IBMS Case Tool History

Main contributors: Dr. Yicheng Tao (version 2), and Drs. Lester Yee, M'hamed Bouziane, Waiman Cheung, Jangha Cho, and Gilbert Babin (prior versions), during their doctoral studies at Rensselaer.

Future Plans

• Sybase/Informix Schema Generator.
• Enhanced OER (entity-relationship) Modeling Tool.
• Multilingual Data Input.
• Enhanced MDB Population.
• Creation of Active (Business/Operating) rules for Oracle implementation.  

Version History Version 1.2 (Sep. 1, 1995)

• MicroSoft Access 2.0 Schema Generator
• On-Line Hypertext Help
• Windows Rule Builder
• Optional Functional Dependency Builder

Version 1.1 (Jun. 14, 1995)

• Object-Oriented Modeling Capability
• dBASE Schema Generator
• Oracle V.7 Schema Generator
• IDEFo modeling tool.
• DFD Modeling Tool and DFD -> SER (semantics) Mapping Functionalities.
• Print Scaling

Version 1.0b (Oct. 1, 1994)

• Semantic (SER) Modeling Tool.
• Operational (OER) Modeling Tool.
• SER (functional) -> OER (entity-relationship) Mapping Algorithms
• Metadatabase Population.
• Oracle V.6 Schema Generator.