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This is a follow-up to Murray's article for scripting pButtons data extraction on Unix/MacOS:     Extracting pButtons data to CSV for UNIX/MacOS

###Extracting pButtons data to a CSV file on Windows

PowerShell scripting was used in this article because it is available by default on Windows platforms.

The script, Extract_pButtons.ps1, will search the given pButtons file until it finds the marker for the beginning of the section. The section will be printed line-by-line, from the header to the line before the section end marker.

Additional parameters are passed in to the script to include the

Hi, Community!

I'm glad to announce UK Technology Summit 2016 started!

#ISCTech2016 tag will help be in touch with all is happening in the Summit.

You are very welcome to discuss the Summit here in comments too!

If I am in a community on this website looking at articles would expect a search box at top so I can search within this community.

1) The search top right is too general (I don't want to have to sub search, refine or just ignore irrelevant results)

2) Most forums have the ability to easily search within them on other sites, which is what as a user I would expect

The recent post about help with the Cache Language and the responses were very helpful.

I suggest two new tags, and the tags being permanently toward the top of the tag list.

1) Help with understanding the Developer Community

2) Help with Cache and all the various off-shoots 

Presenter: Rich Taylor
Task: Use an LDAP schema that differs from the provided default
Approach: Give examples of customized LDAP schema development, using LDAP APIs and ZAUTHORIZE
 

In this session we explore the various options of for working with LDAP as an authentication and authorization framework. We will look beyond the simple LDAP schemas into working with more complex LDAP configurations that incorporate application level security information.

Content related to this session, including slides, video and additional learning content can be found here.

Presenter: Andreas Dieckow
Task: Securely store sensitive information
Approach: Give examples of data-at-rest encryption and data element encryption
 

Description: In this session, InterSystems will showcase how to use API calls to programmatically do everything using your own scripts. This approach is highly effective if you have recipe based settings and configurations that you would like to roll out in a controlled and fast fashion.

Problem: Implement Security relevant information correctly and how. Examples are Credit Card information, Sensitive information (e.g. SSN, Classified Information)

Solution: Data-at-rest encryption and data element encryption

Content related to this session, including slides, video and additional learning content can be found here.

Presenter: Andreas Dieckow
Task: Apply SQL security to multiple servers in a distributed system
Approach: Provide code samples for using new API calls to apply SQL security statements to multiple instances of our products
 

Description: The requirement that started at all. See examples on how to use this new feature and integrate it into your application by discuss code examples.

Problem: SQL Security is local to the instance and most of time driven by customer application code. That it is only local to the instance and is not automatically going to other instances requires a solution.

Solution: With application code use new API calls to issue SQL security statements that is applied to multiple instances.

Content related to this session, including slides, video and additional learning content can be found here.

Presenter: Benjamin De Boe
Task: Perform advanced analytics on huge amounts of data
Approach: Use third-party analytics frameworks to leverage your entire clustered environment
 

In this session, we’ll explain what machine learning means and how it can help you gain insights in vast amounts of data, leveraging complex environments.

Content related to this session, including slides, video and additional learning content can be found here.

Presenter: Harry Tong
Task: Load terabytes of data into a distributed environment
Approach: Leverage parallelism and open-source tools
 

In this session, we’ll discuss how to load TBs of data into a distributed environment, leveraging parallelism and open source to reach exceptional load rates.

Content related to this session, including slides, video and additional learning content can be found here.

Presenter: Tony Pepper
Task: Host an application based on InterSystems’ technology in a public cloud environment
Approach: Provide a checklist of things to think about before you deploy
 

Are you looking at hosting your applications in the public cloud? This talk will highlight what you need to think about when deploying InterSystems technology in any public cloud environment.

Content related to this session, including slides, video and additional learning content can be found here.

Presenter: Mark Bolinsky
Task: Provide failover for distributed systems without using a VIP
Approach: Demonstrate using InterSystems’ database mirroring with external traffic managers such as F5 LTM/GTM
 

With distributed environments and even public cloud environments, the use of a VIP sometimes is not desirable or even possible given network topology or deployment. The session will demonstrate integrating database mirroring with external traffic managers such F5 LTM/GTM using API based triggers in InterSystems products to interface with the F5 appliances. This not only presents automated redirection for the local mirror members, but also provided automated client redirection to asynchronous DR mirror members. 

