Rational Asset Analyzer

IBM® Rational® Asset Analyzer scans mainframe and distributed software assets on Microsoft® Windows systems, storing related application information in an IBM DB2® repository that resides on the system.

Rational Asset Analyzer supports scanning from IBM Rational ClearCase®, CVS, and PVCS for distributed artifacts or scanning from Windows directories for any asset type.

You can scan Web applications from IBM WebSphere® Application Servers running on Windows. Along with your application source, Rational Asset Analyzer scans WebSphere Application Server domains.

Rational Asset Analyzer consists of the following components:

• Source scanners running on Windows

• Metadata repository in DB2 on Windows

• Web applications running on Windows

Rational Asset Analyzer has an open architecture that offers:

• Interactive, Web browser-based access to Rational Asset Analyzer insight

• Programmatic access through direct SQL queries, a Web service API, or a URL-based API

• Access through a RESTful interface

• Application customization to meet your unique requirements through custom query facility, group bookmarks, and configuration of displayable metrics and statistics

Rational Asset Analyzer helps analysts, developers, architects, and operations teams cut through the complexity of their applications and interdependencies to work faster and with better quality. It can help you to:

• View a wealth of information about application assets at a glance with the ability to drill down to the desired level of detail

• Understand MVS and Java™ Enterprise Edition (Java EE) application assets and their relationships through interactive textual and graphical reports

• Identify the artifacts that a proposed code or operational change affects and make changes with more confidence, greater speed, and less risk

• Identify information about connectors for Web-enabled applications

• Identify business processes and flows

• Identify application dependencies at multiple levels, including jobs and transactions; files and databases; programs and applications written in COBOL, PL/I, Java EE, and various distributed text formats including HTML and XML; and composite applications that span mainframe and distributed systems