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ASF in the Development Center

The development center is the corporate data processing department. In the development center, programmers develop management information systems for a production environment. The development center products illustrated in the following figure provide database administrators and programmers with a comprehensive set of database and application development tools.

ASF is a facility of the CA IDMS/DB database management system. ASF has the following functions in the development center:

• Prototyping tool—Programmers can use ASF to prototype database applications.
• Design tool—Database administrators can design a database online, using ASF to determine relationships between data elements.
• Generating skeletal program views—Database administrators can use ASF to automatically generate application program views of the database.