Innovative and Comprehensive, ClearPath OS 2200 ... · ClearPath OS 2200 Configuration Management...

Innovative and Comprehensive, ClearPath OS 2200 Configuration Management… What's the latest?

Michael L Curles Unisys CMplus Product Manager September 11, 2013

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Agenda

• Overview…

• CMplus Specific Features Detailed

• CMplus Application Transfer Methodology

• CMplus Webstation Product

• OS 2200 Application Modernization Program

• CMplus Future Directions…

• Question and Answer Session


• Product Received Numerous Awards for Technical Excellence


• Recipient of Patent Awards for Cutting Edge Innovation


What is CMplus?

• Native OS 2200 Configuration Management (SCM) and

Version Control Solution

• Designed Specifically for Managing 3GL Business

Applications…


What is a 3GL?

• Third Generation Computer Languages

UCS FORTRAN

ASCII FORTRAN

ASCII COBOL

UCS COBOL

MASM

UCS C

JAVA


Business Needs

Clients Today Need To Address:

• Protecting 3GL Business Application Investments

• Increased Security Concerns

• Providing Better Disaster Recovery Alternatives

• Lowering Application Development Costs

• Reducing Business Risk Exposure

• Compensating for Domain Knowledge Drain...


What does CMplus provide?

• Not just a source

control product…


What separates CMplus?

• Totally Cost Effective…

1

2

3

4

Cent r al i zed

Di st r i buted

$ 0

$ 1,000,000

$ 2,000,000

$ 3,000,000

$ 4,000,000

D o l l a r C o s t

T i me ( I n y e a r s )

SC M So l u t i o n T y p e

Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)

Centralized

Distributed

Source: CIG, Inc. CMplus = Centralized Solution Type...


What separates CMplus? (cont’d)

• Package and Deploy Business Applications

Automatically to target OS 2200 systems

• Provide an extensive Auditing Capability

• Capable of Building Applications using 7 Different

Compilers

• Generate Applications using wide variety of

Software Architectures utilizing Basic Mode

and/or Extended Mode…

– Fixed Gate Subsystems

– HVTIP & Open DTP


What separates CMplus? (cont’d)

• Provides Additional Level of Security and Disaster

Recovery

• Manages Both Source and Executable

Environments

• Provides Both Documentation and

Comprehensive Object Inventory

• Capable of Building Applications for Multiple OS

2200 Application Groups


How does CMplus interact with the various groups?

• Like the “hub of a wheel”, CMplus supports the

various activities needed to manage your

business applications…

Project

Managers

Program

Developers

CMplus

Administrators

Operations

Production

Control

Audit

CMplus

Quality

Assurance


Object Inventory

Environment Management Build Management Release Management

Distribution Change Management Audit

Configuration Management

What are the Basic Building Blocks of CMplus?

• The Seven Functional Areas that Comprise Configuration Management and CMplus…


• Two Main Modules…

What is the CMplus Architecture?

CMplus

Products

Program Developer(s)

ClearPath Dorado

CMplus Administrator(s)


• Two Interface Choices…

How can one access CMplus?

CMplus

Products

ClearPath Dorado

CMplus Administrators &

Program Developers

Emulator (CMplus)

Web Browser (CMplus Webstation)

(Optional)


Specific Features Detail

• Allows a Client to Secure a Single Business

Application or...

CM+

F17

ClearPath Dorado

CMplusCMplus

Create

ManageOrganize

CMplusCMplus

Create

ManageOrganize


Specific Features Detail (cont’d)

