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TUG Buzz! for Monday April 21st, 2025

IN THIS ISSUE:

April MoM - Speaker: Barbara Morris (IBM Canada)
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Future MoM Calendar - Upcoming Events
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TUG's next MoM is this Wednesday,

April 23rd, 2025
12:00 PM Eastern Time (11:00 AM Central Time)

* Note: An MP4 recording of this meeting will be available to download for TUG members in good standing, by email request to admin@tug.ca.

SPEAKER:

Barbara Morris

Barbara is the lead developer for the RPG compilers in the IBM Toronto Lab. She has been working on the RPG compilers since she started at IBM in 1989 after receiving a Computing Science degree from the University of Alberta. The first enhancement she developed was the ENDIF/ENDDO opcodes for RPG/400 in V2R1.

Some of her most recent enhancements were the DATEYY parameter to check for the “2039 problem” and the %PASSED built-in function to check a parameter. A few of the other notable enhancements that she developed for RPG include sub procedures, qualified data structures, call-interaction with Java, Open Access: RPG Edition, and fully-free-form RPG.

TOPIC: "Barbara's favourite recent enhancements for RPG "

SESSION ABSTRACT:

Barbara will talk about some of her favourite RPG enhancements that are available as PTFs for 7.4 and 7.5.
For example:
• New and updated built-in functions
• New and updated opcodes
• Improved handling for UTF-8 data
• An option to pass "any type" parameters as strings
• And more

*** This will be a joint meeting with QUSER ***

Future TUG MoM Calendar:

DATE / VENUE	TIME / TOPICS	SPEAKERS / SPONSOR
Wednesday APR 23 (Zoom)	12:00 PM (EDT) Noon Zoom TUG MoM Topic: Barbara's favourite recent enhancements for RPG SPECIAL JOINT SESSION WITH QUSER	Barbara Morris (IBM Canada)
Wednesday MAY 14 Live in Markham (Monte Carlo Inn & Suites)	5:00 PM (EDT) - Session 1: Topic: Better projects, objects and AI for IBM i - Part I (live with streaming on Zoom) 6:00 PM (EDT) - Intermission 7:00 PM (EDT) - Session 2: Topic: Better projects, objects and AI for IBM i - Part II	Edmund Reinhardt (IBM Canada) with Sanjula Ganepola and Jonathan Zak
Wednesday JUN 18 (Zoom)	12:00 PM (EDT) Noon Zoom TUG MoM Topic: ONE Semester of AI Learning During ONE Lunch Period ~ Let’s Go!	Monty Chicola, President (Real Vision Software)

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