JPH0797315B2 - Plot processing apparatus and method - Google Patents

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention automatically generates a flow chart showing a work procedure by indexing a specified figure based on data inputted in a job control language for instructing the movement of a computer program. The present invention relates to a drawing processing apparatus and method capable of searching data having a correlation with the figure based on a flowchart.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, in order to perform a predetermined process and work using a computer or the like, a program for operating the computer according to a predetermined instruction and a job control statement for instructing its movement are required. This job control statement is input into the computer using a predetermined language, but it is necessary to design in advance how to instruct and process the computer.

This design is carried out for each process such as analysis and system design, and a flowchart is created for these designs using a flowchart drawing template as shown in FIG. As for this template, a plurality of types having different punched hole shapes are prepared.

In the above-mentioned analysis step, for example, a system engineer or the like designs so as to explain the outline of the entire system by drawing a figure of a television, a telephone or the like by a freehand or the like in a state close to an actual product without symbolizing it. Then, a more detailed design is performed and what kind of processing and work is to be performed is determined using a computer or the like.

[0005] For example, when designing a management system for business execution in a construction shop or the like, it is necessary to grasp in advance what kind of management there is. And the management, financial management including preparation of ledger such as cash accounting, accounts receivable, and accounts payable, cost calculation, profit and loss calculation and preparation of financial statements, inventory management for grasping inventory amount of materials, quotation Construction, entry to construction ledger, construction site-based aggregation, site-specific process chart creation, construction management including individual, departmental, site-specific list, etc., and labor management including individual and site-specific summary table creation There is.

Among the above-mentioned managements, for example, regarding financial management, there are a plurality of jobs such as preparation of ledger such as cash accounting, accounts receivable, and accounts payable, cost calculation, profit and loss calculation and settlement of accounts. Here, work means cash payment, accounts receivable,
A unit of work for performing work such as accounts payable.
Taking the work of the accounts receivable collection process as an example, when instructing this work to the computer, a job control statement as shown in FIG. 16 is used. FIG. 15 is a job flowchart of FIG. 16, and box shapes representing four programs, “confirm payment information”, “erasure”, “sort data”, and “tabulate” are arranged in order from the top. Reference numerals 101 and 102 shown in FIG. 15 indicate a deposit information file used in “confirmation of deposit information” and a customer master required for the collation. Then, 103 in FIG. 15, that is, STEP0 shown in FIG.
01 EXEC (execution) When PGM001 is processed, it can be seen that outputs 104 to 107 are obtained.

"Confirmation of deposit information", that is, STEP00
1 is only a part of the whole work of collecting accounts receivable. The same applies to STEP002 and SORT. In this way, when some programs are executed in a predetermined order to obtain a desired result (for example, "accounts receivable balance collection weekly report"), the entire work is called "job". In addition, STEP001, S
A unit of a program that constitutes a job, like TEP002, is called a "job step" (hereinafter also referred to as a step). In the job control statement of FIG. 16, S1 and S2
Corresponds to this job step.

In addition to the job flow chart shown in FIG. 15, there is a flow chart (not shown) for executing a more specific program, but such a flow chart is not shown in FIG. It is shown. That is, FIG. 15 shows the flow of jobs, and it is possible to immediately know which job step each file is executed and which file is required, and the correlation between input files and output files.

[0009]

However, the conventional job design using a plurality of types of templates has the following drawbacks. That is,

First, in the conventional job design, the system engineer or the like draws using a plurality of types of templates, and since it is done manually, a unified job design is not made due to the individuality of the system engineer or the like, and the designed job is designed. There is a drawback in that it is not possible to provide job flowcharts of the same type due to individual differences in the flowcharts. Therefore, it takes time for a system engineer who is not familiar with the designed job flowchart to understand, and it takes time to correct the job flowchart and the work efficiency is low.

