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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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Environment OS/2 Client

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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

C generation capabilities

•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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