How, for example would you query the HE to find entity types that have not been implemented in the Technical Design?

I’ve looked at this and can’t for the life of me construct a query to do this – does anyone know how to get this information out of the HE ?

One of the things that would make our lives easier would be an easy query interface to the HE and CSE. I know that we have the public interface, but it’s still hard – can anyone help ?????

Specifically:

• Producing custom WSDL from the PSTEP I/D
• Doing “contract-first” design
• Performance tuning
• Simple and Complex type definition
• Security

These are the things that modern SOA systems are mindful of and need to do – discussion would be great, since this is a new-ish field of play for CA Gen, and many organisations will be considering this !

A brand new Jaguar (can’t afford that)

A second-hand Jaguar (can’t afford that either)….

….think….

I’ll settle for no call-outs over the Christmas period due to system failures. OK – It’s one of these Christmas presents that you know you are gonna have, but are happy when you get it !

Gen systems are among the most stable systems I have ever worked with and their stability never ceases to amaze me – which is why on Christmas morning my mobile phone will be off and no call-outs need to be taken!

Christmas – sooooooo predictable !

EDGE APAC 2010 is on NOW in Canberra, Australia – hopefully, someone who’s there will let me know how it went and grab some pictures !

Looks like a great Agenda !

The latest is no exception – here, they talk about an alternative mechanism for passing data through many levels of chained action blocks.

The method they describe works, but also has a number of additional bebefits to those they highlight:

• Improving developer efficiency – not only does it reduce the number of changed action blocks (leading to quicker migrations) but reduces the risks of “getting it wrong”.
• In environments where ALL changed action blocks undergo rigorous testing, reducing the number of changed action blocks will also reduce the level of testing required and hence improve efficiency of the testers.

It promises to be yet another great event.

On another note, there’s a good comparison of CA Gen with other development tools here (you’ll need to use Google’s translate service to read it if you aren’t fluent in Japanese). Unsurprisingly, CA Gen comes out on top in a number of categories – but not start-up costs, however.

Now if we could fix that ……..  :-)

It also defines “Eco-System Services” as “….fundamental life-support services upon which human civilization depends…”.

This is true of the CA Gen Ecosystem (“CAGE”)  since “the CAGE” is fundamental to how CA Gen survives – take a look at the companies in “the CAGE” environment and what they do. Its easy sometimes to overlook these organisations (many of them are linked from the gentalk.biz front page – they provide valuable services for users of CA Gen.

When considering a particular project, or requirement for a function, its sometimes easy to dismiss something as not being available, or hard to do – look inside the CAGE – someone, somewhere must have done it – CrossfIEr is a great example of this – as is ModelCVS.

There are companies out there who have crossed pretty much every bridge in the Gen world and are ready to help you out – look in that CAGE and find them.

This is a giant leap forward for Host Encyclopedia users who have previously not been able to control the generation of (say) .NET code from the mainframe encyclopedia. CrossfIEr is another example of IET listening to its’ customers needs and filling the gaps – I don’t think that there is a single IET product that is a “product for a product’s sake” – ALL of their products, tools and utilities are extremely useful and fill the needs of the users exactly !

Get the lowdown on the product here with the announcement or here for more detailed description

Click here for the video !!!