COOL:Gen

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 What is Cool:Gen?

• CASE Tool (Computer Aided Software Engineering).

• Full - Life cycle Model .

• Graphical/Screen Design Tools.

• Data Model Tools.
• Logic Design Tools.
• Packaging and Deployment Tools.

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 COOL:Gen OVER VIEW

• Introduced by Texas Instruments. Taken over by Sterling

Software and then by Computer Associates
• Basically a code generating tool
• Early days, was identified as IEF (Information
Engineering Facility) then Composer. Then as COOl:Gen
and now it is called as Advantage Gen
• Automated tool to implement Information Engineering
Methodology(IEM)

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 Seven Stages on IEF

• ISP - Information
• Construction
Strategy Planning
• Transition
• BAA - Business Area
Analysis • Production
• BSD - Business System
Design
• TD - Technical Design

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 Definition

• ISP - Establish a broad view of the information requirements

of the business
• BAA - Detail analysis on a particular segment of business
called Business Area
• BSD - Description on application system of one segment of
Business Area in detail
• TD - Tailoring of BSD to specific target computing
environment.Takes into account the characteristics of
OS,hardware , DBMS etc.

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 Definition

• Construction - Creation of executables components of a

system
• Transition - Installation of new system in production
in an orderly manner
• Production - Execution of application system in
production environment in an orderly
manner

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 DATA MODEL

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 Analysis - Project Tasks

Analysis Tasks

Data
Analysis Analysis
Interaction Design
Model
Analysis Confirmation Planning
Project Activity
Planning Analysis

Current
Systems
Analysis

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 Data Analysis and Activity
Analysis

Data Analysis
- “What there is”
- What information is
required by the business

parallel to
Activity Analysis
- “What is done”
- What activities make up
the business

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 Subject Area
ORGANIZATIONS PROJECTS

ORGANIZATION TEAM

TASK

PROJECT

“An area of interest to the enterprise centered on a

major resource, product or activity and about
which it may hold data."
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 Purpose of Subject Areas

ORGANIZATIONS EMPLOYEES

PROJECTS • Provide structure

PROJECT
– match activity
TEAM
structure

TASK
• Focus attention
• Define scope

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 Entity Types

Shipment
Employee

Product

Types of things the business needs in order to operate

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 Attributes

Employee is described Attributes

by
• Name
• Address
• Birth Date
• Start Date
• Job Grade

Facts about entities that are useful to the business

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 Finding Attributes

• During fact gathering

• While finding entity types
• During activity analysis
• During interaction analysis
• From current systems analysis

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 Attribute Value

For entity type EMPLOYEE

Attribute Value
Name Alan Jones
Jasmine Schwartz
Chris Corrigan
Birth Date 01 Apr 1961
17 Sep 1948
23 Feb 1953

An occurrence of an attribute is its value

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 Attribute Window

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 Attribute Source Categories

Basic Customer
Name

Designed Product
Code

Derived x+y=z Account

Balance

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 Domain Support in Composer

Domains Length
Text - Character and 1 - 254
Number
Number - Integer or 1 - 18
decimal
Date - YYYYMMDD 8
Full year and
month and day
Time - HHMMSS 6
Timestamp - YYYYMMDDHHMMSSNNNNNN 20

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 Attribute Detail - Values

• Permitted values - Specific value or

range
• Default values- Initial setting
• Derived values - Can be calculated
from the values of
other attributes

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 An Attribute as an Identifier

Entity Type: CUSTOMER

Attributes: STATUS
NAME
STREET ADDRESS
CITY
STATE
POSTAL CODE
NUMBER
MAILING AUTHORIZATION
CODE

Single Identifier
NUMBER

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 Composite Identifier Using
Attribute
and Relationship Membership
Attributes Relationships
NUMBER IS INCLUDED ON
ORDER
SALE PRICE ORDER
ITEM INCLUDES
QUANTITY

Combination of:
NUMBER
and the fact that

Each ORDER ITEM is included on one ORDER

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 Data Model

Subject Area
Entity Type

• Subject Area is always named in plural.

For Example LOANS, CUSTOMERS etc..
• Entity Type is always named in singular.
For Example LOAN, CUSTOMER etc..
• A subject area can contain more than one entity type.

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 Relationship
A reason of relevance to the enterprise for
associating entities of one or two entity types

ACTOR STARS IN FILM

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 Relationship Pairing
Specific entities participate in each
occurrence
of the relationship
Tommy Lee Jones Batman II

Harrison Ford The Fugitive

of

ACTOR STARS IN FILM

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 Two Relationship Memberships

One way

PLACES
CUSTOMER ORDER
IS PLACED BY

One way

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 Data Model - Relationship

• A reason of relevance to the enterprise for associating entities

of one or two entity types.

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 Data Model - Relationship

• One to One Mandatory relationship

• One to One optional relationship

• One to Many optional relationship

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 Data Model - Relationship

SUPPLIER IS BASIS FOR PURCHASE

PROPOSAL IS BASED ON ORDER

INCLUDES PURCHASE
PURCHASE ORDER
ORDER IS INCLUDED ON ITEM

IS CONTACTABLE AT
EMPLOYEE DWELLING
IS CONTACT POINT FOR

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 When “Reading” begin with Each

Each
PLACES
CUSTOMER ORDER
IS PLACED BY

Each

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 Mandatory Relationship Member

PURCHASE CONTAINS
PURCHASE
ORDER ORDER ITEM
IS CONTAINED IN

• Each Purchase order always contains one or more

Purchase Order Item

• Each Purchase Order Item always contained in Purchase

Order

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 Optional Relationship Member

PLACES
CUSTOMER ORDER
IS PLACED BY

• Each Customer sometimes places one or more order

• Each order is always placed by a customer

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 Data Model

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 Characteristic and Associative
Entity Types

EMPLOYEE SKILL

Before Normalization

EMPLOYEE EMPLOYEE SKILL

SKILL

Associative Entity Type

After Normalization
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 Deletion Rules
Source Properties
(Dept Info)
When an occurrence of Dept Info is deleted

• Delete each occurrence of EMP_INFO

• Disassociate each occurrence of EMP_INFO
• Disallow deletion of DEPT_INFO if there is one
or more occurrence of EMP_INFO

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 Deletion Rules
Destination Properties
(EMP INFO)

• Delete each occurrence of DEPT_ INFO for which this is

the last EMP_INFO
• Disassociate each occurrence of DEPT_INFO
• Disallow deletion of EMP_INFO if there is a DEPT_INFO
which Contains this EMP_INFO

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 Data Model

• Transformation - Conversion of Logical Data Model into

a Physical Data Model

• Retransformation - Used when any changes made in the

Data model

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 Creation of a Physical Data Model

Physical Data Model

Data Store

List Data Structure List

A design tool used after A design tool used after

transformation to update
database, tablespace, table,
indexspaces and the storage
groups of the datastructure
design
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transformation to modify tables,
columns, indexes, foreign keys
and constraints of the data
structure design
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 DDL GENERATION

DDL Generation is the process of

construction of Data Definition
Language (DDL) statements which in
turn creates the actual Database.

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 Data Model

Data Model Database

Subject Area None(Logical)

Entity Type Table

Entity Row(Occurrence) in table

Attribute Field definitions

Identifier Key Value

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 Questions?

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