Andrew Leggett / Sr. Application Consultant When working on your CA Plex application, it’s easy to lose track of all the entities, functions, panels, fields and more that you’ve recently modified. Luckily, there are a few options in CA Plex to aid your memory. 1.  Automatic Lists With this option, CA Plex will automatically add

Oftentimes it’s necessary to alter the 2E generated source before your function is compiled. In this case what I really wanted to do is add my own H Specs in before the program is compiled. This article will outline how I was able to do this with some user source and the YSCNRPLSRC command provided

Andrew Leggett / Sr. Application Consultant If you have a live, CM WebClient web application, you will probably want to upgrade your existing site sometime, whether to fix a bug, add new features, or just to update the graphics. Upgrading has traditionally been a pain.  You had to make sure no-one was using the system and

Lily Taharudin / Application Consultant Have you ever been annoyed when you encounter a web page where you have to scroll and scroll to get to the content you want? Imagine the same page on your phone. You’d quickly give up trying to find the information you need. Complexity is another issue. When there is

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