AllFusion Gen

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AllFusion Gen

• Product Vision and Strategy Update

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Agenda

• Mission Critical Role of AllFusion Gen
• Brief touch on AllFusion Gen r7 features
• Current Release - AllFusion Gen r7.5
• Plans Beyond AllFusion Gen r7.5
• Vision beyond AllFusion Gen r8

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Mission-Critical Role

• AllFusion Gen has helped create mission-critical
  applications for thousands of businesses and
  governments worldwide
• CA recognizes
• The essential role AllFusion Gen plays in the
  enterprise
• 20 years of customers reliance on AllFusion Gen
• Customers have expressed plans for AllFusion Gen
  applications to exist for another 15-20 years

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Release Timeline

• AllFusion Gen is an important product for CA
• Five major releases since acquisition
• Delivering new releases and integration with
  other CA solutions
• Long-term plans for subsequent releases

Release Timeline
6.5
6.0e
6.0
r7
r7.5
r7.5
Web Generation
J2EE
.NET
Linux
SOA
Planned
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Coming Attractions in 2006

• Ongoing Technical Update Webcasts
• Internet Advertising
• zJournal Banner Ads, ESJ.com, Articles
• http//www.ca.com/legacyrenewal
• Expanded Resources
• Response Team
• Services Offerings
• Road Shows in Targeted Cities
• Promote sharing of customer success
• Build up partner/consultant program
• Ongoing communication with Analyst community

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AllFusion Gen r7
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AllFusion Gen r7

• Increased platform flexibility with .NET
  Framework support and C code generation
• Build end to end .Net web applications
• Integrate .Net apps with existing AllFusion Gen
  apps on Windows, UNIX and Mainframe
• Improved performance of generated Web
  applications
• Stateless Java Proxy implementation more
  efficient for multithreaded apps
• Greatly enhanced Java Web generated applications
• Improved Import HTML capabilities

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AllFusion Gen r7

• Speed time to market with increased team
  productivity
• Enhanced construction provides parallel builds,
  and common UI and functionality on UNIX and
  Windows
• Build applications remotely across the network
• Multi-object delete capability on encyclopedias
• Programmer interface for Java Proxy API more
  efficient and easier to use
• Improved tutorial, documentation and online help
  reduces learning curve

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AllFusion Gen r7 Highlights

• .NET Framework/C Generation support
• Java/Web Generation Improvements
• z/OS C Runtime Upgrade Threadsafe capable
• Proxy Interface Enhancements
• Brand new multiplatform Build Tool
• Enhanced Web Services Plugin
• GUI Runtime Enhancements
• Numerous Toolset Improvements
• Encyclopedia Enhancements
• 150 Enhancement Requests

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AllFusion Gen r7.5 - Highlights

• Precision Math Libraries
• Accessibility Feature for Java Web Generation
• Linux
• Dynamic CSS
• z/OS Runtime
• Component Manager
• ASP.NET Enhancement
• Build Tool Improvements
• Approximately 50 Enhancement Requests

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Precision Math Libraries

• Underlying decimal precision math libraries
  changed
• Applications should use less CPU resources
  compared to prior releases
• Applications with long complex expressions or
  many database accesses should show the most
  improvement

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Accessibility for Java Web Generation

• Generated Java Web applications are accessible
  entirely via the keyboard
• Pages can be read by specialized accessibility
  software
• All controls generated comply with accessibility
  requirements, including being keyboard-enabled

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Support for Linux Servers

• Linux generation support on Intel x86 (or
  compatible) 32-bit hardware for
• Implementation Toolset
• Transaction Enabler
• User Funnel
• C applications support for
• Online
• block mode
• distributed process server
• Generated applications use embedded SQL to access
  Oracle or IBM DB2 UDB databases

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Dynamic CSS

• Java Web Generation supports generation of
  display properties as cascading style sheets
• Enables modification of a common business system
  cascade style sheet and influences the appearance
  of all windows and controls in a business system
• An overriding CSS file may be used to supersede
  the style statements in a generated common
  business system cascade style sheet

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z/OS Runtime

• Supports dynamic linking of runtimes and use of
  DLLs
• Runtimes updated to full IBM LE conformance
• Runtimes fully re-entrant and threadsafe

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Component Manager

• Supports models in 9.0.A2 and 9.1.A5 schemas
• Client Server
• Host Encyclopedias
• Supports models in 9.1.A5
• Local Encyclopedia

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ASP.NET Enhancements

• ASP.NET performance enhancements
• New Features
• Customizable Close and Help Buttons
• Support SetBitmapName
• Certified CBD Techniques in ASP.NET
• Dynamic Images and Multi-State Bitmaps
• Varying and Fixed Size Tables
• Hypertext Links
• Extended Selection for Listboxes
• Tables in ASP.NET Web Clients
• Enhanced DOT Notation in ASP.NET Web Clients
• Support for InProc Session State Management

