Lorenz Alder, Senior Consultant / Software Architect User Storage helps us with integration of third party libraries such as mail, ftp, NoSQL DB, file system access etc. Once an object is instantiated through source code, we store it in User Storage and make it accessible to all CA Plex functions in the call graph. The

In my position at CM First Group, I’m often called upon to perform 2E training. It’s actually one of the most enjoyable things I do in my position! However, from time to time I get students who have been RPG or Cobol developers, who are not impressed with the default screen designs in 2E. I

Occasionally you will need to perform a one way hash for passwords. This post shows how to do it using the MD5 algorithm in CA Plex with some java source code. For background on this, check out this link. First, create a source code object that looks like this: Here is the code to cut

All, Just a quick note to remind everyone that if you are looking for the online documentation for 2E it can be found here, https://wiki.ca.com/display/CA2E87/CA+2E+-+Home Thanks! Jason

When I train people to who are new to 2E, but have been RPG developers for sometime, one question I’m asked about is how to perform subfile drop/fold within 2E. This is actually pretty simple to do, just follow the following steps. First let’s work with a screen in which we want some fields on

Hello all! Yesterday I was creating some new tables within my personal model, and these tables are being created with SQL DDL and not DDS. I have the Table or Physical File still the generated name, but I wanted a table with the longer field names. The table itself created normally, and has 4 date

by Andrew Leggett / Sr. Application Consultant CM WebClient, CM WebClient Mobile and CM WebClient HSync all allow you to customize the style, appearance and behavior of your web applications. But what if you want a little more? What else can you do? The following sites provide free tools that run within the browser to

Lily Taharudin / Application Consultant Web and mobile are different.  When you are building things for the web, it may seem easy simply to port it to mobile devices, but the user experience may not be as good.  Instead, consider the smaller form factor and adapt your design to make it easier for mobile customers

Modernization can either be a choice or be forced on a company. If you are using Visual Studio 2005, you know that Microsoft will be dropping support for it next year. CM First has a powerful methodology to help you get past this issue and a variety of others. Modernize now and take advantage of

In this post, I want to outline two concepts that may help you to create a better service architecture for CA Plex WCF services. First, we should make sure the interfaces are decoupled from the business logic in order to make sure that a change to business functions will not affect the interface used by