Secondly, if the conventional job design is not complicated, the job flow chart shown in FIG. 15 may not be created, but the data shown in FIG. 16 may be created immediately. If a system engineer other than the one involved in the job design corrects the created data, the relationship between the upper and lower levels of each job, that is, the input file, the output file, etc., is not clear at the time of or after the modification, and thus a new It may be necessary to create a job flowchart as shown in FIG.

Thirdly, conventionally, when a file related to each job step is searched from data or when a related job step and file are searched from a created flowchart, a job flowchart as shown in FIG. 15 and FIG. Alternatively, it is necessary to visually search for data and pick it up. However, there is a drawback in that it is very difficult to perform such work from a huge amount of data.

Fourth, conventionally, when a system engineer or the like wanted to know whether a file came out for the first time while creating a job flow chart, it could not be immediately confirmed, and it already appeared once. Even if you know that, there is a drawback that you cannot immediately know which job step came out.

Therefore, the present invention has been made in view of the above-mentioned drawbacks of the prior art, and automatically generates a job flow chart showing a work procedure by indexing a specified figure based on the data input in the job control language. It is also an object of the present invention to provide a drawing processing apparatus and a method thereof that can easily search for data having a correlation with the figure based on the job flowchart.

[0015]

The present invention comprises a central processing unit, a storage unit including a main storage unit and a complementary rib storage unit, and a peripheral unit including an operating unit, a display unit and an output unit, The storage device includes a step table having at least a step number, an input file table having at least a step number and a file table pointer, an output file table having at least a step number and a file table pointer, and a file having at least a file name. A work table including a table and a work table, and a drawing table formed in a predetermined size in an area different from the work table,
The central processing unit calculates a step number from the number of pages to be displayed on the display unit according to a command from the operation unit to obtain an address of the drawing table, including a figure for displaying the file etc. After applying the data in the step table to the specified address,
If the input file table is sequentially searched and there is a step number corresponding to the data, the input file is arranged in the previous line of the data, and then the output file table is sequentially searched to find the step number corresponding to the data. If there is, the output file is placed in the line after the data to create a drawing table, and the step table in the drawing table is created.
And a data in each table such as an input file table is converted into a predetermined figure or the like stored in the storage device and a drawing process is performed. Further, the present invention has a step table having at least a step number, an input file table having at least a step number and a file table pointer, an output file table having at least a step number and a file table pointer, and at least a file name. It is a storage device including a work table including a file table and a work table, a drawing table formed in a predetermined size in an area different from the work table, and a figure for displaying the file and the like. Te, obtains the address of the drawing table and calculates the step number from the number of pages to be displayed on said display means in response to a command from the operating means, the step tape to thus determined address
After fitting the data in the bull, the input file table is sequentially searched, and if there is a step number corresponding to the data, the input file is arranged in the line before the data,
Next, the output file table is sequentially searched, and if there is a step number corresponding to the data, the output file is arranged in a line after the data to create a drawing table, and the step table and the input file in the drawing table are created. Thebes
The data in each table such as a table is converted into a predetermined figure or the like stored in the storage device to perform drawing processing.

[0016]

Next, an embodiment of the drawing processing apparatus according to the present invention will be described.

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing an outline of the construction of a drawing processing apparatus according to the present invention. This drawing processing apparatus includes a central processing unit (CPU) 1 as an arithmetic processing means, a hard disk 2 as a storage device, a keyboard 3a and a mouse 3b as operation means, a display 3c as display means, and a printer as output means. The peripheral device 3 includes 3d and the like.

The CPU 1 is composed of a so-called microcomputer or the like and performs various arithmetic processes. The storage device 2 includes a main storage device and an auxiliary storage device, and the CPU 1
Various figures such as files and tables necessary for performing the arithmetic processing and disks, tapes and printers for creating the flowchart shown in FIG. 15 are prepared and stored in advance. The keyboard 3a is for inputting data and each command, and the mouse 3b can perform each command similarly to the keyboard 3a, but this command moves the cursor on the screen of the display 3c. Do it. The printer 3d outputs forms and the like. Further, in this drawing processing apparatus, a program (Operating System = OS) for starting the drawing system is incorporated in advance in the apparatus main body. Therefore, as shown in the flow chart of FIG. 2, when the power of the hardware of the drawing processing apparatus shown in FIG. 1 is turned on, this drawing processing apparatus starts the OS and starts the programs for performing various processes. To be done. That is, when the drawing system is activated and a predetermined screen is displayed, main processing described below is executed and when the drawing system ends, the OS is stopped and the power of the hardware is turned off (OFF), and a series of processing ends. To do.

