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FourGen® CASE Tools
Form Painter Screen Code Generator Featurizer Report Generator Menu’ing System Enterprise/iDeskTop aka ED8 Source Code Control System Object Oriented Design XML based Schema Management
Tools
4 to 10 times increased productivity over 3GL development
5 to 10 times faster than other 4GL coding
Speeds up initial development AND reduces ongoing cost of program maintenance
Over 80% of the cost of software is ongoing maintenance
Facilitates user/developer communication
Structured Code Automatic Code Documentation Code Design Standards User Interface Standards Version Control Generated code is Modifiable By
Design™ (MBD™) Multi-language Code Generation
GUI & Character user GUI & Character user selected interfacesselected interfaces
FourGen CASE Tools Highlights
Create new or update existing formsCreate new or update existing forms
Creates 100% Informix 4GL compatible .per’s
Various types of forms supported – header, header/detail, query, zooms etc.
Easy to define zooms, lookups & validation functionality
Link many forms – easily & effectively Developer-friendly interface Detail Explosion – Present additional
detail data on same screen
100% Informix 4GL Code “Hooks” in generated code allows
developers to add custom code Organizes code into separate .4GL’s
namely globals.4gl, main.4gl, header.4gl,
detail.4gl, midlevel.4gl for input screens
Dynamic arrays for line items – no more arr_max hassle
Automatically generates GUI Code
Program Main – Program Main – HeaderHeader
Program Main – Header / Detail
Browse Form
Zoom
Query
Extension Form
Add-on Detail
Add-on
Merges generated code & custom code
Generated code remains untouched FourGen® Featurizer reads
instructions in extension files to modify source codeWith Block commands you place code
based on the inserted block tagsAdd new business logic or customize flow
logic without modifying original source code
Change in a screen or schema, just regenerate code to reapply your changes
Create Informix 4GL reports programs using report image file
Organizes code into separate .4GL’s namely globals.4gl, main.4gl, report.4gl,
midlevel.4gl, lowlevel.4gl for report programs
Includes the following sections Layout Attributes Select Language Schedule Concurrency
FourGen® ® Menus Menu options can be single or multiple
characters with description Flexible menu option format Each menu & submenu has its own
directory Menu option can use hotkey option Predefined structure can be utilized for
Enterprise Application Windows Explorer-like Menu interface
available via iDesktop for GUI
Windows based GUI generator Reads database for screens that
make up a program Generates VB Forms from
Informix Forms Creates GUI Executables from
VB Forms GUI menu program presents
menus in Explorer-like format
FourGen® SCCS originally developed in mid 1980’s
Builds on top of sccs utilities in UNIX
Advantages Extremely robust Easy to use Tight control of code Included in FourGen® CASE Tools
FourGen®® SCCS primary programs
FourGen DBmerge Allows you to control schema Provides audit trail of schema
changes when used with FourGen® SCCS
All schema information & standard data stored in XML format
FourGen Dbmerge programs
NEW FEATURES in FourGen CASE Tools V8.1
Dynamic Array Model – No more hard coding of # of array elements.
User Defined Notes on Screens – Multiple note types and notes for each line of detail.
Add-on hdr/dtl, add-on view hdr/dtl, extension hdr/dtl etc. are few of new Form Types
Detail Explosion – Detail to Detail line for hdr/dtl screens
Zoom picker function standardized
Grids replace temporary tables – index ‘em, random access ‘em, unload ‘em even in .csv formats
Primary Keys instead of Row ID’s
Global elements reduction – scratch, sql_filter, sql_order removed – p & q variables moved to header.4gl & detail.4gl files
Function Metrics – Trace your program control within functions
DB Merge Utilities Made Easy – Supports XML formats
Defer or force referential constraints using Library Functions
Encryption Functions available – handy for securing your info
SIGNAL Trapping
Archive & Purge - Set your own selection and rejection rules and save them as catalogs for successive runs or run these programs as batch jobs.
iDesktop – GUI Front-End now available with secure shell (SSH) communication protocol for added security.
Gillani iDistribute v8.1 A complete end-to-end Supply Chain Management solution A unique combination of planning, execution, collaboration
and monitoring capabilities delivering extraordinary business results for its users.
Delivered via the web The system provides advanced Order Management
capabilities, integrated with a comprehensive Warehouse and Branch Inventory Management and Replenishment System.
WRITTEN USING FOURGEN CASE TOOLS.
