CM First Group with partner Abacus Solutions will discuss the business and technical benefits of moving your portfolio of IBM i applications to a hosted cloud service. Many IBM i shops have struggled to maintain a “best practice” Tier 2 or 3 data center operation, and find there is payback in moving these responsibilities to

We have all had the situation where we needed to print or display IBM i data from CA 2E (Synon) in some odd way. Usually this meant creating a work file, loading it and building a report or display over the work file. Eventually you might end up with several one-off tables, sometimes with very

Why attend the 9th CA 2E and CA Plex Worldwide Developer Conference? In depth training will be available for CA 2E and CA Plex, followed by customer-led sessions on the products.  Don’t miss the sessions on “Developing Modern Web Applications using CA WebClient,” “The Evolution of Application Development – Axon Ivy,” “MatchPoint & DevOps,” and

Web Services are an essential part of modernizing many legacy systems. CA 2E developers are able to build their own Web Services inside the CA 2E model. Recently, I worked with a customer on exposing some important parts of their CA 2E application through Web Services. There are several lessons we learned while implementing Web

The most significant feature in CA 2E r8.7 is the ability to convert a DDS database file to SQL without having to recompile the functions associated with the file. This capability makes moving to a modern SQL database rather easy. In the past, communication between Java and web developers was hampered because CA 2E generated

This post will be the final post in a series on IBM APIs.  Since you have had a chance to run though some basic APIs we are going to go through a more complex example that gives you a chance to tie everything together. In this example we are going to create a list of

In part one of this series, we looked at calling an IBMi API with an RPG user program.  It would be nice to call the same API directly from 2E but in this case, it does not work. That is because the API is not a program we can call directly.  You can see this

IBMi APIs provide many tools that a 2E programmer might need. There are also different ways a programmer can interface with the APIs. The first method is to write a native RPG program as a user program and include that program within the 2E model. Once it is written any programmer can call the user

We just finished the 2E/Plex conference yesterday. I found it to be an outstanding event.  For those of you that could not attend I will be sharing some of the ideas that I taught in the Advanced 2E Workshop in future posts.  I also want to share some of my impressions of the conference. I

The understanding of parameter context is a very important area in building 2E functions.  Explain the difference in passing parameters by FLD, RCD or KEY contexts.