Anders Hecquet

Solutions Architect

April 2017

COBOL Analyzer/Enterprise AnalyzerApplication Insight at the Point of Change

An Evolutionary Journey Resulting in Great Complexity

Internet

of

Things

(IoT)z / OS

PL / I

COBOL

CICS

IMS

Public Cloud Private

Cloud

Micro Focus COBOL Application Landscape

Micro Focus Cobol Survey 2015 Report

Only 18.4% of respondents expect the size of their COBOL estate to reduce in 2015

Above 25 million LOC

Between 10 and 25

million LOC

Between 5 and 10

million LOC

Between 2 and 5 million

LOCBetween 1 and 2 million

LOC

Less than 1 million LOC

Decrease

Remain broadly

the same

Increase

62.7% of respondents estimate their COBOL estate at > $1m LOC

Lines of Code Expected change during 2016

Decades of investment have resulted in substantial business applications

Fewer Subject Matter

Experts

Business drivers to innovate quickly

Struggling to understand “Big picture”

IT landscape is complex

IT backlog is increasing

Innovation requires faster change, but…

Change can be challenging and complex

Uncertainty of future IT direction

Delayed releases

resulting in re-work

Limitedapplication

documentationIncreased

risk of change

Today’s Application Delivery Challenges

Proliferation of DevicesTime to Market User Experience

• Do you have single person key application experts? How do you address

this risk and bottleneck?

• How long does it take to onboard new application development staff?

• Are your core business application well documented?

• How well do you do estimations today?

• How often do you find issues and errors late (in testing) which requires re-

work?

A Self Assessment

How to improve

Source = Development Landscape 2013: Developer Foresights North American and Europe

Market Research Application Analysis Tooling

“To move faster, developers need to embrace automated

tools for testing and source code analysis”– Diego Lo Giudice, Forrester

of developers use static analysis tools every day!(Forrester)

9%

of developers admit occasional use of tooling(Forrester)

44%

Annual spend on agile ALM tools by 2019 (IDC)

1.8B$

Introducing COBOL Analyzer/Enterprise Analyzer

“Analyzer helps developers, analysts and

management better understand the impact of

application changes and as a result make smarter IT

decisions and deliver better results, faster.”

• Take the risk out of business

change

• Understand the value of core

applications and their impact

to the business

• Improve decision making

through automation and

quality based metrics

AnalyzerInsight – Visualize what you have

Enterprise

Application

Knowledgebase

Technical Analysis Understand

application code

Business InsightUnderstand how applications

support the business

Technical UsersExecute development

activities

Business UsersManage IT like a

business

• Identify business process,

relationships and the impact of

change

• Understand application scope and

complexity while assessing risk

• Restore lost knowledge and create

instant application experts

AnalyzerUnderstanding – Know what you need to change

• 40% faster project planning

and delivery

• Faster application change while

managing overall impact and quality

• Improve dev efficiency by providing

actionable insight at the point of

change

• Easily onboard new talent

AnalyzerAcceleration – Deliver results faster and with quality

AnalyzerHow it Works

Build RepositoryLoad COBOL Code

Analysis

Phase

Analyze COBOL Apps

using Windows ClientVisual COBOL

Developer

Code loaded into SQL Server

database and ready for analysisAdmin or Dev uses repository to

understand impact of code

changes

Extra value for Visual

COBOL developers.

Coding tasks exported

into Eclipse and Visual

Studio

Query

RepositoryDev Work

1. 2. 3. 4.

A look at Enterprise Analyzer

• Retain application knowledge and understanding

• Build a new talent pool of application experts

• Plan and document Micro Focus COBOL

applications

• Respond to maintenance tasks with greater

confidence, speed and accuracy

• Improve application quality by measuring and

managing the impact of change

Plan and Manage Application Change

with Confidence

• Visit: microfocus.com/cobolanalyzer

• To download a FREE 30-day trial

• To access product information

including datasheets, tech specs,

tutorials, videos and sample code

• Contact your Micro Focus Account

Manager for pricing and licensing

information

COBOL AnalyzerYour Next Step