COMMON POWERUp 2025: Full Schedule

Unlock the Power of IBM i at POWERUp 2025!

Join us in Disneyland, California, for POWERUp 2025, the premier conference for IBM i professionals. Whether you’re an experienced expert or just starting your IBM i journey, this event offers unparalleled education, hands-on workshops, and valuable networking opportunities. Stay ahead of the curve with insights from industry leaders, explore the latest innovations, and connect with a thriving community that shares your passion for IBM i. Don’t miss this opportunity to expand your knowledge, grow your skills, and power up your career!

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8:00am PDT

PowerHA for Cloud and Hybrid-Cloud (Geographic Mirroring)

Wednesday May 21, 2025 8:00am - 9:00am PDT

Room 2

Geographic mirroring is a PowerHA hardware replication technology that provides a complete high availability solution for IBM i working with any type of storage, enabling the simplicity of hardware replication with the flexibility of cloud and hybrid-cloud environments. In addition, if simple real-time disaster recovery meets your needs, Geographic mirroring can also be used in an IBM i-hosted environment for a very easy-to-implement DR solution.

This session will explain the concepts of geographic mirroring, as well as best practices and sizing considerations. We will walk through a complete configuration of a geographic mirroring environment.

This session will cover recently released technologies for geographic mirroring including compression, multi-target geographic mirroring. In addition, other recently announced PowerHA Cloud technologies in IBM Power Virtual Server will be discussed.

Speakers

Brian Nordland

Director of Development, Fortra

In addition to his role as Director of Development for Power Development at Fortra, Brian Nordland serves as the technical product manager for PowerHA and Robot HA. Brian has spoken at events, webinars, and user groups—including COMMON—since 2014. He is a co-inventor on multiple... Read More →

Wednesday May 21, 2025 8:00am - 9:00am PDT
Room 2 1150 Magic Way, Anaheim, CA 92802

High Availability Resilience

9:15am PDT

Integrated File System Security Principles and Practices

Wednesday May 21, 2025 9:15am - 10:15am PDT

Room 2

Does IBM i Integrated File System security confuse you? Want to learn more about file system security? If so, come to this session and learn the principles and best practices of securing your file systems. This session will cover more than just setting permissions (authority) on your objects. Other topics include virus scanning, controlling remote access, object auditing, and more. Latest updates to file system security will be included.

Speakers

Justin Nelson

Staff Software Engineer, IBM

I work on the integrated file system for the IBM i (aka AS400).

Wednesday May 21, 2025 9:15am - 10:15am PDT
Room 2 1150 Magic Way, Anaheim, CA 92802

Integrated File System (IFS)

10:45am PDT

Integrated File System: Real Life

Wednesday May 21, 2025 10:45am - 11:45am PDT

Room 2

The Integrated File System has become more integrated into everyday processing for many customers over the years each with unique environments and specialized workloads. This session will discuss real life scenarios of file system usage and some common problems experienced by customers.

Speakers

Justin Nelson

Staff Software Engineer, IBM

I work on the integrated file system for the IBM i (aka AS400).

Wednesday May 21, 2025 10:45am - 11:45am PDT
Room 2 1150 Magic Way, Anaheim, CA 92802

Integrated File System (IFS)

5:00pm PDT

Practical Examples of pulling web service data into your IBM i applications

Wednesday May 21, 2025 5:00pm - 6:00pm PDT

Room 2

Obtaining information from external systems or data servers has come a long way since the introduction of EDI in the 1980s! Today, publicly available web service APIs offer a much more flexible and easier-to-integrate method for pulling pertinent global data into your IBM i applications. Whether it be commodity prices, financial data, current weather information, demographic statistics or whatever else you can think of, there is no shortage of information available on the internet that could complement certain areas of your company's business, thus adding valuable real-time information to your various user applications.

In this session we'll put this concept to work in a hands-on fashion. The presenter will use real-world API examples to demonstrate how IBM i developers, using SQL, can quickly access this valuable web service repositories and pull data into an RPG program or UI tool for their users.

Attendees will see three simple 5250-based interactive examples in action, with source code they can try on their own systems.

Speakers

Rob Swanson

Senior Partner, CNX Corporation

Rob has worked as an in-the-trenches IBM i developer since 1992, with the past 15 years focused on developing modernization efforts for legacy systems written in RPG. Currently serving as Senior Partner for CNX Corporation in Chicago, Rob is a strong advocate of introducing highly... Read More →

Wednesday May 21, 2025 5:00pm - 6:00pm PDT
Room 2 1150 Magic Way, Anaheim, CA 92802

Programming: General