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Build Tool Improvements

• Enhancements to Profile Manager User Interface
• Additional buttons to support adding and removing
  modules in viewing modes
• Support for right mouse button activated pop-up
  menus
• Ability to specify session timeout for assembly
  operations

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AllFusion Gen Courseware

• 6 courses have been updated to AllFusion Gen
  r7.5
• AllFusion Gen Development Environment Overview
• AllFusion Gen Encyclopedia Overview AllFusion
  Gen DE Enabler
• AllFusion Gen DE Analyzing Business Requirements
  
• AllFusion Gen DE Server Development

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Plans Beyond AllFusion Gen r7.5
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AllFusion Gen r7.5 SP1 Features

• Support for Advantage CA-Datacom/DB
• Provide data modeling support, generating the DDL
  and generating applications.
• Reverse engineering plugin for Advantage
  CA-Datacom/DB schema
• Support ODBC and JDBC access to Advantage
  CA-Datacom/DB databases running on z/OS from an
  AllFusion Gen-generated C, C or Java
  application.
• Support accessing Advantage CA-Datacom/DB tables
  via COBOL external action blocks on the mainframe
  

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AllFusion Gen r7.5 SP1 Planned Features
Support for Advantage CA-Datacom/DB support from
multiple environments
Mainframe
Java
.NET
C
Web Gen
Web Gen
GUI
CICS
EJB
ODBC
.NET Server
C
JDBC
ADO.NET/ODBC
SQL
ODBC
JDBC
ADO.NET
Datacom/DB
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AllFusion Gen r7.5 SP1 Planned Features

• Cross Context Flows supporting large CBD
  applications
• Allows fine grained deployment of components in
  large CBD applications vs. deploying entire
  application
• More efficient use of time and mainframe
  resources during development and QA

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AllFusion Gen r7.5 SP1 Planned Features

• Diagram Trace Server
• Java, C and C generated applications to include
  the following features (and more)
• Execution Control
• Conditional Breakpoints
• Watch Window
• Action Diagram Viewer
• Step Features including customer events
• Customizable syntax coloring
• ASP.NET 2.0 Enhancements
• Web Generation Performance Enhancements
• Build Tool Enhancements
• Generic CreateObject to work on Clients and
  Servers

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Plans for AllFusion Gen r7.5 SP2

• z/OS Build Tool
• Support for Advantage CA-Datacom/DB
• Database Independent

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Plans for AllFusion Gen r8

• Web Services enabled CICS servers
• Provide a SOAP interface to AllFusion Gen CICS
  Servers
• Enables identification as Web Services (without
  the use of a Java proxy)
• Java Thin Web Client
• Create standard Web applications using an
  industry standard Web Authoring Tool such as
  Dreamweaver
• Enables application speed and simplicity
• Leverages business logic in existing models
  including event handling
• Provide migration path from Blockmode, GUI or Web
  generation applications to Web Thin Client
  applications

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Plans for AllFusion Gen r8

• Communications Bridge Remote Admin Interface
• Single point from which all Communication Bridge
  instances can be managed
• Support for Large Database Objects
• Applications can present images (BMP, JPG, GIF,
  etc) to the client or store large text encoded
  strings (XML)

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Plans for AllFusion Gen r8

• Support for Identity Columns
• Automatically generate a unique, identifying
  numeric value for each row in a table
• Event Driven TCP/IP Direct Connect
• Enables Connection Manager to be event-driven
• Addresses the high CPU utilization attributed to
  the Connection Manager
• Common Edit Modifications
• Provides more edit consistency across Analysis,
  Design Construction

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Plans for AllFusion Gen r8

• z/OS Dynamic Link of RI Triggers
• Selected components dynamically linked to the
  application at runtime
• Potential to reduce total module size and CPU
  resources required by a TP monitor to process a
  load module
• Modifications to dynamically linked components
  dont require every load module be re-linked
• z/OS applications can be packaged such that its
  RI Triggers component will be dynamically linked
  at runtime

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Vision and Strategy

• Broad Themes
• Continued support for Mainframe, J2EE, .NET, Web
  Services Evolutions
• Enhancing Product Usability and Modeling
  Capability
• Provide AllFusion ERwin DM quality/look for ERD
• Provide a context sensitive, text drive Action
  Diagram Editor
• Upgrade AllFusion Gen diagrams using contemporary
  control technology
• Add wizards, patterns, templates and sample
  applications to accelerate new application
  development
• Add UML diagrams required to generate code PLUS
  the Use Case Diagram.

Not a complete or exclusive list
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Vision and Strategy

• Broad Themes
• Advancing 3rd Party Product Certification
  Currency and Feature Adoption
• Support 64 bit execution on UNIX, Linux, and
  Windows Servers
• Removing or increasing existing file/buffer size
  constraints
• Integrate entire application lifecycle
• Application Security (eTrust)
• Application Management (Unicenter)
• Process Flow Integration (Aion BPM)
• Web Services Management (WSDM)

Not a complete or exclusive list
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Questions?