Next, the main process 6c in the drawing process 6 shown in FIG. 2 will be described below. This drawing process creates a job flow chart as shown in FIG. 15 from the data as shown in FIG. The flow of this drawing process is performed using FIG.

JCL (JOB CONTROL LANGUAG shown in FIG. 3)
E) 7, eg // JOB, // STEP-A EXECPGM = PGM001, // SYS10
0 Data such as DD DSN = file-y is keyboard 3 shown in Fig. 1.
When processed by an operation such as “a” and loaded into the CPU 1, the CPU 1 performs an analysis process based on the loaded serial data. By this analysis processing, the CPU 1 creates the work table 8. As shown in FIG. 4, the work table 8 is a step table 80, an input file table 81, an output file table 82, and a file table 83, which are stored in the storage device 2 shown in FIG.

In the step table 80, step NO
(Number) and step ID are shown. Of these, at least step NO is required. Further, this drawing processing apparatus is configured such that up to four job steps become one page. Therefore, the second page starts with job step number 5. Further, the display 3c shown in FIG. 1 is configured to display one page, that is, up to four job steps.

The file table 83 shows at least file names. That is, as shown in FIG. 4, the file number (pointer) 1 is file-a, the file number (pointer) 2 is file-b, .... At least the step NO and the file table pointer are shown in the input file table 81. For example, when the step NO shown by the broken line in FIG. 4 is 1 and the pointer is 1, the file-a is related as the input file, and when the step NO is 1 and the pointer is 3, the file-y is the input file.
Can be seen to be related. Output file table 8
2 shows at least step NO and a file table pointer. For example, when step number 2 is set,
Since the file table pointer is 7, step N
It can be seen that file-r is involved as the O2 output file. The above work table is JCL7
It is created from the data of and stored.

After the work table 8 is created, a flow layout process for creating a job flowchart is performed.

This flow arrangement processing prepares the drawing table 9 shown in FIG. 3 in the storage device 2 shown in FIG. As shown in FIG. 3, the drawing table 9 has 13 rows horizontally and 1 vertically.
A plurality of squares composed of rows and columns are formed continuously from the row, and data is applied to the formed squares. The plurality of squares are determined so as to correspond to the screen of the display 3c (and the printer 3d) shown in FIG.

The flow from writing the information of the work table 8 to the drawing table 9 and creating the flowchart shown in FIG. 6 will be described. Note that FIG. 5 can be displayed on the screen 1
Data of up to 4 steps for pages are assigned.

A) Step N for starting drawing from the page number to be displayed on the screen of the display 3c shown in FIG.
Figure out O. Since it is predetermined that up to four steps are displayed for one page of the screen, for example, from the first step in the case of the first page to the (second page-1
Page) × 4 steps + 1 step = 5 steps ... The fifth step is the object of drawing.

B) Next, the data of the step table 80 of FIG. 4 is written by applying it to the squares of the drawing table 9 shown in FIGS. 3 and 5. That is, the address of the drawing table 9 is calculated and calculated by the CPU 1 from step NO according to the following calculation formula. Row = {step number- (page number-1) x 4} x 3 column = 2 ... fixed Therefore, for example, when step number 1 is page number 1,
{1- (1-1) × 4} × 3 = 3, which means that the cells are allocated in the squares in the second column in the third row. The above-mentioned fixed column = 2 is configured to draw from the second column of the drawing table 9 in order to perform processing when there are 11 or more files, which will be described later.

