| I don't believe their dictionary product allows you to use the COPY
function in a 3GL program. For example I don't believe you can use the
COPY FROM DICTIONARY function in a COBOL program. Nor do I believe it
does binding such as CDD+ where you can query the dictionary to find
out what programs are compiled against a field or record.
I am quite certain that it does not handle RMS files. My point
to a recent customer is that you don't walk into work some morning
and "poof" suddenly find all your data structures in Oracle. The
migration from flat to relational takes planning and discipline
and our CDD+ can provide and augment both.
In summary, I would expect their dictionary to provide a decent
level on integration IF the customer only uses their products.
Beyond that, all bets are off.
-- gerry
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| Re: my note .0. Yesterday I attended one of Oracle's seminars on their
CASE tools, including CASE*Method, CASE*Dictionary, and CASE*Designer.
I have to say they SOUND good, but since they are all new
releases, they are basic offerings, and would have to be well
managed in a true development environment to keep people from stepping
on each other's designs. No versioning support yet, for example.
Specifically in reference to the CASE*Dictionary product, it is NOT
related in any way to their database dictionary. When designing
applications against an existing database, updates to the metadata must
be made in both dictionaries. However, there is a utility to download
from the database dictionary to the CASE*Dictionary, according to the rep.
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