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June 3, 2014

Improving Your CA 2E Development Experience with Some Useful ‘Rules of Thumb’   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

May 20, 2014

CM First will host a CA Plex new release event June 10-11 in Austin, TX. With CA Technologies, technical experts will provide a playbook for taking advantage of Plex 7.1’s latest features, with detailed information on upgrading enterprise applications from RPG/C++ to C# .NET, Java, Web, Mobile, and the Cloud. This event offers a great

May 7, 2014

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

May 7, 2014

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

May 7, 2014

  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

May 7, 2014

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

April 22, 2014

CA20140218-01: Security Notice for CA 2E Web Option CA Technologies Support is alerting customers to a potential risk in CA 2E Web Option (C2WEB). A vulnerability exists that can allow an attacker to exploit an authentication weakness and execute a session prediction attack. The vulnerability, CVE-2014-1219, is due to a predictable session token. An unauthenticated