About Me
Biography
Jim is the president and founder of imPower Technologies where he provides professional IBM i online/onsite training (imPowerTechnologies.com). He is active in the IBM i community working to help companies train their employees in the latest IBM technologies and helps companies develop the next generation of IBM i professionals.
Jim Buck’s career in IT has spanned more than 40+ years, primarily in college education, manufacturing, and healthcare industries. Past president (13 years) of the Wisconsin Midrange Computer Professional Association (wmcpa.org) and has served on several teams developing IBM and COMMON certification tests. Jim has co-authored several IBM i books with Bryan Meyers that are used by many companies and in colleges worldwide, "Programming in ILE RPG" 5th Edition being the latest in 2015.
Other accomplishments include:
Jim Buck’s career in IT has spanned more than 40+ years, primarily in college education, manufacturing, and healthcare industries. Past president (13 years) of the Wisconsin Midrange Computer Professional Association (wmcpa.org) and has served on several teams developing IBM and COMMON certification tests. Jim has co-authored several IBM i books with Bryan Meyers that are used by many companies and in colleges worldwide, "Programming in ILE RPG" 5th Edition being the latest in 2015.
Other accomplishments include:
- 2007 IBM System i Innovation – Education Excellence Award
- 2014 COMMON Presidents Award
- 2013 and 2016 through 2024 IBM Champion - Power Systems.
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Independent Consultant and IBM i Trainer
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This is a great opportunity to get started with VS Code and the IBM i extensions. Many RPG developers have never used VS Code and getting started with the IDE can be frustrating. This lab will introduce the attendees to VS Code and the IBM i development environment.Attendees will need a laptop and ...
How to Move your Business into the 21st Century on IBM i
Sorry, Devs! You can't have ALLOBJ everywhere and unlimited access to SQL, DDM, etc. Why not? What should you do instead? In this session, Justin Loeber, Alan Seiden and Jim Buck will wrestle with this unfortunate reality and explore ways to secure developers without creating (too many) ...