LANSA RAMP Webinars

If you haven't had a chance to see LANSA RAMP...do yourself a favor. The schedule follows:

An entirely different approach to application modernization and innovation. Going way beyond conventional refacing technologies that only provide presentation enhancements, RAMP is a set of technologies and a process that enables you to take your legacy iSeries applications – and without any reprogramming – turn them into a modern application in a way that’s never been seen before. RAMP addresses your immediate modernization needs as well as your long term strategy moving forward. (Be sure and tell them Rippe & Kingston recommends RAMP)


Technical Presentation

• May 3, 2006 1:00 p.m. USA CDT Register Now
• May 10, 2006 1:00 p.m. USA CDT Register Now
• May 17, 2006 1:00 p.m. USA CDT Register Now
• May 24, 2006 1:00 p.m. USA CDT Register Now
• May 31, 2006 1:00 p.m. USA CDT Register Now
  
  
  Executive Presentation
• May 11, 2006 1:00 p.m. USA CDT Register Now
• May 25, 2006 1:00 p.m. USA CDT Register Now

XSL: The power behind the LANSA WAM

LANSA has greatly enhanced the flexibility of their product with the introduction of WAMs. One of the best features is the use of weblets for interface design. Weblets are documents written in XSL that can be dragged and dropped into the design view for the page. The properties for the weblet can then be set so that it performs its desired function. This is a great concept because the documents can be copied, modified for specific use and saved as new weblets used for specific purposes.

As part of the R&D effort here at Rippe & Kingston we have been working to deliver WAMs through IBM Websphere Portal and other’s. Now that we’ve gained experience in using these documents to control style sheets, java script, and other page layout related issues; we are looking at improving on LANSA’s template (scripting) technology.

Standard buttons or clickable images can be customized and saved as new weblets with dedicated functionality. We are associating weblets with fields through LANSA’s “Visualization” feature. This allows you to include fields in templates that represent buttons. Once you run the template and compile the program, the customized buttons are already included on the page. This technique dramatically cuts development time for an application.

John Reuter Presents LANSA & Portals at Harris Data Conference

John Reuter will be a fetured speaker at HarrisData User Conference April 23-26, 2006 Sheraton Hotel — Brookfield, Wisconsin. John will present Portals & LANSA to the users.

IBM and Zend deliver PHP to the i5/OS

With the recent announcement of IBM and Zend delivering PHP to the i5/OS, it made me wonder if this will be a real competitor to LANSA. I know there are a lot of PHP programmers in the world (22 million) ....but will it be accepted on the iSeries? Let me know what you think.

research

take a look at this site:

 

Competiton to METHOS?  Hosted opportunity?, etc.

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Sincerely,

Thomas W. Davidson

Don Nelson VP Customer Support for LANSA to speak at METHOS User Conference

Don Nelson, VP of Customer Support for LANSA will be speaking at the METHOS user conference on MAY 11th.

METHOS is a plant and facility maintenance software package that is 100% LANSA. If you would like to attend the conference or just listen to Don's presentation, please contact Mike Albers at 513-977-4548.