Prerequisite Skills
To use RAMP you need to have some basic knowledge of how LANSA and the Visual LANSA Framework are used for application development. You may want to review some of these tutorials (these links are to other guides):
- Visual LANSA tutorials - you will need to know how to create, compile and check programs into your System i server using the Visual LANSA editor.
Subject Matter Expertise
To modernize applications with RAMP you need to have access to someone who has an in-depth knowledge of the business application being modernized and the industry in which the application runs. This person should also know what your business is wanting to achieve as a modernized output.
Without access to a subject matter expert you are unlikely to be able to successfully modernize any application using any tool because:
- Nobody would know how the existing functionality is used (as opposed to just understanding how it works, which is different)
- Nobody would be able to envision how the modernized version would be used (as opposed to how it should work).