Migrating PacDesign Batch Flow Charts and Screen Navigation Charts to Rational Software Architect

You can migrate the Batch Flow Charts and Screen Navigation Charts that were created in the PacDesign module of Pacbase and then work on them in Rational® Software Architect.

Before you begin

Rational Software Architect must be installed.

Rational Programming Patterns must be installed in the same package group as Rational Software Architect. Moreover, Rational Programming Patterns must be installed with the feature PacDesign (only for an installation on top of RSA).

Procedure

  1. Extract the PacDesign Batch Flow Charts and Screen Navigation Charts by running the Pacbase PACX - EXTR procedure with the UPDP formatting option. You must run this procedure twice: once to extract the PacDesign Batch Flow Charts and another time to extract the Screen Navigation Charts. Then, you get two files: a file for the Batch Flow Charts and another file for the Screen Navigation Charts.
  2. Open the Software Delivery Platform where Rational Software Architect and Rational Programming Patterns are installed.
  3. Create an import project.
    1. Select File > New > General > Project.
    2. Give a name to the project.
    3. Click Finish.
  4. Indicate that this project will contain the extracted Batch Flow Charts and Screen Navigation Charts.
    1. Select File > Import > PacDesign > PacDesign diagrams.
    2. Click Next.
    3. In the Select file field, select the file that was produced by the PACX - EXTR extraction procedure.
    4. In the Enter or select the parent folder field, indicate the name of the import project. You can enter it directly in the field or select it in the list that displays all the projects of the workspace.
    5. Click Finish. A progress bar is displayed.

    When the progress bar disappears, the list of the diagrams that are included in the PACX - EXTR extracted file is displayed.

  5. Click All to import all the diagram of the file.
  6. Click OK.

    The import progress bar is displayed until the operation is complete.

Results

The PacDesign Batch Flow Charts and Screen Navigation Charts can now be accessed. To see them, open the Project Explorer view.

Open the project that was created for the import and expand Diagrams. Each Batch Flow Chart and Screen Navigation Chart corresponds to a file with an emx extension.

You can access the diagram of a Batch Flow Chart or Screen Navigation Chart in two ways:
  • Open an emx file and its Diagrams tab.
  • Expand an emx file in the Project Explorer view.
From the tab of the view, expand the line Communication Diagrams for a Batch Flow Chart or State Machine Diagrams for a Screen Navigation Chart. Then, double-click the nested line.

You can then work on the diagram content.


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