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 selected interfaces

FourGen CASE Tools Highlights

Create new or update existing forms Create 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 – Header

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 code With Block commands you place code based on the inserted block tags Add 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.

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