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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!

The fee is $149 to COMMON members, providing a competitive value and allowing you to take advantage of your membership benefits. Non-members may also participate for a fee of $249.

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• Multiple hours of comprehensive web-based education on leading edge topics.
• Presented by industry experts.
• Focused, interactive education.
• Great value for COMMON members ($149) and non-members ($249) alike.
• Access to iSociety discussions with the presenter and other participants.
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Upcoming Webinars

ILE Essentials for RPG Programmers
Presenter: Susan Gantner, Partner400
12:00pm - 1:15pm CT
Mondays – April 28 and May 5, 12, 14, 2008

In this four-part Webinar, we will examine the essential information you need to know about using ILE and RPG in today’s modular applications. Join Susan to begin your journey to developing modular ILE applications with RPG.

Registration includes access to the four webcasts listed below, handouts for each webcast, and access to a collaborative website on iSociety for discussion and offline support.

Session 1: "Basics of Writing RPG Subprocedures"
April 28 - 12:00 - 1:15pm, Central Time
In the first session, we’ll look at the basics of writing RPG subprocedures – the building blocks for modular applications.

Session 2: "ILE's Static Binding"
May 5 - 12:00 - 1:15pm, Central Time
In the second session, we’ll see how ILE’s static binding allows you to put the pieces together efficiently. We will discuss creating modules, bound programs and Service Programs as well as creating and using Binding Directories.

Session 3: "Modifying Subprocedures into a Service Program"
May 12 - 12:00 - 1:15pm, Central Time
In the third session, we’ll look at modifying our subprocedures to put them into a Service Program and how to use Binder Language to manage the Service Program’s signatures over its lifetime.

Session 4: "Activation Groups"
May 14 - 12:00 - 1:15pm, Central Time
In the last session, we’ll explore Activation Groups and how they affect the scope of overrides and shared open data paths within the applications. In addition, we’ll look at which default parameter values you may need to consider changing in order to allow your new ILE programs to live in peace with existing non-ILE programs.

About the Presenter:
Susan Gantner is a member of Partner400, an iSeries education company and System i Developer, a consortium of System i educators. Her career has spanned over 25 years in the field of application development. Beginning as a programmer developing applications for corporations in Atlanta, Georgia, she joined IBM in 1985. She worked at the IBM lab in Rochester, Minnesota for 5 years and later moved to the IBM Toronto Software Laboratory.

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