EDGE

EDGE APAC 2010 is now !

EDGE APAC 2010 is on NOW in Canberra, Australia – hopefully, someone who’s there will let me know how it went and grab some pictures !

Looks like a great Agenda !

CA Gen Case Studies

Following on from the last post on the JCUG, it has some really great case studies on what CA Gen can do. The case studies are in Japanese, but they focus on how CA Gen helped large organisations in many sectors – banking, insurance and government – update or migrate their systems – many including multi-platform migrations.

They range from mainframe to client/server moves, through to generation for the web and show the versatility of CA Gen.

Don’t forget that they are in Japanese so you’ll need to translate them first !

http://ca.com/gen upgrade

If you hadn’t noticed, the home of CA Gen at ca.com (http://www.ca.com/gen) has had an upgrade.

The site has now taken on board the new corporate look and feel of the rest of the CA web presence.

The Gen microsite is still a work in progress with content being migrated from the old site to the new one. The key documents/downloads are there (link here for a whitepaper on the forward path of CA Gen) with more being added as time permits.

The most important addition (for me) is the provision of “MyCA”. This is the new community and connection facility for CA customers generally, CA Gen included.

There are a number of relevant communities that you can join – EDGE, for example has a presence on the community portion of the microsite, as do a number of regional and local CA Gen user groups.

You have to register with the site,but most people will already have an existing SupportConnect ID which you can use with no changes.

Certainly worth a visit….

CA Gen forums

This is one of those “announcement” sort of posts!

Should you have a question around CA Gen that you think that the general user community could answer, and want to use a “forum” style of interaction – where do you go ?

The obvious answer is the EDGE User Group – www.edgeusergroup.org – you can connect with the rest of the CA Gen world there.

The other main resource is the CA Communites Website – to which the EDGE forums will be migrating shortly – here .

Remember that you’ll have to sign up to post to either forum – they’re free and a great set of resources.

Note that the Gentalk.biz forums have been shut down and are no longer operating

EDIT: The content of the forum is still there – I’m just working on exporting it so we don’t lose it – it will find a home!

IET add 1 to the 39 Steps

Last full day of CA World 2010 Sessions today. The morning kicked off with IET‘s “39 Steps to Improve Developer Productivty”. IN true IET style, they gave us 40 steps, not 39 ! They presented how their tools can save developer time and increase productivity.

After lunch Next came a lab by APG, demonstrating the power of their ProgGen software which can take COBOL programs, and create fully working CA Gen models out of them (yup – really !!! I’ve seen the technology before and it STILL amazes me!). It doesnt stop there, since it also works with PL/1, Adabas/Natural and other 3GL Languages.

This was followed up with a session on the CA Gen proxies and how they can be used to extend Gen’s reach and make its functionality available to other technologies – a major benefit of the CA Gen technology.

Last of the day was a session from Ryan Johnson of Response Systems – his take on the upgrade process in Gen – traditionally a process fraught with danger. Applying careful thought, it can be de-risked and made less painful (together with the latest release of CA Gen – which aims to make upgrades easier of course!).

There are some truly smart people out there in CA Gen -land !!!!!