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Scott Klement, born January 28, 1969, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin [1] is an American computer scientist, author, and speaker recognized as a top evangelist for IBM i on IBM Power Systems computers. For twenty-eight years, Scott served as the IT Director of family owned Klement's Sausage, which was sold to Altamont Capital Partners in 2014. [2] In 2012 he left to work for Profound Logic Corporation. [3] [4] Scott is a member of the Strategic Education Team (SET) and a Subject Matter Expert (SME) at COMMON, the largest association of users of IBM compatible technology in the world. He has developed numerous frameworks and other open-source development tools, often works that make other technology accessible to the IBM i technology directly from RPG. [5] Many developments by others, including Thomas Raddatz as well as IBM itself, make use of Klement's software in products of their own. [6] His work in developing tools which open the i is widely quoted by others, including sockets and other tools in the book Hacking iSeries, [7] and UNIXCMD, which allows PHP to access UNIX commands from a script. [8] [9] In addition, Klement was a frequent contributor to various Penton Media trade magazines.

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Personal

Scott resides in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with his wife and son. He is an avid player of the sheepshead card game. [10]

Awards

In 2005, Klement was awarded the Intellectual Solutions Award by IBM and COMMON for his website, which provided multiple tutorials and open source software to the IBM i community. [11] He also received the Gary Guthrie Award for Excellence in Technical Writing [12] and the silver medal for Best Feature Series by the American Society of Business Publication Editors (ASBPE). [13] [14] Klement's skill is recognized as one of the best in the industry. [15] In 2012 Klement, along with Jim Buck and Aaron Bartell, was named a "Champion of Power" by IBM for their contributions to the Power Systems community. [16] He has been called "The most interesting man in the RPG world". [17]

Partial list of frameworks and open-source projects

CategoryTitle/DescriptionReferences
Base 64 encode-decodeservice program to encode/decode Base64 [18]
EXPAT XML Parsera port of the open-source Expat XML parser to i [19] [20]
FTPAPIProgrammatic granular control of FTP on i [21]
HSSFR4A service program simplifying use of POI to read and write Excel from RPG [22]
HTTPAPIConsuming SOAP and RESTful Web Services in RPG [18]
JDBCR4 JDBC driven by RPG [18]
JSONported Yet another JSON Compiler (YAJL) [23]
Linux Tn5250An open-source 5250 emulator for Linux, FreeBSD, etc. [18]
SNTP ProgramTime syncer [18]
UNIXCMDRun Qshell commands from RPG using f-spec [18]

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References

  1. ↑ Withanachchi, Chamara. "Scott Klement" . Retrieved 12 April 2016.
  2. ↑ Taschler, Joe. "Klement Sausage sold to holding company of San Francisco firm". Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Retrieved 12 April 2016.
  3. ↑ "A Mixed Bunch". 27 June 2012. Retrieved 12 April 2016.
  4. ↑ "IBM i Development Export Scott Klement Joins the Profound Logic Software Team". 11 July 2012. Retrieved 12 April 2016.
  5. ↑ Rhodes, Ryan (June 2005). "Getting the RPG Word Out" . Retrieved 12 April 2016.
  6. ↑ Paris, Jon (3 June 2008). "Modern Tools for Today's RPG Programmer" . Retrieved 12 April 2016.
  7. ↑ Carmel, Shalom (2004). Hacking iSeries.
  8. ↑ Youens, Andy (29 January 2016). "Using PHP and RPG to Communicate Together Part 2" . Retrieved 12 April 2016.
  9. ↑ "Fun with QSH, call qp2term and RPG …" . Retrieved 12 April 2016.
  10. ↑ Klement, Scott. "About Me" . Retrieved 12 April 2016.
  11. ↑ "IBM Recognizes Top Innovators on iSeries Systems". 15 March 2005. Retrieved 12 April 2016.
  12. ↑ Vasta, David (22 June 2008). "Scott Klement Honored with Gary Guthrie Writing Award" . Retrieved 12 April 2016.
  13. ↑ "Biography". 20 February 2007. Retrieved 12 April 2016.
  14. ↑ "2006 Editorial and Design Regional Award Winners Announced" . Retrieved 12 April 2016.
  15. ↑ Woodie, Alex (21 October 2013). "Will Modern, Free-Form RPG Bring New Blood To The Platform?" . Retrieved 12 April 2016.
  16. ↑ Burger, Dan (21 May 2012). "Three IBM i Advocates Elevated to Champion Status" . Retrieved 12 April 2016.
  17. ↑ "Scott Klement Joins Profound Logic Staff". 16 July 2012. Retrieved 12 April 2016.
  18. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Scott Klement Open Source Projects" . Retrieved 12 April 2016.
  19. ↑ "Using the Expat XML Parser from an RPG Program, Part 1" . Retrieved 12 April 2016.
  20. ↑ "What's New in V5R4 RPG?". February 2006. Retrieved 12 April 2016.
  21. ↑ "These are a Few of Our Favorite (Free) Things!". 14 July 2009. Retrieved 12 April 2016.
  22. ↑ "How to Excel with RPG and Java". 16 September 2004. Retrieved 12 April 2016.
  23. ↑ "Building JSON with RPG" . Retrieved 12 April 2016.
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