January 2025 meeting

Our first meeting of 2025 will be on Tuesday January 7 at 6:30 PM US Central Time .

This month we welcome Simon Hutchinson, an IBM Champion and author of the website RPGPGM.COM.

Presentation  Tricks with Spool Files using SQL
In the past few releases and TRs IBM has introduced a number of SQL views and table functions that allow anyone to do things to spool files that they would have had to use APIs or complex programming. Become the superstar at your company with the knowledge on how to do all of this with just a few SQL statements.

Bio:  Simon Hutchinson has been writing his highly acclaimed IBM i blog, RPGPGM.COM, for eleven years sharing his knowledge, experience, and giving many detailed examples of the latest RPG, SQL, and CL. His work has led him to be recognized by IBM as an IBM Champion for Power and IBM i Community Advocate. He is a subject matter expert for COMMON North America, awarded the John Earle Speaker Scholarship in 2023 in recognition for his contribution to the community, and a Gold medal speaker.