Using WebSphere Studio Asset Analyzer / [Larry Kahm].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kahm, Larry.

Contributor:

International Business Machines Corporation. International Technical Support Organization.

Series:

IBM redbooks.

IBM redbooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Web site development.

Application software--Development.

Application software.

Management information systems.

WebSphere.

Physical Description:

xii, 210 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

White Plains, NY : IBM, International Support Organization, c2004.

Language Note:

English

Contents:

Front cover

Contents

Notices

Trademarks

Preface

The team that wrote this redbook

Become a published author

Comments welcome

Part 1 Introduction

Chapter 1. An overview of WebSphere Studio Asset Analyzer

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

1.3 A quick walking tour

1.3.1 Home

1.3.2 Explore

1.3.3 Connect

1.3.4 Inventory

1.3.5 Database status

1.3.6 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 system 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 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 on-going 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 Notes for the practical

3.10.1 Pre-load analysis concatenation set libraries

3.10.2 Load include members before main members

3.10.3 Add system-level programs to the mix

3.10.4 Run your inventory collection during off-hours

3.10.5 Miscellaneous notes

3.11 Summary

Chapter 4. Exploring your inventory

4.1 Finding information about your applications

4.1.1 Our sample application

4.1.2 How to obtain a general overview

4.1.3 How to look for something specific

4.1.4 Reanalyzing a project

4.2 Advanced functions

4.2.1 Visual relationships

4.2.2 e-business rating

4.3 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 How to use the Connector Builder Assistant tool

5.4.1 Create a connector project

5.4.2 Identify the CICS transactions you want to use

5.4.3 Identify the input and output data structures

5.4.4 Generate the analysis and report files

5.5 Summary.

Part 3 Appendixes

Appendix A. WSAA in the distributed environment

Introduction

Collecting inventory from distributed repositories

The inventory process

Distributed analyzers

Metadata and dependencies among assets

Exploring the inventory

Navigating the information

Key features

Java pattern detector

Summary

Appendix B. Software requirements

Mainframe operating systems

Mandatory software

Functional requisites

Distributed operating systems

Appendix C. The Trader 2 application

Application overview

Components of the Trader 2 application

Appendix D. WSAA installation notes

How to build your WSAA environment

WSAA basics

Special considerations

Installation examples

Implementation considerations

Useful URLs

Appendix E. Additional material

Locating the Web material

Using the Web material

System requirements for downloading the Web material

How to use the Web material

Related publications

IBM Redbooks

Other publications

Online resources

How to get IBM Redbooks

Help from IBM

Index

Back cover.

Notes:

Digitized and made available by: Books24x7.com.

"March 2004."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

OCLC:

62772118