WebSphere Studio Asset Analyzer for Multiplatforms 3.1 / Roger Mihay.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mihay, Roger.

Series:

IBM redbooks.

Redbooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Web site development.

Application software--Development.

Application software.

Management information systems.

WebSphere.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (246 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Research Triangle Park, N.C. : IBM Corp., International Technical Support Organization, c2005.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

IBM WebSphere Studio Asset Analyzer for Multiplatforms Version 3 Release 1 provides functions for analysts and developers to understand enterprise assets, enhance them, and enable their enterprise applications for their on demand environment. Working applications can be an IS organization's biggest asset. Reusing application constructs helps accelerate application development through the life cycle by requiring less new code and reusing previously tested code. WebSphere Studio Asset Analyzer assists IT personnel with the maintenance and extension of existing assets through impact analysis, connector building assistance, and application understanding. It helps enterprise customers modernize their existing enterprise assets and skills for on demand development by providing knowledge about their static environment (finding and reusing application code and the components that connect that code), and their dynamic environment (understanding what code is executing in run-time environments). The book is divided into three parts: Part 1, "Introduction to Websphere Studio Asset Analyzer for Multiplatforms" presents a general overview of WSAA. In this part, we cover what this product is and what it does. We provide you with an introduction to the product by showing you key elements of the Web browser interface. We also describe the roles and responsibilities of the various support personnel and key end-users of the product. Part 2, "Working with WSAA" presents more specific, hands-on information for working with WebSphere Studio Asset Analyzer. In this part we devote one chapter to each of the primary functions associated with the product and provide detailed instructions for how to use the product. These include: -> Product administrator functions, which include collecting inventory to load into the database and how to maintain it -> Project manager tasks, which include exploring general and detailed aspects of a sample application -> Application developer tasks, which include how to use WebSphere Studio Asset Analyzer to make specific changes to an application. Part 3, "Appendixes" contains summary and reference information about the product. This includes a description of the use of the distributed components, software requirements, installation information, and more. WebSphere Studio Asset Analyzer is a powerful tool that can help your site’s application development teams better understand your legacy mainframe and distributed applications. It can g...

Contents:

Front cover

Contents

Notices

Trademarks

Preface

The team that wrote this

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Comments welcome

Part 1 Introduction to WebSphere Studio Asset Analyzer for Multiplatforms

Chapter 1. Overview of WebSphere Studio Asset Analyzer for Multiplatforms 3.1

1.1 What is WebSphere Studio Asset Analyzer?

1.1.1 WSAA core functions

1.1.2 Inventory collection

1.1.3 Application exploration

1.1.4 Connector information

1.1.5 Help

1.2 Terminology

1.2.1 Site

1.2.2 Application

1.2.3 Concatenation set

1.2.4 Asset

1.2.5 File

1.2.6 Container

1.3 A quick tour of WSAA

1.3.1 Home

1.3.2 Explore

1.3.3 Connect

1.3.4 Inventory

1.3.5 Database status

1.3.6 Getting Help

1.4 Summary

Chapter 2. Roles and Responsibilities

2.1 How we view your roles and responsibilities

2.2 WSAA system or product administrator

2.2.1 Planning for inventory collection

2.2.2 Ongoing maintenance

2.2.3 Application support

2.3 Additional support personnel

2.3.1 MVS systems programmer

2.3.2 DB2 database administrator

2.3.3 Change Management group

2.3.4 Quality Assurance group

2.3.5 CICS and IMS systems programmers

2.3.6 Storage administrator

2.3.7 Security administrator

2.3.8 WebSphere Application Server coordinator

2.4 Application project manager or leader

2.5 Application programmers

2.5.1 Planning and installation activities

2.5.2 Post-installation activities

2.6 Summary

Part 2 Working with WSAA

Chapter 3. Collecting your inventory

3.1 How to load your WSAA database

3.2 Identify your production source components

3.2.1 Identify source code libraries

3.2.2 Identify your site's applications

3.2.3 Identify concatenation libraries

3.2.4 Identify online components

3.3 When do I use an application?.

3.3.1 How to define an application

3.4 What is a concatenation set?

3.4.1 How to create a concatenation set

3.5 Load the database with online information

3.5.1 How to load CICS resources

3.5.2 Monitor and review the batch job

3.5.3 Verify your CICS resources in the database

3.5.4 Assign CICS components to an application

3.6 Load the database with source code

3.6.1 How to load data set resources

3.6.2 Monitor and review the batch job

3.6.3 What happens during a scan

3.7 How to resolve database load errors

3.7.1 Database status problem summary pages

3.7.2 The results of our example loads

3.8 How to perform ongoing database loads

3.8.1 One recommended approach

3.9 How and when to perform database maintenance

3.9.1 How to run the WSAA DB2 utilities

3.9.2 When to invoke the DB2 utilities

3.10 Collecting for the distributed environment

3.11 Notes for the practical

3.11.1 Preload analysis concatenation set libraries

3.11.2 Load include members before main members

3.11.3 Add system-level programs to the mix

3.11.4 Run your inventory collection during off-hours

3.11.5 Miscellaneous notes

3.12 Summary

Chapter 4. Exploring your inventory

4.1 Finding information about your applications

4.2 Our sample application

4.2.1 How to obtain a general overview

4.2.2 How to look for something specific

4.2.3 Reanalyzing a project

4.3 Advanced functions

4.4 Visual relationships

4.4.1 e-business rating

4.5 Exploring the distributed environment

4.6 Summary

Chapter 5. Working with your inventory

5.1 Typical tasks

5.2 Examining the effects of a change

5.2.1 Determining the effect of a change

5.2.2 Results of your exploration

5.3 Extracting code for reuse

5.3.1 Extract code from TRADERB

5.4 Extracting code for reuse on distributed.

5.4.1 Overview

5.4.2 Sample used in this tutorial

5.4.3 Find a specific distributed asset

5.4.4 Determine which assets use this code

5.4.5 Inspect the source code

5.5 How to use the Connector Builder Assistant tool

5.5.1 Create a connector project

5.5.2 Identify the CICS transactions you want to use

5.5.3 Identify the input and output data structures

5.5.4 Generate the analysis and report files

5.6 Annotate your assets

5.7 Summary

Part 3 Appendixes

Appendix A. Software requirements

Mainframe operating systems

Mandatory software

Functional requisites

Distributed operating systems

Appendix B. Trader 2 application

Application overview

Components of the Trader 2 application

Appendix C. WSAA installation notes

How to build your WSAA environment

WSAA basics

Special considerations

Installation examples

Implementation considerations

Useful Web sites

Related publications

IBM Redbooks

Other publications

Online resource

How to get IBM Redbooks

Help from IBM

Index

Back cover.

Notes:

"This edition applies to Version 3, Release 1, Modification 0 of WebSphere Studio Asset Analyzer for Multiplatforms (product number 5655-L21)."

"April 2005."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

OCLC:

61858787