• Allows Numerous Versions of CMplus to Co-

Exist on Same System…

CM+

F17-T

CM+

F17-D

CM+

A67

CM+

A96

CM+

D21

ClearPath Dorado

CMplusCMplus

Create

ManageOrganize

CMplusCMplus

Create

ManageOrganize



• Option Manages Identical Objects Between Multiple CMplus Applications…

– SHARED Objects Supported

CM+

F17-T

CM+

SHARED

CM+

A67

CM+

A96

CM+

D21

ClearPath Dorado

CMplusCMplus

Create

ManageOrganize

CMplusCMplus

Create

ManageOrganize


CM+

F17-T

CM+

SHA010

CM+

A6010

CM+

A5010

ClearPath Dorado

CM+

A3010

CM+

SHA011

CM+

A3011

CM+

A5011

CM+

A6011

CM+

A7010

CM+

A7011

• Multiple SHARED System Mode

Specific Features Detail (cont’d) CMplusCMplus

Create

ManageOrganize

CMplusCMplus

Create

ManageOrganize



• CMplus Contains Powerful Code Scanners to

Organize, Process, and Build OS 2200 Business

Applications…


– Administrator can restrict access to designated objects

during checkout to meet audit requirements

– Objects that need their availability securely controlled


• New Confidential Object Handling


• New Auto Compile Forecast Report

– New Administrator Report Implemented to Provide

Impact Analysis Information Based on Object

Changes before an Auto Compile Option is to be

Performed…



• Provides Enhanced Security using SECOPT1 and Fixed Gate Subsystem (FGSS)

– Staging and Source Repositories Secured


CM+

FGSS

Program Developer Module

CMplus

Administrator

Module

User File Staging

Files

Intermediate Final Repositories

= SECOPT1 and CMplus


*Current

Source *Archive

Source

User File

Source


• Allows Expanded Source History and Comparison Features

* = Secured CMplus Repositories


Program Developer(s)

CMplus

Product

CMplus Administrator(s)


• Optional E-mail Notification on Checkin/Checkout


– Perform Maximum of 5 Tokens Searched at One Time

– Search Entire Source Code in CMplus System

– Search By Category

– Output Like CULL/IACULL

– Saves on Disc Storage


• Provides Extensive Data Name Object Search Capability


CMplus Simplifies the many OS 2200 Java Solutions*:

OS 2200 Java -

@’javac @’jlink

Sun JVM / Microsoft JVM –

javac @’jlink

Java JProcessor Specialty Engine –

@’jpjavac @’jpjlink


* Some Naming Restrictions Exist To Conform To OS 2200…



• Provides Support for Maintaining and Capturing OS 2200 Transaction VALTAB Information

– VALBLD

– VALCHG

– CMplus Application Documentation Staging and Source Repositories Secured


– Manages and Deploys High Volume TIP (HVTIP) Business Applications

– Manages and Deploys Extended Mode Fixed-gate Business Applications

– Manages and Deploys Open/DTP Business Applications

– Provides SHARED Object Capability

– Automated Application Transfer Capability

– Application Level Disaster Recovery

– Build Business Application for Multiple OS 2200 Application Groups

– Supports All OS 2200 Compilers No Other COTS CM Products Offer These Capabilities!

• Only CMplus provides:



Application Transfer Methodology

• Supports Both Centralized and Decentralized Configuration

Management Models

• Automatic Installation of Transferred Application is

Configurable

• Captures and Deploys Your Execution Environment… (ECL,

REL’s, ABS’s, ZOOM’s, OM’s, DPS Form Omnibus’s,

WebTS/Javaclient Objects, etc…)

CMplusCMplus

Create

ManageOrganize

CMplusCMplus

Create

ManageOrganize


Application Transfer Methodology (cont’d)

• Centralized Large Scale CMplus Processing Flow…

Development Quality Assurance Production

ClearPath Dorado ClearPath Dorado ClearPath Dorado

CM+

A

CM+

A

CM+

A

CMplus A Changes * If Source Enabled

* *


Development/Production Production

ClearPath Dorado ClearPath Dorado

CM+

A

CM+ A

Prod

CM+ A

Dev

Application Transfer Methodology (Cont’d)

• De-centralized Large Scale CMplus Processing

Flow…


Target System ClearPath Dorado CMplus

Baseline Tape

Valtab * Update

WebTS/JC * Library

Batch Library

System BDT * Library

DPS * Library

TIP * Library

HVTIP * Library

ECL Library

Subsystem * Library

DMS * Schema

EOD Library

Tools Library

CM+

A

VALBLD HVTUPD TIPUPD

SCHREL WJCUPD DPSUPD

OVWUPD SSUPD EODUPD TLSUPD

* *

*

Configurable

ECLUPD

BATUPD

*

*

Application Transfer Methodology (Cont’d)

