All presentations are available in the Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF), as well as the
native form of the presentation package used to construct the presentation.
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Sirius Update |
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FreeLance prz |
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Gary Gregory |
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This presentation will update you on the status and directions of Sirius Software.
You'll gain insights into the factors driving our decisions about how to best meet your future needs.
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Sequential Improvements |
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OpenOffice odp |
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Alex Kodat |
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Version 7.2 of the Sirius Mods introduces support for Dataset objects.
These provide object-oriented access to sequential datatsets and Model 204 streams.
In addition, they facilitate the integration of the SirTune and SirAud report writers into the Sirius Mods,
providing new flexibility, while simplifying support for the report writers.
Learn how these new capabilities might be useful to you.
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Serving PDF output from Model 204 using Dialogue and Janus |
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Power Point ppt |
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Sandy Kosina (OCM BOCES) |
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This presentation shows the direction OCM BOCES has taken to handle printed output requests.
The system allows school districts to submit document requests from a browser-based application, which
then returns PDF documents for display or printing.
The system uses Janus middleware in conjunction with Dialogue by Exstream (an HP product).
This presentation is an update to last year's first look at our Elementary module and our printed output needs.
The Elementary School system will be used to demonstrate the system and produce sample report cards.
A downloadable code sample is provided to
demonstrate how PDF documents from MVS files can be served by Janus Web.
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The Janus and Sirius Debugger Update |
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Power Point ppt
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George Walter |
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The Janus and Sirius debuggers are getting faster and better in every way.
This presentation will demonstrate the latest enhancements as well as outline our thinking on
future enhancements.
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Customizing SirTune reports |
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Power Point ppt
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Alan Brooks |
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Version 7.2 of the Sirius Mods integrates the Report Writer component of SirTune into the
Model 204 load module, using the new Dataset objects.
The primary motivation for this change was to take advantage of the 64-bit infrastructure
already present in the Sirius Mods.
A useful side effect, however, has been the ability for users to write their own custom reports
using data collected and summarized by SirTune.
This presentation will review the new SirTune report implementation and demonstrate how to write
custom reports.
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Intrinsic Value |
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OpenOffice odp |
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Alex Kodat |
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Version 7.2 of the Sirius Mods expands object-oriented syntax to be usable against
traditional User Language datatypes, including string and float variables.
This makes it possible to use User Language as a "pure" object-oriented programming language.
Find out how.
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Expanding the O-O toolkit at Marks and Spencer |
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Power Point ppt |
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Paul Webb
Patrick Bower (TCS) |
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Paul and Patrick work for Tata Consulting at Marks and Spencer in London.
Tata Consulting has been expanding the toolkit of O-O classes used at Marks and Spencer.
This presentation will provide an overview of two popular classes, one for handling
multi dimensional collections and the other for wrapping the invocation of daemons.
A User Language class for creating spreadsheets that can be processed with Excel is
available for download.
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Using the Janus FTP Client to push data from Model 204 |
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Power Point ppt |
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Robert Waggoner (Nodus) |
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The Janus FTP CLient is a package of high-level APIs that allow User Language
programs to act as FTP clients.
This presentation demonstrates the use of the Janus FTP Client to convert a
flat-file extraction process from a tedious manual process based upon the
generation of sequential files to an automated solution that "pushes" data
directly from a UL request to a Windows Server.
One example will detail minor changes necessary to convert a legacy flat-file extract
to an FTP push request, and another will illustrate a from-scratch FTP request.
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Top Tier: Getting The Most Out Of Your Browser |
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Power Point ppt |
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Alan Brooks |
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The browser is the presentation tier of your web application.
Learn how to use it to its full potential by integrating embedded editors, spellcheckers
and Javascript framework libraries.
Most of the available modules are free, high quality and have excellent support communities.
Javascript framework libraries encapsulate Ajax functionality as well as provide widget
formatting so you don't have to be a Javascript expert to put sophisticated
visual elements on your Janus web site.
On the Janus server side, we'll show how to load Javascript libraries to a Model 204 file
and how to specify rules so that it's served correctly and cached efficiently.
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Taking Exception |
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OpenOffice odp |
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Alex Kodat |
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Version 7.2 of the Sirius Mods provides support for exception handling,
including Try/Throw/Catch statements.
Learn what makes this support exceptional.
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Extending Model 204 |
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FreeLance prz |
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Goff Curreton (Centrelink) |
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Goff Cureton is a system manager with Centrelink, the Australian service delivery agency for social services.
As long-time Model 204 and Sirius customers, Centrelink has written a large number of dollar functions
to customize things to their tastes.
They have also surrounded Model 204 with an extensive collection of administrative and monitoring tools.
Lately, Goff has been adding assembler language O-O classes to his repertoire.
This presentation will outline some of Centrelink's most interesting extensions and additions to
Model 204.
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Enhancement methods and beyond |
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OpenOffice odp |
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Alex Kodat |
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In keeping with our practice of staying a step or two ahead of Microsoft, Version 7.2 of the
Sirius Mods introduces the notion of "Enhancement Methods" (what Microsoft calls "Extension Methods").
Enhancement methods provide a means of adding functionality to a class without the complexity of inheritance.
Extension methods are especially useful for a class to create methods on collections of that class.
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Unicode™! Why do we need that? |
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FreeLance prz |
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Dave Evans |
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Unicode is the industry standard for representing and communicating text from any language.
As a result of its mainframe roots, Model 204 was designed to support EBCDIC characters
and then extended to support the Double Byte Character Set codes used by Japanese 3270 displays.
This presentation explains the importance of Unicode and outlines our plans to incorporate
Unicode as a datatype in the Janus SOAP ULI.
Included is an explanation of the implicit and explicit translation mechanisms that will allow
customers to deploy support for Unicode in bite-sized pieces.
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APSY and Saved Compilations |
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OpenOffice odp |
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Alex Kodat |
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APSY provides a powerful framework for building high-performance Model 204 applications.
While the basic concepts of APSY processing are straightforward, there are many nuances
that can apply to complex applications.
This presentation focuses on issues related to saving and reusing request compilations.
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Power Parsing with Regular Expressions (regex) |
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FreeLance prz |
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Dave Evans |
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Sirius has continued to enhance its support of regular expressions (regex).
Contemporary scripting languages like Perl make extensive use of regex to simplify
text processing.
While regex can be arcane and complex, even its simplest forms can be quite useful in the
text-intensive applications commonly found in the Web 2.0 world.
This presentation reviews the most recent regex methods and shows how they can be used
to simplify parsing.
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