST those changes and what impact does that have on branch management, merging and conflicts? I thought Git made concurrent development easier, why is this SO HARD?

Now that we at Arcad have been providing Git integration for a number of years we have experience on why a rebase or a fetch from master can have unintended consequences. Well what do we DO with stale branches that conflict with master if we can't fetch? Ho can we just avoid a conflict or resolve it with the least pain?

Learning Objectives:
1, Recognize how IBM i source and business requirements require different branch management.
2. Best workflow for IBM i shops with concurrent development
3. Most efficient way to resolve or avoid merge conflicts

Speakers

Jeffrey Tickner

ARCAD Software

Git Branch management for IBMi source I want just the changes pdf

Monday May 20, 2024 2:45pm - 3:45pm CDT
Room 202 C-D 1508 Houston St, Fort Worth, TX 76102

DevOps

Session Level Intermediate

4:00pm CDT

330: Automated Build Systems for IBM i Environments

EVALUATION

We have been working on open source tools to make managing your IBM source code and building objects easy for when your source code is in git. In this, we will show how objects get built from a git repository (when developing locally and from an automated build), teach how build systems detect dependencies in your code, what build tools are available (GitHub Actions, GitLab CICD, etc) to work with IBM i, and eventually how you can start using these tools.

Learning Objectives:
* Show how objects get built from a git repository
* Teach how build systems detect dependencies in your code
* How you can start using these tools

Speakers

Liam Allan

Software Advocate, IBM

I am a developer and open-source advocate. Ask me about Node.js, VS Code, app deployment and CICD :)

Tuesday May 21, 2024 4:00pm - 5:00pm CDT
Room 202 A-B 1508 Houston St, Fort Worth, TX 76102

DevOps

Session Level Intermediate

4:00pm CDT

380: IBM i DevOps and Azure DevOps, Making It Work

EVALUATION

Managing IBM i native code with Azure Devops has huge opportunities for efficiency when managing business applications that span both platforms. If your company is Azure Devops everywhere but IBM i development this session will detail how you can hook these two platforms together for synchronous development and deployment with Azure pipelines. An added benefit is it makes the database directly available to .Net developers but you can still have a gatekeeper before the DB2 changes are deployed. Hear about how our experience of implementing our solution with Azure Devops at multiple customers.

Learning Objectives:
1. Planning workflow for IBM native code in the context of Azure devops
2. Integrating with Azure Devops pipelines for automation

Speakers

Jeffrey Tickner

ARCAD Software

IBM i DevOps and Azure DevOps Making it Work pdf

Tuesday May 21, 2024 4:00pm - 5:00pm CDT
Meeting Room 203A 1508 Houston St, Fort Worth, TX 76102

DevOps

Session Level Intermediate
Audience Developers and managers who are interested in managing their native code with Azure Devops

5:50pm CDT

217: Use Value Stream Mapping to Improve Business Response

EVALUATION

When you are rolling out new applications, new features, tracking tickets, or enhancements how do you view this data? Sure, you can use a spreadsheet, maybe even view progress in each tool, or use a simple database, but why not use a dashboard with value stream mapping to pull 'live' information right into your preferred dashboard. This can pull everything together into an easy to use and comprehend visual reference. Stop by and find out how Value Stream Mapping can work for you.

Learning Objectives:
1) Find the delays in your pipeline.
2) Visualize how to find the hotspots.

Speakers

Alan Ashley

Presales Consultant for DevOps for IBMi, Arcad Software

VSM pdf

Tuesday May 21, 2024 5:50pm - 6:10pm CDT
Meeting Room 203C 1508 Houston St, Fort Worth, TX 76102

DevOps

Session Level Intermediate
Audience Are you an application owner or project manager, then finding the delays is paramount in the DevOps cycle. VSM is the answer.

9:15am CDT

328: End-to-End Development: Modern IBM i Development Stack

EVALUATION

In this talk, we’ll look at everything from development tools, build systems, to deployment methods. Finally there is a complete open source stack from IBM to use git and easily deploy ILE code (RPG, COBOL, you name it!) and this will cover them. We will look at the end-to-end lifecycle for IBM i applications when stored in git - all the way from the developers, to the end users machine automatically.

Learning Objectives:
* Understanding what a modern development lifecycle looks like
* How modern lifecycles look when running on IBM i
* Seeing the available open-source tools to accomplish automated deployments

Speakers

Liam Allan

Software Advocate, IBM

I am a developer and open-source advocate. Ask me about Node.js, VS Code, app deployment and CICD :)

Wednesday May 22, 2024 9:15am - 10:15am CDT
Meeting Room 204A 1508 Houston St, Fort Worth, TX 76102

DevOps

Session Level Intermediate
Audience Customers who want to use git, automate builds and automate deployments

10:30am CDT

347: How to Begin a Real-life DevOps Journey

EVALUATION

A DevOps strategy unites your software development and IT operations teams so you can deliver software faster. In this session, we share tips, advice, and anecdotes from teams just like yours who are implementing DevOps along with CI/CD pipelines to integrate and automate essential processes. Moving forward seems less daunting when we learn from the experiences of others.

Learning Objectives:
1. DevOps fundamentals
2. First steps to take to prepare for implementing DevOps and CI/CD pipelines
3. How DevOps and CI/CD best succeed with an evolutionary approach
4. Tips on where to start, how to make regular progress, and set realistic goals to deliver on time and within budget.

Speakers

Donna Westmoreland

CTO, Midrange Dynamics North America

Experience gained from leading major projects, including application modernization, at 100s of corporations has given Donna a well-rounded view of development needs, audit requirements, and testing principles.

Wednesday May 22, 2024 10:30am - 11:30am CDT
Meeting Room 203A 1508 Houston St, Fort Worth, TX 76102

DevOps

Session Level All
Audience Those interested in implementing DevOps methodologies.

2:45pm CDT

230: Merlin, DevOps, Git, and Modern Development for IBM i

EVALUATION

Application Modernization on IBM i has been a topic of discussion for years. Moving forward into the modern world can be a daunting task. Merlin was created to help. Leveraging Git, a Modern secure browser based IDE, Pipelines, Merlin is a ecosystem provided by IBM to help our IBM i application developers move toward a modern development world. This session will review what is 'Modern', how Merlin helps, we will include some live demos to help you understand the value and benefits.

Learning Objectives:

Speakers

Tim Rowe

Business Architect Application Development & Systems Management for IBM i, IBM

Tim Rowe is the Business Architect responsible for Application Development and Systems Management for the IBM i operating system. His responsibilities include helping to make sure that the IBM i has what is needed to be successful both today and into the future. He sends much of his... Read More →

3 Merlin, DevOps, Git and Modern Development for IBM i pdf

Thursday May 23, 2024 2:45pm - 3:45pm CDT
Meeting Room 203A 1508 Houston St, Fort Worth, TX 76102

DevOps

Session Level All