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Procedure Synthesis to Build an Action Diagram

The use of the CA Gen procedure synthesis tool dovetails well with process synthesis. It generates new procedure action diagrams that implement existing action blocks, and entire procedures with enhanced features. Procedure synthesis can build:

• A menu procedure that will allow flows to other procedure steps based on commands.
• An entity maintenance action diagram that will USE process action blocks to create, read, delete, and update an entity type for which process action blocks already exist. These process action blocks are often created by process synthesis.
• An action diagram that USEs existing action blocks.
• An action diagram that reads a group of entities and then lists them (selection list). In this case, an action block to perform the read is also generated.
• In addition, from an existing selection list procedure CA Gen can synthesize a further subject list or neighbor list procedure and a flow between the two.

The following list shows procedure synthesis options:

• Entity Maintenance
• Selection List
• Implements Action Blocks
• Menu
• Subject List
• Neighbor List