Chapter 3: Building Production Objects

Introduction

A production object defines the requirements and procedures needed to produce a single output transaction from the input transaction.

Once you start TRAN-IDE (see “Starting TRAN-IDE”), and create a new project and module (“Creating projects and modules”), use the following steps to build production objects and populate them with other TRAN-IDE objects

Define the production object and its associated input fields. See “Defining input fields”.
Build output rules. See “Defining stream output rules”.
Build rule components. See “Defining rule components (subrules)”.
Build optional filter objects. See “Defining filter objects”.
Build optional table objects. See “Creating table objects”.
Build optional qualification objects. See “Defining qualification objects”.
Build optional error handling routines. See “Writing error functions”.
Test the rules and the production object. See “Using the test drive”.
Repeat this procedure until all output transactions are defined.