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COMMON Webinars

COMMON Webinars are part of the new “COMMON…Customized” education model. Webinars are a series of live web-based seminars on leading edge topics to meet the increasing educational needs of attendees. Delivered over a 4-6 week span and conducted by industry-leading experts, COMMON Webinars provide focused education at a minimized cost. Learn and interact with the presenter right from your desk!

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Upcoming COMMON Webinars

DB2 Web Query

Presenter: Gene Cobb, IBM

February 3, 10, 17, and 24, 2010 (Wednesdays) - 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm CT.

Are you Using Query/ 400 and want to modernize the reports generated? Are you looking to do more advanced reporting? Do you have lots of different reporting needs from different end users? IBM DB2 Web Query for i is IBM's strategic replacement for the Query/ 400 product and may be just the tool to solve your needs. Come to this workshop to get a jump-start on this robust, extensible, and productive reporting solution.

In this four part webinar series, you will learn how to:

Use the administrative tools to set up your DB2 Web Query environment
Create metadata and define all your joins in the metadata layer.
Easily build new reports and graphs using DB2 Web Query development tools
Import Query/ 400 queries into DB2 Web Query and "Web enable" the output.
Create jaw dropping dashboards that will impress your management
Set up OLAP reports to analyze, drill down, and slice & dice data
Create Active Reports to access and analyze your data without requiring access to DB2 Web Query or even your IBM i system.
Implement techniques to secure your reports and data.
Use the advanced report development capabilities available in the Developer Workbench client.
Maximize Web Query performance
Set up a scheduled report and automated email distribution using DB2 Web Query Report Broker

Click here to read the complete abstract for this Webinar.

About Gene Cobb:
Gene Cobb is a DB2 for i technology specialist in the IBM Systems Software DB2 for i Development team. He joined IBM in 1988 and spent over 10 years as an application consultant in the IBM STG Lab Services group, formerly the Client Technology Center (CTC) in Rochester, Minnesota. His current responsibilities include the promotion, education, enablement, and technical support of IBM DB2 Web Query, the strategic query and reporting solution for the IBM i platform. He speaks and writes regularly about DB2 for i and DB2 Web Query topics, and was a co-author of the IBM Rebook “Getting Started with DB2 Web Query for System i.” He can be reached at cobbg@us.ibm.com.

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