C) Next, the input file table 81 shown in FIG. 4 is searched from the beginning, and if there is data having the corresponding step NO, it is written in the drawing table 9. Since the input file is arranged in the row before the job step of the step table 80, it is written so as to fill the right side of the drawing table 9 shown in FIGS. . By this processing, for example, the row to which “STEP-A” of step NO1 of the input file table 81 shown in FIG. 4 is assigned is 3,
3-1 becomes 2, and a file is placed in the second row shown in FIG.
-A and file-y are assigned to the drawing table 9.

D) Next, the output file table 82 is searched from the beginning, and if there is data having the corresponding step NO, it is written in the drawing table 9. The output file is the same as the input file, but the step table 80
Since it is arranged in the row after the step of, the writing is performed so as to fill the right side of the drawing table 9 shown in FIGS. 3 and 5 in order from the row of the row = b) +1 the column = 2.

E) The CPU 1 makes various modifications of the drawing table 9 drawn in the storage device 2. That is, as shown in FIG. 5, since no file is arranged in the fourth line of step 1 of the drawing table 9, this line is deleted.
Also, since the 10th line of the 3rd step and the 11th line of the 4th step have a file-y and the output file is the input file of the next step, the 2nd line is combined into 1 line. Also, when there are 11 or more files, it will be described later. By these processes, it is possible to increase the capacity in the storage device 2.

F) According to the arrangement of the drawing table 9 described above, the predetermined figure stored in the storage device 2 of FIG. 1 is read out and the job flow chart shown in FIG. 6 is drawn. Then, predetermined characters and the like are overwritten corresponding to each figure as shown in FIG. It is also possible not to overwrite these characters and the like on the figure. The drawing process 6 shown in FIG. 2 is performed by the above process.

Next, the processing when there are 11 or more files in one line as shown in FIGS. 7 and 8 will be described. Note that the job flowchart shown in FIG. 7 is not the same as the data shown in FIGS. 6 and 15, and is shown for the sake of explanation.

The drawing processing apparatus according to the present invention is shown in FIG.
As shown in FIG. 1, the grids on the screen are assigned so that up to 11 columns are displayed on the screen of the display 3c shown in FIG. 1, but the grid of the drawing table 9 in the storage device 2 is 1
It is configured so that files of up to three columns can be allocated. In this drawing processing device, the drawing table 9
After the data is once embedded in the drawing table, the judging means (not shown) in the CPU 1 looks at the files in the 12th and 13th columns of the drawing table, and the file number of the row is the 12th column or the 12th column and the 13th column. Determines if the file is located between.

In case 1 and case 2 of FIG. 8A, the files are arranged up to the 11th column,
Since the files are not embedded in the 12th and 13th columns, they are displayed as they are on the screen without any processing. Also, in case 3 the file k is in the 12th column.
Therefore, as it is, only the files up to j will be displayed, but in this drawing processing device, the arrangement of files is already blank in the first column. Therefore, as shown in the case 3 of FIG. 8B, the files a to k are shifted to the left one by one, and all the files a to k are displayed on the screen. In the case of Case 4, 1
Since the files k and l are arranged in the second and thirteenth columns, the same processing as in case 3 cannot be performed.
Therefore, in the case of Case 4, the process is performed such that the files up to the file j are displayed on the screen and the empty file S as shown in FIGS. 7 and 8 is displayed in the first column. It should be noted that, as shown in FIG. 7, a frame or the like showing the grid in which the files are arranged is not shown on the screen, but it is also possible to arbitrarily display a frame or the like for partitioning the grid or the like.

Further, in this drawing processing apparatus, as shown in FIG. 7, a file indicated by diagonal lines is used at the top of the file, but this file indicates that this file first appears as input or output data. . Then, in the present embodiment, this figure is prepared in advance in the storage device 2,
When the drawing processing shown in FIG. 6 is performed, the drawing table 9 shown in FIG. 5 is read from the storage device 2 and assigned to a predetermined position. With this processing, it is possible to easily know whether or not the file first appears by looking at the job flowchart shown in FIG.

