Abstract: A test DB data generation method for generating a database for testing, which approximates an existing database, the test DB data generation apparatus comprising: extracting distribution information of values of each column of the existing database; extracting column dependency information of the existing database; and generating test DB data based on the distribution information and the column dependency information.

Abstract: An operation specification reproduction system includes: a case flowchart generation unit generating, on the basis of operation log data comprising records of necessary operations performed by persons in charge in order to execute respective cases, a case flowchart showing flows of operations performed by the persons in charge; a template generation unit for generating, on the basis of department data indicating association between responsible departments and the operations and the case flowchart generated by the case flowchart generation unit, an operation hierarchy template showing relationship between the responsible departments and the operations AA Discontinuity between persons in charge; and an operation flowchart generation unit for generating, on the basis of the operation hierarchy template and department template generated by the template generation unit, an operation flowchart showing the flows of operations performed by each department.

Abstract: An attribute having influence on a business flow is automatically extracted among one or more attributes associated with the business flow when the business flow is restored based on history data of business performed on a business system. An event sequence variation indicating an order of an attribute name is calculated based on a chronological relation of an attribute value of a date and time from history data of the business configured with an attribute name and an attribute value of business, the number of appearances of each attribute value of each attribute other than a date and time is counted for each event sequence variation, event sequences that are similar in a distribution of the number of appearances are grouped, and business flows generated for respective groups are integrated.

Abstract: A test DB data generation method for generating a database for testing, which approximates an existing database, the test DB data generation apparatus comprising: extracting distribution information of values of each column of the existing database; extracting column dependency information of the existing database; and generating test DB data based on the distribution information and the column dependency information.

Abstract: A database analyzer includes a data sorting unit sorting a data group acquired from an analysis target database based on data values in a table column and storing it as analysis target data in a storage unit; a data pattern creation processing unit creating a group for each data value based on differences between the data values and storing a data pattern in the storage unit; a data pattern judgment processing unit for judging validity of the data pattern; and a data pattern transformation processing unit for reconstructing the data pattern with respect to constituent elements of each group included in the data pattern by transforming each group in accordance with a specified conversion rule for converting the constituent elements, which are conceptually similar to each other, into the same constituent element, and storing it in the storage unit if a negative result is obtained for the validity judgment.

Abstract: The present invention enables designated data to be extracted from a structured document even when the structured document differs from others in terms of screen layout and document structure. A first structured document is read in and outputted to an output device; a first label to be extracted and first data to be extracted are acquired via an input device; an extraction pattern representing a relative relation in document structure between the first label to be extracted and the first data to be extracted is generated; and the extraction pattern is stored in a storage device.

Abstract: A correlation rule analysis apparatus extracts data dependence relation and restriction conditions of database columns of a database from data stored in the database. The correction rule analysis apparatus includes a correlation rule extraction part which extracts information of simultaneous appearance relation of data among plural columns as correlation rules from inputted database table data, a correlation rule summarization part which summarizes or puts the extracted correlation rules together on the basis of specific community and a summarization result appropriateness judgment part which calculates usefulness indexes as the data dependence relation and the restriction conditions from appearance frequency and combination in the summarized correlation rules.

Abstract: A database analysis apparatus pays its attention to table columns more than two constituting a table among plural tables that a database holds, and analyzes automatically a dependence and a limitation condition that exist between the table columns from a tendency of appearance at the same time of data which each table column maintains, which comprises a data category calculation means to calculate a method of categorizing a data group from association rules generated from the data group of two or more table columns and an association rules reconstruction means to generate association rules of the best granularity by reconstructing the association rules based on the result of the above categorizing.

Abstract: A database analyzer includes a data sorting unit sorting a data group acquired from an analysis target database based on data values in a table column and storing it as analysis target data in a storage unit; a data pattern creation processing unit creating a group for each data value based on differences between the data values and storing a data pattern in the storage unit; a data pattern judgment processing unit for judging validity of the data pattern; and a data pattern transformation processing unit for reconstructing the data pattern with respect to constituent elements of each group included in the data pattern by transforming each group in accordance with a specified conversion rule for converting the constituent elements, which are conceptually similar to each other, into the same constituent element, and storing it in the storage unit if a negative result is obtained for the validity judgment.

Abstract: There is provided a system which analyzes data representative of operation situation of a work system and finds tacit problem hidden in work performed at the a field by a system user. Particularly, the system is to support to find the problem even if the user is not a specialist such as ethnographer. The system includes event examples in which the problems in the work at the field found from user analysis such as observation or interview are classified and expressed as events in operation data when a computer is utilized, analysis menu, analysis function and visualization unit for finding the events.

Abstract: An aspect of the invention is a system for acquiring execution information of a process executed in a computer which receives an execution request of a process and a request to start acquiring execution information of the process from a client. An application execution part of a server part executes the process based on the execution request. An execution information acquirement control part of the server part stores execution information of the process executed by the application execution part in a storage device based on the request to start acquiring execution information. The stored execution information is displayed in response to a display request.

Abstract: In an object-oriented technology analysis and design supporting method when analysis and design is being performed according to object-oriented technology on a system for business, a person knowledgeable of the business can generate object design information with minimal variation in quality even if the person is not knowledgeable of object-oriented technology. In the method, an object design information generator 0104 receives: management resource construction information in which resources that should be managed in business are entered hierarchically as elements, business activity construction information in which business activity to be performed in business are entered hierarchically as elements, and a business action scenario, in which is entered, for each element position at the lowermost level in the business activity construction information, the arrangement of operations needed for carrying out the corresponding business activity.

Abstract: The present invention is a method for extracting and generating hierarchical specification information in which the derivative of data included in already-developed software is hierarchically related and the reusability of data which is stored together with a relating procedure is high. In the method of the present invention, an existing program is analyzed and a data item and a procedure are extracted, and a procedure relating to a data item is stored in relation to the data item, and data items sharing a used area, data items for transferring data, or comparison items are stored as similar items in relation to each other, and key items are selected from the similar items, and a hierarchical specification in which the selected key items are set is generated, and dependent data items are selected from a record having the data items related to the key items, and the selected data items are added as attribute data of the hierarchical specification.

Abstract: A reverse engineering method for supporting software reuse in generating an upper level software product from a lower level software product allowing the reuse of some software product's among multi-level software products ranging from an upper level data flow to a lower level job flow. The method includes the steps of: generating an upper level software product using a lower level software product; generating relational information between the lower and upper level software products; inputting a request for changing the upper level software product via an input/output interface; changing the upper level software product in response to the change request; and detecting a reusable field of the lower level software product which is not to be changed, in response to a change of the upper level software product.

Abstract: In a system for data processing by use of a processing language controlled by a job control program for coupling a file having at least one data item to a data set, a method of standardizing data items in an existing program stored in a storage and having a procedure part and a data definition part is disclosed. The names of two data items including the source and destination items of moving in the transfer designated in a plurality of data transfer instructions in an existing program are stored in the storage, and the equivalence number attached to the name of the transfer source item of each of the plurality of data transfer instructions is attached to the name of the transfer destination item. If a plurality of files assigned in the data definition part are defined in a single data set, the file equivalence number is attached to the plurality of files in the storage.