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that developed an application-program-generator and also a series of accounting software packages. These packages were widely enough used for various business magazines to have back-of-the-book ads for companies seeking accountants with experience in one or more of them.^[2]

Computer magazines ran coverage for their SB-5 application-program-generator as from time to time new versions were released, each with new or improved features.^[3]^[4]

Early days

The company's initial offerings were packages for the DEC PDP-8, although Business Controls Corporation also wrote custom-written programs for customers.

Large customers with mainframes who also used smaller systems for departmental use and distributed processing also used BCC's services.^[5]^[6]

SB-5

The addition of an application-program-generator named SB-5^[7] that, from specifications, could generate COBOL code was a major step forward.^[8] Although this began with supporting the DEC PDP-11, they subsequently began to support COBOL on DEC's DECsystem-10 & DECSYSTEM-20.^[9] VAX support came later.^[10]

The specifications also permitted COBOL inserts and overrides: SB-5 could build an application that was all COBOL,^[11] yet only code the portions that varied from BCC's "vanilla" accounting packages.^[8]

Similar offerings

A similar idea was done for the IBM mainframe world in the form of a series of application-program-generators from Dylakor Corporation. They were named DYL-250, DYL-260, DYL-270 & DYL-280. Dylakor was acquired by Computer Associates.^[12]

The specific syntax was different, but it had wider use, and - a mark of success and recognition in the industry^[13] - syntax-compatible implementations were released by a competitor.^[14]^[15]

Still another alternative was Peat Marwick Mitchell's PMM2170 application-program-generator package.^[16] Like the others, it supported COBOL inserts and overrides.

Extended integration

Business Controls Corporation subsequently extended SB-5's feature set to provide support for System 1022, a product for the DEC-10 & DEC-20;^[17] 1022's vendor also had a VAX product, System 1032.

References

1. ^{{cite web|title=livingston |url=http://www.digifind-it.com/livingston/DATA/tribune/1978/1978-08-24.pdf}}
2. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.iimjobs.com/j/manager-business-controller-ca-icwa-ecommerce-10-13-yrs-318225.html|title=Manager - Business Controller - CA/ICWA}}
3. ^{{cite magazine |magazine=Computerworld |date=August 22, 1983 |page=40|title=Business Controls Corp. has announced Version 3.0 of its System Builders-5 Options (SB-5) automated Cobol application software generator}}
4. ^{{cite web|url=https://archive.org/stream/computerworld1742unse/computerworld1742unse_djvu.txt|title=Integration Tool For SB-5 Bows}}
5. ^"It was the committee's feeling that ... vendors who are capable of ... offered by Business Controls Corporation." {{cite web|url=https://www.aip.org/history-programs/niels-bohr-library/collections/governing-board/october-31-1980|title=October 31-November 1, 1980 Governing Board of the American Institute of Physics, Minutes of Meeting, 5. Status of Major Facilities (b) Computer (1) Proposals for Distributed Data Processing ...}}
6. ^{{cite magazine |title=The AIP in 1980|quote=Business Controls Corporation (BCC) has been asked to study AIP's requirements and recommend design, hardware and software for computerization |magazine=Physics Today|url=https://physicstoday.scitation.org/doi/pdf/10.1063/1.2914690}}
7. ^Systems Builders-5 {{cite web|magazine=Computerworld |date=March 15, 1982|page=46 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Wz-oh7ZQo8MC|title=BCC announces version 2.3 of its Systems Builders-5 (SB-5)}}
8. ^¹{{cite magazine |magazine=Hardcopy |date=January 1983 |page=127|title=New Screen and Report Painting Features for SB-5}}
9. ^{{cite magazine|magazine=Hardcopy |date=January 1983 |page=128 |title=DECsystem-10 and -20 Mainframe Software from Business Controls Corp.}}
10. ^{{cite web |title=SB-5 on PDP-11, VAX too|quote=Versions of SB-5 are available for DEC'S PDP-11 and VAX minicomputers as well.|url=https://archive.org/stream/computerworld1742unse/computerworld1742unse_djvu.txt}}
11. ^{{cite web|quote=BUSINESS CONTROLS CORPORATION. (BCC). SB-5 Automated COBOL. Application Development System|author1=P. Moore |author2= R. Vines |author3=E. Virgo|title=Various resources|url=http://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/access/text/2017/06/102726714-05-05-acc.pdf|date=March 27, 1986}}
12. ^{{cite web|title=DYL-280 Command Syntax|url=http://www.sysed.com/DnLoads/RefCards/DYL280.pdf}}
13. ^The dBase syntax was implemented by many competing companies, including Computer Associates
14. ^"We have a version of Z-Writer (called ZWDYL) that uses the same syntax as DYL-280 (shown below). That means you can now replace DYL280 ..." {{cite web |title=DYL-280 Syntax -- DYL-280 Manual - Pacific Systems Group|url=http://www.pacsys.com/dyl280/dyl280_syntax.htm}}
15. ^"z/Writer's ZWDYL is an Alternative to CA DYL-260 for your mainframe." {{cite web |title=Alternative to DYL-260 - Pacific Systems Group|url=http://www.pacsys.com/dyl260}}
16. ^PMM trademarked "SYSTEM 2170" {{cite web |title=SYSTEM 2170 Trademark of Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Co. |url=https://www.trademarkia.com/system-2170-73091532.html}}, but the software was distributed as PMM 2170.
17. ^{{cite web|publisher=Computerworld |date=October 17, 1983 |page=68|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oRXYb7liu6wC |title=SB-5, 1022 integration|quote=(BCC) has developed an optional software module to integrate its SB-5 automated Cobol software development system with the System 1022 data base}}