With the recent introduction of Polish as our ninth spoken language translation in the Valence Portal, developers now have yet another option for supporting multilingual installations running on IBM i. Even if your company does not currently have a multilingual user base, if it may someday become multilingual as a result of international acquisitions or mergers, there are some simple steps you can take in your app...Read More
GDANSK, POLAND. CNX announced at the COMMON Europe Congress today the general availability of a Polish language version of the Valence Portal for IBM i. Released as an update to Valence Framework 4.1, the addition of Polish brings the total number of spoken languages available in the Valence Portal to nine, including English. The other...Read More
As you roll out more and more Valence apps to your IBM i users, it’s only a matter of time before you receive a call from someone claiming a program didn’t respond with the expected data, or took too long to respond. Or perhaps it didn’t respond at all! Of course, getting pertinent cause-and-effect details from users in...Read More
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
IBMSystems Magazine recently profiled JFW vineyards, makers of Kendall Jackson wines. JFW vineyards cover 15,500 acres in 6 California counties. JFW migrated from the Microsoft* Visual Basic platform to the open CNX Valence interface tool. By doing so, it developed a real-time environment that feeds critical manufacturing data to its back-end systems, creating a streamlined method to ensure that...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
Features native portal app for iOS devices and updated user interface components CHICAGO, IL. CNX announced today the general availability of version 4.1 of the Valence Framework for IBM i. Valence 4.1 introduces new options for developing and running IBM i applications on iOS devices (iPad/iPhone), as well as support for a new set of front-end...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
