Subject: CM First Group October 2025 Newsletter

Modernization news fit to print

October 2025

In this issue...

  • Featured: Turning Technical Debt into Strategic Gold: The AI-Powered Assessment Revolution - CM First Group

  • CA Communities: Fourth Quarter Dec 2025 Update: Save the Date

  • Article: Western Executives Shaken After Visiting China - Futurism

  • Watch: CM First Video Series

  • Intelligence: Further Reading on the Web

Heads Up

The AI Revolution in Technical Debt Assessment Is Here, And the ROI Numbers Are Impressive


If your organization is among the 90% still wrestling with legacy systems, you have good news. A new wave of AI-powered assessment tools is dramatically reducing the time and cost of modernization and changing how IT teams approach technical debt.


What used to take six weeks and $17,300 to analyze, about 10,000 lines of legacy code, can now be done in two weeks with deeper insight into business logic and system dependencies.


The result transforms efficiency into intelligence. These tools are helping teams make faster, data-backed decisions that turn technical debt from a liability into a strategic asset.


Read our recent article for a full breakdown  →

CA Plex/2E Community

Save the Date: Fourth Quarter CA Communities Webcast Coming December 10th


The CA Plex/2E quarterly event serves as a vital platform for developers and community members to connect, learn, and exchange expertise.


One of the most anticipated segments of these quarterly gatherings is the Community Lightning Talks, which take place during the second half of each session. Often hailed by attendees as the most valuable and inspiring part of the meeting, this event is a must for any CA 2E and CA Plex professional seeking to enhance their skills and gain fresh insights.


Registration link is coming soon! Keep an eye out in your email inbox.

Announcing CM evolveIT 11.7


Available for Streaming: Join us for informative, hands-on sessions focused on the new CM evolveIT 11.7 release. 


Tailored for future-minded developers, these sessions showcase groundbreaking enhancements aimed at revolutionizing your code analysis and transformation workflows. Expect hands-on demonstrations that you can take to your development workflows right away.

Watch a webinar now...

Mainframe COBOL

Latest Advances in Mainframe COBOL Code Analysis and Transformation

Learn about cutting-edge artificial intelligence tools that promise streamlined analysis and transformation processes, automated tools that convert legacy COBOL code to Java, and advanced code slicing.


Watch Now

IBM i

Latest Advances in IBM i Code Analysis and Transformation

Learn how to cut your analysis costs by up to 80% with new capabilities. We'll demo new CA 2E (Synon) and CA Plex superpowers, AI and Code slicing innovations, and improved support for DB2 and COBOL and more.


Watch Now

Heads Up

Western Executives Shaken After Visiting China


Some of the most senior leaders in automotive and green-energy firms are returning from China rattled. What they came across wasn’t just efficient manufacturing, but facilities where humans are nearly absent and robots take over entire operations.


One executive reported: “There are no people, everything is robotic.” Another described “dark factories” running 24/7 with minimal human presence.


The deeper implication: China is no longer just competing on low wages or subsidies. It’s leap-frogging through automation, deploying far more industrial robots than major Western nations.


In this new reality, the industrial race isn’t about catching up, but about resisting being left behind.


Read the article at Futurism  →

Video Vault

Next-Gen Pair Programming: AI Collaboration on IBM i and IBM z Systems


Join us for a cutting-edge webinar that merges the art of pair programming with the innovation of AI for both IBM i and IBM z systems. This session is dedicated to COBOL developers working on IBM's midrange and mainframe platforms, offering a deep dive into how AI can amplify coding collaboration and efficiency.


In this webinar:

  • Discuss the integration of AI-driven pair programming in IBM i and IBM z COBOL development.

  • Address the unique challenges of maintaining and evolving COBOL applications with AI support.

  • Showcase a live demonstration of AI tools tailored to IBM i and IBM z developers.

  • Share actionable strategies for embedding AI into the pair programming workflow on both platforms.

Whether you're involved in IBM i or IBM z development, this webinar will equip you with the knowledge to leverage AI for better code quality, faster problem-solving, and more productive pair programming sessions. Engage with our experts and take the first step towards a smarter, AI-assisted development future.


Watch the video now →

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, making it better, more accurate, and quicker to get results.


Watch the Webinar →

Frightened about the prospect of your legacy IBM i and z application developers leaving? We have a solution that can put your fears to rest. In this webinar, we demonstrate how you can “refactor” your legacy app developed in COBOL, RPG, or CA 2E (Synon) directly to maintainable runtime-free Java and JS.


Watch the Webinar →

 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 your IBM OS, or otherwise under the shadow of lapsed maintenance, we can get you back on Broadcom support based on your unique situation. 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.

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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 11.7, last supported 10.6
CM M3 2024 Edition
CA Plex 7.3, last supported 7.2.1 (as of October 31, 2024)
→ Details can be found here at Broadcom (login required)
CA 2E 8.7.4, last supported 8.7 (as of October 31, 2024)
→ Details can be found here at Broadcom (login required)
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