Subject: CM First Group February 2024 Newsletter

All the modernization news that's fit to print

February 2024

In this issue...

  • Article: Can You Reduce IBM Z Costs by Moving COBOL Apps to a Specialty Processor? - CM First 

  • Conference: Come See Us at SHARE Orlando March 4-7th

  • Article: 2024 IT Spending On Legacy IT Infrastructure Is a Sustainability Nightmare - Tech HQ

  • Video: Revolutionize Software Testing with RPA - CM First Group

  • Intelligence

Heads Up

Can You Reduce IBM Z Costs by Moving COBOL Apps to Java Running on a Specialty Processor?


IBM Z offers specialty processors designed to offload specific types of work from the General Purpose Processor (GPP). The good news? The GPP is where you're charged money. The better news? Specialty processors can be significantly cheaper than the GPP, offering potential cost savings for businesses.


Read more at the CM First Group blog →

Come Join us at SHARE Orlando!


Join CM First and the CM evolveIT team at the SHARE Orlando conference next week March 4-7th, live and in-person.


SHARE Orlando provides you access to the latest enterprise IT news, key focus areas, prominent industry leaders, and product highlights on emerging technologies.


Be sure to stay for our presentation on the use of AI prompts in mainframe software analysis. We discuss how AI prompts guide models to understand complex systems, helping provide human digestible analysis reports and specifications. We will go through the technical steps to create a prompt model connecting COBOL/DB2 application source to a ChatGPT cloud engine API.


Learn more about SHARE Orlando →


-CM First Group

Heads Up

2024 IT Spending On Legacy IT infrastructure is a sustainability nightmare


According to a recent study by Gartner, IT spending on legacy infrastructure is set to skyrocket in the coming years. By the end of 2024, it's estimated that organizations will dedicate over $650 billion toward keeping outdated systems running. That's a staggering amount of money that could be better spent on innovation and growth initiatives.


The question is, what's holding them back? This article in Tech HQ looks for the answers in recent research by Daisy Corporate Services.


Read more at Tech HQ →


Conference

CA 2E / CA Plex Worldwide Developer Conference Fall Dates Announced


We are proud to announce that the 14th CA 2E / CA Plex Conference will be held October 15th - 17th, 2024.


We couldn't be more excited to offer another ground-breaking conference focused on meeting the needs of technical experts charged with maintaining, automating, and modernizing enterprise software systems like RPG, COBOL, CA 2E (Synon), and CA Plex on IBM i/Power and Microsoft.


Please save the date! More information to follow as we plan this informative and career-building event.


CA 2E / CA Plex Worldwide Developer Conference

October 15th - 17th in Austin, Texas

In-person or remote


Learn more about the CA Plex 2E Conference →


-CM First Group

Watch

Revolutionize Software Testing with RPA


Are you tired of time-consuming manual testing software applications?


Fortra's Automate Plus RPA is here to help. Join us for a webinar where we review the features of this powerful tool and show you how it can revolutionize your software testing processes.


During the webinar, we cover the following features of Automate Plus:


Automated Software Testing: With Automate Plus, you can automate your software testing processes, reducing the time and effort required to test your applications. This feature can help you catch bugs and errors earlier in the development process, saving you time and money in the long run.


Intelligent Document Automation: Automate Plus can intelligently recognize and extract data from various types of documents, including PDFs, scanned images, and more. This feature can help you automate your data entry processes and reduce the risk of errors.


User-Friendly Interface: Automate Plus comes with a user-friendly interface that makes it easy for anyone to use, regardless of their technical expertise. You don't need to be a programmer to use this tool effectively.


During the main demonstration, we show you how Automate Plus can be used to automate the testing of a complex software application. We'll demonstrate how Automate Plus can intelligently recognize the different elements of the application and perform automated tests on each of them.


Key Takeaway: You'll see firsthand how this tool can save you time and effort in your software testing processes.


Don't miss out on this opportunity to learn more about Fortra's Automate Plus RPA and how it can benefit your organization.


Watch now →

 Broadcom Support 


Many enterprises struggle with obtaining Broadcom support for their CA 2E (Synon, COOL:2E) or CA Plex systems


If you're working with an older unsupported release, upgrading you IBM OS, or otherwise under the shadow of lapsed maintenance, we can get you back on Broadcom support based on your unique situtation. We specialize in all sizes of customers.


Fill out our 2 minute form and schedule a no-commitment fifteen minute conversation with a CM First Group technical rep.

CM First Support

Current CM First Group customers can access tutorials and submit support tickets at support.cmfirstgroup.com.

Current Releases


CM WebClient 1.8.8 (with nightly builds) For details, go here.

CM Matchpoint ALM 7.0 Build 004. For details, go here.

CM evolveIT 11.6, last supported 10.6
CM M3 2023 Edition
CA Plex 7.2.1 SP005, last supported 7.2.1 (as of January 31, 2022)
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CA 2E 8.7.3, last supported 8.7 (as of January 31, 2022)
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