Blackhawks Party for the Holidays 2011
January 19th, 2012
Check out Ed’s picture of the Blackhawks game on Dec 21 against Montreal! blackhawks
Silveredge and Fall Common Conference 2011
August 26th, 2011
Silveredge was a sponsor and exhibitor at Common’s Fall Conference and Expo on October 3-5 in St. Petersburg, FL. Representing Silveredge was Ambrose Marton and Doug Artis, who provided information regarding our current projects involving modernization, EDI, etc.
You can always visit the Common website at www.common.org for more information. Common describes the conference as follows:
‘This Fall Conference and Expo is your best and most cost-effective opportunity to advance your Power Systems education. There will be over 100 educational sessions, vendor-led sessions, pre-conference workshops, a tabletop Expo and and opportunity to gain a Common Certification.”
We hope to see more of you at upcoming conferences for the IBM i community!
OMNI User Conference and Silveredge
August 25th, 2011
Silveredge was a sponsor at the OMNI User Technical Conference 2011. It was held on Tuesday, September 13 at IBM’s Oakbrook facility. A multitude of topics were presented which are relevant to the IBM i community for those who wish to stay on top of technologies available! Many IBM customers stopped by our tabletop booth.
Speakers included Pete Massiello, Scott Klement, Larry Bolhuis, and others. For more information on this user group, go to www.omniuser.org.
Michiana Users’ Group
August 25th, 2011
Doug Artis from Silveredge presented at the Mid-Range Michiana Users’ Group on Thursday September 8, 2011. Doug ‘s presentation focused on .NET as a tool to create cost-effective web based applications on the IBM i. The meeting begins at noon and lunch will be served.
To learn more about this user group, go to www.mrmug.org.
IBM i and PDF Transform Services
July 15th, 2011
We love IBM’s product that allows you to generate PDF documents from your applications rather than Spool Files! The product is 5770TS1 (V7.1) or 5761TS1 (V6R1). The product is free and is easy to install and use. Now you store your output on the IFS in stream files. This is ideal for both printing and archiving of documents. The archiving is improved with some tweaks or modifications to your application to name and store the files in meaningful locations.
A huge advantage exists in that all users know how to manipulate PDF documents. Not true with spool files. This eliminates windowing in a spool file, and general viewing struggles.
While we think it is relatively easy to use and implement, call us if you want to know more or see how we have changed even our own internal invoicing system. For more sophisticated needs, you will need a forms package or document management system. However, there is a strong argument that no new spool files should be created.