Eastern SAG Users Group - March 10, 2003 Agenda

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Eastern Users Group (ESUG) March 10, 2003

The Eastern User Group is intended to be a forum for the free interchange of information about Software AG products in Washington DC, Virginia, Maryland, Ohio and West Virginia. Membership is free and all staff that work for an organization that has a license of SAG product qualify for membership. If you want to receive announcements of future meetings, please join the user's group E-mail List.

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The current meeting was held on March 10, 2003 at the Radisson Barceló Hotel.

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8:30 - 9:00	Continental Breakfast
9:00 - 9:15	Introductions
9:15 - 9:30	SAG Update - Tana Reagan, Software AG, Director Federal Sales
9:30 - 9:40	Break
9:40 - 10:35	The Future of NATURAL - Bruce Beaman SAG Natural is the only truly portable language to provide for the development of applications that can execute on multiple platforms and operating systems. A Natural customer can evolve their applications into the world of XML and Web Services without radical reengineering or throwing away of code which supports your business.
10:35- 10:45	Break
10:45 - 11:40	NATURAL Engineering and Webstar - Bruce Beaman - SAG Natural Engineer is a product, which will allow you to maintain applicationsmore quickly and with more accuracy. Structure Flow, and Program Flow diagrams produced with Microsoft's Visio product give a maintenance programmer an easier way to understand a program or application. Natural Engineer provides for code enhancements and standardization as well as documenting program metrics. WebStar utilizes the Natural Engineer functionality to convert a 3270-based Natural application into a xml-web based one
11:40 - 12:30	Lunch (provided)
12:30 - 2:00	Preparing Mainframe Applications for Distributed Computing Rosanne Verteramo and Scott Hutton,MindCross Natural provides a wide range of objects that can be used to build applications. Some of these objects can be more easily adapted and used in a multi-platform distributed application than others. In this presentation we will discuss some of the issues in preparing your Natural application for distributed use. Topics such as maps and processing rules, effective use of subprograms and dual-usage applications will be addressed.
2:00 - 2:10	Break
2:10 - 3:40	TCP/IP Overview Rosanne Verteramo and Scott Hutton, MindCross TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol /Internet Protocol) is the basic communication language or protocol of the Internet and within private networks. As TCP/IP has become more integrated into the mainframe environment a basic understanding of what it is and how it works is more important. This presentation will cover the basics of TCP/IP and include such topics as managing messages using packets, the key layers, routing, and how TCP/IP uses the client/server model for communication.
3:40 - 3:50	Closing Remarks - Door Prizes

Eastern Users Group (ESUG) March 10, 2003

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