Some may remember a time when application design meant putting characters on a dumb terminal screen in a somewhat organized fashion, but with only a little regard to the viewing experience. As soon as the Internet provided a gateway for customers to connect with your business, site design became a competitive factor. Add to the

CM First has been invited to speak at the first 2016 SHARE Conference in San Antonio in March on “iBPM – The Developer’s Secret In the Quest to Modernize Legacy Applications”. Combining CM First expertise and software with the offerings from OpenLegacy and Axon.ivy, legacy applications can be modernized quickly, safely and expertly.   See

CM First and OpenLegacy will be presenting a webinar on December 9th, 11AM EST on how to use RESTful API/SOA technology to modernize your 5250 green screens so you can enable these applications for web and mobile. OpenLegacy is now a CM First partner and the CTOs of both companies will be presenting the new

Lorenz Alder, Senior Consultant / Software Architect User Storage helps us with integration of third party libraries such as mail, ftp, NoSQL DB, file system access etc. Once an object is instantiated through source code, we store it in User Storage and make it accessible to all CA Plex functions in the call graph. The

Back when mainframes were the only game in town and the only users were employees of the company, application programming interfaces (APIs) were developed to enable one application to talk to another by exposing some of the program’s internal functions to another program. Like device-handlers, these sets of programming instructions and standards made it much

In my position at CM First Group, I’m often called upon to perform 2E training. It’s actually one of the most enjoyable things I do in my position! However, from time to time I get students who have been RPG or Cobol developers, who are not impressed with the default screen designs in 2E. I