IBM Rational Asset Analyzer V5.5 Technical Preview
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Abstract
IBM Rational Asset Analyzer assists IT personnel with the maintenance, extension, reuse, and transformation of existing mainframe and web applications
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IBM Rational Asset Analyzer provides in-depth insight into dependencies within and among enterprise applications, including mainframe, Java, and composite applications.
It can help you
Reduce the time and effort required when analyzing program changes
Improve your confidence level that necessary changes have been identified and reduce outages resulting from incomplete analysis
Helps shorten the learning curve for new developers
Assist junior programmers to work "above their experience level"
Document your applications to help meet Sarbanes Oxley (SOX) and other compliance requirements
Improve disaster recovery with better application documentation and increased confidence that you know where all of the source is for your applications
Prerequisites
Following are the hardware and software prerequisites for downloading and installing the RAA technical preview on your local workstation.
Hardware Prerequisites
The local machine on which you are installing the technical preview must, at a minimum, meet the following requirements:
1. Windows (Intel) workstation
2. A minimum real memory of 1 GB; 2 GB is suggested for optimal performance
3. Additional 300+MB of disk space
Software Prerequisites
The local machine on which you are installing the technical preview must have a supported version of DB2, WAS, and OORexx installed and all must be verified to be working properly. The following list contains the set of supported versions for each software product (those in bold are the recommended free versions of the pre-reqs):
1. One of the following DB2 versions:
Important NOTE: Your system may already have Object REXX as part of a DB2 install. If you try to install the OO REXX, you will get the following message:: "The Object REXX setup found IBM DB2, which contains IBM Object REXX , on your machine. If the installed Object REXX files in DB2 are older, Object REXX might not run correctly. Do you want the Object REXX files in the C:\Program Files\IBM\SQLLIB\BIN directory to be renamed? Yes/No."
You have the following two options: (1) Continue with the Rename above of the DB2 REXX (2) Don't install OO REXX and set your PATH environment variable to point to that DB2 directory for the REXX.
Installation Instructions
Perform the steps in this section to install the RAA technical preview. If you encounter any errors during the installation of the prerequisite software, consult the Troubleshooting and FAQs section in the Readme/Installation file, which can be downloaded below.
Installation Notes:
Before installing the RAA technical preview for the first time you should uninstall any previously installed WSAA or RAA workstation drivers and ensure that you drop its DB2 database. The installation will not do this for you and a new database will not be created if one already exists with the same name.
If you have a previous version of the RAA technical preview, you need not uninstall it to install an updated version unless otherwise instructed to do so.
During the install, a "current site" is created from your workstation host name to be used as the default for all scans initiated by the Inventory wizard. This site is distinct from the distributed scanner default site, which is created when you bring up the distributed scanner for the first time.
The RAA technical preview's Web Services web application is automatically installed.
If you intend to scan distributed assets, you must bring up the distributed scanner GUI prior to defining any new scan root. The reason for this is that the Distributed Site must be created in your database first. The Distributed Scanner GUI will do that automatically the first time it is started up.
It is not necessary to reboot your machine after installing/uninstalling the RAA technical preview. However, you must restart your WebSphere Application Server
1. Ensure that you have satisfied all of the prerequisite hardware and software requirements that are identified in the prerequisites section above.
2. Ensure that you are logged on to Windows with a user id that has DB2 Admin authority.
3. Ensure that your WAS Administrative Server is up and running.
4. Invoke the RAA technical preview install program by typing RAATPMMxDD.exe from a command window.
Note: In the RAA technical preview, due to open source legal issues, the scrollbars on the SVG diagrams are disabled by default. There is a free download available to enable the scrollbars. Please refer to the WSAA External web site for more information.
This technical preview is provided AS IS and without support.
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