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| Einsatzgebiet: | Change Prozess, Produkttest, Softwareentwicklung, Betriebsintegrität | | Nutzen: | Reduktion des Aufwandes der Risikobeurteilung im Change-Management. Sicherstellen der Betriebssituation Kürzere Testzeiten durch geziehlte Informationen | | Funktion: | Durch automatische Scans die Strucktur der Soft- und Hardware erfassen. Besonders SAP, Mainfraim, AS / 400 und weitere., Vor und nach Veränderungen werden dieses Visualisiert. Bereitstellen einer Applikations CMDB. Umpfangreiches Berichtswesen Datenblatt deutsch |
Products EZ Source is an Applications CMDB (Configuration Management Database) that fully automates detailed analysis, understanding and technical documentation for Enterprise Application Management. Underpinning improved flexibility and functional improvements, integration and SOA enablement, support and upgrades, EZ Source provides immediate business value and IT process improvements
Synchronizing with your source configuration management system, it contains a full inventory of your Application components and their details. By visualizing the internal Application structure, dependencies and relationships, EZ Source is an indispensable tool for support activities as well as a precursor to undertaking enhancements and modifications. It is designed for use by all technical staff as well as having management components for transparency into Application metrics. | How does it work? | EZ Source correlates the relationships between the different Application components and automates the production of technical documentation. It operates across multiple languages and environments, producing consistent understanding and measurement. Through its ability to parse the different Application components (for example, source code, OS scripts, include files, screen maps, transactions, messaging system data, Application servers data, etc) and then visualise the internal Application structure and dependencies, users can select their starting point to navigate across or drill down as required in order to precisely determine the scope and level of analysis.
This Application CMDB functionality is complemented by a rich choice of visualisation and reporting options so users can precisely define the scope and depth.
Many different options are provided to visualise the analysis according to requirements and results. For example, a particular analysis may reveal complex interdependencies with different types of components, so EZ Source has user definable dependency levels, filtering and visualisation layouts in order to achieve optimum understanding. In all stages in the analysis, EZ Source synchronises with the source code so developers can understand exactly how functions are performed. | 
EZ Source Application Mapping: Underpinning Enterprise Application Management | EZ Source fully automates Application analysis, documentation and measurement, helping organisations with the real world problem of managing their existing Application portfolio.
EZ Source correlates the relationships between the different Application components and interfaces, automating the production of technical documentation. It operates across multiple languages and environments, producing consistent understanding and measurement. Through its ability to parse the different Application components (for example, source code, OS scripts, include files, screen maps, transactions, messaging system data, Application servers data, etc) and then visualise the internal Application structure and dependencies, users can select their starting point to navigate across or drill down as required in order to precisely determine the scope and level of analysis. | | This Application CMDB functionality is complemented by a rich choice of visualisation and reporting options so users can precisely define the scope and depth. Many different options are provided to visualise the analysis according to requirements and results. For example, a particular analysis may reveal complex interdependencies with different types of components, so EZ Source has user definable dependency levels, filtering and visualisation layouts in order to achieve optimum understanding. | | In all stages in the analysis, EZ Source synchronises with the source code so developers can understand exactly how functions are performed. In addition to this internal analysis, EZ Source also includes database and interface components so that the understanding can include these vital aspects as well as starting from these points of view. If conducted manually, it is difficult to identify even straightforward questions such as "where is this database table used?", or "where is MQ integrated into my Application?" EZ Source provides these complete results in seconds. | An additional option is a comprehensive reporting portal used to measure different aspects of the Application.
EZ Reports includes both industry standard metrics (e.g. McCabe, Halstead, Function Point) and user defined parameters. Invaluable for Management and Architecture requirements, it allows quality and code standards to be institutionalised into the development and review process. In addition, it also gives developers valuable insights by documenting aspects such as 'where used' and 'dead code' occurrences.
All of this functionality provides a one stop shop for understanding and analysis of your Applications. An additional module - EZ Source Enterprise Server - also goes one step further (for mainframe environments) by adding information on the Infrastructure and how the Application performs in production, including such information as identifying transactions, code or control language that has not been used for a period of time, etc. This is invaluable in extending our Applications CMDB information to the logical and physical environment, including automatically mapping the interdependencies, by adding to the Application information additional operational data for optimisation based on actual usage. | EZ Source Integration | Many organisations will have existing infrastructure that is complementary to the EZ Source analysis capabilities. The product therefore provides a wide range of integration options so that EZ Source can be populated, or provide data to be both current in its analysis and add value to other products.
