Announcements

Access Gen V7.6.5

Response Systems is pleased to announce the release of Access Gen Windows V7.6.5. It contains a host of new features, a streamlined interface and enhancements to existing reports to ensure you continue to maximise your CA Gen development productivity.

- CA Gen Task Scheduling
Access Gen Windows now supports full asynchronous task processing. For QA Console customers (integrated version), this caters for summary and detailed QA reports and for Client Server Encyclopedia users, common CA Gen processes such as uploads, downloads, adoptions, migrations and consistency checks can now all be submitted, monitored and processed from within Access Gen. There’s an integrated database, queue functionality, task prioritization, execution windows and cleanup tasks to ensure development teams are as efficient as possible whilst giving administrators the control they need to maintain a productive development environment.

- Cross model attribute usage report
Overwhelmingly positive customer feedback for the Attribute Usage Report has lead to its extension to the Pick List cross model family of features. The task of seeing how and where an attribute or attributes are used across multiple models is now a simple task with the interactive report returned providing an ideal springboard for further analysis.

- Multi-entity browse report
Ever wanted to produce an ERD report on all of the entities in your model right down to its attributes, relationships, identifies and all their properties? Add them to the Pick List and press the Entity Browse push button. Now producing this important release document is easy.

- Packaging report enhancements
The Packaging Report for Load Modules and Procedure Steps has now been extended to detail what triggers they implement.

- Literal locator improvements
The Literal Locator feature has been further enhanced to cater for NUMERICS and allow for ‘matches exactly’ searches for the input string.

- Client based cache maintenance
With the advent of full asynchronous task support, cache maintenance has been brought into the Access Gen client with the Task Manager decommissioned. With automatic cache management and recurring task capabilities, maintaining up to date cache structures is now a whole lot easier.

Access Gen & integrated QA Console

- New QA Console checks
All existing RS Supplied checks have been incorporated as fully supported Base checks. There’s also a new check to highlight unused attributes – a finer level of detail than the current unused view check.

- New QA Console detailed report layout
Based on customer feedback, the Detailed Report has been reformatted to be more concise when objects pass a check. When issues occur they are now more obvious and compliance certificates more brief, whilst still delivering the level of assurance that an object is ready for promotion.
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APMConnect released

APMConnect provides real-time monitoring of CA Gen applications, and integrates with CA Technologies’ market-leading APM software (CA APM – previously CA Wily).
APMConnect is a non-intrusive, always-on Application Performance Monitoring product that requires no change to your CA Gen applications. APMConnect’s pro-active monitoring ensures you can rapidly resolve any availability or performance issues – which keeps critical business applications available, and costly processing resources effectively utilised.
A key feature of APMConnect is the ability to follow transactions across multiple technology platforms, as they execute, and deep-dive inside the transaction on each platform. With deep-dive visibility inside executing transactions, problem resolution, effective performance tuning on each platform, and an end to the “blame game” when application failures occur is now available.
Using APMConnect with your CA Gen applications will offer you
Improved Service Assurance
- Constant visibility to critical application availability
- Configurable dashboards for your Business Owners’ desktops showing key business functions
- Effective monitoring of relevant Service Level Agreements to your Business, and with your vendors

Rapid Application Triage
- Rapid identification of where critical problems are located – enabling faster time to remediation
- Cross-platform application monitoring from Java/.NET through to CA Gen – and back again
- Monitoring in a CA Gen context – Procedure steps, Action diagrams and CA Gen statement numbers

Performance monitoring and tuning
- Always-on, real-time monitoring with sub-transactional visibility
- Location of “hotspots” within your executing applications so you know where to “tune”
- Configurable thresholds for immediately identifying rogue transactions

To find out more about APMConnect, visit www.response-systems.com/solutions/apm or contact us on info@response-systems.com
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Access Gen TSO v8.50

In line with Response Systems’ continued commitment to develop our products, we are pleased to announce the release of Access Gen Version 8.50 (formerly CE-Access). The headline items for this release are an all new interactive action diagram browse facility, attribute based impact reporting, and enhanced searching via changed objects.

Interactive Action Diagram browsing – A Procedure Step or Action Block browse is now displayed in an interactive panel that supports a range of functionality:
• All Views may be expanded and contracted.
• Statements containing nested code may be expanded and contracted.
• Browse the code for any called Action Diagram in a new panel.
• Expand and Contract all statements from the command line.

Attribute based Impact Report – The existing Impact report option has been extended to allow users to see the potential impact of a change to either an attribute or work attribute.
• Impact Report is customisable allowing the user to nominate the impact options that best suit their requirements.
• Impact can be performed on a single object or a list of objects.

Changed Objects Report by user and date – In addition to the existing rich search functionality, it is now possible to search via the Changed Objects report.
• Users no longer need to bring up a list of objects on the List panel before this option is available.
• All objects, regardless of type, within the nominated model are returned for the supplied date range and optionally User ID.
• Objects are displayed in the List panel allowing additional analysis or reporting to be performed on the results.

This release is available for download from the Support Centre of our website at www.response-systems.com