CM First is Going ‘Mobile’ on the Trade Show Circuit in October September 30, 2012   CM First is participating in two events this October that will see the company continue support for application modernization through web and mobile development. On the heels of the CM WebClient 1.8 release, CM First will be sponsoring the

CM First Announces Release of CM WebClient 1.8 with New Features Meant to Speed Web and Mobile Application Development from Legacy IBM i Code September 12, 2012   CM First is pleased to formally announce the 1.8 version of CM WebClient. In this latest release the company has introduced various enhancements to extend the ability

I will be adding some basic navigation tips so someone new to 2E can learn how to do some of the simple tasks. One of the biggest challenges facing a person just starting in 2E is the learn the navigation.  As time passes, the fingers will do the walking and you will hardly have to

CM First Expands Partnership with CA Technologies August 30, 2012   On June 25th, 2012, CA extended its global channel partner program to include many of the products in its mainframe software portfolio. CM First is pleased to announce that they have joined CA Technologies’ enhanced channel program as a primary partner for North America

The basic steps to transform your 2E 5250 screens into a web application are very straight forward. 1. Install and configure the Web Option server. 2. Create a Web Option environment from your 2E model. 3. Identify the screens that will be needed for the application. 4. Generate the HTML Skeletons for the identified screens.

Introduction Developers that have started using CM WebClient 1.8 Mobile’s touch optimized templates usually find that creating a mobile web app deployment is straightforward. But while deployment as a web app is acceptable for some, other developers creating commercial and specialized applications often benefit from native deployment. For example, you may need to use the

What are the 5 relation types and describe each one? •The ‘Known by’ relation defines a primary key field or identifying key field.  You can have as many of these identifying keys defined as required for a unique record key. •A ‘Qualified by’ relation is another identifying key field.  These are used

Is Java truly write once run everywhere? In years past, it was often not the case but in the modern day it is more or less true. And you can run your Plex Java apps on many platforms with good performance, given a supported database and JRE. This is a very nice situation for the

In the old days of 2E prior to 8.1, 2E fields longer than the screen width could be a bit of a problem. In order to get them to work you had to use function fields on the screen and pass the values from the function fields back and forth between the actual field and

Sometimes it helps to see a diagram of a process.  I have created a basic flow of how Web Option processes the 2E screen as an HTML page.  This will help in understanding how the different parts of Web Option fit together in the Web Option web application.