Access Gen

Maximise your productivity

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Access Gen is a software productivity tool that delivers the information and process support a Gen project needs to operate at maximum efficiency. It is the culmination of nearly two decades of experience delivering productivity solutions to CA Gen projects.

Access Gen offers a single, integrated graphical interface giving instant access to your most valuable asset - your Gen Encyclopedia. It's features have been specifically designed to serve all phases of a project, regardless of development methodology and application type, without imposing rigid processes around the software's use. By streamlining your processes and boosting productivity, project costs are reduced and the only choice you have to make is whether to reduce your time to market or increase your development capacity.

Core Benefits

  • Boosts productivity
  • Streamlines processes
  • Faster time to market / increase development capacity
  • Supports all development methodologies and application types
  • Simple installation & implementation
  • Rapid ROI

Key Features

  • Simple, intuitive browser GUI
  • Gen task processing
  • Rich feature set giving analysis & development phase support
  • Pick list multi object processing
  • Interactive reports
  • Multiple Report Tabs
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Why Access Gen?

At the core of Gen development is the encyclopedia. It is here that the models of your business are created and developed that are ultimately built into your deployed applications.
Access Gen unlocks the information in your encyclopedia by giving fast, direct access to the models that it stores. No more waiting for check-ins and check-outs to get the information you need. Its features have been specifically developed to satisfy the information needs and support the processes of all phases of a development project from analysis and design, development and testing, through to application deployment and ongoing maintenance.

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First, select a model

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Navigate to the object types of interest

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Select an object from the results list and then run features from the toolbar or right click menu

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Select an object from the results list and then run features from the toolbar or right click menu

Analysis Phase Features

Select your object type(s) and search on name, trancode, domain, member name or object ID for an instant list of applicable objects. Multiple search words with AND/OR options are catered for. Also search on literals contained within all action diagrams or note statements and objects changed by an individual user or across an entire model.

Development Phase Features

Select your object type(s) and search on name, trancode, domain, member name or object ID for an instant list of applicable objects. Multiple search words with AND/OR options are catered for. Also search on literals contained within all action diagrams or note statements and objects changed by an individual user or across an entire model. CA Gen Task Scheduling only available for CSE installations.

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System Requirements

Software installation

  • Windows Vista and above, Windows Server 2003 and above
  • ODBC connectivity to the Gen Encyclopedia database
  • TCP/IP
  • Client - 100MB disk space & .NET Framework 3.5 or above, Java JRE 6 or above
  • Server - 150MB+cache* disk space

Encyclopedia database

  • Client Server Encyclopedia : All currently supported
  • Oracle and SQL Server versions by Gen
  • Host Encyclopedia : Suitable DB2 ODBC driver software (e.g. DB2 Connect)

CA Gen compatibility

Compatible with all versions of Gen (AllFusion Gen, COOL:Gen, Composer, IEF) up to and including release 8.6.

* The pre-requisite disk space for the server component is for the program files only. If the cache files are stored in a subdirectory of the Access Gen Server then the Server directory will occupy considerably more space depending on the size of the models that are extracted. As a guide, a model containing roughly 290,000 objects including 780 action diagrams (PSADs and CABs) occupies approximately 30 MB when the Model Structure and Action Diagram Caches are fully extracted.