User Groups

Become a self-taught System i guru

If you want to shore up your AS/400 knowledge and career, there are many resources to turn to, including the Common user group, iSeries classes and IBM manuals.  Tip

Peer Networking on the AS/400

This book will show you how to design, implement, and maintain an AS/400 peer network for real-world business applications.  Tip

Power Systems announcement shines at Common

Attendees at this year's Common user group conference learned about IBM's big announcement that System i and System p will together become Power Systems. The merger has some wondering how to draw the AIX and Linux communities into the i family.  Article

Become a self-taught System i guru

If you want to shore up your AS/400 knowledge and career, there are many resources to turn to, including the Common user group, iSeries classes and IBM manuals.  Tip

Common board member: x86-based education threatens System i

IBM System i user group Common welcomes Bob Krzeczowski to its board of directors as a newly-elected member. Bob has been a volunteer with Common as a speaker and a member of the Education Team for over 15 years. In this email Q&A, he discusses how S...  Interview

Common board member discusses open source on System i

IBM System i user group Common recently held elections to fill three posts on their board of directors. Long-time active iSeries and IBM midrange software development professional Dan Kimmel was re-elected to fill one of those posts. In this email Q&...  Interview

Common board member highlights collaboration

IBM System i user group Common recently held elections to fill three posts on their board of directors. Wayne Madden, who was up for re-election, was among those chosen. Wayne is vice president, group publisher and editor-in-chief of the IBM Technolo...  Interview

COMMON product round-up: Modernizing the IBM System i

IBM System i product releases at the COMMON users conference in Anaheim include PHP, VoIP and upgrading your green-screen applications so they look like a typical Internet browser.  Article

System i professionals get scrambled

Throughout the years we've seen a lot different names come and go for IBM's beloved system -– AS/400, iSeries and the System i. We've also met a lot of impressive System i professionals, some are still working with the system and others have mo...  Quiz

iSeries shop talk with IBM executives

IBM executives Mark Shearer, Elaine Lennox and Jim Herring answer questions about the iSeries, from marketing to the broad view to the technical future of the server platform.  Article

Disaster recovery to lead Common iSeries user group conference

The focus of Common's fall conference, being held in Miami next week, will be disaster recovery. The 6,500-member iSeries user group, representing more than 23,000 IT professionals, has had Beverly Russell as president since the fall of 2004.

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