• CMplus System Utility Runs Provides Many

Deployment Options…


CMplus Capabilities

Basic Mode

> ECL Batch TIP HVTIP

> MASM ACOB FTN

> DMS RDMS DPS

> MAP

> ADMLP FDMLP

> WebTS/JavaClient

> Open/DTP

Extended Mode

> ECL Batch TIP HVTIP

> MASM UCOB UFTN UC

> DMS RDMS DPS

> LINK JLINK

> PADS

> WebTS/JavaClient

> Subsystems Open/DTP

> Java OO JVM’s

• Unisys Software Environments Supported – 14R1


• New CMplus Webstation Product Released

includes support for All Previous CMplus Host

Product Enhancements…

CMplus Webstation Product


• Continue Browser Qualification Process

- Microsoft Internet Explorer Levels 7.0 or Higher

- Open Source Firefox Levels 1.0 or Higher

- Google Chrome 4.1+

• Unisys also offers “Qualification Service”…

CMplus Webstation Product (cont’d)

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/IE/ie7/default.mspx

http://www.getfirefox.com/

http://www.google.com/chrome


CMplus Webstation Product (cont’d)

• Full Featured Web Browser CMplus Interface


Eclipse

• Leverages CMplus internal information about objects

to help setup Project’s for IDE usage during check-

in/check-out…

- Extension Creation

- Compile Assist Mode

• New Eclipse CMplus Webstation Plug-in…

CMplus IDE Support Enhancements


Lomboz

SQLExplorer

COBOL & C code

Composite app construction

Plug-ins: Unisys-built and off-the-shelf (tested and

recommended by Unisys)

CMplus and Many more…

3D-VE toolkit

Your database

Mix-n-match functions: • Modeling • Coding

• Deployment

New CMplus Eclipse Support Plug-in

Your new Java

Your trans-

actions


OS 2200 Application Modernization Program

Application

Modernization

Open

Solutions CMplusCMplus

Create

ManageOrganize

CMplusCMplus

Create

ManageOrganize

CMplus


Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) for ClearPath OS 2200 Portfolio

Products

Offerings

Modernization

Workbench

Application

Discovery &

Knowledge

Preservation

Business

Information

Server, BIS

Rapid Application

Development

Software

Configuration

Management

Manage the

Development

Process

Middleware

Application

Integration for IBM,

Linux, .NET, and

Unix

Java

Object-oriented,

Write once, run

anywhere

Java Processors

Optimized

Run-time

Open

Source

Eclipse

(develop-

ment)

Database

Connectors

Transaction

Connectors

Runtime

Developer

Open DTP

Message

Queuing

SOA

Analyzer

Application

Portfolio

Manager

Application

Remodeler

Business

Rule

Manager

Database

Connectors

Transaction

Connectors

Application

Express

Application

Analyzer CMplus

Trans-

formation

Assistant

Application

Architect

SOA for ClearPath Professional Services

SOA for ClearPath Reference Architectures


• Programs Discovered compiled against Outdated Compilers

• Programs in Production w/serious Errors

• Discovered Object Source Lost or Missing

• On Average About 40% Objects Are Obsolete

• Production Code in Personal Programmers File

• ECL Referencing Wrong Executables in Production

• Others...

CMplus Can Find the “Dirty Laundry”


• Provides IT Managers With 3GL CM Solution

• Business Application Insurance Policy

• Maintain More Applications Using Automation

• Increased Application Object Security

• Increased Cost Savings With More Application Baseline

Releases

• Provides Operational Improvements Using a Proven

Methodology Over The 3GL Applications

• Automates Application Object Documentation

CMplus IT Management Benefits


CMplus “Integration Services” Are Required for Initial

Installation Which Begins With Technical Assessment

• Address Security Needs

• Address Any Third Party Products

• Provide Initial Training

• Decide Optimum CMplus System Design

• Assist/Perform 3GL Application Cleanup

• Provide Additional Integration Resources

• Others…

CMplusCMplus

Create

ManageOrganize

CMplusCMplus

Create

ManageOrganize

CMplus Integration Requirements


Future Directions*… * for information only, subject to change

CMplusCMplus

Create

ManageOrganize

CMplusCMplus

Create

ManageOrganize

Application Discovery & Knowledge Repository Products

Process Management Software Solutions


Question and Answer Session…?

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