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Northern California Information Builders Users Group and Technology Forum is an association of Information Technology Professionals in Northern California engaged in use of the Focus Programming Language and related technologies. Check us out!
Next Meeting for NORCAL IBUG - Northern California IBI Users and Technology
Forum is scheduled for September 2006 at California State University, East Bay - Hayward Campus . Please visit later for more details and date/time information.
Agenda and other updates are made available through the NORCAL IBUG list.
Parking & Travel - CSUEB Meeting Site
Please see http://www.csueastbay.edu/campus_maps/directions.html for driving instructions, BART connections, etc.
For an enlarged map of routes to the Hayward Hills Campus visit -
http://www.csueastbay.edu/campus_maps/bayarealargemap.html (Do not refer to the Contra Costa Campus map on the same page..)
For an enlarged map of the Hayward Hills Campus see -
http://www.csueastbay.edu/campus_maps/hayward_map.html
Presentations at meegings normally include a variety of User and Vendor(IBI) Presentations involving Focus, WebFocus and Focus for Windows. Agenda and other updates are made available through the NORCAL IBUG list. There are still no membership or meeting fees charged by NORCAL IBUG. Meeting sites are provided by the generosity of the Host Site Organization. Call For Presenters Practitioners, Consultants and Vendor Representatives are encouraged to submit proposals for presentations for NORCAL IBUG and Technology Forum Meetings which are held three times yearly in March/April, June and September. Proposals should include contact information, presenter short bio including experience with Focus Technologies, and an abstract. Prentations proposals that are practical and include demonstrations of actual Focus coding techniques for Mainframe Focus, Focus For Unix, PC/Focus, Focus For Windows/Focus Desktop, Fusion and/or WebFocus applications and integration solutions are preferred. Presentation Proposals should be submitted directly to Bob Hughes or George Chin.
Tech Summit Presentations by NORCAL IBUG/FUSE Members
For copies of presentations by NORCAL IBUG/FUSE members at the IBI Tech Summit click here.
Meeting Notes and Presentation Downloads
At our May 2006 NORCAL IBUG - Northern California IBI Users and Technology
Forum featured speakers included Dennis Herseley, Information Systems Architect, Integreteland Bob Hughes, Data Base Architect, Cal State East Bay. Dennis Herseley, Information Systems Architect, Integretel discussed WebFocus New Features and Functions in a presentation entitled The Wonderful World of Orlando Summit : Toyz and Discoveries that he learned at IBI Summit 2006. Dennis many new exciting features of WebFocus including AHTML. Bob Hughes gave a presentation on SQR vs. Focus and Webfocus - Coding Efficiencies and Performance Comparisons which covered SQR in Oracle/PeopleSoft and Focus WebFocus contrasting styles in coding and programming costs.
At our meeting on April 22, 2005 featured speakers included Dennis Herseley, Information Systems Architect, Integretel and Jeff Winters, IBI, Western Region, San Jose Office. Bob Hughes, Data Base Architect, Cal State East Bay gave a short opening talk on the CSUEB SSN Noview/Noprint Project and Focus Security Techniques for protecting sensitive data. Dennis Herseley, Information Systems Architect, Integretel discussed "Regional Time Issues in Distributed Systems". Dennis covered time-related problems involved in supporting Integretel's Inmate Calling Solutions, Inc. The presentation will included tips and techniques on designing reports and data/DB processes to handle timezone differences, and how to handle Standard/Daylight Time transitions successfully. WebFOCUS's extensive timestamp functions were also be covered.
Jeff Winters, IBI, Western Region gave an extensive overview and Product Update on WebFocus v7 including a New Features Demo and Overview.
On March 12, 2004 - at California State University, Hayward Featured Speaker was Michael Scofield Assistant Professor, Health Information Managment, Loma Linda University who will present on the topic "Fundamentals of Data Quality". Michael is an internationally-recognized expert on data quality, semantic data integration, and decision support systems and has spoken before numerous professional groups on these and other topics of data management. Michael has made two presentations to Los Angeles area Focus User Groups on how to use Focus for data quality assessment.
