 | Level: Intermediate Stuart Milligan (author@ibm.com), Vice President of Technical Marketing,
IBM
Kamal Narang (author@ibm.com), X-Analysis Product Line Manager,
IBM
14 Oct 2008 Databorough's X-Analysis product suite is an essential tool for
IBM® i (IBM® System i™, IBM® AS/400®) application documentation, design recovery, and modernization. The plug-in version of X-Analysis is fully integrated with IBM® Rational® Developer for System i and IBM® WebSphere® Development Studio Client enabling you to browse and visualize an application from a high-level model down to individual lines of code. Data Model Extraction, RPG, and COBOL as Pseudo code, variable level impact analysis, Graphical Flow/Structure charts, Microsoft® Word, Microsoft® Visio® wizards, Business Logic Extraction, test data management, database and application modernization, are just some of the features packed into this globally renowned tool.
Before you start
About this Tutorial
This tutorial teaches you how to browse and visualize an application from a high-level model down to individual lines of code. It will show you how to flow chart, drill-down, and document your applications, and their inter-relationships.
Objectives
In this tutorial, you will use the X-Analysis tool in IBM® Rational® Developer for i to
accomplish the following tasks:
- Choose a scenario and configure your connection
- View and understand programs using various diagrams
- View RPG source in various modes including levels of detail and as Pseudo code
- System-wide impact analysis at an object level using Data Flow Diagrams
- System-wide impact analysis at multiple levels for a field
- Generate system documentation for static analysis using a wizard
- View extracted data model diagrams for relational structures
- View database relational architecture and implementation
- Integrate analysis with RDi LPEX editor and RSE
Prerequisites
This tutorial assumes that you have a basic need of understanding enterprise applications
design and architecture. it also assumes you have a basic understanding of mouse driven UI's and are familiar with left and right click style usage. A PDF reader is also required to view the sample documentation.
System requirements
This tutorial requires the Enterprise
Modernization sandbox environment.
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