Capex Corporation
Encyclopedia
Capex Corporation was a software house
based in Phoenix, Arizona
founded by three former employees of General Electric
. It was subsequently acquired by Computer Associates.
Software house
A software house is a company whose primary products are software.- Types :There are a number of different types of software houses:*Large and well-known companies such as Microsoft, SAP AG, Oracle Corporation, HP, Adobe Systems, Apple Inc...
based in Phoenix, Arizona
Phoenix, Arizona
Phoenix is the capital, and largest city, of the U.S. state of Arizona, as well as the sixth most populated city in the United States. Phoenix is home to 1,445,632 people according to the official 2010 U.S. Census Bureau data...
founded by three former employees of General Electric
General Electric
General Electric Company , or GE, is an American multinational conglomerate corporation incorporated in Schenectady, New York and headquartered in Fairfield, Connecticut, United States...
. It was subsequently acquired by Computer Associates.
Products
- Autotab - an early batchBatchBatch may refer to:Food and drink*Batch , an alcoholic fruit beverage*Batch loaf, a type of bread popular in Ireland*A dialect term for a bread roll used in Nuneaton and Coventry, England*Small batch, bourbon whiskey blended from selected barrels...
spreadsheetSpreadsheetA spreadsheet is a computer application that simulates a paper accounting worksheet. It displays multiple cells usually in a two-dimensional matrix or grid consisting of rows and columns. Each cell contains alphanumeric text, numeric values or formulas...
program - Autoplan - an early batch spreadsheet program
- Capex Optimizer - IBMIBMInternational Business Machines Corporation or IBM is an American multinational technology and consulting corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York, United States. IBM manufactures and sells computer hardware and software, and it offers infrastructure, hosting and consulting services in areas...
COBOLCOBOLCOBOL is one of the oldest programming languages. Its name is an acronym for COmmon Business-Oriented Language, defining its primary domain in business, finance, and administrative systems for companies and governments....
CompilerCompilerA compiler is a computer program that transforms source code written in a programming language into another computer language...
optimizerCompiler optimizationCompiler optimization is the process of tuning the output of a compiler to minimize or maximize some attributes of an executable computer program. The most common requirement is to minimize the time taken to execute a program; a less common one is to minimize the amount of memory occupied...
using Peephole optimizationPeephole optimizationIn compiler theory, peephole optimization is a kind of optimization performed over a very small set of instructions in a segment of generated code. The set is called a "peephole" or a "window"...
- This product had two significant additional components: The first was called The Analyzer, and the second was called Detector. The former allowed execution analysis giving a count of the number of times instructions were executed. This provided a way for the programmer to move code so that the most often executed conditions would be found first, thus saving time on needless IF statements. While this may not be significant for a few hundred input file records, it was very important when there were millions of input records. The latter, Detector, trapped execution "abends", or abnormal ends to the execution of an instruction, displayed the contents of applicable fields, and could be told to apply a fix to the offending field so execution could continue. The programmer could then correct one or more error conditions later and recompile the program. Both were substantial time-savers in Cobol environments. - TLMS II - A Tape Library Management System for IBM Mainframe Systems
- Manage: DASD - Software to accommodate Direct Access Storage Device maintenance on IBM Mainframe systems
- LANPAR - LANguage for Programming Arrays at Random
- EZTEST - CICSCICSCustomer Information Control System is a transaction server that runs primarily on IBM mainframe systems under z/OS and z/VSE.CICS is a transaction manager designed for rapid, high-volume online processing. This processing is mostly interactive , but background transactions are possible...
Interactive test/debug