WMCPA iCON2025

Simon Hutchinson has written a lot of articles on his blog about the modern RPG programming language. This session covers a mixture of his favorite RPG Built in Functions, BiFs, and ones he thinks everyone should be using. This includes some BiFs from the latest rounds of Technology Refreshes.

AI Without the Hype: Practical Tips to Boost Your Productivity using AI!
Tired of AI theory? Be more productive using AI Today!
In this session, we skip the theory and dive straight into real-world applications that boost productivity and streamline daily tasks using AI - today! Building on Steve’s popular productivity series, this session promises to give you tangible skills to supercharge your productivity while producing better results.
Join this session to learn how to:
Craft professional emails, reports, and letters in a fraction of the time
Dive into data analysis without the headache
Unlock your creative side to make art you’ll be proud of - even if you can't draw a straight line!
Get the most out of the many diverse AI tools available today for maximum productivity
Whether you’re new to AI or just looking for practical ideas, you’ll leave with real examples and skills you can start using immediately for both professional and personal tasks. Join us to learn how to put AI to use for you today!
Audience:
Everyone who is curious about AI and would like to be more productive at work and in their personal life will benefit from this session. AI isn’t just for data scientists anymore – it’s a valuable tool we can all benefit from every day!

Brand new session for 2024!

APIs allow IBM i to connect with other systems safely and securely, using the languages you already know. Because IBM i has API options abound, you can use your favorite languages and tools.

This talk shows many ways to send and receive data safely, using IBM i business logic, with code examples using various free tools and languages, including RPG, PHP, Python, and Node.js. You will feel empowered to provide and consume APIs with the many examples given here.

Learning Objectives:
Understand basics of APIs and why they are helpful and secure
Learn several RPG techniques to create and call APIs
Learn several open source language ways to create and call APIs, using PHP, Python, and Node.js

Is artificial intelligence good for security or a menace? During this session Carol will explore the security and privacy considerations you’ll want to make when considering the implementation of AI. She’ll also discuss the ways that AI is used in the security industry as well as the ways bad actors are exploiting it. Finally, she’ll discuss the current laws and regulations surrounding AI.

Anyone creating web or mobile applications, or APIs, can benefit from the techniques shown here:

Do I need a web server? Which one is best for me?
Securing your site
Apache and Nginx tips and tricks
HTTPS encryption (SSL/TLS), including using the free Let’s Encrypt
Create user-friendly and search-engine friendly URLs over any web application
What if you become popular? (performance and handling a large number requests)
Learning Objectives
Understand how to secure the Apache web server on IBM i
Learn to use Apache’s most useful features, including search engine optimization, logging, and virtual hosts
Audience
Administrators and developers seeking to prepare their systems for web applications, improve performance, and improve security.

In this new session, Scott will explore the many ways that “bad actors” can attempt to subvert the security on IBM i. Whether the topic is protecting against SQL Injection, closing doors to acquiring elevated privileges, or attempting to discover unprotected objects, this session will include techniques for evaluation and protection of your IBM i. Attend this session to take a big step towards discovering and eliminating attack vectors within Db2 for i!

Understand how Navigator for i makes audit journaling on the IBM i a breeze. Navigator simplifies configuring auditing to just a few clicks and can make consuming and analyzing audit entries easier. Learn about new improvements that increase the performance of analyzing audit entries.