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EASTERN GREAT LAKES REGION
PREDICT 2
Verification And
NATURAL 2
Processing Rules
Presented by
Randy Kastendick
Alan Smith
The Eastern Great Lakes Users'
Group meeting was held on September
14,1988 and was hosted by
National Fuel Gas, Buffalo, New
York.
The meeting was opened at 9:30
a.m. by Joan O'Brien with the introduction
of 20 attendees representing
4 licensees and Software
AG.
First on our agenda was a presentation
by Mr. Randy Kastendick a
Senior Technical Support Rep. from
Software AG, Denver on PREDICT 2
VerificationlNATURAL 2 Processing
Rules.
Randy described the equivalence of
these entities and categorized the
different types (i.e. Free, Automatic,
In-Line). Randy demonstrated the
definition of rules in PREDICT, association
of same with fields in
files and generation into DDM's. He
further demonstrated by adding
NATURAL 2 processing rules in the
Map Editor and pushing "Free
Rules" created in the MaplRule
editors back into PREDICT. Randy
emphasized the fact that, to become
effective, the VerificationlProcessing
Rules must be "activated" by
(re)generating the DDM or (re)cataloging
the Map to which it pertains.
After a short breather, Mr. Kastendick
gave another presentation, this
one on PREDICT 2.3 Change
Enhancements.
After a fine lunch the agenda
turned to the EGLUG's business.
Future meetings will be:
November 1, 1988-Univ. of
Rochester
March 1, 1989-Rochester Inst.
of Technology
The agenda for the November 1
meeting will include our annual
elections and reports from the upcoming
Software AG Users'
Conference.
Nominations for annual elections
include:
Regional Rep.-Nancy Simonds,
Roch. Inst. Tech.
Program Chairperson-Dennis
Conley, Erie Insurance
Secretary-Alan Smith, Roch.
Gas & Electric
Education Coordinator-Lori
Wilson, Arcata Graphics
The group was privileged to hear
from the manager of the Software
AG Boston Regional Office, Mr.
Charlie Enwright. Charlie gave a
brief description of the organizational
chain from Rochester to Boston
and mentioned, as well, the
Software AG Custom Solutions staff
now working in the Boston Office.
Charlie introduced the two new
additions to the Rochester office:
Kevin Kelly (for the IBM market)
and "Doc" Levy (for the VAX
market).
Charlie requests that if we have difficulty
in resolving any problems
with Software AG that we would
give his office the opportunity to
assist in that resolution.
Nancy Simonds then gave us a preview
of the paper she is to present
at the International Software AG
Users' Conference entitled "Establishing
Application Programming
Standards."
The prize for the individual traveling
the farthest to attend our meeting
was awarded to Mr. Julian
Hyde, from McQuarrie University
in Sydney, Australia. Mr. Hyde is
traveling throughout the U.S. visiting
University ADABASI
NATURAL user installations and
gathering information on their usage.
Julian came to the meeting
with the Rochester Institute of
Technology staff, with whom he is
currently visiting.
Next, Mike Miller from Rochester
Gas & Electric shared some information
about the recent NATURAL
2 Conference organized at Boston
University by Jim Wisdom. Gregg
Hess (Erie Ins.) and Ken Friedman
(Cornell) also attended. Mike and
Gregg described something of the
format and flavor of the conference
and discussed a number of specific
recommendations made there.
EASTERN GREAT LAKES REGION
Doug Sinel, CMS,
Describes His
Experiences With
ADABAS 5
The meeting was opened at 10:OO
a.m. on June 16, 1988 at Cornell
University by Joan O'Brien with the
introduction of 20 attendees representing
10 licensees and Software
AG.
The business portion of the meeting
was the first item on the agenda.
Joan made available some information
passed on by John Tomashunas,
North American Area
Rep for SAGGROUP.
Future meetings will be:
September 14, 1988-National
Fuel Gas
November, 1988-Univ. of
Rochester (firm date TBA)
March, 1989-(Date and Site
TBA)
Education coordinator Paul Sam01
said that Fairport BOCES wil be
hosting a NATURAL 2 Enhancements
class in the late-Julylearly-
August timeframe to be taught by
ADEPT. Three days of the 4-day
class will address enhancements
and the fourth day will focus on
NATURAL 2 mapping facilities.
Anyone interested should contact
Lynn Stanzel at BOCES.
Alan Smith, EGLUG Secretary, requested
that any installations that
haven't updated their site-survey
forms please do so.