


Early versions supported IBM's DB2 database, 3270 'block mode' screens and generated COBOL code. The toolset originally supported the information technology engineering methodology developed by Clive Finkelstein, James Martin and others in the early 1980s. Gen was previously known as IEF ( Information Engineering Facility), Composer by IEF, Composer, COOL:Gen, Advantage:Gen and AllFusion Gen. For the engineering discipline see Information Engineering.ĬA Gen is a Computer Aided Software Engineering (CASE) application development environment marketed by CA Technologies. This page is about the application development environment (formerly known as Information Engineering Facility).
