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"Data dictionary directions, Past,
Present & Future, and Software
AG's PREDICT CASE directions." A
limited number of handouts were
made available to the attendees.
Mr. David Jones of CIGNA presided
over the NATURAL 2 Special Interest
Group meeting at the end of the
day.
EASTERN REGION
Steve Robinson
Presents On
NATURAL 2
Windowing
Concept
The quarterly meeting of the Eastern
Region Software AG Users'
Group was held at the Holiday Inn
in Crystal City, Virginia on Tuesday,
July 12, 1988. The meeting
was called to order at 9:00 a.m. by
President Bob Comstock. The following
orders of business were
covered:
1. General Business
3. NATURAL 2 Tool Kit
4. Windowing with NATURAL 2
5. PREDICT
6. NATURAL 2 "Shop Talk"
General Business
Bob Comstock welcomed ACS Inc.,
ATAC Inc. and AT&T as new members
of the Eastern Region. Members
interested in copies of correspondence
sent to the Eastern Regions
Representative were given the
opportunity to sign a list to have
copies forwarded to them.
Otto Ferrari of AMS and Bob Comstock
of PRC were identified as
candidates for SAGGROUP
NATURAL Product Representative
and PREDICT Product Representative.
Bob requested that interested
person(s) for Eastern Region offices
or Product Representative please
identify yourself. Elections for the
Eastern Region will be held at the
October 11th meeting. Should no
one come forward, the current slate
of officers and candidates will be
used to get nominations off to a
start at the October 11th meeting.
Members were notified of a two day
NATURAL conference held in Boston
on June 29th and 30th. This
conference was hosted by Jim Wisdom
of Boston University and Mary
Albano of MIT. Bob Comstock of
PRC and Ron Egger of S.L. Robinson
Associates were two members
of the Eastern Region who attended
this meeting. Documentation presented
at the conference was made
available by Bob Comstock through
a sign up sheet and the information
will be mailed to interested users.
Bob Comstock introduced George
Coker as the acting chairperson for
the newly formed Federal BIG.
George reminded members of the
meeting to be held at PRC McLean,
Virginia on July 13th and provided
an overview of the agenda. This
Federal BIG is at the national level
and not tied to just the Eastern
Region.
Windowing
Steve Robinson of S.L. Robinson &
Associates gave a presentation on
the windowing concept in
NATURAL 2. Steve used the
unique approach of Lakes (represents
the logical screen which can
be 250 x 249), glass bottom boats
(workable portion of the pond), and
ponds (your screen) to describe the
windowing concept. Steve gave a
very good description of the syntax
needed to become familiar with the
windowing concept as well as giving
some warnings as to the pitfalls
of windowing. The Eastern Region
thanks Captain Robinson for an interesting
cruise aboard the glass
bottom boat.
PREDICT
Penny Carchedi of Software AG
gave a presentation on future
capabilities of PREDICT. Among
the areas that will be enhanced in
the new version of PREDICT will be
the increased capabilities of the automatic
cross reference and the
NATURAL list cross reference
functions. The new architecture of
PREDICT was discussed along with
the capability to retrieve information
on both third and fourth generation
languages.
NATURAL 2 "Shop Talk"
Ron Egger, Michelle Macauley,
Otto Ferrari and Joseph Bauer were
members of a panel that led a discussion
on NATURAL 2. Some of
the areas discussed were:
@
A bulletin board made available
by Clayton Clendinen. This is accessible
through RBBS.
Review of discussions at the
NATURAL 2 conference held in
Boston on June 29th and June
30th.
Structured mode vs reporting
mode
Attribute buffer
NATEDIT module
Global buffer pool
Use of GDA in reporting and
structured mode
EASTERN CANADIAN REGION
Doug Wheeler
Presents
CON-NECT
Features
Helen Cox
The September 12, 1988 meeting of
the Eastern Canadian Region was
attended by 53 members. It was
hosted by the University of Ottawa
in Ottawa, Ontario. The breakdown
of attendees is as follows: 8 from
Software AG, 26 representing 9 Ottawa
area users, 11 representing 8
Toronto area users, 7 representing 3
Montreal area users and 1 guest.
Users' Group Business
1. The meeting opened at 9:05 a.m.
chaired by Wendy Merkley and
Helen Cox. A thank you goes to
the University of Ottawa for
hosting this meeting.
2. The data and place of the next
meeting is as follows:
December 5,1988-City of
North York in the Toronto area
hosted by Kathie Hamel. Directions
will be sent out with the
final agenda.