Integrating IBM AD Analyze Client with IDz features

When IBM® AD Analyze Client is installed together with IDz, a contextual menu entry (Application Discovery > Analyze) is available in IDz views, allowing the user to run AD analyzes.

The contextual menu is available for the following types of resources:
  1. From the Remote Systems view:
    • PDS
    • PDS Member
    • Sequential Data Set
    • VSAM Data Set
  2. From the Local Transactions view:
    • CICS® Transactions
  3. From the Data Source Explorer view:
    • SQL tables
  4. From various CICS Interdependency Analyzer (IA) views, for example Programs or Command flow:
    • Programs

Once the action is selected, you are prompted to choose the AD Project that is used for analysis. Click Next and choose the analysis that you want to perform. Once you click Finish the results are displayed in AD perspective.

Analyzing Resources From a Remote Mainframe System

To start an analysis on a resource from a remote mainframe system follow these steps:
  1. Create a project in IBM AD Build and bring resources from the mainframe system:
    1. In IBM AD Build Client: Create a project.
    2. In IBM AD Build Configuration:
      • Create a z/OS® connection.
      • Associate the z/OS connection to your project.
      • Configure the z/OS connection.
    3. In IBM AD Build Client:
      • Bring resources from the remote mainframe system by using the defined z/OS connection.
      • Build your project. For details on how to create a project in IBM AD Build, and how to bring resources from mainframe systems, see Managing Application Projects with IBM AD Build.

      Once you completed these steps, when you open your IBM AD Analyze Client the new project is available in the projects list in the Explore projects tab of AD Explore view (to make sure that the project list is up-to-date, right-click in the projects list and select Get project list).

  2. In your IBM AD Analyze Client, define a connection to the remote mainframe system. For details on how to create a connection to a remote system, see the IDz documentation.
  3. Once the connection to the remote mainframe system was established, and you can see it in the Remote Systems view, set up a filter to make it easier to locate your sources. For details on how to create a filter, see the IDz documentation.
  4. In the corresponding view from IDz, right-click the resource that you want to analyze, and from the pop-up menu select Application Discovery > Analyze. The wizard dialog is displayed showing a list of projects that are found on IBM AD Analyze Client.
    This image shows the Select analysis wizard dialog with a list of projects that are found on IBM AD Analyze Server.
  5. Select the mainframe project that contains the resource you want to analyze and click Next.
  6. The Select available analysis dialog window is displayed.
    This image shows the Select available analysis dialog window.

The analyzes that can be performed on the resource that is selected from the remote system are displayed.

From the analysis that is generated in this way, you have the option to view the contents of a selected resource directly on the remote mainframe system, by right-clicking an element from the graph and selecting View analysis source. The contents of the selected resource are displayed in the Editor view and the tooltip displays the full path to the resource location on the mainframe.