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AS/400 Tools

¹ Define a flexible environment where production, testing, and maintenance can

be managed simultaneously

¹ Organize several developers working on the same application

¹ Build (or compile) an application quickly and easily, compiling only those com-

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 up the anal-

ysis of applications. The tool stores the information about the application objects

and their relationships to other application objects in a dictionary. A dictionary

extracts the cross-reference information about all of the objects in an application's

libraries, and saves it in a set of database files stored in a library. As application

objects and their relationships to other objects change, the information in the dic-

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 changing a field

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 a dictionary

¹ Modify any fields or records that are documented in a dictionary

¹ Examine 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)

¹ VisualAge RPG

CODE/400 contains features to help edit, compile, and debug: RPG, ILE RPG,

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 compo-

nents that make up your application. This enhances program development and

moves the program development workload off the host. The application, when built,

runs on an AS/400. For RPG and ILE RPG application development and mainte-

nance, CODE/400 provides:

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

suite of prompts, and online help.

¹ Incremental syntax checking— provides immediate error feedback as each line

of source is entered

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