Next, the process of creating the cross file table will be described. As shown in FIG. 9, this cross-file table is a table in which step numbers are provided horizontally and file table names are provided vertically to show the correlation between input and output of file names and step numbers. With this table, it is possible to easily obtain information such as in which job step the file is used.

First, the input file table 81 in the storage device 2 shown in FIG. 4 is searched from the beginning, and the input "I" (Input) is displayed on the cross file table as the vertical address of the file table pointer. The output file table 82 is searched from the top, and the output "O" (Output) is displayed on the cross file table with the file table pointer as the vertical address. When the cross file table as shown in FIG. 9 is created by such processing, it can be immediately confirmed that, for example, in step 1, file-a and file-y are used as inputs.

Next, FIG. 10 shows the display 3c of FIG.
The JCL 7 is displayed on the left side of the screen and the job flow chart is displayed on the right side. In this drawing processing device, the cursor on the screen is moved by using the mouse 3b as the operating means, and as shown in FIG.
By performing a predetermined operation at the position -a, the window W formed by a smaller frame can be opened in the screen. Then, in the window W, the step NO and the step ID related to the file-a are displayed.

FIG. 11 is a diagram for explaining the method of search processing in the window W. First, the input file table 81 is inspected in order from the beginning, and the file name of the file table 83 is referred to based on the file table pointer, and if “file-a”, step NO is written in the work table 84. Similarly, the output file table 82 is also inspected from the beginning, and if it is "file-a", step NO is written in the work table 84. Then, the contents of the work table 84 are displayed on the screen and the window W. At this time, step ID together with step NO
Is also displayed. This step ID is displayed from the step table 80 based on the step NO.

When the mouse 3b is operated on "(6) SCRATCH" in the window W shown in FIG. 10, the step table "6" in the third entry of the work table 84 is selected. Re recorded in 80 table format (not shown)
Referring to c-no (corresponding line of JCL7), based on this, the corresponding line of the left JCL screen shown in FIG. 10, for example, the part indicated by A in FIG. 10 is highlighted. This reverse display makes it possible to immediately check the correspondence between the flowchart on the right and the JCL 7.

When the job flow chart is created by the drawing process 6 shown in FIG. 2, a comment is created using the screen of the left JCL 7 shown in FIG. 10 in this drawing processing apparatus, and the comment is shown in FIG. Can be displayed on the right side of the job flow chart display field as shown in FIG.
(See the explanation added function of 3). In the present embodiment, up to 4 steps can be displayed in this comment in one display screen, so that the comment is assigned to the number of usable lines for each step. If you want to add a comment, you can do so.

As described above, the drawing processing apparatus according to the present invention has various functions including the above processing as shown in FIG. The main functions among the functions from a to i shown in FIG. 13 have already been described.
When the data of JCL7 is corrected, the corrected flowchart can be immediately regenerated, and the printing of C can output desired information by the printer 3d shown in FIG. These selections can be made using the selection unit and keyboard 3a shown in the upper part of FIG.

[0043]

As described above, the drawing processing apparatus according to the present invention has the following effects. That is, according to the present invention, it is possible to easily create a job flowchart based on the data by data analysis, and there is an effect that the job flowchart creation time is shortened and work efficiency is improved. According to the present invention, a new job flow chart can be easily created even when data is modified or existing data, and the correlation between upper and lower levels of files, input and output, etc. is immediately obtained. The effect is that you can understand. According to the present invention, the correlation between the data and the job flowchart can be immediately known by searching, so that there is also an effect that the work efficiency is improved. According to the present invention, when the number of data arranged in the grid of the drawing table is more than the displayable number on the display means, the display is performed by inspecting the row below the row that can be displayed on the display means. Since the data can be moved up and displayed within the displayable range on the means, it is possible to immediately know that one row has a predetermined number or more of data.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing an outline of a system configuration of a drawing processing apparatus according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart of starting and ending the drawing processing apparatus according to the present invention.

FIG. 3 is an explanatory diagram showing a flow of main processing of the drawing processing shown in FIG.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing details of the work table shown in FIG. 3;

FIG. 5 is a diagram for explaining the details of the drawing table shown in FIG.

