What is a plug-in?

A plug-in is an application that is accessed from within the CA Gen toolset. Because the application has been launched from the toolset, it is able to directly access and update the model and hence provide more functions than an application that is launched outside of the toolset.

Why do I need the Solutions Console?

The Solutions Console overview page describes the benefits of using the Solutions Console.

What version of Gen does the Solutions Console require?

The Solutions Console requires the Gen plug-in facility and will work with CA Gen 6.5 and above.

What plug-ins are available with the Console

QAT offers a wide variety of plug-ins for CA Gen. The Console tree view shows you which plug-ins are available and provides links so that you can download and install the plug-ins.

Is the Console free?

Yes, the Solutions Console is provided free of charge.

Are the plug-ins free?

Some of the plug-ins are free and many of the plug-ins can be evaluated for a trial period.

What about my current plug-ins?

You can import plug-ins from the Gen plug-in menu to the Console so that they can be accessed from the Console menu.

What version of Gen does the Solutions Console require?

The Solutions Console requires the Gen plug-in facility and will work with CA Gen 6.5 and above.

The plug-ins do not work from the Gen menu

Make sure that you have started the toolset with the /Automation parameter, i.e. toolset.exe /Automation for Gen 7 and coolgen.exe /Automation for Gen 6.5

The console does not load when invoked from the Plug-in

One possible cause is that the Gen runtime file wru650n.dll is not correctly registered. If you did not have the gen runtimes registered on your workstation, the Console Setup program will have registered wru650n.dll from the GenRtm directory. Either re-register your copy of the Gen runtime or register the GenRtm\wru650n.dll using regsvr32.exe.