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General Board / Re: Mainframe UML - Where Is It?

« on: April 18, 2013, 11:36:46 am »

RoyC:

Perhaps you should show this thread to your UML gurus and get them moving fast!

I have to teach them mainframe, and they have to teach me OOD.  That's two lifetimes.
EA has to work for the average mainframe COBOL programmer.  We will establish standards, profiles or templates, etc.  Our Agile methodology suggests access and collaboration by all parties throughout the SDLC.  Maintenance of models will be a community responsibility depending upon project involvement.

@qwerty - the BCBSA headquarters are in Illinois. Springtime on the Great Lakes - yes? No?

Yes, BCBSA is on Michigan Ave, but no, I am remote in Florida where it has been Spring for 6 or 7 months.   [smiley=cool.gif]

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General Board / Re: Mainframe UML - Where Is It?

« on: April 18, 2013, 10:38:42 am »

I've got 6 weeks to model a highly complicated mainframe application in EA.
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General Board / Re: Mainframe UML - Where Is It?

« on: April 17, 2013, 12:23:05 pm »

In EA, "COBOL" is not one of the languages supported in the CLASS / Languages pull-down box. [smiley=cry.gif]

Am I missing a plug-in?

Are we pushing the envelope?

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General Board / Re: Mainframe UML - Where Is It?

« on: April 17, 2013, 07:46:37 am »

Qwerty, thank you!  [smiley=2vrolijk_08.gif]

This is exactly the outline and cross-vocabulary I have been trying to find for months.

The UML gurus in my department don't know mainframe.  They speak OOD and java.  I speak JCL and COBOL.  We just sit around the table scratching our heads.

I think I can wing it from here.

There is so little information available for UML on the mainframe that I believe this translation is marketable.  Have you thought of that?  Sure can't find anything like it in Google.

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General Board / Re: Mainframe UML - Where Is It?

« on: April 17, 2013, 02:49:39 am »

The applications we are attempting to document in UML using EA are standard COBOL CICS DB2 MQ.  Very complex, dynamic CALL structure, hundreds of subprograms per transaction, highly complex shared storage, data driven, dynamic processing.  It is not a "Hello, World!" application.

jfzouain:

Just start creating your Use Cases and Activity Diagrams so you can get familiar with EA and UML. And go from there to different diagrams like Deployment and maybe Components.

Isn't the first step in EA to Create Project?  Is Project required?

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General Board / Re: Mainframe UML - Where Is It?

« on: April 17, 2013, 01:02:50 am »

qwerty:

I guess you mean the person, not the machine

I am dinosaur, the mainframe is evolving.

We are attempting to model existing mainframe applications in UML using EA (on PC) for the purpose of documentation and analysis.

RoyC:

Google 'UML'

The only references to UML on the mainframe require multiple IBM software licenses.  I could not find examples of mainframe UML.  :-/

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General Board / Re: Mainframe UML - Where Is It?

« on: April 16, 2013, 04:08:49 am »

   Good, can you offer any guidelines or hints for a mainframe dinosaur who has never seen or heard of UML?

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General Board / Mainframe UML - Where Is It?

« on: April 16, 2013, 02:29:32 am »

I have Enterprise Architect and have been tasked with using UML on mainframe applications.

Where are experiences with UML on the mainframe?

 :-/