AVR and DG 18 are here.

This issue includes the Visual RPG/DataGate v18 announcement, a related discount offer, an interesting ASNA Monarch case study, and how to copy DataGate for Windows/Server databases.

ASNA Visual RPG/DataGate v18 debut

ASNA Visual RPG and DataGate v18 are currently in beta (email us at info@asna.com if you’d like give the beta version a spin). We expect Visual RPG and DataGate 18 to be generally available in Q4.

ASNA Visual RPG 5.3 for COM, which works with DataGate 18, is still in testing but will also be available soon.

With the generally available release of Visual RPG 18/DataGate, version 16 retires. Tech support will then be available only for versions 17 and 18. It's very important to stay current to ensure tech support availability.

While we’re on the subject…

Save 20% on Visual RPG and DataGate 18 upgrade.

Customers with an active maintenance plan qualify for a 20% discount on Visual RPG and DataGate 18 upgrades through the end of the year.

Even if you aren’t ready to install it just yet, it’s a great time to lock in the discount and have the upgrade ready to go when your schedule allows.

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SWBC is ready for another 50 years with ASNA Monarch

SWBC, a 50-year-old insurance company based in San Antonio, had growing concerns about finding RPG programmers to maintain and enhance its critical financial/insurance package.

To resolve this challenge, SWBC, in conjunction with the ASNA Services Team, used ASNA Monarch to migrate its RPG application.

Read the full case study here.

If your organization is facing an RPG crisis of its own, contact us today at info@asna.com to learn how ASNA can help you with that challenge.

How to copy a DataGate for Windows and Servers database

ASNA DataGate for Windows and Servers (DGWin) provides a Windows-hosted database. DGWin obeys many of the semantics and conventions of the IBM i DB2 database. DGWin offers facilities such as QTEMP, physical and logical files, file members, and record-level access (through ASNA Visual RPG). It is generally swappable with the IBM i DB2 in that code written to access IBM i DB2 works, without change, with DGWin.

DGWin is often used for development work or light production use. One of the tasks you often need to do with DGWin is copy a database from one pc to another. This article shows how to copy a DGWin database with the COM Database Manager or DataGate Studio.

Need help with your Visual RPG applications?

Do you have more work than you can delegate to your busy team?

We’ve talked to a few customers lately who no longer have any employees with ASNA product knowledge. Most of these are due to either retirement or business acquisitions and/or employee reassignment. Even the simplest things, like applying a new license, are sometimes challenging to do without ASNA talent available.

Is your shop running low on Visual RPG talent? Do you need some help with your ASNA Visual RPG application? ASNA’s Services Team can help you with:

Upgrades. ASNA Upgrades are usually pretty straightforward, but challenging to do without any ASNA experience. Our Services Team can help you with your upgrades.
Program fixes and maintenance. Our Services Team can make ongoing program changes and enhancements.
Migrating your application’s database. In some cases, you might want to retire your old ASNA application and migrate its database to another platform. Our Services Team can help migrate that old database to a variety of modern database platforms.
Migrating the app. If your application needs to be migrated to a new environment, the ASNA Services Team can also help with that. Our team has extensive .NET, C#, and IBM i programming experience.
Long-term application lifecycle support. If your programming team is maxed-out on other tasks and your AVR applications need ongoing care and feeding that they aren’t getting, the ASNA Services Team can take over and manage the entire Visual RPG application development lifecycle for you. For program fixes, licensing issues, maintenance and enhancements, and deployment, we can be your remote Visual RPG programming/lifecycle team.