Inventory Analysis & Flow-chart Documentation of COBOL Applications

Large-scale applications often consist of hundreds or even thousands of programs. Through the identification of related program sets, the SoftwareMining Analytics tool simplifies the documentation process, aids in defining the scope for test cases, and prioritizes the necessary data migration for these tests. Subsequently, this tool can channel the set of associated programs to the SoftwareMining Translation tool for seamless migration to Java or C#.

The SoftwareMining Analytics tool is available free of charge for SoftwareMining Translation customers.

Technical Specifications:

The SoftwareMining Analytics tool is designed for Microsoft Windows. To function optimally, the COBOL applications, including their programs, copybooks, JCL, and BMS files, should be copied to a local repository on the user's machine. Here's what the tool offers upon analyzing the repository:

• Inventory Analysis: Detects missing programs or copybooks.
• Call Chain Analysis Flowcharts: Visual representation of call relationships.
• Basic Program Flowcharts: Depicts the general flow within programs.
• Program Relation Identification: Recognizes related program sets for the Translation Engine. (Note: The Translator tool is not complimentary).
• Cyclometric Complexity Analysis: Offers an in-depth complexity analysis for individual programs.

Video Topics:

• 00:00 Intro: from Flowcharting COBOL/JCL to Translation to Java/C#
• 00:37 Startup and help screens
• 00:55 Scanning COBOL, BMS and JCL files
• 01:57 Call Chain Analysis, Program Dependencies
• 03:51 DB, VSAM , Sequentil File references for each program
• 04:20 COBOL Application Overview
• 06:58 Preparing for COBOL to Java/C# Translation
• 08:31 Migration (Refactoring) to Java/C#

Further reading: Essential Features needed in COBOL Translation Tool

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