Capex Corporation

Capex Corporation was a software house based in Phoenix, Arizona founded by three former employees of General Electric. It was subsequently acquired by Computer Associates.

Products

• Autotab - an early batch spreadsheet program
• Autoplan - an early batch spreadsheet program
• Capex Optimizer - IBM COBOL Compiler optimizer using Peephole optimization - This product had two significant additional components: The first was called The Analyzer, and the second was called Detector. The former allowed execution analysis giving a count of the number of times instructions were executed. This provided a way for the programmer to move code so that the most often executed conditions would be found first, thus saving time on needless IF statements. While this may not be significant for a few hundred input file records, it was very important when there were millions of input records. The latter, Detector, trapped execution "abends", or abnormal ends to the execution of an instruction, displayed the contents of applicable fields, and could be told to apply a fix to the offending field so execution could continue. The programmer could then correct one or more error conditions later and recompile the program. Both were substantial time-savers in Cobol environments.
• TLMS II - A Tape Library Management System for IBM Mainframe Systems
• Manage: DASD - Software to accommodate Direct Access Storage Device maintenance on IBM Mainframe systems
• LANPAR - LANguage for Programming Arrays at Random
• EZTEST - CICS Interactive test/debug