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AS/400 Tools

¹ Define a flexible environment where production, testing, and maintenanc be managed simultaneously

¹ Organize several developers working on the same application

¹Build (or compile) an application quickly and easily, compiling only tho

 

ponents

that

need compiling

¹

Create

and maintain several versions of an application

Application

Dictionary

Services

Application

Dictionary Services is an impact analysis tool that speeds u

ysis

of

applications. The tool stores the information about the applica

and

their

relationships to other applicationdictionaryobjects.A dictionaryin

extracts the cross-reference information about all of the objects in libraries, and saves it in a set of database files stored in a lib objects and their relationships to other objects change, the informati tionary is automatically updated.

You can use this feature of ADTS to:

¹ Determine the impact of changing a field

¹ Work with fields, files, or programs that would be affected by c

¹ Re-create all of the objects affected by changing a field

¹ View the structure of an application

¹ Determine the field reference hierarchy

¹

Create,

modify, or

delete programs

or files that

are

documented in

¹

Modify

any fields

or records that

are documented

in

a dictionary

¹Examine the calling hierarchy

IBM VisualAge RPG and Cooperative Development Environment for

AS/400

IBM VisualAge RPG and Cooperative Development Environment for AS/400 is a workstation (Windows) product that includes two server access programs:

¹ CoOperative Development Environment/400 (CODE/400)

¹VisualAge RPG

CODE/400 contains features to help edit,

compile, and debug:

RPG,

ILE R

COBOL,

ILE COBOL, Control Language (CL),

ILE C, and ILE CL host source

pro-

grams;

design

display, printer, and database host files;

and

manage

the

nents

that

make up

your application.

This

enhances

program

development

and

moves

the

program

development workload

off the host. The application,

wh

runs on an

AS/400. For RPG and ILE RPG

application

development and

mainte-

nance,

CODE/400

provides:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

¹Language sensitive editing— includes token highlighting, format lines, a

suite of prompts, and online help.

¹ Incremental

syntax checking— provides immediate error feedback as e

of source

is entered

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