 Inventory collection assistance Overview: The WebSphere® Studio Asset Analyzer inventory collecting assistance services offering is designed to scan your application components to build the information files, then to load the information into the database. This is the baseline preparation needed for the change impact and componentization analysis you will do after your application information has been loaded. Scope: - Use WebSphere Studio Asset Analyzer to take inventory of your application components:
- Perform inventory collection to analyze and store metadata about source programs, Job Control Language (JCL), CICS basic mapping support (BMS) maps, CICS region, IMS resources and Jar files
- Demonstrate the new features of WebSphere Studio Asset Analyzer exploration and analysis via the browser-based user interface.
- Invoke, and customize as appropriate, the Analyzers to scan your application resources.
- Identify missing source files.
- Review the results with key application management and staff personnel.
Benefits: - Provides a quick-start to promote WebSphere Studio Asset Analyzer understanding and acceptance.
- Maximizes your staff's productivity by leveraging IBM's experienced consultants.
- Frees your staff for other development and maintenance activities.
- Completes the preparation work for using Websphere Studio Asset Analyzer analysis tools.
- Flexible consulting support allows for additional ongoing Q&A's and communication with IBM experts.
Prerequisites: Notes: - This services offering may allow for limited customization per customer requirements.
- If missing source files are identified, additional services are available to perform source recovery from COBOL object files.
Length: - Varies according to the amount of application components.
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