Content related to this session, including slides, video and additional learning content can be found here.

Presenter: Michael Broesdorf
Task: Use the Internet of Things in a business application
Approach: Demonstrate incorporating device-generated messages into a business process, and using that information to trigger physical events
 

(Session Sequence: Dependent on EOPEN) IoT may be the most hyped idea of the year, but how do you actually make use of it in your business applications? This session gives a detailed demonstration of incorporating device generated messages into an business process, to interact with your business applications and triggering physical events as a part of a business process.

Content related to this session, including slides, video and additional learning content can be found here.

Presenter: Alain Houf
Guest Speaker: Joop van Uden of Philips Healthcare
Task: Evolve your data model as you build your application
Approach: Provide a real-world example of how to leverage the flexibility of the document data model and how to easily integrate it into existing environments
 

Description: Come and learn how you can leverage new technology like the document data model in your current environment. We will explore a customer use case that managed to include this brand new technology within weeks in their current application stack and start to benefit from it.

Problem: Tools that help you build a stable backend, sometimes are in the way when you need to evolve.

Solution: Use flexible data models like the document data model for areas where you have to evolve constantly and mix and match it with the power of the OO and relational model.

Dependencies: Most value if session "The Power of Handling Data without a Schema" was attended before.

Content related to this session, including slides, video and additional learning content can be found here.

Presenter: Luca Ravazzolo
Task: Track the status and performance of clustered environments
Approach: Give examples of using modern technology to spot potential bottlenecks before they turn into problems
 

This session will discuss how modern technology can be used to keep track of the status and performance of your cloud clustered environments.

Content related to this session, including slides, video and additional learning content can be found here.

Presenter: Mark Massias
Guest Speaker: Bruce Porteous of Northgate
Task: Build a composite application that bridges data silos
Approach: Give a real-world example of combining data from multiple sources to run a composite application
 

Most organizations need to bridge silos of data or combine separate applications. This session describes techniques for building composite applications and silos. The session also looks at a real application that does this. It uses workflow to assign cases to individuals for investigation and extracts information from multiple systems to provide the investigator with a complete context for the case at the scene of the incident.

Content related to this session, including slides, video and additional learning content can be found here.

Presenter: Danny Wijnschenk
Task: Build a development stack that enables state-of-the-art rapid development with a stable but adaptive back end.
Approach: Use InterSystems’ new document data model to achieve modern full-stack development
 

The MEAN stack is a very popular stack for building applications quickly that can change at a rapid pace. We will explore the benefits of such a stack and how you can tackle the requirements for modern and fast paced front-end development with support of a stable, but yet adaptive back-end using our new document data model.

Content related to this session, including slides, video and additional learning content can be found here.

Presenter: Kerry Kirkham
Task: Prevent application-to-application interface problems from escalating
Approach: Give examples of using alerts to get the right person working on a problem as soon as possible
 

Problems with application-to-application interfaces are inevitable but in most cases they can be fixed with little disruption as long as the right person gets to know about it as soon as possible. But delays in attention cause problems to escalate, pressure mounts and business suffers. This session looks at how monitoring and alerting can be set up to recognize problems and get the right person working on the problem in the shortest possible time so that small problems don’t turn into major issues.

Solution: Using alerts to minimize interface problems

Content related to this session, including slides, video and additional learning content can be found here.

Presenter: Gerd Nachtsheim
Task: Contribute to and influence open-source communities
Approach: Discuss how the joint efforts of people within and outside of InterSystems created our Hibernate driver and contributed to the Hibernate project
 

Description: The development of our latest Hibernate driver was a joint effort of multiple groups of people within and outside of InterSystems with different roles that was ultimately contributed to the Hibernate project. Come to this session to learn more about how open-source communities think and how you can leverage and contribute.

Problem: Everyone else appears to be doing open-source contributions, but it doesn’t fit into our company.

Solution: If you find an open source project that is interesting for you or your customers, contribute to that project and make it a better one that is also easier to use within your landscape.

