Have you ever considered modeling? No, we’re not suggesting you strut down the fashion runway or try to get that little ship to fit inside the bottle. We are talking about modeling software-intensive systems using Unified Modeling Language (UML2). Before we talk about modeling software, let’s look at a more familiar kind of model, a …
Want to minimize development risks? Adopt the right methodology! In this column, I would like to discuss how the right methodology can minimize risks and accelerate the development process. Development Risks Steve McConnell, author of the classic book on development “Rapid Development: Taming Wild Software Schedules” attributes insufficient risk management as …
Who cares about standards? YOU should! Why? Standardized products and services are valuable because they: Provide consistent quality Minimize learning curve Support compatibility Promote Portability Rather than asking why we need standards, we might usefully ask ourselves what the world would be like without standards. What would it be like to have to relearn how …
Several years ago we began exploring how we might make functionality that was readily available on Windows™ platforms available to NonStop applications. We looked at porting some of them to the NonStop. We have been able to do that to a very small number of tools, like an HTTP server and email client.) Most of …
DLLs (Dynamic Link Library) have long been used to provide optional features to programs since its inception on the Windows platform. TIC has used this capability in our Windows™ applications, TelePath and TICTransform. DLLs allow customers to extend both of these TIC products by adding their own code. But did you know that DLL is also …
If you are a SOAPam Server user, then you know how easy it is to create a web service using the SOAPam Control Panel in a matter of minutes. SOAam Server stores information about the web services in Service Definition Files (SDF) within its Virtual File System (VFS), which can be viewed easily from a …
If you are like a lot of NonStop users, chances are that you have other platforms (like .NET or Java) and databases (e.g. MS SQL Server or Oracle) that you would like your application to interact with. For the past two years, users have enjoyed attending our Tutorial Webinars to learn how our products SOAPam …
Question How can you tell who the NonStop users are in the audience when you are doing a product presentation? Answer They are the ones who always ask: Is it high-performance? Is it scalable? Is it secure? In this article, we want to address the question of security as it relates to Web Service. Security …
In Part 1 of this series, I have provided some quick pointers on how to convert COBOL85 programs to native mode COBOL. I also pointed out that if the COBOL program calls routines in a TAL library, those routines will need to be converted to pTAL. In general, converting TAL code to pTAL code is …
Native compilers on the Nonstop have been available for a long time. Yet, are you still running non-native COBOL programs limited by 128K in data space? Have you not been able to take advantage of the new tools like the PC-based cross compilers because you are not writing native mode programs? If so, you are …
