NGSET : SIR Description

SIR - The Intranet Re-documentation Server

SIR is NGSET´s software package, which automates re-documentation of applications.

More than 60% of maintenance time is spent
in searching, reading and understanding.

Features
Ease-of-Use
Environment and Architecture
SIR : When and Why?

Features

Software documentation | Impact analysis | Data Dictionary | Quality monitoring

Software Documentation

Automatically Generated

The source code components are automatically extracted from the mainframe repository and automatically processed by batch jobs. No human intervention is required.

Components include programs, transactions, copybooks, JCL, OPC, databases, screen maps, etc.

Up-to-date

Customers choose the rhythm at which the documentation is updated. Since only changed components are processed, the rhythm can be as frequent as daily.

Exhaustive

SIR is not restricted to programs. It redocuments all components used within an application system, such as: Source code, JCL, Screen Maps, Transactions, OPC, Databases. Missing components are identified.

Granular

SIR provides documentation at multiple granularity levels: Enterprise Wide, system, sub-system, program, data element, line of code.

Centralized Documentation

All professionals and managers share a single source and the same level of documentation. Furthermore, having a central documentation repository keeps operations and monitoring easy and in control.

Ubiquitous Access

SIR makes the documentation available through the Internet or the Intranet. Any workstation with a browser can access the SIR Server. The number of users is not restricted.

Even the administrator management tool is provided as Java applets, making administration available from any local or remote location.

Impact Analysis

Data Flow

SIR provides a data flow analysis. For each data element in a program, SIR displays all other data elements that are directly or indirectly related to it. Data flow propagation to other components is also provided.

Control Flow

SIR provides inter-component control flows. For instance:

Transactions, JCL, or programs calling a given program

Programs using a given file

Data Dictionary Support

When Data Dictionary information is available, SIR makes it acccessible to users in two ways:

For all variables in a program, users may display their logical data type (e.g. currency, account number, quantity, date), and all instructions which manipulate these variables
For a given data type, SIR tells all components where this data type is used

Generating the logical Data Dictionary is proposed as a complementary NGSET service.

Quality Monitoring

Detailed Quality Metrics

For each program or copybook, developers visualize all individual quality defects. Defects are grouped according to exposure types: Portability, Maintainability, Anomalies, and Reliability…

As individual quality defects are shown, programmers can measure code quality and take appropriate action where required.

Metrics also include inventory data: Number of components, number of lines of code…

Consolidated Quality Scores

Managers can visualize consolidated quality scores concerning any application systems or sub-systems. Furthermore, SIR provides graphic tracking of quality on a periodic basis, so managers can monitor the quality evolution over time and take appropriate action if necessary.

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