Course offerings include comprehensive training for all personnel. Training is typically conducted at iBASEt's training facility in Foothill Ranch, Calif. We request that students have a similar knowledge base. Most course materials are provided in electronic/online form.

The minimum class size is 4; the maximum size is 10. If the number of students exceeds 10, another instructor will be required at an additional fee. Classes will not be held if there are less than 4 students.

Solumina Technical Training

Reporting Tool (#T0410)

This hands-on lab course presents an overview of the Solumina Report Designer, including a discussion of the toolbars, buttons, editing windows and layout. Students create a simple banded report using the report wizard, make minor changes to the wizard layout and presentation. The course includes configuring a report to be invoked from a menu command within Solumina. Students will then create a traveler report with bar codes without using the report wizard. The course includes: setting up and passing test parameters; adding and linking the bands; creating global pages, locking pages, adding images and graphs such as pie/bar charts to reports, chaining and embedding reports. Students will create several reports and be expected to write simple SQL statements.

Deployment - Application Installation, Upgrades and Configuration Methodology (#T0520)

This course is a combination workshop and lecture. In a hands-on lab and you will walk through the installation of the client, database and middle tier and discuss hardware server requirements. The lecture section covers applying upgrade programs and scripts, including tips and traps of upgrading based on the level of your site configuration; determining permission requirements, and establishing security options. The instructor will define overall technical strategy for configuration management; discuss potential pitfalls and considerations as you develop an implementation strategy; cover ownership of different levels of configuration and types of configurations acceptable to the project, and prepare the student to produce a configuration implementation plan to describe the agreed upon approach for implementation. This class is offered by request.

Oracle Database Tuning and Troubleshooting (#T0550)

This combined lecture and hands-on course provides tools, tips and techniques to maximize database performance. Topics include: evaluating SQL performance; using diagnostic and database statistical tools; optimizing database parameters; ASSM; partitioning and automatic SQL tuning options (available within Oracle 10g as separately licensable options). Tools discussed include GUI Event tracker, Solumina Thin Client tracing; using DBMS_MONITOR and Oracle’s TRC Analyzer; dynamic performance views; the 10g version of “statspack” and OEM.  This class is offered by request.

Configuration Training – Configuration (#T0610)

This concentrated hands-on lab course introduces the student to application components; common user interface elements; managing and editing configuration and administrative tasks; defining roles and privileges; setting up dispatch lists to customize data sorting, and setting up authoring and approval workflows; adding a tabular report to a dispatch; and configuring dispatch tabs. User Defined Views (UDVs) and INI Lib functionality is covered in-depth. This includes: modifying an application and instruction presentation, plan and order header information; adding shortcut command buttons to instructions; configuring a touch screen interface; changing global parameters through the Common section; creating a new dispatch list group and configuring a bar code. Students will be given a sample business requirement and then step through the design and implementation of that requirement. Additional projects include: modifying UDV attributes, creating a data entry wizard. Throughout the course tips and techniques are given.

Configuration Training - Advanced Configuration (#T0630)

This hands-on lab course expands on the Configuration for Developers class. Topics include Solumina three-tier architecture deployment; reviewing components and setting Tomcat debug levels; configuration and logging Solumina Thin Client; language display alteration, and diagnostic tools; Solumina Thin Client/WebClient Advanced External Authentication (AEA) configuration and using external DLLs to communicate authentication applications; installation of an Eclipse development environment, creating a custom Eclipse project and using JAVA code to modify Solumina behavior. Discussion includes LDAP single-user sign on and modifying the user validation process; configuring middle tier and Solumina Thin Client to use HTTPS encryption; creating custom graphs and extending the Management Dashboard; and using and configuring standard Business Integration Services (BIS) touchpoints.

Integration Training - Business Integration Services (#T0660)

This course covers the technical basis and extension of the out-of-the box Business Integration Services; interacting with JAVA Message Service (JMS); transport conversion; message transformation capabilities; hands-on development of outbound and inbound messages; extending integration services; XML Schema extensions; configuration and capability of an example ESB Mule; XML Beans library for XML message processing; how to develop and manage SMAP impacts and extension generation approach.

Configuration Training - Basic Configuration for Analysts (#T0710)

This hands on class covers aspects of Solumina that can be modified without coding. The course focus is an introduction to System Manager tools with emphasis on the UDV Editor and INI Maintenance.  Students will configure the client, link the database to the application and enable functionality through the INI record. Topics include common interface elements;  importing and exporting user preferences; setting global preferences; configuring dispatch tabs; setting up roles and privileges; designing the menu display; setting dashboard alerts; setting up communication queues; setting up authoring and approval workflows; introduction to User Defined Views (UDVs); SQL and UDV libraries; building, testing and installing a UDV in the application; concepts of UDV substitution, changing UCF, UDV labels. Throughout the course, diagnostic tools are discussed and tips and techniques given.

Integration Training - Integration Concepts (#T0720)

This course gives an overview of decoupled message based integration principles. The role of standards, canonical message vocabularies, and transport independence is covered. Middleware and Enterprise Service Bus concepts and capabilities are discussed. Other subjects include: Solumina Business Integration Services and supported scenarios; an introduction to OAGIS; data mapping Solumina to OAGIS and Solumina to other applications; use of SMAP tools, XML tools (Eclipse, XML SPY).

Solumina Configuration and Integration Certification

iBASEt has certification testing for Configuration Developers and Integration Developers. Information available upon request.

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