IBM Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence for IBM Z, V5.1 accelerates digital transformation through business rule discovery and insightful mainframe application analysis

IBM Japan Software Announcement JP18-0649
November 13, 2018

Table of contents

	Overview		Technical information
	Key prerequisites		Ordering information
	Planned availability date		Terms and conditions
	Program number		Prices
	Publications

At a glance

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

Overview

Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence for IBM Z, V5.1 helps discover business rules that are embedded in the logic of web, online, and batch mainframe applications so that they can be identified, validated, and transformed. These business rules can implement critical business decisions, but they can be difficult to find in applications that have been maintained over many years. This makes it difficult to verify the accuracy of the rules or to update them in response to business needs.

A powerful combination

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.

Application Delivery Intelligence for IBM Z, V5.1 provides a rich web interface to analyze application trends and leverages Application Discovery for IBM Z, V5.1 analysis results to provide new business rule discovery capabilities:

Leverage static code analysis to discover business terms in COBOL applications
Identify the key variables in COBOL applications which are most likely to be business terms and associate selected variables with business terms
Quickly discover new business terms from a list of candidates ranked based on their relationship with existing terms
Explore business terms and associate code snippets, which are candidates for business rules, to the terms
Export information via APIs to be used by other tools like IBM Operational Decision Manager for z/OS®

Application Discovery for IBM Z, V5.1 provides:

PL/I preprocessor support to analyze PL/I applications that leverage preprocessor facilities
PL/I analysis support for IMS/TM, configurable program aliases, external procedures, and source expansion for include statements
Assembler analysis support for BCT (Branch on Count), BE (Branch Equal) and BNE (Branch Not Equal) instructions
Linux® and Z Linux server support
Support of Db2® for z/OS as its repository (Db2 Connect is a prerequisite for this feature)
Performance and accessibility improvements
Simplified installation and configuration
Integration with:
- Rational Team Concert™ for source code synchronization
- IBM Z Development and Test Environment to identify the resources needed for an application and then automate the provisioning of a test environment in IBM Z Development and Test Environment using only those resources
- z/OS Connect Enterprise Edition to understand the dependencies between an application and APIs that are defined in IBM z/OS Connect Enterprise Edition
Extensibility support for:
- Data abstraction layers that manage data access for COBOL or PL/I programs
- Communication abstraction layers that route calls between COBOL or PL/I programs
- COBOL preprocessors, which enables Application Discovery for IBM Z to map the code that is generated by the preprocessor to the original source code
- IBM Information Management System Transaction Manager (IMS/TM) screens and IBM Information Management System Database (IMS/DB) segments as external resources

Key prerequisites

Application Discovery supports Windows™ and Linux operating systems.

Application Delivery Intelligence supports Windows and Linux operating systems.

For details, see the Software requirements section.

Planned availability date

November 29, 2018

Accessibility by people with disabilities

A US Section 508 Accessibility Compliance Report containing details on accessibility compliance can be found on the Product accessibility information website.

Reference information

For more information about IBM Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence, see Software Announcement JP17-0279, dated May 9, 2017.

Program number

Program number	VRM	Program name
5737-B16	5.1.0	IBM Application Discovery for IBM Z
5737-B66	5.1.0	IBM Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence for IBM Z
5725-Y87	5.1.0	IBM Application Delivery Intelligence for IBM Z

Offering Information

Product information is available on the IBM Offering Information website.

More information is also available on the Passport Advantage® and Passport Advantage Express® website.

Publications

Technical documentation for Application Discovery for IBM Z can be found in IBM Knowledge Center.

Technical documentation for Application Delivery Intelligence for IBM Z can be found in IBM Knowledge Center.

Technical information

Specified operating environment

Software requirements

For information about hardware and software requirements for Application Discovery for IBM Z, see system requirements in IBM Knowledge Center.

For information about hardware and software requirements for Application Delivery Intelligence for IBM Z, see system requirements in IBM Knowledge Center.

Planning information

Packaging

This offering is delivered through the internet as an electronic download. There is no physical media.

This program, when downloaded from a website, contains the applicable IBM license agreement and License Information, if appropriate, which will be presented for acceptance at the time of installation of the program. For future reference, the license and License Information will be stored in a directory such as LICENSE.TXT.

Ordering information

For ordering information, consult your IBM representative or authorized IBM Business Partner, or go to the Passport Advantage website.

This product is only available through Passport Advantage. It is not available as shrinkwrap.

These products may only be sold directly by IBM or by authorized IBM Business Partners for Channel Value Rewards.

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Passport Advantage

Part description	Part number
IBM Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence for IBM z Virtual Server Trade Up from Application Discovery Trade Up License + SW Subscription & Support 12 Months	D21WDLL
IBM Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence for IBM z Authorized User Trade Up from Application Discovery Trade Up License + SW Subscription & Support 12 Months	D21WELL
IBM Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence for IBM z Floating User Trade Up from Application Discovery Trade Up License + SW Subscription & Support 12 Months	D21WFLL

Charge metric

The charge metrics for these licensed products can be found in the following License Information documents:

Program identifier	License Information document title	License Information document number
5737-B16	IBM Application Discovery for IBM Z	L-KEDS-B4SSSV
5737-B66	IBM Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence for IBM Z	L-KEDS-B4ST8D
5725-Y87	IBM Application Delivery Intelligence for IBM Z	L-KEDS-B4RUCS

Select your language of choice and scroll down to the Charge Metrics section. Follow-on releases, if any, may have updated terms. See the License Information documents website for more information.

Terms and conditions

The information provided in this announcement letter is for reference and convenience purposes only. The terms and conditions that govern any transaction with IBM are contained in the applicable contract documents such as the IBM International Program License Agreement, IBM International Passport Advantage Agreement, and the IBM Agreement for Acquisition of Software Maintenance.

This product is only available through Passport Advantage.

Licensing

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License Information number

The following License Information documents apply to the offerings in this announcement:

Program identifier	License Information document title	License Information document number
5737-B16	IBM Application Discovery for IBM Z	L-KEDS-B4SSSV
5737-B66	IBM Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence for IBM Z	L-KEDS-B4ST8D
5725-Y87	IBM Application Delivery Intelligence for IBM Z	L-KEDS-B4RUCS

Follow-on releases, if any, may have updated terms. See the License Information documents website for more information.

Limited warranty applies

Yes

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