by Lorenz Alder, Senior Consultant / Software Architect If you’re tired of dealing with the supplied CA Plex source code editor, here’s how to change it: Find your Plex.ini file: “C:\Users\YourAccount\Documents\CA\Plex\7.1\Plex.ini” Open the Plex.ini file with your favorite Editor. In the section, you can define your Default Editor. Change “PlexSrcEdit.exe” to the .exe of

by Mark Schroeder, Senior CA 2E Consultant I’m going to show you some rules of thumb that, if used consistently, will improve your development experience. The parameters screen can be very useful if you take care with it. When I first learned to use Synon, I would have a mixture of Input, Output, Both and

Future-Proof Your CA 2E Applications Denise P. Kalm Are many of your critical business applications based on CA 2E?  If so, has your business begun demanding upgrades and enhancements that you can’t readily respond to because of limitations in the platform?  Do you need to rehost your applications? For many, CA 2E isn’t keeping up

Where is CM First? In February, John Rhodes, CTO, spoke to SHARE attendees in Anaheim on “Business Agility – Unlocking Your Legacy Code.”  Clarifying the problem of technical debt and the implications to business success, he was able to lay a case for the benefit of using CM MetaAnalytics to solve this problem.  Interest in

  CA Announces Valuable Features in CA Plex and CA 2E – CM First Explains How to Get There On April 2, 2014, Simon Cockayne, Sr. Principal Product Manager, CA Technologies and John Rhodes, CTO, CM First presented  a new webcast, “Supercharge Your CA 2E and Plex Development – Learn about the Latest Features in

INSIDE MAY’S ISSUE: –          Hot News –          CA Plex Tip –          CA 2E Tip –          Where is CM First? –          Future-Proof Your CA 2E Applications –          Current/Supported Releases Welcome to the first issue of the new CM First customer newsletter.  We’re trying a new approach designed to offer a variety of useful information in each