We all know that “Big Data” is a big thing now, but the sheer volume of data being created is a tough thing to really fathom, much less manage. According to a 2016 study by IBM Marketing Cloud, “10 Key Marketing Trends For 2017,” 2.5 quintillion bytes of data is created per day. Per the

COBOL turned 60 years old in September. Remarkably, we’re now in an age where a programming language would soon be collecting social security were it human. Even more remarkable is how strong COBOL remains. Far from entering retirement, COBOL continues to work hard, powering over 70% of global transactions, according to Micro Focus, the company that

Watch the CA 2E (SYNON) and CA Plex October 1st 2019 Community Webcast The latest CA Communities webinar is now streamable for available for online for viewing. Take a look if you missed the event, or need a refresher on topics discussed. The theme of the webinar was CA Plex/2E Roadmap and IBM i Web

There is a control name parameter “ColumnToggling” that can be added to a grid that will let the user choose which columns they want to display at runtime. If the value is “Yes”, the user can right-click on the columns at run time and they will see a list of column names, they can uncheck

Create Rich Tooltips and Popups to Guide Your Users With your application, its important to give your user all the information they need. But, it is also important not to overwhelm them with too much information and clutter. In many Plex applications, this is accomplished with a basic screen that shows only “need to know”

After a long run, IBM i 7.1 coming to an end. IBM i V7R1 is officially end-of-support as of April 30, ending a long life of service. V7R1 was released in April 2010, making it the longest-supported version of IBM i’s operating systems on record. For companies that don’t wish to buy expensive extended support

A growing number of businesses process and leverage massive amounts of personal data every day. Protecting customer data has become an increasingly important and complicated task for IT departments charged with safeguarding it from hackers determined to commit large-scale identity theft. The key is understanding Data Lineage.

Lucio Gayosso, Sr. Consultant/Nearshore Team Lead With complex systems and aging systems, there is an ever-increasing need for automated testing which can be challenging on some CA Plex Systems where the GUI controls have not been modernized. A problem with some automated testing tools is that it is difficult to see some old WinC controls

Improve Your Application’s Mobile Security with Tools and Determination We carefully lock our houses and cars, may even have our laptops hard-wired to the internet (through a router, of course). Men keep their wallets in a front pocket and women hold their purses in front and close. We shred important documents, read our credit card

Large government agencies often face daunting application modernization challenges with complex code accumulated over decades.