Introduction

CA Gen enables application development on Windows workstations and supports application deployment to integrate multiple platforms on z/OS (CICS and IMS), UNIX, Linux, Windows, .NET and J2EE.

CA is Computer Associates. And CA Gen is one of their product.

11) Syllabus topic # 3 : Modifying Existing Objects

Detailed study items on syllabus topic # 3 : Modifying existing objects

What information to be provided for entities?
  Name
  Description
  At least one attribute
  Primary identifier
  Occurrences
  TD physical name

What information to be provided for relationships?
  Relationship properties
  Source properties
   Target properties

What information to be provided for attributes?
   Name
   Domain
   Optionality
   Description
   TD name
 
Attributes may have permitted values
Attributes may be derived.

10) Syllabus topic # 2 : Modeling New Objects


Detailed study items on syllabus topic # 2 : Modeling New Objects


Modeling new objects
Creating new model
Model name
Local name
Settings multiple or single add
Consistency check level settings
TD name options
Data model tools
Adding subject areas
Adding Entities
Adding Relationships
Adding Attributes

09) Syllabus topic # 1: Gen modeling overview

Detailed study items on syllabus topic # 1:

Gen modeling overview

What are the different names-
Attribute Names
Business names
TD names
Element name
Entity/table
Identifier/primary key and index
References, online help
Logical model
Physical Model
Why model is important



08) Syllabus - Data Modelling using Cool:Gen , CA Gen



Here is the very high level syllabus if you are interested in learning how to do data modeling. Lets look at them in details in next posts....


1- Gen modeling Overview
2- Modeling new objects
3- Modifying existing objects
4- Other Data analysis and modeling options
5- Consistency check
6- Plotting
7- Reports