The announcement by IBM of its DB2 repository on September 19 will be accompanied by a major step forward in the company’s Systems Application Architecture under the name Applications Development/Cycle or AD/Cycle, according to Computerworld: AD/Cycle, it says, will support and automate the building of applications across the entire development cycle, but needless to say, it won’t all be in place all at once; core services to be included in AD/Cycle are said to comprise a common user interface for development and tools with the PS/2 under OS/2 Extended Edition serving as the primary window into AD/Cycle and expensive resources will be able to be shared using the OS/2 LAN server; a repository manager will provide a single point of control for sharing applications information; a new version of Cross System Product is expected to be included in the announcement – IBM has been working with Transform Logic Inc, Scottsdale, Arizona on a version to generate Cobol code.
