Welcome to the IBM Users Group of Central Missouri Web Site. We are a member
affiliated group that meets on a monthly basis. The Group is focused on issues
related to IBM Midrange Computing.
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We are currently working on 2012 Speakers and Topics.  

Please email Officers on the link below with any suggestions.

2012 Officers

President: Kerwin Crawford 
  Boone County
  Columbia, Missouri

Vice President: Position Vacant 
  Vacant
  Vacant

Secretary: Norma Crawford 
  MBS Textbook
  Columbia, Missouri

Treasurer: Alberta Lochridge
  Boone Hospital/BJC Health Care
  Columbia, Missouri



We meet every fourth Thursday of odd numberd months (except November) and have various topics for discussion with a dinner following. If you and/or your company have similar interest in the Mid- Missouri area, please use the links above to contact one of the board members about becoming a part of the organization. We hope to see you at the meetings. See calendar below.



Calendar of Events 2012
Date Time Speaker Topic Location
January 26, 2012 6:00PM - 9:00 PM No Speaker
Open forum round table discussions.
  • Survival of the club.
  • Talk about possibly moving meeting time to lunch.
  • Open forum round table discussion
  • We talked about the survival of the club.
    We decided that we would try having meeing every other month.
    We decided to try to find topics and tours.
    This meeting after talking about the club issues, we talked about old times.
    Old computers, old languages, people from the past.
 Copper Kettle
508 E. Liberty Ln
Ashland, MO 65010
573-657-2722
http://www.facebook.com/TheCopperKettle
February 23, 2012 Off Month
March 22, 2012 6:00PM - 9:00 PM No Speaker
Open forum round table discussions.
  • To be announced.
  • Open forum round table discussion.
 Copper Kettle
508 E. Liberty Ln
Ashland, MO 65010
573-657-2722
http://www.facebook.com/TheCopperKettle
April 26, 2012 Off Month
May 24, 2012 6:00PM - 9:00 PM No Speaker
Open forum round table discussions.
  • To be announced.
  • Open forum round table discussion.
 Copper Kettle
508 E. Liberty Ln
Ashland, MO 65010
573-657-2722
http://www.facebook.com/TheCopperKettle
June 28, 2012 Off Month
July 26, 2012 6:00PM - 9:00 PM No Speaker
Open forum round table discussions.
  • To be announced.
  • Open forum round table discussion.
 Copper Kettle
508 E. Liberty Ln
Ashland, MO 65010
573-657-2722
http://www.facebook.com/TheCopperKettle
August 23, 2012 Off Month
September 27, 2012 6:00PM - 9:00 PM No Speaker
Open forum round table discussions.
  • To be announced.
  • Open forum round table discussion.
 Copper Kettle
508 E. Liberty Ln
Ashland, MO 65010
573-657-2722
http://www.facebook.com/TheCopperKettle
October 25, 2012 Off Month
November 22, 2012 Holiday Vacation
December 27, 2012 Holiday Vacation

Calendar of Events 2011
Date Time Speaker Topic Location
January 27, 2011 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM No Speaker
Open forum round table discussions.
  • Open forum round table discussion
  • Our main discussion centerd around Security.
 Country Kitchen
1712 N Providence Rd. Columbia, MO 65202
Phone: 573-875-1333
February 24, 2011 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM No Speaker
Open forum round table discussions.
  • Open forum round table discussion
  • This meeting was canceled due to bad weather
 Madison's Cafe
216 Madison St.
Jefferson City, MO
(573) 634-2988
http://www.madisonscafe.com/
March 24, 2011 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM No Speaker
Open forum round table discussions.
  • Open Forum Topics below
  • Our discussion was about history and future of the iSeries
 Madison's Cafe
216 Madison St.
Jefferson City, MO
(573) 634-2988
http://www.madisonscafe.com/
April 28, 2011 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM No Speaker
Open forum round table discussions.
  • Utilities - Do you have one you like? Bring your favorite utility, home grown or bought. Show us examples, share the source, tell us about it.
  • See Open Forum Topics below
  • Our discussion was about utilities among other topics
 Country Kitchen
1712 N Providence Rd. Columbia, MO 65202
Phone: 573-875-1333
May 26, 2011 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM No Speaker
Open forum round table discussions.
  • See Open Forum Topics below
  • Software development method - Waterfall or Agile (Scrum, AUP, DSDM, EssUP, XP, FDD, OpenUP)
  • Our discussion was a general discussion about the club.
 Yen Ching
2208 Missouri Boulevard
Jefferson City, MO 65109
(573) 635-5225
June 23, 2011 Summer Vacation
July 28, 2011 Summer Vacation
August 25, 2011 Summer Vacation
September 22, 2011 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM Kerwin Crawford
  • Kerwin is going to show some reports created using a report writer called m-Power.
  • Our discussion was about the m-Power report writer and how the county is using it. Showed a few examples of the tool.
 Country Kitchen
1712 N Providence Rd. Columbia, MO 65202
Phone: 573-875-1333
October 27, 2011 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM None
  • Traditionally this has been elections.
  • Talk about future of club.
  • If you have a topic, let us know what it is.
  • Discussed the future of the club.
 Copper Kettle
508 E. Liberty Ln
Ashland, MO 65010
573-657-2722
http://www.facebook.com/TheCopperKettle
November 24, 2011 Holiday Vacation
December 22, 2011 Holiday Vacation

Topics for Open Fourm Meetings:
  • Utilities - Do you have one you like? Bring your favorite utility, home grown or bought. Show us examples, share the source, tell us about it.
  • What keeps you up at night?
  • Change management (object/source management) what do you use, what are your problems, etc.?
  • Security?
  • Imaging, what do you use, what are your problems, etc.?
  • SQL, Query, Query Tools?
  • Cell Phone Apps working with iSeries data?
  • Languages - favorite, love, hate
  • Software development method - Waterfall or Agile (Scrum, AUP, DSDM, EssUP, XP, FDD, OpenUP)
  • If you have a topic, let us know what it is.


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