CASE:PM for C 2.0 and for COBOL      programming/PM, OS/2
CASE:PM Opens Up to Cobol and C
 
Microbytes Daily News Service
Copyright (c) 1989, McGraw-Hill, Inc.
CASE:PM, the programming toolkit designed to simplify the
often-frustrating job of creating Presentation Manager
applications, will soon be available in a version that lets you
develop OS/2 applications in COBOL.
 
With CASE:PM for COBOL, (used along with the OS/2 1.2 Software
development kit), you can develop new SAA-compliant
applications or modify existing COBOL code for use under OS/2.
Caseworks says it hopes to ship the toolkit for COBOL in the
"middle" of the first quarter, 1990.
 
At the same time, Caseworks has opened up the internal knowledge
base on both the C and COBOL versions of CASE:PM (CASE:PM for C
2.0 is scheduled for early January 1990 release). This lets you
customize CASE:PM's proprietary internal Software Engineering
Language (SEL) to incorporate your own common instructions,
rules, and procedures. Caseworks says this is particularly useful
for programming teams, where incorporating standard routines such
as communications or disk I/O into the SEL knowledge base
eliminates the need for continually reinventing the wheel.
 
Also added to the newest versions of CASE:PM is the ability to
switch between a "build" view (for constructing PM screens),
and a "test" view that let's you test your work (as though it
was a running PM application) before generating and compiling
code.
 
CASE:PM now supports multiple, overlapped and tiled, and child
windows. Also included is a code-management facility that
automatically brings forward programmer-added code each time
you change or redesign the interface.
 
Price: CASE:PM for C, closed knowledge base, $1995; open
knowledge base, $3995; CASE:PM for COBOL, closed knowledge
base, $2495; open knowledge base, $4495.
 
Contact: Caseworks, Inc., 1 Dunwoody Park, Suite 130, Atlanta,
GA 30338, (404) 399-6236.
 
                              --- Stan Miastkowski
 
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