Midrange Magazine (MIDRANGE MAGAZIN), the IBM i publication for the DACH German-speaking region of Europe, has published an article on CA 2E modernization to CA Plex using the ADC M3 methodology.
To view the article, please visit midrange.de web site, this PDF file, or this link.
ADC Austin has made the following computer based training (CBT) introductory course available to the CA community:
ADC Austin Tech would like to make its customers aware of the following informational webcast from CA:
9 Dec 2009
11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. EST
Duration 60 min.
Organizations using CA Plex have traditionally found upgrades painful and costly. Although you may be enticed by the new features available in CA Plex r6.1, are you unsure of the effort which is needed to move to a new version, or how you can manage the risk of the change?
This webcast will provide some new ideas and resources that are available to the CA Plex community that will help you upgrade much more quickly and reliably to help you remain on currently supported versions of CA Plex without all the hassle.
Join CA Plex expert John Rhodes from our partner ADC Austin for this informative program. An open discussion/question and answer session will follow the broadcast.
ADC Austin Tech would like to make its customers aware of the following informational webcast from CA:
CA 2E r8.5 provides the next generation of Web service support. By exposing CA 2E application business logic to partners, customers and stakeholders — in a standard, reliable, secure manner — is a powerful and valuable approach that helps protect your investment and further justifies your commitment to CA 2E.
This webcast will provide information about how it all works and cover important topics such as remote WS deployment and Web service security.
Join a CA 2E Principal Software Engineer for this informative program, which will feature an open discussion/question and answer session at the conclusion of the broadcast
8 Dec 2009
11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. EST
Duration 60 min.
CA Plex developers upgrading their server applications from C++ to C# will likely be interested in this white paper. This best practices guide explains the main concepts behind C# deployment, such as modules, assemblies, and code libraries. It also gives some practical advice on how to best model your CA Plex application for a .NET production environment, including information on using automated open source development tools such as Cruise Control .NET.
Wiki Page: http://wiki.plexinfo.net/index.php?title=Plex_CSharp_and_Dot_Net_Development
PDF Document: CAPlexCSharpBestPracticesPlusAppendix.pdf
This guide was developed as a collaboration between ADC Austin, CCH, and IIDEA, and is published with the kind permission of the South Carolina Judicial Department.
Information Management reports that patterns are essential to SOA in this article. And that makes perfect sense, because SOA is really about architecting for reuse. The article also reports a rise the use of highly engineered patterns, such as:
CA Plex is an ideal platform for the implementation of an SOA layer due to its pattern achitecture and availability of SOA-specific patterns like TransacXML. And in the .NET framework, CA Plex’s WCF generation capability is first class. For more information on how to construct an SOA enterprise bus using CA Plex, please contact us at sales@adcaustintech.com.
Article from Gartner,
The mood was decidedly more optimistic and confident this year at CA’s analyst symposium due to stable financial performance in a down economy, signaling that CA is moving forward and has overcome the worst of its past.
ADC Austin Tech is please to attend and present at the Fall 2009 meeting of NWPDUG, the Northwest CA Plex Developer’s User group located in Boise, Idaho, USA.
To RSVP for this event, please contact Roger Griffith
Roger Griffith, FLMI
President - Northwest Plex Developers User Group
United Heritage Life Insurance
Phone (208) 475-0941
Agenda
Thursday November 12
10:00 – 11:00 CA Plex Status and Plans/Community Update - Bill Hunt, Computer Associates
This session will highlight the current status of CA Plex along with a glimpse of what to expect in the planned CA Plex r6.5. Additionally, a global user community update will be provided including highlights from the recent CA Plex/2E Developer Conference held in Fort Lauderdale, FL.
11:00 – 11:30 Plex Upgrade Wizard – Roger Griffith, United Heritage Life Insurance
Every 18 months, CA releases a new version of Plex. In a perfect world, we would simply install it and it would that simple. The reality is, we have to recompile every DLL, in all of our applications with the new release, as they are not backwards compatible. That can be a daunting task, and is why many Plex shops tend to skip releases. United Heritage Life Insurance has created a Wizard (that uses the Plex API), to automates the task of upgrading your applications, and makes the process of upgrading to a new release of Plex as painless and fast as possible. You will be able to download this Wizard from the Plex WIKI, and get immediate value from this utility. Once you have this wizard, you will never skip a release of Plex again.
11:30 – 12:15
Mobile Devices, Barcode scanning, Plex Web Services and Migraines - Joe Berg, Ada County Information Technology
Ada County will discuss the road traveled from discontinued hardware and software to latest solutions involved in collecting barcode and other data through mobile devices and moving data between mainstream business applications. This presentation will delve into non-plex applications running on mobile devices and the challenges faced with transferring data between these applications and the AS400. We will go into the current solution which involves Bluetooth devices with the ability to interface directly into Plex applications as well as mobile devices.
12:15 – 1:00 Lunch
1:00 – 5:00
Web 2.0/Ajax Development Primer, John D Rhodes, ADC Austin
Rich internet applications (RIA) based on the Java platform are becoming mainstream. However, the complex nature posed by Ajax and Java frameworks are challenging for management and present marked challenges from a productivity and budget standpoint. This hands-on session will provide you the opportunity to see first-hand how model-based development techniques can be used to reduce risk and accelerate web application developer productivity—without sacrificing a rich desktop-like user experience. During this course you will obtain hands-on experience with solutions that help developers meet these challenges; CA Plex and other complementary RIA development tools. The content for this session has been developed exclusively for the 4th CA Plex/2E Worldwide Developers Conference.
Friday November 13
8:00 – 12:00 WebClient I+ Advanced Topics, John D Rhodes, ADC Austin
This course is designed as a continuation of the “Web 2.0″ programming course, specifically for those with some level of experience using the Websydian WebClient. Further functions and RIA development tips will help make your CA Plex-developed RIA/AJAX applications truly world-class!
Map to Ada County Benjamin Campus (400 N. Benjamin, Boise ID)
CA has announced that support for this release will be discontinued beginning on June 1st 2010.
CA and ADC encourages customers to plan for the migration to CA 2E r8.5 as soon as possible, so you can take full advantage of the latest new features and enhancements this release has to offer. For additional information on CA 2E, please visit the CA 2E pages at CA Support Online (http:/support.ca.com). As CA would like to help make your upgrade to CA 2E r8.5 as straightforward and successful as possible, CA is offering the following:
As a reseller for CA 2E and CA Plex, ADC Austin is committed to providing support to its customers around the new release. Please contact us if we can be of service in upgrading to release 8.5. In addition to complementary consultation on upgrade specifics, we offer turnkey upgrade services and training.
As published in the August 2009 CA Tech Insider, CA 2E (Synon) version 8.5 has been released. This is one of the most exiting CA 2E releases to come our way.
New features in CA 2E r8.5 include:
If you have questions about CA 2E 8.5 for your shop, please drop us a call or email us at info@adcaustintech.com. As CA resellers we are happy to answer any and all questions as a free service. We also provide an upgrade service if you would like us to turnkey the upgrade for you.
In addition to upgrade services, we also provide 2E Best Practice Assessments that may be the best way to ready yourself for an upgrade. In our best practice assessment, we perform the following tasks in a 2 week period:
As part of the service we provide ERD and system flow documentation using the Databorough X-Analysis, the gold standard of IBM i application analysis tools. With this updated documentation, your developers are instantly more productive. Please contact us for more information.
