Re: CASE Survey

dagmar_at_indian.mitre.org (Dagmar A. Bogan) writes:

>Comments:
 

>* Have to modify generated DDL for version 7

        This is addressed in CASE 5.1

>* Not a clear one-to-one relationship between Dictionary contents and generated code

        I still have not experienced this.  Can someone give me
        an example ?   CASE pulls information out of the dictionary
        in some strange ways but once one is aware of how Dictionary
        and Generator share information, it becomes, at least, predictable.



>*  Lacks a trigger / procedure library

                Once can at least reduce the matrix work by doing more
                reigorous up front design.

>* Dislike the character-based interface for Dictionary; prefer GUI screens

           This is addressed in CASE 5.1.  Then again, with character based
           screens, you can get additional users to pound in a great
           deal of dictionary info at a very low hardware cost per seat.



>*  Would like to see Designer show attributes (i.e., E-A-R Diagram)


     
          This is addressed in CASE 5.1

>People seem to fall into two camps; very enthusiastic or very
>pessimestic. They
>either loved it or hated it; no in-between.

      It seems most of the disparaging remarks mirror those posted by
      a novice CASE user a few weeks ago.  I agree that Oracle CASE has
      some problems however, after using the beta of CASE 5.1, it
      is clear that Oracle has addressed many of the shortcomings
      of CASE 5.0.

Rich Holowczak
Rutgers University
holowcza_at_andromeda.rutgers.edu Received on Sat Jan 29 1994 - 17:30:46 CET