Some examples are:
▫ Source Configuration Management Systems - automatically loading and propagating changes when they occur
▫ Planning - export of Applications metrics to Excel for work planning and estimation
▫ EZ Source API - exporting data from the EZ Source repository to other systems such as Enterprise CMDB | EZ Source visualization and navigation option | EZ Source provides a rich variety of options to display, filter and analyse an application. According to the task at hand, the user can readily identify both the overall landscape or choose an identified starting point, track the internal relationships as appropriate and analyse through a wide variety of filtering options. In addition to these graphical options there is a comprehensive suite of configurable reports available as well as open access into the open SQL repository.
At any stage, synchronization is provided to the Source Code. Comprehensive search, impact analysis and 'where used' capabilities exist to assist with precise assessment and understanding. | 
EZ Source visualization and navigation option | EZ Source also allows for integration with external third party applications and our Repository, for example Excel in numerical analysis and Visio for documentation.
The EZ Source navigation hierarchy and the detailed components can be described as follows: | 
Supported environments | 1. OS - MVS, OS/390, z/OS, VSE, Fujitsu AIM, AS/400, Unix, Linux, Windows
2. Languages - Cobol, Natural, PL/1, CA-ADS, REXX, Assembler, Java
3. DB - DB2, IMS/DB, AIM/DB, ADABAS, VSAM, CA-IDMS/DB, DB 400
4. TP Monitors - CICS, IMS/DC, AIM/DC, CA-IDMS/DC
5. Messaging - MQ
6. Batch - Control M
7. ERP - SAP R/3, ECC 5.0, ECC 6.0, ABAP |
Many organizations will have existing infrastructure that is complementary to the EZ Source analysis capabilities. The product therefore provides a wide range of integration options so that EZ Source can be populated, or provide data to be both current in its analysis and add value to other products. Some examples are:
- Source Configuration Management Systems - automatically loading and propagating changes when they occur
- Planning - export of Applications metrics to Excel for work planning and estimation
- EZ Source API - exporting data from the EZ Source repository to other systems such as Enterprise CMDB EZ Source Enterprise Server bridges the gap between applications and operations, allowing application-to-infrastructure component mapping and enhancing your understanding of software applications and the IT infrastructure that supports them, reducing operational costs.
It provides a comprehensive solution for reducing hardware and software operational costs, improving resource reclamation and business availability. | 
| On Z/Os for example, EZ Source Enterprise Server can provide you with information such as:
▫ Jobs that have not been submitted for a certain period of time
▫ Transactions that have not been used for a certain period of time
▫ Source code that was not touched for a long period of time (for each member we keep creation and changed dates)
▫ Files that have not been accessed
▫ VSAM files that have not been used
▫ Load Module -source code relations analysis And many more. | 
| | | The EZ Source Enterprise Server is the addition of the mainframe agents to EZ Source Application Mapping, connecting operations, frameworks and application environments, providing a complete IT Landscape mapping. The agents map the current operational landscape and the mainframe infrastructure (Sysplex, Lpar, DADS, CPU, libraries, etc.), linking the actual IT assets and application components to their physical location and resource consumption.
All the information collected by the agents is stored into the EZ Source relational database repository. Each change of the environment, infrastructure or applications is replicated in the repository and notifications are provided accordingly. | The updated repository allows for real-time data synchronization that enables data consistency and accuracy among distributed instances of the same mainframe-based information. Sources are accessed directly in a read-only mode, saving the need to constantly ftp the sources off the mainframe.
Enterprise IT assets mapping input includes:
▫ Mainframe Infrastructure
▫ Performance information
▫ Application source code
▫ OS data and batch information
▫ Additional system definitions
EZ Source Enterprise Server operations-to-applications data is presented in a well-organized, coherent and up-to-date manner, relevant for both your application and operations teams. The information provided can help reducing maintenance and operational costs, meeting SLAs and providing a clear up-to-date IT landscape view to the CIO and IT management. | | 
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EZ Source Reporting Portal | EZ Source Reporting Portal (EZ Reports) is a combination of a CIO dashboard and a reporting portal, based on the EZ Source repository. It presents high level consolidated information about the inventory of IT assets, their utilization, complexity and resource consumption. | 
| | The EZ Source Reporting Portal is an information-gathering tool that provides IT management with a comprehensive and accurate view of IT assets across the enterprise. You can gain access to requisite information in a convenient, easy-to-use, readily available format. It's an easy-to-view dashboard that gives at a glance a more unified and consistent picture of your IT landscape as a whole. | 
| The EZ Source Reporting Portal offers five categories of information about application understanding. By querying our EZ Source open repository, it displays key information clearly and efficiently in multiple ways. The EZ Source Reporting Portal organizes data into tables, charts and graphs for high-value capacity planning and trend analysis.
CIOs can monitor, manage and conduct ongoing trend analysis of all applications with our graphical views. The multi-dimensional data views will help them make more informed business decisions and manage IT assets for business value. | 
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Supported Platforms | | | EZ Source for Enterprise CMDB |
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