CA-Gen

Following on from last week’s thoughts - a more general ramble on the “appearance” of tools of today and how CA-Gen stacks up. We all know how dated the user interface of Gen looks - but does that really affect its productivity ? It certainly affects its image, which pobably in turn affects its’ take-up. Users [...]Read Full Story

Wikizines are interactive magazines that anyone can create or edit - and this one is called "CA-Gen". Here you can find fresh voices and respond in real time. Some members write articles about recent news and trends related to the wikizine's topic, others recount relevant personal stories or share their favorite pictures and video clips. Got an interesting idea or story to share with other members of this wikizine? Well, then put on your journalist's cap and add your own article!Read Full Story

Does anyone remember this:  This was the “Certified Cool” logo that Sterling Software introduced in 1998 to allow people to get certified in Gen a-la Cisco or Microsoft Certification. As far as I remember there was one level of certification - you either had it or you didn’t. Not long after the CA takeover the programme was pulled. It [...]Read Full Story

One of the most prolific CA Smart Partners (Jumar Solutions ) has updated their website with complete new look - Go and check it out !! Why am I “plugging” a company in this blog entry rather than waxing lyrical about Gen ? First of all, let me say that I have no connection with the company, save [...]Read Full Story

It seems to me that over the last few years, the reliance on source code has decreased. To explain this further - most aplications today seem to be cobbled together, or “assembled” from components. This fills me with dread, simply because while there are people that can quite simply fit components together, and craft some [...]Read Full Story

Having looked at the new release of the Diagram Trace Utility (DTU) in Gen 7.6 and discovering that it’s based around Eclipse is a good thing. This means that the folks at CA are getting their act together and realising that there is a community of developers out there who know Eclipse and can use [...]Read Full Story

Whilst at CA-World in April, it came to my attention that many of our American friends (and in fact some organisations in Australasia) seem to prefer a deployment platform of a mainframe. Most of the Gen organisations that I am aware of in the UK seem to prefer the distributed (i.e. Unix) environment.  Call me cynical [...]Read Full Story

Looking at the users of Gen worldwide, most of them seem to be going the SOA route. Whilst this is not inherently a problem, and whilst Gen can participate fully in the SOA world, just as easily as it could in the batch world, the mainframe world and the client/server world, what part SHOULD Gen be [...]Read Full Story

Back around 1997 when I started using Gen (in it’s Composer 4 days) I had need to explicitly commit and rollback ( and by implication do a Start Worlk) on a Gen Batch procedure. Effectively, I wanted to set up my own Transaction Bounds. Generically, Gen procedure steps commit on completion. We needed to commit each [...]Read Full Story

I’ve been looking at the ways in which people search the net for gen-related topics, and (of the small number of requests there are) lots of people seem to be searching for “Gen” and “SOA” in the same breath. To me, this means that either a) people want to know if Gen can “do” SOA, [...]Read Full Story