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TUG Buzz! for Thursday March 5th, 2026

IN THIS ISSUE:

March TUG MoM - Speaker: Barbara Morris (IBM Canada)
TUG Board Election - Nominations closed
Future MoM Calendar - Upcoming TUG Events
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📌 Mark your calendar. Next up:

Wednesday, March 18th, 2026
5:00 PM Eastern Time

This is an in-person (hybrid) dinner meeting at:
DOUBLETREE BY HILTON TORONTO AIRPORT WEST
5444 DIXIE RD, MISSISSAUGA, ONTARIO L4W2L2
with live-streaming on Zoom!

* 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.

SESSION 1:

“RPG Enumerations:
More than just a fancy named constant”

• How to define an enum (basically a group of named constants, possibly qualified)
• How you can use an enum as though it was an array of the named constants
• How you can define a data type for an enum and then define variables LIKE the enum, where the variables are limited to only having the values in the enum

BUFFET DINNER (6:00 PM)

SESSION 2:

“SND-MSG: A powerful new opcode”

• Send info messages to the joblog
• Send escape messages
• Send progress messages to the bottom of the screen

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SPEAKER:

bmorris@ca.ibm.com IBM logo

Barbara Morris
IBM Canada

Barbara Morris 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 ON-EXIT, DATA-INTO and DATA-GEN opcodes and overloaded prototypes. A few of the other notable enhancements that she developed for RPG include subprocedures, qualified data structures, call-interaction with Java, Open Access: RPG Edition, and fully-free-form RPG.

AGENDA TIMELINE for March 18th MoM

ADMISSION: Free for TUG members (Non-members $60)

• 4:30 PM In-person Check-in at Doubletree

• 5:00 PM Session 1

• 6:00 PM Intermission (buffet dinner)

• 7:00 PM Session 2

NOTE: Once your registration is confirmed, you will receive an email with the meeting link, meeting ID, and password.

TUG Board Election

Election nominations for the TUG Board of Directors have closed, effective February 28th.

Since there were only three candidates, the following are elected by acclamation:
• Marly Campbell (incumbent Director)
• John Deluca (incumbent Director)
• Tom Mavroidis (new nominee)

TUG remaining Board Election schedule for 2026:
MAR – Announcement of winners at the March MoM.
JUL – Election of officers at the July 13th BoD meeting.

Future TUG MoM Calendar:

DATE / VENUE	TIME / TOPICS	SPEAKERS / SPONSOR
Wednesday MAR 18 (In-Person) Mississauga	5:00 PM (EDT) Session 1 Topic: RPG Enumerations: More than just a fancy named constant 6:00 PM (EDT) Buffet Dinner 7:00 PM (EDT) Session 2 Topic: SND-MSG: A powerful new opcode	Barbara Morris (IBM Canada)
Wednesday APR 22 (Zoom)	12:00 PM (EDT) Noon Zoom TUG MoM Topic: The Human side of Modernization	Raymond Hammel & Richard Dolewski (Lightedge Solutions)
Wednesday MAY 20 (In-Person) Markham	5:00 PM (EDT) Session 1 Topic: TBA 6:00 PM (EDT) Buffet Dinner 7:00 PM (EDT) Session 2 Topic: TBA	Mike Pavlak (Programmers.io)

(See the AGENDA page for details on the next scheduled meeting.)

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