ABL2DB

Posted by Thomas Mercer-Hursh on 26-Jun-2014 16:41

At the recent PUG Challenge Americas I presented a paper "What Code Updates That Field and Similar Problems?: Databasing ABL Code and Data Relationships for Analysis" (available at http://cintegrity.com/content/Databasing-ABL-Code-and-Data-Relationships ) that presented a new open source tool for collecting a wide variety of information about one's code base and putting this into a database for analysis and reporting.  A preliminary version of this tool is now available at http://www.oehive.org/ABL2DB for download and experimentation.

No doubt, as people play with it they will discover issues which need to be fixed, either bugs (I've found some!) or issues about particular code bases which need adaptation.  I have anticipated some possible issues about code base dependency and designed the code to be easy to adapt around those issues.   I *strongly* encourage feedback about problems or ideas for extending it to capture more information.  The presentation includes several projects which are already on the roadmap.

This tool is *like* the tools some of you may have for databasing XREF information, but I think it goes beyond them and, in time, will go far beyond.  You can see the current coverage by looking at the data structure diagrams in the presentation.  There is a lot one can do with this just by writing question-specific queries, but I hope over time to build up a library of reports to address some larger scope issues.

Enjoy and feedback is strongly encouraged! 

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