NRB MAINFRAME DAY 05 - Paul Pilotto - How to extract business rules from Legacy code: ADDI (Application Discovery Delivery Intelligence)
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IBM Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence (ADDI) assists organizations in unlocking the potential of their IBM z Systems mainframe applications through enhanced application understanding, visualizations, and cognitive DevOps. The platform supports various programming languages and databases while offering tools for continuous assessment and optimization, thus facilitating digital transformation initiatives. ADDI's features include a user-friendly interface, static code analysis, and insights into application health to accelerate modernization and reduce risk.
NRB MAINFRAME DAY 05 - Paul Pilotto - How to extract business rules from Legacy code: ADDI (Application Discovery Delivery Intelligence)
- 1. IBM Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence (ADDI) Unlocking the Hidden Potential of your IBM z Systems Mainframe Applications using Paul Pilotto WW Solution Architect, ADDI
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- 3. Trying to find a place 20 years ago… 3
- 5. Writing mainframe applications 20 years ago… 5
- 7. But what about understanding legacy code? 7
- 8. Remember: Your existing code is a valuable asset! Rewrite Reuse ? 8
- 9. How ADDI helps you with the Digital Transformation of your IBM Mainframe “The GPS for your Mainframe Developers” 9
- 10. What is IBM ADDI? 10 IBM Application Discovery IBM Application Delivery Intelligence IBM Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence Application Understanding - Visualisation of Dependencies, Flows, Usage and Impacts Continuous Assessment and Optimisation of Application Complexity, Transaction Runtime and Test Coverage Cognitive DevOps and Continuous Modernisation for the Digital Transformation AD ADI ADDI
- 11. IBM Application Discovery (AD) • Languages – COBOL, PL/I, Assembler, Natural, CA ADS/Online • Databases - VSAM, DB2, IMS/DB, Datacom, Adabas, IDMS • Batch – JCLs, Procs, Ctrl • TP monitors – CICS, IMS/TM, IDMS/DC • Schedulers – IWS, A-Auto, CA7 • Messaging – MQ • SMF analysis – Jobs, CICS Transactions • SCM – CA Endevor, Librarian, Serena ChangeMan ZMF, z/OS PDS, ITC • AD tools – ADFz, IDz • Monitoring – OMEGAMON for CICS • API connectivity – z/OS Connect • ... using a graphical user interface • … with an open, query-able repository • … with direct access to mainframe source code Static code analysis Application Understanding 11
- 12. IBM Application Delivery Intelligence (ADI) 12 Easy-to-use web-based graphic interface providing accurate, unified view of entire application landscape Correlate project metrics from the AD repository, performance information from OMEGAMON for CICS, and code coverage data for targeted insights into application health Optimise development and test by combining static and operational analysis to accelerate delivery and improve quality 1. Test Optimisation 2. Governance of Maintainability 3. Insights into Transaction Runtime Behavior 4. Business Rules Discovery (roadmap)
- 13. Solution Components 13 • AD REST API - To support automatic discovery of business terms and related variables and related source code • BRM Management UI – To manage business terms, candidate rules/code snippets , Business rules • Single BRM repository – To store all assets related to Business rules • BRM and Source synchronisation mechanism • AI-driven business term detection • AI-driven business rule detection IBM CONFIDENTIAL 2018 AD REST API & Search with AI Build a catalog for Business terms and their usage Catalog business rules and extract as API/ODM Microservices
- 14. IBM ADDI Architecture Elasticsearch Doc Index for BRM/API Discovery Application Delivery Intelligence Server DevOps Analysis, Insight and Optimisation DevOps Data Sources ADI Data Warehouse Unstructured Data: Source code, PDF, DOC, PPT, TXT etc. z/OS AD repository Application Discovery Server Application Source Code Discovery and Analysis Configuration, Audit, Reporting Graph database Windows Server and Linux ADI (web browser)Analyse client (IDz or Eclipse) Build client (Windows) Source Code Management RTC, CA Endevor , ChangeMan ZMF, Librarian, z/OS PDS Database and File Systems DB2, IMS/, VSAMDB, IDMS, Adabas Transaction Managers CICS, IMS/TM, IDMS/DC Workload Schedulers IWS, CA-7, A-AutoMainframe agents Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence
- 16. ADDI Summary Reduce Risk Enable Transformation Increase Productivity • Reuse > Rewrite • You can’t change what you don’t understand! • Quickly and safely unlock the value of existing assets for Digital Transformation • Accelerate modernisation using Cognitive DevOpsz 16