John Rhodes, CTO, CM First, presented his talk, “Technical Debt – the Secret Drain on Capacity Dollars and Performance,” to performance and capacity experts at the 2014 CMG Conference in Atlanta in November. This marked a first opportunity to discuss modernization techniques with this group of stakeholders and they expressed strong interest in the subject.

This new release had three purposes. One, to enhance the desktop experience within the browser to improve the way developers can customize and control app development. The second goal was to transform the documentation into an HTML-based system, which makes it much easier to find answers to questions and understand best practives. An additional deliverable

Fed up with the high cost and work of hosting your IBM i applications and managing the upgrades to the operating system and software packages? With IBM i and CA 2E (Synon) skillsets in short supply and the cost of managing your environment rising, it may be time to take advantage of CM First’s new

Mobile solutions are an important part of CM First’s application modernization strategy.   L-mobile is offering mobile solutions in areas like Warehouse Management, Logistics and Production, as well as Service Management and CRM. Their solutions include the mobile software as well as any necessary hardware, like mobile devices, wireless infrastructure, RFID chips and readers. L-mobile is

Hello all! My name is Jason Olson and I am one of the newest members of the CM First team. I’m happy to be with this fine group, and Mark Schroeder has asked if I would pen a series of articles on IBM i administration and system maintenance. I thought a good place to start

This article is the first in a series of articles that will provide a basic introduction to the function options for each type of 2E function.  The first function we will look at is the Execute External Function. Commit control Generation mode Copy back messages Send all error messages Reclaim resources Generate error routine Close