Our second meeting in 2003 was held on Friday, October 3, at California State University Hayward.
First Presentation was by Jon Gibbens, of Integretel which covered the topic
'An alternative to IWAY XML Adapters - BIE (Brunswick Integration Engine)'. BIE is an open source integration program similar to Microsoft Biztalk. BIE can convert all types of flat files (CSV,fixed,etc) to XML, and can convert the other way around (XML to CSV,fixed). The flexibility of the BIE approach in scheduling and handling transformation was quite impressive.
Joe Juellich, IBI Systems Consultant/Engineer, San Jose Office gave us an early preview of New Features for S390 Focus v7.3 and gave a live demonstration on WebFocus 5.2 - Dashboard and Portals Technology, both of which were very well received. We hope to post both of these presentations later..
Our first meeting in 2002 was held on Friday, March 1, at Integretel in San Jose
Special thanks to Ken Parker of Integretel in San Jose for hosting the our
NORCAL IBUG/FUSE meeting on March 8, 2002. The accommodations, refreshments and hospitality were truly outstanding.
There were several very interesting presentations including Focus on UNIX, a special presentation with live demo of the new IBI Focus Support Site, Oracle Development Strategies and Hold Format PDF on S390.
The Focus on UNIX discussion by Gerry Boyadjieff of Integretel covered many areas of this platform and comparisons in terms of processing power with S390 Focus generated much interest.
Barbara Unverferth of IBI San Jose gave a very thoughtful and comprehensive live presentation of the updated IBI Web Support Site which was impressive with regards to it's comprehensive coverage. Many suggestions and questions were generated during this presentation.
Howard Share of HSConultants, Inc. gave another of his very timely talks which he has done for many years at FUSE meetings covering Focus Dialogue Manager, Oracle dynamic PL/SQL and dynamic SQL in ASP applications. The presentation was very comprehensive and gave us all a good road map for Oracle Web/Database Application development. An update version of this presentation will be posted as soon as it becomes available.
If there are any presentation slides or related material that could be posted on the meeting recap section of the NORCAL IBUG Web Site please let us know.
Our first meeting in 2001 was held on Friday, March 2, at CCI-Triad in San Ramon
NORCAL IBUG Meeting at CCI-Triad was very interesting. Presentations from CCI-Triad and IBI lent many new insights relative to WebFocus. Many thanks to Ben Garcia, Jimmy Sanderson and Nicole Selph of CCI-Triad for being a Host for the meeting and presenting an in-depth and live overview
of WebFocus systems at CCI-Triad. The facilities at CCI-Triad were great and the provided coffee and donuts took out the chill from the cold and wet morning.
Alex Shikanov of IBI presented an educational session on handling Graphs as objects in WebFocus applications along with some good associated coding techniques.
During the afternoon session we learned that the University of California, Office of the President, is moving towards WebFocus to augment and provide a Web Interface to their large Mainframe Focus
applications. UC is also a PeopleSoft customer.
Cal Poly SLO Financial Aid Systems Director, Dave Wickersham and United Air Lines Lead Focus Systems P/A, Karen Sakai shared information on their installations and plans. New 'share' session, suggested by Laura Voss-Allen of CSU Hayward, covering current Focus related problems and questions, was well received by all. Topics discussed at the Share session covered
VM Focus, VM FTP Exec Procedures , WebFocus, PC/Focus, Focus Desktop
and S390 v7.09 vs. the new v7.10 release.
Several attended the IBI Tech Summit in Orlando in May. Next NORCAL IBUG meeting is set to take place in Oakland on September 21, 2001 at the University of California President's Office.
Our third meeting in 2000 was held on Friday, September 15 at SBC/PacBell in San Ramon, California. Special thanks to Shapur Sharoki of SBC/Pacbell for hosting our meeting! We had an excellent group of presenters which included Joel Starkman, Director of S/390 QA, IBI, New York who updated us on S/390 FOCUS v7.1. Jon Gibbens, PROVISTA and Greg Kiefer of Kiefer Consulting.
