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What is COOL:Gen ?
• Industry-leading, full lifecycle model-based application
development
• Targets customers who need to build and maintain
data/transaction-centric systems
• Supports deployment of applications across a variety of
computing platforms and transaction processing
environments
• Provides a mechanism for introducing component-based
development to traditional IT organizations
• Minimizes skill requirements, maximizes developer
effectiveness
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What is COOL:Gen ?
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Integrated Development
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• 100% Code Generation
— Single platform applications
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— Client portion of application
— Server portion of application
— Communications Infrastructure
— GUI, Block Mode Interface
— Database Access
— Protocol Conversion
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COOL:GEN
• Future Proofs Application Development & Deployment
• Reduces Application Development Cycle Time
• Enables Design & Reuse
• Increases Quality
• Integrated Repository
• Model Based Development
• 100% Application Generation
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COOL:GEN
•IE/RAAD environment for developing Web-enabled
client-server applications
•Traditional modeling tools combined with COBOL and
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•Basic component-based development support
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Component Based Development
Component-based development is a new delivery
solution that is based on the idea of assembling pre-
tested components into applications.
A component is an independently deliverable
package of software operations. This means the
component is a self-contained package of software
that can be used through the operations offered by
that component.
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COOL:GEN
COOL:Gen Support CBD in these ways
• Facilitate faster user interface change
• Can build, use, and manage components
• Support a variety of computing environments
• Continue to develop the capability to work in the evolving
distributed object environment
• Support portability and scalability
• Support interoperability
• Coexist with legacy applications
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CBD Fundamentals- Managing
Component Development
Building Components
In COOL:Gen, applications are developed within models.
Components will also be developed within the boundary of
a model. The model represents the different parts of the
component structure.
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Reusability Techniques
• COOL:Gen features offer opportunities for reusing
components in the same model or across models.
•Reuse Within Models
• Reuse Across Models
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CBD - Reusability Techniques
Reuse Scope Considerations
When reusable components are designed, the reuse
scope of those components should be considered. Reuse
scope refers to whether the components will be used in:
• Multiple projects
• Multiple organizations
• Multiple platforms
• Multiple application design environments
• Multiple language environments
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CBD - Reusability Techniques
Component Sharing Techniques
• External action block
• Transient data
• Entity extension
• Cross-model dialog flow
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COOL:Gen Distributed Process Application Review
• Distributed Process Client (DPC) (Resides at client
workstation - GUI)
• Distributed Process Server (DPS) (Resides at Server
workstation - Database)
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COOL:Gen Client/Server Communications Products
• Client Manager (CM)
• Communication Bridge (CB)
Objective is to isolate communications from the application and implementation
process
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Client Manager
• Resides on the client workstation
• Gateway to communications for the DPC
• Direct connection
• Multiple connections to target servers
• Support for multiple DPC applications
• Transaction routing
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Communication Bridge
• Resides on the server workstation
• Centralized place for configuring host
• Multiple CBs resides in a single directory
• Separate server & client configuration
• Client side - NetBIOS, PIPES and TCP/IP
• Server side - LU 6.2 and TCP/IP
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Client Manager Features
• Network environment
• Transaction routing
• Implementation
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Network Environment
• Provide communication support to DPC
• Transmitting data between DPC and DPS
• Transaction request will be routed to destination through Directory Services
• Communication Bridge is a link between Client Manager and target Server
• Protocol conversions
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Client Manager and
Transaction Routing
• Routed from the DPC to DPS
• Initiated by DPC
• DPC components issue a dialogue flow
• Client Manager supports transaction routing
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DEVELOPMENT WORKSTATION
• Encyclopedia
•Activity Diagram
•Data Modeling
•User Interface
•Procedure steps
•Common Action Blocks
•Views:
•Work View
•Entity View
•Subtype View
•Group View
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Building Block Mode Applications
What is a Business System ?
• A business system describes HOW activities will be
performed , as well as WHAT will be performed.
• A business system will consists of procedures.
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Building Block Mode Applications
Process versus Procedure
Process
A specific action the business requires
Procedure
A way of carrying out a specific action
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Database Design and Construction
Transformation Terminology
Data Model Data Structure List
Entity Type Table
Attribute Column
Identifier Index
Relationship Constraint
Subject areas do not transform into data structure
objects
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Data Modeling and Notations
COOL:Gen Tools for Design
• Dialog Design – Defining procedures & designing dialog
• Action Diagram – Designing procedure logic
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Data Modeling and Notations
Model Management:
Host Encyclopedia Version Control provides a basic set of
tools to share objects between models at different stages of
development, testing & production
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Data Modeling and Notations
Data Modeling Terminology:
• Subject Area & Subject Area Name – e.g. Sales,
Personnel, Accounts
Entity Type Overview:
• An Entity type is an object that groups entities together by
definitions & characteristics. Entity type properties are
expected number of occurrences & expected growth rate.
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Data Modeling and Notations
An attribute is a fact that describes an entity type. The various
parameters associated with attribute are length, varying length,
case sensitivity, derivation algorithm & aliases.
There are different types of relationships like one-to-many,
many-to-many etc.
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Data Modeling and Notations
Building Action Blocks
Action Diagram Terms
• Process Action Diagram – A collection of action statements that
directly support an elementary process
• Action Block – A named collection of action statements not directly
associated with an elementary process.
• Common Action Block – An action block that is used by more than
one process
• Procedure Action Diagram – A collection of action statements that
directly support a procedure step
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Data Modeling and Notations
• An entity action is an action performed on entity action
views to retrieve & manipulate information about entities.
(Create, Read, Read each, Update & Delete)
• The activities to add entity actions are:
• Generate elementary processes
• Expand expected effects in the action diagram
• Directly add entity actions while working with the
action diagram
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Data Modeling and Notations
• Adding relationship actions to the action diagram consists
of three activities:
• Associate entities – establishes the pairing between
two entities
• Disassociate entities
• Transfer relationships – changes the pairing from
one entity to another
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HOST CONSTRUCTION
• The goal of Construction is to generate an executable
application defined during earlier stages of the
application development process.
• On the mainframe (or Host), COOL:Gen supports
construction of COBOL applications for execution
under MVS accessing DB2 databases.
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Case Study
A case study on how the Information
Engineering is done in Cool GEN.
The following Case Study is on the
LOAN MANAGEMENT System
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