This will be the replacement for their Annual December DVCUG All-Day Education Conference. 

                          Don Yantzi is the technical lead for WDSC and Rational Developer for System i (RDi). He works at the IBM Toronto Lab and has been involved in the design and development of the Remote System Explorer and Application Diagram since their inception.  Don is a co-author of the book "Remote System Explorer: Modern Developer Tools for the System i" and is a frequent speaker at COMMON and System i user group meetings.

                         Declare files in sub procedures. Pass files as parameters. Never need a compile-time override again. Define huge variables - no more 64K limit. Define huge arrays - no more 32767 limit. Run in multiple threads and more. Also, a reminder of some of the other enhancements from recent releases, with special attention to using data structures for I/O to externally described files.

                         Remote System Explorer: Modern RPG and COBOL Development Tools 

                         The Remote Systems Explorer (RSE) is the development environment within WDSC and Rational Developer for System i that allows you to develop RPG, COBOL, CL and  DDS applications. The RSE is the modern follow-on to the world of SEU, SDA, PDM, and even CODE/ 400. All the things that a developer might wish were possible with a green screen are in the RSE and some that you haven't even thought of yet! Other benefits include improving programmer productivity, off-loading host development workload and allowing existing applications to be maintained more effectively.