Subject: CM WebClient and MatchPoint ALM September 2026 Newsletter

Dev news, updates, and insights

September 2026

In this issue...

  • Featured: CA 2E on IBM i: Still Here, Still Viable, Still Yours to Evolve - CM First Group

  • Article: API-First IBM i: Designing Modern Integration Without Rewriting RPG - IBM Newsroom

  • Listen: The 2027 Marketplace Survey: a Preview - Unleash the POWER: IBM i & Beyond

  • Broadcom Support: Let Us Help You Get the Support You Need

  • Intelligence: Further reading...

Featured

CA 2E on IBM i: Still Here, Still Viable, Still Yours to Evolve


The PL/I series comes full circle: what started as a response to Compiler rumors closes with a bigger question. Not whether CA 2E is going away, but whether your modernization conversation happens on purpose or by panic.


John reflects on conversations with Broadcom and IBM at this year's conference, and makes the case for taking stock of what you actually have before deciding what to evolve next.


Read full article here →

Heads Up

API-First IBM i: Designing Modern Integration Without Rewriting RPG


Joydip Kanjilal walks through exposing IBM i functionality as modern APIs without touching the RPG underneath — treating integration as a design problem rather than a migration project. It reads as a practical companion to this issue's lead article: if your CA 2E and RPG estate is still viable and still yours to evolve, this is one concrete shape that evolving it takes.


We chose it because "modern integration without rewriting" is the entire incremental argument stated as something a team could start on Monday.


Read the full report →

Listen

The 2027 Marketplace Survey: a Preview


Tom Huntington has run the IBM i Marketplace Survey for thirteen years, and this preview of the 2027 edition walks the trends it keeps surfacing — the skills gap, cybersecurity readiness, AI adoption, and where modernization budgets are actually going.


Twenty-one minutes, and a useful counterweight to vendor forecasting: this is the community describing its own priorities rather than an analyst describing them from outside.


Listen now at the Unleash the POWER: IBM i & Beyond podcast →

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

CM WebClient and MatchPoint ALM Latest Versions

CM WebClient 1.8.8 is now available (with nightly builds). Click here for the download and release notes.

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


We continuously upgrade CM WebClient and CM MatchPoint ALM customers. If you have any questions just send us a note to info@cmfirstgroup.com, or click the link below to contact an office or request a demo.


Click here to request a meeting →


Other CM First Releases


CM evolveIT 11.7
CM M3 2022 Edition
CA Plex 7.2.1 SP005, last supported 7.2.1 (as of January 31, 2022)
→ Details can be found here at Broadcom (login required)
CA 2E 8.7.3, last supported 8.7 (as of January 31, 2022)
→ Details can be found here at Broadcom (login required)
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