FlexGen 4GL COBOL RAD Product Summary Y2000 Y2K

FlexGen Structured RAD Product Summary

FlexGen Structured RAD is a fully integrated 4GL/RAD/5GE platform for rapid application development of business-critical COBOL systems, and their rapid application deployment , based upon a common data dictionary and repository.

Now applications developers can focus on the heart of an application — the business rules and processing flow. FlexGen Structured RAD takes care of the rest!

The unique FlexGen Structured RAD software workbench has multi-level developer access, ranging from "point and shoot" visual 5GE tools and powerful free-form 4GL commands through to COBOL macro calls, pure COBOL Escape Code lines, I/O modules and developer-modifiable COBOL generation utilities (FlexGen $Functions).

FlexGen Structured RAD generates efficient structured COBOL programs that are portable across all Open Systems platforms.

FlexGen Structured RAD modules include:

Easy Query
Report Writer
Forms and Windows Applications
Advanced Development Module
Data Dictionary Manager
Dictionary Interchange
Context-sensitive Help/Error Guide
Multilingual Texts Manager
Full Screen Editor
FlexGen FronTier Thin-Client Architecture
Menu Processor and Security
FlexGen Legacy Liberator COBOL Migration and Re-Engineering

Who Can Use FlexGen?

FlexGen's range of modules and development tools are graded for appropriate use across a broad spectrum of users, from executives to analysts and programmers. With the modular structure of FlexGen, you purchase only the modules that you require.

For example, the Easy Query facility within the Report Writer provides the less technical executive user with a powerful 5GE visual tool to produce ad hoc reports and extracts.

Technical developers can also use Easy Query to minimize the legwork of setting-up a new report, but then go to the generated 4GL lines and visual painter for more facilities.

Even for companies who are primarily using bought-in software packages for their business applications, FlexGen can be the ideal tool to 'fill the gaps' of any package, and so provide for the unique needs of each organisation.

Advantages of FlexGen Structured RAD

Productivity
High Quality Systems
Higher Development Output
Lower Development Cost
Bug-free System Generation
Automatic Documentation
Major Productivity Gains
Early Implementation Dates
Lower Deployment Cost
Early Competitive Advantage
Lower Maintenance Cost

Portability
Expands Software Markets
Protects Software Investment
Facilitates Downsizing
Facilitates GUI Options
Facilitates Thin-Client/Server

Adaptability
COBOL Concepts understood by almost all Developers
Allows inclusion of COBOL lines at 4GL level
GUI and Character-Based Development and Deployment

Operating System Independence
UNIX, AIX and Derivatives
Windows NT
Netware
MS Windows
MS DOS
Multiple Operating Systems

COBOL Language Independence
Micro Focus COBOL/2
Acucobol
RM/COBOL

Standardization
Central Data Dictionary and Repository
Consistent Structured Architecture
Consistent Presentation Enforced
High Responsiveness to Urgent New Application Needs
Cross-Platform Adaptability
Built-in Security and Audit
User-Oriented Prototyping
End-User Commitment

Database Independence
Informix
Oracle
Microsoft SQL Server
ODBC
Unidata RDBMS
Sysbase
Progress
C-ISAM
BTRIEVE
RMS Files
COBOL Data Files

Graphics Module
Bar Charts
Pie Charts
Line Graphs
Fonts
Symbols
2D/3D

Legacy COBOL Migration
Converts Most Proprietary COBOL Dialects
Builds Data Dictionary
Replaces User Interface
Replaces I/O
Imports into FlexGen Structured RAD Repository
Re-hosts to Open Systems

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