Features

Work fields: You can quickly create different types of workfields in ProGen such as substrings, concatenations, totals, menu options, error message as well as various date workfields including date increments and the difference between two dates. There are various short cuts throughout ProGen to make workfield creation as fast as possible.

Central Repository: ProGen uses it's Central Repository to keep track of file layouts and usage. It automatically keeps track of every program you develop, the files each program references, and the layout of each of those files. So when you or third party vendors make changes to DDS files, you simply tell ProGen what files have changed. It automatically calls every program you developed that use those files and inserts the new file/field definitions into those programs for you. Finally, it will make screen and report changes, and document if any of the new fields could not properly fit on the affected screens or reports so they can be manually updated through ProGen.

Change Management: ProGen comes with a built in Change Management system that handles program objects, source and ProGen definitions. You can create multiple environments, track development efforts and move or copy objects from one environment to another. You can also choose to change database file references after a move and to automatically recompile in the new environment. Third party change management solutions such as Aldon's CMS and SoftLanding's TurnOver provide interfaces to work with ProGen programs which may be important for companies that already use these solutions for their change management needs.

Function Keys and Subfile Options: Quickly create Function Keys or Subfile Options that can perform actions such as call programs, create, delete, cursor sensitive window lookups and many more. You can also attach conditions or define Actions from the Actions Editor.

Conditional Field Attributes: You can define additional field Input/Display rules and add conditions for them. Options include:

• Display Attributes: underline, hi intensity, position cursor and reverse image
• Color Codes
• Display Options: Output, non-display and both.

Program calls and Parameter passing: You can call any ProGen or non-ProGen program from various places within ProGen including function keys, subfile options and the Actions Editor. When calling a ProGen program you can search for the program name from a lookup window and ProGen will also list the parameters that need to be passed to the program. The called program owns the parameter list and therefore ensures that the proper fields are passed to the called program.

Help text: You can define help text at the field (cursor sensitive) or panel level and you can also define it within DbGen. You can work with the ProGen help module outside of a definition with the ZWRKHLP command. In addition to ProGen defined help the following help text types are supported:

• Office/400 document
• Display File Record Format Help
• UIM panel group
• Call program

Designer Management: ProGen Designers are the individuals who will create programs and there is an interface to manage these designers. Each Designer can have the following options set:

• Definitions of default function keys for each program style
• Default source files/libraries and default object libraries for storing generated code
• Library location for shell source members and other values.
• Designers set up with a designer type of *PGMR can override any these defaults when using ProGen Plus. Designers of type *USER have most of these defaults supplied implicitly, in order to simplify the generation process for them, and to provide additional control over source and objects.
• Many other default values and options that Designers will appreciate

Knowledge Base: The ProGen Plus Knowledge Base (KB) allows you to share components between ProGen definitions and could be compared to the ability to copy source from one RPG program to another. The KB can be used in the following areas:

• Actions Editor
• Workfields
• Equations
• Conditions
• Values
• Panels
• DTAARA

Manage Program Definitions: The work with Program Definitions screen is where you can manage and create definitions. You can search for definitions or use the various filtering options, view important information about the current environment and about each definition, and manage your definitions with many subfile options such as copy, regenerate and work with. Img Name: managedefinitions Alt Ref: Create and manage your definitions.

Excellent Documentation and Support: Excellent documentation is provided for ProGen Plus including an 800+ page User Guide and a new features and upgraders guide for every new release. We also have top rated technical support where your calls will immediately be answered by a technical representative and there is also our online Knowledge Base.