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Increase V for DataEase for DOS

Increase: The Biggest Increase in Productivity since DataEase!

Increase can:

• Identify entities (reports, forms, menus and imports) that aren't referenced by menus or reports.
  
• Identify menus that point at reports or forms that have been deleted from the application.
  
• Suggest candidate fields for indexing to improve perfomance.
  
• Cross-reference and locate all of the incidences of a certain field.

Increase is a necessity if you’ve inherited a system from someone else and you need to start evaluating its structure.

Increase is actually two components—Extract.exe (a program written in C) and Increase (a DataEase database). Extract™ scans a DataEase database (application) and creates a series of specially-formatted ASCII files containing data on the application’s fields, forms, menus, screens, imports, procedures and relationships. Increase is a DataEase database that contains all of the necessary import specifications and procedures to read the extracted data into a series of DataEase tables—creating a DataEase database about the scanned one.

Since the Increase database is a DataEase database, you can add to or modify the existing reports.

Extract can read and analyze DataEase 2.53, 4.x and 5.x for DOS databases. Increase (the database) is provided in both 4.x and 5.x versions.

Trainease has produced a free version of the Increase database for Y2K and EMU audits (but you must already own a copy of Increase and Extract and a copy of DataEase for DOS 5.x to use the Y2K audit database. The audit database is available for downloading from Trainease.

What can you do with Increase?

• See how your all of your tables are linked (related).
  
• Identify which DQLs and Quick Reports use which tables.
  
• If you need to change a field’s length in one table, you can determine what else is it going to affect (what other forms/tables, relationships, reports).

• Identify fields that may need indexing.
  
• Identify fields that may not need indexing.
  
• Identify mismatched relationships—mismatched match fields.

• Identify non-referenced forms, reports, menus or relationships. (A non-referenced entity is one that exists in your system, but is not called by a menu or another procedure—an “orphaned” item.)
  
• Print a menu tree.
  
• Print a relationship chart.
  
• List all temp and global variables.