Enterprise Application Viewer (eav™)

Many IT organizations are experiencing difficulties with application maintenance and enhancement that is caused by the "newness" of their technical teams and the lack of up-to-date documentation regarding the applications. Many have seen the "original design team" or "everyone that knew that system" move ahead to management, to other technologies or to retirement. Identifying the source of some production problems is a week-long battle, when it once was a matter of minutes or hours.

The Enterprise Application Viewer (eav™) propels any IT organization into a state of fast problem resolution, accurate impact analysis, and complete up-to-date application documentation, regardless of how team members have come and gone. eav provides both business and technical teams with instant insight into application flow, cross-program or intra-program flow, and even field-level usage across your entire enterprise.

Reduce Costs and Risk, Define Impact

The Enterprise Application Viewer is a complete analytical team within a single tool. eav provides both application and business teams with the ability to quickly understand and follow the logic within applications, between applications and within programs. IT teams no longer need technical specialists for each application. A core team of programmers and analysts can debug, maintain and enhance multiple complex applications within any environment using eav.

With eav, IT organizations can reduce costs across the organization:

- Reduce maintenance costs, which often account for more than 75% of an IT budget
- Reduce downtime by resolving critical production issues in a fraction of the time
- Reduce project cost overruns by accurately estimating enhancements and new development efforts
- Maintain, enhance and develop applications with fewer team members
- Reduce IT project headcount by including business team members in IT analysis

It is possible to predict the impact of specific changes using the integrated right-click tools of eav and reach documentation compliance by using the numerous reports generated by eav.

Increase Application Portfolio Agility

With the Enterprise Application Viewer, your IT team is armed with a tool suite to quickly change, enhance and expand your application portfolio to better meet your business demands, increase your market potential and meet the ever-changing needs of your customers. With eav, change is faster, simpler and safer.


Reduce Risk and Define Impact

The Enterprise Application Viewer takes the guesswork out of enhancement planning. Finally, your business and technical analysts have full visibility into your complex applications, and can predict the impact of specific changes across your environment. Business Rules are visible and easy to analyze. Entire teams can become knowledgeable about any set of applications, eliminating the risk associated with a reduced or retiring technical staff.

Your teams can visualize the impact of a change and predict the outcome of a change with only minutes of effort.


Increase Productivity and Understanding

eav provides any IT programmer or business analyst the ability to research and resolve issues quickly. Even without prior knowledge of the application functionality and without in-depth knowledge of the programming language, minimal research can lead directly to the source of an issue.

With eav, any team member can:

    • Begin analysis with an error message or a transaction ID
    • Quickly isolate business rules leading to a result
    • Become expert in complex application processing
    • Perform fast and accurate research and impact analysis


Documentation Compliance Reports

The Enterprise Application Viewer automatically updates its documentation repository every time that a production program changes, whether the change is made on your mainframe or in your network environment. With eav, all program and application documentation is always up-to-date without any effort from any of your team members.

Unique in the documentation industry, eav's printed documentation can stand alone to fully document any program and its relationship to all other program artifacts. With eav's graphical workbenches, documentation and application research is completely interactive.

Object Information Summarizes the object information including identification details and scan details.
Object Log Detail This is a history of all of the events that have occurred when the object has been loaded into eav™.
Object Listing Contains the original imported code but with line numbers along the left side for ease of reference.
Verb Statistics Provides a list of verbs used in the object and how many times each verb is used.
Program Metrics Provides statistics for the program such as line counts, exec statements, and cyclomatic complexity.
Element Usage Statistics Provides a list of elements used in the object. This report also provides the line number where the element is defined and the line numbers where the element is used.
Dead Element Detail Provides a list of elements that are defined in the object but are never referenced by the object.
Business Rule Detail Provides a list of the points in the program where a decision is made and the flow of logic is changed.
JCL File Usage Detail Provides a list of the file utilization within the JOB and STEP of the JCL.
External Reference Detail Provides a list of external resources that are used by the object.
File Detail Provides a list of file controls called in the program.
eavEdit Detail Provides a list of the times the program has been altered by the eavEdit feature.
Referenced By Detail Provides a list of external resources that reference the object.
Map Images Provides a visual of the maps created by the object.
Map Field Detail Provides a list of the map fields used in the object including the field name, position, and length.
Notes Provides a list of the notes that have been added to this program within eav™.


SUPPORTED TECHNOLOGIES

  • COBOL Applications
  • NATURAL Applications
  • z/OS JCL and PROC Streams
  • IMS-DC Processing
  • CICS Processing
  • IMS Databases
  • ADABAS Databases
  • VSAM Files
  • IMS Transactions
  • CICS Transactions

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

Microsoft Windows 2000, XP, or Vista
SQL Server 2005 or higher
User rights to install via a standard Windows InstallShield program

 


eav Literature:

eav Fact Sheet

eav Fact Sheet (German language)

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