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.

Support for user defined macros was added in version 8.5 of WebOption.  The use of macros  scripting will allow the developer to record and plan keystrokes within the generated screen.  By using macros and scripting you can simulate flowing through a series of screens, actually skipping the screens visually and simply moving on the web

The second question in the 2E Interview Series is: What are the 5 relation types and describe each one?   Need more? CM First offers technical training on CA 2E / Synon in a variety of delivery channels – onsite, at one of our offices, or via distance learning.

When looking at the basic technical differences between REF and CPT files there is not a lot of system differences.  Both of them create physical files and both have logical files. The difference for the 2E model is in how you generally use these two types of files. The REF files will primarily be used

Learn more about the technology behind CM WebClient for CA Plex by reading this white paper published by Sencha – A Development Manager’s Quick Guide to HTML5. It describes the basics of HTML5 and lets you know why you should care. WebClient Mobile uses Sencha as the underlying presentation framework – allowing the CA Plex