Name: Live Demo of how to create a Webservice from your existing 5250 Display programs within a few minutes
Start: 2025-06-04T11:00:00+0200
End: 2025-06-04T12:00:00+0200

WELCOME TO COMMON EUROPE CONGRESS 2025

Don’t forget to reach out to your local country user group to get the discount code for the congress!

Common Europe, in collaboration with Common Sweden, is delighted to be holding its annual flagship event, Common Europe Congress, in the friendly city of Gothenburg offering extensive education, networking and relaxation opportunities. It’s also a great opportunity for exploring the city… so why not take a family mini-break as well.
Congress education areas targeted are IBM Power hardware, Application Development, Advanced RPG, Open Source tools and Languages, System Management, Db2 and SQL, IBM Storage, IBM i services and microservices, Security and Compliance and much more.
There will be two AIX / Linux tracks, to emphasize the Power Systems character of Common Europe.
Top IBM Business Architects and industry experts have already agreed to share their knowledge on the latest announcements, customer cases as well as practical subjects.
The congress content includes:

3 ½ days of latest education delivered by top IBM and industry leading speakers punctuated by large breaks offering maximum networking,
Three-hour in-depth workshops, 60 minutes’ education sessions and solution provider’s special slots,
A Solution Providers’ Centre open for 2 ½ days with top European and worldwide technology companies at their booths presenting innovative practical solutions that will enhance our solutions,
A Congress Dinner in the hotel with live entertainment.

We have negotiated special room rates in the Congress hotel itself,
The Common Europe Organization Team looks forward to seeing you in picturesque Gothenburg.

You will be able to validate your attendance (Check-In to sessions) using your personal schedule.

Wednesday June 4, 2025 11:00 - 12:00 CEST

07 - R18

Very often you get the task to create a Webservice for a brand new mobile App, Web App, Cloud solution or whatever and use existing Data that is already available on your IBM I for decades. Maybe you should ìonlyî grab some data and show it or ñ even worse ñ you should also save and proceed data on IBM i.

When you start to find out where the data comes from or goes to you often stumble over one or multiple old (or very, very old) RPG programs that collect a bunch of data from old physical files and mix them up and again and again and then show the result on the screen or processes the input.

Another task is to optimize existing processes where your users need to enter data in multiple 5250 programs and enter the customer or article number many times.

To modernize these backend stuff normally takes a lot of time such as weeks or months. If you want to go the step by step approach or need to get up and running with your modern app very quickly the way you will find in the live demo will save your life.

See and learn how you can create a modern Webservice that receives and returns JSON and ìremote controlsî your 5250 application to grab Data from within your existing 5250 programs (even RPG-II from the 70ís) or enters the data like the user did it before.
All that is done in RPG or Cobol (ILE CL, c or c++)!!!
You even donít need the source code of the old programs.

You will learn when this approach makes sense and why and what you can do with it to optimize existing processes, document old stuff and moreÖ

Speakers

Markus Litters

CEO, i and me - IT Training and Solutions GmbH

I start working with IBM POWER Servers and IBM i since I was 19 back in 1990 when it was called IBM AS/400 and from the beginning I was focused on Integrating the System with everything else (first of all DOS PC's, then Windows PC's and HP Unix and so on) and to modernize the existing... Read More →

Wednesday June 4, 2025 11:00 - 12:00 CEST
07 - R18

IBM i App Dev