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| Welcome To The First Edition Of iModernize |
| by: The Profound Logic Team |
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Your connection to the latest System i and Power Systems modernization techniques, products, and information. Our goal here is to provide you with the tools and knowledge you need to become successful in all of your modernization related projects for the IBM i. In keeping with this goal, we would also like to challenge you, the reader, to take part in the success of these newsletters. You can do this by participating in our newly released forums. There you can comment on the latest iModernize articles, suggest new articles you would like to see, or pose any questions you have for our team members. So, join in the conversation and thank you for all your time and support.
To visit the new Profound Logic Forum, please click here.
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| Genie: The New Path Of Modernization |
| by: Philip Roestamadji |
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Genie is one of Profound Logic's up and coming modernization tools. When first made available in early 2007, Genie took the market by storm with its unique method for on-the-fly green-screen modernization. This method allowed users to non-intrusively modernize all of their legacy green-screens to the Web. This was done by translating RPG, CL, Cobol, Menu, and system screens into standard HTML pages that did not require any need for PC Clients, ActiveX Controls, Applets, or back-end code changes.
Yet even with Genie's success, the Profound Logic development team decided it was important to continue improving the tool with more features and capabilities for improved usability... Read More
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| The Modernization Face-Off - RPG vs. PHP |
| by: David Russo |
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For years now there has been a lot of debate surrounding how businesses with System i servers should modernize their legacy applications. In the past, the main options outside of native RPG were Java or leaving the System i platform. Now, a new option has emerged for the System i community to consider. This new option is an open source scripting language called PHP. So, how does this new open source scripting language face up against the proven option of RPG on the System i... Read More
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Profound Tips From Alex - Part One:
Cluttered Screen? Think Panels |
| by: Alex Roytman |
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Do you have a cluttered screen? In green-screen programming, we are often forced to abbreviate, cram, and clutter our screens just to get all of the necessary information on there. And can you blame us? When you are limited to a 24x80 area, you do the best you can.
Once web-enabled, these screens look just as confusing and cluttered as before. Even after adding checkboxes, dropdowns, buttons, and other niceties, a cluttered screen is still a cluttered screen. So, what can you do... Read More
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Profound Tips From Alex - Part Two:
Mixing Free and Fixed |
| by: Alex Roytman |
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I was working with a customer recently who was frustrated with mixing free format and fixed format code together. Even though he has transitioned to doing most of his coding in free format, there were still those times when fixed format came in handy, and the extra lines of code it takes to switch in an out of fixed were a nuisance... Read More
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