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
- 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.
- Open the Software Delivery Platform where Rational Software Architect and Rational Programming Patterns are installed.
- Create an import project.
- Select .
- Give a name to the project.
- Click Finish.
- Indicate that this project will contain the extracted Batch
Flow Charts and Screen Navigation Charts.
- Select .
- Click Next.
- In the Select file field, select
the file that was produced by the PACX - EXTR extraction
procedure.
- 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.
- 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.
- Click All to import all the diagram
of the file.
- 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.