Join us in New Orleans, Louisiana for POWERUp 2026, the premier conference for IBM i professionals. Whether you’re an experienced expert or just starting your IBM i journey, this event offers unparalleled education, hands-on workshops, and valuable networking opportunities. Stay ahead of the curve with insights from industry leaders, explore the latest innovations, and connect with a thriving community that shares your passion for IBM i. Don’t miss this opportunity to expand your knowledge, grow your skills, and power up your career!
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Tim Rowe is a Senior Technical Staff Member within IBM i development and spends most of his time working as the Architect for Application Development and Systems Management. He has been working on the IBM i operating system since 1989. Tim is a frequent author, industry speaker and... Read More →
Sunday April 26, 2026 1:00pm - 5:00pm CDT Galerie 3
**update** Tegratecs apologizes for their speaker representative not being able to make it to the conference. Rexford is still dealing with 2 significant and separate dental issues that came up over the last two weeks.
Conference attendees are entitled to the presentation PDF and attachments and USB stick (for in person attendance or by request), but since the session was cancelled, COMMON has removed the links from view. So please contact Tegratecs for these resources based on your interest. If you were signed up for this session prior to the cancellation, everything but the actual USB stick contents should still be visible and enabled for download. ------
If you have internal Change Management and/or DevOps functions that need to handle SQL PL Stored Procedures or a dual source model, then this session will be of interest to you. During this presentation, we’ll delve into programming specifics of how challenges were overcome and show examples. The presentation will attempt to narrow down the conflicting techniques involved with storing source in the IFS versus native source files, and for pulling (extracting, generating) source from the SQL PL *PGM object. Pulling the source from the object is, at various times, something that is pretty much necessary for SQL PL stored procedures and views. We’ll cover the different style of source and object handling (and source versus object precedence) probably required for SQL PL stored procedures (*PGMs with CLE attribute) in our custom C/M and DevOps commands. This turned out to be quite a bit different than what we were doing before when distributing incremental updates to our accounting package or customer environments, because previously (1) source always took precedence over object, (2) source never needed to change during migration and (3) we were able to have a tight source code version level indicator in the object metadata.
Come to the presentation to find out why we thought it easier to store view and procedure source in both the IFS and traditional source files, at least during the first round of production IFS source implementation. Hear also how we managed to keep them synchronized, and similarly, how we kept a pretty tight rein on source and object versioning. Checkout, compilation, staging and promotion via a native CLP or *CMD call will be examined and (hopefully) shown to be enhanced and solved to everyone’s liking during the presentation.
Key CLP source code and SQL queries of SQL meta data will be covered in the presentation PDF or attachments available for download to all conference attendees. Some slides with a lot of code will be given to attendees in printed form. Attendees may want to have the attachments available to peruse (on some sort of device larger than a small smartphone) during the presentation in order to gain the most developer level understanding in the quickest manner and to participate interactively.
Several complete programs will be offered to live session attendees on USB stick (that we can't afford to offer unencumbered on Sched). Contact Tegratecs for USB stick if you can't make the live session.
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Learning Objectives:
1. Get to a point where you can weed out the inefficiencies in locating, extracting, editing, compiling or promoting the source and object for your SQL PL Stored Procedures
2. Learn what one ISV and consultancy did to focus C/M and DevOps activities around the object, instead of the source, for SQL PL stored procedures, and to see how one might go about automating ways to help relieve synchronization concerns and reduce manual intervention
This session is a welcome and introduction for students to help set expectations for POWERUp 2026. We will go over events not to miss, COMMON questions at conference, and provide ways to POWERUp your experience.
Manzoor Siddiqui is the Executive Director of COMMON. He oversees all Operations for the organization, and has responsibility and oversight of all areas and Staff. He joined COMMON in 2006, and has over 30 years of multi-disciplinary business, marketing and IT experience across a broad range of industri... Read More →
Pete Massiello has been working with the AS/400, iSeries, IBM i since 1989, focusing on systems management and technical support. He has held numerous technical positions through out his career. He is the President of iTech Solutions Group, an IBM Premier Business Partner delivering... Read More →
I'm the Education Manager at COMMON. I work on anything and everything to do with education; from our online offerings to our in-person educational events, and more!
If you see me on-site at a conference, say hello! Just be careful not to look away -- I may be gone when you look back... Read More →
I am a Full Stack Developer at Profound Logic. We run our production applications on the IBMi Power Server. Primary languages are CL, RPG, DB2 SQL and Java, and the UI: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Drupple, React, and Sencha. My position is a fast paced job and it includes Help Desk pho... Read More →
Retired IBM i solution‑based sales professional with over 25 years in the IBM i ecosystem. My career spans sales, sales management, and project management across both hardware and software environments, helping organizations align technology with real business needs. I’m currently... Read More →
Sunday April 26, 2026 5:00pm - 6:00pm CDT Studio 9-10
While there aren’t any sessions happeningon Sunday, we just can’t wait to connectwith you all again! Join us Sunday evening forour kick-off, there will be food, drinks, andplenty of company to get yourconference started off on the right foot. Grabyour badge from registration and join us inthe River-View Room!
