Mark Irish from IBM will be presenting how IBM i and artificial intelligence come together. Mark will also speak on Node.js. Mark is part of the Open Source initiative for IBM i and is located at the IBM Rochester Minnesota location.
AI
The emerging realm of AI and Machine Learning can bring seemingly-limitless opportunity for your enterprise (and perhaps even mankind). How can you leverage these new technologies from IBM i? This session will provide an overview of what technologies you can be using from your IBM i today. We will cover various AI/ML packages available to run on the system, as well as the cloud-based capability of IBM Watson. After all, IBM i has always been a data-centric platform. Surely, Db2 for i houses mission-critical and intensely valuable data. Coupling AI and ML with this data can bring an unprecedented amount of innovation.
Node.js
The most important operation for a Node.js server running on the IBM i is connecting to the internal Db2 database. There are approximately 6 official packages that simplify the process of connecting a querying, but their quality varies widely. This session begins with an overview of all of these packages and their relative strengths and weaknesses. From there, I select the two packages that are the future of Node.js and Db2 connections and go in-depth with how to configure, connect, and perform both simply and complex queries and stored procedure calls, enabling users to achieve the full potential of Db2 inside the Node.js environment.
Learning Objectives:
1. How to set up a Node.js environment on the IBM i.
2. How to connect to Db2 on IBM i through different packages, including odbc, which allows development across platforms.
3. Learning how to run everything from simple queries to stored procedure calls in Node.js
