<s>
Gen	O
is	O
a	O
Computer	B-Application
Aided	I-Application
Software	I-Application
Engineering	I-Application
(	O
CASE	O
)	O
application	O
development	O
environment	O
marketed	O
by	O
Broadcom	O
Inc	O
.	O
Gen	O
was	O
previously	O
known	O
as	O
CA	B-Application
Gen	I-Application
,	O
IEF	O
(	O
Information	B-Application
Engineering	I-Application
Facility	I-Application
)	O
,	O
Composer	O
by	O
IEF	O
,	O
Composer	O
,	O
COOL:Gen	B-Application
,	O
Advantage:Gen	B-Application
and	O
AllFusion	O
Gen	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
toolset	O
originally	O
supported	O
the	O
information	B-Application
technology	I-Application
engineering	I-Application
methodology	O
developed	O
by	O
Clive	O
Finkelstein	O
,	O
James	O
Martin	O
and	O
others	O
in	O
the	O
early	O
1980s	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Early	O
versions	O
supported	O
IBM	O
's	O
DB2	B-Application
database	I-Application
,	O
3270	B-Operating_System
'	O
block	O
mode	O
 '	O
screens	O
and	O
generated	O
COBOL	B-Application
code	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
the	O
intervening	O
years	O
the	O
toolset	O
has	O
been	O
expanded	O
to	O
support	O
additional	O
development	O
techniques	O
such	O
as	O
component-based	B-Architecture
development	I-Architecture
;	O
creation	O
of	O
client/server	B-Operating_System
and	O
web	B-Application
applications	I-Application
and	O
generation	O
of	O
C	B-Language
,	O
Java	B-Language
and	O
C#	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
Its	O
range	O
of	O
supported	O
database	O
technologies	O
have	O
widened	O
to	O
include	O
ORACLE	B-General_Concept
,	O
Microsoft	B-Application
SQL	I-Application
Server	I-Application
,	O
ODBC	B-Application
,	O
JDBC	B-Language
as	O
well	O
as	O
the	O
original	O
DB2	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
was	O
initially	O
produced	O
by	O
Texas	O
Instruments	O
,	O
with	O
input	O
from	O
James	O
Martin	O
and	O
his	O
consultancy	O
firm	O
James	O
Martin	O
Associates	O
,	O
and	O
was	O
based	O
on	O
the	O
Information	B-Application
Engineering	I-Application
Methodology	I-Application
(	O
IEM	O
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
IEF	O
(	O
Information	B-Application
Engineering	I-Application
Facility	I-Application
)	O
became	O
popular	O
among	O
large	O
government	O
departments	O
and	O
public	O
utilities	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
initially	O
supported	O
a	O
CICS/COBOL/DB2	O
target	O
environment	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Sterling	O
software	O
changed	O
the	O
well	O
known	O
name	O
"	O
Information	B-Application
Engineering	I-Application
Facility	I-Application
"	O
to	O
"	O
COOL:Gen	B-Application
"	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
COOL	O
was	O
an	O
acronym	O
for	O
"	O
Common	O
Object	B-Language
Oriented	I-Language
Language	I-Language
"	O
-	O
despite	O
the	O
fact	O
that	O
there	O
was	O
little	O
object	B-Language
orientation	I-Language
in	O
the	O
product	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Under	O
CA	O
,	O
recent	O
releases	O
of	O
the	O
tool	O
added	O
support	O
for	O
the	O
CA-Datacom	O
DBMS	O
,	O
the	O
Linux	O
operating	O
system	O
,	O
C#	B-Application
code	O
generation	O
and	O
ASP.NET	B-Application
web	O
clients	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
current	O
version	O
is	O
known	O
as	O
CA	B-Application
Gen	I-Application
-	O
version	O
8	O
being	O
released	O
in	O
May	O
2010	O
,	O
with	O
support	O
for	O
customised	O
web	O
services	O
,	O
and	O
more	O
of	O
the	O
toolset	O
being	O
based	O
around	O
the	O
Eclipse	B-Application
framework	I-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
As	O
of	O
2020	O
,	O
CA	B-Application
Gen	I-Application
is	O
owned	O
and	O
marketed	O
by	O
Broadcom	O
Inc.	O
,	O
which	O
rebranded	O
the	O
product	O
to	O
Gen	O
to	O
avoid	O
confusion	O
with	O
the	O
former	O
owner	O
of	O
the	O
product	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Version	O
8.6	O
of	O
CA	B-Application
Gen	I-Application
came	O
to	O
market	O
in	O
June	O
2016	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Version	O
8.6.3	O
of	O
CA	B-Application
Gen	I-Application
was	O
released	O
in	O
2021	O
.	O
</s>