The talk by Joel Starkman, Director of S/390 QA, IBI, New York who updated us on S/390 FOCUS v7.1 was an excellent overview of new features in v7.1 of S390 - Mainframe Focus which generated many questions and comments from those in attendance.
The presention by Jon Gibbens on Web Focus and XML and WML
was very interesting particularily with regard to the WML (wireless markup language) development facilities and testing.
The discussion by Greg Kiefer on Web Focus Development and his Web Focus application source files generated a lot of interest and follow-up questions.
Our second meeting in 2000 was held on June 2 at PROVISTA in Fremont, California. Special
thanks to Jon Gibbens for hosting our meeting! We had an excellent group of presenters which included Nicola Selph from CCI-Triad, Jon Gibbens, PROVISTA, Dennis Hearsley, Almaden Consulting and Steve Paulding from IBI Professional Services, San Jose.
The presention by Jon Gibbens on CSS(Cascading Style Sheets) was very informative and educational and it showed us new ways to integrate Focus Technologies with the Web.
The discussion by Nicola Selph from CCI/Triad on WebFocus at
CCI/Triad gave us a very practical user oriented look at WebFocus and very good information on issues when converting from Focus For Windows to WebFocus .
Dennis Hearsley took us 'Back to the Future' with Hold Format Focus - an often misunderstood yet very powerful feature available on most all Focus platforms.
All of the member presentations were of Summit Quality and hopefully we will see them on the Agenda at Summit 2001 in Orlando.
Steve Paulding of IBI showed us live the new version of WebFocus - v4.3 with some very exciting XML Report and other new capabilities.
Our first meeting in 2000 was held on March 24 at McKesson HBOC in San Francisco. Special thanks to Meadow Heath and Marta Solotar of McKesson HBOC for hosting our last meeting in San Francisco! We had an excellent group of presenters which included Meadow Heath, Mckesson HBOC, Howard Share, HSConsultants, Inc., Jerry Foster, Worldwide Focus Ltd, and MonteRichardson from IBI Professional Service, San Jose.
Howard Share's Mystery "The Case of the Strangled Server" not only had quite a few of us participating but kept us all guessing and on the edge of our seats...
Meadow Heath gave an excellent overview of the Focus/DB2 interface with a great set of slides.
Jerry Foster took us through an example of migrating a FFW app to WebFocus with some interesting caveats.
Monte Richardson of IBI showed us a WebFocus app which was very interesting and we will remember next time we make dinner reservations anywhere...
The last meeting in 1999 was held at Provista in Fremont. Chris Boylan,
Product Manager S390 Focus, IBI New York, provided each attendee with a copy of the new S/390 Focus Documentation CD and S/390 New Features CD. In addition, door prizes included one S/390 full documentation set and one official IBI Company Shirt. There were two main presentations and three short tips and technique discussions covering timely topics. Main presentations included MVS Mail Facilities and Focus Report Integration given by Jon Gibbens from PROVISTA and MVS Focus v7.09 and Fusion Update from Chris Boylan, IBI New York.
Tips and Technique sessions included .EVAL Considerations and other Gems by George Chin, Wells Fargo and Company, Relational Table Modifys With A Set Based Strategy from Howard Share, HSConsulting, Inc. and Many-To-Many Focus Reporting Relationship Techniques by Dennis Zerbini, Consultant. A full house was again on hand.
At our meeting on June 11 1999 there were three presentations covering timely topics including Web Focus Application Development, Migrating from FOCUS to FUSION and More Y2K Tips and Techniques. A full house was again on hand.
At our meeting on March 19, 1999 there were four presentations covering a wide variety of topics including Multi-platform FOCUS drill-down techniques, Creating and Updating Web Content with Mainframe FOCUS, WebFocus, and Y2K. Maximum planned attendance for this meeting was reached.
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