I am posting one of my presentations from my HATS curriculum online from SlideShare.net. While I won’t post my entire curriculum (which would be giving away my business product), I will post some information which is badly needed out there, yet is so readily available if you only knew where to go. If you or … Read more
For many who are just getting started with Rational HATS, understanding the widgets and components are the easy part. They often come from an RPG or COBOL background (i.e. green screen development). What is greek to them is usually the web page customization and especially the cascading style sheets. I thought I would write today … Read more
As I blogged earlier, I have am giving a presentation at this year’s Rational conference in Orlando. Due to some scheduling shifts, my presentation has been renumbered and moved. I will be presenting on Wednesday June 3rd at 11:15am. Mine will be for generic audiences, but will have some technical details for the geeks like … Read more
IBM just confirmed my speaking role. I’m speaking with Alisa Morse, Product Manager for IBM Rational HATS, SCLM AE, and HACP. We’ll be presenting an introduction and case study for HATS for one of my large customers. Here is the synopsis below (subject to change). The Rational Conference has typically been more technical that some … Read more
In IBM Rational’s HATS product, you will often see reference to the cursor position, or absolute cursor position. The simple cursor position is simply the row (comma) column number: i.e. 4,67. The absolute cursor position is a single number that is a calculation of the row and position. The formula is as follows: [(actual rows-1) … Read more
As I had mentioned in one of my previous posts, Host Access Transformation Services is now available. This is NOT just a upgrade. You will need one of the products from the 7.5 codestream of Rational Software developer products: Rational Application Developer Rational Business developer Rational Software Architect RDi RDz These are based on Eclipse … Read more
This is something I get asked about often regarding Rational HATS. Usually the person wants to run a macro on a screen under one circumstance, and display it with a transformation on another circumstance. For example, let’s say you want to combine two disparate screens of read only data. The first time you get to … Read more
IBM has announced that HATS 7.5 will become available on November 26 of this year. While there are no major new features, the largest benefit will be support for the new 7.5 code stream of the development platforms (RSA, RAD, RBD, RDi, RDz, etc), which runs on top of Eclipse 3.4. There is a word … Read more
Saw this yesterday. IBM is getting smart about putting out information like this. Creating HATS Macros part I Creating HATS Macros part II ©2016 Strongback Consulting
Very cool article on developerworks. Its HATS related, of course. http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-atommainframe/?S_TACT=105AGX01&S_CMP=HP ©2016 Strongback Consulting