CM First Group, a CA Technologies partner, now offers customers a robust IBM i hosting service which includes the IBM i technical infrastructure in a virtual partition and business data protection. Available 7×24, companies can access a development environment and business applications remotely.   See the full news release here: http://www.prweb.com/releases/2014/12/prweb12408923.htm Did you like this

CM First has a business strategy based on application lifecycle management best practices; a natural alliance was to partner with AXON IVY to help customers automate processes and transform workflows better and faster. AXON IVY AXON IVY’s core product, the Axon.ivy BPM Suite, provides organizations with a single, intelligent and fully integrated process application platform

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

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

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

One of the challenges in any data system is how to share data with other systems. There are many times you need to create a data file that can be exported into other systems. This can be anything like from an ACH file that goes to the back, a Skip Trace file or any other

Lorenz Alder, Senior Consultant / Software Architect It is common to define the Printer Device for an IBM i user on his User Profile. When the user runs a CA Plex client that starts a job on the IBM i we want to make sure that printer output from that job is sent to the

John Rhodes, CTO, will be highlighting the CM First modernization story at several places in November.  First, he will be presenting “Technical Debt – the Secret Drain on Capacity Dollars and Performance,” on Tuesday AM, November 4th, at the Georgia Tech Conference Center in Atlanta at CMG 2014.     The next week, November 9-12,