Content related to this session, including slides, video and additional learning content can be found here.

Presenter: Ken Takemura
Task: Integrate enterprise-wide management capabilities into applications
Approach: Use APIs that are built into Enterprise Manager

Content related to this session, including slides, video and additional learning content can be found here.

Presenter: Luca Ravazzolo
Task: Define, provision, and configure a cloud infrastructure
Approach: Use open-source tools for DevOps automation

This session demonstrates how a cloud infrastructure of clustered servers can be defined, provisioned and configured efficiently with a simple yet powerful provisioning technology.

Content related to this session, including slides, video and additional learning content can be found here.

Presenter: Ray Wright
Task: Validate your performance and scalability claims, detect and correct bottlenecks, or determine the hardware needed to optimally run your applications
Approach: Discuss and demonstrate the use of our WebStress feature to design and run benchmark tests of your HTTP-based applications.
 

Conducting benchmark tests of your applications can help you highlight your performance and scalability claims, detect and correct bottlenecks in your application, and provide useful information about the hardware required to optimally run your solutions. Come to this session to learn about our “WebStress” feature that can help you design and run benchmark tests of your HTTP-based applications.

Content related to this session, including slides, video and additional learning content can be found here.

Presenter: Mark Bolinsky
Task: Decide whether a converged infrastructure is ideal for your enterprise applications
Approach: Discuss best practices and provide guidance on the right questions to ask
 

The traditional use of “SAN storage” is no longer the only choice for deploying enterprise application. Software defined data centers are making inroads into enterprise data centers, and there is good reason for it. There is the potential for significant infrastructure cost savings, architecture simplification, reduced administration costs, and depending on the configuration - even better performance. This session will discuss some best practices and outline decision guidance to help you ask the right questions when considering hyper-converged architectures.

Content related to this session, including slides, video and additional learning content can be found here.

Presenter: Stefan Wittmann
Task: Take advantage of the NoSQL paradigm without adding another tool
Approach: Provide sample use cases that are an excellent fit for InterSystems’ new document data model
 

Description: Designing applications always requires you to make assumptions about your data model. Come to this session to learn how you can effectively handle the cases where you have to rapidly evolve your model. We will also discuss other use cases that are an awesome fit for the flexible document data model.

Problem: I’ve observed the NoSQL landscape and like the direction, but I have no use-case that fits and I do not want to add yet another tool.

Solution: InterSystems now has support for a well integrated document data model that brings the NoSQL paradigm to the enterprise within your current stack.

Content related to this session, including slides, video and additional learning content can be found here.

Hi, Community!

The Second Global Summit Free Registration Contest is running and we have only one week to celebrate new winner!

Here is current leaderboard amongst non-InterSystems DC Members after a half of the race:

(If you want to see contribution from InterSystems employees just set the filter value in the Deepsee dashboard)

John Murray contributed more than others last week.  John is a leader, but he did the result only for one week! 

There is one week more and so everyone can be a winner! 

Do posts, make comments, vote for your favorite writers and come to the InterSystems Global Summit

Hi, Community!

We've started InterSystems Global Summit Free Registration Contest this week.

Here is interactive leaderboard available! 

Hi, Community!

There are only six days left to win InterSystems Developer Community MVP prize.

As it was announced in addition to Free Registration on InterSystems Global Summit winner gets 4 nights stay in the Arizona Baltimore, Waldorf Astoria Resort.

We measure contribution to Developer Community on valuable posts and comments and prepared special leaderboard built on InterSystems DeepSee.

By default, it shows all the members. We added the filter to the dashboard to show leaderboard without members who are InterSystems employees.

So here is current leaderboard without InterSystems members:

There is any mean to use different fonts? For example "Courier New" for code text, or different colors? To work only with HTML is too hard

I'm very proud of the Worldwide Response Center - an excellent group of men and women - and I am interested to hear from you about your experience using the WRC.  There are always better ways for us to serve you.   

I'm also very excited about the Developer Community which we're bringing to you to give you an opportunity to connect with groups and individuals in the InterSystems community.  Let us know what you think and how we can improve it in order to serve you better.