International Business Machines Corporation

Ibm Canada Limited - Ibm Canada Limitee

Dirk A Seelemann

David Adiel Spriet

Gaetan Nadon

Crystal J Su

Wassim Melhem

Srinivas Chari

Cecil L Parsons

Therese Sroujian

Milorad Stefanovic

A system and method of relationship management for data modeling in an integrated development environment is provided. A method of incorporating a program code file includes generating a relational schema of symbols in the program code file based on a framework for models in the integrated development environment, the schema comprising at least two related tables; determining a relationship between the at least two tables in the relational schema; adding definitions from the program code file for symbols in the relational schema to a definition set retaining definitions of symbols; and producing proxy definitions for use with the definition set for each symbol in the program code file without a definition in the definition set.

Relationship management for data modeling in an integrated development environment

A method of validating a relationships table. The method includes generating a relational schema of symbols in the program code file based on a framework for models in the integrated development environment, the schema including two related tables. The method further includes determining a relationship between the two tables. Further, the method includes adding definitions from the program code file for symbols in the relational schema to a definition set retaining definitions of symbols. Additionally, the method includes producing proxy definitions for use with the definition set for each symbol in the program code file without a definition in the definition set. Furthermore, the method includes generating the relationships table in the relational schema containing the relationship between the two tables. Further, the method includes validating the relationships table by matching the symbols definitions and references, where the validation removes public symbols and referenced symbols from the relationships table.

A process flow development tool is given a capability of determining the properties corresponding to a particular type of object and allowing a user to decide how and where the properties will be shown in a Properties dialog for individual objects of the particular type. The capability allows the tool to present a dialog that allows the user to customize, for the particular type of object, the layout for the properties in the Properties dialog. This layout may then be stored in an organizer object associated with the particular type of object.

Customization of object property layout for a user interface

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Dirk A Seelemann