Re: WEB400 Digest, Vol 18, Issue 152 -- WEB400

Hi Justin,

I work for the CNX Dev Team and thought I'd throw in my two cents on this
thread.

First off, it's not quite correct to say that CNX is "migrating away from
Sencha." It would be more accurate to say that Valence became much more
open in recent years by incorporating compatibility with essentially
*any* JavaScript/HTML5
framework. So while the Valence Portal and some included apps and
underlying services are indeed developed with Sencha Ext JS, as of Valence
5.0 the ecosystem has been open to any frameworks you may want to use to
create apps to deploy within Valence. Thus you can use Ext JS to develop
apps if you want to, but you could also use Angular, React, raw
HTML/JS/CSS, etc., and those apps can participate in the Valence model and
security structure very easily.

I would add that Valence not only runs natively on IBM i OS (7.1 or
higher), it's also geared explicitly for RPG developers with its RPG Toolkit
<http://service.cnxcorp.com/valence-6.0/index.html#!/api/Valence_RPG_Toolkit>,
essentially a service program you can bind to any RPG program so it can
communicate with the front-end. Valence also includes a very popular
low-code / no-code utility called Nitro App Builder which abstracts
development in such a way as to make the framework used irrelevant and not
even visible to the developer, unless they want to get their hands dirty.
This makes it possible for anyone who knows their way around the company's
database to quickly whip out some elaborate browser based applications
using simple SQL statements or data definitions.

You can kick the tires on Valence yourself for 30 days by going to the
cnxcorp.com website and downloading Valence 6. CNX Corporation Youtube
Channel <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKnsm2M-4kyTwysBH948kLg/videos>

Cheers and good luck!

*Johnny Major*Director of Product Development
johnny.major@xxxxxxxxxxx

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message: 1
date: Fri, 18 Dec 2020 12:28:25 -0600
from: Justin Taylor <jtaylor.0ab@xxxxxxxxx>
subject: Re: [WEB400] Web dev tools

Sal, I've added you to my list.

Karl & Brad, the primary focus is the front-end.

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date: Fri, 18 Dec 2020 18:31:50 +0000
from: Karl Haggart <karl.haggart@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
subject: Re: [WEB400] Web dev tools

Hi Justin,

Good luck on the journey as you look for the solutions that suit your team
best.

I am sure you have already seen all of these, but here are some
modernization tools that might help:-

https://remainsoftware.com/solutions-data-base-and-application-modernization

Thanks,
Karl.
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Subject: Re: [WEB400] Web dev tools

Sal, I've added you to my list.

Karl & Brad, the primary focus is the front-end.
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date: Sat, 19 Dec 2020 00:28:23 -0500
from: "Art Tostaine, Jr." <atostaine@xxxxxxxxx>
subject: Re: [WEB400] Web dev tools

I?ve been using visual LANSA for 20 years but this year they sold the
company to IDERA and since then every employee either left or was asked to
leave and I wouldn?t recommend to anyone. Lookup IDERA on glassdoor.
You?ll run away.

I have a friend at CNX and I remember him saying they were migrating away
from sencha , another IDERA takeover.

Lansa is a fantastic tool though.

On Thu, Dec 17, 2020 at 2:11 PM Sal Stangarone <salstangarone@xxxxxxxxx>
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Hi Justin

https://www.mrc-productivity.com/

We have a 40 year history of working on the IBMi family.

Let me know if you have any questions as I do work there.

Sal Stangrone

On Wed, Dec 16, 2020 at 2:46 PM Justin Taylor <jtaylor.0ab@xxxxxxxxx>
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We're looking into web development tools for IBMi. I've found Visual

LANSA

and Web Smart. Are there any others we should know about? (I tried
Google, but that was an unproductive enterprise.)

I currently hand-code HTML/JS/CSS front-ends powered by RPG

server-side,

but that's not really scalable. We are all-in for IBMi and heavily
invested in RPG. Server runtimes requiring other OSs need not apply.

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