IBM® Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence for IBM Z®, V5.1 combines IBM Application Discovery for IBM Z, V5.1 and IBM Application Delivery Intelligence for IBM Z, V5.1, enabling your organization to:
- Accelerate digital transformation by discovering business rule candidates and reusing existing assets
- Reduce risk by analyzing mainframe applications to understand the impacts of potential changes
- Improve productivity by providing new developers with the tools to quickly understand the mainframe applications that they are maintaining or transforming
The following new features and enhancements are available in AD V5.1.0:
- Added the Business Rules Discovery (BRD) feature. With this new feature enabled, you can save the data that is used to define business rules in IBM Application Delivery Intelligence for IBM Z.
- Enhanced the extensibility feature:
- Added the mapping between generic transactions and programs.
- Supported mapping JCL jobs to programs through API.
- Supported adding annotations for the resolutions that come from extensibility API calls.
- Supported updating API resolutions on demand.
- Supported PSB mapping with programs.
- Supported using command line to retrieve operational information. You can configure retrieval operations for multiple projects in an INI file, and run a single command to retrieve the information.
- Enhanced the COBOL compiler to support modifying variable references by using reference modification statements like MOVE.
- Enhanced the PL/I preprocessor to support analyzing the PL/I applications that leverage preprocessor facilities.
- Improved IBM AD Batch Server:
- Optimized the memory usage in IBM AD Batch Server.
- Simplified the configuration. IBM AD Batch Server now reads the settings that are related to annotations, audit, or graph database connection from IBM AD Configuration Server.
- Simplified the configuration of the audit service. IBM AD Batch Server and IBM AD Build Client now read the audit settings from IBM AD Configuration Server.
- Simplified the configuration of the settings that are related to the annotation database. You can specify a custom name for an annotation database and the database server, where the annotation database is hosted.
- Improved the performance on the Db2 repository database.
- Visually improved the graphs that are displayed in IBM AD Analyze Client.
- Fixed multiple issues on the assembler “where used” reports.
- Supported Linux for System z servers.
- Incrementally supported the import for CA7 scheduler data.
- Integrated with IBM CICS Interdependency Analyzer for z/OS.
- Ensured compatibility with the Photon Eclipse version.
The following new features and enhancements are available in IBM ADI V5.1.0:
- Keyword discovery through the static analysis of data usages in application artifacts. IBM ADI provides a ranked list of keywords based on the usage analysis of the keywords within application artifacts such as source code. The usage information for analysis includes the usages in included files, usages in condition statements, usages in computation statements, file input/output usages, database input/output usages, and IBM MQ usages. With the usage information, you can quickly identify business terms and potential business rules from the keyword list and their usages.
- Automated discovery of potential business terms from enterprise artifacts. Most of business terms and business rules are documented in enterprise artifacts as natural languages. ADI helps to expedite the business term discovery process by automatically discovering the potential business terms that use Natural Language Processing (NLP) method.
- Team collaboration on managing the inventory of business terms and business rule packages. You can collaborate with your team members to build the inventory of business terms and business rule packages through the list of discovered keywords. While your team collaborates, business terms can be tracked and managed. You can identify the usages of business terms in the source code or enterprise artifacts and define them as snippets. The snippets typically contain business logic that is part of business rules. You can package business terms and snippets that are related based on their business logic as business rule packages.
In addition, ADI can leverage System Management Facility (SMF) and Application Performance Analyzer (APA) data to monitor and analyze the performance of applications.
For more information about IBM ADDI, check the following links.