Ever wished you could save and test your front-end development work locally, on your own PC or laptop, then push it to your IBM i only when it’s ready for user testing or production? Turns out this is indeed something you can do! Using this process, the changes you make during development are completely local to your PC, thereby...Read More
Old UI habits die hard! You may have developed some of the most beautifully functional and user-friendly Valence apps for your company, but the green screen legacy can still be hard to overcome. So long as your company’s operations require at least some 5250 programs to be used — as is typical for IBM i sites that...Read More
As your repository of Valence apps grows, you may soon find occasion where you’d like to “spawn” one app from another in the Valence Portal. For example, you may have a simple inventory lookup app that you could launch whenever someone clicks on a line on a customer order, passing in the corresponding product number...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
It goes without saying that most established IBM i sites have lots of active users. For companies in the process of moving their green screen users into the Valence Portal, setting up appropriately configured Valence profiles for each IBM i user can be an added burden to implementation. Fortunately, with Valence 4.0 it’s no longer...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
As an IBM i developer using Valence you will often find opportunities to create apps containing grids with date columns. In the RPG world, dates are typically stored in physical files using date-type fields with data in *ISO format. So when it comes time to display those dates in your grid, it’s tempting and...Read More
