Data and Database Management Software
Software automates discovery phase of development cycle.
Press Release Summary:
WebSphere® Studio Asset Analyzer for Multiplatforms v4.1 assists IT personnel with maintenance, extension, and transformation of existing applications through impact analysis and connector building assistance. It helps users understand application dependencies at multiple levels, while also verifying they have all source components. Software helps find application assets that can be turned into components for reuse in web or web-services applications.
Original Press Release:
IBM WebSphere Studio Asset Analyzer V4.1 Speeds Application Understanding and Reduces the Risk of Application Changes
At a glance
WebSphere Studio Asset Analyzer can increase developer and analyst productivity by automating the discovery phase of a development cycle, which can consume nearly 1/3 of a project's total development costs. It can:
Reduce the complexity of software projects by delivering up-to-date knowledge of all application components from the code itself, supplementing outdated or nonexistent developers' and analysts' documentation
Improve process and team efficiency by making the same application insight available to all team members
Shorten the learning phase for new developers
Aid understanding of application dependencies at multiple levels, including:
Jobs and transactions
Files and databases
Programs and applications
Reduce risk in routine application maintenance and operational changes by enabling a thorough analysis of proposed changes
Enable you to verify that you have all the source components for an application
Help find existing application assets, which could be turned into components for reuse in Web or Web-services applications
Provide a scalable, enterprise-wide repository of mainframe and distributed application insight
For ordering, contact:
Your IBM representative, an IBM Business Partner, or IBM Americas Call Centers at 800-IBM-CALL (Reference: LE001).
Overview
Existing applications are an IT organization's biggest asset, and maintaining them consumes a large portion of the typical IT budget. Organizations are seeking to increase maintenance productivity, reduce costs, and devote a greater portion of their budgets to projects that add new business value and enable their business to respond more flexibly to changing markets and IT requirements - including enabling existing applications for Web services and a Service-Oriented Architecture.
WebSphere® Studio Asset Analyzer for Multiplatforms V4.1 assists IT personnel with the maintenance, extension, and transformation of existing applications through rapid application understanding, impact analysis, and connector building assistance. It helps enterprise customers to modernize their existing enterprise assets by providing knowledge about their static IBM zSeries® and distributed environments (finding and reusing application code and the componentry that connects that code), and their J2EE dynamic environment (understanding what code is executing in runtime environments). WebSphere Studio Asset Analyzer can help IT customers build and deploy applications that include mainframe and distributed components, and it effectively scales to become an enterprise-wide repository of application insight.
WebSphere Studio Asset Analyzer V4.1 offers the following enhancements:
Deeper scanning
More thorough scanning by employing IBM's actual COBOL and PL/I compilers
Expanded COBOL and PL/I support, including SQL CALL and SQL CREATE PROCEDURE statements and new DB2® syntax introduced in DB2 V8
Easier PL/I application migration to the latest PL/I compiler through support of PL/I controlled variables and file declarations
Updated distributed artifact support - J2EE 1.3, WebSphere Application Server V5 and V5.1, and more
Increased productivity
New custom queries that enable you to more easily mine the WebSphere Studio Asset Analyzer metadata to meet your unique information requirements.
New bookmark capability that allows easy retrieval of summary and details pages.
The ability to make distributed artifacts the start (seed) of an impact analysis. In addition, impact analysis has an improved user interface and is more flexible.
Simplified installation and configuration.
Numerous other usability and performance enhancements.
Simpler integration with other tools
External API interface. A Web services API enables other tools to make use of WebSphere Studio Asset Analyzer's application insight.
Expanded platform support
IBM pSeries® AIX® support. In addition to z/OS® and Windows(TM), WebSphere Studio Asset Analyzer can now scan source and runtime assets on AIX, and the WebSphere Studio Asset Analyzer Web applications themselves can be deployed on AIX.
Planned availability date
March 25, 2005