6 is a diagram showing a state in which a job flow chart is drawn on the drawing table shown in FIG. 5;

FIG. 7 is a diagram showing an example of a job flow chart that is actually drawn, and showing a state of being identified by an empty file S when there are 11 or more files.

8 is an explanatory diagram illustrating a processing method when there are 11 or more files shown in FIG. 7. FIG.

FIG. 9 is a diagram illustrating a cross file table.

FIG. 10 is a diagram showing a state in which a window is opened on the display screen.

11 is a diagram illustrating a method of processing data displayed in the window shown in FIG.

FIG. 12 is a diagram showing a state in which an explanatory note is added to correspond to the created job flowchart.

FIG. 13 is a flowchart showing a flow of processing performed using the drawing processing apparatus according to the present invention.

FIG. 14 is a diagram showing a template for creating a conventional program.

15 is a diagram showing a job flow chart created using the conventional template shown in FIG. 14;

FIG. 16 is a diagram showing conventional program data.

[Explanation of sign]

 1 Central Processing Unit (CPU) 2 Storage Device (= Main Storage Device, Auxiliary Storage Device) 3 Peripheral Device 6 Drawing Processing 7 JCL 8 Working Table 9 Drawing Table

Claims (5)

[Claims] 1. A central processing unit, a storage device including a main storage device and an auxiliary storage device, and a peripheral device including an operation unit, a display unit, and an output unit, wherein the storage device has at least a step number. A working table including a step table having the same, an input file table having at least a step number and a file table pointer, an output file table having at least a step number and a file table pointer, and a file table having at least a file name and a work table. The central processing unit includes a table, a drawing table formed in a predetermined size in an area different from the work table, a figure for displaying the file and the like,
A step number is calculated from the number of pages to be displayed on the display means in accordance with a command from the operation means to obtain an address of the drawing table, and the address thus obtained is referred to as the above.
After applying the data in the step table, the input file table is sequentially searched, and if there is a step number corresponding to the data, the input file is arranged in the previous line of the data, and then the output file table is sequentially searched. If there is a step number corresponding to the data, the output file is arranged in a line after the data to create a drawing table, and the step table and the input table in the drawing table are created.
A drawing processing apparatus, wherein data in each table such as a file table is converted into a predetermined figure or the like stored in the storage device to perform drawing processing. Wherein said drawing table consists of squares is divided by rows and columns, the stearyl assigned to該升th
Table, input file table, etc.
2. The drawing processing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the data is sequentially arranged from a predetermined column. 3. When the number of data arranged in a square of the drawing table is more than the number displayable on the display means, the column below the column which can be displayed on the display means is inspected and the 3. The drawing processing apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the drawing means is moved forward within a displayable range and displayed. 4. The input file table and the output file table are searched from the beginning and the input / output relationship is stored using the file table pointer as a vertical address, and the correlation between the two can be output by correlating this with the step number. The drawing processing apparatus according to claim 1, characterized in that. 5. A step table having a central processing unit, a storage device including a main storage device and an auxiliary storage device, a peripheral device including an operation means, a display means, and an output means, and a step table having at least a step number,
An input file table having at least a step number and a file table pointer, an output file table having at least a step number and a file table pointer, a work table including a file table having at least a file name and a work table, and the work. A storage device including a drawing table formed in a predetermined size in a different area from the work table, and a figure or the like for displaying the file or the like, which is displayed on the display means in response to a command from the operation means. The step number is calculated from the number of pages to be calculated, and the address of the drawing table is calculated.
After applying the data in the step table, the input file table is sequentially searched, and if there is a step number corresponding to the data, the input file is arranged in the previous line of the data, and then the output file table is sequentially searched. If there is a step number corresponding to the data, the output file is arranged in a line after the data to create a drawing table, and the step table and the input table in the drawing table are created.
A drawing processing method, wherein data in each table such as a file table is converted into a predetermined figure or the like stored in the storage device to perform drawing processing.