Unify VISION 3.0 Datasheet

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Unify VISION 3.0 is the most advanced client/server development environment for the development, deployment, and management of high-end, scalable, multiplatform applications.

It combines a powerful client/server architecture with a flexible and easy-to-use rapid application development technology. A leader in second-generation client/server application development, VISION combines a low cost of entry and ownership with a rapid time to market, providing the power to build complex enterprisewide applications on budget, and on time.

Once mastered, object-oriented development can produce great productivity gains. But moving your development team away from the traditional programming approach can be an obstacle to fast track development. VISION's graphical class browser and flexible transition to object oriented programming ensure that both novices and object masters alike can reap the benefits of fully object-oriented development in an automated, visual development environment.

VISION's highly advanced, dynamic partitioning ensures that large, complex applications do not overload either your desktop machines or your network. Proactive event notification, and failover/fault tolerance through replicated partition servers, provide maximum scalability and flexibility.

VISION 3.0 applications automatically generate important event and performance management information, allowing administrators to centrally manage distributed applications. In addition, VISION 3.0 now includes VISION/AppMan, with agents to automatically connect to system management products from Tivoli, BMC, HP and Microsoft.

Object-Oriented Development

Providing a flexible transition to object-oriented development from a more traditional programming approach, VISION's learning curve is short for both seasoned object practitioners and novices alike. In addition, VISION encourages reuse by making it easy to find previously built objects in its team-based repository. The graphical class browser and tightly integrated script editor (with outlining, error marking, and built-in class tree traversal) maximize the benefits of encapsulation, inheritance and polymorphism.

Dynamic Application Partitioning

VISION's advanced application partitioning allows you to distribute application processing across clients and servers, optimizing the performance of your desktop machines and network resources. Through the graphical VISION console, partitions may be managed and dynamically redistributed without even halting the application.

Proactive event notification allows client-to-client and server-to-client messaging, and partition servers may be replicated, providing for failover, greater scalability, and automatic load balancing.

Web-Enabled Development

The limitations of HTML and CGI programming - poor performance and security, and a lack of support for business logic or transactions - have fueled the move towards programming in Java. VISION's architecture is built to support a Java-based approach to client/server over the Internet. By checking a box in the Designer, VISION 3.0 will guide developers to design forms in preparation for Java generation with VISION/Web, due later in 1996.

Application Management Built-in

VISION 3.0 applications automatically generate over 400 events and 140 performance metrics allowing administrators to manage distributed applications from a central console, VISION 3.0 now includes VISION/AppMan, with agents to automatically connect to system management products from Tivoli, BMC, and HP. In addition, the VISION Designer connects seamlessly with Tivoli Courier and Microsoft SMS for enterprisewide software distribution.

Rapid Application Development Across Multiple Platforms

Unify VISION combines a robust, event-driven, object-oriented 4GL with highly automated functions for GUI programming and database access. Using SmartView dialogs, developers can specify the visual components and properties of forms, as well as automatically generating much of an application's underlying functionality, including locking, transaction management, query by example, form navigation, and form relationships. Unify VISION provides complete binary portability among GUIs and operating systems, and optimized SQL for multiple RDBMS platforms, allowing a "develop anywhere, deploy everywhere" approach.

OLE Support

VISION 3.0 provides support for OLE containers on forms (such as a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet), and OLE client automation, giving the ability to access the methods and attributes of OLE automation interfaces through VISION 4GL.

System Requirements

Supported operating systems: SunOS 4.1.3, Solaris 2.4, HP-UX 10.0, IBM AIX 4.1, DEC Alpha OSF/1, v 4.0 Windows 95, Windows NT, Windows 3.1 (deployment only), Macintosh System 7 (deployment only)

Supported GUIs: Windows 95, Motif, OPEN LOOK, Windows (deployment only), Macintosh System 7 (deployment only)

Supported databases: Oracle 7.x, Sybase 4.x, 10.x, Informix 6.x, 7.x, SQL Server 6.x, Ingres 6.4, Unify 2000 3.x, Access 1.1, 2.0, dBase III & IV, SQL Anywhere n AppMan agents for: Tivoli Enterprise Console, BMC PATROL, Hewlett Packard MeasureWare/Transaction Tracker, Microsoft SMS, Tivoli Courier

Memory usage (development/deployment): UNIX: 32 MB/24 MB, Windows 95 and NT: 32 MB/24 MB, Windows 12 MB (deployment only), Macintosh: 16 MB (deployment only) n Disk usage (development/deployment): UNIX: 100 MB/50 MB, Windows 95 and NT; 36 MB/15 MB, Windows; 15 MB (deployment only), Macintosh; 10 MB (deployment only)

Highlights

Flexible transition from traditional programming to fully object-oriented development.
Graphical class browser is central to development, encouraging reuse and making objects easy to find.
Multi-tier, dynamic application partitioning for scalable, enterprisewide applications.
High throughput, replicated partition servers provide failover/fault tolerance.
Cross platform, team-based development and deployment in UNIX, Windows, Windows 95, Windows NT, and Macintosh.
Support for multiple, simultaneous, native connections to RDBMSs including Oracle, Sybase, Informix, MS SQL Server, and Unify 2000.
Automatic generation of management-ready applications - 400 events and 140 performance metrics are communicated to management systems through built-in AppMan agents.
Web-enabled development. Generation of Java applets through VISION/Web allows fast, transaction-based applications over the Web without the limitations of HTML and CGI.

VISION 3.0 Datasheet
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