WebSphere Studio Asset Analyzer for Multiplatforms 3.1.

Front cover -- Contents -- Notices -- Trademarks -- Preface -- The team that wrote this -- Become a published author -- Comments welcome -- Part 1 Introduction to WebSphere Studio Asset Analyzer for Multiplatforms -- Chapter 1. Overview of WebSphere Studio Asset Analyzer for Multiplatforms 3.1 -- 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 -- 1.2.5 File -- 1.2.6 Container -- 1.3 A quick tour of WSAA -- 1.3.1 Home -- 1.3.2 Explore -- 1.3.3 Connect -- 1.3.4 Inventory -- 1.3.5 Database status -- 1.3.6 Getting 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 systems 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 your 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 ongoing 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 Collecting for the distributed environment -- 3.11 Notes for the practical -- 3.11.1 Preload analysis concatenation set libraries -- 3.11.2 Load include members before main members -- 3.11.3 Add system-level programs to the mix -- 3.11.4 Run your inventory collection during off-hours -- 3.11.5 Miscellaneous notes -- 3.12 Summary -- Chapter 4. Exploring your inventory -- 4.1 Finding information about your applications -- 4.2 Our sample application -- 4.2.1 How to obtain a general overview -- 4.2.2 How to look for something specific -- 4.2.3 Reanalyzing a project -- 4.3 Advanced functions -- 4.4 Visual relationships -- 4.4.1 e-business rating -- 4.5 Exploring the distributed environment -- 4.6 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 Extracting code for reuse on distributed.

5.4.1 Overview -- 5.4.2 Sample used in this tutorial -- 5.4.3 Find a specific distributed asset -- 5.4.4 Determine which assets use this code -- 5.4.5 Inspect the source code -- 5.5 How to use the Connector Builder Assistant tool -- 5.5.1 Create a connector project -- 5.5.2 Identify the CICS transactions you want to use -- 5.5.3 Identify the input and output data structures -- 5.5.4 Generate the analysis and report files -- 5.6 Annotate your assets -- 5.7 Summary -- Part 3 Appendixes -- Appendix A. Software requirements -- Mainframe operating systems -- Mandatory software -- Functional requisites -- Distributed operating systems -- Mandatory software -- Appendix B. Trader 2 application -- Application overview -- Components of the Trader 2 application -- Appendix C. WSAA installation notes -- How to build your WSAA environment -- WSAA basics -- Special considerations -- Installation examples -- Implementation considerations -- Useful Web sites -- Related publications -- IBM Redbooks -- Other publications -- Online resource -- How to get IBM Redbooks -- Help from IBM -- Index -- Back cover.