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Toolset Ease of Use Enhancements

• Pass item information from selected controls within the Navigation Diagram to plug-in applications. While designing plug-in applications for the Gen Toolset, you can determine the controls that are selected on an open window in the Navigation Diagram. Earlier, you could only obtain that information when it was selected from the pane in the lower right corner of the Navigation Diagram.
• Default deletion rule that is indicated when adding a relationship. When creating relationships in the Entity Relationship Diagram, the default deletion rule is indicated with the appropriate radio button being set. While not necessary, this enhancement eliminates the need to manually set the rule after adding the relationship.
• View matching dialogs displayed only when necessary. When adding a USE statement, Import and Export view matching dialogs are only presented when there are views to be matched. Previous to this, you were always presented with Import and Export view matching dialogs even when the called action diagram had no parameters to match. While adding USE statements in an action diagram depending upon the import and export view existence, the dialog is displayed. Earlier, you had to explicitly close the view matching dialogs while adding USE statements in an action diagram that did not have any import or export views. This makes it easier to add USE statements.
• Create an action diagram from the Action Diagram Selection dialog. A New button is added to the Action Diagram Names Selection dialog to create an Action Diagram. This New button simplifies the creation of action diagrams.
• Default Import entity view optionality is set to mandatory. While creating import views for action diagrams, the default value of optionality for the entity view and any selected attribute views is mandatory (Always).

  Note: This enhancement does not affect procedure step action diagrams which continue to have the default value of optionality for the entity view and any selected attribute views set to optional (Sometimes).

• Partitioning indicated for Data Structure and Data Store List Diagrams. The Data Store and Data Structure lists indicate whether a table or tablespace has been partitioned by the Table Partitioning Plug-in or the Tablespace Partitioning Plug-in. This makes it easier to determine the partitioning status of tables and tablespaces in the two diagrams.
• Retain the selection of a Procedure Step within the Window Selection dialog after a sort operation has been performed. This ensures that the item selected before a sort is done remains selected after the sort completes.
• Populate the Procedure Step name In the Window Selection dialog for any Procedure Steps listed for Dialect Windows. This makes it easier to determine what Procedure Step a Dialect window belongs to.