Imagine this scenario: You’ve developed and deployed a beautiful Valence-based customer order entry app to replace your company’s former green screen program. Your customer service users can now easily launch the app to initiate new orders, quickly fill out the mandatory header fields and enter item details for the order. All is well! But then one day, while in the middle...Read More
Just about every employee has access to a smartphone or wifi-enabled tablet with a built-in camera these days. The ubiquity of these image-taking devices — coupled with HTML5 methods that allow access to the photos — presents a unique opportunity for IBM i developers to create apps that can pull in images and store them...Read More
As you develop and deploy new web or mobile apps for your Valence users on IBM i, inevitably you will run into situations where you’re tempted to hard-code global values into your program to control the behavior of your app. For instance, perhaps you have a situation where you want to default a date field value out by...Read More
Note to Valence 5.* developers: Please reference the Valence 5 User Guide for more recent information on customizing your Valence 5 portal instance. Out of the box, the web portal included with Valence Framework 4.0 provides a great foundation for building up your repository of IBM i-based web and mobile apps. But many developers quickly find they want...Read More
New tool allows IBM i developers to create inquiry and file maintenance apps in seconds May 6, 2014 ORLANDO, FL. CNX announced today at the COMMON User Group Annual Meeting and Exposition the Beta release of Nitro AutoCode, a web application generation tool included now as part of Valence Framework 4.0 for IBM i. This new tool allows developers...Read More
Valence Enterprise users, and developers using Enterprise features on a trial basis, often remark to us at IBM i trade shows how much value they find in Nitro File Editor. Indeed, when developing new apps, being able to quickly review the data your RPG programs are writing to physical files can be instrumental to your...Read More
Latest update to Valence 4.0 includes iAdmin Desktop and more The latest build for Valence Framework 4.0 (4.0.20140421.0) is now available. In addition to minor bug fixes and adjustments, this build includes two new apps: Nitro iAdmin for the Desktop* – our popular mobile app for managing basic IBM i functions on the go can now be run on...Read More
Some Valence Framework History Ever since the first release of Valence in 2008, the biggest issue for IBM i developers working with the framework has been learning how to manually code the user interface of an app with Ext JS (and later Sencha Touch for mobile apps). Over the years, as CNX released new and...Read More
Achieves “Select Partner” Status for Ext JS, Sencha Touch Development Chicago, IL CNX Corporation, a leader in enterprise application development, announced today it has finalized a professional services partnership with Sencha Inc of Redwood City, California. As a Sencha Select Partner, CNX is now formally recognized as a specialist in applying Sencha technologies to web and...Read More
Includes all-new mobile app for administering IBM i while on-the-go Chicago, IL CNX announced today the general availability of version 3.2 of the Valence Framework for IBM i. Valence Framework 3.2 features a complete reengineering of the desktop and mobile portals, and includes an exclusive new app for addressing common IBM i administrative tasks from a...Read More
